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  • CASE STUDIES OF CITY-COUNTY CONSOLIDATION: RESHAPING THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LANDSCAPE
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    CASE STUDIES OF CITY-COUNTY CONSOLIDATION: RESHAPING THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LANDSCAPE
    SUZANNE M. LELAND / KURT M. THURMAIER
    Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of scale in response to citizen demands for services. Yet the vast majority of consolidation efforts fail, either during the process of drafting a charter or once they reach the ballot - ...

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  • UNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURE
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    UNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURE
    LELAND M. ROTH / AMANDA C. ROTH CLARK
    The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging. Significant features of the fourth edition include: Expanded global essays outlining the enco...

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  • A PERSONAL KIWI-YANKEE DICTIONARY
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    A PERSONAL KIWI-YANKEE DICTIONARY
    LOUIS S. LELAND
    How would you respond if a New Zealander invited you to a "leg-in"? Would you know what to do if someone told you to pull up a "browser"? Without some assistance, most foreigners would indeed be baffled by the intricacies of the Kiwi tongue. Now, however, help is available as Louis S. Leland Jr., a professor of psychology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, unra...

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  • TEACHING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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    TEACHING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
    CHRISTINE H. LELAND / MITZI LEWISON / JEROME C. HARSTE
    Now in its third edition, this indispensable text offers a critical perspective on how to integrate children’s literature into the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other—Enjoy; Dig deeply; Take action—the book is rich with real examples of teachers implementing critical pedagogy and tools to support students’ develop...

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  • DEMYSTIFYING AI FOR THE ENTERPRISE
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    DEMYSTIFYING AI FOR THE ENTERPRISE
    PRASHANT NATARAJAN / BOB ROGERS / EDWARD DIXON / JONAS CHRISTENSEN / KIRK BORNE / LELAND WILKINSON / SHANT
    Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms –– machine learning, chatbots, robots, agents, etc. –– is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors, academic research projects, and startups. However, we posit that the greatest promi...

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  • TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD LEADERS
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    TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD LEADERS
    JULIE NICHOLSON / JEN LELAND / JULIE KURTZ / LAWANDA WESLEY / SARAH NADIV
    Specifically designed for administrators and leaders working in early childhood education, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for creating trauma-responsive organizations and systems. Throughout this book, you'll find: Exercises and tools for identifying the strengths and areas in need of change within your program, school or agency. Reflection questions and sa...

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  • RESEARCH METHODS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
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    RESEARCH METHODS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
    GARY RASSEL / SUZANNE LELAND / ZACHARY MOHR
    Research Methods for Public Administrators contains a thorough overview of research methods and statistical applications for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners. The material is based on established social science methods. Concepts and applications are discussed and illustrated with examples from actual research. The book covers research design, meth...

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  • NO NONSENSE: TIME MANAGEMENT
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    NO NONSENSE: TIME MANAGEMENT
    KAREN TIBER LELAND / KEITH BAILEY
    Defeat distraction: "Karen and Keith's easy-to-implement advice will maximize your efficiency and enable you to find more time in your day." —Tory Johnson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Shift Written by a longtime consultant who has served clients in over fifty countries, No Nonsense: Time Management helps you overcome overload and avoid the traps that lead to an ...

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  • TEACHING K-8 READING
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    TEACHING K-8 READING
    CHRISTINE H. LELAND / MITZI LEWISON / JEROME C. HARSTE
    Accessible and engaging, this methods textbook provides a roadmap for improving reading instruction. Leland, Lewison, and Harste explain why certain ineffective or debunked literacy techniques prevail in the classroom, identify the problematic assumptions that underly these popular myths, and offer better alternatives for literacy teaching. Grounded in a mantra that promotes cr...

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  • AMERICA BUILDS
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    AMERICA BUILDS
    LELAND M. ROTH
    Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with one another. Hence this volume, like my Concise Hist ...

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  • FUSANG
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    FUSANG
    CHARLES G. LELAND
    This book, first published in 1875 and reissued in 1973, analyses the limited evidence from the works of early Chinese historians that explorers from China had discovered a country they called Fusang – possibly western America, and in all probability Mexico. The original document on which Chinese historians based their accounts of Fusang was the report of a Buddhist monk called...

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  • AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
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    AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
    LELAND M. ROTH / AMANDA C. ROTH CLARK
    More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the environment from the first Americans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to the high style of aspiration. Eleven chronologically organized chapters chart the...

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  • KANGZHAN
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    KANGZHAN
    LELAND NESS / BIN SHIH
    Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–45 is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examine the details of the structure and weapons of the period. Recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our understanding of China's rol...

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  • NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM PLANTS
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    NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM PLANTS
    LELAND J. CSEKE / ARA KIRAKOSYAN / PETER B. KAUFMAN / SARA WARBER / JAMES A. DUKE / HARRY L. BRIELMANN
    2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and culinary uses to cutting-edge laboratory techniques in modern research and plant conservation strategies, Natural Products from Plants ...

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  • RIKUGUN: GUIDE TO JAPANESE GROUND FORCES 1937-1945
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    RIKUGUN: GUIDE TO JAPANESE GROUND FORCES 1937-1945
    LELAND NESS
    Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This first volume covers the tactical organization of Army and Navy ground forces during the 1937-45 war. Using the wartime Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) mobilization plans,...

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  • RIKUGUN
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    RIKUGUN
    LELAND NESS
    "Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the armament of the ground forces. It takes advantage not only of postwar Japanese research, but also the extensive technical intelligence effor...

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  • CREATING CRITICAL CLASSROOMS
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    CREATING CRITICAL CLASSROOMS
    MITZI LEWISON / CHRISTINE LELAND / JEROME C. HARSTE
    This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken t...

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  • ELIZABETHAN NON-CONFORMIST TEXTS
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    ELIZABETHAN NON-CONFORMIST TEXTS
    CARLSON, LELAND H. / PEEL, ALBERT
    Originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin. When originally published, these volumes were making available very rare material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. Most of the documents exist in their original state as difficult to locate, read and understand - for example: there are only two copies of A Plaine Refutation (1591) and two copies of...

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  • SECRETS OF THE COLD WAR
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    SECRETS OF THE COLD WAR
    LELAND MCCASLIN
    Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there. The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies collecting enemy information in the East and fighting spies and terr...

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  • ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS
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    ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS
    LELAND
    Cast a spell against gossips, deflect unwanted romantic attention, or bring the dead back to life. The renowned 19th-century folklorist and expert on witchy cultures Charles Leland believed he had uncovered the secrets of practical domestic magic as the ancient pagans of Italian Tuscany performed it, and he shared all in this classic 1892 study. Considered by the author to be h...

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  • HIP
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    HIP
    JOHN LELAND
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hi...

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  • PROJECT SEVEN ALPHA
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    PROJECT SEVEN ALPHA
    LELAND SHANLE
    The true story of American Airlines pilots who ferried essential supplies to US troops over the Himalayas is recounted in this thrilling WWII history. In late 1941, to prevent a Japanese invasion of India, President Roosevelt formed a defensive line on the eastern side of the Patkai and Himalayan Mountain Ranges. To support these troops, he needed an air supply from Eastern Ind...

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  • PUBLIC SPEAKING IN AN INSTANT
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    PUBLIC SPEAKING IN AN INSTANT
    KAREN LELAND / KEITH BAILEY
    An easy-to-use guide to improving your public speaking and presentation skills. The "In an Instant" series is a brand of user-friendly, engaging, and practical reference guides on core business topics, which capitalizes on the authors' extensive experience and knowledge, as well as interviews they have conducted with leading business experts. Written in an upbeat and engaging s...

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  • THE WRITINGS OF HENRY BARROW, 1590-91
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    THE WRITINGS OF HENRY BARROW, 1590-91
    LELAND H. CARLSON
    This volume contains the great Separatist's solus writings from 1590-1591. It includes texts taken from manuscript sources, and rare tracts that have been reprinted here for the first time. ...

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  • THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT HARRISON AND ROBERT BROWNE
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    THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT HARRISON AND ROBERT BROWNE
    ALBERT PEEL / LELAND CARLSON
    Robert Harrison and Robert Browne were the initiators of the principles of English Separatism and Congregationalism. Unlike the Presbytero-Puritans, these nonconformists sought to establish local churches that were independent of the state. Although they encountered fierce opposition from the clergy, state officials and Anglican bishops, they persisted in their practices. As a ...

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  • SUSAN SONTAG
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    SUSAN SONTAG
    POAGUE, LELAND / PARSONS, KATHY A.
    Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accom...

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  • AMERICA'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS
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    AMERICA'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS
    DANIEL BUTLER / ALAN RAY / LELAND GREGORY
    100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals. WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant. Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together. The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize...

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  • AMERICAN AIRLINE'S SECRET WAR IN CHINA
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    AMERICAN AIRLINE'S SECRET WAR IN CHINA
    LELAND SHANLE
    In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with the two other Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, in an attempt to conquer the Eastern Hemisphere. US naval forces had been surprised and diminished in Pearl Harbor and the army was not only outnu...

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  • REALMS OF GOLD
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    REALMS OF GOLD
    LELAND RYKEN
    Throughout history, great literature has been a cohesive force in Western culture. It interprets our experiences and tells us the truth about our fears and longings. It is a catalyst to our thinking and an invaluable index to the minds and feelings of people around us. In 'Realms of Gold,' Leland Ryken proceeds chronologically through some of the best of the best, from Homer t...

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  • AN ALASKAN GOLD MINE
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    AN ALASKAN GOLD MINE
    LELAND CARLSON
    An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above is a notable and tragic story of the discovery of Alaska gold in 1898. The mine had so many implications for leaders and institutions of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a tangled and contested case of ownership extending over two decades that went to the Supreme Court of the United States on four occasions. Visiting Alaska three t...

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