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Gentle Action

Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World

By: F. David Peat

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Gentle Action

Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World

By: F. David Peat

How can we build a kinder world for our families, businesses, society and ourselves? Gentle Action explores ways in which we can exercise more effective, creative and non-invasive action from the local to the international level. By using 'gentle actions' businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace, and organizations, policy groups and communities grow more flexible, responsive and sensitive to the world around them." "An invaluable resource for everyone from CEOs, policy makers, community leaders, opinion makers, aid organizations, business groups, consultants and politicians - indeed anyone who is trying to make a difference. Each chapter of Gentle Action concludes with a series of questions and challenges that encourage the reader to enter a period of 'creative suspension' from which truly compassionate action can emerge."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pari Publishing (USA)

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8895604032

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9788895604039

Teach Us to Number Our Days

By: David Roper

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Teach Us to Number Our Days

By: David Roper

In the modern world of high technology and advanced medicine, people are living longer and healthier lives. “Middle age” has taken a leap ten years further down the road until reaching signs that indicate the beginning of the second half of life. In his book Teach Us to Number Our Days, David Roper shows you why and how this season of your life can truly be the best. Offering biblical wisdom and reassurance for you as you mature, Roper invites you to travel with him on his own “journey to maturity.” Calling you to both frank self-reckoning and joy, Roper presents an uplifting look at the possibilities that lie ahead. “So enjoy!” he says. “Enjoy your journey to maturity as you gain perspective on the past and hope for the future. Make the most of every moment of your life.”

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Our Daily Bread Publishing

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1572938714

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9781572938717

Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News

By: David Randall

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Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News

By: David Randall

Elizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military news shift from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers. This study is based on an examination of hundreds of manuscript news letters, printed pamphlets and corantos, and news diaries which are in holdings in the US and the UK.

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Routledge

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131731428X

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Physiology of Sport and Exercise

By: W. Larry Kenney,Jack H. Wilmore,David L. Costill

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Physiology of Sport and Exercise

By: W. Larry Kenney,Jack H. Wilmore,David L. Costill

Structure and Function of Exercising Muscle -- Fuel for Exercise : Bioenergetics and Muscle Metabolism -- Neural Control of Exercising Muscle -- Hormonal Control During Exercise -- Energy Expenditure -- Fatigue, Muscle Soreness, and Muscle Cramps Fatigue and Its Causes -- The Cardiovascular System and Its Control -- The Respiratory System and Its Regulation -- Cardiorespiratory Responses to Acute Exercise -- Principles of Exercise Training -- Adaptations to Resistance Training -- Adaptations to Aerobic and Anaerobic Training -- Prescription of Exercise for Health and Fitness -- Exercise in Hot and Cold Environments -- Altitude, Hyperbaric Environments, and Microgravity -- Training for Sport -- Nutrition, Body Composition, and Obesity -- Ergogenic Aids in Sport -- Children and Adolescents in Sport and Exercise -- Aging in Sport and Exercise -- Sex Differences in Sport and Exercise -- Cardiovascular Disease and Physical Activity.

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Human Kinetics

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1718201729

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Complete Critical Assembly

The Collected White Dwarf (And Gm, and Gmi) Sf Review Columns

By: David Langford

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Complete Critical Assembly

The Collected White Dwarf (And Gm, and Gmi) Sf Review Columns

By: David Langford

This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1587153300

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9781587153303

Joint Task Force: Liberia

By: David E. Meadows

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Joint Task Force: Liberia

By: David E. Meadows

A coalition of African nationalists and Muslim extremists have decided the time has come to wipe American influences clean from the face of Africa. Their first target: an enclave of African-American expatriots living in Liberia. It is not only a blood bath—it is an international crisis which demands an immediate U.S. response. Enter Amphibious Group Two, a special joint task force of Naval and Marine components led by Rear Admiral Dick Holman. Their job is simple: liberate the trapped families in Liberia. But in today’s explosive political climate, with ever-shifting alliances and dangerous hidden agendas, nothing is ever that simple. . . . “Not only does the author know his subject but [his] fiction could readily become fact.”—John Tegler, host of the syndicated television show, Capital Conversation.

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Penguin

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1101220716

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9781101220719

Geographic Information Analysis

By: David O'Sullivan,David Unwin

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Geographic Information Analysis

By: David O'Sullivan,David Unwin

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471211761

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Never Alone

By: David Ferguson,Teresa Ferguson

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Never Alone

By: David Ferguson,Teresa Ferguson

Christian marriage is a cord of three strands: husband, wife and God. Too often in the stress of daily living, the third strand is overlooked. Showing how changing readers' focus from what they want to what God wants from their union, a husband-and-wife team encourages readers to allow God to bring wholeness to their marriages.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842334823

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9780842334822

The Thalassaemia Syndromes

By: David J. Weatherall,J. B. Clegg

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The Thalassaemia Syndromes

By: David J. Weatherall,J. B. Clegg

In the new edition of this successful and authoritative book, the thalassaemias are reviewed in detail with respect to their clinical features, cellular pathology, molecular genetics, prevention and treatment. It is aimed at specialists in haematology in the laboratory or clinical setting, particularly in areas where thalassaemia is common either in the native population or in immigrant communities. The fourth edition has been both updated and re-organized. Three new chapters have been added on the link between alpha-thalassaemia and mental retardation, on avoidance and population control and on global epidemiology. Considerable emphasis is placed on molecular pathology reflecting the huge burst of information to have come out of this field in the last few years.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470695943

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Victorian Songhunters

The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1883

By: E. David Gregory

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Victorian Songhunters

The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1883

By: E. David Gregory

Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461674174

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9781461674177

Flat Out and Half Turned Over

Tales from Pit Road with Buddy Baker

By: Buddy Baker,David Poole

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Flat Out and Half Turned Over

Tales from Pit Road with Buddy Baker

By: Buddy Baker,David Poole

In Flat Out and Half Turned Over, driving phenomenon Buddy Baker details the most hilarious collection of racing stories, memories, and anecdotes ever published. Read about the bumps and brawls; the blood, sweat, and tears; and the practical jokes that happen behind the scenes from the very drivers, owners, crew chiefs, and pit crew that make up the heart and soul of stock car racing. In this book, readers will find names like Fireball Roberts, Buck Baker, A. J. Foyt, Cale Yarborough, and Tiny Lund, along with racing icons Petty and Earnhardt. Flat Out and Half Turned Over is a must-read for racing buffs of all kind!

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Simon and Schuster

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1613214464

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To the End of the Land

By: David Grossman

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To the End of the Land

By: David Grossman

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A stunning novel that tells the powerful story of Ora, an Israli mother, and her extraordinary love for her son, Ofer, in a haunting meditation on war and family. “One of the few novels that feel as though they have made a difference to the world.” —The New York Times Book Review Just before his release from service in the Israeli army, Ora’s son Ofer is sent back to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, so that no bad news can reach her, Ora sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She is joined by an unlikely companion—Avram, a former friend and lover with a troubled past—and as they sleep out in the hills, Ora begins to conjure her son. Ofer’s story, as told by Ora, becomes a surprising balm both for her and for Avram.

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Vintage

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0307594343

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The Condensed Protocols from Molecular Cloning

A Laboratory Manual

By: Joseph Sambrook,David William Russell

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The Condensed Protocols from Molecular Cloning

A Laboratory Manual

By: Joseph Sambrook,David William Russell

The Condensed Protocols From Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manualis a singleâ€“volume adaptation of the threeâ€“volume third edition of Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual.This condensed book contains only the stepâ€“byâ€“step portions of the protocols, accompanied by selected appendices from the world's bestâ€“selling manual of molecular biology techniques. Each protocol is crossâ€“referenced to the appropriate pages in the original manual. This affordable companion volume, designed for bench use, offers individual investigators the opportunity to have their own personal collection of short protocols from the essential Molecular Cloning.

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CSHL Press

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0879697717

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Pathology and Intervention in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

By: David J. Magee,James E. Zachazewski,William S. Quillen,Robert C. Manske

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Pathology and Intervention in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

By: David J. Magee,James E. Zachazewski,William S. Quillen,Robert C. Manske

Design and implement a rehab program on your own with Pathology and Intervention in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition. Part of Magee's popular Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Series, this pathology text for physical therapists provides clear guidance on patient management relative to specific musculoskeletal pathology, injury, and illness - all based on a sound understanding of basic science and principles of practice. It focuses on the specific pathologies most often seen in the clinic, and discusses the best methods for intervention for the different areas of the body in the context of the tissue-healing model. Each intervention features a rationale, along with the pathology and problem presented; stage of healing; evidence in the literature; and clinical reasoning considerations. Dedicated and focused information on the specific pathologies most often seen in the clinic, as well as the best methods for intervention for the different areas of the body, minimizes duplication of information by referring you to other titles in the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Series for basic scientific information regarding inflammation, healing, tissue deformation, and the development of muscular strength and endurance. Trusted experts in musculoskeletal rehabilitation, along with internationally recognized contributors, present the best evidence behind contemporary interventions directed toward the treatment of the impairments and functional limitations associated with acute, chronic, and congenital musculoskeletal conditions occurring across the lifespan. Evidence-based content, with over 4,000 references, supports the scientific principles for rehabilitation interventions, providing the best evidence for the management of musculoskeletal pathology and injury. NEW! The Skin and Wound Healing chapter looks at the numerous tools available to assist in objectively monitoring and treating a patient with an acute or chronic wound. NEW! Rotator Cuff Pathology chapter highlights the anatomy, function, and etiology of the rotary cuff, and addresses rotary cuff injuries, physical examination, and non-operative and operative treatment. UPDATED! Substantially revised chapter on the Thoracic Ring ApproachT facilitates clinical reasoning for the treatment of the thoracic spine and ribs through the assessment and treatment of thoracic spine disorders and how they relate to the whole kinetic chain. UPDATED! Revised Lumbar Spine - Treatment of Motor Control Disorders chapter explores some of the research evidence and clinical reasoning pertaining to instability of the lumbar spine so you can better organize your knowledge for immediate use in the clinical setting. UPDATED! Significantly revised chapter on the treatment of pelvic pain and dysfunction presents an overview of specific pathologies pertaining to the various systems of the pelvis - and highlights how "The Integrated Systems Model for Disability and Pain" facilitates evidence-based management of the often complex patient with pelvic pain and dysfunction. NEW! Musculoskeletal Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors chapter covers common bones tumors, anatomic considerations and rehabilitation, pediatric patients, and amputation related to cancer. UPDATED! Thoroughly revised chapters with additional references ensure you get the most recent evidence and information available. NEW! Full color design and illustration program reflects what you see in the physical world to help you recognize and understand concepts more quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323310729

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9780323310727

Understanding Animal Welfare

The Science in its Cultural Context

By: David Fraser

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Understanding Animal Welfare

The Science in its Cultural Context

By: David Fraser

Understanding Animal Welfare The essential text on understanding and improving animal welfare Understanding Animal Welfare, 2nd Edition is revised and expanded to incorporate new research and developments in animal welfare. Updated with greater accessibility in mind, the reader is guided through animal welfare in its cultural and historical context, methods of study, and applications in practice and policy. Drawing examples from farm, companion, laboratory and zoo animals, the text provides an up-to-date overview of research and its applications, while also tracing how concepts and methods have evolved over time. Readers of the second edition of Understanding Animal Welfare will also find: New developments in understanding positive animal states The importance of human actions in determining animal welfare New content on “One Welfare” How free-living wild animals are affected by human technology and climate change Originally intended for scientists and professionals, Understanding Animal Welfare has also found a home in undergraduate classrooms. It is now the essential text for students, practitioners, veterinarians, and researchers in animal welfare and related fields.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119626404

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Of Law and the World

Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy

By: David Kennedy,Martti Koskenniemi

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Of Law and the World

Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy

By: David Kennedy,Martti Koskenniemi

A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law’s power in global life? What does all this legality have to do with hegemony, with hierarchy and inequality, and with the diversity of human experience? What is its history and how does that history matter in world affairs? Above all, what does it mean to think “critically” about law and global affairs? In this poignant and iconoclastic book, two leading scholars take us to the heart of the matter, examining law’s relationship with history, power, and political economy. David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi have often inspired each other and are both considered “critical” voices in international law, but they have never explored their similarities and differences as deeply as they do here. Of Law and the World takes the form of a conversation, as the authors reflect on the study of international law, the motivations underlying their research, and the payoffs and limitations of their investigations into law’s role in global affairs. They revisit and renew debates about the past and future of the many legalities that shape our world. Erudite, open-minded, and informed by decades of experience and observation, Of Law and the World is an unflinchingly honest confrontation with humanity’s struggle to live together.

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Harvard University Press

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0674294882

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9780674294882

Chocolate for the Poor

A Story of Rape in 1805

By: David R Beasley

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Chocolate for the Poor

A Story of Rape in 1805

By: David R Beasley

Based on a true story about an incestuous rape which took place in Massachusetts in 1805. “....a page turning meditation that queries political expediency, religious fanaticism, superstition, fate, rage and redemption, issues as relevant today as they were in 1805.”— Brantford Expositor. “Beasley allows us to see, and more importantly to feel, some of the forces that enmesh a man only too easily and drive him to acts otherwise incomprehensible."—Hamilton Spectator.

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Davus Publishing

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0915317044

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9780915317042

There’S More Room in an Empty Heart

Another 200 Roundels Poems About Love & Life

By: David Sanders

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There’S More Room in an Empty Heart

Another 200 Roundels Poems About Love & Life

By: David Sanders

Two hundred new poems from David Sanders including: Just to the East of Despair Just to the east of despair Is a land of devil-may-care, A place to go when nothing is fair Just to the east of despair. Your chances to dismiss This potentially harmful abyss Are better if you forget what you miss. Just to the east of despair Is a land of truth-or-dare, A place to go at the end of an affair Just to the east of despair.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499071094

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9781499071092

Scalp

By: David C. Dillon

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Scalp

By: David C. Dillon

David C. Dillon attended Miami University. He has two daughters now married and each having a daughter of their own. He lives in southwestern Ohio in-between Dayton and Cincinnati in his tin can castle with his cat, Fluffy. He lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for four summers with friends and family. He is retired and now loves to write. His hobbies are playing poker, fishing, visiting powwows and traveling. For more information visit www.davidcdillon.us.

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iUniverse

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1475997973

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9781475997972

Crystal Gorge

By: David Eddings,Leigh Eddings

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Crystal Gorge

By: David Eddings,Leigh Eddings

After two devastating defeats and the utter annihilation of two armies, the hideous Vlagh still vows to invade the land of Dhrall. A voracious insectile overmind, she can breed millions of soldiers in mere days and even evolve entire new species in just a week.At first, Dhrall's mortal defenders-a motley bunch of mercenaries, pirates, horse lords, and lone heroes like the archer Longbow-are certain they'll prevail again. Most are now battle-hardened veterans, and the natives of Dhrall are fierce bison hunters and bear slayers, ready to fight.But while the Vlagh's past servants were giant, venomous, and mindless bugs, it has now created perfect spies: new minions with a man's appearance and intelligence. Corrupted by the agents of the Vlagh, the human tribes are soon at one anothers' throats. Far, far worse for mortals is the fact that the Gods can no longer be trusted. For, nearing the end of their 25,000 year cycle, the Elder Gods are doddering toward senility and dementia. And to add to mankind's plight, a strange mysterious entity is manipulating the forces in the upcoming strife and neither gods nor mortals know its true intentions. Now, beset by astonishing, dire challenges, Longbow and his fellow mortals must wage a bitter war against a supernatural enemy-one that has evolved in ways they could have never imagined . . .

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Hachette+ORM

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0446535559

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9780446535557

The Eastern Mysteries

An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages and Magickal Systems of the World

By: David Allen Hulse

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The Eastern Mysteries

An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages and Magickal Systems of the World

By: David Allen Hulse

UNLOCK THE MEANING OF EASTERN MAGICK In scope and clarity, there is no book that can compare to The Eastern Mysteries. This reissue of David Allen Hulse's landmark work is the one book all students of the occult must own. It catalogs and distills, in hundreds of tables of secret symbolism, the true import of each ancient Eastern magickal tradition. Each chapter is a key that unlocks the meaning behind one of the magickal languages. Through painstaking research and analysis, Hulse has accomplished an unprecedented feat -- that of reconstructing the basic underlying systems that form the vast legacy of mystery traditions. The real genius of this accomplishment is that it is presented in a way that is immediately understandable and usable. Although the book deals with many foreign scripts, ancient tongues, and lost symbols, it is designed for the beginning student. Included is a wealth of cross references, excellent introductory material and overviews, an extensive annotated bibliography, and -- new to this edition -- a complete index.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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1567184286

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9781567184280

W. S. Graham

The Poem as Art Object

By: David Nowell Smith

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W. S. Graham

The Poem as Art Object

By: David Nowell Smith

On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, between philosophical seriousness and play, solitude and sociality, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, the heft and evanescence of poetry's medium. Drawing on newly unearthed archival materials, Nowell Smith orients Graham's poetics around the question of the 'art object'. Graham sought to craft his poems into honed, finished 'objects'; yet he was also aware that the poem's 'finished object' is never wholly finished. Graham's work thus facilitates a broader reflection on language as a medium for art-making.

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Oxford University Press

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0192654519

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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

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Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic

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0316073857

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