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Stephen Block, Patrick Cain, Kenneth DeLuca, Matthew D. Dinan, Paul E. Kirkland, Sara MacDonald, Denise Schaeffer, Carl Eric Scott, Stephen Sims, Natalie Taylor, Lisa Pace Vetter, Germaine Paulo Walsh, Ann Ward, Lee Ward, Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College

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Politics, Literature, & Film

This volume presents a series of essays in honor of noted scholar of political theory, Mary P. Nichols. The essays reflect Nichols’ pathbreaking work in ancient Greek political thought, as well as her influential treatments of works of literature and film in conversation with political theory. Part I: Conversations Concerning Love and Friendship features essays about the philosophical meaning of human connection and affection. Part II: Conversations Between Politics and Poetry looks at the...

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Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, William C. Duncan, Lauren Hall, Martha Martini, David Ramsey, Mark Scully, James R. Stoner Jr., Scott Yenor, Adam M. Carrington, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Terence J. Kleven, Peter Lawler

This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading scholars in the fields of political science, law, and religion examine the roots of the Court’s affirmation of same-sex rights in a number of areas related to marriage and the family including t...

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Stephen L. Nelson

An all-encompassing guide to a popular desktop accounting softwareQuickBooks Desktop All-in-One For Dummies clearly guides you on how to manage your business finances through QuickBooks Desktop. This comprehensive resource walks you through advanced features and overall layout, so you can maximize the value this software brings to your business.Feel confident invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, do-it-yourself payroll, preparing...

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Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry

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Akashic Noir

This anthology spans more than a century of noir fiction set in the heart of the Big Apple—"17 sure winners" from Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, and more ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).The island of Manhattan has been a breeding ground of crime, longing, and discontent since its earliest days as a city—and a natural setting for noir fiction since the genre was invented. And from Harlem to Greenwich Village to Wall Street, it has also been home to ma...

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Katrina Miller-Stevens, Stephen Block

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Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

Founders and Organizational Development: The Etiology and Theory of Founder’s Syndrome is designed to help today’s researchers, faculty, students and practitioners become familiar with the etiology and dynamics of Founder’s Syndrome as an organizational condition challenging nonprofit/nongovernmental, social enterprise, and for-profit and publicly traded organizations. The book uses applied social and psychological theories and concepts to peel away the layers of an organizational...

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J. David Alvis, Timothy Burns, Mark Blitz, Stephen A. Block, Daniel E. Burns, Patrick N. Cain, Adam M. Carrington, David Clinton, Steven Forde, Jerome C. Foss, Douglas Kries, Sara MacDonald, William Mathie, David K. Nichols, Mary P. Nichols, Alexander Orwin, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Denise Schaeffer, Susan Meld Shell, Sean D. Sutton, Ann Ward, Lee Ward, Catherine H. Zuckert

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, ...

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Stephen L. Nelson

The quick way to get started—and get proficient—with QuickBooksQuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies is the solution small business owners and managers are seeking. This high-value reference combines 8 content-rich mini-books into one complete package, providing the answers you need to get the most out of the 2024 version of QuickBooks. You’ll learn the key features of QuickBooks and small business accounting, including setting up the software, understand...

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Michael Connelly, Alexandra Sokoloff, Lawrence Block, Naomi Hirahara, T. Jefferson Parker, Stephen Jay Schwartz (Editor)

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P. J. Ochlan, Simon Mattacks, Alan Jacobson, Andrew Kaplan, Joshua Corin, Lee Goldberg, Naomi Hirahara, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Tess Gerritsen, Lawrence Block, Rob Roberge, Diana Gould, Alexandra Sokoloff, James Brown, Various Narrators

It’s no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that “the book was better than the movie” holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book rights to Hollywood authors like to joke that they drive their manuscripts to the border of Arizona and California and toss them over the fence, driving back the way they came at breakneck speed. This is probably because Hollywood just doesn’t “get i...

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Nathan Larson, Carl-Michael Edenborg

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Akashic Noir

"[A] superb sampling of Swedish crime writing talent . . . will be appreciated by fans of Stieg Larsson's Millennium [series] and Jens Lapidus's Easy Money ." — Library JournalWhat could be more peaceful than a city made up of a series of islands surrounded by crystal-clear water? But like any big, international metropolis, Stockholm has a dark side—fed by the disparity between its affluent boroughs and its more ...

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Darko Macan, Josip Novakovich, Ivan Vidić, Ružica Gašperov, Mima Simić, Robert Perisic, Pero Kvesić, Nada Gašić, Zoran Pilić, Andrea Žigić-Dolenec, Darko Milošić, Nora Verde, Ivan Sršen, Neven Ušumović

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Akashic Noir

"A must-read book by Croatian authors available in English. A collection of crime stories set across Zagreb, each one by a different Croatian writer."--Time Out (Croatia)"Zagreb, Croatia--its culture and its touchstones--will be terra incognita for many U.S. readers...Notable is Nora Verde's 'She-Warrior,' in which a young woman's carefully planned anarchist activities are smacked down by a triple helping of reality."--Publishers ...

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Lawrence Block

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Akashic Noir

"A pleasing variety of Manhattan neighborhoods come to life in Block's solid anthology. . . . The writing is of a high order and a nice mix of styles." — Publishers WeeklyNew York City's main borough becomes the centerpiece for a collection of noir tales that celebrates its appeal, its arrogance, its diversity—and its darkness. From Battery Park to Harlem, the Lower East Side to the Upper West, Manhattan Noir delves below the island's glittering f...

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Kenji Jasper, Jim Patton, Richard Currey

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Akashic Noir

Sixteen stories of capital crimes and misdemeanors—the basis for the film directed by George Pelecanos, producer and writer of The Wire.Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, in D.C. Noir, pimps, whores, gangsters, and con-men run rampant in zones...