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'A scrupulous biography' - Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and
uplifting' - Kirkus Bill V. Mullen celebrates the life of the great
African-American writer who created some of the most important
literary work of his time, including the novels Go Tell It on the
Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk. As a lifelong
anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, and feminist, James Baldwin
was a passionate chronicler of the rise of the Civil Rights
Movement, the US war against Vietnam, the Palestinian liberation
struggle and the rise of LGBTQ+ rights. In James Baldwin: Living in
Fire, Mullen pays homage to Baldwin's truly radical approach to his
life, writing and activism. Fighting towards what he hoped would be
a post-racial society, Baldwin's philosophy was tragically ahead of
its time, predicting what has become the new civil rights movement
of today.
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The Rumor Game
Thomas Mullen
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Based on interviews with fifteen top financial advisors, each doing
several million dollars' worth of business every year, this
priceless tool contains universal principles to guide both veteran
and new financial professionals to immediate success. The
Million-Dollar Financial Advisor distills these success principles
into thirteen distinct step-by-step lessons that teach readers how
to build and focus on client relationships, have a top advisor
mindset, develop a long-term approach, and much more. The book also
features two complete case studies, featuring a "best of the best"
advisor whose incredible success showcases the power of all the
book's principles working together in concert, and an account of a
remarkable and inspiring career turn around that demonstrates it's
never too late to reinvent yourself. Brimming with practical advice
from author David J. Mullen and expert insights from his interview
subjects, The Million-Dollar Financial Advisor equips any financial
advisor to succeed-- regardless of market conditions.
What did popular song mean to people across the world during the
First World War? For the first time, song repertoires and musical
industries from countries on both sides in the Great War as well as
from neutral countries are analysed in one exciting volume. Experts
from around the world, and with very different approaches, bring to
life the entertainment of a century ago, to show the role it played
in the lives of our ancestors. The reader will meet the penniless
lyricist, the theatre chain owner, the cross-dressing singer, fado
composer, stage Scotsman or rhyming soldier, whether they come from
Serbia, Britain, the USA, Germany, France, Portugal or elsewhere,
in this fascinating exploration of showbiz before the
generalization of the gramophone. Singing was a vector for
patriotic support for the war, and sometimes for anti-war activism,
but it was much more than that, and expressed and constructed
debates, anxieties, social identities and changes in gender roles.
This work, accompanied by many links to online recordings, will
allow the reader to glimpse the complex role of popular song in
people's lives in a period of total war.
From the acclaimed author of Darktown comes the most visionary
crime novel since Minority Report. 'It's rare to find a thriller
with such a fantastic and original concept. I was gripped' ---
Anthony Horowitz In a world where a global event has blinded every
person on the planet, one detective seeks a murderer who should
not, cannot, exist. Seven years ago, everyone in the world went
blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the
new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading
visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when
someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see?
Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before
The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness
insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn't
believe her - until a similar murder happens in front of him. With
suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists,
Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can't even trust
his own eyes... PRAISE FOR THOMAS MULLEN 'Terrific entertainment' -
Stephen King 'Superb' - Ken Follett 'Magnificent and shocking' -
Sunday Times 'Written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the
wind out of you' - New York Times 'Fascinating, grim and
unsettling' - Guardian 'A terrific story' - The Times 'From the
very first page of Darktown, I was stunned, mesmerized' - Attica
Locke
In response to the growing emphasis on precision in the
summarization and integration of research literature, "Advanced
BASIC Meta-Analysis" presents an overview of strategies,
techniques, and procedures used in meta-analysis.
The book and software provide an integrated and comprehensive
combination of meta-analytic tools for the statistical integration
of independent study results. "Advanced BASIC Meta-Analysis" has
three distinct goals:
* to provide a clear and user-friendly introduction to the
procedures and rules of effective meta-analytic integration;
* to present the implicit assumptions and strategies that guide
successful meta-analytic integrations; and
* to develop a meta-analytic database management system that
allows users to create, modify, and update a database, including
the relevant statistical information and predictors, for a given
research domain.
The companion software system allows users to perform a full
complement of meta-analytic statistical functions with the speed
and flexibility of a database management system. It can also
construct a wide array of meta-analytic graphic displays. This text
and software package serves as a useful introduction to the
quantitative assessment of research domains for those new to
meta-analyses. It is also a valuable sourcebook for those who have
already conducted meta-analyses.
Since its initial publication in 1973, CINEMATOGRAPHY has become
the standard guidebook on filmmaking techniques that emphasizes the
cameraman's craft. Now completely revised and updated to include
today's digital technology, it clearly and concisely covers what
today's filmmaker needs to know about camera structure and
operation, lenses, film stocks, filters, lighting and light
measuring, and accessory equipment. In addition it provides
up-to-date information on sound recording, editing, video transfer,
studio and location shooting, production logistics, and modern
techniques of picture manipulation with optical printers - a
subject rarely treated in such detail in existing film books.
Building on the groundwork he lays, Kris Malkiewicz explores more
advanced techniques of overall picture quality control - now the
filmmaker can translate the envisaged image to the screen through
coordinating all aspects of cinematography. As Malkiewicz explains,
whatever concept is desired, the filmmaker must be in full control
of the technology in order to ensure success. Illustrated with more
than 350 updated photographs and drawings, this new third edition
of CINEMATOGRAPHY will continue to prove invaluable to filmmakers,
film students and film teachers.
After decades of evolving practice often tested in court,
development impact fees have become institutionalized in the
American planning and local government finance systems. But, they
remain contentious, especially as they continue to evolve. This
book is the third in a series of impact fee guidebooks for
practitioners, following A Practitioner's Guide to Development
Impact Fees and Impact Fees: Proportionate Share Development Fees.
Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation is the
culmination of the authors' careers devoted to pioneering
applications of the dual rational nexus test. That test requires
(1) establishing the rational nexus between the need for
infrastructure, broadly defined, to mitigate the impacts of
development and (2) ensuring that development mitigating its
infrastructure impacts benefits proportionately. The book elevates
professional practice in two ways. First, it shows how the rational
nexus test can be applied to all forms of development
infrastructure impact mitigation. Second, it establishes the link
between professional ethics and equity as applied to proportionate
share impact fees and development mitigation. The book is divided
into four parts, with the first reviewing policy and legal
foundations, the second detailing the planning, calculation, and
implementation requirements, the third exploring economic, ethical,
and equity implications, and the fourth presenting state-of-the-art
case studies. Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development
Mitigation sets new standards for professional practice.
The world-champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought
the ollie - the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it
from the ground to the air - to street skating shares the history
of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.
At the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by
storm. He won 35 world titles in less than five years. But through
it all, his father looked down on his son's love for skating and
pressured him to walk away from the sport and leave behind his fans
and status as the most famous skateboarder of his era. After years
of stress and conflict, Rodney gave in and promised his father he'd
quit for good. But by the time he finally broke free from his
suffocating and abusive home life, the popularity of freestyle had
waned and given way to vert and street styles. So Rodney picked up
his board and started from scratch. With the help of mentor Mike
Ternansky, Rodney used his freestyle background to usher in a whole
new era of street skating.
Today Rodney is more popular than ever. The videos in his
series Rodney Versus Daewon are among the most popular skateboard
videos ever produced. He won the 2002 Transworld Skateboarding
readers' choice award for favourite street skater and is the most
popular character on the top-selling Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video
games.
A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such
as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The
Last Town on Earth. Zed is an agent from the future. A time when
the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No
despair. His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means
ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its
course-especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in
our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.
Zed's mission will disrupt the lives of a disgraced former CIA
agent; a young Washington lawyer grieving over the loss of her
brother, a soldier in Iraq; the oppressed employee of a foreign
diplomat; and countless others. But will he finish his final
mission before the present takes precedence over a perfect future?
One that may have more cracks than he realizes? The Revisionists
puts a fresh spin on today's global crises, playing with the nature
of history and our own role in shaping it. It firmly establishes
Mullen as one of the most exciting and imaginative writers of his
generation.
'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have
answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what
I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."'
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil
War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books
and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in
Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience
of being shot, and his painful and disorientating medical treatment
all contribute to the book's gripping immediacy. At the same time,
Orwell was aware that he was producing a work of art: 'Beware of my
partisanship,' he warns his readers, 'my mistakes of fact, and the
distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of
events.' Lisa Mullen's introduction examines how the book straddles
the divide between literature and history, and provides readers and
students with a concise explanatory account of the controversies
which have grown up around the book since its publication.
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The Rumor Game
Thomas Mullen
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Following the awards recognition and critical praise for his unique
series Darktown, Thomas Mullen once more reaches into 20th-century
US history for a crime novel that reveals the soul of a nation.
Boston, Massachusetts, during World War II. Self-destructive FBI
agent Devon and up-and-coming journalist Anne find themselves
separately looking into attacks on the city's Jewish community.
Both the Agency and her newspaper want them to look the other way,
but the discovery of a man's body with a swastika-scrawled piece of
paper in his pocket catapults them into an investigation that will
bring them both in danger.
Includes concise portraits of the problems and major culprits and
issues facing schools, as well as practical solutions Notable
contributors such as Yong Zhao, Christopher Lubienski and Carol
Mullen Chapters present an important policy topic and critical
analysis from the perspective of experienced educators involved in
teacher and administrator preparation
Includes concise portraits of the problems and major culprits and
issues facing schools, as well as practical solutions Notable
contributors such as Yong Zhao, Christopher Lubienski and Carol
Mullen Chapters present an important policy topic and critical
analysis from the perspective of experienced educators involved in
teacher and administrator preparation
Elementary Number Theory, Gove Effinger, Gary L. Mullen This text
is intended to be used as an undergraduate introduction to the
theory of numbers. The authors have been immersed in this area of
mathematics for many years and hope that this text will inspire
students (and instructors) to study, understand, and come to love
this truly beautiful subject. Each chapter, after an introduction,
develops a new topic clearly broken out in sections which include
theoretical material together with numerous examples, each worked
out in considerable detail. At the end of each chapter, after a
summary of the topic, there are a number of solved problems, also
worked out in detail, followed by a set of supplementary problems.
These latter problems give students a chance to test their own
understanding of the material; solutions to some but not all of
them complete the chapter. The first eight chapters discuss some
standard material in elementary number theory. The remaining
chapters discuss topics which might be considered a bit more
advanced. The text closes with a chapter on Open Problems in Number
Theory. Students (and of course instructors) are strongly
encouraged to study this chapter carefully and fully realize that
not all mathematical issues and problems have been resolved! There
is still much to be learned and many questions to be answered in
mathematics in general and in number theory in particular.
Elementary Number Theory, Gove Effinger, Gary L. Mullen This text
is intended to be used as an undergraduate introduction to the
theory of numbers. The authors have been immersed in this area of
mathematics for many years and hope that this text will inspire
students (and instructors) to study, understand, and come to love
this truly beautiful subject. Each chapter, after an introduction,
develops a new topic clearly broken out in sections which include
theoretical material together with numerous examples, each worked
out in considerable detail. At the end of each chapter, after a
summary of the topic, there are a number of solved problems, also
worked out in detail, followed by a set of supplementary problems.
These latter problems give students a chance to test their own
understanding of the material; solutions to some but not all of
them complete the chapter. The first eight chapters discuss some
standard material in elementary number theory. The remaining
chapters discuss topics which might be considered a bit more
advanced. The text closes with a chapter on Open Problems in Number
Theory. Students (and of course instructors) are strongly
encouraged to study this chapter carefully and fully realize that
not all mathematical issues and problems have been resolved! There
is still much to be learned and many questions to be answered in
mathematics in general and in number theory in particular.
An Elementary Transition to Abstract Mathematics will help students
move from introductory courses to those where rigor and proof play
a much greater role. The text is organized into five basic parts:
the first looks back on selected topics from pre-calculus and
calculus, treating them more rigorously, and it covers various
proof techniques; the second part covers induction, sets,
functions, cardinality, complex numbers, permutations, and
matrices; the third part introduces basic number theory including
applications to cryptography; the fourth part introduces key
objects from abstract algebra; and the final part focuses on
polynomials. Features: The material is presented in many short
chapters, so that one concept at a time can be absorbed by the
student. Two "looking back" chapters at the outset (pre-calculus
and calculus) are designed to start the student's transition by
working with familiar concepts. Many examples of every concept are
given to make the material as concrete as possible and to emphasize
the importance of searching for patterns. A conversational writing
style is employed throughout in an effort to encourage active
learning on the part of the student.
The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy
of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our
expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our
members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed
full of sneak preview poems and exclusive interviews with all the
selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo
Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Harry Josephine Giles, Arji Manuelpillai
and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics
and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this
quarter. The Autumn 2023 Bulletin magazine features poems, reviews
and commentary from the PBS Autumn Choice Daljit Nagra whose
playful mock epic Indiom (Faber) re-examines empire, language and
class in India. The Translation Choice Lutz Seiler, translated by
Stefan Tobler, crosses between industrial, rural and suburban
landscapes of East Germany in Pitch & Glint (And Other
Stories). Mary Jean Chan delves into queer identity, SARS and Hong
Kong in her luminous second collection Bright Fear (Faber).
Jacqueline Saphra considers her Jewish identity in Vevel's Violin
(Nine Arches Press). US poet Terrance Hayes brings us formal
innovation and powerful testimony in So to Speak (Penguin) and we
celebrate the astonishing lifetime achievements of Mary Oliver in
her new selected poems, Devotions (Corsair). You can find out more
and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.
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