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Love Giants

A Book of Haiku

By: Alec Whittle

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Ballad of the Haiku Love Giantsoff to war they went to fight the sunday times in heart shaped robes"A brilliant collection of western haiku, aimed at finding a little truth beyond the bells and whistles. This book is a wonderful reminder of how our perspective can change the world. These poems are a must for any nightstand!" -Joseph Austin, Author of The Garden

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0595264867

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9780595264865

Carving Faces in Wood

Beginner's Guide to Creating Lifelike Eyes, Noses, Mouths, and Hair

By: Alec LaCasse

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Carving Faces in Wood

Beginner's Guide to Creating Lifelike Eyes, Noses, Mouths, and Hair

By: Alec LaCasse

There's nothing like culling hand-carved magic from a beautiful piece of wood, thanks to Alec LaCasse's Carving Faces from Wood! This fully illustrated, A-to-Z guide synthesizes LaCasse's hard-earned tips, shortening the learning curve so you can start carving a face in wood in no time. Thanks to its beautiful layout, this book presents wood carving faces at every stage--from selecting your tools and outlining a basic shape to smoothing out the texture of a face's fine hair. You'll even see which types of wood work best for carved wood faces, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Or master different face types to suit your preferences. It might otherwise take years to learn how to carve a face in wood. But thanks to LaCasse's step-by-step instructions and photographs, you'll soon be finishing the detail of every nose, ear, and beard like a lifelong expert.

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1637412975

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9781637412978

The Cynic

The Political Education of Mitch McConnell

By: Alec MacGillis

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The Cynic

The Political Education of Mitch McConnell

By: Alec MacGillis

From a dogged political reporter, an investigation into the political education of Mitch McConnell and an argument that this powerful Senator embodies much of this country’s political dysfunction. Based on interviews with more than seventy-five people who have worked alongside Mitch McConnell or otherwise interacted with him over the course of his career, The Cynic is both a comprehensive biography of one of this country’s most powerful politicians and a damning diagnosis of this country's eroding political will. Tracing his rise from a pragmatic local official in Kentucky to the leader of the Republican opposition in Washington, the book tracks McConnell’s transformation from a moderate Republican who supported abortion rights and public employee unions to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism and conservative orthodoxy on Capitol Hill. Driven less by a shift in ideological conviction than by a desire to win elections and stay in power at all costs, McConnell’s transformation exemplifies the “permanent campaign” mindset that has come to dominate American government. From his first race for local office in 1977—when the ad crew working on it nicknamed McConnell “love-me-love-me” for his insecurity and desire to please—to his fraught accommodation of the Tea Party, McConnell’s political career is a story of ideological calcification and a vital mirror for understanding this country’s own political development and what is wrought when politicians serve not at the behest of country, but at the behest of party and personal aggrandizement.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501112031

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9781501112034

Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

By: Alec L. Panchen

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Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

By: Alec L. Panchen

Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521315786

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9780521315784

Inflation, Growth and International Finance

By: Alec Cairncross

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Inflation, Growth and International Finance

By: Alec Cairncross

This book, originally published in 1975, deals with the sources of economic growth, inflation and the prospects of bringing it under control, floating exchange rates and restrictions on international capital movements. Although aimed at the non-specialist, professional economists willa slo find the book stimulating.

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Routledge

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1317227115

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9781317227113

Live! From Planet Earth

Stories

By: George Alec Effinger

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Live! From Planet Earth

Stories

By: George Alec Effinger

The Hugo Award–winning author’s “most memorable short stories . . . a tribute from those who best knew his work—his friends, fellow writers, and editors” (SFRevu). George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness and pain, Effinger was a prolific novelist and short story writer, earning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award nominations. LIVE! FROM PLANET EARTH represents a very special look at the many works of this unique genius. These 22 short pieces have been specifically selected and introduced by his fellow writers and editors, from Michael Bishop to Jack Dann, Mike Resnick to Neil Gaiman. Each writes about his or her memories of Effinger and his legacy. Included are “The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything” in which Earth is visited by benevolent aliens who happen to have annoying opinions about everything. “Everything but Honor” goes along as a black physicist time-travels to 1860 to murder a Civil War general. Also included here are Effinger’s O.Niemand stories, which perfectly mimic the styles of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Twain. The results are a tour de force sure to please existing fans and make new fans of anyone who reads them.

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445

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Open Road Media

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149760558X

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9781497605589

Planning in Wartime

Aircraft Production in Britain, Germany and the USA

By: Sir Alec CairnCross

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Planning in Wartime

Aircraft Production in Britain, Germany and the USA

By: Sir Alec CairnCross

The first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department. Topics covered include the organization of the department, production planning and specific programmes.

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Springer

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1349213020

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9781349213023

The Skirmishers: Feare Series: Book 1

By: Alec Merrill

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The Skirmishers: Feare Series: Book 1

By: Alec Merrill

The Frontier - Upper New York 1745 Imagine travelling to your friend's house for a visit only to find him dead. His wife and children are missing. It takes five hours to reach the nearest settlement which doesn't have any authorities. What do you do? Ezekiel Feare, a new struggling homesteader on the Mohawk River was in this situation. His actions dealing with his friend's death result in some unforeseen consequences that jeopardize his livelihood and potentially his very existence. The war between the British and French intensifies, resulting in the call-out of the local militia. Feare learns he is expected to report. With no military training and ill equipped, his expectations of survival look dim. To bolster his chances of survival, Feare takes certain measures that place him in conflict with other militiamen. It all comes to a head when the company receives orders to march north. On the northward march Feare faces two foes; one that might destroy him while the other might kill him. Will he s

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1483449610

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9781483449616

Swift Revenge

By: Alec Merrill

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Swift Revenge

By: Alec Merrill

EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING! Winter 1747, Jon Swift arrives in New York seeking employment related to his hard earned master's qualifications. Finding nothing suitable, he signs on the schooner Providence as an able seaman. The Providence heads southward toward the warmer, sunnier climate of Jamaica with a load of trade goods, but never arrives in Kingston. Things go awry when the Providence is boarded. Knocked unconscious during that boarding, Swift wakens to find himself in dire circumstances. Keen to obtain some form of retribution from the people responsible for his present circumstances, Swift must first find a way to escape. Just how will Swift manage to get out of his predicament? Is any retribution possible from those responsible?

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1483427099

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9781483427096

The Triumph of Technology

The BBC Reith Lectures 2005

By: Alec Broers

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The Triumph of Technology

The BBC Reith Lectures 2005

By: Alec Broers

The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures discuss the way technology has shaped life since the beginnings of civilization, explaining how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today, how technologies develop, and the excitement of the modern creative process. There are some who believe that technology's future development should be controlled, and that it may already have gone too far, especially in areas such as the use of energy - something which has the potential to permanently harm our environment. Alec Broers argues that although we need to understand such dangers, and use technology wisely, it can improve our lives - that we must look to technology to solve many of the problems that threaten our planet. Included here are the complete lectures plus a new introduction and conclusion.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139449036

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9781139449038

The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

By: Alec R. Vidler

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The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

By: Alec R. Vidler

Originally published in 1934, this book examines the Modernist movement in Roman Catholicism from its beginnings around 1890 until its conclusion around 1910. Vidler examines the pre-Modernist condition of Catholicism in France, Germany, Italy and England and the outcome of the modernist movement both within and outside of the Catholic Church. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in this tumultuous time in the development of Catholic theology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107657075

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9781107657076

The Economic Section 1939-1961

A Study In Economic Advising

By: Alec Cairncross,Nita Watts

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The Economic Section 1939-1961

A Study In Economic Advising

By: Alec Cairncross,Nita Watts

First published in 1989, The Economic Section 1939-1961 is a rare study of economic policymaking as seen from the inside. The Economic Section, formed in 1939-1940, was the first group of professional economists to operate full-time at the centre of government in the United Kingdom and its views on many issues of economic policy were frequently decisive. In this volume, two former members of the Section draw on their memories and on the public records to trace the history of the Section from the early days of the war to the end of the 1950s. Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts discuss the advice offered by the Section, the controversies that followed advisers, and how Ministers responded. They present a picture of the day-to-day working of the Section, but inevitably focus on the more dramatic episodes, when major issues of policy were in dispute or important new issues were posed. Separate chapters are devoted to the Section’s role in four main areas: fiscal, monetary, incomes and external economic policy. In illuminating influence on policy exercised by officials and the place of expert advice in economic management, this work will appeal to a wide range of readers. It offers the student of economics or politics a picture of what, in practice, goes to the making of economic policy.

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235

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Routledge

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100051224X

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9781000512243

24x7: A Decade of 24-Hour Comics

By: Alec Longstreth

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24x7: A Decade of 24-Hour Comics

By: Alec Longstreth

This book collects six of Alec Longstreth's 24-Hour Comics: Scars, Crispy Ginger Crumples, Daydream #0007 (never-before released!), GCB!, The 2008 Phase 7 Summer Supplement, and The PAM Artist. There are also 24 pages of commentary comics, which were drawn, along with all of the endpapers and covers in one 24 hour period on March 21st, 2010.

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0985300469

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9780985300463

Book's by Alec Whittle

Love Giants

Love Giants

Carving Faces in Wood

Carving Faces in Wood

The Cynic

The Cynic

Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

Inflation, Growth and International Finance

Inflation, Growth and International Finance

Live! From Planet Earth

Live! From Planet Earth

Planning in Wartime

Planning in Wartime

The Skirmishers: Feare Series: Book 1

The Skirmishers: Feare Series: Book 1

Swift Revenge

Swift Revenge

The Triumph of Technology

The Triumph of Technology

The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church

The Economic Section 1939-1961

The Economic Section 1939-1961

24x7: A Decade of 24-Hour Comics

24x7: A Decade of 24-Hour Comics

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