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As a corporate strategist, Elizabeth B. Crook spent years helping companies grow in new industries and new markets. Although she focused on organizations, more and more individuals sought her assistan
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In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi’s Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had b
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Build fast, highly scalable, non-blocking web applications with the lightweight JVM framework Ratpack. With this practical book, web developers with a JVM background will learn how asynchronous, non-b
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From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to und
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