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This book describes what life was like for my family and me living in rural, rurban, and urban Alabama during the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. Life for a poor black family living in Alabama during these decades was quite challenging. Even more challenging was being a poor black male growing up in Alabama during the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. This is my story.
'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' – John Irving 'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' – The Guardian Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated ...
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List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface to the Paperback Edition. Preface to the Original Edition. Section I: Overview of Research Program and Methods. 1. An Introduction to the Minnesota Innovation Research Program, Andrew H. Van de Ven and Harold L. Angle. 2. Methods for Studying Innovation Processes, Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole. 3. A Psychometric Assessment of the Minnesota Innovation Survey, Andrew H. Van de Ven and Yun-han Chu. Section II: The Minnesota Innovation Research Program Framework. 4. The Development of Innovation Ideas, Roger G. Schroeder, Andrew H. Van de Ve.
Runkel links Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) thinking to psychological literature and discusses it against that background.
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THE THIRD NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BURNING MEN AND THE KILLING CHOICE, FEATURING DI ALEX FIN AND DCI MATTIE PAULSEN Sadie Nicholls has been found dead, brutally and strangely murdered, in her South East London flat. Her little boy is missing. DI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen know that, in the case of a missing child, it's the first 24 hours that count. They don't have many left to find out where Sadie's son might be and the identity of her killer. Why would anyone want a struggling single mother, loved by many, dead? But when they realise a similar crime was committed at the same house nearly 20 years ago, a question is on everyone's lips: is this more than just a coincidence? This is ...