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Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter

By: Daniel Stashower

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Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter

By: Daniel Stashower

Will Harry Houdini’s penchant for exposing the trickery of mediums get him into a deeper mystery than he can handle? Still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York, Harry Houdini sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig. But to do so, he must work out how the medium managed to conjure a “spirit” while tied to a chair by Houdini himself—and how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear. The Houdini Specter is the third thrilling adventure in a Sherlock Holmes-inspired series starring the legendary magician.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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0857686216

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9780857686213

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing. Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today. He brings together, for the first time, the results of numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how music can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, to cognitive injury, depression, and pain. Levitin is not your typical scientist—he is also an award-winning musician and composer, and through lively interviews with some of today’s most celebrated musicians, from Sting to Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama, he shares their observations as to why music might be an effective therapy, in addition to plumbing scientific case studies, music theory, and music history. The result is a work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and jubilant celebration. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord highlights the critical role music has played in human biology, illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old.

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422

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324036192

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9781324036197

Tesla

The Modern Sorcerer

By: Daniel Blair Stewart

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Tesla

The Modern Sorcerer

By: Daniel Blair Stewart

Toward the end of the nineteenth century dawned an age, all but forgotten. It was an era of immense flying machines, tall buildings, electric wires and telegraph cables. Miracles of science astonished the masses of Europe and the United States daily. Thomas Edison arose to prominence on an empire of stolen patents. He epitomized the spirit of the industrial age. Suddenly Edison faced a mysterious rival, the enigmatic genius Nikola Tesla. This Serbian inventor tackled the problem of generating and utilizing alternating current, making Edison's direct current monopoly obsolete. He went on to invent radio before Marconi, develop X-rays and telephonics, and contributed fluorescent and neon lighting, microwave technology and wireless systems for the generation and transmission of current anywhere in the world for free. His experiments in his Colorado Springs laboratory led to the building of towering Tesla coils, for the generation of artificial lightning, to be harnessed by his technologies. He built Wardenclyffe Tower to power the world on limitless energy and faced sudden financial ruin in 1905 when investor J. P. Morgan withdrew his financial support while claiming exclusive rights to the inventor's works. Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer is an epic tale of the early age of technology, the climax of the industrial revolution. It is also a fascinating study of one of history's most prodigal geniuses.

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Frog Books

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1883319919

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9781883319915

Street Survival II

Tactics for Deadly Force Encounters

By: Lt. James Glennon,Lt. Daniel Marcou,Chuck Remsberg

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Street Survival II

Tactics for Deadly Force Encounters

By: Lt. James Glennon,Lt. Daniel Marcou,Chuck Remsberg

The book that could save a police officer’s life, career and the life of the citizens officers encounter on the job. The “Bible of Law Enforcement Training” is what the 1980 first edition of Street Survival was considered throughout the profession. Street Survival II: Tactics for Deadly Force Encounters, written by Lt. Jim Glennon, Lt. Dan Marcou with the original author Chuck Remsberg, has a new, sleek, modern look. While paying homage to the original, the update includes more than 200 colored photos and diagrams and delves into the profession's many changes over the past three decades. It includes tactics, effective street communication, detecting preattack indicators, public expectations, the issue of Guardian and Warrior roles, and especially preparing for the realities of force events.

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Calibre Press

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0615372856

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9780615372853

Svengali's Web

The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture

By: Daniel Pick

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Svengali's Web

The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture

By: Daniel Pick

This book investigates the enduring use of his image in modern culture and politics, exploring the origins and impact of Svengali and his helplessly mesmerised female victim Trilby in an age already rife with discussions of race, covert persuasion and the unconscious mind."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press

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0300082045

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9780300082043

Mercy

A Novel

By: Daniel Palmer,Michael Palmer

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Mercy

A Novel

By: Daniel Palmer,Michael Palmer

After a bad accident, Julie's fiancae survives as a quadriplegic who just wants to die. Without any help to be had, he passes away from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only in those under extreme stress. In fact, it appears that Sam had been literally scared to death. As Julie investigates similar cases, threats begin to confront her. The more cases Julie discovers, the more the threats escalate--until she finds herself accused of a mercy killing of her own.

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Macmillan

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1250030846

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9781250030849

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

By: Daniel Stashower

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Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

By: Daniel Stashower

The world’s most famous escape artist must uncover why his master’s illusion went horribly wrong in this “charming” historical mystery series from an Edgar Award–winning author (New York Times) In turn-of-the-century New York City, struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned magician Kellar. One night his master’s astonishing illusion the Floating Lady goes horribly wrong, with Kellar’s levitating assistant apparently plunging to her death. Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the mystery and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall.

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270

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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0857686208

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9780857686206

New York Exposed

The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era

By: Daniel Czitrom

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New York Exposed

The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era

By: Daniel Czitrom

On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolved to prove his case. The bespectacled minister descended his pulpit and in disguise visited gin joints and brothels, taking notes and gathering evidence. Two years later, his findings forced the New York State Senate to investigate the New York Police Department. The Lexow Committee heard testimony from nearly 700 witnesses, who revealed in shocking-and headline-dominating-detail just how deeply the NYPD was involved in, and benefitted from, the vice economy. Parkhurst's campaign had kick-started the Progressive Movement. New York Exposed offers a narrative history of the first major crusade to clean up Gotham. Daniel Czitrom does full justice to this spellbinding story by telling it within the larger contexts of national politics, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote suppression, and police violence. The effort to root out corrupt cops and crooked politicians morphed into something much more profound: a public reckoning over what New York-and the American city-had become since the Civil War. Animated by as vivid a cast as New York has ever produced, the book's key characters include Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes and Inspector Alexander "Clubber" Williams, the nation's most famous cops, as well as anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, the zealous prosecutor John W. Goff, and an array of politicos, immigrant leaders, labor bosses, prostitutes, show-business entrepreneurs, counterfeiters, and reformers and muckrakers determined to change business as usual. New York Exposed offers an unforgettable portrait of a city in a truly transformative moment.

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Oxford University Press

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0199837015

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9780199837014

Dead Stick Landing

By: Daniel North

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Dead Stick Landing

By: Daniel North

Harry Stant accepts a profitable charter flight contract in Phoenix, Arizona, and stumbles into an international crisis. Of course, Harry’s friends know that he couldn’t be involved in an assassination of a visiting Prince from an important oil supplying country at the Grand Canyon. No one knows of the hit that the President and his long-time friend, and Director of CIA, engineered. It was a feat of malignant stupidity since they did not have a firm grasp of the local political scenery and failed to recognize the popularity of the Iraqi Prince. Harry has neither experience nor interest in national politics, let alone international intrigue. His only concern is for the welfare of his kids and the monthly bills for his flying service. He accepts the help of a former student and FBI agent, Heather Northrop, to make a risky flying odyssey across the country to find the contents of a locker with the key to his innocence.

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314

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iUniverse

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0595090257

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9780595090259

Once Upon a Campus

Lessons for Improving Quality and Productivity in Higher Education

By: Daniel Seymour

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Once Upon a Campus

Lessons for Improving Quality and Productivity in Higher Education

By: Daniel Seymour

The unique and controversial companion volume to Daniel Seymour's On Q places Seymour's ideas and theories within the context of a call to action. In a series of realistic case-study lessons, he reveals how colleges and universities can dramatically improve their performance by drawing upon the concepts found in systems theory, quality management, and studies of organizational behavior. Seymour's goal is to overcome the current reactive mind-set and replace it with a proactive education environment where student success is the main objective. Once Upon a Campus can be put to use as an audit tool, as a guide for readers to identify problem areas in their institutions, and as a planning resource in evaluating and implementing overall performance improvement.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0897749650

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9780897749657

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940

By: Kim Coventry,Daniel Meyer,Arthur H. Miller

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Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940

By: Kim Coventry,Daniel Meyer,Arthur H. Miller

On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730999

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9780393730999

Wood in the Landscape

A Practical Guide to Specification and Design

By: Daniel M. Winterbottom

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Wood in the Landscape

A Practical Guide to Specification and Design

By: Daniel M. Winterbottom

Holz gehört zu den gebräuchlichsten Materialien bei der Landschaftsgestaltung, sei es in Form von Sichtschutzwänden, Zäunen, Holzböden, Pergolas oder anderen freistehenden Strukturen. Es besitzt jedoch eine Reihe von Eigenschaften, die z.T. schwierig zu berechnen sind und die man bei der Auswahl der geeigneten Holzart beachten muß, insbesondere, wenn es Wind und Wetter ausgesetzt ist. Dieses Buch erläutert die Eigenschaften von Holz sehr umfassend und gibt Informationen, wie man das Material am besten in die Landschaftsgestaltung einplant, bei der Konstruktion die technischen Daten berücksichtigt und entsprechend verarbeitet.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471294195

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9780471294191

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Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

Tesla

Tesla

Street Survival II

Street Survival II

Svengali's Web

Svengali's Web

Mercy

Mercy

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

New York Exposed

New York Exposed

Dead Stick Landing

Dead Stick Landing

Once Upon a Campus

Once Upon a Campus

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Wood in the Landscape

Wood in the Landscape

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