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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels ...

When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels ...

Justin Kaplan

In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

Deirdre Bair

... solved”: Justin Kaplan, quoted in Fox, “Justin Kaplan, Prize-Winning Literary Biographer, Dies at 88.” “God knows”: Wilde's quotation is in Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, In Victorian Days and Other Papers (New York: Longmans, 1939), 122.
The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse:

The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse:

Keith Hartman

JUSTIN WEIR, 7/7/23, 2:42p : “Hi Jen, it's Justin. Just called to see how things are comin' along.” JUSTIN WEIR, 7/8/23. 3:14p : “Hi Jen, Justin again. How's the case goin'? If you can get back to me before the show tonight, I'd really appreciate ...
The Diplomat: A Justin Hall Novella: (Justin Hall # 4.5)

The Diplomat: A Justin Hall Novella: (Justin Hall # 4.5)

Ethan Jones

He kept his finger on the trigger, in case Abeson had a change of heart. “Who are you? What's happening?” the old woman bellowed at Justin. Justin glanced up at the thin, frail-looking woman hunched over at the door, leaning on her walking ...
Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana

Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana

Gary Dorrien

Robert D.Kaplan, Surrender or Starve: TheWars Behind the Famine (Boulder, CO : Westview Press,1988); Kaplan, SoldiersofGod: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990); Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through ...
A Twentieth-century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates

A Twentieth-century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates

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8 Sydney Janet Kaplan, Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist fiction ( 1991) Kaplan is among the critics who are concerned to establish the importance of Mansfield's contribution to modernism in general. Kaplan sees two major ...
Las chorradas de mi padre

Las chorradas de mi padre

Justin Halpern

A Justin Halpern le ha dejado su novia. Justin tiene 28 años y se encuentra viviendo en casa con su padre, Sam Halpern, de setenta y tres.
Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works

Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works

S. Beal

I am also grateful to the many people who read and commented on various drafts of the book: Rebecca Atencio, Justin Beal, Thaddeus Beal, Daniel Block, Chris Dunn, Sara Fine, Allison Fong, Erica Funkhouser, Ghenwa Hayek, Hilary Kaplan,  ...
Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Dictionary: A Fun and Effective Way ...

Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Dictionary: A Fun and Effective Way ...

Kaplan

Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Dictionary, Second Edition takes a fun approach to building up your verbal ability, and includes: 1,000 frequently tested SAT words, including their definition, pronunciation and part of speech Helpful sentences to ...
The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 3 - The Sheriff of ...

The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 3 - The Sheriff of ...

Jack Justin Turner

Life with Jack Justin Turner was never dull. We were always involved in projects from making a headliner for his beloved '49 Ford, to collecting Mercedes Benz and Buick Rivieras, to fixing up rental property, both for Justin's father, V.O Turner , ...
Mystery of the Missing Moose

Mystery of the Missing Moose

Justin VanRiper

Justin Robert has the camera.
The Adirondack Kids

The Adirondack Kids

Justin VanRiper

Justin Robert is ten years old and likes computers, biking and peanut butter cups.
The Lost Lighthouse

The Lost Lighthouse

Justin VanRiper

Justin and his friends are fishing when a sudden thunderstorm forces them to take their boat ashore to an unfamiliar forest.
Escape from Black Bear Mountain

Escape from Black Bear Mountain

Justin VanRiper

Justin Robert wants to climb all of the mountains near his family's Fourth Lake camp before the summer is over.
Faith-based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Faith-based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Justin Beaumont

Justin Beaumont, Paul J. Cloke ... Justin Beaumont is assistant professor in the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the University of Groningen, the ... Paul Cloke is professor of human geography at the University of Exeter, UK .
Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory

Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory

Brett Ashley Kaplan

Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, Kaplan's text offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.
Just Desserts

Just Desserts

Jeannie Watt

Well, Justin and his car's snow tires. Justin's more than okay being the rebound guy. A little fun, no strings--that's his kind of relationship. But Layla Taylor? She's by the book, to put it mildly.
Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction

Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction

David Michael Kaplan

Kaplan provides strategies and criteria to help pinpoint the problems in your work and to fix them. Topics covered include sacred first ideas, slow starts, out-of-sequence events, imprecise language, inflated imagery and weak sentences.
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming ...

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming ...

Robert D. Kaplan

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries ...
Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh

Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh

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... discussions of the extraordinary relationship between Al- Kamil and Frederick. 36. Kaplan,. ®Black. Africans, ̄ 33. 37. Julie Anne Taylor, Muslims in MedievalItaly: The Colony at Lucera (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield,2003), 89. 38. Kaplan, ...
The Education of Hyman Kaplan

The Education of Hyman Kaplan

Leo Rosten

Over the next two years the magazine ran all 15 of the original stories that were eventually published in 1937 as "The Education of Hyman Kaplan".
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for ...

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for ...

Robert S. Kaplan

Harvard Business School professor and business leader Robert Kaplan presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career.
Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century ...

Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century ...

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However, in Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction, Sydney Janet Kaplan sees Mansfield's revision of her narrative as intensifying rather than detracting from the concern with gender evident in the earlier text. Kaplan sees ...
American dynasties today

American dynasties today

Wall Street Journal (Firm)

associated with two men, Louis Fuentes and Elliott Kaplan, to whom his parents took strong exception. Elliott Kaplan dated Benson's sister, Lynn, who was, for a short time, also a student at Whittier. But Elliott says Ford family pressure finally ...
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Robert D. Kaplan

This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo ...
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable ...

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable ...

Robert D. Kaplan

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future ...
The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 2 - The Sheriff of ...

The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 2 - The Sheriff of ...

Jack Justin Turner

Jack Justin Turner. - "immo". THISHERITOFFRON's R1-22(ea. Caaea A new hovel by Jack Justin Turner - THE SHERIFF OF FROZEN'S MURDER Volume 2 of the Cumberland. Front Cover.
The Return of Hyman Kaplan

The Return of Hyman Kaplan

Leo Rosten

Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the American Night Preparatory School for ...
The Suicide Exhibition: The Never War

The Suicide Exhibition: The Never War

Justin Richards

This is The Thirty-Nine Steps crossed with Indiana Jones and Quatermass. Justin Richards has an extremely credible grasp of the period’s history and has transformed it into a groundbreaking alternate reality thriller.

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