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Nanotechnology Commercialization

Manufacturing Processes and Products

By: Thomas O. Mensah,Ben Wang,Geoffrey Bothun,Jessica Winter,Virginia Davis

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Nanotechnology Commercialization

Manufacturing Processes and Products

By: Thomas O. Mensah,Ben Wang,Geoffrey Bothun,Jessica Winter,Virginia Davis

A fascinating and informative look at state-of-the-art nanotechnology research, worldwide, and its vast commercial potential Nanotechnology Commercialization: Manufacturing Processes and Products presents a detailed look at the state of the art in nanotechnology and explores key issues that must still be addressed in order to successfully commercialize that vital technology. Written by a team of distinguished experts in the field, it covers a range of applications notably: military, space, and commercial transport applications, as well as applications for missiles, aircraft, aerospace, and commercial transport systems. The drive to advance the frontiers of nanotechnology has become a major global initiative with profound economic, military, and environmental implications. Nanotechnology has tremendous commercial and economic implications with a projected $ 1.2 trillion-dollar global market. This book describes current research in the field and details its commercial potential—from work bench to market. Examines the state of the art in nanotechnology and explores key issues surrounding its commercialization Takes a real-world approach, with chapters written from a practical viewpoint, detailing the latest research and considering its potential commercial and defense applications Presents the current research and proposed applications of nanotechnology in such a way as to stimulate further research and development of new applications Written by an all-star team of experts, including pioneer patent-holders and award-winning researchers in nanotechnology The major challenge currently faced by researchers in nanotechnology is successfully transitioning laboratory research into viable commercial products for the 21st century. Written for professionals across an array of research and engineering disciplines, Nanotechnology Commercialization: Manufacturing Processes and Products does much to help them bridge the gap between lab and marketplace.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119371724

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The Pataphysician’s Library

An Exploration of Alfred Jarry’s ‘Livres pairs’

By: Ben Fisher

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The Pataphysician’s Library

An Exploration of Alfred Jarry’s ‘Livres pairs’

By: Ben Fisher

The Pataphysician’s Library is a study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, perhaps surprisingly, to be one of the more durable fin-de-siècle authors. The originality of this study lies in its use of the enigmatic list of books termed the livres pairs, which appears in Jarry’s 1898 novel Gestes et Opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien, his best-known prose work. The greatest interest of the livres pairs lies in a group of works by Jarry’s friends and contemporaries, primarily Leon Bloy, Georges Darien, Gustave Kahn, Catulle Mendes, Josephin Madan, Rachilde, and Henri de Regnier. Several of these authors feature as the lords of islands visited by the pataphysician Dr Faustroll in his curious voyage around Paris. In conjunction with Jarry’s own works, the contemporary livres pairs serve to illustrate the vibrant and experimental atmosphere in which these authors worked.

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Liverpool University Press

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1781388016

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Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy

A Complete History of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries

By: Ben Warlow,Steve Bush

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Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy

A Complete History of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries

By: Ben Warlow,Steve Bush

Pendant (or pennant) numbers have been used by individual ships of the Royal Navy for purposes of identification for more than 100 years. They were also used in all the navies of the British Empire so that ships could be easily transferred from one navy to another without changing her number. They offer the simplest and clearest way to identify a ship, but until now there has been little in the way of consistent and accurate information, and certainly no single location where you can look up or research complete pendant numbers. The book is designed as an easy-to-use reference work and as such is, in the main, composed of alpha-numeric listings to enable the user to find and identify warships by reference to ship name and to identify specific pendant numbers assigned to that name; or by pendant number to identify specific vessels assigned that number at various times. It begins with an introduction and a brief history of visual signalling used by the Royal Navy before industrialisation, and explains how the large numbers of identical ships being built brought about the need to identify specific ships within fleets to aid signalling and tactical deployment. There follow chapters covering the pendant numbers of the surface fleet and submarines (which stopped using them once boats began to spend so little time on the surface), and then pedant numbers by ship name. A significant chapter lists the pendant numbers assigned to the British Pacific Fleet during the Pacific campaign of WWII together with an explanation of why numbers were assigned, and an examination of missing ‘A’ series pendants known to have been carried by some vessels during the conflict. The BPF numbers have only recently come to light and there is still much that is not known but this section provides the most comprehensive study of available data at this time. There is also an appendix covering deck letters assigned to aviation capable ships. This is a genuinely new and significant reference book and is destined to become a major new aid for Royal Navy warship and auxiliary identification.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1526793792

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Globaletics and Radicant Aesthetics in Australian Fiction

By: Salhia Ben-Messahel

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Globaletics and Radicant Aesthetics in Australian Fiction

By: Salhia Ben-Messahel

This book focuses on the issues of space, culture and identity in recent Australian fiction. It discusses the work of 15 authors to show that, in Australia, the meaning of “country” remains critical and cultural belonging is still a difficult process. Interrogating the definition of Australia as a “post-colonial nation” and its underlying extension from Britain, it applies Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the Radicant to examine Australian writing beyond the “post” of “post-colonialism”. The book shows that some authors are engaged in writing about the country and the time in which they live, but that they also share common critical views on the definition of multiculturalism, the belonging to place, and integration in the nation. The volume suggests that theories of cultural hybridism presented as a decolonising methodology in fact dissolve singularity in the same way that globalisation creates standardisation. It argues that 21st century Australian fiction depicts the subject as a radicant and that Australian culture constitutes a mobile entity unconnected to any soil.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527506975

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Gone To Aragon

(On A One Way Trip)

By: Ben Tideway

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Gone To Aragon

(On A One Way Trip)

By: Ben Tideway

Gone To Aragon takes the reader into and out of the sunlight in Spain via the author's easy-going account of taking risks and finding contentment in the wilds of Aragon. Ben Tideway pulled up stakes, burned bridges and fled from London to have a different life in a little pueblo in Aragon, NE Spain. The book is not a clichéd telling of hilarious incidents with builders and plumbers. It is focused on adapting to the ways of living in a small community in a rural part of a foreign country. A lot of ground is covered in the factual narrative which is interspersed in a seamless way with set pieces about some of the more colourful characters encountered during the twenty-five years he has spent in Aragon. This is a story about a man lucky enough to have found what he was looking for. Keywords: Travel, Autobiographical, Aragon, Spain, Lifestyle, Food, Integration, Anecdotal, Rural, Survival, Zaragoza

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1622878833

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Choices Change Your Destiny!

By: Ben Pollice

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Choices Change Your Destiny!

By: Ben Pollice

Every day of your life, you'll be busy making "choices," and some will affect you for the rest of your life. Tragically, some will also impact others throughout their lives as well. The sum of a lifetime of making personal "choices" will determine the kind of life and the quality of life that you will have literally "chosen" to live. Your "choices" will determine if your life will be like you're driving down a smooth, easy-to-travel, wide open freeway. Or, if your life will take you down a "Road from Hell," filled with devastating potholes and dangerous, off the main road detours! Weighing the consequences of "Choice A" over "Choice B" before you make your decision, is a whole new way of thinking for most young people. Because every "choice" has consequences! The alternative is running the risk of having to endure the bad consequences of impulsive "choices" for a long, long time. Make this new way of thinking your "Blueprint for Success in Life.

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Lulu.com

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1847285724

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Entrepreneur & Kidney Donor, Jeremy Colon

By: Ben Gothard

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Entrepreneur & Kidney Donor, Jeremy Colon

By: Ben Gothard

This is the first of many Project EGG (Entrepreneurs Gathering for Growth) interviews to come.Jeremy Colon is a certified master personal trainer and Life Coach based out of Boston, MA. He is the founder/ owner of JC Enterprises, BlessedYou Clothing, and ARtistry Management Group.On July 31st, 2013, Jeremy underwent a kidney transplant surgery where he donated his kidney to his sick father, who was on the verge of death. 3 months later, fully recovered, Jeremy Colon decided to become an entrepreneur and help people achieve happiness through fitness, balance, and spirituality.What is Project EGG?Project EGG is an elite network of entrepreneurs, authors & incredible people who problem solve, bounce ideas off of each other, share their stories and succeed together.

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1365903885

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The Business of Corporate Learning

Insights from Practice

By: Shlomo Ben-Hur

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The Business of Corporate Learning

Insights from Practice

By: Shlomo Ben-Hur

Corporate learning functions are now an established part of many of the world's leading multinational firms. In this book, Shlomo Ben-Hur demonstrates how corporate learning can and should have an integral, strategic, role in a company. Based on firsthand experience, Ben-Hur provides a practical guide to setting up or restructuring a corporate learning function within a company, covering its seven key activities. He identifies and elucidates the key decision points in this process. But The Business of Corporate Learning is much more than a 'how-to' guide. For the first time, this book sheds light on the reasons for success or failure in the strategic deployment of corporate learning. Real-world case studies are used to illustrate the potential pitfalls and demonstrate how – when successfully integrated into the company's strategic management system – corporate learning is able to deliver tangible business results.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107328535

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In Our Suffering, Lord Be Near

Prayers of Hope for the Hurting

By: Ben Locke

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In Our Suffering, Lord Be Near

Prayers of Hope for the Hurting

By: Ben Locke

Where do you turn in seasons of despair? What do you do when you don't know what to do? Ben Locke is no stranger to suffering, and in his darkest hours of sorrow, he took his suffering to Jesus. The prayers that poured out offer a road map for you to take your sorrows, grief, and troubles to God, knowing He will meet you in your time of suffering. Hardship and adversity touch everyone—illness, grief, accidents, trauma, loneliness, relationship struggles, financial crises, sin, addiction, life stressors, and so much more can make people feel lost and hopeless. In Our Suffering, Lord Be Near can be a light in the darkness if you ever: Feel like questioning, yelling at, doubting, or even denouncing God Want to separate from the church Wonder if God is listening to your prayers and cares about your troubles Do not know what to do with your anger Fear that life will be this way forever You are not alone. In Ben Locke's darkest valleys, he was determined to tell God exactly what he thought. He poured out his agony and anger—and was met with God's grace, love, forgiveness, strength, and eternal mercy. He discovered in those moments that God can handle it. All of it. The psalm like prayers borne out of these experiences will meet you in your own moments of suffering. But they are more than prayers. They're cries for help and explosions of anger, mourning, weeping, grieving, celebrating, rejoicing, and praising. They're liturgies to heal your soul, balm for your wounds, and tender mercies for your heartache. This book will help you know that: God is with you, even if you don’t feel Him or understand what is happening God offers you grace and mercy, no matter what God delivers you and gives you strength Let these words help you articulate your own sorrows, bring you to your knees, encourage you to confess your insufficiency, and express your most genuine emotions. God can handle your suffering. So, tell Him.

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Zondervan

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0310465168

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Muscular Faith

How to Strengthen Your Heart, Soul, and Mind for the Only Challenge That Matters

By: Ben Patterson

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Muscular Faith

How to Strengthen Your Heart, Soul, and Mind for the Only Challenge That Matters

By: Ben Patterson

The journey of faith can be risky and overwhelming. Yet we join up, knowing that with the challenge comes excitement, the sense of being fully alive, and the extremity of living a life completely sold out to Jesus. And our goal is to become spiritually strong enough to stand till the end. Author and teacher Ben Patterson calls you to develop muscular faith—the faith of a Jesus follower whose heart, soul, mind, and time are committed to a cause of supreme worth. Through biblical insight and wisdom, you’ll be equipped for the only fight that matters—doing the work of God against the snares and temptations of this world. You’ll build up your spiritual muscles on the hard road to glory . . . and become stronger than you ever knew you could be.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1414360886

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13 Moons Over Vietnam: 13th Moon ~ Anticipation

By: Ben Thieu Long

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13 Moons Over Vietnam: 13th Moon ~ Anticipation

By: Ben Thieu Long

Military Police serving in the Vietnam War faced danger and challenges from not only the Viet Cong but also from an unexpected enemy. 13 Moons: Anticipation reveals the inner war encountered by one policeman and the moral and emotional turmoil because of his responses. Ben Thieu Long struggled with intense, conflicted emotions in the final month of his tour. Anxiously anticipating his return home, he reacted erratically to threats to his safety. When he crossed the line, his actions left him with a weight of rage and guilt that he would carry long after his tour ended.

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Outskirts Press

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1977271723

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How Israel Lost

The Four Questions

By: Richard Ben Cramer

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How Israel Lost

The Four Questions

By: Richard Ben Cramer

Once in a great while, a book comes along that not only discusses a topic of interest, it changes the boundaries of that discussion forever. This is such a book. In How Israel Lost Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: I. Why Do We Care About Israel? II. Why Don't the Palestinians Have a State? III. What Is a Jewish State? IV. Why Is There No Peace? With personal observation and sharp and challenging argument, Cramer insists that Israel is losing her soul by maintaining her occupation of the lands conquered in the Six Day War. Israel has become a victim of that occupation no less than the Palestinians, who must have a nation of their own. Cramer makes clear for the first time why the occupation endures and how it corrupts and corrodes the societies of both Arab and Jew. Cramer's portrait of those societies is both up to the minute and timeless, enlivened at every step by his trademark humor, by humane understanding of the people caught in the conflict, and by his astonishing gift for language, theirs and ours. Both his observations and arguments are drawn with startling clarity, informed by the fierce and fearless reporting that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Middle East coverage twenty-five years ago. The result is a book destined to produce both heat and light -- it is both shocking and a delight to read. This is journalism so sharp that it will change the story it set out to tell.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743264355

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9780743264358

Rescue Josh McGuire

By: Ben Mikaelsen

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Rescue Josh McGuire

By: Ben Mikaelsen

CALIFORNIA YOUNG READERS' MEDAL WINNER A DARING RESCUE —or a deadly risk? Ever since Josh's older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub, it's more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on rescuing the bear cub—only to find that he must surrender it to game officials. Knowing the cub will be sent to a research laboratory, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking only his brother's motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Josh runs away to the mountains, vowing to stay until the hunting laws are changed. But the mountains hold unexpected menace, and Josh's bid for justice soon becomes a battle to survive. "A fast and suspenseful survival story."—Bulletin, Center for Children's Books • International Reading Association Award Winner • Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner • California Young Readers' Medal Winner • Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award Winner • CBC/IRA Favorite Paperback for 1994

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Speaking Volumes

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1645408175

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The Men Can't Be Saved

A Novel

By: Ben Purkert

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The Men Can't Be Saved

A Novel

By: Ben Purkert

Now in paperback, a knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? “Blistering . . . Mad Men ambition meets an epic, existential meltdown.” —VANITY FAIR, 20 Best Books of 2023 “[Purkert is] a sharply funny observer of male foibles, twenty-something angst, and the modern workplace.” —WASHINGTON POST “A 21st-Century Catcher in the Rye . . . startlingly funny.” —ESQUIRE “I laughed more times than I can count . . . A phenomenal debut novel by one of my favorite writers.” —CLINT SMITH, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He’s the agency’s hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think so. But while he’s busy drooling over his future corner office, the walls crumble around him. When his job lets him go, he can’t let go of his job. Unfortunately, one former colleague can’t let him go either: Robert “Moon” McCloone, a skeezy on-the-rise exec better suited to a frat house than a boardroom. Seth tries to forget Moon and rediscover his spiritual self; he studies Kabbalah with an Orthodox rabbi by day while popping illegal prescription pills by night. But with each misstep, Seth strays farther from salvation—though he might get there, if he could only get out of his own way. In his debut novel, Purkert incisively peels back the layers of the male ego, revealing what’s rotten and what might be redeemed. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can’t Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, sex, addiction, religion, branding, and ourselves.

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Abrams

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1647009650

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9781647009656

Snake Island

A Novel

By: Ben Hobson

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Snake Island

A Novel

By: Ben Hobson

For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Meyer, Fargo, and Justified, a gritty rural noir thriller about family, drugs, and the legacy of violence. In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by an unspeakable act of violence that sent their son, Caleb, to serve time in prison and has driven the couple apart. Ashamed, they refuse to talk about him or visit, but when a close friend warns Vernon that Caleb has been savagely beaten, he has no choice but to act to protect their only child. The perpetrator of the beating is a local thug from a crime family whose patriarch holds sway over the town, with the police in his pay. Everyone knows they trade in drugs. When Vernon maneuvers to negotiate a deal with the father, he makes a critical error. His mistake unleashes a cycle of violence that escalates to engulf the whole town, taking lives with it, revealing what has been hiding in plain sight in this picturesque rural community and threatening to overtake his son. Told from shifting perspectives at a sprint, in language that sometimes approaches the simple profundity of parable, this gritty debut was hailed on its Australian publication as “a darkly illuminating thriller that soars across genre constraints . . . [and] engages with pressing contemporary issues while exploring timeless questions. Hobson writes as if his life depends on it” (The Australian).

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Simon and Schuster

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1951627237

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Time's Chariot

By: Ben Jeapes

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Time's Chariot

By: Ben Jeapes

THE HIMALAYAS, 5000 BC: Commissioner Daiho is dead, but there’s no question of foul play. The murder of a Home Timer is about as likely as unauthorized interference with the work of a Correspondent. . . . Isfahan, Arabia, 1029: Abu Ali was startled. He hadn’t heard the stranger enter. The Correspondent was even more alarmed—his enhanced senses would have picked up the arrival of any normal human. Then the stranger spoke, and it was the language of the Home Time. Seconds later, Correspondent RC/1029’s world went dark. The Home Time, 2000 Years Later: Field Operative Rico Garron is about to have a very bad day.

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David Fickling Books

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0375891536

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The Yam

50 Years of Climbing on Yamnuska

By: Chic Scott,Ben Gadd,Dave Dornian

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The Yam

50 Years of Climbing on Yamnuska

By: Chic Scott,Ben Gadd,Dave Dornian

Recipient of the Banff Mountain Book Festival's Canadian Rockies Award The great wall of stone rising so prominently above the Trans-Canada Highway between Calgary and Banff, is the birthplace of modern rockclimbing in the Canadian Rockies. It was 50 years ago in 1952 that Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair first took up the challenge. Since then Yam has been the scene of both triumph and tragedy, events meticulously documented by Scott and Dornian. Gadd gives us the background; the geology and human history and ends with a walk up the backside, detailing the flora and fauna.

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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0921102976

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. By September 1955 she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, sang "America, the Beautiful," and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Driven by a painful marriage, Grandma Gatewood, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person-man or woman-to walk it twice and three times. At age 71, she hiked the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity, and appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter. The public attention she brought to the trail was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery interviewed surviving family members and hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic newspaper and magazine articles, and was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewood's Walk shines a fresh light on one of America's most celebrated pedestrians. Ben Montgomery is a staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times and co-founder of the Auburn Chautauqua, a Southern writers' collective. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 and has won many other national writing awards. He lives in Florida.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613747187

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Hitler's Soldiers

The German Army in the Third Reich

By: Ben H. Shepherd

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Hitler's Soldiers

The German Army in the Third Reich

By: Ben H. Shepherd

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people’s army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army’s early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler’s mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings—moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational—of the army’s own leadership.

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Yale University Press

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0300219520

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9780300219524

Kai'Ro

The Journey of An Urban Pilgrim

By: Judah Ben

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Kai'Ro

The Journey of An Urban Pilgrim

By: Judah Ben

Kai'Ro: The Journey of an Urban Pilgrim chronicles the epic spiritual journey of a young man named Kai’Ro. Born and raised in the City of Doom, Kai’Ro is overwhelmed with hopelessness and bondage to sin. Overcome by the burden of his own guilt and failure, he admits that his existence is full of pain and meaningless. He yearns to find a better life. Kai'Ro meets Preacher who informs him of the King who can free him from his burden and give him hope and the life he’s always been searching for. The Preacher directs him to the Heavenly Highway which he assures Kai’Ro is the path he must follow if he is to find the hope and freedom he's looking for. In search of this promised life, Kai’Ro leaves the City of Doom with his heart and mind set on this new hope. Along the way he encounters a variety of individuals, temptations and trials that seek to pull him off the Highway and ensnare him in his old life again. During his journey he discovers that wisdom is greater than treasure, a real friend is someone who directs him to the King, and that pursuing the King requires saying farewell to much of what he once loved.

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Moody Publishers

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0802487068

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 3

By: Kevin Eastman,Tom Waltz,Jason Ciaramella,Brian Lynch,Erik Burnham,Mike Costa,Ben Epstein,Dustin Weaver,Paul Allor

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 3

By: Kevin Eastman,Tom Waltz,Jason Ciaramella,Brian Lynch,Erik Burnham,Mike Costa,Ben Epstein,Dustin Weaver,Paul Allor

Violence and carnage rage across the city as Shredder’s master plan unfolds. When tragedy strikes the Turtles, the brothers will have to hold the line against an attack from within, but with allegiances shifting they must formulate a plan to fight back against their deadliest enemy. Volume 3 collects issues #21–28 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series and the Old Hob, Alopex, Karai, Hun, Bebop and Rocksteady, and Shredder Micro-Series one-shots, plus the 2012 Annual.

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1684060354

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False Value

By: Ben Aaronovitch

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False Value

By: Ben Aaronovitch

Rather than sit around, Peter Grant takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company

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Penguin

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0756416469

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Deadpool Classic Vol. 21

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By: Fabian Nicieza,Reilly Brown,Ben Acker,Ben Blacker,Joshua Corin,Gerry Duggan,Chynna Clugston Flores

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Deadpool Classic Vol. 21

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By: Fabian Nicieza,Reilly Brown,Ben Acker,Ben Blacker,Joshua Corin,Gerry Duggan,Chynna Clugston Flores

Collects Deadpool & Cable: Split Second #1-3, Deadpool V Gambit #1-5, Deadpool: Too Soon? #1-5 and material from Gwenpool Special #1, Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up #1. Deadpool clashes with the X-Men in adventures that give new meaning to the word classic! First, a bromance is rekindled as Deadpool and Cable the Merc with the Mouth and the Soldier with the Shoulders face a fight for the future! Then, learn the secret shared history of the Regeneratin Degenerate and the Ragin Cajun as Wade and Gambit take on one last job together! Plus: The Forbush Mans murder sparks fears that someone is targeting Marvels funniest characters for death. Deadpool must act before someone bumps off Squirrel Girl, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Ant-Man, Howard the Duck and the Punisher?! And Deadpool takes on Halloween and Christmas!

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381

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302502174

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9781302502171

‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948

By: Ben Bethell

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‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948

By: Ben Bethell

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 investigates the origins of the star class in the years leading up to its establishment in 1879, and charts its subsequent development during the late-Victorian, Edwardian, and interwar decades. To what extent did the star class serve to shield ‘gentleman convicts’ from their social inferiors and allow them a measure of privilege? What was the precise nature of the ‘contamination’ by which they and other ‘accidental criminals’ were believed to be threatened? And why, for the first twenty years of its existence, were first offenders convicted of ‘unnatural crimes’ barred from the division? To explore these questions, the book considers the making and implementation of penal policy by senior civil servants and prison administrators, and the daily life and work of prisoners at policy’s receiving end. It re-examines evolving notions of criminality, the competing aims of reformation and deterrence, and the role and changing nature of prison labour. Along the way, readers will encounter an array of star men, including arsonists, abortionists, sex offenders and reprieved murderers, disgraced bankers, light-fingered postmen, bent solicitors, and perjuring policemen. Taking a fresh look at English prison history through converging lenses of class, sexuality, and labour, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 will be of great interest to penal historians and historical criminologists, and to scholars working on related aspects of modern British history.

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189

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Taylor & Francis

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1000648230

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9781000648232

You Don't Have to If You Don't Want to

By: Ben Kinchlow

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You Don't Have to If You Don't Want to

By: Ben Kinchlow

The co-host of The 700 Club demonstrates how independence affects marriage, social relationships, spiritual relationships, and society, and explains the profound impact of man's free will on welfare, crime, poverty, the environment, the educational system, and the corrosion of traditional values.

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230

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0785278753

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9780785278757

The Soldier of Fortune Murders

A True Story of Obsessive Love and Murder-for-hire

By: Ben Green

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The Soldier of Fortune Murders

A True Story of Obsessive Love and Murder-for-hire

By: Ben Green

A true story of obsessive love & murder-for-hire.

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560

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Dell

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0440214017

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Serving God

The Grand Essentials of Work and Worship

By: Ben Patterson

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Serving God

The Grand Essentials of Work and Worship

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson shows how work and worship are interrelated. It is in our worship that we find community with God. And it is in our work that we live out his purposes for us. Here is a theologically and psychologically informed treatment of two grand essentials of the Christian life. 192 pages, paper

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