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Experts and the Will of the People

Society, Populism and Science

By: Harry Collins,Robert Evans,Darrin Durant,Martin Weinel

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Experts and the Will of the People

Society, Populism and Science

By: Harry Collins,Robert Evans,Darrin Durant,Martin Weinel

The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to concentrate power in the government. The book argues that scientific expertise – and science more generally -- should be understood as one of the checks and balances in pluralist democracies. It defends science as ‘craftwork with integrity’ and shows how its crucial role in democratic societies can be rethought and that it must be publicly explained. This book will be of value to scholars and practitioners working across STS as well as to anyone interested in decoding the populist agenda against science.

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Springer Nature

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3030269833

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Revenge of the Teacher's Pet

A Love Story

By: Darrin Doyle

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Revenge of the Teacher's Pet

A Love Story

By: Darrin Doyle

Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide, a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding is a framed photograph of his former mailman, Mr. Portwit resolves to live entirely for the moment, to speak his mind at each turn no matter what the consequences. He sets his sights upon Mary Ann Tucker, Elkhart Elementary's plump, accommodating third-grade teacher. Their whirlwind courtship leads to wedding bands, a house in the suburbs, and an indulgent sex life -- so why aren't they happy? Perhaps a little revenge is just what this marriage needs. Decidedly odd, yet also oddly moving, Revenge of the Teacher's Pet is a skillful mix of comedy, poignancy, love, memory, obesity, top-ten lists, fish, and murder.

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LSU Press

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0807134996

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9780807134993

Living Among Monsters: Growing Up During the Missing and Murdered Children Ordeal

By: Darrin Griffith

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Living Among Monsters: Growing Up During the Missing and Murdered Children Ordeal

By: Darrin Griffith

Living Among Monsters: Growing Up During the Missing and Murdered Children Ordeal is based on a true story. This book provides details about missing and murdered children in 1970s and 1980s Atlanta, Georgia. It describes what it was like as an African American kid to survive and avoid abduction in order to grow up during those deadly years. During the Jim Crow era the K.K.K. used to rule Georgia with an iron fist. After President Johnson ended the Jim Crow era in 1965, the federal affirmative action law was born. These events and others caused by the A.C.L.U. and the Civil Rights leaders may have woken up the sleeping Klans member, causing them once again act out and used their iron fists to restore the damages that the Civil Rights leaders were destroying.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480905968

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9781480905962

The Jersey Effect

Beyond the World Championship

By: Hunter Smith,Darrin Gray

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The Jersey Effect

Beyond the World Championship

By: Hunter Smith,Darrin Gray

The Jersey Effect takes a look into the hearts and minds of athletes who achieved Super Bowl success and examines the battles they faced. It presents the stories of champions who desired to reflect glory back to God by using their jersey and the platform God gave them to make a positive difference in the world. Even so, sometimes their great intentions were hijacked by pride, materialism, distractions, and deficiencies within their own character that were never truly understood until the ultimate success came their way. Intended for players, coaches, and parents who want to learn and in turn teach important lessons about how to properly align a love of sports with God's heart, The Jersey Effect demonstrates how to pursue the ultimate prize a goal that has little to do with winning a championship ring and everything to do with how we can have a positive effect on those around us through the sports we love.

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WestBow Press

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1449732739

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9781449732738

Social Psychology and Everyday Life

By: Darrin Hodgetts,Ottilie Stolte,Christopher Sonn,Neil Drew,Stuart Carr,Linda Waimarie Nikora

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Social Psychology and Everyday Life

By: Darrin Hodgetts,Ottilie Stolte,Christopher Sonn,Neil Drew,Stuart Carr,Linda Waimarie Nikora

This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a collectivist approach. Each chapter begins with an illustrative scenario based on everyday events, from visiting a local health centre to shopping in a supermarket, which challenges readers to confront the issues that arise in today's diverse, multicultural society. This textbook also gives a voice to many indigenous psychologies that have been excluded from the mainstream discipline and provides crucial coverage of the colonization experience. By integrating core social psychology theories and concepts with critical perspectives, Social Psychology and Everyday Life provides a thought-provoking introduction suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of social psychology and community psychology. It can also be used by students in related subjects such as sociology, criminology and other social sciences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350312614

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9781350312616

Back in the Day

My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur

By: Darrin Keith Bastfield

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Back in the Day

My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur

By: Darrin Keith Bastfield

A star during his lifetime, a legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most influential rap musician of his day–and the most misunderstood. Far from being the insolent “gangsta” that the press put forth, Tupac was a committed and fearless visionary determined to make a difference not only on the music scene but in the black community at large. Darrin Bastfield grew up with Tupac in a rough Baltimore neighborhood, rapped with him, fought with him, and performed by his side. Now in this vivid, highly personal memoir featuring never-before-seen photos of the rap artist, Darrin shows the world what Tupac Shakur was really like as a teenager destined for greatness. In tight, edgy prose, Darrin follows Tupac through the seven years of their friendship. In Roland Park Middle School in the mid-1980s, rap was a kind of underground movement, and the kids with real talent always found each other. Tupac–new in town, a skinny thirteen-year old with shabby clothes and lopsided hair–may have looked uncool, but it soon became clear that he had the gift. When Tupac teamed up with Mouse, king of the beatbox, they blew the school away in their performance as the Eastside Crew. It was the first in a series of increasingly electrifying performances. When Tupac went to the Baltimore School for the Arts, then it really started to happen. A new group called Born Busy, unforgettable performances at the Beaux Arts Balls, an eye-opening backstage encounter with Salt-N-Pepa, their tight friendship with John, known among black kids as “the cool white boy,” a series of love affairs with adoring girls, the wild nights of the 1988 senior prom–Tupac and Darrin lived though it all together, and in this memoir Darrin makes it all come alive again. From the start, Darrin knew Tupac was a marked man, singled out by his charismatic gift. So it came as no surprise that Tupac made it big when rap went mainstream. What stunned Darrin was the violent turn Tupac’s life took once he relocated to L.A.–and how swiftly that violence engulfed and destroyed him. Vibrant, gritty, alive with the tension and spontaneity of rap music, this memoir of Tupac’s teenage years is a haunting portrait of one of the most important artists of our day.

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One World

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0307831159

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9780307831156

Eating Appalachia

Rediscovering Regional American Flavors

By: Darrin Nordahl

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Eating Appalachia

Rediscovering Regional American Flavors

By: Darrin Nordahl

Dozens of indigenous fruits, vegetables, nuts, and game animals are waiting to be rediscovered by American epicures, and Appalachia stocks the largest pantry with an abundance of delectable flavors. In Eating Appalachia, Darrin Nordahl looks at the unique foods that are native to the region, including pawpaws, ramps, hickory nuts, American persimmons, and elk, and offers delicious and award-winning recipes for each ingredient, along with sumptuous color photographs. The twenty-three recipes include: Pawpaw Panna Cotta, Pawpaw Whiskey Sour, Chianti-Braised Elk Stew, Pan-Fried Squirrel with Squirrel Gravy, Ramp Linguine, and Wild Ginger Poached Pears, among others. Nordahl also examines some of the business, governmental, and ecological issues that keep these wild, and arguably tastier, foods from reaching our tables. Eating Appalachia profiles local chefs, hunters, and locavores who champion these native ingredients and describes food festivals—like the Pawpaw Festival in Albany, Ohio; the Feast of the Ramson in Richwood, West Virginia; and Elk Night at Jenny Wiley State Park in Prestonsburg, Kentucky—that celebrate them.

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Chicago Review Press

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161373025X

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9781613730256

Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities

A Relational Approach

By: Darrin Hodgetts,Ottilie Stolte

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Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities

A Relational Approach

By: Darrin Hodgetts,Ottilie Stolte

When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue that urban poverty and health inequalities are intimately interconnected, and that the increasing disparity between rich and poor will necessarily exacerbate health issues within urban communities. Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities documents how life has become increasingly insecure and stressful for growing numbers of people due to increased insecurities in employment, income and housing, rising living costs, and the retrenchment of welfare and social services. The book explores the role of history and media depictions of poverty and health inequalities in influencing the current situation. A central objective is to advance ways to understand and respond to urban poverty as a key social determinant of health. The authors pay particular attention to the ways in which punitive responses to urban poverty are further exacerbating the hardships faced by people living in urban poverty. Looking at issues of class, age, gender, ethnic and disability-based inequalities, the book offers both critical theory and grounded solutions to enable those living in poverty to live healthier lives. The collateral damage resulting from current socio-economic arrangements reflects political choices regarding the distribution of resources in societies that needs to be challenged and changed. The authors attend to initiatives for change, offering practical responses to address urban poverty, including efforts to address wealth distribution, the potential of living wage and Universal Basic Income initiatives, social housing and anti-oppressive welfare systems.

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Routledge

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1317300300

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9781317300304

Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement

Evaluating Public–Private Partnerships and Other Procurement Options

By: Darrin Grimsey,Mervyn K. Lewis

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Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement

Evaluating Public–Private Partnerships and Other Procurement Options

By: Darrin Grimsey,Mervyn K. Lewis

There is widespread acceptance of the importance of infrastructure, but less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. While most public infrastructure is still provided in-house or by traditional procurement methods – with well-researched strengths and weaknesses – the development of service concession arrangements has seen a greater emphasis on lifecycle costing, risk assessment and asset design as featured in a variety of public private partnership (PPP) delivery models. This book examines the various procurement approaches, and provides a framework for comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Drawing on international experience, it considers some of the best and worst examples of PPPs, and infrastructure projects generally, along with the lessons for improving infrastructure procurement processes.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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178536619X

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9781785366192

Equality

The history of an elusive idea

By: Darrin McMahon

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Equality

The history of an elusive idea

By: Darrin McMahon

Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom? Darrin M. McMahon's Equality is the definitive intellectual history, tracing equality's global origins and spread from the dawn of humanity through the Enlightenment to today. Equality has been reimagined continually, in the great world religions and the politics of the ancient world, by revolutionaries and socialists, Nazis and fascists, and post-war reformers and activists. A magisterial exploration of why equality matters and why we continue to reimagine it, Equality offers all the tools to rethink equality anew for our own age. 'Fascinating' - New York Times

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Bonnier Books UK

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1804186848

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9781804186848

How to Mess Up Your Life

One Lousy Day at a Time

By: Darrin Zeer

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How to Mess Up Your Life

One Lousy Day at a Time

By: Darrin Zeer

How to Mess Up Your Life is an uproariously funny and eminently useful guide for those of us "failures" who can use a little realistic help. Best-selling author Darrin Zeer teaches readers the essential life lessons by learning what not to do. In the persona of "Doctor Dread" Zeer proffers a pithy and profound approach to personal growth with his unique brand of snarky self-help. He punctuates his own advice with quotes from such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and others. Unforgettable quips include: True friends stab you in the front. -Oscar Wilde Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein From how to get dumped or fired to tips on how to stay miserable, Zeer's hilarious helpers will refresh your attitude and offer invaluable new perspective. Who knew that procrastination could actually help you get ahead? Or that not keeping a to-do list is true Zen? With helpful sidebars, handy lists, and a stress-management workbook, How to Mess Up Your Life is a truly unique guide. Don't be fooled by the title, it might just be the best help you'll ever receive to straighten up your life!

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Conari Press

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1573242799

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9781573242790

Public Private Partnerships

The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance

By: Darrin Grimsey,Mervyn Lewis

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Public Private Partnerships

The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance

By: Darrin Grimsey,Mervyn Lewis

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. 'The boundaries between the public and private sector are the most important political issue of our time.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1845423437

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9781845423438

Atonement, Justice, and Peace

The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church

By: Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

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Atonement, Justice, and Peace

The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church

By: Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

In this substantial study Darrin W. Snyder Belousek offers a comprehensive and critical examination of penal substitution, the most widely accepted evangelical Protestant theory of atonement, and presents a biblically grounded, theologically orthodox alternative. Attending to all of the relevant biblical texts and engaging with the full spectrum of scholarship, Belousek systematically develops a biblical theory of atonement that centers on restorative -- rather than retributive -- justice. He also shows how Christian thinking on atonement correlates with major global concerns such as economic justice, capital punishment, "the war on terror," and ethnic and religious conflicts. Thorough and clearly structured, this book demonstrates how a return to biblical cruciformity can radically transform Christian mission, social justice, and peacemaking.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802866425

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9780802866424

Does the Afterlife Have Skittles? - The 6th Candorville Collection

By: Darrin Bell

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Does the Afterlife Have Skittles? - The 6th Candorville Collection

By: Darrin Bell

Cover spine: The 6th Candorville collection.

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Lulu.com

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1300459999

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9781300459996

The Dude's Guide to Manhood

Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits

By: Darrin Patrick

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The Dude's Guide to Manhood

Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits

By: Darrin Patrick

Discover the path to true masculinity—to an adventurous life of strength, purpose, and clarity. Didn’t we used to understand manhood? Wasn’t there a time once when it was clear and straightforward? Are we lost? Dudes, look around you: The trail we once traveled from boyhood to maturity is now so overgrown, it’s almost impossible to trace. Our vision is blurred, rendering the map that previous generations followed unreadable. Our compass needles are spinning in circles, making navigation impossible. We are stuck in dense, dangerous woods, and our communities—the wives, children, friends, and colleagues we could be influencing—are suffering as a result. It can be tempting to give up and, like so many men today, simply exist, but take heart: Now is not the time for men to abandon our quest. We can discover the path to true masculinity—to an adventurous life of strength, purpose, and clarity. In The Dude’s Guide to Manhood, pastor, author and dude Darrin Patrick charts a course back toward real manliness, mapping out a vision to help men find significance and influence in today’s broken, mixed-message culture. Revealing his own frailties and missteps, Patrick doesn’t preach at you but walks with you on a journey toward healing and wholeness. Filled with timeless wisdom, accessible insights and practical guidance, The Dude’s Guide to Manhood issues an encouraging and doable call to all men, whatever your age or stage. We need not settle for wandering aimlessly through our days, wounded, weak, and passive. Instead, we can get back on the trail, embrace our gifts while facing our imperfections, and trust the God of new beginnings to lead us into all that we are destined to become: forgiven, connected, determined, teachable, content, heroic, and so much more.

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Thomas Nelson

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1400205484

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9781400205486

Good News

The Advent of Salvation in the Gospel of Luke

By: Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

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Good News

The Advent of Salvation in the Gospel of Luke

By: Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

In Good News Darrin Snyder Belousek explores the meaning of salvation in the Gospel of Luke. Through biblical reflections on the stories and songs of Luke's telling of the coming of Jesus the Messiah, this book explains the manifold message of "good news." Fully accessible to lay persons yet substantially informed by biblical scholarship, keenly aware of spiritual concerns and passionately engaged with social issues, this book offers a vision of salvation that is grounded in grace and nurtured by prayer, relevant to both the spiritual and the social, and inseparable from doing justice and seeking peace.

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Liturgical Press

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0814637582

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9780814637586

Test Your IQ

A Detailed Explanation of What IQ Means and How It Is Measured--Including Eight Tests You Can Take

By: Hans J. Eysenck,Darrin Evans

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Test Your IQ

A Detailed Explanation of What IQ Means and How It Is Measured--Including Eight Tests You Can Take

By: Hans J. Eysenck,Darrin Evans

A detailed explanation of what IQ means and how it is measured – including eight tests you can take! In Test Your IQ, Professor Hans Eysenck, the world-renowned expert on IQ testing, presents an introduction to the meaning, significance, and measurement of intelligence testing that sheds light on the controversy surrounding IQ scores. Is intelligence inherent or is it learned? Does a person’s genetic makeup and ethnic origin have any significance in the intelligence testing? Test your IQ and find your own answers to the controversy with eight sets of tests designed especially for this book. Answers to the tests and a graph to convert your results into an IQ score will reveal if you’re above average—or maybe even a genius!

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Penguin

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0140249621

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Horror Heroes

By: Nicholas Ahlhelm,Darrell Albert,Richard Evans

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Horror Heroes

By: Nicholas Ahlhelm,Darrell Albert,Richard Evans

Dracula, the Wolf-Man, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy. These are names that have haunted children's dreams for decades. Monsters that stalk the night, killers and freaks, dangers to all mankind. And heroes. In these pages, authors Nicholas Ahlhelm, Darrell & Darrin Albert, Travis Hiltz & Richard Evans reinvent these monster tropes into four all new superheroes with a dark tint. Dracula, The Monster's Frankenstein, The Pharaoh and the Invisible Wolf-Man aren't just monsters, they're Horror Heroes.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1480196584

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Experts and the Will of the People

Society, Populism and Science

By: Harry Collins,Robert Evans,Darrin Durant,Martin Weinel

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Experts and the Will of the People

Society, Populism and Science

By: Harry Collins,Robert Evans,Darrin Durant,Martin Weinel

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Springer Nature

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3030269833

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Test Your IQ

A Detailed Explanation of What IQ Means and How It Is Measured--Including Eight Tests You Can Take

By: Hans J. Eysenck,Darrin Evans

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A Detailed Explanation of What IQ Means and How It Is Measured--Including Eight Tests You Can Take

By: Hans J. Eysenck,Darrin Evans

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Retinal Imagining Simplified

By: Darrin A. Landry

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Retinal Imagining Simplified

By: Darrin A. Landry

Retinal Imaging Simplified provides essential basic information for improving imaging skills while simplifying the process and offering an easily accessible, how to manual for a seasoned or a seasoned or newly trained photographer, nurse or ophthalmic office personnel. It is crucial for the ophthalmic imager to understand not only how imaging modalities function, such as fundus photography, fluorescein and ICG angiography, and OCT, but to consistently produce quality images on a regular basis. Retinal Imaging Simplified is a step by step guide to provide the basics needed to pursue and advance your education in ophthalmic imaging. Retinal Imaging Simplified provides groundwork for improving one s imaging skills and offers a concise insight into honing the shills of the ophthalmology photographer. Adam Rogers, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Tufts University School of Medicine

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0977373886

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