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The Irish Wine Trilogy

By: Dick Wimmer

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The Irish Wine Trilogy is the original group of short comic novels that first introduced Dick Wimmer’s beloved cast of characters, the same characters who most recently reappeared in The Wildly Irish Sextet. In these novels, which span ten years and two continents, readers are introduced to Seamus Boyne, “the greatest painter since Picasso”; his old friend, erstwhile writer, and practicing pest-control specialist Gene Hagar; his beautiful Dutch wife—and Hagar’s lost love—Ciara; and his estranged, rebellious teenage daughter, Tory. From the first pages, in which an overwrought Boyne’s suicide attempt is rudely interrupted by an attempted assassination, readers are in for a wild ride. A staged death, an unexpected father-daughter reunion, a madcap adventure of kidnapping and mistaken identity, and bizarre love triangles are some of the hijinks and tomfoolery to be found in Irish Wine, Boyne’s Lassie, and Hagar’s Dream—now back in print, to the delight of Seamus Boyne devotees across the land.

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Catapult

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1593763581

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9781593763589

The Wildly Irish Sextet

By: Dick Wimmer

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The Wildly Irish Sextet

By: Dick Wimmer

Following on from his rollicking trilogy, Irish Wine, Dick Wimmer returns with five exuberant new tales about Seamus Boyne, the greatest painter in the world. Among the cast of characters back with him to continue the wild ride are the Boynes' saucy daughter, Tory, and Seamus's best friend, the writer Gene Hagar. Fast-paced and irreverent, these stories offer more of Wimmer at his best--an alchemist who stirs emotional turmoil into tomfoolery and misadventure to create hilarious adventures that leave readers wanting more.

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Catapult

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1593761813

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9781593761813

Paris Cafe: The Slect Crowd (Large Print 16pt)

By: Dick Wimmer

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Paris Cafe: The Slect Crowd (Large Print 16pt)

By: Dick Wimmer

This first book about the famous Select Cafe in Paris' richly illustrated with the faces of its patrons' gives a unique glimpse into the daily rhythm and social and intellectual life of a literary cafe. Here is an intimate view - - in word and image - - of its waiters and artist patrons' enabling one to understand the importance of cafe life - - that third great place of every Parisian or would - be Parisian. See here the famous Montparnasse cafe that has been so vital to Paris life for nearly nine decades; from Hemingway' Beauvoir' Picasso' James Baldwin' and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly here in the back room and meet their friends late in the day for drinks. The artists have their work on the walls' the novelists include the cafe setting in their fiction. The quiet and drama of the Select world illustrates the centrality of cafes - - particularly this one - - to Parisian social' cultural' and intellectual life. The book gives narrative introductions and witty drawings of cafe clientele and staff and is organized through a history of the Select cafe' its daily and seasonal rhythms' particular colorful clientele' and a few of its typical cafe/brasserie food (including a few recipes).

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458781011

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9781458781017

The Irish Wine Trilogy

By: Dick Wimmer

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Wood Modification Technologies

Principles, Sustainability, and the Need for Innovation

By: Dick Sandberg,Andreja Kutnar,Olov Karlsson,Dennis Jones

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Wood Modification Technologies

Principles, Sustainability, and the Need for Innovation

By: Dick Sandberg,Andreja Kutnar,Olov Karlsson,Dennis Jones

The market for durable products using modified wood has increased substantially during the last few years. This is partly because of the restriction on the use of toxic preservatives due to environmental concerns, and to lower maintenance cost and time. Furthermore, as sustainability becomes a greater concern, the environmental impact of construction and interior materials is factored in planning by considering the whole life cycle and embodied energy of the materials used. Wood is modified to improve its intrinsic properties, enhance the range of applications of timber, and to acquire the form and functionality desired by engineers without calling the environmental friendliness into question. Wood modification processes are at various stages of development, and the challenges faced in scaling up to industrial applications differ. The aim of this book is to put together the key elements of the changes of wood constituents and the related changes in wood properties of modified wood. Further, a selection of the principal technologies implemented in wood modification are presented. This work is intended for researchers, professionals of timber construction, as well as students studying the science of materials, civil engineering and architecture. This work is not exhaustive, but intends to deliver an outline of the scientific disciplines necessary to apprehend the technologies of wood modification and its behavior during treatment, as well as during its use.

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CRC Press

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1351028200

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Army Detective

Life and Times of Dick Miller: Retired Special Agent US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID)

By: Dick Miller

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Army Detective

Life and Times of Dick Miller: Retired Special Agent US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID)

By: Dick Miller

Dick Miller is a retired special agent with the US Army Criminal Investigation Division who faithfully served his country for over twenty-three years in the military and an additional twenty years working for various US government law enforcement, intelligence, and security agencies. His book, Army Detective: Life and Times of Dick Miller, not only chronicles his early years growing up in a small coal-mining town in southwestern Indiana but goes into his first tour in the US Army where he served a year in Vietnam then left to pursue a college degree. He writes about how his personal life, studies, and aspirations to work in law enforcement were hindered by his wife’s refusal to support his career ambitions, which overflowed into her disruptive personality and own personal desires to make him stay in their hometown without the hope of pursuing any type of career. Knowing his life would be forever stagnated without hope of achieving his goals and realizing his marriage was a failure, he reentered the US Army and achieved his career goal at the same time by seeking to serve as a CID special agent. His decision caused his marriage to end but opened the opportunity to find true love with a different woman and establish a stronger bond with his son, Chris. His journey to become successful picked up momentum at this stage, and as he rose through the ranks from a street investigator to senior investigative manager, he accomplished a lifelong dream of having that career in law enforcement. The many gruesome and violent crimes he investigated took their toll on his health and psyche. Realizing what his lifelong career had done, he had to find an avenue to allow him to keep associated with his work without the trials and tribulations of the job. Knowing it was a risk to get out of investigations, he pursued a position with the US Army Protective Services Unit. This action would allow him to continue working until retirement. This decision caused him to leave investigations but to stay in the job until his retirement. At the end, the US Army did offer him a chance to return to criminal investigations, but he turned them down and retired. He moved to Sun City Center, Florida, where he enjoys spending time with his wife of thirty-five-plus years, Elda, traveling throughout the United States and other parts of the world with her, and reading the many books accumulated over the years.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457554801

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9781457554803

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

By: Dick Wimmer

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Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

By: Dick Wimmer

Taking his teenaged kids on a "boy's fantasy vacation", Dick Wimmer traveled across the country meeting the great baseball players of yesterday and today. Here are interviews with legendary stars about the universal father-son link that is intrinsic to America's pastime.

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William Morrow

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0688076343

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9780688076344

Words of Passage

National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

By: Hilary Parsons Dick

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Words of Passage

National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

By: Hilary Parsons Dick

Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants that range from hardworking family people to dangerous lawbreakers. These imagined lives have real consequences, however, because they help to determine who can claim the resources that facilitate economic mobility, which range from state-sponsored development programs to income earned in the North. Words of Passage is the first full-length ethnography that examines the impact of migration from the perspective of people whose lives are affected by migration, but who do not themselves migrate. Hilary Parsons Dick situates her study in the small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato. She analyzes the discourse that circulates in the community, from state-level pronouncements about what makes a “proper” Mexican to working-class people’s talk about migration. Dick shows how this migration discourse reflects upon and orders social worlds long before—and even without—actual movements beyond Mexico. As she listens to men and women trying to position themselves within the migration discourse and claim their rights as “proper” Mexicans, she demonstrates that migration is not the result of the failure of the Mexican state but rather an essential part of nation-state building.

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University of Texas Press

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1477314040

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9781477314043

Singing the Blues

The Conservatives in Saskatchewan

By: Dick Spencer

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Singing the Blues

The Conservatives in Saskatchewan

By: Dick Spencer

From the party's beginnings in the Territories through its convulsive 1929 campaign and first victory that year under J.T.M. Anderson to its shadowy dissolution nearly 70 years later, the Saskatchewan Conservative Party struggles for relevance and survival. After their 1929 win, Conservatives waited half a century to form their next government, when they won the 1982 election under Grant Devine -- only to be "mothballed" 15 years later as the new Saskatchewan Party emerged to carry the right-wing banner in the province.

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University of Regina Press

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0889772061

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9780889772069

In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of Their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany

The `Euthanasia' and Aktion Reinhard Trial Cases

By: Dick De Mildt

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In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of Their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany

The `Euthanasia' and Aktion Reinhard Trial Cases

By: Dick De Mildt

In the Name of the People explores the profile of the perpetrators of Nazi genocide as reflected in postwar German trial sentences. It investigates their social background, their `route to crime', and their role in the Nazi extermination apparatus. In addition, it studies the postwar prosecution of these genocidal criminals in West Germany. It describes and analyses the obstacles, `bottlenecks', and omissions in the prosecuting policies and presents their statistical record. It examines the way in which postwar German courts dealt with these criminals by an in-depth study of the trial sentences against two specific groups of genocidal perpetrators: the `Euthanasia' and `Aktion Reinhard' killers. Through a scrutiny of the argumentation of the various courts' sentences in these cases, it presents a detailed picture of the grounds for acquittal, conviction and punishment. It discusses the controversial differentiation of `murder' and `complicity in murder' with regard to these genocidal perpetrators and highlights the ways in which the courts handled complicated questions, such as acting under superior orders, duress, and coercion. The study is intended for a readership consisting of historians, sociologists, criminologists, legal experts and others interested in the `fieldworkers' and modus operandi of the Nazi genocide and Germany's postwar judicial reaction to it.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004637168

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9789004637160

Coaching Swimming Successfully

By: Dick Hannula

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Coaching Swimming Successfully

By: Dick Hannula

Coaching foundation - Stroke technique - Coaching plans - Meets - Evaluation.

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Human Kinetics

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0736045198

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9780736045193

An Introduction to Ecological Genomics

By: Nico M. van Straalen,Dick Roelofs

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An Introduction to Ecological Genomics

By: Nico M. van Straalen,Dick Roelofs

The authors also provide a comparative survey of the properties of genomes (genome size, gene families, synteny, and polymorphism) for prokaryotes as well as the main eukaryotic models.

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Oxford University Press

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0199594686

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9780199594689

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

By: Dick Wimmer

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Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

By: Dick Wimmer

A collection of interviews with baseball stars about their own father-son relationships, includes conversations with Ted Williams, Reggie Jackson, Gary Carter, Wade Boggs, and many others

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William Morrow & Company

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Book's by Dick Wimmer

The Irish Wine Trilogy

The Irish Wine Trilogy

The Wildly Irish Sextet

The Wildly Irish Sextet

Paris Cafe: The Slect Crowd (Large Print 16pt)

Paris Cafe: The Slect Crowd (Large Print 16pt)

The Irish Wine Trilogy

The Irish Wine Trilogy

Wood Modification Technologies

Wood Modification Technologies

Army Detective

Army Detective

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

Words of Passage

Words of Passage

Singing the Blues

Singing the Blues

In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of Their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany

In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of Their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany

Coaching Swimming Successfully

Coaching Swimming Successfully

An Introduction to Ecological Genomics

An Introduction to Ecological Genomics

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons

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