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Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds

Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds

Gary Alan Fine

Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing.
Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture

Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture

Gary Alan Fine

In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors.
Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming

Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming

Gary Alan FINE

In this thoughtful book, Gary Fine explores how Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them.
Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of ...

Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of ...

Gary Alan Fine

Given recent weather-related disasters, it's time we find out more. In Authors of the Storm, Gary Alan Fine offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather.
With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

Gary Alan Fine

In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball.
Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture

Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture

Gary Alan Fine

In his studies of mushroom collectors and high school debate teams, Fine demonstrates the importance of stories that group members tell each other about their successes and frustrations in fostering a strong sense of social cohesion.
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America

Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America

Gary Alan Fine

These stories address aspects of life about which we receive mixed or ambiguous messages.
Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work

Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work

Gary Alan Fine

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.
Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, ...

Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, ...

Gary Alan Fine

Arguing the need for understanding real conditions that lead to proposed interpretations, as well as how reputations are given meaning over time, this book marks an important contribution to the sociologies of culture and knowledge.
Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends

Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends

Gary Alan Fine

Discusses the creation and diffusion of contemporary urban legends and explores their recurring themes of money, sex, and popular anxieties
Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, ...

Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, ...

Gary Alan Fine

Scott, ShaunnaL. l996. "Dead Work: The Construction and Reconstruction of the Harlan Miners Memorial." Qualitative Sociology l9:365-93. Sherif, Muzafer, and Carolyn W. Sherif. l964. Reference Groups: Exploration into Conformity and ...
Deschutes National Forest (N.F.), Ochoco National Forest ...

Deschutes National Forest (N.F.), Ochoco National Forest ...

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... Inc. Galen Wunsch Garrett Waltosz Garvis Elmer Gary & Barbara Roberson Gary & Carolyn Strong Gary & Colleen Haynes Gary & Darlene Bemtsen Gary Clowers Gary Crooker Gary Dobish Gary Ervin Gary Forster Gary Gump Gary Hamlin ...
The Vanishing Hero

The Vanishing Hero

Gary T. Brideau

Gary T. Brideau. “That strange-looking one, dead ahead'll do fine” “Umm.. .. that's not a planet you'd want to stay on, ... The people from PX Miner have a unique speech pattern and those two don't have the slightest hint ofit, in their speech.
Doctors of Philosophy, Harvard University and Radcliffe ...

Doctors of Philosophy, Harvard University and Radcliffe ...

Harvard University. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

... as Predictors of Effectiveness and Physician-Patient Report." Gary Alan Fine, a.b. (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 1972. Subject, Social Psychology. Thesis, "A Group Space Analysis of Interpersonal Dynamics." Howard Steven Friedman, ...
Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Gary B. Ferngren

Praise for Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Gary B. Ferngren "This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
Art Smart: The Intelligent Guide to Investing in the ...

Art Smart: The Intelligent Guide to Investing in the ...

Alan D. Bryce

Heffel Fine Art Auction House has taken the lead, with the other major auction houses slowly catching up, in this expanding marketplace for fine art. The Internet enables high-end auction houses to expand their market to a worldwide audience ...
Romain Gary: A Tall Story

Romain Gary: A Tall Story

David Bellos

Simple lillc lisl Romain Gary 1 '1 European Education 1911 Romain Gary 2 Tl'llipt ' 1946 Romain Gary '5 The Company of Men 1949 Romain Gary 4 The (701mm qffhe Day IQS'I, Romain Gary 5 The Roots q/'lleauen lgfifi Fusco Sinibaldi 2.2 ...
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Not shown are program Coordinators Drs. Robert Alan Goldberg, Michael Hall, Gary Holland, and Alan Shabo, all members of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology. Lyn Bowen Office of Academic Programs Jules Stein Eye Institute 100 ...
All that Rhymes with Love: A Collection of Evocative Poetry

All that Rhymes with Love: A Collection of Evocative Poetry

Alan Gilbert

It speaks to our soul, gives rise to a myriad of emotions, and lays a foundation of intellectual stimulation that lasts long after we finish reading. Alan Gilbert delivers such fine poetry in his collection, All that Rhymes with Love.
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... of Trustees of Indiana State Farm... . . . . . . Remission of Fine. May 9 || Floyd Gallimore.... . . . . . . . $100 fine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not confined.... . . . . . . . . . . Judge, Pros. Atty., County Officials..... . . . . . . . . . . Remission of Fine. May 13 | Helen Kobek.
Gary Paulsen: Author and Wilderness Adventurer

Gary Paulsen: Author and Wilderness Adventurer

Edith Hope Fine

This illustrated biography provides the story of the life, adventures, and accomplishments of this celebrated American author.
Where's Gary?

Where's Gary?

David Lewman

When SpongeBob forgets to feet his pet snail Gary for a week, Gary packs his bags and finds a new home with Grandma, but SpongeBob soon becomes suspicious of Grandma's motives for pampering Gary.
Fine Woodworking Best Finishing Techniques

Fine Woodworking Best Finishing Techniques

Fine Woodworking

In this invaluable collection of articles from the editors of Fine Woodworking, readers will find foolproof finishes and application methods that guarantee the perfect finishing touch for any project.
Konte Chameleon Fine, Fine, Fine!

Konte Chameleon Fine, Fine, Fine!

Cristina Kessler Christian

Children will laugh with Konte and Doctor Jalloh and marvel at one of nature's fascinating creatures-the changing chameleon. The colorful and repetetive language makes this picture book a perfect choice for reading aloud.
Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Chronology

Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Chronology

Rich Handley

1991 “Chapter 1: The Valley” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner & Dillon Naylor 2 . Feb . 1991 “Chapter 2: The Bridge” Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner, Dillon Naylor & Greg Gates 3 . Mar . 1991 “Chapter 3: The Savages” Gary Chaloner Gary ...
America's Christian History

America's Christian History

Gary DeMar

20. See Gary Scott Smith, “Naturalistic Humanism,” in Building a Christian Worldview: God, Man, and Knowledge, eds. Andrew Hoffecker and Gary Scott Smith (Phillipsburg, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1986), 161–81. 21. See Gary DeMar ...
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Derren Brown

By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that ‘everything’s fine’ even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.
The Braves Encyclopedia

The Braves Encyclopedia

Gary Caruso

The starting rotation got a big boost from right-hander Craig McMurtry, who was named the league's Rookie Pitcher of the Year. Pascual Perez, also in his first full year in the majors, had a fine season and was second in the league in winning ...
Snapshot Memories: The Life and Times of a Miner's Kid

Snapshot Memories: The Life and Times of a Miner's Kid

Lee Haynes

When Karen and I saw Gary run into the house with a fish hook stuck in his lip, you can imagine our reaction. We, of course, were concerned but when we looked at each other we couldn't help but laugh, much to Gary's disapproval. Gary was ...

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