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The Objective Is Life

Part One the Road to Perfection

By: Christopher S. Arch

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The Objective Is Life

Part One the Road to Perfection

By: Christopher S. Arch

In this companion book to The Subject Was Death, Christopher Arch, after impulsively stealing his father's car from a police impound lot with critical evidence in the trunk, finds himself alone and in the middle of Kansas. He is faced with an important decision: Should he return home with the car and face the consequences, or continue west to Denver and carry out his plan of raising money for his father, Edgar, who has been falsely arrested for attempted murder? Christopher decides to go to his father's defense, but once in Denver, he becomes involved in some shady dealings. While Edgar is languishing behind bars, Christopher doesn't have enough money to hire a good criminal lawyer, but he will do most anything to come up with the cash. He meets a woman and believes they are destined for one another because he has been given "the sign." Christopher falls in love and thinks this is the real reason he has been lured to Denver. Like the prodigal son, he risks losing everything - his wife, children and home - all because of a false signal. Will Christopher make the right decisions after all? About the Author: Christopher S. Arch is retired and lives in the Akron, Ohio area. He is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens and the Apostle Paul. He has finished writing his next two books. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheObjectiveIsLife.html

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1609764757

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Domestic Biography

The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-century Families

By: Christopher Tolley

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Domestic Biography

The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-century Families

By: Christopher Tolley

This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents from the archives of the Macaulay, Stephen, Wilberforce, and Thornton families, Dr Tolley analyzes the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values.

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Oxford University Press

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0198206518

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9780198206514

A Soul to Keep

By: Christopher L. Haefner

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A Soul to Keep

By: Christopher L. Haefner

Book Summary of The Cuz Bounded by truth, The Cuz, highlights the diabolical life of James Cuzze as told through the inculcations of Dr. Christopher Haefner. The doctor had always endeavored to help him before it was too late. But then James is killed! The doctor is devastated. As a prominent psychiatrist he knows that if he could have helped James he could have helped anybody. Had he succeeded he could have considered himself a brilliant physician. Now he would never know. But would he? Ten years after his death James returns-in ghostly form! Little by little he exacts his purposes into the doctors life by purporting to his exasperated friend that he has come back only to help him. James has nothing to reconcile with as the doctor does and he shows him in ways which were like him, wildly wicked. From the first encounter until last the doctors life is blasted towards a final enlightenment!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465327339

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Dragon Born

By: Christopher Lee

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Dragon Born

By: Christopher Lee

Dragons in Southern California? Tamara was waiting for that special someone, Acacia was desperate. When he rescued her he had hopes she would help him. She did, but it came with a condition. Little did she know how deeply she would fall in love.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426937520

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The Invisible Gorilla

How Our Intuitions Deceive Us

By: Christopher Chabris,Daniel Simons

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The Invisible Gorilla

How Our Intuitions Deceive Us

By: Christopher Chabris,Daniel Simons

Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.

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Harmony

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0307459667

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Keep Pain in the Past

Getting Over Trauma, Grief and the Worst That's Ever Happened to You

By: Christopher Cortman,Joseph Walden

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Keep Pain in the Past

Getting Over Trauma, Grief and the Worst That's Ever Happened to You

By: Christopher Cortman,Joseph Walden

Heal your psychological pain and take back your life with this breakthrough process based on decades of successful treatment. In Keep Pain in the Past, two of America’s top psychologists in the field of emotional trauma and PTSD share their highly effective methodology for recovering from painful psychological wounds. Whether it’s extreme trauma such as sexual abuse, the horrors of war, or the very serious pain of loss, grief, shame and guilt, their method can help you recover without years of intensive therapy. Doctors Christ Cortman and Joseph Walden have been helping patients recover from trauma for decades. Through a combination of practical steps and illuminating stories, they share the tools and techniques that can help you identify and face your pain, find closure, and alleviate related issues such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep disruption, and more. Discover how Sheri, a thirty-seven-year-old attorney, recovered from panic attacks that seemed to come out of nowhere. Follow the journey of Mark, a twenty-nine-year-old Army veteran, as he healed from a destructive downward spiral in the grip of PTSD. Explore how Melinda, a forty-two-year-old professor who struggled to sustain a romantic relationship, confronted her torturous childhood and finally found love. These and other stories demonstrate the restorative power of Keep Pain in the Past.

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1633538117

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Evidence Under the Rules

Text, Cases, and Problems

By: Christopher B. Mueller,Laird C. Kirkpatrick,Liesa L. Richter

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Evidence Under the Rules

Text, Cases, and Problems

By: Christopher B. Mueller,Laird C. Kirkpatrick,Liesa L. Richter

Evidence Under the Rules: Text, Cases, and Problems is one of the most widely-adopted Evidence casebooks ever published. Structured around the Federal Rules of Evidence, the book contains carefully edited cases and secondary materials, as well as numerous problems that allow students to apply concepts during classroom exercises or on their own. Text boxes provide interesting background on select cases and additional perspectives on key issues. The Ninth Edition has been updated to include the most recent Evidence cases and developments, as well as insights into recent and pending amendments to the Federal Rules. It has been streamlined by shortening or eliminating some notes, making it even more user-friendly. It contains applications of evidence law to factual scenarios that students are likely to find particularly interesting. New to the Ninth Edition: Discussion of recent influential cases, including the Supreme Courts decisions in Ohio v. Clark and Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, as well as the most contemporary federal circuit and trial court decisions New problems exploring issues on Rule 404(b) evidence, Rule 410 protections for plea bargaining statements, the Rule 606(b) ban on postverdict juror testimony, demonstrative aids, and attorney-client privilege New Comment/Perspective boxes on issues of corporate character evidence and the use of handwriting experts to authenticate writings after Daubert Discussion of recent amendments to the Federal Rules, such as the amendment to the Rule 803(16) Ancient Documents hearsay exception, as well as discussion of the pending proposal to amend the Rule 807 Residual exception to the hearsay rule Professors and students will benefit from: Introductory text that provides a foundation for understanding the cases and materials that follow Numerous problems that treat cutting-edge issues, allowing students to apply important concepts to contemporary evidentiary problems Guidance for answering Note questions to assist students in understanding how to approach nuanced evidentiary questions Comment/Perspective text boxes that provide broader perspectives to aid in understanding doctrine

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Aspen Publishing

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1543805442

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9781543805444

Chuck Close: Life

By: Christopher Finch

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Chuck Close: Life

By: Christopher Finch

This is the first book to tell the inspiring story of near tragedy and ultimate triumph behind the dazzling work of one of today's most respected and best-loved artists. Chuck Close is one of the most acclaimed American artists to emerge since Andy Warhol. His larger-than-life portraits look out from the walls of museums and galleries around the globe. His virtuosity and variety of technique, combined with the ambition and accessibility of his chosen subject matter the portrait re-invented on a heroic scale has made him a great favorite with the public and has won him the respect of his peers. Chuck Close has achieved fame, yet his full story has never been told until now. Author Christopher Finch has known Close since the late 1960s when the artist was creating his first masterpieces in an unheated SoHo loft. Finch chronicles Close's childhood battles with illness and dyslexia and his rise to the pinnacle of the art world. At the age of 48 he was struck down by an occluded spinal artery that left him a partial quadriplegic. With extraordinary determination, Close overcame this potentially career-ending disability, not only learning to paint again but producing work of extraordinary richness that equals or surpasses his previous achievements. With style and authority, Finch reveals the human reality behind Close's visually eloquent but eternally silent portraits.

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Prestel Verlag

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3641083419

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Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal

Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths, and Mass Murderers

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

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Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal

Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths, and Mass Murderers

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

Provides statements and quotes from a number of convicted serial killers in an effort to understand the homicidal mind.

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Ulysses Press

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1569756198

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Testosterone Inc

Tales of CEOs Gone Wild

By: Christopher M. Byron

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Testosterone Inc

Tales of CEOs Gone Wild

By: Christopher M. Byron

In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, bestselling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height of the 1990s bull market, they were America’s new heroes: the heroes of business. They were our bold new leaders, cutting the fat, pushing for productivity, implementing visionary plans, and making strategic deals. When the bull market turned to bust and the applause turned to cat-calls, the world was shocked at the truth. Drenched in money and public acclaim, our CEO-heroes—mostly white, mostly male, mostly middle-aged—turned out to be not much different than a group of twenty-something rock stars—drunk on power and driven by sex, greed, and glamour. Testosterone Inc. goes behind the boardroom doors to show the serial affairs and marriages of these acquisitive corporate titans. At the center of this story is Jack Welch, the biggest of America’s rock star CEOs and the former head of General Electric Co., surrounded by “mini-me” CEOs Ron Perelman of Revlon, Al Dunlap of Sunbeam, and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco—all gone wild in public displays of consumption and predatory appetites writ large. Byron gets inside the bars where Welch liked to hang out and pick up women with his early “business soul mate” buddies. Byron hovers unseen at the elbow of Ron Perelman and his mistress aboard the Concorde for a week in Paris in his mistaken belief that his wife knows nothing about his secret affair. Byron peeks behind the curtains of a U.S. Army officers’ quarters to behold Al Dunlap horrifying his first wife, who claimed in her divorce action that Dunlap would point his knife at her and say, “I often wondered what human flesh tasted like.” Byron becomes a fly on the wall to chronicle the longing for respect and serial womanizing of Dennis Kozlowski. Frequently hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Testosterone Inc. follows the intertwined lives of these four corporate heroes, from childhood to their ultimate moments of glory and the crash-and-burn calamities that followed, as man’s age-old hunger for power, greed, and temptation undid them all. From suicide to murder, from dysfunctional childhoods to dysfunctional marriages in adulthood, from business chutzpah to financial suicide, here is the ultimate untold business story of our time: what went on at century’s end, when testosterone got the best of businessmen everywhere, and CEOs went wild.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047170623X

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The Subject Was Death

By: Christopher Arch VII.

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The Subject Was Death

By: Christopher Arch VII.

This is a story of friendships and loyalty, a quest for spirituality, a test of character and a search for inner strength and peace of mind. ❖ The author was born in Akron, Ohio, graduated from Kent State University and maintains a home in the Portage Lakes.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1598587730

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9781598587739

Mindful Leadership

A Guide for the Health Care Professions

By: Christopher Johns

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Mindful Leadership

A Guide for the Health Care Professions

By: Christopher Johns

Leadership is liberating, and the development of leadership in health care organisations is vital. In this timely and exciting textbook, Christopher Johns addresses the most vital aspects of health care development and education, and reveals the tensions of becoming a leader within health care organizations. Being able to understand and work towards resolving these tensions is essential in becoming an effective leader. To be an effective leader, however, requires an awareness and acceptance of circumstances that is best termed 'mindfulness'. Equipped with the theoretical and practical-know-how to drive forward health reform and ensure quality, this book will enable health care students and practitioners to become reflective and genuinely mindful leaders.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137541008

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9781137541000

Bound and Determined

Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst

By: Christopher Castiglia

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Bound and Determined

Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst

By: Christopher Castiglia

Christopher Castiglia gives shape to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical role attributes of helplessness, dependency, sexual vulnerability, and xenophobia. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny and instead finds in them imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they emerge with the power to be critical of both cultures. These compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural differences, have significant implications for current investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226096521

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9780226096520

Discovering the Social Mind

Selected works of Christopher D. Frith

By: Christopher D. Frith

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Discovering the Social Mind

Selected works of Christopher D. Frith

By: Christopher D. Frith

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Christopher D. Frith has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the fields of schizophrenia, consciousness, and social cognition. A specially written introduction gives an overview of his career and contextualises the selection in relation to changes in the field during this time. This collection reflects the various directions of Frith’s work, which has become increasingly philosophically oriented throughout his career, and enables the reader to trace major developments in these areas over the last forty years. Frith has had his work nominated for the Royal Society Science Book Award and, in 2009, was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology. He has also been awarded several prestigious prizes for his collaborative work with Uta Frith. This book is an essential read for those students and researchers engaged in the fields of social cognition, cognitive psychology and consciousness studies.

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Psychology Press

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131724723X

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Emissaries of Satan - Serial Killers Under the Microscope

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

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Emissaries of Satan - Serial Killers Under the Microscope

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

MICHAEL ROSS. KENNETH BIANCHI. JOHN SCRIPPS. THESE ARE TRULY THE SERVANTS OF HELL, THREE SAVAGE KILLERS WITHOUT A SHRED OF SOUL BETWEEN THEM.Emissaries of Satan is a gripping, if chilling, forensic examination of three evil men - two American, one British - who between them brutally murdered 29 innocent young women, together with a devoted mother and son.MICHAEL ROSS - 'The Roadside Strangler', a terrifying sexual-sadistic predator, executed by lethal injection in 2005.KENNETH BIANCHI - one of 'The Hillside Stranglers', a rapist and serial killer, still serving a life sentence in Washington State.JOHN SCRIPPS - the British-born 'Tourist from Hell' who slaughtered victims in Singapore and Thailand and watched them bleed before cutting their bodies up. The hangman's noose ended his spree.Christopher Berry-Dee is a bestselling writer and acknowledged authority on serial killers. Several of his books are required reading for students at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. He interviewed both Ross and Bianchi in prison and witnessed Scripps's execution in Changi Jail; and has received the full cooperation of numerous law-enforcement agencies, including State Police in New York and Connecticut, Singapore Police, and HM Customs & Excise Special Investigations.Besides getting inside the characters of three serial killers, Emissaries of Satan also focuses on the irreparable damage caused by the three monsters, while acknowledging the dedicated men and women of law enforcement who work tirelessly to end the killing sprees of men like Ross, Bianchi and Scripps and bring them to justice.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784183105

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9781784183103

Encounter at North Road House

By: Christopher Bike

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Encounter at North Road House

By: Christopher Bike

A masked psychopath arrives at a house one night looking for another kill, unaware that this house is haunted and vacant. The house hosts a wicked, dark, spiritual presence. The doors of North Road House lock shut and entrap the masked killer. This causes the masked, imperishable psychopath to clash with North Road House. You must do the best you can to maintain your composure with this one. Encounter at North Road House is a book that will take the horror fan on one of the most chilling and bloodcurdling journeys for these times, a terrifying thrill‑ride.

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America Star Books

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145604642X

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Our Man Down in Havana

By: Christopher Hull

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Our Man Down in Havana

By: Christopher Hull

When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro’s guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene’s fiction. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about “concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery.” With eerie prescience, Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War’s most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Simon and Schuster

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164313101X

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9781643131016

God, Purpose, and Reality

A Euteleological Understanding of Theism

By: John Bishop,Ken Perszyk

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God, Purpose, and Reality

A Euteleological Understanding of Theism

By: John Bishop,Ken Perszyk

What must reality be like if the God of Abrahamic theism exists? How could the worldview of Abrahamic theism be understood if not in terms of the existence of a supremely powerful, knowledgeable, and good personal being? John Bishop and Ken Perszyk argue that it is reasonable to reject what many analytic philosophers take to be the standard conception of God as the 'personal omniGod'. They argue that a version of a 'logical' Argument from Evil is still very much in play, contrary to the widely held view that this line of argument is bankrupt. This book provides a new presentation and defence of the alternative that Bishop and Perszyk have called euteleology. Its core claims are that reality is inherently purposive, and that the Universe exists ultimately because its overall end (telos), which is the supreme good, is made concretely real within it. There is no supreme agent ('standing by' while horrors take place); God is 'no-thing' in euteleology's basic ontology. Rather, talk of God-as-a-personal-being is a cognitive construction, treating ultimate reality by analogy with our ordinary ways of experiencing and talking about the world. But euteleological theism is also emphatically realist. Analogizing God-talk enables humans to align themselves with reality and is aptly deployed in prayer and worship-practices whose broad function is a human contribution to, and enjoyment of, the fulfilment of reality's inherent ultimate purpose.

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Oxford University Press

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0192864114

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The War of the Revolution

By: Christopher Ward

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The War of the Revolution

By: Christopher Ward

This book is not a history of the American Revolution. It is a history of the war that was caused by the Revolution. The aim of the book is to tell the story of the war on land, the campaigns, battles, sieges, marches, encampments, bivouacs, the strategy and tactics, the hardships, and the endurance of hardship. It is purely military in its intention and scope.

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1616080809

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9781616080808

Reflexive Narrative

Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance

By: Christopher Johns

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Reflexive Narrative

Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance

By: Christopher Johns

Reflexive Narrative is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique qualitative method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization, however that might be expressed.

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SAGE Publications

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1544355351

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9781544355351

Report of Cases decided in the Court of Queen's Bench

Vol. XVI

By: Christopher Robinson

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Report of Cases decided in the Court of Queen's Bench

Vol. XVI

By: Christopher Robinson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382314029

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9783382314026

Sensations

A Defense of Type Materialism

By: Christopher S. Hill

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Sensations

A Defense of Type Materialism

By: Christopher S. Hill

Several rival theories (dualism, double aspect theory, eliminative materialism, and functionalism) are refuted in this defense of type materialism, wherein sensations are possessed only by human beings and members of related biological species.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521397375

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9780521397377

Romance Readers and Romance Writers

by Sarah Green

By: Christopher Goulding

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Romance Readers and Romance Writers

by Sarah Green

By: Christopher Goulding

This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries.

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Routledge

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1317303695

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9781317303695

Sub Rosa

By: Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin

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Sub Rosa

By: Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin

Salem was the second richest city in the country during the age of sail and in response to Jefferson’s silent revolution these New England Federalists dug three miles of tunnels to avoid paying his new custom duties and had developed immense fortunes with which came great political power within our nation. Among these were many who supported the Second Bank of the United States which Jackson crushed. These men had profited as they sold our nation’s financial control to the bankers of England. In response three men from town will plan the murder of a president to re-establish a new Federal bank. Along with this history are further tales of the tunnels, opium, the history of the man who engineered the economic cycles of our country, northern secession, and other stories of famous people, inventions, and events from Salem that helped shape our nation. This is the sequel to the hit book Salem Secret Underground: The History of the Tunnels in the City

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Salem House Press

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0986261025

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Useless Activity

Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975

By: Christopher Webb

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Useless Activity

Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975

By: Christopher Webb

Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work – and what 'worked' in terms of literature – were being radically scrutinised and reassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s British avant-garde: Eva Figes (1932–2012), B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), and Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). The book argues that these writers’ preoccupations with concepts related to work, such as leisure, debt, and various forms of neglected labour like housework, allow us to rethink the British avant-garde's relation to realism while posing broader questions about the production and value of post-war literary avant-gardism more generally. Useless Activity proposes that only with an understanding of the British avant-garde’s engagement with the idea of work and its various corollaries can we appreciate these writers' move away from certain forms of literary realism and their contribution to the development of the modern British novel during the mid-twentieth century.

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1800855303

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Islam and the West

A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations

By: Christopher J Walker

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Islam and the West

A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations

By: Christopher J Walker

We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a world-wide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher Walker's book turns such accepted views on their head and paints instead a picture of two belief systems which have a history of toleration.

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0752495771

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The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2

Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

By: Christopher Partridge

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The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2

Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

By: Christopher Partridge

Challenging some assessments of religion in the West, this study argues that, although much organized religion, particularly Christianity, is in numerical decline, in actual fact we are witnessing an alternative spiritual re-enchantment of society and culture.

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A&C Black

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0567041336

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The White House Mess

By: Christopher Buckley

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The White House Mess

By: Christopher Buckley

With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant’s eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President’s faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.

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0307800342

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Walking to Vermont

From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

By: Christopher S. Wren

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Walking to Vermont

From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

By: Christopher S. Wren

A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed. Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through Harlem, the Bronx, and the affluent New York suburbs of Westchester and Putnam Counties. As his trek takes him into the Housatonic River Valley of Connecticut, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and along a bucolic riverbank in New Hampshire, the strenuous challenges become as much emotional as physical. Wren loses his way in a suburban thicket of million-dollar mansions, dodges speeding motorists, seeks serenity at a convent, shivers through a rainy night among Shaker ruins, camps in a stranger's backyard, panhandles cookies and water from a good samaritan, absorbs the lore of the Appalachian and Long Trails, sweats up and down mountains, and lands in a hospital emergency room. Struggling under the weight of a fifty-pound pack, he gripes, "We might grow less addicted to stuff if everything we bought had to be carried on our backs." He hangs out with fellow wanderers named Old Rabbit, Flash, Gatorman, Stray Dog, and Buzzard, and learns gratitude from the anonymous charity of trail angels. His rite of passage into retirement, with its heat and dust and blisters galore, evokes vivid reminiscences of earlier risks taken, sometimes at gunpoint, during his years spent reporting from Russia, China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. He loses track of time, waking with the sun, stopping to eat when hunger gnaws, and camping under starry skies that transform the nights of solitude. For all the self-inflicted hardship, he reports, "In fact, I felt pretty good." Wren has woven an intensely personal story that is candid and often downright hilarious. As Vermont turns from a destination into a state of mind, he concludes, "I had stumbled upon the secret of how utterly irrelevant chronological age is." This book, from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Cat Who Covered the World, will delight not just hikers, walkers, and other lovers of the outdoors, but also anyone who contemplates retirement, wonders about foreign correspondents, or relishes a lively, off-beat adventure, even when it unfolds close to home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416589562

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America's Four Gods

What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us

By: Paul Froese,Christopher Bader

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America's Four Gods

What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us

By: Paul Froese,Christopher Bader

Despite all the hype surrounding the "New Atheism," the United States remains one of the most religious nations on Earth. In fact, 95% of Americans believe in God--a level of agreement rarely seen in American life. The greatest divisions in America are not between atheists and believers, or even between people of different faiths. What divides us, this groundbreaking book shows, is how we conceive of God and the role He plays in our daily lives. America's Four Gods draws on the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and illuminating survey of American's religious beliefs ever conducted to offer a systematic exploration of how Americans view God. Paul Froese and Christopher Bader argue that many of America's most intractable social and political divisions emerge from religious convictions that are deeply held but rarely openly discussed. Drawing upon original survey data from thousands of Americans and a wealth of in-depth interviews from all parts of the country, Froese and Bader trace America's cultural and political diversity to its ultimate source--differing opinions about God. They show that regardless of our religious tradition (or lack thereof), Americans worship four distinct types of God: The Authoritative God--who is both engaged in the world and judgmental; The Benevolent God--who loves and helps us in spite of our failings; The Critical God--who catalogs our sins but does not punish them (at least not in this life); and The Distant God--who stands apart from the world He created. The authors show that these four conceptions of God form the basis of our worldviews and are among the most powerful predictors of how we feel about the most contentious issues in American life. Accessible, insightful, and filled with the voices of ordinary Americans discussing their most personal religious beliefs, America's Four Gods provides an invaluable portrait of how we view God and therefore how we view virtually everything else.

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Oxford University Press

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0199712190

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Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie

By: Christopher Pullen

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Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie

By: Christopher Pullen

This book presents an examination of the television series Nurse Jackie, making connections between the representational processes and the audience consumption of the series. A key point of reference is the political and performative potential of Nurse Jackie with regards to its progressive representation of prescription drug addiction and its relationship to the concept of quality television. It deconstructs Nurse Jackie ’s discursive potential, involving intersections with contemporary notions of genre, heroism, celebrity, therapy and feminism. At the same time this book foregrounds the self-refl exive educational potential of the series, largely enabled by the scriptwriters and the leading actor Edie Falco.

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Routledge

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1315297477

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Come to the Table

A Celebration of Family Life

By: Doris Christopher

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Come to the Table

A Celebration of Family Life

By: Doris Christopher

In this helpful and heartfelt book, Doris Christopher shows families how to honor and celebrate one of our most beloved traditions: togetherness around the family table. An American entrepreneur, who is also an enterprising American mom, Christopher serves up a blend of inspiration and practical advice, revealing the ways dozens of others have transformed their tables into vehicles for strengthening family life. Book jacket.

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0446930768

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Star Trek: The Darkness Drops Again

By: Christopher L. Bennett

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Star Trek: The Darkness Drops Again

By: Christopher L. Bennett

Mere Anarchy A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan ! Book 4: The Darkness Drops Again The rebuilding of Mestiko is starting to make progress: the atmosphere is partially restored and Federation scientists are introducing new methods of replenishing the planet's biosphere. But their efforts are being stymied by the growing power of the mar-Attya, who shun all offworlders. The arrival of the Starship Enterprise under the command of James T. Kirk proves less than fortuitous, as the ship becomes a flashpoint for all of Mestiko's troubles. Now Raya elMora, the leader of the planetary council, finds herself facing exile -- which could spell doom for Mestiko....

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1416534520

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The Art of the Steal

By: Christopher Mason

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The Art of the Steal

By: Christopher Mason

The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures - the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge - who conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars. It offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous, gold-plated industry, describing just how Sotheby's and Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corporations. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors.

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1440627827

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