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Heads or Tails

23 Stories

By: F.W. Watt

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Readers with a taste for sophisticated literature will find a great deal to interest them in this collection of beautifully crafted short stories. They bring a variety of creative, illuminating, often amusing, and sometimes very affecting perspectives to a range of life experiences. Deeply observed, packed full of emotional twists and turns, they contribute a fascinating set of fully dimensional dramatis personae, engaged in impactful and recognizable states of human emotion. The stories range from wry, to rueful, to eerie, to heartbreaking and lots of things in between . . . with even a little erotic sci-fi thrown in. They're stylish, literary and a treat from first word to last. Other works by F.W. Watt After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Lannigan Set-Up The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug Where is Julius Joking Matters

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1460244265

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Loving Daughters

By: F.W. Watt

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Loving Daughters

By: F.W. Watt

Clarence Martin, a dour and testy small-town lawyer in his later sixties, likes to think he can maintain a stoical distance from the troubles of his clients, especially the women whose female nature is beyond his understanding. Yet over many years he keeps getting involved, especially with his old friend Gladys Hampton and her only child, Sarah. His dealings with them remind him of his own wife, Mary, long-divorced, for a reason he tries to forget, and his step-daughter Annabel, who like Sarah deserted an unhappy home as a teenager. Clarence gets caught up, too, in Sarah's complicated life, including a dangerous episode from which she narrowly escapes unharmed, and which he brings to account in the safe confines of his office. Her early involvements with what appear to be highly unsuitable men result in her alienation from her mother, whose burning desire to preserve the continuity of her 150 year old family estate tests all of Clarence's patience, toughness, and legal skills. Through all these personal and professional involvements, Clarence struggles to deal with the challenges, limitations, and humiliating mistakes of his own maleness. Perhaps they keep him from fully understanding the passionate affairs of the mothers and daughters in whose lives he plays so central a role. But in the end he can share the joy of an event that transcends all barriers between the sexes. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug The Lannigan Set-Up Joking Matters Where is Julius

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1460244303

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It's Over It's Beginning Again

By: F. W. Watt

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It's Over It's Beginning Again

By: F. W. Watt

F.W. Watt published It's Over It's Beginning in 1986 (The Porcupine's Quill, Inc.). More than fifty poems were included, capturing what seemed like a whole lifetime of personal experience, in contrasting country and city worlds, poems about gains and losses, successes and failures, living and dying, sorrows and celebrations. Not all the journeys, meditations and discoveries he thought at the time worthy of recording were included in this first collection. As well, there were more years still to live, more poems to be written. It was happening - again: the need to put down in words the moments that cry out to be understood, preserved and shared. Over thirty more poems about loving and losing, about sex, about trees, dogs, cats, horses, about that best kept secret of old age - that the wanting outlives the having. More laughing poems. Death-row joking while doing time in the inescapable prison called "the golden years" by people who aren't there yet. Together with those previously published poems, they make up this new book called It's Over It's Beginning Again.

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1460272323

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After the Funeral

By: F.W. Watt

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After the Funeral

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Bill Hartley's life was shaped by a panoramic sweep of Canadian history. An illiterate prairie boy, he enlisted in 1914. Survived the Great War. Returned with a British war-bride nurse and their baby. Broke the virgin Saskatchewan soil of his soldier's homestead grant. For a decade grew wheat and bore more children. Sold his farm and moved his family west, like so many others, searching for a better life in Vancouver. But there they found themselves plunged into the Great Depression. This ordeal passed easily for Tom, the youngest son, still a child during the struggles that drove his father into a frustrating attempt to educate himself and escape poverty. Looking back at his father's life, both having achieved success after the Second World War, Tom is caught up in his effort to understand the challenges his father endured. His strengths and weaknesses. The obstacles he overcame. The mistakes he made. And also the many ways, through the best and worst of times, that Tom's mother bravely played out her wifely part. How should his father be judged? In what ways, if at all, is it Like Father Like Son? Tom is helped in his judgments by Max, family friend, almost an older brother, who has his own father-son relation to puzzle over. Both have complex memories of Bill Hartley's turbulent life as it touched theirs. Finally they may only agree that for all the sadness, there is life worth living after the funeral. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories Loving Daughters The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug The Lannigan Set-Up Joking Matters Where is Julius

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1460244281

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The Youth Drug

By: F.W. Watt

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The Youth Drug

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John Hornby and Norman Shearer are two middle-aged Canadian doctors deeply engaged in the search for a cancer cure. Their quest is beginning to show promising but somewhat puzzling developments, when they are lured away from Toronto to join a research center in California. There they are guaranteed more freedom to conduct their work, wherever it may lead them, reluctant as they are to leave behind patients they are carefully observing and treating - especially the star of the TV Blue Network, Faye Delisle. Chadwick Hamilton, an immensely wealthy business man with his own motives for enlisting them, supports a private lab in Notlimah, his enormous, spectacular, innovative country estate near Los Angeles. When they take up their residence and their work in Notlimah they are drawn into bizarre life-changing experiences for themselves and for those close to them, including Shearer's needful wife and restless teen-age daughter. For, adjacent to their new research center is Notlimah's sprawling idyllic commune, overseen by Hamilton's estranged son, Garth, whose job is to guide and nourish a unique environment in which young people can thrive freely and creatively. In this remarkable setting, the Hornby-Shearer medical research project veers into unchartered territory, where the human dream of everlasting youth emerges to collide with the realities of incurable disease and inescapable old age. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Road to Sutton The Lannigan Set-Up Joking Matters Where is Julius

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1460244362

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The Road to Sutton

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The Road to Sutton

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David Pearce, a government research psychologist living under the threat of a second heart attack, is engaged in a bitter and self-centered search for happiness that estranges him from his wife and child. David’s restless mental energies lead him to fill his “Idea Bin” with fragments of curious knowledge and speculation in his efforts to understand himself. To pursue bizarre research projects like the study he half-mockingly calls Disphallic Men and Clitoral Women: the Dilemma of Our Time. He drinks too much and behaves outrageously in his social circle. He takes up horseback riding and is drawn into the country life of horse breeding and training by his passion for a much younger woman, Caroline. Her past sexual relationships, real and fancied, and his wild jealousy, drive him along a strange and dangerous route towards self-destruction. This is a novel of many moods – drunken hilarity, satire, pathos, the ecstasy of sexual fulfillment and the grief of betrayal and loss. It ends in sadness, but the sadness is buoyed up by the book’s moments of comedy and its continuing mental and verbal exuberance. It is in fact a curiously happy trip, though with unpredictable sometimes painful stops and starts, daring to venture boldly through unmapped regions of the mind and heart. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Youth Drug The Lannigan Set-Up Joking Matters Where is Julius

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1460244354

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The Lannigan Set-Up

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The Lannigan Set-Up

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What begins as a shocking discovery of a drowning victim in a private lake in rural Ontario leads into a web of crime and politics with wider city, provincial, and even international complications. Mr. Lannigan of Lannigan and Ferris, a powerful business empire based in Toronto, but the target of veiled U.S. interests, finds his secluded semi-retirement haven north of the City invaded by platoons of police from local towns and by provincial detectives. They are trying to solve the mysteries surrounding the gruesome death on a property which was set up to protect Lannigan from the outside world, as well as to satisfy a hobby dear to this prominent but secretive citizen in his old age. Morgan Streit, an up and coming executive of Lannigan and Ferris, is charged with the job of winning the Toronto riding of the Finance Minister, whose re-election would serve the needs of the corporation and its U.S. interested party. His involvement with and his uneasy sense of responsibility for his wife's au pair girl drag him into depths ahead for them both. In the end, Mr. Roger Ducharme, the ruthless private secretary for Mr. Lannigan, along with his physically imposing and brutal chauffeur, Spade, may meet the ugly fates they truly deserve. But perhaps it is Mr. Lannigan himself who best survives the terrible events, riding his favorite hobby to rest in a place of quiet comfort where his partner Mr. Ferris has found peace before him. Other works by F.W. Watt: Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug Joking Matters Where is Julius

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Where is Julius

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Where is Julius

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When Julius Field, elderly professor of classical philosophy, is admitted to hospital, his wife Edith and their two sons, Rupert and Melvin, are drawn closer to each other by their shared concern. Alone and bed-ridden, Professor Field endures the necessary medical procedures, and the personal and career memories and self assessments that invade his mind, some happy, sustaining, some autumnal, deeply saddening. Meanwhile, Rupert and Melvin, the elder a family man with a solid business career, the younger still leading a feckless and unsettled life, discover how much they have in common despite how far apart their paths seem to have strayed. Melvin played a part in the troubled story of Rupert's marriage and entry into the world of international business. Rupert stood behind his brother when Melvin's wayward life reached its dangerous nadir. And now, in their different ways, they try to support each other and their mother in this time of radical need. Edith Field's final response to the family crisis is not entirely what might have been predicted. She seems to have survived as well as or even better than the others. At summer's end, we see her transforming herself, revisiting her family history bravely to see the past, present, and future as beautiful. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug The Lannigan Set-Up Joking Matters

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1460244397

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Joking Matters

By: F.W. Watt

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Joking Matters

By: F.W. Watt

Professor Felix Hart and his wife Jessica are an expatriate English couple carrying baggage from their different pasts into their Toronto mid-life crises. For her, the early death of an idealized first husband has left a deep need for security, something Felix is unable to supply. For him, a two year medical trauma after a near fatal car accident seems to keep him struggling to take seriously anything in his personal or university life. Felix, though amused and flattered by a visit to his wife's psychiatrist at her insistence, is himself drawn to misfits. Lisa (a hospital nurse), who eased his hospital pains, but later almost drags him into her own mired marital affairs. Alison (an English Department colleague he tries to help), enduring a brutal husband's sadism. A second Alison (a young student needing his comfort), having a dangerous affair with a married fellow professor. Louis Fein (a popular visiting scholar), whose mock theory is that every human relationship is a flirtation. Eleanor (working at CBC Television), a 29 year old virgin who perhaps handles Felix's sex counseling wisely. In the end, his tennis playing partner and divorce lawyer friend Max, together with his needful wife Jessica, bring Felix to wonder whether real life should be more than just escapism into modern versions of jocosa materia, the old comic tales which are the subject of his serious academic research. More fiction by F.W. Watt Heads or Tails 23 Stories After the Funeral Loving Daughters The Road to Sutton The Youth Drug The Lannigan Set-Up Where is Julius

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A British Profession of Arms

The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

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A British Profession of Arms

The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

“You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the British soldier, like any other professional, was motivated by considerations of material reward and career advancement. Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts. Beckett examines the role of personality, politics, and patronage in the selection and promotion of officers. He looks, too, at the internal and external influences that extended from the press and public opinion to the rivalry of the so-called rings of adherents of major figures such as Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. In particular, he considers these processes at play in high command in the Second Afghan War (1878–81), the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and the South African War (1899–1902). Based on more than thirty years of research into surviving official, semiofficial, and private correspondence, Beckett’s work offers an intimate and occasionally amusing picture of what might affect an officer’s career: wealth, wives, and family status; promotion boards and strategic preferences; performance in the field and diplomatic outcomes. It is a remarkable depiction of the British profession of arms, unparalleled in breadth, depth, and detail.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806162015

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9780806162010

The Death of Albert Johnson

Mad Trapper of Rat River

By: F. W. Anderson,Art Downs

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The Death of Albert Johnson

Mad Trapper of Rat River

By: F. W. Anderson,Art Downs

Annotation It took a posse of trappers, soldiers, Natives, and the RCMP six weeks and four shootouts to nab Albert Johnson, subject of one of the greatest manhunts of all time.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1894384032

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A Guide to English Literature

By: F. W. Bateson

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A Guide to English Literature

By: F. W. Bateson

At first glance A Guide to English Literature may seem to be no more than a short bibliography of English literature with perhaps rather more extensive--and certainly more outspoken--comments on the principal editions, commentaries, biographies, and critical works than bibliographies usually provide. But it is something more: this guide contains long "inter-chapters" that provide reinterpretations of the principal periods of English literature in the light of modern research, as well as two final sections summarizing in unusual detail the literary criticism that exists in English and recent scholarship in the field. The purpose of this book, then, is to provide the reader with convenient access to a disciplined study of the texts themselves. This guide proposes itself as a new kind of literary history. The conventional history of literature has often tended to become a substitute for the reading of the literature it describes: the better the history, the greater the temptation to substitute it. The present combination of reading lists and inter-chapters cannot be a substitute for anything else. Meaningless as literature in themselves, they nevertheless provide the necessary preliminary information to meaningful reading. Since oddities of arrangement derive from these assumptions, the authors are not arranged alphabetically. Instead there are chronological compartments--with the divisions circa 1500, 1650, and 1800--in which authors succeed each other in the order of their births. This pioneering handbook is primarily a bibliographical laborsaving device. It is meant mostly for students and the general reader in that it stops where original research by the reader is expected to begin. However, the last chapter on literary scholarship is devoted specifically to the research specialist and provides indispensable equipment for the reader. There is also a general section on literary criticism which will be of use to all. F.W. Bateson (1901-1978) was University Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College. Founder and editor of the periodical Essays in Criticism, he is also editor of the four-volume Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the author of a number of critical studies of English poetry and drama.

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AldineTransaction

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1412844940

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The Great War

1914-1918

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

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The Great War

1914-1918

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

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Routledge

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1317866142

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On Biblical Poetry

By: F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp

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On Biblical Poetry

By: F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp

On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects just like any other verse tradition, and therefore biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems, using the same critical tools and with the same kinds of guiding assumptions in place. He offers a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, each aspiring to alter currently regnant conceptualizations in the field and to show that attention to aspects of prosody--rhythm, lineation, and the like--allied with close reading can yield interesting, valuable, and even pleasurable interpretations. What distinguishes the verse of the Bible, says Dobbs-Allsopp, is its historicity and cultural specificity, those peculiar encrustations and encumbrances that typify all human artifacts. Both the literary and the historical, then, are in view throughout. The concluding essay elaborates a close reading of Psalm 133. This chapter enacts the final movement to the set of literary and historical arguments mounted throughout the volume--an example of the holistic staging which, Dobbs-Allsopp argues, is much needed in the field of Biblical Studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0190463538

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Experimental Modelling in Engineering

By: F. W. David,H. Nolle

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Experimental Modelling in Engineering

By: F. W. David,H. Nolle

Experimental Modelling in Engineering presents the principles of experimental modeling methodically and in such a generalized manner that they may lend themselves to application in practically all fields of technology. The book covers related topics such as modeling based on conditions of similarity; units and dimensions; the applications of homogeneity and dimensionally homogenous equations in the field; and the selection of variables in dimensional analysis. Also covered in the book are topics such as the use of models in experiments; the principle of similarity; examples in experimental modeling; and problems in dimensional analysis and model design. The text is recommended for engineers who would like to know more about the principles, concepts, behind experimental modeling, as well as its applications in engineering and other related fields.

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Elsevier

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1483102025

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The Making of the First World War

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

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The Making of the First World War

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as much as strategy, the small as well as the great, the social as well as the military, and the long term as much as the short term. The Making of the First World War is global in scope. The book travels from the deliberately flooded fields of Belgium to the picture palaces of Britain's cinema, from the idealism of Wilson's Washington to the catastrophic German Lys offensive of 1918. While war is itself an agent of change, Beckett shows, the most significant developments occur not only on the battlefields or in the corridors of power, but also in hearts and minds. Nor may the decisive turning points during years of conflict be those that were thought to be so at the time. With its wide reach and unexpected conclusions, this book revises—and expands—our understanding of the legacy of the First World War.

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Yale University Press

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0300163665

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9780300163667

Titan

The Earth-like Moon

By: Athena Coustenis,Fred Taylor,F. W. Taylor

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Titan

The Earth-like Moon

By: Athena Coustenis,Fred Taylor,F. W. Taylor

This is the first book to deal with Titan, one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system. The largest satellite of the giant planet Saturn, Titan is itself larger than the planet Mercury, and is unique in being the only known moon with a thick atmosphere. In addition, its atmosphere bears a startling resemblance to the Earth's, but is much colder. The American and European space agencies, NASA and ESA, have recently combined efforts to send a huge robot spacecraft to orbit Saturn and land on Titan. This book provides the background to this, the greatest deep space venture of our time, and sets the scene for what may be found when the spacecraft arrives in 2004.

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World Scientific

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9810239211

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9789810239213

Radiation and Climate

By: Ilias M. Vardavas,Ilias Vardavas,F. W. Taylor,Frederic Taylor

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Radiation and Climate

By: Ilias M. Vardavas,Ilias Vardavas,F. W. Taylor,Frederic Taylor

This new book describes the basic physics of solar and infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Radiation theory is related to the development of climate prediction models, and to measurement techniques for monitoring the Earth's energy budget and making remote sensing observations from satellites.

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Oxford University Press

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0199227470

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9780199227471

Imperial China, 900–1800

By: F. W. Mote

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Imperial China, 900–1800

By: F. W. Mote

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period.

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Harvard University Press

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0674256484

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