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The Camera Bag Companion

A Graphic Guide to Photography

By: Benedict Brain

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The Camera Bag Companion

A Graphic Guide to Photography

By: Benedict Brain

Are you ready for a completely new type of photography book? Imagine having your personal, professional photographer with you whenever you go out to shoot. There to guide you, share their knowledge, and inspire you to take better photographs. In his latest book, Benedict Brain puts himself in your kitbag, with a beautifully illustrated how-to guide that's as essential as any lens or tripod, and cuts through the jargon to deliver clear advice in a friendly, conversational style.

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Ilex Press

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178157930X

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9781781579305

Unexplained Fever

By: Benedict Isaac,Serge Kernbaum,Michael J. Burke

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Unexplained Fever

By: Benedict Isaac,Serge Kernbaum,Michael J. Burke

This book covers pathophysiology of fever, the general approach to the febrile patient, and offers a systematic, in-depth discussion regarding the differential diagnosis of unexplained fever. The authors define an unexplained fever as a fever which lasts a minimum of 14 days and whose etiology is not known. This one-of-a-kind publication highlights the main causes of fever, specifically infectious diseases, cancer, connective tissue diseases, various rare disorders, plus etiologies which are often ignored. Also, laboratory and medical imaging techniques for diagnosing fevers are included. Written in a comprehensive, unrepetitious style, this "must-have" resource includes such aspects as the history of the fever, a review of published cases, the approach to the patient, and an analytical review. This up-to-date volume is an indispensable guide that should be read by physicians, surgeons, internists, microbiologists and other medical professionals.

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CRC Press

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1000722104

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9781000722109

Race

Science and Politics

By: Ruth Benedict

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Race

Science and Politics

By: Ruth Benedict

In science, race can be a useful concept—for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared. Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its pseudoscientific rationales for marginalizing and even exterminating “inferior” people. Writing for a general audience, Ruth Benedict ranges across the history of Western thought and research on race to illuminate rifts between the facts of race and the claims of racism. Rather than take issue only with the Nazis and their allies, Benedict set out to show that all racist beliefs are objectively groundless—and that is the key to the book’s ongoing relevance. The book’s bonus content includes The Races of Mankind, a pamphlet-length distillation of the book with its own controversial role in dismantling racist theory. This edition also includes a new foreword by Judith Schachter. An anthropologist, historian, and Benedict biographer, Schachter discusses the book’s importance for current readers. Also included is a foreword by anthropologist Margaret Mead from 1958, a time when colonial ties around the world were unravelling and civil rights unrest was a daily occurrence in the United States.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820356778

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9780820356778

China Nexus

Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny

By: Benedict Rogers

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China Nexus

Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny

By: Benedict Rogers

Benedict Rogers, born in London, England, first went to China at age eighteen to teach English for six months in Qingdao, three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools and hospitals to working as a journalist in Hong Kong for the first five years after the handover to travelling to China’s borders with Myanmar/Burma and North Korea to document the plight of refugees escaping from Beijing-backed satellite dictatorships and then campaigning for human rights in China, especially for Uyghurs, Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, human rights defenders, journalists and dissidents, and the people of Hong Kong. This book tells the story of his fight for freedom for the peoples of China and neighbouring countries Myanmar and North Korea and sets out how a global movement for human rights in China is emerging and what the free world should do next. It describes the importance of the “China Nexus” in the author’s journey and geopolitics and its challenges. Pioneering international inquiries into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, the genocide of the Uyghurs and global action for Hong Kong, as well as highlighting the Vatican’s silence, the author has been at the heart of advocacy for human rights in China in recent years. In 2017, on the orders of Beijing, he was denied entry to Hong Kong, 20 years after he had moved to the city and began his working life as a journalist and activist. Benedict Rogers co-founded Hong Kong Watch and worked with a variety of other international groups at the forefront of the fight for freedom, including the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance for China (IPAC), the Stop Uyghur Genocide Campaign, the China Democracy Foundation, the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission which he co-founded, and the international human rights organization CSW with which he has worked for over 25 years. This book hits the Chinese Communist Party hard on their lack of Human Rights efficacy, genocide, and despicable and barbaric organ harvesting programs (an estimated $1 billion US a year business). Rogers takes the readers on a journey through some of the leaders and participants in the Human rights activities that China has suppressed since its inception in 1949. He goes on to dispute and lays to rest all of the specious claims by the tyrants in Beijing that all Chinese citizens are equal and are afforded human and civil rights. Currently, the regime is engaged in re-education, cultural assimilation, and multiple genocides, leading to better citizens for China and the world if one believes Chinese officials. China’s ambassador to Canada says reports of genocide and forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province are the “lie of the century,” despite international bodies like the United Nations deeming the reports of such activities “numerous and credible.” The author will completely dispel that notion.

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Optimum Publishing International

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0888903286

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9780888903280

Ethics of Health Care

An Introductory Textbook

By: Benedict M. Ashley,Kevin D. O'Rourke

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Ethics of Health Care

An Introductory Textbook

By: Benedict M. Ashley,Kevin D. O'Rourke

The textbook emphasizes the Catholic tradition in health care ethics without separating it from the broader Christian tradition. The third edition incorporates issues that have arisen since the 1994 second, and is somewhat differently arranged. Appended are the 2001 Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Georgetown University Press

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0878403752

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EvolutionaEUR(tm)s Extinction

The Intelligence behind the Design

By: Dr. Mark Benedict

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EvolutionaEUR(tm)s Extinction

The Intelligence behind the Design

By: Dr. Mark Benedict

Evolution, specifically neo-Darwinian evolution, is widely accepted as fact without any critical consideration. It seems to have gone beyond a theory by its supporters, and as a result, the lay public is constantly being fed a heavy diet of Darwinian nonsense. A quick look at this subject would lead any person with an inquisitive mind to realize that evolution is a moving target with abounding theories that do not always coincide with reality. This book seeks to pick away at the mortar, which is holding the dilapidated structure that is neo-Darwinian evolution together. In addition to providing cited peer reviewed scientific evidence to evolution's own inevitable extinction, the writer provides concrete biologic examples of design through a physician's intricate knowledge of the human body. There is no need to cling to a sinking evolutionary ship when a replacement with more abundant explanatory power is waiting in the wings. Intelligent design theory fits the observable evidence with a greater degree of precision than any neo-Darwinian evolutionary construct. At the conclusion of this book, your mind will no doubt be changed as the evidence for design is incontrovertible.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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164468344X

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9781644683446

Torment of the Soul

Suicidal Depression and Spirituality

By: Benedict Auer,Jessy A. Ang

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Torment of the Soul

Suicidal Depression and Spirituality

By: Benedict Auer,Jessy A. Ang

Arnold Krowneski is taken under the wing of his high school art teacher, Mrs. M. She sees great potential in his ability, so she introduces him to another friend, who owns an art gallery of great renown, one Mr. George Zukor, who in turn introduces the boy to the world of art. George promotes him, in an attempt to make his name synonymous with Dali and Picasso. Arnie's work was equal to these two giants of the art world, but his style was quite different. His work never had to be explained. You knew what it was the moment you saw it. The color, the subject, the story it told was like magic and you could get lost in a dream, just looking at them. He used a number of models for realism. He would pose them on a couch or a chair, but frequently ended up in bed with them. Some thing about him seemed to intrigue the ladies. So come along on his ride toward the top, to fame and riches. See the beauty in many of the things he saw on the way, and meet the people who would alter his, day- to-day existence, on his skyrocket to get there.

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1434321819

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How to Analyze People on Sight

Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

By: Ralph Paine Benedict,Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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How to Analyze People on Sight

Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

By: Ralph Paine Benedict,Elsie Lincoln Benedict

First published in 1921, the book is based on human analysis with an underlying theme- understand yourself and then learn to understand others. As per the authors, Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, every individual can be judged in accordance with his or her traits and attributes. These features are imbued in unusual shapes on their face, hands and head. The authors have classified every human being into five groups, called Alimentive, Muscular, Cerebral, Osseous and Thoracic. This book sheds light on the research and observation conducted by the authors in order to prove their theory. Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885 – 1970) became a celebrated author, woman suffragist, human analyst and lecturer on psychology. Ralph Paine Benedict (1874 – 1941), a publisher and nationally known lecturer and author on personality topics.

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e-artnow

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8027234115

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How We Learn

The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

By: Benedict Carey

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How We Learn

The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

By: Benedict Carey

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital. But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong? And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort? In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Carey’s search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives—and less of a chore. By road testing many of the counterintuitive techniques described in this book, Carey shows how we can flex the neural muscles that make deep learning possible. Along the way he reveals why teachers should give final exams on the first day of class, why it’s wise to interleave subjects and concepts when learning any new skill, and when it’s smarter to stay up late prepping for that presentation than to rise early for one last cram session. And if this requires some suspension of disbelief, that’s because the research defies what we’ve been told, throughout our lives, about how best to learn. The brain is not like a muscle, at least not in any straightforward sense. It is something else altogether, sensitive to mood, to timing, to circadian rhythms, as well as to location and environment. It doesn’t take orders well, to put it mildly. If the brain is a learning machine, then it is an eccentric one. In How We Learn, Benedict Carey shows us how to exploit its quirks to our advantage.

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Random House

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0812993896

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9780812993899

In Daddy's Eyes

From Shadows and Secrets into the Light of Forgiveness

By: Sharon Benedict

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In Daddy's Eyes

From Shadows and Secrets into the Light of Forgiveness

By: Sharon Benedict

In Daddys Eyes tells the story of one womans journey back to physical health and healing of the heart. Sharons journey will take the reader through childhood abuse with its shadows and secrets, family tragedies, a cascading list of infirmities, and the meandering maze of conventional and alternative medicine in search for answers to her medical mysteries. The reader will be challenged to look at lifes horizon with a broader stroke. . .one life forever changed by her faith in God, the impact of family on her physical, emotional, and spiritual well being, and the healing miracle of forgiveness. In Daddys Eyes is not only a journey of discovery and transformation, but of insight and wisdom only learned through the "fire of life." Sharons odyssey will touch every heart with her honest reflections of family, life challenges, and endearing trust in God. Hear what others have said about In Daddys Eyes Dale Evans Rogers, "Sharon, your book is amazing!. . .God bless your life." A. Lee Guinn, M.D., "As a clearinghouse of health information and a lightning rod of spiritual access, Sharon inspires not only her closest friends but also the health professionals that have worked with her and her increasingly enlarging following. Her truth cannot be defined with words, only by her living. Her truth is the supreme delight of the human soul." Linda Terrell Goodridge, ". . .Your captivating odyssey through adversity mesmerized me. Between laughing and crying, I couldnt put your book down. I was honored to walk with you as each page took me into your very own reality. Your faith inspired and comforted me. Your poems delighted my heart. The medical information you provided has been invaluable to me. Many of us will see ourselves in what you went through on your journey to wholeness. Thank you for your tenderhearted glimpse at family and the power of forgiveness. In Daddys Eyes will be one of my most favorite books I will refer back to throughout the years.

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1588209695

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A Chosen Destiny

By: Benedict Mejilla

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A Chosen Destiny

By: Benedict Mejilla

Life is not what it seems. We should be open to all possibilities of what life could be about and what life has to offer. Edward, the main character goes through life's journey. This person is a decent, educated, family oriented, and self-driven individual. He is hard working and plays by the rules, yet life still fails him. Something else out there is affecting him and telling him to wake up to something different, something more beautiful. Life itself opens up to him because he dares to open up to the possibilities. This story blends realism, mysticism, spirituality, psychology, and science together in an intriguing and inspirational plot. Although the book is in a fictional category, it has an element of a self help/non fiction genre as well. ... Dare to be reflective about the true nature of our reality. ... Dare to realize that perhaps there is more to us than first meets the eye. ... Dare to be spiritual. ... Dare to realize that our common experience is deceptive, and allow yourself to open up to other possibilities. ... Dare to have the courage and wisdom to say on your death bed, "I have lived a full life," and not say, "What if my life has been all wrong?

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FriesenPress

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1770977880

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9781770977884

One God in One Man

By: C. T. Benedict

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One God in One Man

By: C. T. Benedict

This book aims to enlighten the readers to the reasons and arguments for believing in the existence of God, Jesus Christ is the true Messiah and to disprove the unfounded and blasphemous allegations made against Christ and the Universal Church by some fictional writers, who have attempted to ridicule Christ, and to reduce the standing of the Gospel to a product of political forces which allegedly operated, to determine as to which text should be included in the Canon and which should be edited out, rather than considering the Gospel as the literal work of God.

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1434301060

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How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

By: Elsie Lincoln Benedict,Ralph Paine Benedict

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By: Elsie Lincoln Benedict,Ralph Paine Benedict

This carefully crafted ebook: “How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. First published in 1921, the book is based on human analysis with an underlying theme- understand yourself and then learn to understand others. As per the authors, Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, every individual can be judged in accordance with his or her traits and attributes. These features are imbued in unusual shapes on their face, hands and head. The authors have classified every human being into five groups, called Alimentive, Muscular, Cerebral, Osseous and Thoracic. This book sheds light on the research and observation conducted by the authors in order to prove their theory. Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885 – 1970) became a celebrated author, woman suffragist, human analyst and lecturer on psychology. Ralph Paine Benedict (1874 – 1941), a publisher and nationally known lecturer and author on personality topics.

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807484966X

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Health Care Ethics

A Catholic Theological Analysis, Fifth Edition

By: Benedict M. Ashley

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Health Care Ethics

A Catholic Theological Analysis, Fifth Edition

By: Benedict M. Ashley

Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by individual experience; however, its basis in real medical experience makes this book a valuable resource for anyone with a general interest in health care ethics. This fifth edition, which includes important contributions by Jean deBlois, C.S.J., considers everyday ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical care and deals more deeply with issues of women's health, mental health, sexual orientation, artificial reproduction, and the new social issues in health care. The authors devote special attention to the various ethical theories currently in use in the United States while clearly presenting a method of ethical decision making based in the Catholic tradition. They discuss the needs of the human person, outlining what it means to be human, both as an individual and as part of a community. This volume has been significantly updated to include new discussions of recent clinical innovations and theoretical issues that have arisen in the field: • the Human Genome Project• efforts to control sexual selection of infants• efforts to genetically modify the human genotype and phenotype• the development of palliative care as a medical specialty• the acceptance of non-heart beating persons as organ donors• embryo development and stem cell research• reconstructive and cosmetic surgery• nutrition and obesity• medical mistakes• the negative effects of managed care on the patient-physician relationship• recent papal allocution regarding care of patients in a persistent vegetative state and palliative care for dying patients

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Georgetown University Press

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1589013379

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9781589013377

The Five-Minute Philosopher

80 Unquestionably Good Answers to 80 Unanswerable Big Questions

By: Gerald Benedict

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The Five-Minute Philosopher

80 Unquestionably Good Answers to 80 Unanswerable Big Questions

By: Gerald Benedict

To find philosophical enlightenment, it is not necessary to climb to the top of a mountain or pursue a graduate degree. All that is required is five minutes a day with any of the 80 life-changing questions and answers compiled here by philosopher Gerald Benedict. Full of insight and wisdom, and utterly free of academic pretension, The Five-Minute Philosopher draws on sacred texts, humanist writings, and poetry to help readers shed their blinders, put on their thinking caps, and see the world--and themselves--anew.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1780281293

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

Mind and Matter

By: Paul Benedict Grant

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

Mind and Matter

By: Paul Benedict Grant

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Offers the first in-depth study of Nabokov’s humour Presents a revisionist reading of Nabokov Examines the metaphysical aspects of Nabokov’s humour Examines the sexual and scatological aspects of Nabokov’s humour Applies humour theory (e.g. those of Hobbes, Bergson, Freud) to Nabokov’s texts Compares Nabokov’s humour to that of his Russian predecessors (e.g. Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov) and to literary humourists such as Rabelais, Swift, Joyce Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1399519247

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9781399519243

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The Camera Bag Companion

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Unexplained Fever

Unexplained Fever

Race

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China Nexus

China Nexus

Ethics of Health Care

Ethics of Health Care

EvolutionaEUR(tm)s Extinction

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Torment of the Soul

Torment of the Soul

How to Analyze People on Sight

How to Analyze People on Sight

How We Learn

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In Daddy's Eyes

In Daddy's Eyes

A Chosen Destiny

A Chosen Destiny

One God in One Man

One God in One Man

How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

Health Care Ethics

Health Care Ethics

The Five-Minute Philosopher

The Five-Minute Philosopher

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

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