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Search for the Astral Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

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Branded as a pirate, fitted with a shock collar, separated from her parents-- could the situation get any worse for Megan Willis? Yes, it can. The prisoner ship she is on is attacked, leaving her the lone survivor. Stranded on a Delta Ninety-eight, searching for the captain's kidnapped son, she find a city rife with slave traders and plagued by storms that turn friends into foes. Searching for her parents' ship, the Astral Dragon, would mean leaving the child slaves behind... rescuing them will entangle Megan in secrets darker than she ever dreamed of. - adapted from jacket

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1496451791

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Ritualized Writing

Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan

By: Bryan D. Lowe

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Ritualized Writing

Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan

By: Bryan D. Lowe

Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavor. He takes a ground-level approach by emphasizing the activities and beliefs of a wide range of individuals, including scribes, provincial patrons, and royals, to reassess the meaning of scripture and reevaluate scholarly narratives of Japanese Buddhist history. Copying scripture is a central Buddhist practice and one that thrived in East Asia. Despite this, there are no other books dedicated to the topic. This work demonstrates that patrons and scribes treated sutras differently from other modes of writing. Scribes purified their bodies prior to transcription. Patrons held dedicatory ceremonies on days of abstinence, when prayers were pronounced and sutras were recited. Transcribing sutras helped scribes and patrons alike realize this- and other-worldly ambitions and cultivate themselves in accord with Buddhist norms. Sutra copying thus functioned as a form of ritualized writing, a strategic practice that set apart scripture as uniquely efficacious and venerable. Lowe employs this notion of ritualized writing to challenge historical narratives about ancient Japan (late seventh through early ninth centuries), a period when sutra copying flourished. He contends that Buddhist practice fulfilled a variety of social, political, and spiritual roles beyond ideological justification. Moreover, he demonstrates the inadequacy of state-folk dichotomies for understanding the social groups, institutions, and individual beliefs and practices of ancient Japanese Buddhism, highlighting instead common organizations across social class and using models that reveal shared concerns among believers from diverse social backgrounds. Ritualized Writing makes broader contributions to the study of ritual and scripture by introducing the notion of scriptural cultures, an analytic tool that denotes a series of dynamic relationships and practices involving texts that have been strategically set apart or ritualized. Scripture, Lowe concludes, is at once a category created by humans and a body of texts that transforms individuals and social organizations who come into contact with it.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082485943X

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9780824859435

Republic of Intellect

The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

By: Bryan Waterman

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Republic of Intellect

The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

By: Bryan Waterman

In the 1790s, a single conversational circle—the Friendly Club—united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story of the Friendly Club reveals the mutually informing conditions of authorship, literary association, print culture, and production of knowledge in a specific time and place—the tumultuous, tenuous world of post-revolutionary New York City. More than any similar group in the early American republic, the Friendly Club occupied a crossroads—geographical, professional, and otherwise—of American literary and intellectual culture. Waterman argues that the relationships among club members' novels, plays, poetry, diaries, legal writing, and medical essays lead to important first examples of a distinctively American literature and also illuminate the local, national, and transatlantic circuits of influence and information that club members called "the republic of intellect." He addresses topics ranging from political conspiracy in the gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown to the opening of William Dunlap's Park Theatre, from early American debates on gendered conversation to the publication of the first American medical journal. Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized.

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JHU Press

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1421403897

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9781421403892

First War

By: Bryan Wilson

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First War

By: Bryan Wilson

The Sol Three experiment, programmed by Bioc at Basik's overarching command, sets two worlds at war: the nomadic Shirrahan, with their lethal Guild of Assassins, and the Earth people, warmongers with genetically enhanced Gedna at their disposal - terrifying human creatures with assimilated reptilian DNA.But when Earth research goes beyound the boundaries and creates the Gedna Draks and the still deadlier Drakines, Basik finds his experiment going horribly wrong...

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1409219690

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Retribution

By: Bryan Wilson

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Retribution

By: Bryan Wilson

War rages on between Earth and Shirrahi, and as both stride for the ultimate victory, the Shirrahans attempt to deliver a deadly radiation strike directly at Earth. Meanwhile, the Humans and the Gedna, on another battlefront face their deadliest enemy yet...an ancient God, released by the primitives of Pelaton Five and who feasts upon life force, and who wants the total destruction of mankind! But as the Gedna struggle to survive, an enemy from within takes the oppertunity and delivers a deadly blow... Can the Gedna prevent the destruction of the Earth? Find out in the second part of the stunning Gedna Chronicles

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1409219720

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The Edge of Oblivion

By: Bryan Wilson

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The Edge of Oblivion

By: Bryan Wilson

With the Earth fleet almost sestroyed, the Earth lies defeated and occupied by R'oorken invasion forces. The Gedna resistance, their leader stuck on a distant planet and an unwilling participant in a struggle against slavers, give life to the Gedrakna, an experimental hybrid, to aid them in the fight for the survival of mankind.Meanwhile, in deep space, the commander of an advanced Earth warship discovers the secret of the R'oorken seeming invincibility, and together, as part of a most unlikely alliance, they begin the long fight back for liberation and freedom...

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1409240630

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Study of Movement Speeds Down Stairs

By: Bryan L. Hoskins,James A. Milke

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Study of Movement Speeds Down Stairs

By: Bryan L. Hoskins,James A. Milke

The Study of Movement Speeds Down Stairs closely examines forty-three unique case studies on movement patterns down stairwells. These studies include observations made during evacuation drills, others made during normal usage, interviews with people after fire evacuations, recommendations made from compiled studies, and detailed results from laboratory studies. The methodology used in each study for calculating density and movement speed, when known, are also presented, and this book identifies an additional seventeen variables linked to altering movement speeds. The Study of Movement Speeds Down Stairs is intended for researchers as a reference guide for evaluating pedestrian evacuation dynamics down stairwells. Practitioners working in a related field may also find this book invaluable.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461439736

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The Conqueror (Constantine’s Empire Book #1)

By: Bryan Litfin

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The Conqueror (Constantine’s Empire Book #1)

By: Bryan Litfin

It is AD 312. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, Brandulf Rex, a pagan Germanic barbarian, joins the Roman army as a spy and special forces operative. Down in Rome, Junia Flavia, the lovely and pious daughter of a nominally Christian senator, finds herself embroiled in anti-Christian politics as she works on behalf of the church. As armies converge and forces beyond Rex's and Flavia's controls threaten to destroy everything they have worked for, these two people from different worlds will have to work together to bring down the evil Emperor Maxentius. But his villainous plans and devious henchmen are not easily overcome. Will the barbarian warrior and the senator's daughter live to see the Empire bow the knee to Christ? Or will their part in the story of Constantine's rise meet an untimely and brutal end? Travel back to one of the most pivotal eras in history--a time when devotion to the pagan gods was fading and the Roman Empire was being conquered by the sign of the cross.

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Revell

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149342792X

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9781493427925

Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

By: Bryan C. Reece

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Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

By: Bryan C. Reece

A unique and compelling solution to a widely discussed problem for Aristotle's ethics: determining what kind of activity happiness is.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486738

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Genealogy of the John Bott Sr. Family of Washington County, Virginia

Year 1653-2001

By: Bryan S. Kegley

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Genealogy of the John Bott Sr. Family of Washington County, Virginia

Year 1653-2001

By: Bryan S. Kegley

One family's struggle through the pages of American History.

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0595197434

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The Changing Face Of Battle

By: Bryan Perrett

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The Changing Face Of Battle

By: Bryan Perrett

A fascinating study of the changing face of the art of warfare over the past 2000 years, by one of today's most readable historians Mankind has always been in conflict. Without war, there would be no peace, no stability, no safety. Men go to war to defend, or acquire, territory that they see as rightly theirs; to defend, or impose, beliefs that they hold as fundamental truths. In 2,000 years, while the causes of battle have hardly changed, the conduct of battle has changed and developed apace. Technology advances, weaponry becomes ever more powerful, military thinking shifts again and again. In THE CHANGING FACE OF BATTLE, historian Bryan Perrett reviews that continuous process of change, from AD 9 through to the Gulf War. By analysis of some 30 significant battle confrontations he shows, in clear detail, just how advanced we now are in the art of warfare.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780225253

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Apollyon

By: Bryan Wilson,Emeritus Reader in Sociology and Fellow Bryan Wilson

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Apollyon

By: Bryan Wilson,Emeritus Reader in Sociology and Fellow Bryan Wilson

The discovery of humans on a planet in a distant star system by a Fleet scout ship has fatal consequences as they become involved in an ancient holy war that will eventually threaten the existence of all of mankind as a prophet seeks to destroy all false gods... The route to their salvation lies at the feet of the renegade Gedna leader, Colonel Fazi, but with his hatred of all things human after years of lies and persecution, will he be prepared to help, especially when he is also offered the prize of immortality if he joins with the prophet in his fight? Find out in part five of the stunning Gedna Chronicles.

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1446140601

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Duke University

An Architectural Tour

By: John M. Bryan

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Duke University

An Architectural Tour

By: John M. Bryan

Duke University was officially founded in 1924. Until 1950 it was designed primarily by Julian Abele, one of the few professional African-American architects working in the United States at that time. The campus architecture is best known for its medieval-style Gothic buildings, notably Duke Chapel.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568982283

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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20

By: G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson

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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20

By: G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson

The fifth volume of the major six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad is the first to be edited by one of G.S. Kirk's four collaborators. It also consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary.

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0521312086

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The Boxer Codex

Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia

By: George Bryan Souza,Jeffrey Scott Turley

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The Boxer Codex

Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia

By: George Bryan Souza,Jeffrey Scott Turley

In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.

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BRILL

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9004301542

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9789004301542

Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

By: Bryan W. Van Norden

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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

By: Bryan W. Van Norden

This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options. It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures and movements from the West. I recommend it very highly.--Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University

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Hackett Publishing

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1603846050

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Dragons in Our Midst 4-Pack: Raising Dragons / The Candlestone / Circles of Seven / Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

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Dragons in Our Midst 4-Pack: Raising Dragons / The Candlestone / Circles of Seven / Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

The Dragons in Our Midst series is a modern-day Arthurian adventure following a boy with fire breath and a girl with dragon wings as they battle against a thousand-year-old dragon slayer. Readers will be drawn to the hair-raising adventure with relevant themes like trusting friends, compassion, forgiveness, loyalty to family, faith, and light triumphing over darkness. This complete set includes the four books in the Dragons in Our Midst series: Raising Dragons: Outcasts Billy and Bonnie must come together to preserve a thousand-year-old secret legacy. Thrust into an evil war they didn’t even know existed; the teens’ newly formed friendship will be tested as they battle a blood thirsty dragon slayer who wields a powerful, medieval weapon. This unlikely pair will try to save their dragon heritage before it’s destroyed forever. The Candlestone: Billy and Bonnie learn to use their unique strengths as they battle powerful enemies wielding the candlestone, an ancient gemstone weapon used against dragons. Circles of Seven: Billy and Bonnie discover seven evil circles in a multidimensional world. Tears of a Dragon: Billy and Bonnie will be forced to make the greatest decision of their lives—a choice that will change their world forever. Dive into a world filled with knights, dragons, fair maidens in a war against good and evil.

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Tyndale House Publishers

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1496473213

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9781496473219

A History of Weapons

Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up

By: John O'Bryan

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A History of Weapons

Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up

By: John O'Bryan

Discover the truth about strange and ancient weapons like the atlatl, the sarissa, the urumi and the maka pahoa ko'oko'o in this fascinating history of weapons.

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Chronicle Books

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1452110549

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Ratchet Deadlocked

Prima Official Game Guide

By: Greg Off,Bryan Stratton

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Ratchet Deadlocked

Prima Official Game Guide

By: Greg Off,Bryan Stratton

Ratchet: Deadlocked Tune In, Suit Up, and Take 'em Down! Combat strategies for surviving the perils of DreadZone Maps of every level with all pickups and objective locations revealed Exclusive DVD with full-motion strategy and interviews with the Insomniac team! (Not available with eGuide) Every mod, weapon and gadget covered! Find out what upgrades and equipment best suit your playstyle Tactics for commanding your bots to their fullest potential Tips to get the most out of online and co-op play

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0761552049

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9780761552048

Doom 3

Prima Official Game Guide

By: Bryan Stratton,Craig Wessel

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Doom 3

Prima Official Game Guide

By: Bryan Stratton,Craig Wessel

Every level map for single player and multiplayer. Full creature list! ·Extensive PDA Appendix to guide you to the information you need to get through the game. ·Comprehensive walkthrough for all 27 levels—find the BFG early and destroy every boss with ease ·In-depth single-player maps, detailing every item, weapon, and enemy location on your route to Hell ·Killer tips and strategies for each multiplayer map ·Crucial stats and bios on all characters and enemies ·Extensive overviews and tips on every weapon and item ·Secrets and cheat codes, including storage cabinet combos ·Full appendix of all PDAs in the game, where to find them, and what they contain ·Thorough Marine basic training that will whip you into shape and make you a master fragger

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0761547185

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9780761547181

Spartan Revival

By: Bryan Torrey

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Spartan Revival

By: Bryan Torrey

Spartan Revival By: Bryan Torrey We humans constantly progress and advance our technology. Morally, however, we are still in the Stone Ages. Sometimes people run or hide from the negative side of balance instead of embracing and learning from it. Spartan Revival reminds us we should strive for balance in all things.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1645304043

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

This is the eagerly awaited new edition of Law of Torts, the complete Irish tort law reference book. For this, the contents have been extensively revised since the last edition was published in 2000. Key developments are detailed and relevant recent case law is examined. This book is essential for both legal practitioners and people studying Irish law. Recent important legislation examined in the book includes: Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011, Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, Defamation Act 2009, Consumer Protection Act 2007, Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003. Key developments and case law are examined in areas such as pure economic loss, limitations and purchase of financial products, vicarious liability for sexual assaults, damages, privacy, defamation, psychiatric injury, liability of public authorities, employers' liability, professional negligence, defective buildings and products and occupiers' liability. First published in 1980, Law of Torts has long been a cornerstone work in Irish law, indeed in the foreword to the first edition Judge Brian Walshe noted that the book represented a challenge to the 'unquestioned assumption that English text-books would satisfy all needs.' This new addition will only add to the book's long-established merit and value.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780438842

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Scripts and Communication for Relationships

By: James M. Honeycutt,Suzette P. Bryan

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Scripts and Communication for Relationships

By: James M. Honeycutt,Suzette P. Bryan

Designed for classes in communication and relationships, insterpersonal communication, intrapersonal competence are provided. A downloadable teacher's guide is available on request. --Book Jacket.

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Peter Lang

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1433110520

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Dreaming of What Might Be

The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

By: Gregory S. Kealey,Bryan D. Palmer

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Dreaming of What Might Be

The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

By: Gregory S. Kealey,Bryan D. Palmer

Examines Canada's working-class vision of an alternative to late nineteenth-century industrial-capitalist society.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521545714

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9780521545716

British Military History For Dummies

By: Bryan Perrett

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British Military History For Dummies

By: Bryan Perrett

A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The book profiles commanders, explains strategies and tactics, and covers key developments in weaponry and technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047006191X

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Paddington Pollaky

The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes

By: Bryan Kesselman

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Paddington Pollaky

The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes

By: Bryan Kesselman

Who was the Victorian super-sleuth ‘Paddington’ Pollaky? In reality, he was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to keep out of the limelight, while at times he craved recognition and publicity. He was a busybody, a meddler, yet someone whose heart was ultimately in the right place. Newspaper accounts detail his work as a private detective in London, his association with The Society for the Protection of Young Females, his foiling of those involved in sex-trafficking, and of his tracking down of abducted children. Themes that remain relevant in the twenty-first century. What was his involvement in the American Civil War? Why did he place cryptic messages in the agony column of The Times? And why were the newspapers so interested in this Hungarian detective and adventurer while the police thoroughly disapproved of him? In this first biography of this complex character, author Bryan Kesselman answers these questions, and examines whether it was Pollaky who provided the inspiration for the literary greats Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

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The History Press

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075096331X

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Qualitative Communication Research Methods

By: Thomas R. Lindlof,Bryan C. Taylor

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Qualitative Communication Research Methods

By: Thomas R. Lindlof,Bryan C. Taylor

The Second Edition of Qualitative Communication Research Methods takes readers through every step of the qualitative research process -- from the research idea to the finished report. Unique for its coverage of the entire discipline of Communication, this text now includes a new chapter on computer-mediated communication (identities, relationships, and communities) as well as fully updated and expanded key topics including: developing research questions, coding data, using computers in analysis, and transcription. Processes covered in the text include interviewing, writing field notes, and creating ethical relationships with participants. Qualitative Communication Research Methods, Second Edition, provides students with numerous examples of work in the field illustrating how studies are designed, carried out, written, evaluated, and applied to theory. This interesting and accessible text provides a rewarding and challenging introduction to qualitative methodology.

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SAGE

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0761924949

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Arkwright Integral

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire: the Legacy of Luther Arkwright

By: Bryan Talbot

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Arkwright Integral

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire: the Legacy of Luther Arkwright

By: Bryan Talbot

An adult science-fiction epic of boundless imagination and audacious vision, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire are brought together for the first time in one essential hardcover volume, including bonus material and an afterword by Warren Ellis.

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1616553871

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