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By: Dominic Rhodes

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Janae Wilding is a young high school senior at Sand-fort High School and her life is about to dramatically change. Nae's father Daniel and best-friend Asia send the reader on a roller coaster ride, that ends with a compelling story about transition into life. Who is to blame if one fails at it?

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1387259520

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Mad as Hell

The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right

By: Dominic Sandbrook

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Mad as Hell

The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right

By: Dominic Sandbrook

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976’s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this colourful new history, Dominic Sandbrook ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell, he shows how the 1970s saw the emergence of a new right-wing populism, setting the stage for the bitter partisanship and near-total cynicism of our modern political landscape.

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1400077249

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Majestical Pleasures

By: Dominic W. Reed

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Majestical Pleasures

By: Dominic W. Reed

Mr. Dominic W. Reed born Nov. 28th, 1973 Tulsa, Okla. to Mr. Alvin Reed Sr. & Mrs. Geneva P. Mays. This book is compromised of my feelings and the troubles of many others. It is not intended to hurt or cause any discontent to anyone. You cannot please everyone and that´s the absolute bottom-line truth. I know without a doubt, no matter what I write about someone is going to complain. That´s why I am not concerned with man, for man is not my key to Heaven. I´ve had people tell me directly to my face, all I write about is garbage and nobody wants to hear it! The same individuals have never taken the time to hear or read any of my writings. My job is to spread the news about an awesome man, God! I hope and pray for a better tomorrow and an even better future. Most of all of my books Uplifted Spirits 2009, Methodical Visions, Majestical Pleasures, and Nuerotic Memories has made-up fictitious character´s names. No research was done I just went with the way I was feeling that particular day off the top of my head. Many people didn´t think or believe I had written Uplifted Spirits 2009, simply because I didn´t put my name on it. The reason is simple: 1st The Sky Is The Limit, 2nd I will always Believe In My Dreams.

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1450003354

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Grands

By: Dominic Doe

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Grands

By: Dominic Doe

imagine a world where hope is the only thing keeping you alive and your only way to survive. a world were your choice of fear is tested every single day, and loosing or making any mistakes could cost you your life and others as well. well that's the life of Deucalion, Leviathan and Maelstrom and every day they lay thinking of that one day where they will be able to finally take on the man who killed their parents and destroyed their race's. but when the opportunity arrives will the sense of fear and grief rob them of their chance?.

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130402119X

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The Flame and the Candle

By: Dominic Price

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The Flame and the Candle

By: Dominic Price

This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. Throughout, there is an attempt at real insight into the lives of participants. The establishment and acceptance of the Garda Síochána and how Mayo adapted to peace while hundreds of Mayo men and women were still imprisoned is explored. The myth that little or nothing happened in Mayo during these troubled times is dispelled forever. • First factual account of War of Independence and Civil War in Mayo • This book is explosive (Taoiseach Enda Kenny, at the launch of the book) •

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1848899513

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Adopted Son

By: Dominic Peloso

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Adopted Son

By: Dominic Peloso

Celebrated fiction author and bioterrorism expert Dominic Peloso weaves a complex tale of alien invasion, environmental catastrophe, and societal upheaval. He blends hard sci-fi with biting political and social commentary to create a truly modern literary masterpiece that transcends genres.

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The Invisible College Press, LLC

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1931468265

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9781931468268

Sayings Parallels

A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition

By: John Dominic Crossan

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Sayings Parallels

A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition

By: John Dominic Crossan

This book is concerned with the words rather than the deeds of Jesus. But even the words are limited to sayings, that is, units which could or did exist in the tradition as isolated segments passed on in different contexts. This leaves out, for example, those short, terse commands or comments of Jesus uttered during cures or exorcisms and inextricably linked to some such situation. . . . Sayings Parallels is a workbook for the study of the Jesus tradition. Its existence and structure derives from one basic postulate: the exact same unit often appears in different sources, genres, and versions within the Jesus tradition. This is what is meant by parallel sayings. And this phenomenon and its explanation will have implications even for those cases where there are no parallels and the unit appears in only one instance. That basic postulate is taken as a factual statement although, of course, its implication and interpretation, its importance and significance are open to very different visions. But, granted that preliminary postulate, an attempt was made in this book to present the data as neutrally as possible. The work is to facilitate descussion of that factual diversity rather than to promote a set understanding of its presence. --from the Introduction

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1556358350

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From '9-11' to the 'Iraq War 2003'

International Law in an Age of Complexity

By: Dominic McGoldrick

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From '9-11' to the 'Iraq War 2003'

International Law in an Age of Complexity

By: Dominic McGoldrick

This book examines how international humanitarian and international human rights law was applied in the War Against Terrorism and the War on Iraq.

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Hart Publishing

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1841134961

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Four Other Gospels

Shadows on the Contour of Canon

By: John Dominic Crossan

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Four Other Gospels

Shadows on the Contour of Canon

By: John Dominic Crossan

The four canonical gospels are long set in established sequence as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This book is about four other gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Peter, and Egerton Papyrus 2. These four other gospels have generally been regarded as mere digests or collages of the canonical gospels, whereas in fact, as Professor Crossan persuasively shows, the four others hold within their mutilated fragments independent or earlier traditions than those tradition has canonized. Four Other Gospels proposes a spectrum of relations between the canonical gospels and these others. This spectrum ranges from the Gospel of Thomas, which is a parallel and independent tradition, to Egerton Papyrus 2, on which both John and Mark are dependent, to the Secret Gospel of Mark, on which Mark directly and John indirectly are dependent, and on to the Gospel of Peter, which contains an original Passion-Resurrection source used by all four of the canonical gospels, but which submitted to their eventual ascendancy by attempting a harmonization between it and them, and placed the new complex under the authority and authorship of Simon Peter. Four Other Gospels does not propose a new or alternative canon. The canon is a fact both of history and of theology. But the thesis of this book is that anyone who takes the four other gospels seriously and thoughtfully will never again be able to read the four canonical gospels in quite the same way. A new light has been shed.

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1556358202

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A Runner's Trail

By: Dominic Petrucci

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A Runner's Trail

By: Dominic Petrucci

This is the story of my life. From the beginning when my mother died when I was two months old, and my father when I was eleven. It goes into how I struggled trying to find myself, and make my peace with God. Along the way I fell in love with running. It became my therapy. I meet amazing people throughout my story. There are unexpected tragedies that I must overcome. And in the end I see the big picture. I have a great understanding of my life. I think my story will help you with whatever challenges you may be facing.

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146910721X

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Computer Simulation of Liquids

By: Michael P. Allen,Dominic J. Tildesley

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Computer Simulation of Liquids

By: Michael P. Allen,Dominic J. Tildesley

This book provides a practical guide to molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation techniques used in the modelling of simple and complex liquids. Computer simulation is an essential tool in studying the chemistry and physics of condensed matter, complementing and reinforcing both experiment and theory. Simulations provide detailed information about structure and dynamics, essential to understand the many fluid systems that play a key role in our daily lives: polymers, gels, colloidal suspensions, liquid crystals, biological membranes, and glasses. The second edition of this pioneering book aims to explain how simulation programs work, how to use them, and how to interpret the results, with examples of the latest research in this rapidly evolving field. Accompanying programs in Fortran and Python provide practical, hands-on, illustrations of the ideas in the text.

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Oxford University Press

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0192524704

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Sport and Sociology

By: Dominic Malcolm

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Sport and Sociology

By: Dominic Malcolm

How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological ideas? How can the study of sport help sociologists to understand wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub-discipline approaching maturity. This is the first book to stand back and reflect upon the subject’s growth, to trace its developmental phases and to take stock of the current fund of knowledge. It offers a ‘state of the art’ review of the sociology of sport and investigates those areas where sport has come to influence the sociological mainstream. The book also examines how the sociology of sport has attempted to engage with a popular readership, and what the consequences of such engagement have been. Focusing on touchstone issues and concepts within sociological discourse such as race, gender, celebrity, the body and social theory, the book assesses the successes and failures of the sociology of sport in influencing the parent discipline, related sub-disciplines and the wider public. It also asks to what extent the sociology of sport can be said to be autonomous, distinctive and distinguished, and challenges students of sport to extend their work out of the narrow confines of the subdiscipline and across disciplinary divides. As the first book to provide a history of the sociology of sport and to clearly locate the contemporary discipline in the wider currents of sociological discourse, this is important reading for all students and scholars interested in the relationship between sport and society, whether they are working in sport studies or in the sociological mainstream.

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1135157197

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CLEP - Core Exams

By: Dominic Marullo,David Callihan,Mel Friedman,Rachelle Smith,Scott Dittloff,Ken Springer,Laurie Ann Callihan,Patricia Van Arnum

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CLEP - Core Exams

By: Dominic Marullo,David Callihan,Mel Friedman,Rachelle Smith,Scott Dittloff,Ken Springer,Laurie Ann Callihan,Patricia Van Arnum

Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP* Core Exams Everything you need to pass 6 CLEP* exams and get the college credit you deserve. CLEP* is the most popular credit-by-examination program in the country, accepted by more than 2,900 colleges and universities. For over 15 years, REA has helped students pass CLEP* exams and earn college credit while reducing their tuition costs. Our CLEP* test preps are perfect for adults returning to college (or attending for the first time), military service members, high-school graduates looking to earn college credit, or home-schooled students with knowledge that can translate into college credit. The CLEP* Core Exams test prep assesses the skills tested on 6 official CLEP* exams. Our comprehensive review chapters cover: College Composition, College Composition Modular, Humanities, College Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences & History. The book includes 1 full-length practice test for each subject area. Each exam comes with detailed feedback on every question. We don't just say which answers are right-we explain why the other answer choices are wrong-so you can identify your strengths and weaknesses while building your skills. Ten practice tests are offered on our interactive TestWare CD and give you the added benefits of timed testing, automatic scoring, and diagnostic feedback. We help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you'll succeed when it counts. REA is the acknowledged leader in CLEP* preparation, with the most extensive library of CLEP* titles available. Our test preps for CLEP* exams help you earn college credit, save on tuition, and get a college degree.

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738604879

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9780738604879

The Essential Jesus

Original Sayings and Earliest Images

By: John Dominic Crossan

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The Essential Jesus

Original Sayings and Earliest Images

By: John Dominic Crossan

After his definitive The Historical Jesus, John Dominic Crossan delivered Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography--a popularized, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of Jesus. Here he offers the core of his life's work--a concise and astonishing presentation of the authentic teachings and earliest images of the revolutionary Galilean sage. Crossan's fresh translations of Jesus' sayings show Jesus to be a teacher whose radical message that all are equal before God is as timely today as it was two thousand years ago. This picture is dramatically confirmed by the preConstantinian, Christian renderings of Jesus, which show that he was remembered by the first Christians not as God but as a revolutionary healer and leader.

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1556358334

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Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers

The history you weren't taught in school

By: Dominic Selwood

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Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers

The history you weren't taught in school

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A brilliantly fun and informative read. Dominic Selwood has taken the juiciest bits of history from the past two thousand years and put them together in one marvellous volume. Selwood is a rare blend of insightful historian and thrilling writer. Cracking along at a breakneck pace reminiscent of Dan Brown,Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers is as perfect for the beach as it is for serious historical background reading." Claudia Gold author of The King's Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I and Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers unveils the history you were never taught at school. With a breath-taking sweep spanning Rome to the modern day, popular historian and author Dominic Selwood challenges the traditional version of some of the best-known events of the past. From ancient Christianity to the voyages of Columbus, and from the medieval Crusades to ISIS and the modern Middle East, this book debunks dozens of historical myths. You will learn that: – Magna Carta was an infamous failure in medieval times – Richard the Lionheart was a cruel and dreadful king – The Knights Templar were heretical, and have left a genuinely baffling mystery – The painter of the Turin Shroud was found in the 1300s – Christopher Columbus never saw America – The first computer coder was a woman, a century before Alan Turing – The man who unleashed mustard gas in the World War One trenches won the Nobel Prize for chemistry – One incredible Spanish spy saved D-Day ... and lots more. This book will challenge everything you think you know about history!

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1909979333

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9781909979338

A Long Way from Tipperary

What a Former Irish Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth

By: John Dominic Crossan

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A Long Way from Tipperary

What a Former Irish Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth

By: John Dominic Crossan

From his boyhood in Tipperary, Kildare, and Donegal to the pinnacle of biblical scholarship, John Dominic Crossan’s adventurous spirit has led him to seek out the truth no matter where it leads. In this delightful memoir, the former monk and controversial biblical scholar tells how his work as a pioneering historical Jesus expert has led him from the traditional Catholicism of his youth to a more complex, sophisticated faith. With characteristic wit and candor, he describes the joys and challenges of growing up in Ireland and reveals how his life experiences—from Ireland to America, Rome, and Israel, from monastery to university, from priesthood to marriage—have shaped his understanding of God, Jesus, the Church, and what it means to be a true Christian.

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1725240467

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Urban Comics

Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

By: Dominic Davies

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Urban Comics

Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

By: Dominic Davies

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how artistic collectives and urban social movements working across the global South are producing some of the most exciting and formally innovative graphic narratives of the contemporary moment. Throughout, the author reads an expansive range of graphic narratives through the vocabulary of urban studies to argue that these formal innovations should be thought of as a kind of infrastructure. This ‘infrastructural form’ allows urban comics to reveal that the built environments of our cities are not static, banal, or depoliticised, but rather highly charged material spaces that allow some forms of social life to exist while also prohibiting others. Built from a formal infrastructure of grids, gutters and panels, and capable of volumetric, multi-scalar perspectives, this book shows how urban comics are able to represent, repair and even rebuild contemporary global cities toward more socially just and sustainable ends. Operating at the intersection of comics studies and urban studies, and offering large global surveys alongside close textual and visual analyses, this book explores and opens up the fascinating relationship between comics and graphic narratives, on the one hand, and cities and urban spaces, on the other.

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Routledge

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1351054481

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Subjects, Themes and Images of the Bible

By: Dominic Breeze

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Subjects, Themes and Images of the Bible

By: Dominic Breeze

More than just a completely new index, this book is sure to kindle fresh interest in the Bible without any superstitious overtones. It is divided into broad categories which together paint an accurate picture of the life of those ancient people.

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Dreamstairway Books

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1907091181

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9781907091186

Failing to Win

Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics

By: Dominic D. P. Johnson,Dominic Tierney

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Failing to Win

Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics

By: Dominic D. P. Johnson,Dominic Tierney

How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed as a disaster? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality. To make their case, Johnson and Tierney employ two frameworks: "Scorekeeping," which focuses on actual material gains and losses; and "Match-fixing," where evaluations become skewed by mindsets, symbolic events, and media and elite spin. In case studies ranging from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the current War on Terror, the authors show that much of what we accept about international politics and world history is not what it seems--and why, in a time when citizens offer or withdraw support based on an imagined view of the outcome rather than the result on the ground, perceptions of success or failure can shape the results of wars, the fate of leaders, and the "lessons" we draw from history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039173

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9780674039179

Knights of the Cloister

Templars and Hospitallers in Central-southern Occitania, C.1100-c.1300

By: Dominic Selwood

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Knights of the Cloister

Templars and Hospitallers in Central-southern Occitania, C.1100-c.1300

By: Dominic Selwood

The military and religious orders of the Templars and the Hospitallers were a driving force throughout the long history of the crusades. Here, their daily business of recruitment, fund raising, farming, shipping and communal life is explored.

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0851158285

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Brainwash

The Secret History of Mind Control

By: Dominic Streatfeild

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Brainwash

The Secret History of Mind Control

By: Dominic Streatfeild

Behind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured--often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy and reconstruct the minds of captives, to extract information, convert dissidents, and lead peaceful men to kill and be killed. With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today's war on terror. Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture."--Back cover.

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0312427921

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9780312427924

Food Enzymes

Structure and Mechanism

By: Dominic W.S. Wong

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Food Enzymes

Structure and Mechanism

By: Dominic W.S. Wong

Food Enzymes: Structure and Mechanism is the first volume to bring together current information on the structures and mechanisms of important food enzymes. It provides an in-depth discussion of the dynamic aspects of enzyme structures and their relationship to the chemistry of catalysis. The book emphasizes aspects of the chemistry of enzyme structure and mechanism seldom covered in the food science literature. It includes a thorough discussion of the genetic modification of enzyme structures and functions with reference to specific food enzymes. More than 100 illustrations enhance the clarity of important concepts. Comprehensive references reflect the current state of knowledge on enzyme actions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475723490

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9781475723496

The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies

By: Dominic Malcolm

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The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies

By: Dominic Malcolm

′...a welcome addition to the literature in the rapidly expanding field of sports studies. It is up to date, comprehensive, and well and clearly written. Though primarily sociological in its orientation, it will help students -postgraduate and undergraduate alike and their teachers as well - to establish connections between the various sub-disciplines and guide them to sources which will enable them to probe issues more deeply... It is a beautifully crafted book and is sure to be a hit with students and their teachers. It would not surprise me in the least, however, if it appealed to sports lovers more generally... It is a tour de force and I recommend it unreservedly′ - Eric Dunning, Professor in Sociology, The Centre for the Sociology of Sport, University of Leicester Sports studies is one of the fastest growing fields in higher education today. The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies brings a timely, much-needed and comprehensive tool for all students in this multi-disciplinary field. Each entry provides a basic definition, a guide to research themes and a clear account of the relevance of the concept in understanding sport. Not only indispensable for quick clarification of terms, it will give students a springboard for more in-depth research and critical analysis. It offers: " Cross referencing to assist critical thinking " A list of key readings for each entry " Expert definitions drawn from sociology, history, psychology, economics, management and business, politics and policy, physical education and health, and research methods. " Concise, student-friendly and authoritative entries. Covering sociology, history, psychology, politics, business, physical education, health and research methods, The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies provides the first one-stop reference guide for all students who study the social aspects of sport.

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1473902916

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Living the Mass

How One Hour a Week Can Change Your Life

By: Dominic Grassi,Joe Paprocki

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Living the Mass

How One Hour a Week Can Change Your Life

By: Dominic Grassi,Joe Paprocki

Second Place, Liturgy category Catholic Press Association book awards, 2012 “This little book is a gem!” From Sunday Mass to Monday mayhem: Can the central act of Catholic worship transform our daily lives? In the United States, only 25% of self-proclaimed Catholics attend Mass on a weekly basis. Many Catholics believe that far more people would attend if only the homilies were better, or the music were more inspiring, or . . . the list goes on. But best-selling authors Fr. Dominic Grassi and Joe Paprocki are convinced that the real problem lies not in the Mass itself but in a lack of understanding of how the Mass prepares each person to live day in and day out as a baptized Catholic Christian. In Living the Mass, Grassi and Paprocki show how each part of the Mass relates to our baptismal call, closing the chasm between Sunday Mass and daily life. This newly revised edition takes into account the changes in the new Roman Missal, yet rather than isolating those texts or commenting on them, the authors have integrated the changes seamlessly into the book. This assimilation ensures that readers stay focused on the core message of the book—how the Mass as a whole changes us—rather than become sidetracked by the Missal’s new texts. Ideal for the countless Catholics who attend Mass simply out of habit, for the many who haven’t been to Mass in a while, or for anyone seeking to join the Catholic Church, Living the Mass compellingly demonstrates how the one hour spent at Mass on Sunday can truly transform the other 167 hours of the week.

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0829436197

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9780829436198

How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week

52 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills

By: Dominic O'Brien

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How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week

52 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills

By: Dominic O'Brien

Complete with 52 key lessons and self-testing methods, this book provides you with the tools you need to enhance your memory Written by an eight-times World Memory Champion, this book is an expert course in memory enhancement. Dominic O'Brien takes you step-by-step through an ingenious program of skills, introducing the tried and tested techniques that have played a crucial role in his triumphant championship performances. Dominic paces the course in line with his expert understanding of how the brain responds to basic memory, providing a realistic but impressive timeline. Not only will you be able to expand your mental capacities quickly and effectively, but you’ll see how the benefits of improved memory can lead to greater personal and career success.

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1780288166

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China Vignettes

An Inside Look at China

By: Dominic Barton,Ye Mei

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An Inside Look at China

By: Dominic Barton,Ye Mei

How to understand the changes sweeping China. The texture of life at a household level is captured in this new book, which seeks to understand lived experience in China, from coast to interior, city to countryside, and across the widening income divide. The book interviews 30 Chinese men and women from different walks of life, and from different regions. Interviewees provide their household budget, a typical daily chronology and they share a sense of each day's pressures and priorities. In addition, 13 well-known Chinese writers, commissioned by editors at Rongshu Publishing, have contributed short stories presenting daily life from the points of view of different ages, genders, professions, income levels and life situations. It contains essays by well-known Chinese sociologist Deng Weizhi and political scientist Cao Peilin which complete the book.

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9810580916

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Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages

By: Dominic Alexander

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Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages

By: Dominic Alexander

A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843833948

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Strategic Instincts

The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

By: Dominic D. P. Johnson

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Strategic Instincts

The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

By: Dominic D. P. Johnson

A very timely book."—Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America How cognitive biases can guide good decision making in politics and international relations A widespread assumption in political science and international relations is that cognitive biases—quirks of the brain we all share as human beings—are detrimental and responsible for policy failures, disasters, and wars. In Strategic Instincts, Dominic Johnson challenges this assumption, explaining that these nonrational behaviors can actually support favorable results in international politics and contribute to political and strategic success. By studying past examples, he considers the ways that cognitive biases act as “strategic instincts,” lending a competitive edge in policy decisions, especially under conditions of unpredictability and imperfect information. Drawing from evolutionary theory and behavioral sciences, Johnson looks at three influential cognitive biases—overconfidence, the fundamental attribution error, and in-group/out-group bias. He then examines the advantageous as well as the detrimental effects of these biases through historical case studies of the American Revolution, the Munich Crisis, and the Pacific campaign in World War II. He acknowledges the dark side of biases—when confidence becomes hubris, when attribution errors become paranoia, and when group bias becomes prejudice. Ultimately, Johnson makes a case for a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of cognitive biases and argues that in the complex world of international relations, strategic instincts can, in the right context, guide better performance. Strategic Instincts shows how an evolutionary perspective can offer the crucial next step in bringing psychological insights to bear on foundational questions in international politics.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210608

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9780691210605

Astonish Me!

First Nights That Changed the World

By: Dominic Dromgoole

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Astonish Me!

First Nights That Changed the World

By: Dominic Dromgoole

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us to see ourselves in new ways. It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history. Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon. He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre and a nation's perception of race. And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo's David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria. The dust settles and we are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens - and then to Paris to meet with Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring. We witness kabuki's creation, as a radical women's performance, in Kyoto; the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester's Free Trade Hall; and watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho.

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Profile Books

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1782837930

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9781782837930

A History of the World Since 9/11

Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror

By: Dominic Streatfeild

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A History of the World Since 9/11

Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror

By: Dominic Streatfeild

To understand why, you'll need to know how ... - an Australian metals trader named Garry-with help from the CIA-inadvertently triggered the invasion of Iraq - coalition troops were killed by bombs made with explosives that, according to the White House, never existed - the United States Air Force bombed a wedding in Afghanistan by mistake - the U.S. gave material support to the president of Uzbekistan, who, as it happens, boils people alive These are not merely random disasters from an otherwise effective war. A History of the World Since 9/11shows us just why, a decade after the horrifying attacks on New York and Washington, we are no closer towinning the war on terror than we were on September 10, 2001. We failed to find Osama bin Laden or quellextremism. We sparked civil wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Around the world, innocents were incarcerated,tortured, and murdered-all in the name of justice. Acclaimed author and journalist Dominic Streatfeild traveled across the world for years in pursuit ofanswers for this stunning collapse of international law. The results of his search form the most fully realized study of the war on terror yet written. Piercing reportage blends with sobering human drama, woven into eight narratives of how our world went wrong after 9/11.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608193861

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9781608193868

Eugene McCarthy

The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism

By: Dominic Sandbrook

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Eugene McCarthy

The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism

By: Dominic Sandbrook

Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized the hearts and fired the imaginations of countless young liberals; it also presaged the declining fortunes of liberalism and the rise of conservatism over the past three decades. Dominic Sandbrook traces Eugene McCarthy’s rise to prominence and his subsequent failures, and makes clear how his story embodies the larger history of American liberalism over the last half century. We see McCarthy elected from Minnesota to the House and then to the Senate, part of a new liberal movement that combined New Deal domestic policies and fierce Cold War hawkishness, a consensus that produced huge electoral victories until it was shattered by the war in Vietnam. As the situation in Vietnam escalated, many liberals, like McCarthy, found themselves increasingly estranged from the anti-Communism that they had supported for nearly two decades. Sandbrook recounts McCarthy’s growing opposition to President Johnson and his policies, which culminated in McCarthy’s stunning near-victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary and Johnson’s subsequent withdrawal from the race. McCarthy went on to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which secured his downfall and led to Richard Nixon’s election, but he had pulled off one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history, one that helped shape the political landscape for decades. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance of the period through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the center of it all.

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Anchor

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0307425770

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The Reiki Man

By: Dominic C. James

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The Reiki Man

By: Dominic C. James

When Billionaire industrialist Henry Mulholland is murdered the police are left virtually clueless. The only evidence is a mysterious symbol left on his desk. Recognizing it Stella Jones Mulholland?s head of security and ex Special Branch joins the investigation. The symbol puts Stella on the trail of her enigmatic ex boyfriend Stratton. Along with Jennings her Special Branch chaperone Stella is led by Stratton into a dangerous world of ancient knowledge and supernatural powers. A world where her perception of the physical universe and her grip on reality are tested to the full. They embark on a journey that takes them beyond science and brings them into contact with a Hollywood star who dreams the future a homicidal biker a dispirited American agent a wily professor of parapsychology an ageing ninja with supernatural abilities and an elusive black panther.

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1846947375

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9781846947377

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