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Living in Bonus Time

Surviving Cancer, Finding New Purpose

By: Alec Hill

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Living in Bonus Time

Surviving Cancer, Finding New Purpose

By: Alec Hill

Those who experience and survive cancer live in bonus time, a season of grace that can be both disorienting and wonderful. In this honest and hopeful account, two-time survivor Alec Hill helps readers recalibrate expectations, grapple with survivor's guilt, and steward the opportunities for new purpose and growth. Survivors and caregivers can discover how encountering death can bring us to a different kind of life.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830835008

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9780830835003

Thermodynamic Degradation Science

Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue, and Reliability Applications

By: Alec Feinberg

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Thermodynamic Degradation Science

Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue, and Reliability Applications

By: Alec Feinberg

Thermodynamic degradation science is a new and exciting discipline. This book merges the science of physics of failure with thermodynamics and shows how degradation modeling is improved and enhanced when using thermodynamic principles. The author also goes beyond the traditional physics of failure methods and highlights the importance of having new tools such as “Mesoscopic” noise degradation measurements for prognostics of complex systems, and a conjugate work approach to solving physics of failure problems with accelerated testing applications. Key features: • Demonstrates how the thermodynamics energy approach uncovers key degradation models and their application to accelerated testing. • Demonstrates how thermodynamic degradation models accounts for cumulative stress environments, effect statistical reliability distributions, and are key for reliability test planning. • Provides coverage of the four types of Physics of Failure processes describing aging: Thermal Activation Processes, Forced Aging, Diffusion, and complex combinations of these. • Coverage of numerous key topics including: aging laws; Cumulative Accelerated Stress Test (CAST) Plans; cumulative entropy fatigue damage; reliability statistics and environmental degradation and pollution. Thermodynamic Degradation Science: Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue and Reliability Applications is essential reading for reliability, cumulative fatigue, and physics of failure engineers as well as students on courses which include thermodynamic engineering and/or physics of failure coverage.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119276241

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9781119276241

A Class Apart

Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools

By: Alec Klein

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A Class Apart

Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools

By: Alec Klein

Klein presents a riveting account of the students and teachers at perhaps the best public high school in the country, New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and the enormous academic pressures placed on them.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743299450

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9780743299459

Shooting 007

And Other Celluloid Adventures

By: Alec Mills

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Shooting 007

And Other Celluloid Adventures

By: Alec Mills

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema's most famous secret agent. Among many humorous and touching anecdotes, Mills reveals how he became an integral part of the Bond family as a young camera operator on 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, how he bore the brunt of his old friend Roger Moore's legendary on-set bantering, and how he rose to become the director of photography during Timothy Dalton's tenure as 007. Mills also looks back on a career that took in Return of the Jedi on film and The Saint on television with wit and affection, and Shooting 007 contains many of his and Eon Productions' unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs compiled over a lifetime of filmmaking. Featuring many of the film industry's biggest names, this book will be a must-have for both the James Bond and British film history aficionado.

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The History Press

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0750957409

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9780750957403

Making Sense of History: 1509-1745

By: Alec Fisher,John D. Clare,Richard Kennett

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Making Sense of History: 1509-1745

By: Alec Fisher,John D. Clare,Richard Kennett

Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning package makes history fun and inspiring to learn. Making Sense of History consists of four Pupil's Books with accompanying Dynamic Learning Teaching and Learning resources. Structured around big picture overviews and in-depth enquiries on different topics, the course develops pupils understanding of history and their ability to ask and explore valid historical questions about the past. - Help pupils come to a sound chronological understanding of the past and identify the most significant events, connections and patterns of change and continuity with specifically tailored big pictures of the period and of the topics within it. - Develop pupils' enquiry skills and help them become motivated and curious to learn about the past with purposeful and engaging enquiries and a focus on individuals' lives. - Ensure pupils' progress in their historical thinking through clear and balanced targeted coverage of the main second order concepts in history. - Support and stretch your pupils with differentiated material, including writing frames to support literacy and ideas for more challenge provided in the Dynamic Learning Teaching and Learning Resources. - Make assessment become a meaningful and manageable process through bespoke mark schemes for individual pieces of work.

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Hodder Education

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147182957X

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9781471829574

Empires of the Imagination

A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to The Lord of the Rings

By: Alec Worley

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Empires of the Imagination

A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to The Lord of the Rings

By: Alec Worley

The warlocks and ghosts of fantasy film haunt our popular culture, but the genre has too long been ignored by critics. This comprehensive critical survey of fantasy cinema demonstrates that the fantasy genre amounts to more than escapism. Through a meticulously researched analysis of more than a century of fantasy pictures--from the seminal work of Georges Melies to Peter Jackson's recent tours of Middle-earth--the work identifies narrative strategies and their recurring components and studies patterns of challenge and return, setting and character. First addressing the difficult task of defining the genre, the work examines fantasy as a cultural force in both film and literature and explores its relation to science fiction, horror, and fairy tales. Fantasy's development is traced from the first days of film, with emphasis on how the evolving genre reflected such events as economic depression and war. Also considered is fantasy's expression of politics, as either the subject of satire or fuel for the fires of propaganda. Discussion ventures into the subgenres, from stories of invented lands inhabited by fantastic creatures to magical adventures set in the familiar world, and addresses clashes between fantasy and faith, such as the religious opposition to the Harry Potter phenomenon. From the money-making classics to little-known arthouse films, this richly illustrated work covers every aspect of fantasy film.

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McFarland

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1476611831

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9781476611839

Hyde Park

By: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie

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Hyde Park

By: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie

Reproduction of the original: Hyde Park by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734072662

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9783734072666

Mathematics

The Basic Skills : with Answers

By: Susan Llewellyn,Alec Greer

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Mathematics

The Basic Skills : with Answers

By: Susan Llewellyn,Alec Greer

Written in a clear and concise style, this book is ideal for a wide range of students. Worked examples and graded exercises provide plenty of practice in the use of calculators and estimation. Answers are also included.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748725091

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9780748725090

Wolverhampton Trams and Buses

By: Alec Brew

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Wolverhampton Trams and Buses

By: Alec Brew

Over 200 old rare and unseen photographs of the trams and buses of Wolverhampton, showing how it has changed over time.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445687232

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9781445687230

The Sugar Islands

A Collection of Pieces Written About the West Indies Between 1928 and 1953

By: Alec Waugh

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The Sugar Islands

A Collection of Pieces Written About the West Indies Between 1928 and 1953

By: Alec Waugh

Alec Waugh first saw the West Indies on a trip round the world in 1926 when his ship called in at Guadeloupe. Fifteen months later he returned for a long stay at Martinique; it was the beginning of a lifelong interest in these fascinating islands that were to provide him with the material for many books and articles. In The Sugar Islands, a book to be dipped into at leisure, Mr. Waugh has selected pieces from his writings, with the intention of compiling both a travelogue (there is a wealth of interesting information for the would-be traveller about the ways of life and customs of each island) and a chronological commentary on the development of the islands during the last thirty years. The book is divided into four parts. In the first, the author gives an idea of the background of the West Indies by drawing a detailed picture of the colourful life of Martinique. He tells the story of a 17th-century Frenchman who joined the famous pirates of Tortugja and the history of the long bloodbath that preceeded the declaration of independence of Haiti, the Black Republic. The second part of the book comprises four character sketches, including three stories of black magic, and two sections deal with the individual charm and interest of each of the islands: Montserrat, Barbados, Anguilla, Trinidad, St. Vincent, Tortola, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Saba, Antigua, Dominica and Puerto Rico.

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A&C Black

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1448202485

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9781448202485

Gallipoli Diary 1915

By: Alec Riley

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Gallipoli Diary 1915

By: Alec Riley

“We had a look around, through periscopes, at the remains of recent fighting. The dead were on top, and we, the living, were below the general ground-level. The usual order of life and death were reversed.” So wrote Alec Riley in his account of an ordinary soldier in an extraordinary conflict, the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. A signaller with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Riley was well placed to serve as an eyewitness to the sharp end of the campaign, being with the infantry but not of it. His task, and that of the small unit he served with and whose story he tells, was to maintain communications between the forward trenches and senior commanders in the rear, a conduit for at times unrealistic orders one way, and all-too-real situation reports the other. During his time on the peninsula, Riley kept meticulous notes, which form the basis of this account. He also took his camera to war, the resulting photos—some of which were used in the British official history of the campaign—flesh out his detailed story of life in and behind the lines. After four months on the peninsula, suffering from jaundice, septic sores and dysentery, Riley was evacuated sick, destined first for Mudros and then Blighty. He made sure to save his diary and camera. Although Gallipoli had done for Riley, Riley was not done with Gallipoli. Even while on the peninsula, he and his comrades had looked beyond the war. “We tried to imagine what the place would be like when the armies had gone. Achi Baba would be green again, the trenches would fall in and flatten; communication-trenches, through which thousands of men had passed, would be long and shallow depressions, and frogs and tortoises the only inhabitants of gully and nullah.” Remarkably, Alec Riley returned to find out, revisiting the peninsula at least twice. In 1930, he spent ten days wandering across the now overgrown fields of battle on a lone pilgrimage, revisiting places he knew intimately 15 years before. This pilgrimage, and a subsequent second visit, was intended to form the basis of a book, again illustrated with his trusty camera. Sadly, the original manuscript has been lost. But the editors have identified two extracts that appeared in print, which they present alongside a faithful transcript of Riley’s diary and notes. Also included is an unpublished introduction by General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force of which Riley had been a small part, and with whom Riley had a decade-long correspondence. The editors of the diary, Michael Crane and Bernard de Broglio, have added copious footnotes and detailed biographical notes on the officers and men who come to life in Riley’s writings, as well as an order of battle and summary of arms for the 42nd Division at Gallipoli. Fourteen maps illustrate the actions, large and small, that Riley describes, alongside 47 black and white photographs, most showing the battlefield in 1915 and 1930. Gallipoli Diary 1915 will appeal to readers of WW1 and military history, but especially to those with an interest in the Gallipoli campaign. It will be bookended by two further diaries that record Alec Riley’s mobilisation and training in Egypt, and his time in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Collectively they offer a unique window into the experiences of a pre-war Territorial soldier, before, during and after Gallipoli.

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Little Gully Publishing

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064523592X

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9780645235920

In the Front Line

A Doctor's Life in War and Peace

By: Alec Glen

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In the Front Line

A Doctor's Life in War and Peace

By: Alec Glen

This memoir by a Scottish doctor who was born and went on to work in Govan was found among family papers long after his death in 1972. Less an account of the author's inner life, it is a graphic narrative, by a practitioner in the hospitals and homes of a major city, of hands-on medical care during much of the twentieth century. After training as a medical student on the wards of Glasgow hospitals, at the outbreak of the First World War the young doctor joined the army and served as a medical officer for the duration. Early on he provides a shattering account of the hopeless slaughter at Gallipoli,where he survived almost certain death many times as his companions fell around him. Only 100 men survived of his battalion of 1,000. His later service in the Middle East and Mesopotamia is an astonishing tale of courage and endurance, interwoven with spells of leave, during which the Scot encountered exotic experiences undreamed of in Govan. After the war Glen became a GP in Govan, one of the poorest areas in Britain, at a time long before the National Health Service. Preventable illnesses were often a death sentence for old and young alike. The extremes of poverty and suffering he witnessed brought home to him that he was in the front line once more, but in a different kind of warfare. The Second World War brought new challenges, and a post-war transformation when the NHS was finally came into being. Glen's shrewd commentary on the birth-pangs of the new institution provides valuable insights for the ongoing debate about this most controversial of public services.

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Birlinn

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0857906127

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9780857906120

Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

By: Alec Grant,Benny Goodman

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Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

By: Alec Grant,Benny Goodman

The new edition of this well regarded book introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics, students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject. Topics covered include: empathy; building therapeutic relationships; using a variety of communication methods; compassion and dignity; communicating in different environments; and culture and diversity issues. Three new chapters have been added that point readers towards further ways of approaching their communication skills that are less model and technique driven and focusing more on therapeutic considerations, as well as looking at the politics of communication.

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Learning Matters

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1526448394

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9781526448392

Growing Up in Cambridge

From Austerity to Prosperity

By: Alec Forshaw

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Growing Up in Cambridge

From Austerity to Prosperity

By: Alec Forshaw

It is said that, however long you live, and however far you travel, the streets and fields where you played as a child will always be home to you. So Cambridge is for Alec Forshaw. This is a story of a childhood in Cambridge in the 1950s and '60s, followed by three undergraduate years and three decades of frequent and regular visits until the ties of the parental home were broken. These are memories set down before they too disappear and they recall a Cambridge which for many will have faded. Those who have read Gwen Raverat's Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood will have seen in her description of the town and its society a different world. The reminiscences herein may rekindle more recent recollections, or simply entertain and amuse.

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The History Press

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0752480081

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9780752480084

Journey Home to the Light

By: Hashi Alec

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Journey Home to the Light

By: Hashi Alec

Follow this inspirational story of a Being that believed that he was a common man with an uncommon desire to find his hidden truth in these Mysteries of the Spirit. It is told in a humorous way making light of some of the events and experiences he lived through. In confidence of His existence, the Mystery of life begins to unfold the way to a greater understanding. A connection begins to emerge bringing many truths about life on Earth, some startling at first but with determination and his confidence in a higher Source of Truth, this allows him to hold fast to his desire. Guidance presents herself in many ways, in those that are close to him and equally as important, his guidance from within. Sacred Ceremonies become a way to heal and be healed. Guidance once again shows the way with our Earth Mother Mahii revealing how each Souls individual participation in this time of healing has a profound effect on the Planet, each contributing to the All and the All contributing to each Soul. In this way, life can become purposeful and more meaningful. Knowingness brings forth an understanding that Unity, and that Mystery that perpetuates this possibility, is not so far away, because in reality this Mystery Spirit is within you Its amazing to read Hashi Alecs book. Hashi Alec is sincere and frank as he shares his honestly heartfelt Journey Home to the Light, from a point of all kinds of emotional misunderstandings such as fear, greed, anger etc. to face his own weakness and walk towards the Divine in trust. From reading this book Hashi Alec guides you as you sense his feeling of nervousness, his disturbed feeling, feelings of worry, feeling unsafe, feelings of frustration and even wrathfulness. Hashi Alec leads you to trust in Divines love, leading you home to the Light. My eyes filled with tears once I saw him on home to the Light. It is a valuable book and suggest that you read it if you want to find your way home to the Light. Wen Shu Teng Licensed: Specialist TCM Acupuncturist Graduated: Doctor of TCM spiritual and physical health life coach

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489708766

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Stealing Time

Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

By: Alec Klein

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Stealing Time

Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

By: Alec Klein

A behind-the-scenes look at the largest corporate merger in history describes how AOL purchased Time Warner, only to find itself in increasing financial difficulties, under investigation by the SEC and Justice Department, with top AOL executives having resigned. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Simon and Schuster

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074325984X

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9780743259842

Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

By: Shirley Bach,Alec Grant

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Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

By: Shirley Bach,Alec Grant

′This is an excellent book. It has been really helpful with my communication teaching.′ Mrs Sarah Young, Faculty of Health & Social Care, University of The West of England The new edition of this well regarded book will be useful to you for your entire course. It introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills. The authors have provided a simple-to-read overview of the central topics that provide a solid foundation in this crucial area of nursing practice. Through scenarios and theory summaries the book will teach you skills that you can immediately implement on your placements and regular activities break up the text and encourage critical thinking and reflection – two vital graduate skills.

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Learning Matters

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1473927412

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Netley Diary 1915-1916

By: Alec Riley

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Netley Diary 1915-1916

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Corporal Alec Riley served at Gallipoli in 1915 with the British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. ‘Four months of Gallipoli gave me four diseases and 12 months in Netley.’ Riley chose the Royal Victoria Hospital for his convalescence because he wanted to know what a great military hospital was like. He kept a diary which he later turned into a narrative of his time at Netley. ‘I have tried,’ says Riley, ‘to give some idea of life in one of the many wards, the various patients I met, our habits, amusements, hopes and fears.’ Riley’s journey was shared by thousands of First World War soldiers who left the front sick and broken, to embark on the slow road to recovery. The book is richly illustrated with rarely seen images and includes a concise history of the Royal Victoria Hospital.

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Little Gully Publishing

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0645235989

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9780645235982

John Kasper and Ezra Pound

Saving the Republic

By: Alec Marsh

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John Kasper and Ezra Pound

Saving the Republic

By: Alec Marsh

John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men. John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound's later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound's own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound's committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472513029

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9781472513021

Egypt Diary 1914-1915

By: Alec Riley

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Egypt Diary 1914-1915

By: Alec Riley

“From a ground-floor room at the end of one block shone a light. It came from a canteen. I saw others were busy while I was lowering a pint of shandy. I was so dry that I could not taste it—I could only just feel it. We felt better. Where there was beer there was hope.” Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army’s 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. Egypt Diary 1914–1915 tells of the mobilisation of the East Lancashire Division at the outbreak of war, and the territorials’ eight-month-long period of training and garrison duty in Egypt prior to being deployed to Gallipoli. It brings to life the strange and exotic sights met by the Lancashire lads, most of whom had previously travelled no further than the annual camps held in North Wales. Written in Alec Riley’s dry style, the diary relates with wit and humour the many fascinating experiences and events Riley and his comrades encountered. Interactions with Egyptian locals are interspersed with Riley’s acute (and at times subversive) observations of his own officers. Desert marches, exercises and various mundane duties are recorded, as well as measures taken to guard canteens against Australian raiding parties. The book is lavishly illustrated with contemporary soldiers’ photographs of Egypt and four specially-produced maps. The editors, Michael Crane and Bernard de Broglio, have added extensive footnotes and detailed biographies of almost 40 officers and men who come to life in Alec Riley’s writings.

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Little Gully Publishing

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0645235954

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9780645235951

Shropshire Airfields Through Time

By: Alec Brew

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Shropshire Airfields Through Time

By: Alec Brew

Looking at the fascinating history behind the airfields of Shropshire, which was particularly popular during the Second World War.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445696304

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A Year to Remember

A Reminiscence of 1931

By: Alec Waugh

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A Year to Remember

A Reminiscence of 1931

By: Alec Waugh

First published in 1975, this tells of one of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts. It was the year he attended his first garden party, the year he made his first transatlantic phone call, the year he became a member of the MCC. But it was also a year that marked the end of one epoch and the beginning of another, far less frivolous. Nostalgic for the best of that time, Alec Waugh recalls the writers he knew and met here and in America - Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, John O'Hara, Thurber and Dorothy Parker. Here is an insight into the literary and publishing world of the thirties through an account of the author's own experiences. We hear of Alec Waugh's life at leisure with stories of his family and brother Evelyn, his affairs (with Ruth in California, with Mary in Villefranche, with Elizabeth in London), the wild parties, the tours round the speakeasies, the Atlantic crossings and the fascinating people he met on them.

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A&C Black

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1448202590

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9781448202591

The Cauchy Transform

By: Joseph A. Cima,Alec L. Matheson,William T. Ross

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The Cauchy Transform

By: Joseph A. Cima,Alec L. Matheson,William T. Ross

The Cauchy transform of a measure on the circle is a subject of both classical and current interest with a sizable literature. This book is a thorough, well-documented, and readable survey of this literature and includes full proofs of the main results of the subject. This book also covers more recent perturbation theory as covered by Clark, Poltoratski, and Aleksandrov and contains an in-depth treatment of Clark measures.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821838717

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9780821838716

With Stars in Their Eyes

The Extraordinary Lives and Enduring Genius of Aden and Marjorie Meinel

By: Jim Bernard Breckinridge,Alec M. Pridgeon

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With Stars in Their Eyes

The Extraordinary Lives and Enduring Genius of Aden and Marjorie Meinel

By: Jim Bernard Breckinridge,Alec M. Pridgeon

Aden B. Meinel and wife Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments of the 20th century: postwar aerial surveillance by spy planes and satellites, solar energy, the evolution of telescope design, interdisciplinary optics, and photonics. In 1945 he was a Navy Ensign ordered to find the secret tunnels in Nazi Germany where the V-2 rockets menacing Great Britain and Belgium were being manufactured. After receiving both his B.A. degree and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley within three years, Aden was invited to join the scientific staff at Yerkes Observatory/University of Chicago. While there he was selected by the National Science Foundation to manage the development of a new national observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and served as its first Director. In the early 1960s he founded the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, which later metamorphosed into the College of Optical Sciences with the doctoral program in interdisciplinary optics. It was here that he also designed the first Multiple Mirror Telescope and with wife Marjorie pioneered the feasibility of solar energy power on a commercial scale. Aden's knowledge and expertise in optics made him invaluable in research on cameras for spy satellites and spy planes overflying the Soviet Union and Southeast Asia. After retirement the Meinels worked for NASA/JPL on the precursor of the James Webb Space Telescope and on the exoplanet program. They also served on the team that corrected spherical aberration in the Hubble Space Telescope"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190915676

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The Ice Balloon

S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

By: Alec Wilkinson

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S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

By: Alec Wilkinson

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.

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Vintage

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0307741869

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The Presence

Experiencing More of God

By: Alec Rowlands

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The Presence

Experiencing More of God

By: Alec Rowlands

Have you settled for far less of God than He wants to reveal? Do you feel close to God in your everyday life . . . or does He too often seem distant and silent? Maybe, like many Christians, you live somewhere between those two extremes. You occasionally sense God’s presence, but at other times feel as if He’s a million miles away. The wonder of closeness with God is available to you here and now. In The Presence, Alec Rowlands reveals the ways God makes His presence known, how you can prepare for it, and how experiencing it will transform everything. As you draw near to God—as you are consumed by His love and your life is rearranged by His grace—you’ll find fulfillment, purpose, and an unmatched sense of adventure. If you’re feeling a hunger for more of God, you are already on your way to discovering: He is good. He is powerful. He is here.

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273

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Tyndale House

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1496400291

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9781496400291

Imprudent Zeal

By: Alec Clayton

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Imprudent Zeal

By: Alec Clayton

Five lives are thrown together: a failed seminarian and recovering alcoholic, a street walker in New York, the street walker's daughter who becomes a successful gallery owner, a Southerner jilted by his lover, and a selfish and self-destructive artist.

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alec clayton

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0980032253

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9780980032253

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