Authors:Nelson Haydamacker, Alan D. Millar,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: lakes, freighters, life, deckhand
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-02-24
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0472033255
ISBN-13: 9780472033256

Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider’s view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by deckhands on these gritty cargo vessels. Boisterous port saloons, monster ice jams, near drownings, and the daily drudgery of soogeying---cleaning dirt and grime off the ships---are just a few of the experiences Mic

Authors:Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, Duncan Pritchard,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: value, epistemic
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-11-16
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0199231184
ISBN-13: 9780199231188

Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of previously unpublished articles on such issues by leading philosophers in the field. It will stimulate discussion of the nature of knowledge and of directions that might be taken by the theory of knowledge. The contributors are Jason Baehr, Michael B

Author: Sam Millar
Publisher: Wynkin Deworde
Keywords: brinks
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0954260775
ISBN-13: 9780954260774

Best-selling award-winning memoir. Film rights bought by Warner Brothers. Topped the Number bestsellers from Nov 03-Feb 04.

Author: Cal Millar
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: homicides, unsolved, stoppers, crime, killer
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-09-13
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1448648769
ISBN-13: 9781448648764

Highlighted in this book are more than 250 unsolved murder cases from across North America with rewards totalling some $5.5 million. Investigators are hoping people will have information that will help solve some of these cases which are on the files of police agencies and Crime Stoppers units in the United States and Canada. These victims and their families require justice and are hoping those who know who is responsible will come forward and identify the killers.

Author: Martin Millar
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Keywords: york, new, fairies
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0765358549
ISBN-13: 9780765358547

Dinnie, an overweight enemy of humanity, was the worst violinist in New York, but was practicing gamely when two cute little fairies stumbled through his fourth-floor window and vomited on the carpet. . . .When a pair of fugitive Scottish thistle fairies end up transplanted to Manhattan by mistake, both the Big Apple and the Little People have a lot of adjusting to do. Heather and Morag just want to start the first radical fairy punk rock band, but first they’ll have make a match between two highly unlikely sweethearts, start a street brawl between rival gangs of Italian, Chinese, and Af

Author: James R. Millar
Publisher: Gacl
Keywords: history, russian, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 1828
Published: 2003-12
List price: $624.00
ISBN-10: 0028656938
ISBN-13: 9780028656939

Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: rome, roman, empire, studies, greece, history, culture, society, greek, world, east, volume, government
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2004-06-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807855200
ISBN-13: 9780807855201

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar’s published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire work