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ESCAPE TO KENTUCKY

By: Charles & Linda Neuf

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It is 1990 and Charlie & Linda are respected Private Detectives living in Springfield Illinois, working cases for well known Attorneys throughout the Midwestern states. Because of a case Charlie was working, a contract to kill them was made by the wife of a client. Now Charlie & Linda must leave their home area for protection and re-establish their business, They will move to a small town in Kentucky. There their mission in life changes to one of being messengers of encouragement to those they come into contact with. This move will only confirm the many beliefs of Charlie & Linda about a Creator, the role of the Universe and Laws of Nature working in their lives. They continue to work investigations, but their purpose in life has changed. Charlie a 32nd degree Mason, member of the Scottish rite, a Gideon, and member of many national Investigation groups keeps both he and Linda active in outside actives and the business world.

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The Emergence of Sociological Theory

By: Jonathan H. Turner,Leonard Beeghley,Charles H. Powers

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The Emergence of Sociological Theory

By: Jonathan H. Turner,Leonard Beeghley,Charles H. Powers

Now published by SAGE, this scholarly text covers the first one hundred years of sociological theorizing, from 1830-1930, focusing primarily on Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, and Mead. The text provides an in-depth examination of these early sociological theorists with biographical background, analysis of key works, major influences, critical insights, and also answers the question, "What do these ideas tell us about the basic forces that shape the social world?" Posing this question for each theorist adds a unique perspective to the text and distinguishes it from other sociological theory books. In addition, it also includes material on the enduring models and principles of the theorists' work that continue to inform sociological theory today.

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1483341879

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The Investigator Travels Through Time, 50 + Stories based on Case Files

By: Charles E. Neuf The Time Traveler

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The Investigator Travels Through Time, 50 + Stories based on Case Files

By: Charles E. Neuf The Time Traveler

This book is filled with The Investigators Cases of the past, written as he passes through time and space, almost as if he was an observer. Cases like burglary, gambling, vice, deception, humor in investigations, corporate theft, undercover operations, countermeasures against and wiretapping, organized crime gangs, and much more about real investigations and how they were done. People The Investigator met along the way will be telling you some of the stories. This will not change what was really happening at the time. The Writer, The Time Traveler, calls this Creative non-fiction writing.

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0359903509

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Detective Jack MayBee, and Chuck The Attorney, 20 Detective Short Stories

By: Charles Neuf, CPP

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Detective Jack MayBee, and Chuck The Attorney, 20 Detective Short Stories

By: Charles Neuf, CPP

Jack an x-State Police Detective, Chuck an x-States Attorney work as a team. Building a business, keeping clients happy, and making money. There will be Murders, Surviellances, Kidnapping and Divorce cases and investigations. The reader will get inside of what Attorneys want and how the Detective gets it. Each short story comes from a true case file worked by the writer.

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1329066448

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

By: Charles Darwin

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

By: Charles Darwin

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 25 includes letters from 1877, the year in which Darwin published Forms of Flowers and with his son Francis carried out experiments on plant movement and bloom on plants. Darwin was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Cambridge University, and appeared in person to receive it. The volume contains a number of appendixes, including two on the albums of photograph sent to Darwin by his Dutch, German, and Austrian admirers.

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1108503632

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Snatched from the Fire

A Man of Stain

By: Dr. Lois E. Charles

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Snatched from the Fire

A Man of Stain

By: Dr. Lois E. Charles

The aim of the story in this book is to bring out the examples of what happens when we drift away from obedience to God as well as our parents. It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Its a very high price to pay in life when our weaknesses become overwhelming to the point of disaster in our lives. You will see how the choices we make in life can really determine how we live. You will feel the heartbeat of mothers who want the best for their children. You will see how much we owe to the influence of godly parents, especially godly mothers. You will see through the eyes of mothers who, regardless of the age of her children, still have that bosom care in her heart. Your child will see how trouble is easy to get into but hard to get out of. If all our children would think of the consequences before their actions, it can make a big difference in the outcome of many situations. It is sad to say that parents are out living their children. The younger generation is to produce to carry on the next generations, the elderly cannot. We are at a breach of a fruitless world.

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1982204311

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The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890

Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America

By: Charles D. Cashdollar

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The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890

Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America

By: Charles D. Cashdollar

Charles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the ideas of the French thinker Auguste Comte; later in the century, the term indicated a more general opposition to supernatural religion. Cashdollar shows that contemporary thinkers recognized positivism, at each of these stages, as the most fundamental of the proliferating challenges to religious belief. He further reveals how the encounter with positivism altered Protestant orthodoxy--in both subtle and radical ways. Positivists denied that humans could know anything other than physical phenomena. Declaring many orthodox beliefs archaic, they proposed a new, ethically based vision of service to humanity. After portraying the dissemination of these positions among British and American Protestants, the author explains how each of several groups reacted. A few theologians rejected positivism outright, but many more responded by recasting their own beliefs. The implications of this story of change extend to such topics as Darwinism, Biblical criticism, the rise of the social sciences, theological liberalism and the Social Gospel, the beginnings of fundamentalism, and the twentieth-century debate about "creationism" and science. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400860105

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Individualism and the Social Order

The Social Element in Liberal Thought

By: Charles Robert McCann

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Individualism and the Social Order

The Social Element in Liberal Thought

By: Charles Robert McCann

This book provides readers with a thorough treatment of liberal doctrine, both in its political theory and economic policy dimensions.

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0415326273

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Escape The Past Charlie & Linda Private Detectives

By: Charles & Linda Neuf

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Escape The Past Charlie & Linda Private Detectives

By: Charles & Linda Neuf

Charlie an ex-State Trooper, now a Private Investigator in his mid-forties and Linda in her low thirty's is busy climbing the corporate ladder, they have nothing in common Neither of them suspects that they will be working investigations and living together within a year. The story includes ex-wives, husbands, and lovers with twist and turns as Charlie & Linda investigate intriguing cases of major thefts, murder, drugs, and other people's problems. During When ""The Investigator"" walks into a room he looks like he just walked out of a James Bond movie, everything is too perfect, he acts like he owns the place, you don't know if you dislike him or run up to him and ask for his autograph. When Linda walks into an office to pickup information with her long reddish brown hair, and clothing hanging just right, most guys are saying to themselves, Wow, and most female staff wish they looked like that.

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0359179797

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The Millwright’s Son

By: Charles Spaeth

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The Millwright’s Son

By: Charles Spaeth

It is 1990, Seattle is booming and the AIDS epidemic rages. Avery Willard, a divorced commercial real estate broker at the peak of his career keeps his awareness of others, and himself, locked down. When the consequences of his adolescent behavior snap the lock he is forced to confront his contradictions and awakening consciousness. This fast moving yet character driven novel centers on relationships among men: personal, professional, and most poignantly, between four generations of fathers and sons. It is also about men and women, power and sex, and money. As Avery struggles with his demons the mood is dark, but humor and insight never fail to illuminate this story about men’s humanity, and the empathy and compassion they cloak from others, and themselves.

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The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Charles A. Hale

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The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Charles A. Hale

A leading intellectual historian of Latin America here examines the changing political ideas of the Mexican intellectual and quasi-governmental elite during the period of ideological consensus from the victory of Benito Juárez of 1867 into the 1890s. Looking at Mexican political thought in a comparative Western context, Charles Hale fully describes how triumphant liberalism was transformed by its encounter with the philosophy of positivism. In so doing, he challenges the prevailing tendency to divide Mexican thought into liberal and positivist stages. The political impact of positivism in Mexico began in 1878, when the "new" or "conservative" liberals enunciated the doctrine of "scientific politics" in the newspaper La Libertad. Hale probes the intellectual origins of scientific politics in the ideas of Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, and he discusses the contemporary models of the movement the conservative republics of France and Spain. Drawing on the debates between advocates of scientific politics and defenders of the Constitution of 1857 in its pure form, he argues that the La Libertad group of 1878 and their heirs, the Cientificos of 1893, were constitutionalists in the liberal tradition and not merely apologists for the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz. Hale concludes by outlining the legacy of scientific politics for post-revolutionary Mexico, particularly in the present-day efforts to inject "democracy" into the political system. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Media of the Republic

Who Killed Diana?

By: Gerard Charles Wilson

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The Media of the Republic

Who Killed Diana?

By: Gerard Charles Wilson

The author was among many outraged by the media’s role in the Princess of Wales’s tragic death in August 1997. Like most, he thought the media had hunted Diana to death. Roused to indignant anger, he went to work and had a book, The Media of the Republic, ready for publication in 1999. Two connected happenings brought him to revisit the Diana story. First was Lord Dyson’s shocking report (14 May 2021) of his investigation into the BBC’s handling of the accusation that Martin Bashir of the BBC Panorama program tricked Diana into giving her sensational 1995 interview. Second was Prince William’s address to the world on Dyson’s findings. William accused the BBC of significantly contributing to his parents’ divorce and his mother’s end. Bashir’s interview, the BBC’s inability to see and accept the deceit, and Princes William and Harry’s responses are crucial parts of the Diana story. With these recent developments, the author proposes to round off the story of Diana’s death, its purpose, and its causes. This new edition is a thoroughly revised, rewritten in parts, and added-to version of the Diana story with a sharpened refocus. In the first edition, the author was keen to explain the ideological presuppositions behind the media’s reporting and to challenge their claims about who was to blame for the accident. Attacking the system of Monarchy by inciting mob hatred was their chief aim. Greed took second place. He wanted to refute the dodgy arguments they ran to shift blame from themselves to the public’s (allegedly) vicious, insatiable appetite for sensation and gossip. The public, they claimed, was driven by a prurient indictable interest in the private lives of people like Princess Diana. The subject of republicanism—its ideology, motivations and purposes—and the viability of Monarchy in our modern world came in for extensive discussion. His intention in this new edition—The Media of the Republic: Who Killed Diana?—is to examine and refute the same arguments, but he has shortened and refined the somewhat long ideological explanation in chapter 2 to make clear the distinction between a general idea of republicanism and what he calls theoretic-republicanism. Theoretic-republicanism is a form of republicanism based on the rationalism and materialism of the Enlightenment. Edmund Burke, who vigorously rejected forms of government based on abstract theory, had a different idea of how people form into a nation. The author explains how Burke’s idea of a republic differs from that implicit in the media’s reporting of the death of Diana with their undisguised attack on the British Monarchy. The debate over whether Australia should discard its Constitutional Monarchy and replace it with a republican form of government is as robust today as twenty-five years ago. The 1999 referendum on whether Australia should become a republic was defeated, but the supporters of the republic have not accepted defeat. They continue their campaign behind the scenes, waiting for the right moment to reignite their public struggle. The author claims their idea of a republic is essentially based on the theoretic-republicanism he explains in chapter 2. It seems from occasional reporting that the republican movement in Great Britain is growing stronger. His explanation of theoretic-republicanism and analysis of the media reporting of the death of Diana are of as much interest to the defenders of Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy as it is to Australians.

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Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments

By: Charles Mollan

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Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments

By: Charles Mollan

Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.

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The Big Thirst

The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water

By: Charles Fishman

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The Big Thirst

The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water

By: Charles Fishman

Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey—from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high-tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature—Fishman vividly shows that we’ve already left behind a century-long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high-stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water—and had to scramble to reinvent the country’s entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth Fishman reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don’t think about it, or use it, smartly. The Big Thirst brilliantly explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water—but at the moment, we don’t appreciate it or respect it. Just as we’ve begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As Fishman shows, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As Charles Fishman writes, “Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly.” The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we’ll always have plenty of it.

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1439124930

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Veblen

The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics

By: Charles Camic

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Veblen

The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics

By: Charles Camic

A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women. Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. In the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics. Veblen demonstrates how Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive “parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this “sclerosis of the American soul.”

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ESCAPE TO KENTUCKY

ESCAPE TO KENTUCKY

The Emergence of Sociological Theory

The Emergence of Sociological Theory

The Investigator Travels Through Time, 50 + Stories based on Case Files

The Investigator Travels Through Time, 50 + Stories based on Case Files

Detective Jack MayBee, and Chuck The Attorney, 20 Detective Short Stories

Detective Jack MayBee, and Chuck The Attorney, 20 Detective Short Stories

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

Snatched from the Fire

Snatched from the Fire

The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890

The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890

Individualism and the Social Order

Individualism and the Social Order

Escape The Past Charlie & Linda Private Detectives

Escape The Past Charlie & Linda Private Detectives

The Millwright’s Son

The Millwright’s Son

The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

The Media of the Republic

The Media of the Republic

Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments

Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments

The Big Thirst

The Big Thirst

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