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The Race Underground

Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

By: Doug Most

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The Race Underground

Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

By: Doug Most

Documents the dramatic and sometimes deadly competition between New York and Boston to build the first American subway, describing the rivalry between two brother subway engineers and their famous supporters.

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Macmillan

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0312591322

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9780312591328

A Legacy of Bones

By: Doug Burgess

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A Legacy of Bones

By: Doug Burgess

Some legacies are best abandoned... A well-placed stick of TNT ignites a full-blown investigation in A Legacy of Bones, a provocative murder mystery exploring the racial and cultural divide on a remote Hawaiian island between landed elite and villagers. On Kaumaha Island (est 1850), the statue of Amyas Lathrop conceals a terrible secret—a legacy of massacres and madness that infects the island itself. Some will go to any lengths to keep it hidden, others to set it free. But which of them would kill? Cultural expert Winnie Te Papa, our very own Ms. Marple, will sift through the pieces to track a ruthless murderer through a tangled maze of family alliances, greedy developers, scholars, protestors, and gangsters. Told in dual timeline, Doug Burgess's intricate puzzle box mystery traces the consequences of an island's frenetic beginnings as they snowball through generations. Fans of HBO's White Lotus will be intrigued by the ever hotly debated questions: what happens next and who get to decide?

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728259134

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9781728259130

The Peculiar Boars of Malloy

By: Doug Crandell

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The Peculiar Boars of Malloy

By: Doug Crandell

This Sherwood Anderson award-winning farcical novel follows two teenage boys living on a farm in rural Indiana. Their father—a diminutive man and the laughingstock of their small town—purchases two boars in an attempt to impress his neighbors and demonstrate, by proxy, his masculinity. The boars, however, turn out to be resolutely gay and deeply committed to each other, setting off a ridiculous chain of events that brings the spotlight and accompanying media circus to Malloy. In the midst of all of the madness is the boys' ongoing, and at once heartbreaking and hilarious, quest to find their wayward mother through a series of touching and humorous flashbacks. Disappointed in their pitiful father, the boys cling to an unrealistic fantasy of their mother, who is in actuality a promiscuous drifter. Crandell's depiction of the gay boars provides much of the book's humor and, unexpectedly, its moral compass as he weaves significant and subtly articulated themes of animal rights and gay rights. The Peculiar Boars of Malloy captures the best traditions of American satire, while turning the conventions of the coming-of-age novel on its head. Crandell's heart and humor will be appreciated by lovers of satire and animals and those readers possessed of a uniquely Midwestern sense of the ridiculous.

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Cornell University Press

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1609090039

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9781609090036

A Season of Darkness

By: Doug Jones,Phyllis Gobbell

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A Season of Darkness

By: Doug Jones,Phyllis Gobbell

The horrific true crime cold case of Marcia Trimble, the little girl who disappeared while selling Girl Scout cookies and was discovered a month later, strangled. This mystery haunted her family for over 30 years... When nine-year-old Marcia Trimble was murdered in 1975, her devastated parents believed justice would be served. But without a clear suspect in sight and without the ability to analyze DNA evidence, fingers pointed toward the family and toward neighborhood boys without any definitive conclusion. Police were left at a loss to find any kind of evidence that would lay this brutal murder case to rest and bring peace to the long-suffering family of this innocent little girl. A Season of Darkness catalogs the gruesome account of the murder and its awful aftermath, detailing the thirty years of wondering, silence, and investigation that would eventually lead to a shocking, unexpected, and long-awaited concusion.

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Penguin

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1101445556

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9781101445556

The Hustle

One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

By: Doug Merlino

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The Hustle

One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

By: Doug Merlino

Chronicles a social experiment through which wealthy white and disadvantaged African-American basketball athletes were put together to form a successful youth team that also enabled the black players to attend private school, revealing what became of them years later.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608192156

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9781608192151

A Time for Role Call

By: Doug Thompson

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A Time for Role Call

By: Doug Thompson

It is 1946, and former debutante Sally Jardine-Fell is in prison awaiting trial for a murder she didn’t commit. Set mainly in wartime Italy, A Time for Role Call follows the strange, eventful path of Sally’s life, taking us from blitzed London via Yorkshire, where Sally first meets the enigmatic Adam, to Fascist Rome and the bed of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s Foreign Minister and the focus of Sally’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) mission. Following Ciano’s sudden fall from grace early in 1943, Sally’s mission is aborted. The subsequent Allied invasions, Mussolini’s overthrow, and the German occupation lead her to quit Rome. With increasing difficulty and some hair-raising experiences, she makes her tortuous way north towards Switzerland. En route she encounters deserting German soldiers, an escaped Australian PoW, Italian brothers avoiding military service, mountain shepherds, a French nun, Italian partisans – as well as, all too briefly, the long-lost Adam. Shortly after the war, back in London, Sally again meets with Silvio, an Italian restauranteur whom she had known there previously, her subsequent SOE superior, but whose loyalties she has long suspected. Aware of her suspicions, Silvio now tries to kill her. But it is he who dies, though not by her hand... Former Professor of Modern Italian language, history and literature, Doug Thompson draws on his intimate knowledge of Italy to write a lively novel with a feisty protagonist and colourful cast of supporting characters. The book will appeal to readers of historically based fiction, those with an interest in Italy – especially the war years – or any who have enjoyed Doug’s previous works, To the Great Sea (Matador, 2011) and Checkmate (Matador, 2013).

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788039882

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9781788039888

Joyful Darkness

By: Doug Clelland

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Joyful Darkness

By: Doug Clelland

This book is about the Invisible apparent: its narratives investigating what it is to be alive with the concealed, i.e., its anchors, caresses, respect, stains, tests, threats and zaps entangling us in myriad ways.

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Arena books

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1911593420

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9781911593423

TRAVEL: The Guide

By: Doug Lansky

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TRAVEL: The Guide

By: Doug Lansky

TRAVEL: The Guide is an insightful, irreverent, and highly visual new take on travel that will challenge readers to rethink the way they look at travel and how they interact with the world around them. It's like an eye-opening TED Talk on travel that you can flip through at your own pace. Jason Cochran, author and editor for Frommer's guides, described it this way: "It’s not really just about travel. It’s about exploding every stereotype, fear, and expectation you have about the rest of the world and your place in it. Once you start flipping through, you’ll be consuming little knowledge bombs like potato chips. Good luck stopping. And good luck seeing things the same way ever again.” Mike Carter, a contributor to The Observer and The Guardian wrote: “Turns on its head just about everything we thought we knew about how to get the best out of our travels, gloriously debunking the myths and exposing the clichés along the way.”

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LookBook Digital Publishing

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0990776905

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9780990776901

The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

By: Doug Mack

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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

By: Doug Mack

To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America." —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are often forgotten, even by most Americans. But they’re filled with American flags, U.S. post offices, and Little League baseball games. How did these territories come to be part of the United States? What are they like? And why aren’t they states? When Doug Mack realized just how little he knew about the territories, he set off on a globe-hopping quest covering more than 30,000 miles to see them all. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mack examines the Founding Fathers’ arguments over expansion. He explores Polynesia’s outsize influence on American culture, from tiki bars to tattoos, in American Samoa. He tours Guam with members of a military veterans’ motorcycle club, who offer personal stories about the territory’s role in World War II and its present-day importance for the American military. In the Northern Mariana Islands, he learns about star-guided seafaring from one of the ancient tradition’s last practitioners. And everywhere he goes in Puerto Rico, he listens in on the lively debate over political status—independence, statehood, or the status quo. The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining account of the territories’ place in the USA, and it raises fascinating questions about the nature of empire. As Mack shows, the territories aren’t mere footnotes to American history; they are a crucial part of the story.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393247619

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9780393247619

Ripples in Opperman's Pond

By: Doug Zipes

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Ripples in Opperman's Pond

By: Doug Zipes

Identical twins Dorian and Daniel Sloane grow up inseparable, sharing the same tubes of toothpaste as children and their lives as adults. Loyalty proven many times, they have been saving each other since the day Dorian rescued Daniel from drowning in Oppermans Pond. Now, with Dorian as head of a multinational pharmaceutical company and Daniel as an innovative cardiologist volunteering in Africa, the brothers come together once again. A devastating midair collision on the basketball court during a Celtics/Pacers game sets falling dominoes in motion. After NBA legend Randy Jackson sustains a career-changing ankle injury, Daniel and Dorian partner together to try and heal him. A brilliant chemist has created a miracle arthritis drug that they hope will cure the star and also save Dorians pharmaceutical company teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Celebrations ensue when the Pacers star returns to full gloryand then tragedy suddenly strikes during a casual pickup game, threatening to destroy Daniels career as he faces a devastating malpractice suit, the possible loss of his medical license, and even a voodoo curse. In this high-stakes thriller set in the world of big-money medicine, a chain of unanticipated events culminates in a life-or-death decision two brothers never thought they would have to make.

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iUniverse

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1475975376

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9781475975376

The Complete Up North

A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights

By: Doug Bennet,Tim Tiner

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The Complete Up North

A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights

By: Doug Bennet,Tim Tiner

A newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Up North books, this is an entertaining guide to Ontario's north for every cottager, camper, and nature lover. Have you ever wondered how porcupines procreate? Or where you can best see the northern lights? Or how many fireflies it takes to equal the light of a 40-watt bulb? The answers to these questions — and many, many more — are in this lively and indispensable field guide to the plants and animals of Ontario's wilderness. Filled with amusing trivia, easy-to-understand natural history, and little-known folklore, The Complete Up North is the perfect introduction and companion to Ontario's great outdoors. Naturalists Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner answer those questions we have always wanted to ask — and many others we wish we'd thought to ask — about plants, mammals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, clouds, the night sky, the weather, and the ground we walk on. Their infectious curiosity makes Up North as fun and interesting to read as it is useful to pack for a hike into the woods.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551993708

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9781551993706

The Practical Fly Fisher

Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Fly Fishing

By: Doug Stewart

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The Practical Fly Fisher

Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Fly Fishing

By: Doug Stewart

Sprinkled in between the fly dressings and tying lessons—and alongside his own personal anecdotes—longtime fishing guide Doug Stewart shares insights and instructions that will add to your fishing success in this illustrated guide. The Practical Fly Fisher will help you become a more complete angler, a better fly tier, and a more successful fly fisher. On top of covering all aspects of fly fishing: casting, proper equipment, tying flies, reading water, the feeding habits of fish, and the proper strategy for fishing a stretch of river, included inside in the book are the secrets of Doug’s favorite patterns. Doug Stewart, a lifelong fly fisher, is also a fly-tying instructor, guide and a fly shop owner. He has written about fly-fishing for The Oregon Sportsman and Amato Publications. Doug spent many years teaching customers how to fly fish during the thirty-two years he owned Stewart’s Fly Shop. “I think I get more out of teaching someone, out of seeing them be successful or catch their first fish, than I do out of catching my own,” Doug says.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0871083132

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9780871083135

Insights From A Travel Mastermind

The Travel Hacking Travel Guide

By: Doug Knell

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Insights From A Travel Mastermind

The Travel Hacking Travel Guide

By: Doug Knell

Before, my only travels were to and from the toilet at home. With these insights, I now also use toilets in other continents" -- Dominique LaSalle, Travel Blogesque Magnifique Written by a groovy expert who traveled continuously for years in over 60 countries and studied, lived, and worked on 4 continents without getting arrested! Smile broadly and preview this book to get a glimpse of this mastermind's mindset. Okay? Warning: Travel Books Like This One Will Forever Electrify Your Vacation Experiences! Before you do any travel planning anywhere on any budget using any of the typical travel guides, get this, the best of all travel books. No matter how savvy you think you are, there are dozens upon dozens of vacation tips and secrets we are sure you don't know about. Reading through this funny travel book, authored by a mastermind who went traveling the world for years, on budgets ranging from a cheap travel backpacker to a five-star connoisseur, you'll become transfixed by the idea of traveling the world for yourself. The mastermind began his journeys before the internet existed, so his philosophy includes both online and offline insights. Stop acting like every other traveler and taking their trips. We'll wager their trips are generic cookie-cutter affairs travel companies sold them or itineraries mindlessly copied out of travel books. Soak in the adventurous feelings of difference and make your own trip. Life's too short to be living someone else's dreams. Learn the most effective travel hacking secrets no one but the mastermind will ever bother to tell you: * Vacation tips to experience your destinations more like a local. This secret opens you up to adventures you couldn't previously fathom. The mastermind stayed with a French family in their ski chalet in Chamonix, lounged in the penthouse of a Swiss flight executive in Berne, and camped in the swag of an Australian couple in the Outback mining town of Andamooka. Cost: $0. * Which travel series guides are worth your time and which are not. * The words and phrases you really need to know for your trip. * Vacation tips to keep devious locals from sticking their unwanted paws in your travel luggage and pockets. * Tips to stay healthy on your vacation. You needn't quake in your boots concerning all the horrendous diseases you've heard about "out there," not after the travel mastermind goes over everything with you. * How to effectively compare the cost of living of the country you're visiting with your home country. The mastermind knows how to travel cheap but he also travels with style and value. * Foreign currency vacation tips to keep money in your wallet. The mastermind saved 60% on a room in Nepal with one secret. With another, he saved an additional 5% on a Kenyan safari he'd already gotten the best possible deal on - without the safari operator losing a penny! Tracking hacking doesn't get better than this. * Plentiful mobile phone and calling travel hacking cues that should save you a small fortune at your destination. * The best cheap and free mobile phone travel apps for a variety of platforms. Android, iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone, or BlackBerry - the mastermind has got you covered. * How to get travel companies or web sites to execute travel planning at no cost to yourself. * The "secret" places to book your airfares to score the absolute best bargains on cheap flights. Scrutinize the plane and the destination and layover airports before you book. Investigate the crosswinds, density altitudes, and aviation temperatures before you fly so, even on cheap flights, you won't wind up like Buddy Holly. * Where to hide your travel cash. Hint: it's not your hotel room safe. * How to bargain and barter with nefarious merchants. Use the mastermind's secrets to shut them out or get them to succumb to your price. * And much more.

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Innovasion

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6163821734

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9786163821737

Shadow Reflections

By: Doug Welch

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Shadow Reflections

By: Doug Welch

See without seeing, hear without hearing, speak without speaking and touch the infinite." These are the words that plunge the Jamestown Family into a maelstrom of danger and discovery. In an old, strange mansion hidden in the Scottish highlands, Alex's mind becomes lost in a formless void, one she must escape. Her Family is in terrible peril from the man who calls himself Nicodemus. Will her unknown talent help or will it cause a greater catastrophe? Perhaps with the aid of some unexpected allies she'll prevail, but will she have to sacrifice herself in the attempt? The answers lie deep in the heart of a country hostile to Americans. The journey promises to be long and hard with no certainty of success. Nevertheless they must try. Mankind's future is at stake.

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Lulu.com

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1312896795

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9781312896796

Scottish Sea Kayaking

Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages

By: Doug Cooper,George Reid

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Scottish Sea Kayaking

Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages

By: Doug Cooper,George Reid

A selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland and the Western Isles.At last, here it is . Scotland's first guidebook for sea kayakers wishing to explore its amazing coastline and magical islands. It brings together a selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland, from the Mull of Galloway in the SW to St Abb's Head on the east coast, as well as voyages in the Western Isles, ranging from day trips to three day journeys. Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, it is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken. As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate and inform our interest in the environment we are passing through. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals. A fascinating read and an inspirational book.

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Pesda Press

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0954706129

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9780954706128

Kill Zone

A High-Tech Novel

By: Kevin J. Anderson,Doug Beason

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Kill Zone

A High-Tech Novel

By: Kevin J. Anderson,Doug Beason

Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone, a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access to perform a high-level security review of the facilities. But Hydra Mountain was never meant to securely hold this much hazardous waste, and it has the potential to explode, taking with it all of Albuquerque and spreading radioactivity across the nation. This disaster situation proves all too possible when a small plane crashes at a nearby military base, setting off Hydra’s lockdown and trapping Adonia and her team in the heart of the hazardous, waste-filled mountain. Now, the only direction for them to go is deeper into the mountain, through the tear gas and into a secretive area no one was ever supposed to know about. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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125018343X

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9781250183439

Talking to Heaven

How to Communicate With People on the Other Side

By: Doug Plaskett

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Talking to Heaven

How to Communicate With People on the Other Side

By: Doug Plaskett

About 30 years ago I joined a small group exploring psychic or ESP experiences. Within the group I learn the basics of hypnotism and used them to help other members experience their past lives and to channel guides. One guide came through the subject in trance as her native Indian guide singing an Indian chant as he prepared to speak to us. In the years after, I regressed friends back to their previous lives and also to the time on the 'other side' of life in between lives. Some of these experiences involved talking to 'ghosts', souls who chose to stay attached to the Earth dimension for various reasons. Recently I came into a closer relationship with my principal guides as they revealed themselves to me as visual images. Their thought/words were so much like my own that it helped to write the conversations rather than think them. This is the meaning of Automatic or as I prefer to call it, Spirit Writing. A few minutes each day leads to a personal relationship with these people/spirits who have watched over us with such unconditional love and support since birth. This book can help you to discover your own personal guides. No special or expensive equipment is needed, just a pen, a pad of paper and your open invitation to them to come to you. They will never take over your own will. Whatever decisions you choose to make, they will support you in them but the decisions must be yours. Its your life and these, the dearest friends you will ever have, only want the best for you.

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1438912536

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The Flawless Skin Of Ugly People

By: Doug Crandell

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The Flawless Skin Of Ugly People

By: Doug Crandell

Thanks to Ugly Betty, we're finally ready to read a love story about a couple that isn't sleek, slick, tucked, pulled or plastic.

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Random House

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0753524589

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Wayfaring Strangers

The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

By: Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr

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Wayfaring Strangers

The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

By: Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

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UNC Press Books

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1469666278

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9781469666273

Curse the Bells

By: Doug Wakeling

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Curse the Bells

By: Doug Wakeling

Based on a true story.In 1864, at age 43, tragedy strikes the family of John Joseph Layburn, forcing him to flee his Yorkshire home and set out on a journey that will eventually take him around the world to the colony of Australia, where he was to eventually make his mark in the New World."Curse the Bells is a story of a man with a keen sense of adventure. Not afraid to take risks, he lived life to the full and reaped the rewards of success."ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hailing from the mid-north coast of NSW at Valla Beach, author Douglas Wakeling combines his passion for the written word, history and family ancestry in his first book. Since the late 1980s he has pondered over his family lineage, particularly the story of John Joseph Layburn, his great-grandfather, and his passage from Otley, England to the small country town of Carcoar in NSW, Australia.

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DoctorZed Publishing

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0987123963

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9780987123961

The Opposite of Lonely

By: Doug Johnstone

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The Opposite of Lonely

By: Doug Johnstone

A body lost at sea, arson, murder, astronauts, wind phones, communal funerals and existential angst ... This can ONLY mean one thing! The Skelfs are back, and things are as tense, unnerving and warmly funny as ever! The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and their cases are as perplexing as ever. Matriarch Dorothy looks into a suspicious fire at a travelers' site, and takes a grieving, homeless man under her wing. Daughter Jenny is searching for her missing sister-in-law, who disappeared in tragic circumstances, while grand-daughter Hannah is asked to investigate increasingly dangerous conspiracy theorists, who are targeting a retired female astronaut ... putting her own life at risk. With a body lost at sea, funerals for those with no one to mourn them, reports of strange happenings in outer space, a funeral crasher with a painful secret, and a violent attack on one of the family, The Skelfs face their most personal – and perilous – cases yet. Doing things their way may cost them everything... Tense, unnerving and warmly funny, The Opposite of Lonely is the hugely anticipated fifth installment in the unforgettable Skelfs series, and this time, danger comes from everywhere...

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Orenda Books

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191458581X

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9781914585814

Once Upon an Island

By: Doug Cariou

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Once Upon an Island

By: Doug Cariou

The year is 1896 at Victoria on Vancouver Island in the newly formed colony of British Columbia. An animated, young Thadeus Matoe, a.k.a., "Toadmatoe," comes to Professor Krokonal's house seeking his wisdom about a mysterious gift he has just received from his friend Froglit Brar for his third-month birthday. Mystified, the Professor sends for the frog to question him. Toadmatoe returns with his friend, and just as the Professor is questioning him the police burst in and arrest Froglit Brar on suspicion of stealing a priceless heirloom. In their haste to haul him off to prison, the police fail to seize the alleged contraband. Convinced of Froglit's innocence and with gift in hand, the Professor, Toadmatoe, and Ursula, his faithful Salamander, give chase. By a strange twist of fate, Froglit escapes his captors and is reunited with his friends. Now accomplices-at-large, the three fugitives meet some interesting characters who aid them on their way as they are providentially led through a series of mishaps and miraculous escapes from the pursuing long arm of the Victoria Constabulary. They leap-frog on traversing rapids and waterfalls, o'er field and fen, as the gift choreographically draws them on, revealing keys to unlock its mystery. In the course of events the true villain is apprehended and the three friends reach the place where the gift finally reveals its secrets in a providentially synchronized moment in time.

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WestBow Press

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1490846417

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9781490846415

Film and Television Locations

A State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking Sites, Excluding Los Angeles

By: Doug Gelbert

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Film and Television Locations

A State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking Sites, Excluding Los Angeles

By: Doug Gelbert

It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television series filming sites are, however, located all over the United States. This guidebook documents over 1500 locations where 1,106 movies and 48 television series have been filmed. Arranged by state and then alphabetically by movie title, each entry includes the year of release, the two main stars, a plot line and a description of the location. Filming sites located in Los Angeles are excluded. All sites are accessible to the public. The indexes make it possible to quickly locate a favorite star, favorite movie or favorite location.

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Being White

A Memoir

By: Doug Power

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Being White

A Memoir

By: Doug Power

When Dougs father refuses to return to suburban New York from one of his lengthy business trips, his mother swallows a bottle of sleeping pills and Doug and sister Constance move in with their mothers mother in Rochester, who takes them in temporarily. At the end of the school year, Constance goes on to college and Grandma unloads Doug, putting him on a plane to Chicago to live with Carleton, the father he barely knows, and his fathers young, beautiful, Native American wife. Doug finds himself living two blocks from the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, in an area where whites had mostly fled and black gangs are taking control. Carleton moved in with Mary a year earlier, marrying her two weeks after his wife died, and they remain in her apartment in the changing neighborhood because hed lost another job due to his drinking and because Mary didnt like to be surrounded by white people anyway. Doug is immediately thrust into a world of petty crime, violence, and racial hatred, some of which emanates from Mary, who loves his father but despises herself for living with a white man. And yet, on her good days, she becomes more of a mother to Doug than hed ever had, teaching him how to treat a lady and how to find his way in the inner-city. On her bad days, she locks him out of their apartment. So Doug comes of age in the streets, dates girls who live in the projects, and sees people beaten and killed. The people he comes to trust and learn from are people who are not white. Theyre Indian, theyre Hispanic, and mostly theyre Black. So who is he, he wonders, who thought of himself as White? This is the story of how it turns out.

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Goshawk

By: Doug McPheters

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Goshawk

By: Doug McPheters

After the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union disintegrated, David Garvey, a Manhattan international lawyer, built a hugely profitable loan-sharking operation in Russia and nearby countries in Eastern Europe. David’s fund quickly amassed large pools of collateral for high-interest loans – home and apartment mortgages as well as business and personal collateral. Seeing all of these financial instruments as leverage for getting around biting international economic sanctions, the Iraqis looked for ways to steal them from David’s Königsberg Fund – first by co-opting his syndicate of bank lenders and then by attacking David and his family. Sparked by innovative technology imagined and patented by the author, this fast-moving thriller plays out in the streets and courtrooms of Manhattan and Northern and Eastern Europe. PRAISE for Goshawk: “A complex international banking thriller that keeps the pages turning.” -Tim Green, New York Times Bestselling Author of American Outrage and pending Unstoppable “McPheters has crafted a fast-moving international thriller that skillfully uses new technologies he is inventing in his other life as a well-known Connecticut entrepreneur and guru of holographic technology... this is a fun and fast read.” -Matthew Nemerson, President & CEO Connecticut Technology Council “Goshawk” keeps you on the edge of your seat. The characters are richly developed, the story tightly woven – a must for thrill seekers.” -Rochelle Carrington, President & CEO Second Wind Advisory Group “Goshawk” soars and dives through the mosaic of international finance and intrigue. This thriller’s hero, David Garvey, a wealthy and surprisingly ethical Wall Street lawyer, embarks on a scheme to start a business of lending money to former Eastern Bloc citizens, only to discover he has unseen business partners out to take what he has created. The author’s own experience as a Wall Street lawyer and financier guides us expertly above and below the treacherous world of greed, power, and money. In Garvey’s own words, “trust no one but yourself.” -Steven B. Beasley, Financial Advisor of a Wall Street firm “Doug McPheters does a fantastic job of providing the reader with a glimpse of what it would be like to fly a super-advanced airplane; his description of the Goshawk’s maneuvering capability is very realistic and puts the reader in the cockpit with David Garvey.” -Retired Air Force and commercial pilot

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Alive in Necropolis

By: Doug Dorst

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Alive in Necropolis

By: Doug Dorst

Navigating adult responsibilities in a California city where the dead outnumber the living, rookie cop Michael Mercer becomes increasingly obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, an officer who believed he policed the dead.

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1594489874

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The Original Blues

The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville

By: Lynn Abbott,Doug Seroff

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The Original Blues

The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville

By: Lynn Abbott,Doug Seroff

Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018) 2023 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee - Classic of Blues Literature category With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before—a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496810058

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Let's Play Two

The Life and Times of Ernie Banks

By: Doug Wilson

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Let's Play Two

The Life and Times of Ernie Banks

By: Doug Wilson

When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs. Known affectionately as “Mr. Cub,” he brought exceptional talent and boundless optimism to the game of baseball, earning him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Hall of Fame. In Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, Doug Wilson explores the life of one of baseball’s most immortal figures, from his humble beginnings as a young boy living in the segregated South to his last few years and the public battles over his remains and will. Drawing on interviews of those close to Banks from all stages of his life, Wilson presents a portrait of the baseball player not just as an athlete, but also as a complex man with ambitious goals and hidden pains. Ernie Banks’s enthusiasm and skill transcended issues of race and helped him to become one of the most highly-regarded men in baseball. Offering details that have never before been printed, this book discusses Banks’s athletic prowess as well as the legacy he left behind. Let’s Play Two is the essential Ernie Banks biography for sports fans and historians alike.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538112302

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The "Virginia Creeper": A Novel

By: Doug McGuinn

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The "Virginia Creeper": A Novel

By: Doug McGuinn

THE "VIRGINIA CREEPER" is a historically accurate (although the author admits having to use his "poetic license" a few times) novel about the rise and fall of the lumber/railroad town of Elkland (present-day Todd), N.C, the rise and fall of a lumber/passenger train, the Virginia-Carolina (aka the "Virginia Creeper"), and the rise and fall of a lumber company (the Hassinger Lumber Company) and the company town (Konnarock, Va.) the lumber company created.

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Lulu.com

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1387954288

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Yup! That's God!

God’s Timing Is Perfect

By: Maureen Hovda,Doug Hovda

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Yup! That's God!

God’s Timing Is Perfect

By: Maureen Hovda,Doug Hovda

This book shares stories of our life experiences. The Fruit of the Spirit within us as Christ followers, show how God uses the Fruit of the Spirit through all our walks of life. In each experience that we encounter, we see God at work in it and we just can’t help but say, “YUP! THAT’S GOD!” His timing is always perfect. We share these experiences of our life in hopes that you see the importance of following the Holy Spirit of God in all the walks of your life. We pray that God will bless you as you read this book. “Little is much when God is in it.”

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1796058696

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The Smoking Gun

True Tales From Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches

By: Doug Richardson

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The Smoking Gun

True Tales From Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches

By: Doug Richardson

What do you know, really? Sure. Having enough talent to act, direct, or write a screenplay is one set of skills. But navigating both the main streets and back alleys of Hollywood cannot be done with GPS. Ride shotgun with screenwriting and producing veteran Doug Richardson as he skillfully - yet so amusingly - lives, dies, survives, and thrives in the entertainment trenches. The Smoking Gun is more than a collection of true Hollywood stories, box office success and jaw-dropping failures. It’s a guided tour behind the curtain of an industry that is equal parts bright lights, backstabbing, and double-dealing. Buckle up, step into your steel jockstrap, and get ready to do battle in the carnival funhouse otherwise known as showbiz.

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Lords of the Ring

The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing's Greatest Team

By: Doug Moe

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Lords of the Ring

The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing's Greatest Team

By: Doug Moe

Annotation Revives the exciting era, when college boxing attracted huge crowds, outdrawing the professional bouts. This book tells the whole extraordinary story of how and why this popular college sport abruptly ended in 1960, based on dozens of interviews and extensive examination of newspaper microfilm, boxing records, and memorabilia.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299204243

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The Big Chill

By: Doug Johnstone

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The Big Chill

By: Doug Johnstone

Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the Skelf women take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet in Book Two of the darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive Skelfs series! ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year*** 'Compelling, compassionate ... just brilliant. This series gets better with every book. I cannot get enough of the Skelfs' Mark Billingham 'Brilliantly drawn and blackly comic' Herald Scotland 'Confirms the Skelfs as a classic crime clan. I can't wait for the next one' Erin Kelly 'I LOVE the Skelfs ... The only problem with The Big Chill is that you'll devour it so fast you'll feel as bereft as one of the Skelfs' clients. Doug Johnstone has murdered sleep' Val McDermid ____________________ Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors' and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can't help looking into the dead driver's shadowy life. While Dorothy uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny's ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women's lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly. But something even more sinister emerges when a drumming student of Dorothy's disappears and suspicion falls on her parents. The Skelf women find themselves sucked into an unbearable darkness – but could the real threat be to themselves? Following three women as they deal with the dead, help the living and find out who they are in the process, The Big Chill follows A Dark Matter, book one in the Skelfs series, which reboots the classic PI novel while asking the big existential questions, all with a big dose of pitch-black humour. ____________________ 'Exceptional ... Johnstone seamlessly presents their stories with depth, elegance, and a delicate touch of wry humor as they get difficult jobs done with grace and kindness. This is a must for those seeking strong, authentic, intelligent female protagonists' Publishers Weekly 'Emotionally complex, richly layered and darkly funny. An addictive blend of Case Histories and Six Feet Under' Chris Brookmyre 'Johnstone's intuitive depiction of this trinity of resilient women is never less than flawless, in this tale punctuated by emotional depth and moments of dark humour...' Raven Crime Reads Praise for The Skelfs series ***Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year*** 'An engrossing and beautifully written tale that bears all the Doug Johnstone hallmarks in its warmth and darkly comic undertones' Herald Scotland 'Gripping and blackly humorous' Observer 'This dark but touching thriller makes for a thoroughly enjoyable slice of Edinburgh noir' Mary Paulson-Ellis 'This enjoyable mystery is also a touching and often funny portrayal of grief, as the three tough but tender main characters pick up the pieces and carry on: more, please' Guardian 'A tense ride strong, believable characters’ Kerry Hudson, Big Issue ‘They are all wonderful characters: flawed, funny, brave and well set up for a series. I wouldn’t call him cosy, but there’s warmth to Johnstone’s writing’ Sunday Times

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Orenda Books

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1913193357

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Faber & Kell's Heating and Air-Conditioning of Buildings

By: Doug Oughton,Steve Hodkinson,Richard M Brailsford

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Faber & Kell's Heating and Air-Conditioning of Buildings

By: Doug Oughton,Steve Hodkinson,Richard M Brailsford

For over 70 years, Faber & Kell's has been the definitive reference text in its field. It provides an understanding of the principles of heating and air-conditioning of buildings in a concise manner, illustrating practical information with simple, easy-to-use diagrams, now in full-colour. This new-look 11th edition has been re-organised for ease of use and includes fully updated chapters on sustainability and renewable energy sources, as well as information on the new Building Regulations Parts F and L. As well as extensive updates to regulations and codes, it now includes an introduction that explains the role of the building services engineer in the construction process. Its coverage of design calculations, advice on using the latest technologies, building management systems, operation and maintenance makes this an essential reference for all building services professionals.

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Routledge

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1136326464

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Back to the Futures: Crashing Dirt Bikes, Chasing Cows, and Unraveling the Mystery of Commodity Futures Markets

By: Scott Irwin,Doug Peterson

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Back to the Futures: Crashing Dirt Bikes, Chasing Cows, and Unraveling the Mystery of Commodity Futures Markets

By: Scott Irwin,Doug Peterson

Whoever said learning about futures markets had to be boring? Futures markets are a mystery. Fortunes are made and lost in these markets, yet most people know little about how they work. In Back to the Futures, agricultural economist Scott Irwin explains why it’s essential to understand futures markets, whether you’re talking about grain, cattle, or the largest market of them all—crude oil. These massive markets lie at the heart of our economy, affecting us all. Irwin’s engaging storytelling style brings the madcap world of futures trading to life, drawing you in by sharing his wild, life-threatening adventures with motorcycles, snowmobiles, race cars, farm equipment, and renegade cows while growing up on an Iowa farm. Back to the Futures will keep you riveted as he explains how to reduce risk in today’s intense arena of commodity trading. This unique book brings in other experts as well, such as Terry Duffy, CEO of the CME Group (the largest commodity trading exchange in the world), and Leo Melamed, the man who revolutionized the market with electronic trading. Together, these experts combine their knowledge and experiences to provide clarity on the following topics: Why future markets are crucial for farmers and consumers. The critical role future markets play in our financial system. The role speculators play in making these markets work. And much more. Commodity futures trading has become a vital part of doing business in America. So, get ready to learn something new–and don’t be surprised if you find yourself highly entertained along the journey!

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Ceres Books LLC

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Cat Came Back and Other Stories

By: Doug Downie

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Cat Came Back and Other Stories

By: Doug Downie

A collection of short, short stories and a novella about everyday life and the search for meaning. Influences are Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ernest Hemingway.

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1105029069

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