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Chapters: Commissioners of the Philadelphia Police Department, Frank Rizzo, Charles H. Ramsey, Daniel Faulkner, John Timoney, St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, Jim Devlin, George Bradley, Willie L. Williams, Seamus Mccaffery, Alfonzo Giordano, Harold James, Richard Neal, Thomas Gibbons. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr. (October 23, 1920 July 16, 1991) was an American police officer and politician. He served two terms as mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from January 1972 to January 1980; he was Police Commissioner for four years prior to that. Rizzo joined the Philadelphia Police Department in the 1940s, rising through the ranks to become Police Commissioner in 1967. He served in that role during the turbulent years of 1967 to 1971, garnering a reputation as a tough, hands-on Commissioner. It was at this time that Arlen Spector was District Attorney of Philadelphia and debated the appointment of Frank Rizzo as Police Commissioner with Mayor James Tate. Although a registered Democrat, Spector was well outside the Democratic Party machine in Philadelphia and ran as a Republican. One of the most well known actions taken by Rizzo's police officers were the raids on the Philadelphia offices of the Black Panther Party on August 31, 1970. The raids took place just after the Black Panthers had declared war on police officers nationwide, and one week before the Panthers planned to convene a "People's Revolutionary Convention" at Temple University. The officers performed a strip search on the arrested Black Panther members in front of the news cameras. The picture ran on the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News, and was seen around the world. Rizzo did not order the raids, as he was home asleep at the time. He did ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=470235 ... Read more

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Ghor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son
I have been a fan of Mr Howard for nearly 12 years now, which in myopinion, makes me a bit of a connoisseur, and frankly this book was a bitof a disappointment.Undoubtedly the contributing writers arewell-respected and immensely able but their writing lacked the Howardianflavour I have come to love.Ghor's sudden personality shifts are hard tofollow and the various ideas in the story lack sufficient depth.This bookis not the way Mr Howard would have written it.Nevertheless, this shouldbe read because the original idea belonged to the great REH.

EXCELLENT BOOK
I WAS VERY SUPRISED ABOUT HOW WELL THIS STORY CAME OFF. THE VARIUOS WRITERS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB IN WRITING AN EXCITING BOOK THAT FLOWED SMOOTHLY.IT DID NOT COME OFF AS A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES.THIS IS ANEXCELLENT BOOK FOR ROBERT E. HOWARD FANS, AND FANS OF FANTASY IN GENERAL.

GHOR is the Cthulhu's Conan.
Ghor is a nice blend of Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos together.Abandonedas a child because of a deformity, Ghor is adopted by a pack of wolves. Raised by them, he adopts the ways of the wolf, yet when he meets up withhumanity joins them.Constantly struggling with his wolf upbringing andhis human surroundings, Ghor becomes a mighty war hero wherever hegoes.

This is an excellent adventure book that takes a Conan like heroand plots him against all sorts of evil (and good), including some Cthulhucreations as well.

Originally Ghor was an unfinished story by Conancreator Robert Howard.Upon finding this unfinished story, a magazinedecided to finish it.What they did was have a different chapter everymonth written by a different top fantasy writer.It made the readinginteresting.

While most of the chapters were great.Some wereexcellent.Unfortunately there were a couple chapters that I just wantedto get through to reach the next writers' chapter.Overall a really goodread. ... Read more

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The thirty experiments in Modern Earth Science Laboratory Investivations are designed to provide you with practical experience in scientific thought and methods. The investigations reinforce and expand concepts introduced and developed in the textbook. The investigations also give you an opportunity to use scientific methods and to practice laboratory techniques. Each investigation is a process-oriented laboratory---one investigation corresponding to each chapter. The investigations are four to six pages long. Each investigation has instruction pages and laboratory report pages. The instruction pages provide you with a step-by-step procedure. (from page 4, Using the Laboratory Investigations) ... Read more

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Package (in clear plastic stretch wrap) of four ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATIONS paperback books. These books are from the 1983 (additional copyright dates listed are 1979, 1973, 1969, 1965) HOLT RINEHART WINSTON Modern Earth Science program. Each book has the ISBN 0-03-059987-3. These books each have 264 pages (consisting of student activity pages, labs, etc). ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2794 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of what we think accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism ... Read more

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The Hardys' friend Mike Mendez says his new invention can turn people into animals. When he uses it in Chet's backyard, a golden retriever appears--one who has the same exact tastes as Chet!. ... Read more

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When someone pulls the fire alarm during Frank and Joe's first day at Bayport Elementary, Joe thinks he knows who did it. But all the other kids think Joe is a snitch, and if Frank doesn't find out who really pulled the alarm, the Hardys will never eat lunch in that lunchroom again. ... Read more

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Out of Bounds!

It's not easy playing hockey when you can barely skate. But Frank and Chet are determined to keep Joe on the team. Even after Joe accidentally slams a slap shot straight into Jamie, a star figure skater. Jamie's furious. Then she accuses Joe of stealing her good-luck charm, a fuzzy white seal.

Joe and Frank are determined to find the mascot -- and the thief. If they don't, Jamie can't skate -- and Joe's in the penalty box for good! ... Read more