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Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner

And many familiar faces have queued up to add their comments in this book which shows just what it is that makes Bill Gardner unique among the toughest and the greatest of them all.

The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

Akhil Reed Amar

A professor of Constitutional law at Yale analyzes the history and meaning of each clause of the original Bill of Rights and shows how a later generation of abolitionists profoundly changed the Bill into the one Americans know today.

Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill ...

Francis Hartigan

Draws on interviews with Bill Wilson's wife to provide a close-up look at a man whose work transformed the lives of thousands of people but who led a complex, sometimes turbulent private life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Buffalo Bill Wanted!

Alex Simmons

But then a policeman is attacked and beaten—and the clues point to Buffalo Bill and one of his troupe, a Sioux warrior. As the plot thickens, Buffalo Bill turns to Sherlock Holmes for help, but the great detective is nowhere to be found.

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Second row, I to r: Mrs. R. E. Bell, Max Alvarez, Mr. & Mrs. H. W. Ramsey, Champion Papers Inc., Canton, N. C; Mrs. Tom Orr, Bill Shoemaker, Mrs. Bill Shoemaker, Bill Lloyd, Mrs. Bill Lloyd. Bottom row, I to r: Don Laduron, Mrs. Jack Vogelsang, ...

My Search for Bill W: Biography

Mel B.

Mel B.'s search for Bill W. culminates in this book: a fascinating, in depth look at who Bill W. really was and how, from his own painful past and a strong bent for anonymity, he emerged as a powerful presence on the American scene.

The James Club And The Original A.A. Program'S Absolute ...

Dick B.

(MN: Hazelden, 2001); Robert Fitzgerald, S. J., The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S.J. and Bill Wilson in Letters. (MN: Hazelden, 1995 ); Francis Hartigan, Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill  ...

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Arlie Hochschild

Before she made her decision, Nancy had claimed that Bill Beaumont, who lived two doors down the street, did half the housework without being reminded. Evan gave her Bill Beaumont, but said Bill was an exception. Compared to most men, ...

The Healing Power of Self Love: Enhance Your Chances of ...

Oscar Bamwebaze Bamuhigire

Francis Hartigan, Lois Wilson's private secretary, revealed that by the time Ebby Thatcher, who was Bill's sponsor, died in 1966 from emphysema, Bill had tried to quit smoking for more than twenty years. Bill knew he had contracted ...

Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

Bill Graham

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

Bill Graham

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

A Few Hares to Chase: The Life and Economi of Bill Phillips

Alan Bollard

This was the daunting faculty that confronted student Bill Phillips with his bare pass in sociology. The folk wisdom about what happened is recounted by James Meade, later to become Bill's close mentor and colleague: Mr Phillips had next to  ...

Bill Evans Fake Book

Bill Evans

Counterlines, codas, chord extensions and chord changes for improvisation are included. Added features are lyric versions of 10 tunes, 3 essays about Bill Evans' life and music, photographs, and discography.

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Jr. Bill Kimbrell

To my daughter, LeVan and son-in-law, Pete's good friend Bill Stearns, writer, English professor, missionary, who helped with my first chapters To friend Bill Thurman, who introduced me to author and gentleman, Eric Fruge, who introduced ...

Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence between ...

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Iris, part of this letter overlaps with material in a letter to Roy Edgley. Do you know Roy? I had occasion to talk to him about my mate Bill Ivey. I'll send you the valedictory address that I delivered for Bill some time back. Bill, Albert Facey,18 my ...

The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill

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Lydia Sarah Cody was Bill's first cousin once removed; that is, her grandfather, Philip, was the brother of Bill's father, Isaac. Lydia, who had taught social science in Columbia University, was engaged in social welfare work in New York City ...

Statistical Methods for Financial Engineering

Bruno Remillard

I first wish to thank Matt Davidson, professor at University of Western Ontario, and Hugues Langlois, a Ph.D. student at McGill University, for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this book. I would also like to thank my ...

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Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini ... in their striped trousers, fine cravats, and brocaded waistcoats. Hoolihan's had no crystal candelabra, fancy mirrors, expensive oil paintings, whitecoated Other Books by Bill Pronzini Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Chapter.