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The Soul of the Matter

A Thriller

By: Bruce Buff

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A scientist's claim that he's found the secrets of the universe's origin encoded in DNA sparks a race against time to uncover the truth in this fast-paced thriller of science and faith, power and murder, loss and redemption. Dan Lawson, a former government cyber-intelligence analyst, is surprised to be contacted by his estranged friend Stephen Bishop, a renowned geneticist. Stephen says that he's discovered amazing information within DNA, including evidence of a creator, and needs Dan's help to protect his findings. Dan is skeptical and wonders whether he is being manipulated, or if the recent illness of Stephen's only child, Ava, has caused his childhood friend to fall back on religion for answers to questions best left to science. Spurred by his desire for proof that life has meaning, however, Dan puts aside his doubts and agrees to help. When an experiment goes terribly awry, Dan realizes he must get to the bottom of Stephen's discoveries. With the help of Trish Alighieri, a pediatric oncologist trying to save Ava's life, Dan desperately searches for answers--including whether the human soul can survive science's conquest of nature"--

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432

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Simon and Schuster

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1501141880

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9781501141881

The Channel Shore

By: Charles Bruce

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The Channel Shore

By: Charles Bruce

Selected for Nova Scotia's 150 Books of Influence! Charles Bruce's classic novel tells the story of the people of 'the shore', a small fictional rural community along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia which closely resembles Bruce's childhood home on Chedabucto Bay. He weaves a moving and well-grounded account of rural life &;— the opportunities, relationships and conflicts in the community in the aftermath of the First World War.

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410

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459505115

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9781459505117

The Hands of God

By: Bruce Warren Heydt

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The Hands of God

By: Bruce Warren Heydt

The earth, however reluctantly, yields its secrets to archaeologists of Josiah Adams's caliber. But when an unorthodox book dating from a forsaken past comes to light during one of his digs, bureaucracies and social critics prove less accommodating. Josiah's discovery pulls back the curtain on a lost age when truth was true and lies were not, when self-interest had its limits and faith had not yet been perverted and discredited. But is anyone prepared to reconsider that the past may have been more honorable than anyone wants to remember and more noble than the world that has replaced it? Or is the world still unprepared for the counterrevolutionary ideas the earth-shattering book reveals?

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253

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 13

9798891303232

The Weekend Refinisher

By: Bruce E. Johnson

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The Weekend Refinisher

By: Bruce E. Johnson

Step by Step Guide to making the most of your furniture.

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305

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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034535866X

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9780345358660

Thinking in Java

By: Bruce Eckel

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Thinking in Java

By: Bruce Eckel

Provides link to sites where book in zip file can be downloaded.

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1156

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Prentice Hall Professional

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0131002872

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9780131002876

Birds of New Guinea

Second Edition

By: Thane K. Pratt,Bruce M. Beehler,Bruce McP. Beehler

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Birds of New Guinea

Second Edition

By: Thane K. Pratt,Bruce M. Beehler,Bruce McP. Beehler

Previous edition by Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, and Dale A. Zimmerman.

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528

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Princeton University Press

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0691095639

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9780691095639

Mr. Polk's Army

The American Military Experience in the Mexican War

By: Richard Bruce Winders

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Mr. Polk's Army

The American Military Experience in the Mexican War

By: Richard Bruce Winders

Drawing on numerous diaries, journals, and reminiscences, Richard Bruce Winders presents the daily life of soldiers at war; links the army to the society that produced it; shares his impressions of the soldiers he "met" along the way; and concludes that American participants in the Mexican War shared a common experience, no matter their rank or place of service. Taking a "new" military history approach, Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War examines the cultural, social, and political aspects of the regular and volunteer forces that made up the army of 1846-48, presents the organizational framework of the army, and introduces the different styles of leadership exhibited by Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.

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308

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585441627

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9781585441624

Birds of New Guinea

Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

By: Bruce M. Beehler,Thane K. Pratt

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Birds of New Guinea

Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

By: Bruce M. Beehler,Thane K. Pratt

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first formal review of this avifauna since Ernst Mayr's Checklist, published in 1941. This new book brings together all the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional research conducted on the region's bird families over the last 70 years. Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt provide the scientific foundation for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic arrangement of New Guinea's bird fauna. All technical information is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are included. This book is an ideal complement to the Birds of New Guinea field guide also published by Princeton, and is an essential technical reference for all scientific libraries, ornithologists, and those interested in bird classification. The first complete revision of the New Guinea bird fauna since 1941 Accounts for 75 bird species new to the region Includes a geographic gazetteer, bibliography, and explanations of taxonomic and systematic classifications

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673

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Princeton University Press

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1400880718

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9781400880713

Battle for Manhattan

By: Bruce Bliven Jr.

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Battle for Manhattan

By: Bruce Bliven Jr.

First published in 1956, this book by ex-WWII lieutenant Bruce Bliven, Jr. tells the story of the three-day battle of Manhattan, New York in September 1776, which saw George Washington preserving his army during a long retreat from the British troops. At the time of its first release, the book drew praise for using present-day names for locations to put historic events in perspective, a technique the author referred to as “terrain appreciation,” rounding out the book with authenticated descriptions of New York in 1776 that will leave the reader captivated. “Bliven’s book—a virtually perfect example of the military monograph—consistently reminds readers that these are not distant and alien battlefields he’s talking about; indeed, this is ground thousands of New Yorkers now commute across without a second thought...”—Steve Donoghue, Stevereads

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221

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787204855

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9781787204850

It's Time!

My 360-degree View of the UFC

By: Bruce Buffer

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It's Time!

My 360-degree View of the UFC

By: Bruce Buffer

Presents a behind-the-scenes tour of the world of mixed martial arts from the perspective of the UFC announcer's career, sharing lesser-known stories about famous figures and controversial fights while revealing the discovery of his famous brother.

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298

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0307953912

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9780307953919

Man Bites Dog

Hot Dog Culture in America

By: Bruce Kraig,Patty Carroll

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Man Bites Dog

Hot Dog Culture in America

By: Bruce Kraig,Patty Carroll

Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie--but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the almighty hot dog through history, culture, styles, and even the people who made them famous. Loaded with stunning color photos by Patty Carroll, descriptions of neighborhood venues and flashy pushcarts from New York to Los Angeles, and recipes for cooking up hot dog heaven at home, this book is the ultimate source--informative, fun, and tasty--on the role of hot dogs in American culture.

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201

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759120730

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9780759120730

Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions

Money-Saving Tips, DIY Cleaners, Kitchen Secrets, and Other Easy Answers to Everyday Problems

By: Bruce Lubin,Jeanne Lubin

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Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions

Money-Saving Tips, DIY Cleaners, Kitchen Secrets, and Other Easy Answers to Everyday Problems

By: Bruce Lubin,Jeanne Lubin

Money-saving tips, DIY cleaners, kitchen secrets, and other easy answers to everyday problems"--Cover.

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401

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Castle Point Books

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1250108853

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9781250108852

Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

By: Bruce Kogut

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Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

By: Bruce Kogut

Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues, such as technology transfer and licensing, joint ventures as options, and the diffusion of ideas and best practices in the world economy. In an extensive introduction to these chapters, Kogut grounds this view in recent work in neurosciences and behavioural experiments in human sociality. On this basis, he provides a critique of leading schools of thought in management, including the resource based view of the firm cognition, and experimental economics. He proposes that people are hardwired to learn social norms and to develop identities that conform to social categories. This foundation supports a concept of coordination among people that is inscribed in social communities. It is this concept that leads to a theory of the firm as derived from social knowledge and shared identities. Kogut argues that the resource based view of the firm is only a view and it fails as a theory because it lacks a behavioural foundation. If it were to choose one, the choice would be between knowledge and organizational economics. Similarly, he argues that recent statements regarding cognition do not confront the age-old question of shared templates. If it did, it too would have to confront a theory of social knowledge. The author then proposes that this foundation is essential to an understanding of norms and institutions as well. Thus, we are moving into a period in which rapid advances in neuroscience increasingly lead to an integrated foundation for the social sciences. This opening chapter is the gateway to the collected essays, which assemble the author's published articles on knowledge, options, and institutions. The book ends on the most recent work on open source software and generating rules. The chapter on open source discusses how new technology is changing the face of innovation. The final article on generating rules is the segue to the author's current work that looks at how simple rules of social exchange leads to complex patterns of local and global knowledge.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199282528

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9780199282524

The Difference Engine

By: William Gibson,Bruce Sterling

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The Difference Engine

By: William Gibson,Bruce Sterling

Fictional speculation on what would have happened if the computer had been invented in the 19th century.

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445

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Spectra

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055329461X

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9780553294613

Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

By: Bruce Marsh

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Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

By: Bruce Marsh

The mechanisms of magma movement, chemical differentiation and physical development, are derived from the geochemistry of igneous rocks, and from studying exposures of deep magmatic systems that have since solidified and been uplifted and exposed at the Earth's surface. The Ferrar Magmatic System of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica provides an unparalleled example of a complete magmatic-volcanic system exposed in unprecedented detail. This book provides a unique and usual three-dimensional detailed examination of this system, providing insight into many magmatic processes normally unobservable, in particular how basaltic magma moves upwards through the crust, how it entrains, carries and deposits loads of crystals from great depths, and how this all contributes to Earth's evolution. Providing an explanation of how magmatic systems operate and how igneous rocks form, this is an invaluable resource ideal for researchers and graduate students in magma physics, igneous petrology, volcanology, and geochemistry.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009188518

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9781009188517

The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones

By: Bruce Mueller,William H. Wilde

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The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones

By: Bruce Mueller,William H. Wilde

The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones is the authoritative guide for everyone who visits northern Michigan and can't wait to comb the beautiful beaches in search of Michigan's official state stone, the Petoskey. This book dispels myths about the Petoskey and reveals the true facts of this ancient fossilized coral. Instructive pictures and maps keep Petoskey fans on track every step of the way while guiding them to the best places to find the stone, including those favored by local Petoskey stone hunters and collectors. Once you've found a piece of the prized Michigan fossil, The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones leads you through the many methods of polishing that bring this beautiful stone to life.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472030280

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9780472030286

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The Soul of the Matter

The Soul of the Matter

The Channel Shore

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The Hands of God

The Hands of God

The Weekend Refinisher

The Weekend Refinisher

Thinking in Java

Thinking in Java

Birds of New Guinea

Birds of New Guinea

Mr. Polk's Army

Mr. Polk's Army

Birds of New Guinea

Birds of New Guinea

Battle for Manhattan

Battle for Manhattan

It's Time!

It's Time!

Man Bites Dog

Man Bites Dog

Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions

Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions

Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones

The Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones

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