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Fluctuating Fortunes

The Political Power of Business in America

By: David Vogel

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Fluctuating Fortunes

The Political Power of Business in America

By: David Vogel

The dynamics of business-government relations in the United States between 1960 and 1988.

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Beard Books

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1587981696

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9781587981692

Ergomont

By: David L. Birdsall

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Ergomont

By: David L. Birdsall

Plays about dealing with authority in various aspects of society and custom (cultural, institutional, and professional).

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Lulu.com

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0978697960

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Ghost Squadron Ii

The Adventure Continues.

By: David Nelson

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Ghost Squadron Ii

The Adventure Continues.

By: David Nelson

Ghost Squadron II, The Adventure Continues, is the sequel of Peter Walker’s days with the prestigious RAF during WWII. Peter has grown to be an adult, has a family, and becomes the youngest RAF Ace in WWII. Peter’s friendship with his mentor, Roland Bauer, the WWI Ace that instructed him on how to fly an old WWII bi-plane, grows into a father-son relationship. The book goes through Peter’s dangerous adventures, flying over France, Belgium, and ultimately Germany at the war’s end. The book takes actual dates, units, battles and puts them into written action for the reader. The author brings to life the everyday duties of an RAF pilot during wartime. The responsibilities of rank, leadership, and agony of friends that died on his watch.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664187227

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9781664187221

Numerical Control over Complex Analytic Singularities

By: David B. Massey

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Numerical Control over Complex Analytic Singularities

By: David B. Massey

Generalizes the Le cycles and numbers to the case of hyper surfaces inside arbitrary analytic spaces. This book defines the Le-Vogel cycles and numbers, and prove that the Le-Vogel numbers control Thom's $a_f$ condition. It describes the relationship between the Euler characteristic of the Milnor fibre and the Le-Vogel numbers.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821832808

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9780821832806

The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel

By: David A. Dorsey

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The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel

By: David A. Dorsey

Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, David A. Dorsey examines the road system in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 B.C.). He offers a comprehensive investigation of the nature and physical characteristics of roads in ancient Israel and reconstructs Israel’s road network as it existed during the Old Testament period.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725240475

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9781725240476

Music Business Handbook and Career Guide

By: David Baskerville,Tim Baskerville,Serona Elton

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Music Business Handbook and Career Guide

By: David Baskerville,Tim Baskerville,Serona Elton

This powerhouse best-selling text remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Thirteenth Edition offers surpasses any other resource available.

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SAGE Publications

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1071854224

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9781071854228

Interpreting Nature

The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

By: Brian Treanor,Martin Drenthen,David Utsler

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Interpreting Nature

The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

By: Brian Treanor,Martin Drenthen,David Utsler

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823254275

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9780823254279

A Real Nightmare

By: David H. Swendsen

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A Real Nightmare

By: David H. Swendsen

A popular and strong advocate of protecting our environment, Boston Mayor, Richard Bronsky is shot and killed while he rides with the just victorious NBA champion Boston Celtics in their Duck Boat parade. The Boston police, with cooperation from other Massachusetts and New Hampshire police departments, suddenly find themselves deep into an investigation as to who and why this former State Senator, who only recently left his job as head of the Washington D.C. EPA, and was just elected Boston's Mayor, would unbelievably be shot and killed in front of the Taj Hotel on Tremont Street in downtown Boston. Sergeant Eric Smothers expertly coordinates this exhaustive investigation, which also involves a traumatic related house torching of a Falmouth, Ma., very active woman, who loudly supports the progression of the Cape Cod Wind Farm project. Three anti-environmental groups and their outspoken leaders are investigated and they, and some of their hired involved followers do not rule out arson or murder or the bombing of a police patrol car, to stand in the way of their anti-environmental goals and their economic windfalls. Smothers and stunningly attractive Boston Police Lieutenant Sandra Graham somehow find their off duty attraction to each other becomes much more than, off with his tie, and off with her high heels, as the moonlight floods Sandra's harbor side apartment. The sergeant finds the lieutenant striking beautiful and irresistible, both in and out of uniform. This a story of well financed bad guy's and their goals, going up against a coordinated effort by determined law enforcement officers to bring the evasive law breakers to court and prosecution. The trail of the bad guys leads all over Massachusetts, parts of New Hampshire and into other parts of the United States, and even into an island in the Bahamas.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465345108

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9781465345103

The Heroic Earth

Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

By: David Thomas Murphy

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The Heroic Earth

Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

By: David Thomas Murphy

In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision of the Versailles settlement and enlarging Germany's living space, geopolitics helped contribute to Nazi imperialism. From the defeat of Germany in 1918 until the rise of National Socialism i9n 1933, theories of geographical determinism enjoyed a broad currency in many fields of German public life. The ancient notion that environmental factors--climate, topography, resource distribution--shape society in significant ways was now applied in a radically determinist fashion to help Germans understand why they had lost the war and what they had to do to regain their place among the Great Powers. Under the rubric of Geopolitik, politicians, teachers, writers and others argued that they key to Germany's past, and the hope for its future, lay in understanding geography's determining impact upon races, cultures, states, and warfare. Theories of geographical determinism shaped German thinking about politics, race, science, education, aesthetics, and many other subjects on the eve of the Nazi era. Challenging traditional historiography, Murphy argues that geopolitics faded in importance after Adolf Hitler came to power.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385640

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9780873385640

Helen

By: Chris Brooks,David Greear

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Helen

By: Chris Brooks,David Greear

While Helen is known as Georgia's "Alpine Village," the town's origins are more closely related to 17th-century Indian trading paths, gold prospectors, and timber moguls than to settlers of Bavarian or Germanic descent. As far back as the Paleo-Indian period, tribes roamed the areas in and around Helen, and the physical proof of mound-building groups of the Mississippian period is obvious in nearby Nacoochee Valley. In the 1800s, white settlers of English, Scottish, and Irish descent migrated into northeast Georgia, and the Indian settlements were pushed farther west. Eventually, prospectors of gold and other natural resources settled the area, resulting in the forced removal of the remaining native groups. Helen, as a township founded and built by timberland speculators and a Missouri-based lumber company, did not come into its own until the early 1900s. Alpine Helen developed in the late 1960s, resulting in a tourism-oriented "rebirth" of a town that had a much different beginning.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738591971

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9780738591971

Methods for Genetic Risk Assessment

By: David Brusick

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Methods for Genetic Risk Assessment

By: David Brusick

Genetic disease contributes to a major portion of our health care costs. While most of the human genetic burden is transmitted from generation to generation, environmental chemicals capable of reacting with germ cell DNA could produce new mutations, resulting in an even greater genetic liability for the next generation. The potential impact of environmental mutagens on the health and viability of other living things is important to consider as well. Methods for Genetic Risk Assessment features contributions from international experts to provide a comprehensive review of the current status of genetic risk assessment. You'll learn about various methods and strategies for when and how to conduct genetic risk assessments on human populations. You will also learn about the potential effects of environmental genotoxins on nonhuman organisms. Topics considered include:

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CRC Press

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1566700396

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Antineoplastic and Immunosuppressive Agents

Part II

By: Alan C. Sartorelli,David G. Johns

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Antineoplastic and Immunosuppressive Agents

Part II

By: Alan C. Sartorelli,David G. Johns

Over the past two decades a number of attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to collect in a single treatise available information on the basic and applied pharmacology and biochemical mechanism of action of antineoplastic and immunosuppressive agents. The logarithmic growth of knowledge in this field has made it progressively more difficult to do justice to all aspects of this topic, and it is possible that the present handbook, more than four years in preparation, may be the last attempt to survey in a single volume the entire field of drugs employed in cancer chemotherapy and immunosuppression. Even in the present instance, it has proved necessary for practical reasons to publish the material in two parts, although the plan of the work constitutes, at least in the editors' view, a single integrated treatment of this research area. A number of factors have contributed to the continuous expansion of research in the areas of cancer chemotherapy and immunosuppression. Active compounds have been emerging at ever-increasing rates from experimental tumor screening systems maintained by a variety of private and governmental laboratories through out the world. At the molecular level, knowledge of the modes of action of established agents has continued to expand, and has permitted rational drug design to play a significantly greater role in a process which, in its early years, depended almost completely upon empirical and fortuitous observations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642658067

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The Playwright's Voice

American Dramatists on Memory, Writing, and the Politics of Culture

By: David Savran

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The Playwright's Voice

American Dramatists on Memory, Writing, and the Politics of Culture

By: David Savran

These 15 interviews illustrate the diversity of modern American theater and examine what makes it a unique art form. Savran (English, Brown U.) discusses the work, artistic influences, and the state of contemporary American theater and its meaning and purpose with artists including Tony Kushner, Jose Rivera, Ntozake Shange, and Anna Deveare Smith. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Theatre Communications Grou

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1559361638

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Ralph Compton the Law and the Lawless

By: David Robbins,Ralph Compton

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Ralph Compton the Law and the Lawless

By: David Robbins,Ralph Compton

In this hair-raising Ralph Compton western, a lawman goes up against a gang of uncommon criminals.... When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it’s only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are a different breed of outlaw. In fact, Cestus, known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributes his loot to those less fortunate and rains stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that isn’t too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: Steal but don’t kill. All Alpine’s Marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is peace and quiet, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn’t have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They’re mad enough to break their own no-kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started....

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Penguin

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0451473183

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9780451473189

Intervention in Mental Health-Substance Use

By: David B. Cooper

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Intervention in Mental Health-Substance Use

By: David B. Cooper

Explores the varied needs of individuals and carers, the nature of the therapeutic relationship, and the theory and application of a variety of interventional techniques.

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Radcliffe Publishing

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1846193427

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9781846193422

Munich 1972

Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games

By: David Clay Large

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Munich 1972

Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games

By: David Clay Large

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages’ tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications. He interweaves the political drama surrounding the Games with the athletic spectacle in the arena of play, itself hardly free of controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for telling detail, Large brings to life the stories of the indelible characters who epitomized the Games. Key figures range from the city itself, the visionaries who brought the Games to Munich against all odds, and of course to the athletes themselves, obscure and famous alike. With the Olympic movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is more timely than ever.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742567419

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9780742567412

Blinders, Blunders, and Wars

What America and China Can Learn

By: David C. Gompert,Hans Binnendijk,Bonny Lin

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Blinders, Blunders, and Wars

What America and China Can Learn

By: David C. Gompert,Hans Binnendijk,Bonny Lin

The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case.

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Rand Corporation

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0833087770

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Muzzled

An Andy Carpenter Mystery

By: David Rosenfelt

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Muzzled

An Andy Carpenter Mystery

By: David Rosenfelt

In David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter mystery, Muzzled, Andy and his beloved golden retriever, Tara, are back on the case as a favor to a friend. Andy Carpenter is a lawyer who would rather not practice law. He'd rather spend his time working with the Tara Foundation, his dog rescue organization, and being with his family and his two dogs, Tara and Sebastian. But when a friend asks him for a favor that involves both dogs and his lawyerly expertise, he can't say no. Andy's friend Beth has found a stray that seems to have belonged to a murder victim--in fact, the man and two of his colleagues died in an explosion a few weeks ago. But when the murdered man contacts Beth, asking for his dog back, Andy knows there must be more to the story. The man claims his life is in danger, and that's why he disappeared. As much as Andy doesn't want to get involved--anything to avoid a new case--he can't help but come to the rescue of a man who'd risk everything, even his life, to reunite with his dog. Once again, David Rosenfelt delivers suspense and laughter in equal measure in another engaging mystery from "one of the most unforgettable voices in the genre." (Associated Press)

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Minotaur Books

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1250257107

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9781250257109

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State, 1789-1939

A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

By: David Aberbach

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The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State, 1789-1939

A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

By: David Aberbach

This book uses historical, sociological, theological, social-psychological, and especially literary insights to depict various forms of European Jewish patriotism from the French Revolution until the Holocaust, combining scrutiny of long-term socio-historical and religious forces with more recent factors deriving from the rise of secular enlightenment, emancipation and nationalism.

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Routledge

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0415540135

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Stasi Child

The award-winning Cold War crime thriller

By: David Young

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Stasi Child

The award-winning Cold War crime thriller

By: David Young

In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, murder is never an open-and-shut case . . . The award-winning, critically acclaimed Cold War crime thriller set in East Berlin - perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon. ____________________________________ East Berlin, 1975 - When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But when she arrives she realises this is a death like no other. It seems the girl was trying to escape - but from the West. Müller is a member of the People's Police, but in East Germany her power only stretches so far. The Stasi want her to discover the identity of the girl, but assure her the case is otherwise closed - and strongly discourage her from asking questions. The evidence doesn't add up, and it soon becomes clear the crime scene has been staged. But this is not a regime that tolerates a curious mind, and Müller doesn't realise that the trail she's following will lead her dangerously close to home . . . Stunningly authentic and brimming with moral ambiguity, STASI CHILD is the thrilling debut thriller for fans of Child 44 and An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris. ____________________________________ Praise for David Young: 'Excellent' The Times 'Thrilling' William Ryan 'Masterful' Daily Express 'Fast-paced' The Sun 'Superb. Reminded me of Robert Harris at his best' Mason Cross 'Up there with Martin Cruz Smith and the other greats of the field' Abir Mukherjee

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Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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1785770055

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9781785770050

Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature, Volume 3 Philo in Early Christian Literature

A survey

By: Douwe (David) Runia

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Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature, Volume 3 Philo in Early Christian Literature

A survey

By: Douwe (David) Runia

It is a remarkable fact that the writings of Philo, the Jew from Alexandria, were preserved because they were taken up in the Christian tradition. But the story of how this process of reception and appropriation took place has never been systematically research. In this book the author first examines how Philo's works are related to the New Testament and the earliest Chritian writing, and then how they were used by Greek and Latin church fathers up to 400 c.e., with special attention to the contributions of Clement, Origen, Didymus, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, and Augustine. Philo in Early Christian Literature is a valuable guide to the state of scholarly research on a subject that has thus far been investigated in a rather piecemeal fashion.

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BRILL

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9004275169

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9789004275164

Reign of the Devourer

A Marvel: Untold Novel

By: David Annandale

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Reign of the Devourer

A Marvel: Untold Novel

By: David Annandale

The notorious Doctor Doom’s endless craving for power unleashes a soul-destroying plague on the world, in the latest devastating Marvel Untold novel Victor von Doom saw his future for an instant, and now he cannot rest. His obsession with regaining those memories leads him into the arcane science of geomancy. As he delves into the ancient memories that lie beneath his land, Doom discovers a tremendous concentration of power... one that should never be explored. Doom's excavations and necromancy fracture the prison of something awful: the Devourer of Souls. Now free to roam Latveria, the Devourer spreads a plague of soul-hungry vampires. Doom must choose between seizing this power for himself or destroying it, before his realm is no more.

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Simon and Schuster

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1839080957

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9781839080951

American Choral Music Since 1920

An Annotated Guide

By: David P. DeVenney

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American Choral Music Since 1920

An Annotated Guide

By: David P. DeVenney

This book lists nearly 3,000 original choral works written by 76 composers active in the United States from roughly 1920 until the present. Styles range from the lush Romanticism of Charles Wakefield Cadman to the stark, dissonant harmonies of Morton Feldman.

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Scarecrow Press

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091491328X

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Brokers, Bagmen, and Moles

Fraud and Corruption in the Chicago Futures Markets

By: David Greising,Laurie Morse

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Brokers, Bagmen, and Moles

Fraud and Corruption in the Chicago Futures Markets

By: David Greising,Laurie Morse

Describes the two year government undercover operation investigating corruption and illegal practices in the two Chicago commodity exchanges and culminating in the indictments of 46 industry professionals. Describes how these very complicated markets function and how their ``old-boy club'' style first created the problems and later shielded many of its members from investigation and prosecution. A true inside account, it explores rampant fraud and abuse in the futures markets.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471530573

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9780471530572

Nature's Machines

An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics

By: David E. Alexander

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Nature's Machines

An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics

By: David E. Alexander

Nature's Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics presents the fundamental principles of biomechanics in a concise, accessible way while maintaining necessary rigor. It covers the central principles of whole-organism biomechanics as they apply across the animal and plant kingdoms, featuring brief, tightly-focused coverage that does for biologists what H. M. Frost's 1967 Introduction to Biomechanics did for physicians. Frequently encountered, basic concepts such as stress and strain, Young's modulus, force coefficients, viscosity, and Reynolds number are introduced in early chapters in a self-contained format, making them quickly available for learning and as a refresher. More sophisticated, integrative concepts such as viscoelasticity or properties of hydrostats are covered in the later chapters, where they draw on information from multiple earlier sections of the book. Animal and plant biomechanics is now a common research area widely acknowledged by organismal biologists to have broad relevance. Most of the day-to-day activities of an animal involve mechanical processes, and to the extent that organisms are shaped by adaptive evolution, many of those adaptations are constrained and channelized by mechanical properties. The similarity in body shape of a porpoise and a tuna is no coincidence. Many may feel that they have an intuitive understanding of many of the mechanical processes that affect animals and plants, but careful biomechanical analyses often yield counterintuitive results: soft, squishy kelp may be better at withstanding pounding waves during storms than hard-shelled mollusks; really small swimmers might benefit from being spherical rather than streamlined; our bones can operate without breaking for decades, whereas steel surgical implants exhibit fatigue failures in a few months if not fully supported by bone. - Offers organismal biologists and biologists in other areas a background in biomechanics to better understand the research literature and to explore the possibility of using biomechanics approaches in their own work - Provides an introductory presentation of the everyday mechanical challenges faced by animals and plants - Functions as recommended or required reading for advanced undergraduate biology majors taking courses in biomechanics, supplemental reading in a general organismal biology course, or background reading for a biomechanics seminar course

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Academic Press

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0128498978

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9780128498972

The Making Of A Premier

Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career

By: David L Shambaugh

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The Making Of A Premier

Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career

By: David L Shambaugh

How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang’s professional development indicate about upward elite mobility in the Chinese political system? These are the central questions the author addresses in this political biography, tracing Zhao Ziyang’s career in detail from his youth, through the Anti-Japanese War, the 1949 revolution, land reform, a series of political and economic campaigns during the 1950s and 1960s, the Cultural Revolution, political rehabilitation, and the “Sichuan Experience.” Mr. Shambaugh goes beyond a chronological account to elucidate Zhao’s job responsibilities and performance, political and economic philosophy, survival strategies, and behavior during thirty tumultous years in provincial politics. Bringing forth much new information drawn extensively from primary source materials, he also provides insights into the functioning of the post-1949 Chinese political system, especially the interplay between central and provincial politics.

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Routledge

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1000303101

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9781000303100

Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition, in Modules

By: David G. Myers

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Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition, in Modules

By: David G. Myers

The success of the modular version of David Myers's bestselling brief text, Exploring Psychology, proves the author's longheld belief (supported by independent research) that for a number of students, a text comprised of 45 15-page chapters is more effective than one of 15 45-page chapters. Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition, in Modules includes all the features and up-to-date content of the current edition of Exploring Psychology organized into 45 modules. It is accompanied by its own expansive variety of media and supplements similar to the Exploring Psychology package, also reorganized to match the modular format. This is NOT a brief version of Psychology, Seventh Edition, in Modules. Rather, this text is a MODULARIZED version of Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition.

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Macmillan

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0716789310

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9780716789314

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