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Rocky Mountain High

By: Dan Thomasson,Jack Lang

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After six years of overseas duty for Diplomatic Security, Sam Tanner was tired of chasing South American terrorist and keeping dignitaries.from being assisnated. His transfer to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives immediately dropped him knee deep into the violent underworld of the american gun and drug culture. A routine government form and the arrest of a bright but recidivist gun and drug dealer by local authorities led him into an undercover role in Colorado Springs where he and his fellow agents uncovered one of the West's largest meth and gun operations flourishing under the control of a tough female veteran of the Mexican drug wars.

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Winfield's Walnut Valley Festival

By: Seth Bate,Dan Crary,Beppe Gambetta,John McCutcheon,Orin Friesen

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Winfield's Walnut Valley Festival

By: Seth Bate,Dan Crary,Beppe Gambetta,John McCutcheon,Orin Friesen

Local historian Seth Bate tells the story of the Walnut Valley Festival with reflections from staff, emcees, performers, campers, and characters from throughout its history. The Festival was launched in 1972 when a guitar maker, a farmer, and a businessman built their own music festival from the ground up. It has made the small town of Winfield into an annual destination for acoustic musicians and music lovers from around the world and it has always been participatory, with the informal campsite pickin' as much a part of the event as the stage shows and instrumental contests. The Walnut Valley Festival has always been proud of its deep-rooted traditions, but most of all, it is a community celebration.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439675937

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Spider-Man

Brand New Day The Complete Collection Vol. 3

By: Mark Waid,Roger Stern,Dan Slott,Zeb Wells,Marc Guggenheim,Fred Van Lente,Stuart Moore,Joe Kelly,Phil Jimenez

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Spider-Man

Brand New Day The Complete Collection Vol. 3

By: Mark Waid,Roger Stern,Dan Slott,Zeb Wells,Marc Guggenheim,Fred Van Lente,Stuart Moore,Joe Kelly,Phil Jimenez

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #592-601 and Annual #36, Spider-Man: The Short Halloween, Dark Reign: Mister Negative #1-3, Amazing Spider-Man: American Son Sketchbook and material from Amazing Spider-Man Family #7. A truly Amazing era of Spider-Man continues - with the former Green Goblin in charge! First, Spidey goes all-out, "24/7" to mess with J. Jonah Jameson - as a new Vulture makes his high-flying debut! But Norman Osborn is policing the nation with his Dark Avengers, and Peter Parker doesn't like that one bit! Whose side is the armored American Son on - and what will Osborn's Dark Reign mean for Mister Negative? Spidey will go from one of his greatest enemies to another when Doctor Octopus makes a comeback - like never before! Plus: Daredevil, a wedding and the return of one of the most important people in Peter's life!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302514008

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The Test Match Special Quiz Book

By: Dan Waddell

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The Test Match Special Quiz Book

By: Dan Waddell

For over 50 years, Test Match Special has provided listeners with every Test cricket ball, batting average, and plenty of views from the boundary, too. But how well do you know your cricket? Pit your wits against Aggers, Tuffers, Boycs and Johnners – and try not to get caught out! Can you identify the most famous players from history, name that ground or reel off well-known (and lesser-known) stats and facts. And of course, what Test Match Special would be complete without the gaffes, giggles, cakes and celebrity guests who make up a day at the cricket? With over 3,000 mind-bending puzzles about every aspect of the sport and beyond, this is the ultimate test of any cricket fan's true average.

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Random House

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1448142814

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On the Spirit of Rights

By: Dan Edelstein

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On the Spirit of Rights

By: Dan Edelstein

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022658898X

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Starfist: Technokill

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

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Starfist: Technokill

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

A terrifying secret, an evil coterie of ruthless masterminds, a murderous battle of cunning and deadly skill—it’s time to send in the Marines! After the Confederation makes a shocking discovery on an alien world, a nefarious band of opportunists from the highest echelons of power plot to steal the vast riches for themselves. Along with the ability to crush any resistance, these moguls possess spacecraft, unlimited resources, and a deadly arsenal of cutting-edge weapons. The only one without a price tag is the Confederation president. Now she is sending Gunnery Sergeant Bass, the men of third platoon, and a single special agent to expose the shadowy figures behind the corruption. And so, on an obscure planet, home to unimaginable treasure and an unsettling species, the toughest fighters in Human Space confront their fiercest battle. For there will be no losers in this war, only the triumphant, the dead, and the vanished . . .

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Del Rey

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0345453603

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And the Trust Shall Set Us Free

By: Dan Frye

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And the Trust Shall Set Us Free

By: Dan Frye

This book and the author, Dan Frye, are passionately devoted to one purpose and one purpose only...to improve the quality of life for everyone. No matter where you are in your life journey at this moment in time, it is an absolute certainty that focusing on trust in all your relationships and endeavors will accelerate your path to happiness and success. Trust is the foundation for all things...love, friendship, leadership, professional success, self-improvement, and happiness. Inside this book, you will find three actionable strategies that you can implement today to improve the quality of your life. Before reading any other self-improvement book on any topic, please, please, please start right now focusing on unleashing the power of trust in everything that you do. And the trust shall set us free!

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662461267

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Lights, Camera, Fastball

How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball

By: Dan Taylor

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Lights, Camera, Fastball

How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball

By: Dan Taylor

The Hollywood Stars were the most inventive team in baseball history, known for their celebrity ownership and movie star following during the Golden Age of Hollywood. In Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball, Dan Taylor delivers a fascinating look at the Hollywood Stars and their glorious twenty-year run in the Pacific Coast League. Led by Bob Cobb, owner of the heralded Brown Derby restaurant and known more famously as the creator of the Cobb salad, the Hollywood Stars took professional baseball to a new and innovative level. The team played in short pants, instigated rule changes, employed cheerleaders and movie-star beauty queens, pioneered baseball on television, eschewed trains for planes, and offered fans palatable delicacies not before served at ballparks. On any given night, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, and dozens more cheered on their favorite team from the boxes and grandstands of Gilmore Field. During the Hollywood Stars’ history, its celebrity owners pushed boundaries, challenged existing baseball norms, infuriated rivals, and produced an imaginative product, the likes of which the game had never before seen. Featuring interviews with former players, Lights, Camera, Fastball is an inside look at a team that was far ahead its time, whose innovations are still seen in professional baseball today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Every Wrong Direction

An Emigré’s Memoir

By: Dan Burt

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Every Wrong Direction

An Emigré’s Memoir

By: Dan Burt

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his college rooms at St John’s College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over 43 years, it maps his pursuit of, realization, disillusionment with and abandonment of America and the American Dream. Praise for Dan Burt's previous memoir, You Think It Strange: “Burt’s early life was indeed a triumph of wit and will. He managed to escape a world filled with violence and a culture that valued street smarts over book smarts, all the while knowing that just about everyone around him thought little of his prospects. That he made it out at all is extraordinary. That he became a successful lawyer and writer is virtually unimaginable.” —Commonweal “Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages. As it combines these things, You Think It Strange catches the strangeness of the world and makes it familiar.” —Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1999-2009

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Rutgers University Press

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1978830157

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Collision 2012

The Future of Election Politics in a Divided America

By: Dan Balz

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Collision 2012

The Future of Election Politics in a Divided America

By: Dan Balz

From the bestselling author of The Battle for America 2008 and longtime Washington Post correspondent, an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential race In 2008 a bright young candidate triumphed on a theme of change and hope. Four years later an embattled President struggled against an apocalyptically divided and divisive Congress, a war that won’t end, and an economy that casts a dark penumbra over every spark of good news. His opponent, a well-heeled businessman who couldn't seem to stand on his own business record, withstood unexpected and extreme opposition to capture the nomination of a party whose main platform and principles with which he was historically and fundamentally at odds. The 2012 Election, once predicted to be a boring run at a popular President, took on a new urgency with the infamous 2010 midterm shellacking and equally infamous Citizen United ruling, and delivered drama and tension as the Republicans tried to reconcile the factions at war within their party and Democrats faced the tsunami of super Pac money flooding local and regional elections. As with his last book, The Battle for America 2008, Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz uses a combination of superb sources and long, deep reporting experience to take us both deep inside and far beyond Campaign HQs in Chicago and Boston. He tracks the nuances of Beltway politics and the thinking behind the scenes to show how Obama regained his footing, and to speculate about whether this election actually did anything to change the toxically poisonous atmosphere inside the Beltway, the increasing hostility and disenchantment with politicians outside, and the frightening effect of the torrent of money being poured out by special-interest groups beholden to no voter or law? Will there be anything in this election that will heal the political process in America? Special highlights include two much talked-about post-election interviews with Romney and Christie which have been making headlines, as well as a new afterword.

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Penguin

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1101622768

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Baby-boom Daydreams

The Art of Douglas Bourgeois

By: Douglas Bourgeois,Dan Cameron,Estill Curtis Pennington,David S. Rubin

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Baby-boom Daydreams

The Art of Douglas Bourgeois

By: Douglas Bourgeois,Dan Cameron,Estill Curtis Pennington,David S. Rubin

This monograph features the work of Douglas Bourgeois, a figurative artist whose meticulously detailed paintings and sculptural assemblages present icons of popular culture as well as ordinary people from Louisiana's diverse populations. Bourgeois' work often portrays religious imagery and environmental concerns and the political issues expressed in the rock and roll and movies he loves. He fuses private fantasy with a kind a social document, exploring everything from racial tensions to violence, both domestic and public. The artist, like the figures he depicts, searches for magic or spiritual qualities in everyday life. Ultimately, he and his art seek redemption. 65 colour & 21 b/w illustrations

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Hudson Hills

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1555952216

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The Wit and Wisdom of Test Match Special

By: Dan Waddell

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The Wit and Wisdom of Test Match Special

By: Dan Waddell

‘He played that so late, it was almost posthumous.’ (John Arlott) For over fifty years, Test Match Special has provided the soundtrack to many cricket fans’ lives – now this book collects its greatest hits. Here are all the witty sayings, bons mots, doubles entendres, wise words and priceless moments from the whole TMS team past and present, and of course their many and varied celebrity guests. Whether it’s classic Test moments or hilarious asides from the boundary, you’ll find the perfect line for every occasion. Collecting over half a century of quips and quotes, and beautifully illustrated throughout, The Wit and Wisdom of Test Match Special is a cricket fan’s indispensable guide to bats, bowls, beards and bakes.

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Random House

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1448142806

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Gun Guys

A Road Trip

By: Dan Baum

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Gun Guys

A Road Trip

By: Dan Baum

Dan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys, he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and gun shows, shooting ranges and festivals, contests and auctions, trying to figure out what draws so many of us to guns in the first place. Is it just part of being American? Introducing a wide cast of characters, Baum shows both sides of the gun culture in America, bringing an entire world vividly to life, and in doing so helping to find a middle ground in the gun debate, where actual conversation can take place.

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Vintage

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0307742504

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Starfist: Steel Gauntlet

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

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Starfist: Steel Gauntlet

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

It’s the 25th century, but the Marines are still looking for a few good men . . . “Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill.” After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with weaponry three hundred years out of date. For the Confederation's invasion army to seize the planet, the Marine FISTs first have to secure a planethead against St. Cyr's much larger forces which are equipped with superior weapons. Together with their outgunned comrades, the Marines of 34th FIST must do the impossible—or die . . .

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Del Rey

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0345453581

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Three Rivers

A Kentucky Folk History

By: Dan Lee

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Three Rivers

A Kentucky Folk History

By: Dan Lee

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows.Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

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McFarland

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1476649367

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Baseball Gold

Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime

By: Dan Schlossberg

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Baseball Gold

Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime

By: Dan Schlossberg

Even the most ardent baseball fan will be amazed at the quirks, quips, and comments in Baseball Gold. Consisting entirely of bits and pieces of baseball’s offbeat history, this volume covers teams and a myriad of players, owners, managers, and broadcasters—from their exploits on the field to those behind clubhouse doors. It can even be picked up in the middle and read backward—one nugget at a time.

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Triumph Books

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1623684749

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To Make the Wounded Whole

The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS

By: Dan Royles

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To Make the Wounded Whole

The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS

By: Dan Royles

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.

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UNC Press Books

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1469659514

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C. Shahar

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C. Shahar

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of people continue to eat meat, and even most vegetarians eventually give up on their diets. Does this prove these people must be morally corrupt? In Why It’s OK to Eat Meat, Dan C. Shahar argues the answer is no: it’s entirely possible to be an ethical person while continuing to eat meat—and not just the "fancy" offerings from the farmers' market but also the regular meat we find at most supermarkets and restaurants. Shahar’s examination forcefully echoes vegetarians’ concerns about the meat industry’s impacts on animals, workers, the environment, and public health. However, he shows that the most influential ethical arguments for avoiding meat on the basis of these considerations are ultimately unpersuasive. Instead of insisting we all become vegetarians, Shahar argues each of us has broad latitude to choose which of the world’s problems to tackle, in what ways, and to what extents, and hence people can decline to take up this particular form of activism without doing anything wrong. Key Features First book-length defense of meat-eating written for a popular audience Punchy, accessible introduction to the multifaceted debate over the ethics of eating meat Includes pioneering new examinations of humane labeling practices Shows why appeals to universalized patterns of behavior can’t vindicate vegetarians’ claims that there’s a duty to avoid meat Develops a novel theory of ethical activism with potential applications to a wide range of other issues

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Taylor & Francis

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1000466337

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Starfist: Wings of Hell

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

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Starfist: Wings of Hell

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

Planet Haulover has been invaded by Skinks. Until now, the aliens' existence has been hushed up. But Force Recon's shocking report leaves the Confederation no choice but to mount a military campaign against these alien predators bent on human destruction. Meanwhile, back home, the Confederation's president is being denounced as a warmonger out to exterminate “harmless” aliens. If she loses the upcoming elections, the Confederation will have a lot more Skinks to worry about than the ones on Haulover. Newly promoted Lieutenant Charlie Bass and his third platoon have more pressing concerns, such as staying alive. But what would be a suicide mission for most—whether it's raiding a hidden Skinks base or destroying the enemy's most lethal weapons during a desperate firefight—is just another job for the Thirty-fourth FIST.

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Del Rey

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0345501004

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Polar Remote Sensing

Volume I: Atmosphere and Oceans

By: Dan Lubin,Robert Massom

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Polar Remote Sensing

Volume I: Atmosphere and Oceans

By: Dan Lubin,Robert Massom

The polar regions, perhaps more than any other places on Earth, give the geophysical scientist a sense of exploration. This sensibility is genuine, for not only is high-latitude ?eldwork arduous with many locations seldom or never visited, but there remains much fundamental knowledge yet to be discovered about how the polar regions interact with the global climate system. The range of opportunities for new discovery becomes strikingly clear when we realize that the high latitudes are not one region but are really two vastly di?erent worlds. The high Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, and is home to fragile ecosystems and unique modes of human habitation. The Antarctic is a frozen continent without regular human habitation, covered by ice sheets taller than many mountain ranges and surrounded by the Earth’s most forbidding ocean. When we consider global change as applied to the Arctic, we discuss impacts to a region whose surface and lower atmospheric temperatures are near the triple point of water throughout much of the year. The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo? that might a?ect the Arctic Ocean’s salinity and circulation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540307850

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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

By: Dan Callahan

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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

By: Dan Callahan

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641609249

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Fighting Machines

Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity

By: Dan Saxon

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Fighting Machines

Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity

By: Dan Saxon

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines? In the book, Dan Saxon argues that the use of LAWS to take human life constitutes a violation of human dignity. Rather than concentrating on the victims of the use of lethal force, Saxon instead focuses on the technology and relevant legal principles and rules to advance several propositions. First, as LAWS operate at increasingly greater speeds, their use will undermine the opportunities for, and the value of, human reasoning and judgment. Second, by transferring responsibility for reasoning and judgment about the use of lethal force to computer software, the use of LAWS violates the dignity of the soldiers, commanders, and law enforcement officers who historically have made such decisions, and, therefore, breaches international law. Third, weapon designs that facilitate teamwork between humans and autonomous systems are necessary to ensure that humans and LAWS can operate interdependently so that individuals can fulfil their obligations under international law—including the preservation of their own dignity—and ensure that human reasoning and judgment are available for cognitive functions better suited to humans than machines. Fighting Machines speaks to the fields of international humanitarian law, human rights, criminal law, and legal philosophy. It will also be of interest to non-lawyers, especially military officers, government policy makers, political scientists, and international relations scholars, as well as roboticists and ethicists.

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0812298187

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The Switch

America's Global Energy Renaissance

By: Dan K. Eberhart

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The Switch

America's Global Energy Renaissance

By: Dan K. Eberhart

The Rebirth of Energy Security in America For the first time in decades, the US has a rare opportunity to realistically reject oil supplies from other nations. It’s a goal that has eluded us through eight presidencies. But recent advances in hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) technology have catapulted the US into its current position as the world’s #1 oil producer, surpassing energy powerhouses like Saudi Arabia. In The Switch, Dan K. Eberhart addresses a fascinating question: What would happen if the US became energy self-sufficient? • Would the Middle East look to China as its new ally and energy buyer? • Would petrostates find new markets or would their governments collapse as their oil revenues take a free fall? • Would the US lift the crude oil export ban and help friendly nations such as Ukraine free themselves from the yoke of Russian oil? • Would the US use its newfound energy wealth to become more isolationist and remove itself from the position of “global police force?” To answer these questions—and to explore the complex relationship between the US and foreign oil producers—Eberhart uses a combination of firsthand interviews, vignettes, and reporting. The result is a clear and engaging analysis of where America’s energy is coming from, where it could go, and how US energy is fundamentally shifting geopolitics and the domestic economy.

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1626342598

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Making up the Numbers

Smaller Parties and Independents in Irish Politics

By: Dan Boyle

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Making up the Numbers

Smaller Parties and Independents in Irish Politics

By: Dan Boyle

At a time when global politics is being reshaped, the accountability of those we put in power has never been more vital. In Making Up the Numbers, Dan Boyle, former chairman of the Green Party, applies his first-hand experience of non-traditional politics in Ireland to assess the role of minor parties in government and in coalition. This book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the ‘others’ vote in Irish politics.

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Pretentiousness

Why It Matters

By: Dan Fox

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Pretentiousness

Why It Matters

By: Dan Fox

Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open-mindedness? What do our anxieties about "pretending" say about us? Co-editor of frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture, Dan Fox has authored over two hundred essays, interviews, and reviews and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications produced by major international art galleries and institutions.

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Skipping Towards Gomorrah

By: Dan Savage

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Skipping Towards Gomorrah

By: Dan Savage

In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them: Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune. Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it. Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment. Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall.

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Working Knowledge

By: Arthur Dan Arthur Fisk Fisk,Fisk

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Working Knowledge

By: Arthur Dan Arthur Fisk Fisk,Fisk

Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their property, or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generate...

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The Republican Vision of John Tyler

By: Dan Monroe

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The Republican Vision of John Tyler

By: Dan Monroe

Historians have generally ranked John Tyler as one of the least successful chief executives, despite achievements such as the WebsterAshburton treaty, which heralded improved relations with Great Britain, and the annexation of Texas. Why did Tyler pursue what appears to have been a politically selfdestructive course with regard to both his first party, the Democrats, and his later political alliance, the Whigs? Monroe has set out to explain the beliefs that led to Tyler=s resigning his Senate seat and exercising politically suicidal presidential vetoes as well as examines the crises Tyler faced during his term in the House: the Panic of 1819, the financially tottering national bank, and the Missouri debate.

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Texas A&M University Press

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4-H Stories from the Heart

By: Dan Tabler

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4-H Stories from the Heart

By: Dan Tabler

4-H Stories from the Heart presents inspirational and heartfelt stories by 4-Hers, volunteers, and staff that will inspire, amuse, and bring back fond memories. For more than a century, the 4-H movement has touched the lives of millions of people, one experience at a time. You will read how over 60,000,000 people have learned to step up and lead in a complex and changing world. Don Floyd, President and CEO, National 4-H Council Reading these 4-H stories will warm your heart, help clear your head, remind you why we extend our hands to serve, and yes, provide you with healthy, wholesome laughter! These stories resonate and capture the essence of 4-H. Lisa Lauxman, Division Director, 4-H Youth Development, NIFA USDA This is an amazing collection of stories from all across the country. Some of the stories may sound familiar, while others will be new and unique. But all of these stories will touch your heart. Earl McAlexander, President, National Association of Extension 4-H Agents In a little over a century, 4-H has evolved from a program primarily designed for training rural youth in new agricultural technologies to the worlds largest youth development program. The 4-H experience creates amazing tales best told by those who lived them. 4-H Stories from the Heart offers a wide variety of stories by current and former 4-Hers, volunteers, and professionals; some as young as six years old and others eighty plus! The stories are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and often inspiring, but they all come from the heart. Learn how a teacher from a poor Mississippi school district leveraged a $1,0004-H grant to enable her students to change their world. Chuckle over Horse Vandal Strikes at the County Fair, Banned from the Barn, and Manure Happens. Discover how a dead chicken helped win a poultry contest, and why a new 4-H agent told his 4-Hers to steal canes from old folks. 4-H Stories from the Heart is a project of the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents. Proceeds will be used to create an endowment for the National 4-H Hall of Fame that recognizes and celebrates those who have made a significant impact on 4-H from local to national levels.

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1450271561

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Starfist: Blood Contact

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

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Starfist: Blood Contact

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now. When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists. What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared? Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines—and the entire human race.

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Dendritic Cells: Biophysics, Tumor Microenvironment and Chinese Traditional Medicine

By: Zhu Zeng,Xiaofeng Xu,Dan Chen

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Dendritic Cells: Biophysics, Tumor Microenvironment and Chinese Traditional Medicine

By: Zhu Zeng,Xiaofeng Xu,Dan Chen

In this book, the authors discuss the biophysical characteristics of Dendritic cells (DCs) at various differentiation stages and in tumor microenvironments in detail. A type of Chinese traditional herb, which can improve the biophysical and microrheological properties of DCs, is also introduced. DCs are potent and specialized antigen-presenting cells that play a crucial role in initiating and amplifying both the innate and adaptive immune responses. The biophysical and microrheological characteristics of DCs are important for their motility and normal immune function. In tumor microenvironments, the motility and immune functions of DCs are impaired, but the mechanisms are largely unknown. This book offers researchers a comprehensive and deep insight into the biophysical characteristics of DCs and may also help to improve the efficiency of anti-tumor therapy based on DCs.

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Billy Bishop

Canadian Hero

By: Dan McCaffery

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Billy Bishop

Canadian Hero

By: Dan McCaffery

Billy Bishop is Canada's greatest air ace of all time. He was almost thrown out of military college for cheating, but he went on to become the most famous of the First World War fighter pilots. Though he became a darling of the press, Bishop grew tired of the carnage of the war. Author Dan McCaffery offers a lively, compelling portrait of Bishop. His meticulous research has settled, once and for all, the controversy over whether Bishop lied to win his Vicotria Cross. Warts and all, Bishop emerges as a true Canadian hero.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550287680

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I Am Not A Serial Killer

By: Dan Wells

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I Am Not A Serial Killer

By: Dan Wells

John Wayne Cheever keeps his obsession with serial killers in check by a set of rigid rules that he lives by, hoping to the prevent himself from committing murder, but when a body turns up at a laundromat, must confront a danger outside himself.

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How It Ends

By: Dan Collins

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How It Ends

By: Dan Collins

Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry and pull the plug on the band and his life with Lee. Over the course of a restless summer, Lee moves between London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Rome and Berlin, rediscovering a hapless instinct for misadventure. Unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre, grip of the past, she resorts to the usual analgesics of sex and drugs, as she probes the true nature of her complex, troubled relationship with Billy.

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The Tattooed Girl

The Enigma of Stieg Larsson & the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time

By: Dan Burstein,Arne de Keijzer,John-Henri Holmberg

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The Tattooed Girl

The Enigma of Stieg Larsson & the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time

By: Dan Burstein,Arne de Keijzer,John-Henri Holmberg

The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Through insightful commentary and revealing interviews, you will enter the unique world of Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist---and of Stieg Larsson himself---discovering the fascinating real-life experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of Larsson's work. John-Henri Holmberg, a Swedish author and close friend of Larsson for more than three decades, provides a unique insider's look into the secrets of the author's imaginative universe, his life, and his ideas for future books---including the mysterious "fourth book" in the series, which Larsson had started but not finished at the time of his death. Included within are answers to compelling questions on every Larsson fan's mind: · What makes the Lisbeth Salander character so unique and memorable? Why have so many people from all backgrounds and with all kinds of tastes found The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so riveting? · What are the speculations---and what is the truth---about Stieg Larsson's tragic death at age fifty, just before the publication of his novels, and the bitter battle over his legacy? · What changes were made in the plots and translations of the novels after Larsson's death---and why? · How did Larsson's early interest in science fiction and American and British crime writers feed into his creation of the Millennium trilogy? · What were Larsson's ideas for the fourth book, and are there any clues to the plots he imagined for his ten-book series? Will we meet Lisbeth's twin sister, Camilla, or any of her other seven siblings that Zalachenko tells her she has? · Does Lisbeth Salander give feminism a new definition? · What will happen in the contentious battle between Stieg Larsson's life partner, Eva Gabrielsson, and his father and brother over the future of the books, as well as the billion dollars at stake in his legacy? · Who are the emerging Swedish crime writers we should pay attention to now? · And much, much more!

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1429983671

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The Real Deal

By: Dan Krzyzkowski

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The Real Deal

By: Dan Krzyzkowski

Two years after his wife’s tragic disappearance, bestselling author John Mastenhock has quit writing and left his Georgia home to take up a life of debauchery. But what John does not know is that his life is about to be turned upside down. After he is contacted by a bankrupt publishing company and told they hold secret information regarding the whereabouts of his missing wife, Lorry, they offer him a simple deal. John writes the struggling company a bestseller, and they hand him the info—and maybe the keys to his old life. Yet writing another book is anything but easy for a haunted man battling internal demons and a troubled past. While John works on the manuscript and searches for Lorry, he is ultimately led to a clandestine southern town and to a dead ringer for his wife who claims to have never met him. While he determines how to unravel the mystery of her identity, dark forces descend, his sordid past threatens to reemerge, and a cat-and-mouse game turns deadly. Now it is up to the sheriff and his small police force to prevent one man’s descent into madness from bringing an entire town to its knees. In this thrilling tale, a renowned novelist blackmailed into writing a bestseller by a bankrupt publishing company is propelled down a dark path where nothing is certain, including his sanity.

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1663251231

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Basketball

A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan,Rafe Bartholomew,Dan Klores

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Basketball

A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan,Rafe Bartholomew,Dan Klores

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nations. This is the true story of basketball. It is the story of a Canadian invention that took over America, and the world. Of a supposed “white man’s sport” that became a way for people of color, women, and immigrants to claim a new place in society. Of a game that demands everything of those who love it, yet gives so much back in return. To tell this story, acclaimed journalists Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores embarked on a groundbreaking mission to interview a staggering lineup of basketball trailblazers. For the first time hundreds of legends, from Kobe, Lebron and Steph Curry to Magic Johnson, Dr. J and Jerry West, spoke movingly about their greatest passion. Former NBA commissioner David Stern and iconic coaches like Phil Jackson and Coach K opened up like never before. Those who shattered glass ceilings, from Bill Russell and Yao Ming to Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie, explained what it really took to lay claim to their place in the game. At once a definitive oral history and something far more revelatory and life affirming, Basketball: A Love Story is the defining untold oral history of how basketball came to be, and what it means to those who love it.

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1524761796

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Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Diseases - E-BOOK

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By: Isaac H. Solomon,Dan Milner

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This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering all aspects of infectious diseases, including novel infections and lesser-known microorganisms, this volume incorporates the most recent scientific and technical knowledge in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today's practice. Richly illustrated and easy to use, the third edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Diseases is a visually stunning, one-stop resource for every practicing pathologist, resident, student, or fellow as an ideal day-to-day reference or as a reliable training resource. - Covers all areas of infectious disease pathology, including infections of the central nervous system, head and neck, and skin/soft tissue as well as the pulmonary, cardiac, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynecologic systems - Includes new chapters on COVID-19 and mpox, nine new helminth chapters, additional new fungal chapters, an updated biosafety chapter, and more - Contains significantly updated information throughout, including new content on artificial intelligence, whole-slide and mass spectrometry imaging, and metagenomic next-generation sequencing - Discusses the best approach for diagnostic work-up and addresses the challenges in maximizing diagnostic yield while avoiding misinterpretation of results that could lead to false positives - Details the increasing use of molecular diagnostics in infectious disease pathology - Provides updates on taxonomy and nomenclature across all classes of infectious microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses) along with new genomic data - Features more than 1,500 print and online-only images, including histology and gross pathology images, full-color medical illustrations, clinical photographs, and radiology images to help practicing and in-training pathologists reach a confident diagnosis - Employs consistently templated chapters, bulleted content, key facts, a variety of tables, annotated images, pertinent references, and an extensive index for quick, expert reference at the point of care - Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

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