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The Puppet Master

An Msce Investigation

By: David A. Xavier

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The Puppet Master

An Msce Investigation

By: David A. Xavier

Oliver Soames is a Detective Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police Service who is called out to an apparent open-and-shut murder-suicide which turns out to be the doorway into a world he never knew existed. All around us are Strangers people with unique abilities to do things that most of us cannot. Soames finds himself inducted into the Metropolitan Special Circumstances Executive - a secret branch of the police force dedicated to monitoring the Strangers, and ensuring that they do not disrupt the lives of those around them. The only problem is that there appears to be a murderer on the loose - and it is one of them

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Trafford Publishing

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1490744215

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9781490744216

Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

By: David William Foster

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Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

By: David William Foster

Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. Each entry explores the significance of gay and lesbian themes in a particular author's writings and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The figures included have a professed gay identity, or have written on gay or lesbian themes in either a positive or negative way, or have authored works in which a gay sensibility can be identified. The volume pays particular attention to the difficulty of ascribing North American critical perspectives to Latin American authors, and studies these authors within the larger context of Latin American culture. The book includes entries for men and women, and for authors from Latin American countries as well as Latino writers from the United States. The entries are written by roughly 60 expert contributors from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe.

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532

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313368740

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9780313368745

Heaven's Fall

By: David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt

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Heaven's Fall

By: David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt

Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction. Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported humans from all over Earth into its interior. There they discovered that Keanu was a long-range spaceship—and they were not alone. They joined forces with the aliens called the Architects, who had come from a distant galaxy to seek help in fighting the vicious Reivers. And they defeated them. Or so they thought. For when Keanu reestablished contact with Earth, they learned that the Reivers have taken over the planet, placing most of the population under their dominion. But mankind’s last hope may yet be hidden inside the NEO. And if the men and women still in Keanu cannot find it, humanity will be finished. And the galaxy will be next.

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425

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Penguin

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110162454X

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9781101624548

Project Manager's Handbook

By: David L. Cleland,Lewis R. Ireland

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Project Manager's Handbook

By: David L. Cleland,Lewis R. Ireland

Market: project managers, construction managers, business managers, special projects managers, and strategic planner Thirty percent of the book is drawn from international projects Covers non-traditional industries such as health care, educational systems, media and entertainment, and computers and communications

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007154271X

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9780071542715

Faction Man

By: David Marr

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Faction Man

By: David Marr

In Faction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood: to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a contender. But where do his loyalties lie? Is he a defender of Labor values in today’s Australia, or is he a shape-shifter, driven entirely by politics? And does this product of the old world of union intrigue have what it takes to defeat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? Marr reveals a man we hardly know: the Napoleon of the factions, a virtuoso with numbers and a strategist of skill who Labor has backed to return the party to power. ‘David Marr is as brilliant a biographer and journalist as this country has produced’ —Peter Craven, Spectator David Marr is the author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic, The High Price of Heaven and Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson), as well as five bestselling Quarterly Essays. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Monthly, and been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch.

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Black Inc.

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1925203921

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9781925203929

Underdawgs

How Brad Stevens and Butler University Built the Bulldogs for March Madness

By: David Woods

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Underdawgs

How Brad Stevens and Butler University Built the Bulldogs for March Madness

By: David Woods

Relates the story of the Butler Bulldogs college basketball team and their improbable run to the 2010 NCAA National Championship game under the leadership of their young coach and his unique philosophy of basketball and life.

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322

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Simon and Schuster

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1451610580

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9781451610581

Too Many Women, Too Little Time

A Monk Buttman Mystery

By: David William Pearce

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Too Many Women, Too Little Time

A Monk Buttman Mystery

By: David William Pearce

Monk finds life is nice and simple when you don't think too hard about what you're doing or the lies you tell yourself. Believing his relationship with Judith is over, and a happy content life with Agnes is his to enjoy, Monk is shocked to find, tragically, that's not true. While dealing with a dying lover, Monk is dogged by family, business, gangsters, cranky widows, and a mystery woman who claims Monk has stolen her money.

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Black Rose Writing

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1684336171

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9781684336173

Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man

Bill Shorten's Path to Power

By: David Marr

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Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man

Bill Shorten's Path to Power

By: David Marr

The top job is within Bill Shorten’s grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party. Marr presents a man willing to deal with his enemies and shift his allegiances, whose ambition to lead has been fixed since childhood. But does he stand for anything? Is Shorten a defender of Labor values in today’s Australia or a shape-shifter, driven entirely by politics? How does the union world he comes from shape the prime minister he might be? Marr reveals a man we hardly know: a virtuoso with numbers and a strategist of skill who Labor hopes will return the party to power. “Australians distrust Shorten almost as much as they distrust Abbott. That’s why this election will be fought on trust. It’s going to be dirty. At the heart of the contest will be Shorten’s character. All the way to polling day, Australians will be invited to rake over every detail of his short life and hidden career.” —David Marr, Faction Man

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Black Inc.

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1925203387

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9781925203387

Beyond the Campus

How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities

By: David J. Maurrasse

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Beyond the Campus

How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities

By: David J. Maurrasse

The role of the university and its relationship to the community has long been a highly debated topic among educators, administrators, and local business leaders. David J. Maurrasse offers a passionate appeal for community partnerships. Going further than a simple explanation of the problems at hand, Beyond the Campus offers a road map for both universities and local institutions to work together for the good of their communities.

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202

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Routledge

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1135959021

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9781135959029

The Movement Made Us

A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

By: David J. Dennis Jr.,David J. Dennis Sr.

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The Movement Made Us

A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

By: David J. Dennis Jr.,David J. Dennis Sr.

SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE BESTSELLER “The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. Taken together, their stories paint a critical portrait of America, casting one nation’s image through the lens of two individual Black men and their unique relationship. Playful and searching, anxious and restorative, fearless and driving, this intimate memoir features scenes from across David Sr’s life, as he becomes involved in the movement, tries to move beyond it, and ultimately returns to it to find final solace and new sense of self—revealing a survivor who travels eternally with a cabal of ghosts. A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made.

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HarperCollins

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0063011441

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9780063011441

A Concise Treatise On Quantum Mechanics In Phase Space

By: Thomas L Curtright,David B Fairlie,Cosmas K Zachos

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A Concise Treatise On Quantum Mechanics In Phase Space

By: Thomas L Curtright,David B Fairlie,Cosmas K Zachos

This is a text on quantum mechanics formulated simultaneously in terms of position and momentum, i.e. in phase space. It is written at an introductory level, drawing on the remarkable history of the subject for inspiration and motivation. Wigner functions — density matrices in a special Weyl representation — and star products are the cornerstones of the formalism.The resulting framework is a rich source of physical intuition. It has been used to describe transport in quantum optics, structure and dynamics in nuclear physics, chaos, and decoherence in quantum computing. It is also of importance in signal processing and the mathematics of algebraic deformation. A remarkable aspect of its internal logic, pioneered by Groenewold and Moyal, has only emerged in the last quarter-century: it furnishes a third, alternative way to formulate and understand quantum mechanics, independent of the conventional Hilbert space or path integral approaches to the subject.In this logically complete and self-standing formulation, one need not choose sides between coordinate or momentum space variables. It works in full phase space, accommodating the uncertainty principle; and it offers unique insights into the classical limit of quantum theory. The observables in this formulation are c-number functions in phase space instead of operators, with the same interpretation as their classical counterparts, only composed together in novel algebraic ways using star products.This treatise provides an introductory overview and supplementary material suitable for an advanced undergraduate or a beginning graduate course in quantum mechanics.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814520462

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9789814520461

Pessoa in an International Web

Influence and Innovation

By: David G. Frier

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Pessoa in an International Web

Influence and Innovation

By: David G. Frier

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal's most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. The present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with Italy, Spain, France, England and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. It features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic) and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet , as well as of various aspects of his poetic oeuvre.

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Routledge

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1351192930

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9781351192934

Lawless

The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law

By: David E. Bernstein

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Lawless

The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law

By: David E. Bernstein

In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein provides a lively, scholarly account of how the Obama administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law. Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after another—Obamacare; unauthorized wars in the Middle East; attempts to strip property owners, college students, religious groups, and conservative political activists of their rights; and many more. Violating his own promises to respect the Constitution’s separation of powers, Obama brazenly ignores Congress when it won’t rubber-stamp his initiatives. “We can’t wait,” he intones when amending Obamacare on the fly or signing a memo legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, as if Congress doing its job as a coequal branch of government somehow permits the president to rule like a dictator, free from the Constitution’s checks and balances. President Obama has also presided over the bold and rampant lawlessness of his underlings. Harry Truman famously said, “The buck stops here.” When confronted with allegations that his administration’s actions are illegal, Obama responds, “So sue me.” Lawless shows how President Obama has betrayed not only the Constitution but also his own stated principles. In the process, he has done serious and potentially permanent damage to our constitutional system. As America swings into election season, it will have to grapple with finding a president who can repair Obama’s lawless legacy.

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Encounter Books

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1594038341

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The Puppet Master

The Puppet Master

Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

Heaven's Fall

Heaven's Fall

Project Manager's Handbook

Project Manager's Handbook

Faction Man

Faction Man

Underdawgs

Underdawgs

Too Many Women, Too Little Time

Too Many Women, Too Little Time

Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man

Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man

Beyond the Campus

Beyond the Campus

The Movement Made Us

The Movement Made Us

A Concise Treatise On Quantum Mechanics In Phase Space

A Concise Treatise On Quantum Mechanics In Phase Space

Pessoa in an International Web

Pessoa in an International Web

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