Author: Fred Wilbur Powell Fred A. Cleveland
Publisher: BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)
Keywords: finance, railroad
Number of Pages: 482
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 1110815026
ISBN-13: 9781110815029

The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the ste

Authors:Fred Wesley, Rickey Vincent,
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: sideman, recollections, fred
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-09
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0822329093
ISBN-13: 9780822329091

With Hit Me, Fred, sensational side man Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the J.B.’s. Having been the band’s music director, arranger, trombone player, and frequent composer, Wesley is one of the original architects of funk music. He describes life working for the Godfather of Soul, revealing the effort and sometimes frustrating discipline behind Brown’s tight, ra

Authors:Fred Abrahams, Eric Stover, Carroll Bogert, Fred Abra
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: kosovo, crimes, war, destroyed, village
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520233034
ISBN-13: 9780520233034

On a warm spring morning in 1999, in the midst of NATO’s air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian security and paramilitary forces descended on the small village of Cuska, near the western Kosovo city of Pec. Soldiers with painted faces and masks rounded up the population and forced them to assemble in the center of the village. The women, children, and elderly were separated from any men who had not managed to flee. The villagers were threatened and robbed of their money, jewelry, and identification papers. Twenty-nine men were divided into three groups and taken into three separate hou

Author: Howard Sounes
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: fred, rose, horrors, house, gloucester, story, amp, full, west
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0751513229
ISBN-13: 9780751513226

This is an account of the serial murders at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, based on interviews with relatives and friends of Fred and Rose West. The author broke the story of the killings in an article in The Sunday Mirror in March 1994.

Authors:Fred G Notehelfer, Fred G. Notehelfer,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: francis, hall, journal, eyes, american, japan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0813338670
ISBN-13: 9780813338675

This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America’s leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An upstate New York book dealer, Hall went to Japan in 1859 to collect material for a book on the country and to serve as correspondent for Horace Greely’s New York Tribune. Seeing the opportunities for commerce in Yokohama, he helped found Walsh, Hall, and Co., an institution that became one of the most important American trading houses in Japan. Hall was a shrewd businessman, but also a per

Authors:Fred P. Orelove, Fred P. Orelove, Dick Sobsey, Rosann
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co
Keywords: collaborative, approach, disabilities, multiple, children, educating
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2004-04-14
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1557667101
ISBN-13: 9781557667106

Provides proven strategies and guidance for educating students with severe and multiple disabilities in a variety of settings. For undergraduate and graduate students. Previous edition: c1996. Softcover. DLC: Children with Disabilities--Education.

Authors:Fred Tanner, Stephen John Stedman, Fred Tanner, Steph
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: human, suffering, abuse, politics, manipulation, war, refugee
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2003-06
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0815780915
ISBN-13: 9780815780915

Since World War II, refugee organizations have faced a recurrent challenge: the manipulation of refugees by warring parties to further their own aims. Some armies in civil wars, facing military defeat, use refugees as assets to establish the international legitimacy of their cause, treat refugee camps as sanctuaries and recruitment pools, and limit access to refugees to ensure that they will not repatriate. Focusing on the geopolitical security environment surrounding militarized camps and the response of humanitarian agencies, the contributors to this volume examine the ways armed gr