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Building Faith Block by Block

[An Unofficial Minecraft Guide] 60 A-to-Z (Kid Only) Survival Secrets

by Michael Ross, Christopher Ross ...

Help Your Child Think Outside the BlocksDecisions, decisions. In both the virtual world and the real world, you have to make a bunch of choices. Mess up in the virtual world of Minecraft and you can always start over. But in the real world, where the decisions you make have real consequences, both good and bad, it's not that simple.Where can you go for help? Is there a gamer's guide for living? ... Read more

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Help Your Child Think Outside the BlocksDecisions, decisions. In both the virtual world and the real world, you have to make a bunch of choices. Mess up in the virtual world of Minecraft and you can always start over. But in the real world, where the decisions you make have real consequences, both good and bad, it's not that simple.Where can you go for help? Is there a gamer's guide for living?
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The Oil Curse

How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

by Michael L. Ross ...

Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Read more

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Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a
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The British Partisan

Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy

by Michael Ross, Brigadier David Ross ...

An exciting, evocative memoir of combat in North Africa, danger behind enemy lines, and two daring escapes.In this action-packed account, a Welch Regiment officer describes his remarkable Second World War experiences. These include his baptism by fire in the Western Desert against Rommel's armor in 1942; the spontaneous help of nomad Arabs when he was on the run for ten days behind enemy lines; ... Read more

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An exciting, evocative memoir of combat in North Africa, danger behind enemy lines, and two daring escapes.In this action-packed account, a Welch Regiment officer describes his remarkable Second World War experiences. These include his baptism by fire in the Western Desert against Rommel's armor in 1942; the spontaneous help of nomad Arabs when he was on the run for ten days behind enemy lines;
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The Prequel

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Series Book 1 - The Wand Chronicles
The time is fast approaching when the humans will meet the elves of Laniakeea for the first time.How and where will they meet?Has someone or something arranged this meeting?How will the elves deal with the backward bumbling humans from the Erthan dimension?How will the hiumans cope with the magic of the elves, and of Elvina, the most powerful wand in the cosmos?The scene will be set for the Wand ... Read more

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The time is fast approaching when the humans will meet the elves of Laniakeea for the first time.How and where will they meet?Has someone or something arranged this meeting?How will the elves deal with the backward bumbling humans from the Erthan dimension?How will the hiumans cope with the magic of the elves, and of Elvina, the most powerful wand in the cosmos?The scene will be set for the Wand
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Quest of the Rune Sword: An Epic Tale of Sword, Sorcery and Love

by Michael Ross Ault ...

In a world at the crossroads of dimensions, the portal to the evil Goblin realm has re-opened, the elfin leader Jerrith lies near death, the only healer that can save him is trapped in the land between life and death. Fornel, Elvin half-breed, must find his old companion Shoran who has been wandering the lands, unable to die and fading into death in his own way, in spite of Lahilda's spell of ... Read more

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In a world at the crossroads of dimensions, the portal to the evil Goblin realm has re-opened, the elfin leader Jerrith lies near death, the only healer that can save him is trapped in the land between life and death. Fornel, Elvin half-breed, must find his old companion Shoran who has been wandering the lands, unable to die and fading into death in his own way, in spite of Lahilda's spell of
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What Your Son Isn't Telling You

Unlocking the Secret World of Teen Boys

by Michael Ross, Susie Shellenberger ...

What Your Son Isn't Telling You provides a rare look at the secret lives of teen boys--a world characterized by loneliness and peer fear; one in which measuring up as a man means conforming to a code of always being a tough guy, never showing weakness, and never expressing true feelings. Too many boys feel the constant pressure to prove themselves in classrooms, on playing fields, and especially ... Read more

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What Your Son Isn't Telling You provides a rare look at the secret lives of teen boys--a world characterized by loneliness and peer fear; one in which measuring up as a man means conforming to a code of always being a tough guy, never showing weakness, and never expressing true feelings. Too many boys feel the constant pressure to prove themselves in classrooms, on playing fields, and especially
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

by Michael A. Ross ...

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that ... Read more

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In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that
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Words in Collision

Multilingualism in English-Language Fiction

by Michael L. Ross ...

For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores this tradition of language-mixing and its consequences.Returning to Shakespeare’s Henry V, Michael Ross asks why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts, why this practice continues, and what it means. He finds that the ... Read more

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For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores this tradition of language-mixing and its consequences.Returning to Shakespeare’s Henry V, Michael Ross asks why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts, why this practice continues, and what it means. He finds that the
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The Search

The Search

by Michael L Ross ...

Series Book 2 - Across the Great Divide
Where do you go when home is no longer an option?The guns of the Civil War have ceased firing, and the shots are but an echo... yet the war rages on, deep inside Will Crump's soul. His "soldier's heart" is searching for peace, and in that quest Will joins the westward movement, setting his path on a collision course with adventure, loss, and love.The Westward Expansion floods the sacred, untouched ... Read more

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Where do you go when home is no longer an option?The guns of the Civil War have ceased firing, and the shots are but an echo... yet the war rages on, deep inside Will Crump's soul. His "soldier's heart" is searching for peace, and in that quest Will joins the westward movement, setting his path on a collision course with adventure, loss, and love.The Westward Expansion floods the sacred, untouched
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Race Riots

Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction

by Michael L. Ross ...

Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this idea to the racial humour in the work of Evelyn Waugh and Joyce Cary. He also demonstrates how these ... Read more

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Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this idea to the racial humour in the work of Evelyn Waugh and Joyce Cary. He also demonstrates how these
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Designing Fictions

Literature Confronts Advertising

by Michael L. Ross ...

Advertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael Ross's Designing Fictions is the first study to investigate this symbiotic relationship on a broad scale. In view of the appreciable overlap between literary and promotional writing, Ross asks whether imaginative fiction has the latitude to critique ... Read more

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Advertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael Ross's Designing Fictions is the first study to investigate this symbiotic relationship on a broad scale. In view of the appreciable overlap between literary and promotional writing, Ross asks whether imaginative fiction has the latitude to critique
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From Broken Glass

My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

by Steve Ross ...

Narrated by Robert Blumenfeld, Ray Flynn, Michael Ross ...

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From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial ... Read more

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From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial
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