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- Careers in focus: Construction. by Ferguson's careers in focus.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Architects -- Bricklayers and stonemasons -- Carpenters -- Cement masons -- Civil engineers -- Construction inspectors -- Construction managers -- Cost estimators -- Drafters -- Drywall installers and finishers -- Electricians -- Floor covering installers -- Heating and cooling technicians -- Landscape architects -- Marble setters, tile setters, and terrazzo workers -- Operating engineers -- Painters and paperhangers -- Plasterers -- Plumbers and pipefitters -- Roofers -- Sheet metal workers -- Surveyors -- Welders -- Additional careers.Describes careers in construction in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, ways to get started, advancement possibilities, salary figures, employment outlook, and sources of more information.
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- Careers in focus. by J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company.(CARDINAL)332350;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Architects -- Carpenters -- Civil engineers -- College professors, architecture -- Computer-aided design drafters and technicians -- Construction inspectors -- Construction managers -- Cost estimators -- Drafters -- Electricians -- Environmental engineers -- Heating and cooling technicians -- Historic preservationists -- Interior designers and decorators -- Landscape architects -- Office clerks -- Plumbers and pipefitters -- Surveyors -- Urban and regional planners -- Writers, architecture & construction.Offers information on careers in architecture and the building trades, providing a basic overview of the field, explaining its importance, and presenting a short glance at overall employment prospects in the field.
- Subjects: Architecture; Building trades;
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- Careers in focus : oceanography. by Ferguson Publishing.(CARDINAL)488443;
MARCIVE 5/02/11Includes bibliographical references and index.Aquarists -- Atmospheric scientists -- Biological oceanographers -- Chemical oceanographers -- College professors, oceanography/marine science -- Divers and diving technicians -- Geological oceanographers -- Laboratory testing technicians -- Marine biologists -- Marine geophysicists -- Marine mammal trainers -- Marine policy experts and lawyers -- Marine service technicians -- Marine veterinarians -- Ocean engineers -- Physical oceanographers -- Science writers and editors -- Zoo and aquarium curators -- Zoologists.Profiles 19 careers for students interested in oceanography and marine sciences.
- Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Marine sciences; Oceanography;
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- Careers in focus. by J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company.(CARDINAL)332350;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Examines a variety of careers in the field of law enforcement, covering the basics of the job, personal and professional requirements, work environment, salary statistics, future outlook for the career, and more.
- Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administration of; Law enforcement; Vocational guidance.;
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- The game changer / by Ferguson, Lana,author.;
"A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author of The Nanny. When a very public breakup becomes a PR nightmare for Ian Chase's team, he hopes to focus on his game, but that suddenly seem less likely than a hat trick. With his career and the team's image in jeopardy, Ian is surprised to find a solution through none other than Delilah Baker, his best friend and teammate's little sister... who isn't so little anymore. Delilah Baker is known as "the darling of baking" on her local cable show, and being in the public eye is her bread and butter. But with her numbers dwindling and her producers turning up the heat, Delilah offers up the half-baked idea to collaborate with her brother's team to entice the hockey fans of Boston to tune in to her show. Delilah thinks it will be a piece of cake--until the team sends Ian Chase, her brother's best friend and the object of a decade-long crush that she's never quite gotten over. Delilah's and Ian's teams think it's a true win-win situation--gaining higher numbers for Delilah's show and casting Ian in a more positive light. And viewers are eating them up like a cupcake, sparking the idea to play up their relationship for the goal of good press. With more than just their careers on thin ice, the line between what's real and what's for show begins to blur, but one thing's for certain: This PR stunt will either be a total game changer--or leave them both totally pucked"--
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Hockey players; Divorced men; Bakers; Television cooking shows; Man-woman relationships;
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- A watchman in the night : what I've seen over 50 years reporting on America / by Thomas, Cal,author.(CARDINAL)147677;
In A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes the reader on a "road trip" through over fifty years of journalism and American life, serving as a "watchman" on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes. A watchman "keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves." Thomas is a believer that certain values and principles never change and has critiqued misbehavior and wrong-headedness by people on "his side" from the start. "If values and Truth mean anything," Thomas says, "they must be applied equally. Hypocrisy and heresy cannot be ignored no matter the source." In the book, Thomas does not stigmatize labels, such as "conservative" and "religious," because Thomas says: "It allows people to define me and others by their perception of those labels. Ask me a question and I will give you my answer. For over fifty years in journalism, Thomas has offered incisive, humorous and often corrective commentary to our social, political, and religious conversations. An early commitment to addressing publicly what he sees has marked Thomas' entire career. Cal has always called both parties, both sides of the American political divide, to account, to take the high road and to honor our civic and religious ideals with compatible behavior to the very best of our ability. This increasingly "radical" approach to public life has won him many friends on both sides of the political aisle, hundreds of thousands of faithful readers of his columns, and a continuous barrage of accolades and "hate mail," much of it charming when it is not too foul to repeat. Cal came to the Christian faith while a young journalist at a dinner led by Dr. Richard Halverson, Pastor at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, MD, and later, Chaplain of the United States Senate. This experience informed the rest of Cal's life as he hosted his own private dinners for members of the press and members of Congress from both parties leading to deep friendships with Senator Ted Kennedy and many others, friendships which became a hallmark of Cal's life despite wide political differences. For over two decades, Cal has hosted the National Prayer Breakfast Media Dinner as a continuation of his commitment to the reality that a relationship with Jesus Christ can change a person's life and ultimately change a nation, and that things of such import are best discussed over dinner. The book includes tones about faith, but focuses on American social, cultural and political currents. A Watchman in the Night: What I've Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America is a living history of our times, of who we were then and who we are now and who we might become (for better or worse) in the future, and a remarkable chronicle of modern American life.--
- Subjects: Thomas, Cal; Journalism;
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- Notable horror fiction writers / by Evans, Robert C.,1955-editor.(CARDINAL)809088;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Volume 1 : Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Complete Table of Contents -- Jane Austen -- Clive Barker -- William Beckford -- Peter Benchley -- Ambrose Bierce -- Algernon Blackwood -- William Peter Blatty -- Robert Bloch -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Ray Bradbury -- Gary Brandner -- Gary A. Braunbeck -- Poppy Z. Brite (aka William Joseph Martin) -- Max Brooks -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Octavia E. Butler -- P. D. Cacek -- Ramsey Campbell -- Caleb Carr -- Mort Castle -- Robert Chambers -- Fred Chappell -- Lincoln Child -- Simon Clark -- Susanna Clarke -- Douglas Clegg -- Nancy A. Collins -- John Connolly -- F. Marion Crawford -- Michael Crichton -- Roald Dahl -- Mark Z. Danielewski -- Walter de la Mare -- Guy de Maupassant -- Stephen Dedman -- August Derleth -- Philip K. Dick -- Daphne du Maurier -- Tananarive Due -- Lord Dunsany -- Bret Easton Ellis -- Harlan Ellison -- Guy Endore -- Elizabeth Engstrom -- Dennis Etchison -- Brian Evenson -- Hanns Heinz Ewers -- John Farris -- Gillian Flynn -- Jeffrey Ford -- Neil Gaiman -- Stephen Gallagher -- Ray Garton Jr. -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Greg F. Gifune -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Christopher Golden -- Ed Gorman -- Laurell K. Hamilton -- Thomas Harris -- L. P. Hartley -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lafcadio Hearn -- Joe Hill -- Glen Hirshberg -- William Hope Hodgson -- E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Diane Hoh -- Nalo Hopkinson -- Tanya Huff -- Shaun Hutson -- Shirley Jackson -- Charlee Jacob -- W. W. Jacobs -- Henry James -- M. R. James -- P. D. James -- Stephen Graham Jones -- Franz Kafka -- Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Stephen King -- Rudyard Kipling -- T. E. D. Klein -- Dean R. Koontz -- Joe R. Lansdale -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- Edward Lee -- Tanith Lee -- Fritz Leiber Jr. -- Ira Levin -- Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis -- Bentley Little -- Frank Belknap Long -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Brian Lumley.Volume 2 : Complete Table of Contents -- Arthur Machen -- Elizabeth Massie -- Graham Masterton -- Richard Matheson -- Charles Maturin -- Cormac McCarthy -- Seanan McGuire -- A. Merritt -- Gustav Meyrink -- Michael Moorcock -- Toni Morrison -- Kim Newman -- Scott Nicholson -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Owl Goingback -- Norman Partridge -- Edgar Allen Poe -- John William Polidori -- Ann Radcliffe -- Anne Rice -- Christina Rossetti -- Saki -- Al Sarrantonio -- David J. Schow -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Anne Rivers Siddons -- Dan Simmons -- Guy N. Smith -- William Browning Spencer -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Bram Stoker -- Peter Stoker -- Peter Straub -- Karen E. Taylor -- Lucy Taylor -- Melanie Tem -- Steve Rasnic Tem -- Thomas Tessier -- Thomas Tryon -- Lisa Tuttle -- Horace Walpole -- H. G. Wells -- Edith Wharton -- Oscar Wilde -- Chet Williamson -- J. N. Williamson -- Colin Wilson -- T. M. Wright -- John Wyndham -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Appendixes -- Horror Poetry in English (and English Translation) from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries -- Horror Poems from the English Renaissance and Restoration Periods -- Fulke Greville -- John Donne -- Robert Herrick, Fair Margaret, and Sweet Wiliam -- Horror Poems from the Eighteenth Century -- John Gay -- James Thomson and David Mallet -- Richard Glover -- William Collins and Heinrich August Ossenfender -- Dr. Henry Harington -- William Julius Mickle -- Mary Alcock -- Gottfried August Burger -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Horror Poems from the Romantic Period -- William Blake -- Mary Robinson -- Samuel Rogers -- Ann Radcliffe -- James Grahame -- John Stagg -- Sir Walter Scott -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Robert Southey -- Matthey Gregory ("Monk") Lewis -- Thomas Campbell -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff -- Richard Harris Barham -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- John Keats -- Henry Thomas Liddell -- William Motherwell -- George Moses Horton -- Thomas Hood -- Victor Hugo -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Robert Stephen Hawker -- Fyodor Tyutchev -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Sir Samuel Ferguson -- William Bell Scott -- Robert Browning -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Henry Harbaugh -- Emily Bronte -- Charles Kingsley -- Alice Cary -- Vasile Alecsandri -- Charles Baudelaire -- Horror Poems from the Victorian Period -- William Allingham -- Charles Godfrey Leland -- George MacDonald -- Fitz-James O'Brien -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Emily Dickinson -- Christina Rossetti -- James Clerk Maxwell and Lewis Carroll -- James Thomson -- Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton) -- Sir Edwin Arnold -- Felix Dahn -- Richard Garnett -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Bret Harte -- William Schwenck Gilbert -- Marietta Holley -- Sarah Piatt -- William Dean Howells -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Henry Kendall -- Thomas Hardy -- Robert Buchanan -- Ambrose Bierce -- Eugene Lee-Hamilton -- Alfred Percival Graves -- Julian Hawthorne -- Charles Hanson Towne -- Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton -- W. E. Henley -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Robert Bridges -- Andrew Lang -- Mihai Eminescu -- Philip Bourke Martson -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Ellen Mackay Hutchison Cortissoz -- William Sharp -- Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Victor James Daley -- Constance Naden -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Katherine Tynan -- William Wilfred Campbell -- Mary E. Coleridge -- Minna Irving -- May Kendall -- Jean Blewett -- Virna Sheard -- Edith Wharton -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) -- Madison Julius Cawein -- Rudyard Kipling -- Arthur Symons -- William Butler Yeats -- Ethna Carbery (aka Anna MacManus) -- Dora Sigerson Shorter -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Horror Poems from the Early Twentieth Century -- Walter de la Mare -- Theodosia Garrison -- Robert Frost -- Amy Lowell -- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson -- Don Marquis -- The Gothic Novel -- The Horror Novel -- The Horror Narrative and the Graphic Novel -- Horror for Young Adults -- Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, Nominees and Winners -- Anthology -- Fiction Collection -- First Novel -- Graphic Novel -- Long Fiction -- Long Nonfiction -- Middle Grade Novel -- Novel -- Poetry -- Screenplay -- Short Fiction -- Short Nonfiction -- Young Adult Novel -- Bibliography -- Index -- Subject Index.Fears of all kinds have been the topic of horror fiction, of the unknown, of death, of evil, of monsters, ghosts, and other abnormal beings. Writers such as Edgar Allan Poe focused on such fears and helped inaugurate the horror genre. But "fear literature" had existed well before Poe in the work of various Gothic authors, including Mary Shelley. Vampires, mummies, werewolves, zombies, and invisible creatures, and psychologically warped humans became popular subjects for short and long fiction. Notable Horror Fiction Writers fills a need for an authoritative overview of horror writing. It explores the lives of relevant writers, the reception of relevant texts, and the history of the tradition as it has unfolded over the last four hundred years. Focusing on the existential as well as the psychological, these volumes highlight the literary qualities of horror literature and discuss their social, historical, and cultural contexts. Essays cover horror writings from the 1700s to the present day and establish the essence of this literary genre, exploring its most significant and influential figures and their work. Detailed analyses of selected works by each author follow a biography, illuminating the artistry that makes these writings not only important horror works but also simply works of art in themselves, reflecting society in a particular historical moment but also remaining timeless. Essays cover writers such as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Sheridan le Fanu, and many more. Entries conclude with a selected list of works by the author, a bibliography, and suggested further reading. The body of each article is arranged as follows: Biography provides facts about upbringing and the environment that shaped each writer. When details are scarce, historical context is provided. These biographies often point to the source of a writer's particular "genius," showing how an individual's relationship with the world around them informs their work. Analysis considers the overall arc of a writer's career. The characters that inhabit their writings, the plots and themes they turn to, and their writing style are considered carefully. Works provides a close up look at various writings by each author, covering the plot and theme of each story as well as the historical context and reception of the work. Selected Works and Bibliographies. Additionally, Notable Horror Fiction Writers features a collection of horror poetry, an often neglected but important subcategory. This section includes horror poems from the English Renaissance and Restoration periods, the Romantic period, the Victorian period, and more. A group of essays follows which examine specific aspects of horror literature including gothic novels, graphic novels, and young adult horror, to name a few. Back matter includes supporting features of particular interest to those studying horror writers: Bram Stoker Awards, Bibliography, and Subject Index. Designed to introduce readers at the high school and university level to the rich world of horror fiction, this two-volume collection will provide students with careful research and resources for further exploration into these accomplished and indispensable writers. -- From Publisher's Website.
- Subjects: Horror tales; Supernatural in literature.; Horror tales; Horror tales;
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