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Surviving America's Military High School
Keith a. McRae; Kimberly McRae
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2010
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Every year thousands of teens begin their new life as a cadet in military high schools. These boarding schools provide them with a great foundation to build upon for their college days and into their adult lives. Often these teens arrive at school apprehensive due to a lack of understanding on what they will experience. What if a book could help ease their transition into military high school? A book with practical guidance on military drill, preparing for inspections, and personal development was born: Surviving America's Military High School. Inside the covers of this great book, the new cadet will have a wealth of information at their fingertips from understanding leadership to preparing for college. New cadets can learn how to make a hospital corner, shine their shoes, or get practical advice on studying. Making the transition from public school student to military high school cadet could not be easier with this book as your guide.
Kitchen Stories From The Iron Lake Fishing Club: Second in the IRON LAKE FISHING CLUB Series
Keith A. Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Sometimes the best things in life are the simple things. Ernie and the guys at the Iron Lake Fishing Club like to keep things simple and that applies to kitchen work, too. When a number of fans of "THE IRON LAKE FISHING CLUB" published in 2010 asked for more camp recipes he chose almost sixty favorites and cooking tips with more camp stories and some local color collected over several decades and put them together for folks in fishing and hunting camps to use and enjoy. These are "things that a man can cook with what's in the cupboard and put a hot meal on the table when it's too dark to fish" says Ernie. After reading the recipes, the kitchen tips and the KITCHEN STORIES you'll feel as if you've had your feet under the table at the Iron Lake Fishing Club.This is a collection of recipes and kitchen ideas all wrapped up with tales and stories from the far north and the deep south. Everything from Yooper Venison Stew to Alligator is included along with tips to keep your cast iron in tip top shape and entertain the grand-kids on a rainy day. In the north they chill their beer in the lake and in Louisiana you can fry a Grilled Cheese Sandwich on the hood of your truck. So, pull up a chair, get something to drink and join the Club.
Contemporary Russia stands apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric. Conspiracy Culture traces the roots of the phenomenon within the sphere of culture and history, examining the long arc of Russian paranoia from the present moment back to earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky’s anti-nihilist novel Demons. Conspiracy Culture examines the use of conspiracy tropes by contemporary Russian authors and filmmakers including the postmodernist writer Viktor Pelevin, the conservative author and pundit Aleksandr Prokhanov, and the popular director Timur Bekmambetov. It also explores paranoia as an instrument within contemporary Russian political rhetoric, as well as in pseudo-historical works. What stands out is the manner in which popular paranoia is utilized to express broadly shared fears not only of a long-standing anti-Russian conspiracy undertaken by the West, but also about the destruction of the country’s cultural and spiritual capital within this imagined "Russophobic" plot.
Great Britain and the Schleswig-Holstein Question 1848-64
Keith A.P. Sandiford
University of Toronto Press
1975
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This book closes an obvious gap in nineteenth-century historiography by carefully analysing British policy and public opinion with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein problem from 1848 to 1864. Solidly based on a study of private and public correspondence, memoirs, biographies, newspapers, periodicals, sessional papers, foreign office documents, and parliamentary debates, it argues that the failure of British policy was due to division and uncertainty of opinion. Britain vacillated between a pliant and a defiant course and eventually chose to worst features of both. Professor Sandiford demonstrates that the failure of Russell's Schleswig-Holstein diplomacy in 1864 was largely the result of a long sequence of British miscalculations dating back at least to 1848. He also shows that the general bewilderment, both within and outside the British Parliament, permitted the queen and a handful of her ministers to exert more influence on Britain's policy in 1863-4 than has previously been supposed.
Thoughts in My Sleep: Poetry
Keith a. Bryant
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Why would she do it?It's close to midnight at the South Florida newspaper where Alton works when he decides to take a break from writing his story and calls Wanda, an old Chicago friend whom he hasn't spoken to in over a year, to see how she's getting along. When Wanda's daughter Corinne answers the phone, she doesn't remember Alton and is wary of why he is calling. Eventually Corinne informs him that her mother died quite some time ago, but that she left him a small package. If Alton wants to find out what is in the package, Corinne says he will have to come to Chicago to pick it up because that's what her mother specified in writing on the package itself.Soon after hanging up from Corinne, Alton calls a mutual friend who knew Wanda well to find out what she may know about what happened. What he discovers is that the woman whom he once loved to the point of distraction didn't just die, she set herself on fire in her car then drove into an oncoming truck.Why would she do it?Trying to unravel not only why Wanda committed suicide (and why he may have been at least partially responsible) but why she felt compelled to leave him a mysterious farewell package more than 10 years after a much younger, much angrier, much more confused Alton had fled Chicago while there was still enough of him left to save is what prompts him to return there and retrace the steps of his considerably less stable past. In the process Alton is forced to confront a simmering lifelong internal race and class conflict that drew the Colorado native away from the assured comforts provided by the protected environment of a respected upper middle class black family to Chicago's South Side, the tangled emotional web of a sharp-edged ex-prostitute, and a bitter, broken down hustler Alton 'hires' to wreak havoc in Wanda's life as recompense for a perceived slight. For reasons Alton has never been willing to face he has always felt compelled to prove his blackness, but only after allowing his racial identity to be defined by others whom he has viewed as more authentically black than himself. An elusive pursuit of a musical and writing career leads him down unexpected self-exploratory alleys and back roads that sometimes lead to an uncomfortable and unintended exploration of internal sexual conflicts as well. But the harder he struggles to define his specific place in the world, the more blurred those boundaries become. At its heart, "Fire and Wanda" is a dual mystery; the mystery behind a heartbroken ex-prostitute's suicide and the mystery of a young man's fractured identity. In America you can be anybody you want to be, and living a lie is only a lie if you believe the truth.
The distinguished American philosopher Alvin Plantinga has had a career-long interest in the defense of Christian belief. There hasn't been a major contemporary challenge to such belief that Plantinga has not, in some way, addressed. This book draws together those contributions, highlighting particularly Plantinga's groundbreaking work in the areas of epistemology and the problem of evil. Historical and biographical background information is included to give perspective to Plantinga's work. His theory that both theistic and Christian belief is warranted and basic is explored and critiqued, and an assessment is offered as to the significance of Plantinga's work for apologetic theory and practice.
This edition granted temporary authorization while in review by the author.
The Mayonnaise Murders Part 2
Keith a. Owens
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Define. Measure. Create.: An Inspiring Leadership Journey
Keith A. Reester
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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It is a fact great leadership is hard. Every manager today is pinched for time, has more inputs than ever before, and struggles to drive success. You owe it to your team to be a great leader. Energized, motivated, inspired. Are these words that define your leadership style? Every modern leader struggles with rousing their team and staying driven to success. Define. Measure. Create - Inspiring a Leadership Journey stirs the modern leader to make the change today that creates success.Define expectations. Measure performance. Create a great place to work.Master these three keys and success will spark from an ember into a raging flame.This book provides the time-crunched leader hands on guidance to energize, create, and inspire any team. Raise your hand if you have enough time Each short chapter provides a tantalizing approach giving insights to great leadership and offers essential keys to move forward from where your business stands today.The lessons of Define Measure Create wrap around stories. A young boy scalping tickets at a ball game and who learns the lessons of performance measurement. Young managers who shake hands with icons of business and feel the value of trust. Experiencing the painful realities of traveling in this world with other humans around us and finding success as we all merge in life. All approachable anecdotes told in a vein intent on helping leaders get in, get out, and get on with it.Battle hardened managers and newly minted supervisors will find ideas igniting their business imagination. Can't find time to digest long leadership texts, the Inspiring Leadership Journey is for managers wanting clear, actionable and brief insights into business today.You owe it to yourself, team, and family to be a great leader. Take the challenge of creating a great place to work, defining strategy, and measuring success.