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Metamorphosis by Decree

The Beginning

By: Brian Pigg

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Living in the city of Theopolis, Kate, a young and disillusioned priestess in the Temple of Mirsha, watches the other women of the cloister dishonor their vows while receiving warnings in her dreams that the gods are coming. Meanwhile, she is haunted by shadows that listen in while she is awake. One morning, however, Kate is visited by Mirsha herself. The goddess charges her with a quest to bring about change in the world. To do this, Kate must recover the lost Tablets of Markinet, ancient relics currently held by an evil force. No one has seen the relics for centuries, but the only promise Kate receives is that the world will change. Now the young priestess must recruit a group of adventurous misfits to help her on her goddess-given task. If they can overcome the prejudices of the past and succeed, the cost may be high, but the harsh molds of the ancient system that keeps them bound may finally break and allow new light to come into the world. In this fantasy novel, a priestess receives a mission from a goddess and gathers a group of adventurers to help her change the world.

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iUniverse

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1491799498

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9781491799499

From Crisis to Victory!

By: Brian O’Hair

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From Crisis to Victory!

By: Brian O’Hair

From Crisis to Victory is Sue Porter and Jerry Mallard’s fast-moving story from their battle to survive an epidemic of killer bacteria, Hurricane Rita, erupting volcanoes, asteroid impacts, and a collapsing society to experience the glorious climax of Jesus Christ’s return. From Crisis to Victory is the story of ordinary people who, when challenged to survive, find the courage to overcome the crisis and be victorious! This is a “Three Seat Belt” story. So, dear reader, fasten them all and enjoy!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450053238

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9781450053235

Tynedale in the Great War

By: Brian Tilley

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Tynedale in the Great War

By: Brian Tilley

The remote moors and valleys around Hexham in Northumberland have been producing fighting men for countless millennia. From repelling invading Romans and Vikings, to locking swords with William Wallaces rampaging Scots, and the lawless days of the Border Reivers, the men of Tynedale have always rallied to the cause. So when Kitcheners call went out in 1914, Tynedales farmers, estate workers, pitmen and the gentry flocked to the colours in their thousands.Pitched straight into the front line against battle-hardened German troops just a week after landing in France in 1915, the Tynedale-based Territorials, the 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, acquitted themselves so well they received a personal commendation from the Allied Commander in Chief, Sir John French. And what of those who were left behind to face the constant threat of the sinister Zeppelins, escaped German prisoners lurking in the heather and the outraged accusations of shirking and cowardice?Extensive and painstaking research into the impact of the conflict on Hexham and the wider Tynedale district, both on the front line and on the home front, has produced this fascinating and absorbing account of a district at war.Letters back home from the trenches, soldiers diaries and reports in the local press paint a vivid picture of what it was like to face the withering fire of German machine guns, the choking clouds of poisonous gas and to suffer the devastating loss of fathers, sons, husbands and sweethearts, as tales of unbelievable heroism and Northumbrian humour abound.

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Pen and Sword

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1473864003

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9781473864009

States of Disease

Political Environments and Human Health

By: Brian King

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States of Disease

Political Environments and Human Health

By: Brian King

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "No One Dies of AIDS"--1. Social Ecology of Health -- 2. HIV Lifeways -- 3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics -- 4. Landscapes of HIV -- 5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems -- 6. States of Health -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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Univ of California Press

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0520278208

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9780520278202

Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law

By: David Ormerod,Karl Laird,John Cyril Smith,Brian Hogan

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Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law

By: David Ormerod,Karl Laird,John Cyril Smith,Brian Hogan

Criminal Law' is written with the needs of the student foremost in mind to provide, more than ever, as modern and as comprehensive an exposition of the criminal law as he or she could possibly require.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198702310

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9780198702313

Classic Railroad Signals

Semaphores, Searchlights, and Towers

By: Brian Solomon

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Classic Railroad Signals

Semaphores, Searchlights, and Towers

By: Brian Solomon

Explore the history, quirks, and stories behind signals with gorgeous period and contemprary photography. Railroad signals are the link between the steam era and modern railroading. Designed for reliability and durability, signals can survive for decades. In fact, old semaphores installed during the early years of the twentieth century were still in service during the 1990s, protecting trains that were running with the latest modern diesels. Even searchlight-style signals that were the epitome of 1940s railroading continue to work today. Though standards were introduced in the early twentieth century, interpretation varied greatly among railroads, so even major railroads have individualized signals. Some, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, were noted for their distinctive signaling hardware. Others lines became known for their peculiarities in practice. Classic Railroad Signals examines how different railroads developed specific hardware to serve their unique needs, in the process tracing the lineage of various types of hardware and highlighting how and where they were used. From nineteenth-century mechanical signals to disc signals, upper- and lower-quadrant semaphores, three-light electric signals, searchlight-style targets, positional lights, and color-position light hardware, author Brian Solomon covers nearly every conceivable piece of North American signaling hardware, even the virtually extinct wig wag that was once standard in California and Wisconsin. Gorgeous period and contemprary photography shows signals and trains from around North America. Classic Railroad Signals should be next to Railroad Signaling on every railroad fan's bookshelf.

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Voyageur Press

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1627886397

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9781627886390

The Swazi

By: Brian Allan Marwick

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The Swazi

By: Brian Allan Marwick

IThis book, was originally published in 1940, presents a detailed analysis of various aspects of Swazi culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107667305

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Tynedale at War, 1939–1945

By: Brian Tilley

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Tynedale at War, 1939–1945

By: Brian Tilley

Barawling Australians, Polish pilots burning to avenge themselves on Germany for the invasion of their country, the German officer who drowned while trying to escape from a South Tyne PoW camp, and the pub landlady who watered down her gin in order, she claimed, to prevent naive Land Army girls getting drunk it was all part of life in Tynedale as the district went to war for the second time in twenty-five years.Although well away from the battlegrounds of Europe, Tynedale did not escape the ravages of the Second World War. The rolling moorlands of the heart of Northumberland are still pitted with dozens of craters, where both Allied and Axis aircraft crashed in flames, and there were tragedies on the Home Front too.At remote Coanwood, twenty-four men were left dead or seriously injured when a training exercise went badly wrong, and an exploding ammunition train at Hexham railway station left three men dead. Even before the conflict began, founder of the British Union of Fascists Sir Oswald Mosley and the hated Nazi propaganda broadcaster, William Joyce better known as Lord Haw Haw both came to the heart of Northumberland to preach the Fascist gospel in Hexham.This book deals with the everyday impact of six years of war on the district, from the arrival of gravely wounded soldiers from Dunkirk at Hexham Emergency Hospital, through to dealing with thousands of often louse-ridden evacuees from industrial Tyneside, the heroics of local servicemen and the antics of the Home Guard.

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Casemate Publishers

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147386397X

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9781473863972

Natural Running

The Simple Path to Stronger, Healthier Running

By: Danny Abshire,Brian Metzler

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Natural Running

The Simple Path to Stronger, Healthier Running

By: Danny Abshire,Brian Metzler

Natural Running is the middle ground runners have been looking for. By learning to run the barefoot way, while wearing shoes, runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners. Backed by studies at MIT and Harvard, running form and injury expert Danny Abshire presents the natural running technique, form drills, and an 8-week transition plan that will put runners on the path to faster, more efficient, and healthier running.In Natural Running, Abshire explains how modern running shoes distort the efficient running technique that humans evolved over thousands of years. He reviews the history of running shoes and injuries, making the case for barefoot running but also warning about its dangers. By learning the natural running technique, runners can enjoy both worlds: comfortable feet, knees, and legs and an efficient running form that reduces impact and injuries.Natural Running teaches runners to think about injuries as symptoms of poor running form. Abshire specifies the overuse injuries that are most commonly associated with particular body alignment problems, foot types, and form flaws. Runners will learn how to analyze and identify their own characteristics so they can start down the path to natural running.Abshire explains the natural running technique, describing the posture, arm carriage, cadence, and land-lever-lift foot positioning that mimic the barefoot running style. Using Abshire’s 8-week transition plan and a tool kit of strength and form drills, runners will move from heel striking to a midfoot or forefoot strike.Natural Running is the newest way to run and also the oldest. By discovering how they were meant to run, runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners.

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VeloPress

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1937716066

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Norwich Archaeology of a Fine City

By: Brian Ayers

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Norwich Archaeology of a Fine City

By: Brian Ayers

Norwich: Archaeology of a Fine City presents an overview of the history and development of Norwich.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445619938

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A Tide in the Affairs of Men

By: Brian Alm

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A Tide in the Affairs of Men

By: Brian Alm

After his stint in the U.S. Navy, Stan Olsson has made a comfortable life as an American literature teacher in Minneapolis. But that all changes when he gets a mysterious phone call and ends up meeting a man who will change the course of his life. The Coast Guard and the DEA cannot control drug trafficking in the Caribbean, and an organization of zealous vigilantes has something stealthier to put into play. That something is a ghost ship, a vessel that has been surreptitiously acquired and armed with the specific intent to intercept vessels smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Olsson has the chance to command it. Against his better judgment, he accepts. Olsson is told that hes not working for the CIA or the military, but for a small, undercover group that will take direct and forceful action against the drug trade. But how will Olsson and his crew respond when violent events force them to confront their innermost selves? As the clandestine operation travels through the labyrinths of the federal bureaucracy and the whirlpools of power in Washington, the interwoven network of complicity, both active and unwitting, raises a chilling question: Are men molded by duty, or do they mold duty to their own will?

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1475954530

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Goldfish

By: Brian Michael Bendis

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Goldfish

By: Brian Michael Bendis

A modern noir tale of sin, revenge, and redemption, written and illustrated by Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS! After years away, con man David Gold returns to the city he once called home and finds nothing as it was. But the man known as “Goldfish” has come back for one reason, and one reason only: his son. This enigmatic grifter returns to his old haunts to find his old flame practically running the city's underbelly. His oldest friend and ex-partner in crime a police detective. The town itself seems to have turned on him. With everything going against him, how can Goldfish reclaim the only person that he still cares about? Written and illustrated by the legendary New York Times best-selling author Brian Michael Bendis, Jinxworld and Dark Horse release an all-new edition of one of his grittiest works ever! Collects A.K.A. Goldfish: Act, Joker, King, Queen, Jack.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506730310

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9781506730318

The Last Zombie: Before the After GN #4

By: Brian Keene

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The Last Zombie: Before the After GN #4

By: Brian Keene

As Ian Scott's group continue their trek eastward, Ian desperately struggles to conceal his slowly worsening infection from the others. When a vicious blizzard halts their progress, the team takes shelter in an abandoned hotel. As the snow piles up outside and boredom sets in, stories are shared and secrets are revealed...and Ian's vaccine starts wearing off.

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Antarctic Press

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168100755X

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9781681007557

Criminal Law

Cases and Materials

By: John Cyril Smith,Brian Hogan

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Criminal Law

Cases and Materials

By: John Cyril Smith,Brian Hogan

A companion volume to Criminal Law by the same authors, this revised edition now includes cases such as Gomez, Adomako, Millward, Kingston, Brown and Airedale NHS versus Bland. It also takes into account a series of reports and discussion papers recently published by the Law Commission.

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Lexis Law Publishing (Va)

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0406081883

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9780406081889

Railroad Signaling

By: Brian Solomon

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Railroad Signaling

By: Brian Solomon

From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.

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Voyageur Press

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1616738979

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World Music

Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypso

By: Brian Priestley

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World Music

Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypso

By: Brian Priestley

Narrative driven, providing background and context on the music of 70 countries and regions, ranging from salsa to soukous, cajun to calypso, rai to qawwali. Set up in regional chapters. Each explanatory chapter is followed by a discography, with very short reviews of what the editors consider the very best music in the category. Various musicians are spotlighted in sidebars.

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Rough Guides

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1858280176

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The Kingfisher Reference Atlas

An A-z Guide to Countries of the World

By: Brian Williams

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The Kingfisher Reference Atlas

An A-z Guide to Countries of the World

By: Brian Williams

Includes an illustrated relief map and a brief description of every country in the world along with important facts and figures, flags, population information, and an economic survey for each.

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1856975290

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Blood on the Tracks

The Lifea nd Times of S. Brian Willson

By: Willson, S. Brian

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Blood on the Tracks

The Lifea nd Times of S. Brian Willson

By: Willson, S. Brian

“We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. In telling his story, Willson provides numerous examples of the types of personal, risk-taking, nonviolent actions he and others have taken in attempts to educate and effect political change: tax refusal—which requires simplification of one’s lifestyle; fasting—done publicly in strategic political and/or therapeutic spiritual contexts; and obstruction tactics—strategically placing one’s body in the way of “business as usual.” It was such actions that thrust Brian Willson into the public eye in the mid-’80s, first as a participant in a high-profile, water-only “Veterans Fast for Life” against the Contra war being waged by his government in Nicaragua. Then, on a fateful day in September 1987, the world watched in horror as Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks and arrested. Losing his legs only strengthened Willson’s identity with millions of unnamed victims of U.S. policy around the world. He provides details of his travels to countries in Latin America and the Middle East and bears witness to the harm done to poor people as well as to the environment by the steamroller of U.S. imperialism. These heart-rending accounts are offered side by side with inspirational stories of nonviolent struggle and the survival of resilient communities Willson’s expanding consciousness also uncovers injustices within his own country, including insights gained through his study and service within the U.S. criminal justice system and personal experiences addressing racial injustices. He discusses coming to terms with his identity as a Viet Nam veteran and the subsequent service he provides to others as director of a veterans outreach center in New England. He draws much inspiration from friends he encounters along the way as he finds himself continually drawn to the path leading to a simpler life that seeks to “do no harm.&rdquo Throughout his personal journey Willson struggles with the question, “Why was it so easy for me, a ’good’ man, to follow orders to travel 9,000 miles from home to participate in killing people who clearly were not a threat to me or any of my fellow citizens?” He eventually comes to the realization that the “American Way of Life” is AWOL from humanity, and that the only way to recover our humanity is by changing our consciousness, one individual at a time, while striving for collective cultural changes toward “less and local.” Thus, Willson offers up his personal story as a metaphorical map for anyone who feels the need to be liberated from the American Way of Life—a guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect and empathy.

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PM Press

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160486592X

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Blood on the Tracks

The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson : a Psychohistorical Memoir

By: S. Brian Willson

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Blood on the Tracks

The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson : a Psychohistorical Memoir

By: S. Brian Willson

After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace protester and pacifist, and this memoir details the drastic governmental and social change he has spent his life fighting for. Chronicling his personal struggle with a government he believes to be unjust, Willson sheds light on the various incarnations of his protests of the U.S. government, including the refusal to pay taxes, public fasting, and, most famously, public obstruction. On September 1, 1987, Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks. Providing a full look into the tragic event, Willson, who lost his legs in the incident, discusses how the subsequent publicity propelled his cause toward the national consciousness. Now, 23 years later, Willson tells his story of social injustice, nonviolent struggle, and the so-called American way of life.

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