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Authentic Faith

The Power of a Fire-Tested Life

By: Gary Thomas

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Authentic Faith

The Power of a Fire-Tested Life

By: Gary Thomas

This book provides an inspiring, positive approach to what some call the negative truths of Scripture and presents a timeless but contemporary look at faith's real attributes of sacrifice, selfless love, and discipleship at a time when society, and even the Christian community, is focused on blessing and comfort.

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Zondervan

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0310254191

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Entrepreneurship

A True Life Story with Lessons to Be Learned

By: Gary W. Smith

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Entrepreneurship

A True Life Story with Lessons to Be Learned

By: Gary W. Smith

Entrepreneurship By: Gary W. Smith In this guide for budding business entrepreneurs, Gary W. Smith details his personal experiences and his inherent drive for success that allowed him to take the risks involved in developing a new business. He details his entire journey, from humble beginnings to eventually running his own business. Readers can journey alongside Smith as he both makes winning business decisions and human business mistakes. Smith describes the peaks and valleys of running a business and equips his reader to prepare for the most unpredictable aspects of business management. This book serves as an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to develop and execute his or her own business plan.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480957542

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The Joshua Accounts

By: Gary Fuss

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The Joshua Accounts

By: Gary Fuss

The Joshua Accounts is a biography, interwoven with Scriptural exposition highlighting signs, wonders, and miracles. The author is a graduate of Grove City College, PA, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Thirty years of experience in evangelism and pastoring took place in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Florida. This includes the United Methodist Church, Southern Baptist, Church of God, Charismatic, and street ministry to the homeless. The writer's passion is for winning souls, making disciples, and exalting the Lord Jesus Christ. He currently leads interdenominational weekly "fire" prayer meetings called Ephesians 4. May the believers' fruits be clearly manifested, Holy Spirit giftings be in full activation, daily Holy Communion be celebrated, and "Jesus" journaling abound

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Xulon Press

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1619966069

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Improvement of the Ozonation Process Through the Use of Static Mixers

By: C. Mysore,J. Leparc,Daniel W. Smith,S. Craik,G. Finch,R. Lake,P. Agutter,C. de Traversay,D. Wolbert,Gary Amy

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Improvement of the Ozonation Process Through the Use of Static Mixers

By: C. Mysore,J. Leparc,Daniel W. Smith,S. Craik,G. Finch,R. Lake,P. Agutter,C. de Traversay,D. Wolbert,Gary Amy

Among the known disinfectants, ozone has been demonstrated to be very effective in inactivating protozoans. Current and proposed regulations impose additional treatment requirements for Cryptosporidium parvum. These regulatory trends tend to place more stringent performance demands on disinfection systems and have therefore increased the need for improvements in the design. The static mixer offers one alternative method for improving the efficiency of the dissolution of ozone and optimizing its use in the disinfection process.The overall objective of this research was to quantify the potential benefits of ozone application through the use of static mixers in terms of increased transfer efficiency, disinfection capacity, and enhanced chemical reactions at laboratory-, pilot-, and full-scale systems. Specific goals were to identify and quantify the effect of several water quality parameters and environmental/engineered factors on the disinfection capacity of the ozone-static mixer system and assess bromate formation under optimum conditions for microbial inactivation.Originally published by AwwaRF for its subscribers in 2003 This publication can also be purchased and downloaded via Pay Per View on Water Intelligence Online - click on the Pay Per View icon below

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IWA Publishing

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1843398486

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This Is Your Time

Make Every Moment Count

By: Michael W. Smith,Gary Lee Thomas

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This Is Your Time

Make Every Moment Count

By: Michael W. Smith,Gary Lee Thomas

This beautiful and moving gift book, inspired by a song from Michael W. Smith's new CD, challenges Christian youth to live their lives as if this is their time to influence the world.

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Thomas Nelson Inc

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0785270353

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9780785270355

Life Changing Thoughts

Thousands of Inspiring, Life-changing, and Humorous Thoughts

By: Gary W. Smith

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Life Changing Thoughts

Thousands of Inspiring, Life-changing, and Humorous Thoughts

By: Gary W. Smith

LIFE CHANGING THOUGHTS is a book difficult to put down. One moment you will find yourself laughing; the next moment, you find yourself in deep meditation. The book contains thousands of inspiring, life changing, worshipful and humorous thoughts. There are nearly 700 pages with almost 500 different topics categorized alphabetically. Some of the book's topics are God and the Bible, character, faith, fullness, the family and home, leadership, patriotic thoughts, prayer and victorious living. The book even contains great seasonal thoughts for thanksgiving, Christmas and the Resurrection. As a young man, the author began collecting life-changing thoughts for his own personal use. It was not long until he was using the thoughts and poems within his own writings and sermons. Over a thirty-five year period, the collection of inspiring thoughts grew from only a few to number into the thousands. As the collection grew so did the author's ability to compose and write his own thoughts and poems. Many of these are included within this book. The book is a great resource for pastors, teachers, speechmakers, communicators and leaders. You will find the life-changing thoughts beneficial for your own edification and enjoyment. In addition, the book provides you with a wealth of inspiring and motivating thoughts to share with other people. The author hopes you are blessed by reading and sharing these thoughts, as he has been from compiling and writing them. "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!" (KJV, Proverbs 15:23)

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1438970579

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Volunteers in the Texas Revolution

The New Orleans Greys

By: Gary Brown

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Volunteers in the Texas Revolution

The New Orleans Greys

By: Gary Brown

The New Orleans Greys were a group of young men, out for the adventure and money to be gained from war. This book details the importance of their participation in the Battle of the Alamo, as well as several other battles in the rebellion of 1835. Historian Brown has taken some little known history and created a fascinating and well-crafted story for the mainstream reader.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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0585235716

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Oil Shale Development in the United States

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Lloyd Dixon,D. J. Peterson,Gary Cecchine

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Oil Shale Development in the United States

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Lloyd Dixon,D. J. Peterson,Gary Cecchine

In the early 1980s, industry and government took a hard look at the economics of extracting oil from vast deposits of shale that lie beneath the western United States. Oil prices subsided, and interest waned. With oil prices spiking and global demand showing no signs of abating, reexamining the economics of oil shale makes sense. In this report, the authors describe oil shale resources; suitability, cost, and performance of new technologies; and key policy issues that need to be addressed by government decisionmakers in the near future.

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Rand Corporation

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0833041002

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Setting the Agenda

Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives

By: Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins

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Setting the Agenda

Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives

By: Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521853796

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9780521853798

Kut 1916: Courage and Failure in Iraq

The Forgotten British Disaster in Iraq

By: Patrick Crowley,Gary Sheffield

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Kut 1916: Courage and Failure in Iraq

The Forgotten British Disaster in Iraq

By: Patrick Crowley,Gary Sheffield

The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the oilfields in the Shatt-al-Arab delta and Basra area. Initially it was a great success, but as the army pressed towards Baghdad its poor logistic support, training, equipment and command left it isolated and besieged by the Turks.By 1916 the army had not been relieved, and on 29 April 1916, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its military history. Major-General Sir Charles Townshend surrendered his allied force to the Turks in the Mesopotamian (now Iraq) town of Kut-al-Amara. Over 13,000 troops, British and Indian, went into captivity; many would not survive their incarceration. In Kut 1916, Colonel Crowley recounts this dramatic tale and its terrible aftermath.

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The History Press

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0750962585

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9780750962582

Lee and His Army in Confederate History

By: Gary W. Gallagher

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Lee and His Army in Confederate History

By: Gary W. Gallagher

Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807857696

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9780807857694

The Day Dixie Died

The Battle of Atlanta

By: Gary Ecelbarger

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The Day Dixie Died

The Battle of Atlanta

By: Gary Ecelbarger

A history of one of the most important battles waged on American soil that changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election. In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of President Abraham Lincoln’s conduct of the war threatened to halt US war efforts to save the Union. On the morning of July 22, 1864, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood squared off against the Army of the Tennessee led by General James B. McPherson just southeast of Atlanta. Having replaced General Joseph E. Johnston just four days earlier, Hood had been charged with the duty of reversing a Confederate retreat and meeting the Union army head on. The resulting Battle of Atlanta was a monstrous affair fought in the stifling Georgia summer heat. During it, a dreadful foreboding arose among the Northerners as the battle was undecided and dragged on for eight interminable hours. Hood’s men tore into US forces with unrelenting assault after assault. Furthermore, for the first and only time during the war, a US army commander was killed in battle, and in the wake of his death, the Union army staggered. Dramatically, General John “Black Jack” Logan stepped into McPherson’s command, rallied the troops, and grimly fought for the rest of the day. In the end, ten thousand men—one out of every six—became casualties on that fateful day, but the Union lines had held. Having survived the incessant onslaught from the men in grey, Union forces then placed the city of Atlanta under siege, and the city’s inevitable fall would gain much-needed, positive publicity for Lincoln’s reelection campaign against the peace platform of former Union general George B. McClellan. Renowned Civil War historian Gary Ecelbarger is in his element here, re-creating the personal and military dramas lived out by generals and foot soldiers alike, and shows how the battle was the game-changing event in the larger Atlanta Campaign and subsequent March to the Sea that brought an eventual end to the bloodiest war in American history. This is gripping military history at its best and a poignant narrative of the day Dixie truly died.

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Macmillan

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1429945753

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Controversies in White-Collar Crime

By: Gary W. Potter

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Controversies in White-Collar Crime

By: Gary W. Potter

Original writings explore the issue of white-collar crime and the controversies that surround it, focusing on the vastness of state-corporate and white-collar crime, the victimization that results, and the ways these crimes affect society environmentally, politically, economically and personally. The chapters written for this volume tackle all the major controversies related to white-collar crime: issues of definition, questions of harm and cost, conflicts of interest in enforcement and control, and questions of public policy.

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Routledge

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1437755208

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9781437755206

Newgate Narratives Vol 1

By: Gary Kelly

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Newgate Narratives Vol 1

By: Gary Kelly

Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

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Routledge

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1351221418

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Binding Earth and Heaven

Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism

By: Gary Shepherd,Gordon Shepherd

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Binding Earth and Heaven

Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism

By: Gary Shepherd,Gordon Shepherd

In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition. Initial scorn and contempt for Mormonism—the fledgling creation of the young Joseph Smith—quickly elevated to mob violence as both Smith’s innovative teachings and converted followers proliferated, resulting in the widely held perception that the Mormons constituted a social menace. This book examines how Mormonism attracted and maintained the loyalty of increasing numbers of people despite mounting hostilities and severe hardships. The book focuses on the unique Mormon ritual (and accompanying doctrinal underpinnings) of “patriarchal blessings.” Patriarchal blessings were an innovative adaptation of the Old Testament practice of fathers making quasi-legal pronouncements over the heads of their sons—a way of verbally conferring rights, promises, admonition, and guidance to heirs. Binding Earth and Heaven shows how the organizational complexities of this practice contributed to strengthening and sustaining member faith and fealty, thereby bolstering the continuity and development of Mormonism.

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Penn State Press

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027106949X

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9780271069494

Shipmates

The Men of LCS 52 in World War II

By: Gary Burns

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Shipmates

The Men of LCS 52 in World War II

By: Gary Burns

In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet long and 23 feet wide, and headed toward the sound of gunfire. One of a class of gunboats known as "mighty midgets," LCS 52 carried an arsenal equal to ships twice its size. Yet its shallow draft enabled it to maneuver to within a few hundred feet of any beach. Packed inside the tiny craft, the diverse crew were farmers, students, cooks and teachers. They ranged from age 17 to middle-aged--a few had seen combat in the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book tells the story of the ship's extensive service in World War II's Pacific Theater. Most of the crew survived the war, as did LCS 52 itself, serving in the U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force until 1958, when it was decommissioned and used for artillery practice. A roll call of crew members is included, with biographical information when available.

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McFarland

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1476666873

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Marriage

By: Gary D. Chapman,Stephen W. Smith

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Marriage

By: Gary D. Chapman,Stephen W. Smith

Life is not a flow chart. We weren't meant to master it on our own. The discussion guides in the Transformation of a Man's Heart series put us in conversation with God and with one another to see how God shapes and transforms us in the ordinary experiences of our lives.This guide by Stephen W. Smith and Gary Chapman demystifies marriage for men.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830821473

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The Search for Social Salvation

Social Christianity and America, 1880-1925

By: Gary Scott Smith

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The Search for Social Salvation

Social Christianity and America, 1880-1925

By: Gary Scott Smith

In their studies of social Christianity, scholars of American religion have devoted critical attention to a group of theologically liberal pastors, primarily in the Northeast. Gary Scott Smith attempts to paint a more complete picture of the movement. Smith's ambitious and thorough study amply demonstrates how social Christianity--which included blacks, women, Southerners, and Westerners--worked to solve industrial, political, and urban problems; reduce racial discrimination; increase the status of women; curb drunkenness and prostitution; strengthen the family; upgrade public schools; and raise the quality of public health. In his analysis of the available scholarship and case studies of individuals, organizations, and campaigns central to the movement, Smith makes a convincing case that social Christianity was the most widespread, long-lasting, and influential religious social reform movement in American history.

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Lexington Books

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073910196X

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Handbook of Grignard Reagents

By: Gary S. Silverman,Philip E. Rakita

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Handbook of Grignard Reagents

By: Gary S. Silverman,Philip E. Rakita

This handbook provides the theoretical and practical information necessary to explore new applications for Grignard reagents on a day-to-day basis, presenting a comprehensive overview of current research activities in Grignard chemistry. This book surveys specific reactions and applications of Grignard reagents, organized by type of substrate and t

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CRC Press

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1482273373

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

This first volume of a remarkable four-volume set on the birds of British Columbia covers eight-six species of nonpasserines, from loons through to waterfowl. Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns. Introductory chapters look at the province’s ornithological history, its environment and the methodology used in the volumes.

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UBC Press

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0774844434

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 4

Wood Warblers through Old World Sparrows

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 4

Wood Warblers through Old World Sparrows

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

This much-awaited final volume of The Birds of British Columbia completes what some have called one of the most important regional ornithological works in North America. It is the culmination of more than 25 years of effort by the authors who, with the assistance of thousands of dedicated volunteers throughout the province, have created the basic reference work on the avifauna of British Columbia. Volume 4 covers the last half of the passerines and describes 102 species, including the warblers, sparrows, grosbeaks, blackbirds, and finches. The text builds upon the authoritative format of the previous volumes and is supported by hundreds of full-colour illustrations, including detailed distribution maps, unique habitat shots, and beautiful photographs of the birds, their nests, eggs, and young. In addition, a species update lists and describes 27 species of birds new to the province since the first three volumes were published. The book concludes with Synopsis: The Birds of British Columbia into the 21st Century, which synthesizes data and information from all four volumes and looks at the conservation challenges facing birds in the new millennium. The four volumes in The Birds of British Columbia provide unprecedented coverage of the region's birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, regional environment, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality and distribution patterns of 472 species of birds. It is the complete reference work for birdwatchers, ornithologists and naturalists.

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UBC Press

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0774806214

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Decade of the Wolf

Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

By: Douglas Smith,Gary Ferguson

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Decade of the Wolf

Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

By: Douglas Smith,Gary Ferguson

In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. The wolves have not only survived but completely changed the ecosystem, spilling a fresh measure of wildness across the world’s first national park. This updated edition includes additional wolf profiles, newinformation on the effects of climate change and disease, and a retrospective on what the scientists have learned during this extended study of the Yellowstone wolves.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762785667

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Passerines - Flycatchers through Vireos

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall,G. E. John Smith

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Passerines - Flycatchers through Vireos

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall,G. E. John Smith

British Columbia has one of the richest assemblages of bird species in the world. The four volumes of The Birds of British Columbia provide unprecedented coverage of this region's birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns of each of the 472 species of birds. This third volume, covering the first half of the passerines, builds on the authoritative format of the previous bestselling volumes. It contains 89 species, including common ones such as swallows, jays, crows, wrens, thrushes, and starlings. The text is supported by hundreds of full-colour pictures, including unique habitat photographs, detailed distribution maps, and beautiful illustrations of the birds, their nests, eggs, and young. The Birds of British Columbia is a complete reference work for bird-watchers, ornithologists, and naturalists who want in-depth information on the province's regularly occurring and rare birds.

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0774844396

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Point Blank

Guns and Violence in America

By: Gary Kleck

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Point Blank

Guns and Violence in America

By: Gary Kleck

By 1990 there were approximately 200 million guns in private hands in the United States, and around half of American households contained a gun. Over 30,000 people a year are killed with guns in suicides, homicides, and accidents, and Americans use guns for defensive purposes as many as a million times a year. There is little doubt that gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, and they continue to inspire national debate. It is doubtful, however, that most gun debates are worth listening to. Not surprisingly, they generally leave their participants exactly where they began, with their biases intact, and onlookers perplexed. Written deliberately to counter an atmosphere of hysteria and extremism, Point Blank, now in paperback, offers logical argument supported by empirical information. It confronts fundamental questions head-on. On its initial publication in 1993, Point Black won the Michael J. Hindelang Award of the American Society of Criminology for the book that "made the most outstanding contribution to criminology," Point Blank reports both original research and assesses existing evidence drawn from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including criminology, sociology, law, and medicine.

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Routledge

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1351499351

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Hard Oiler!

The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

By: Gary May

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Hard Oiler!

The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

By: Gary May

A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss. An unlikely trio indeed. And yet these three seemingly unconnected elements came together at just the right moment in time, to create one of the great but little known stories of Canada’s early years. Hard Oiler! is the story of how oil was discovered near Sarnia, Ontario, one hundred and forty years ago, and how the subsequent exploitation of that oil gave birth to what is arguably the world’s most important industry today. This great Canadian milestone can be traced back to the summer of 1858 when James Miller Williams struck oil in Lambton County, in Southwestern Ontario. Soon thereafter Williams dug the first commercial oil well in North America - if not the world - and began refining and marketing his product as machine lubricant and lighting oil. This set off a chain of events that resulted in the establishment of an industry on which our very life today is so heavily dependent. Hard Oiler! traces these events including the gold rush-like frenzy that saw the overnight rise and decline of the frontier town of Oil Springs, and the creation of the much more permanent community of Petrolia, which still flashes its Victorian charm to this day. It also recalls the exotic adventures of Lambton oil drillers as they travelled the globe opening up oil fields from Java to the Ukraine, and from America to Venezuela and the Middle East.

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Dundurn

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1459713125

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Accountics, Part I

April 1897 to March 1898

By: Gary John Previts

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Accountics, Part I

April 1897 to March 1898

By: Gary John Previts

Originally published in this format and including this Foreword in 1992, this volume contains Accountics: The Office Magazine from April 1987 to March 1898. Accountics contains technical papers reflecting issues of the times, photo portraits and biographical sketches of leaders, rosters of organizations, news items, announcements, correspondence and professional advertisements.

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0429627289

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Targeting Guns

Firearms and Their Control

By: Gary Kleck

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Targeting Guns

Firearms and Their Control

By: Gary Kleck

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning volume, Point Blank, while updating the literature reviews and statistical information, and adding two chapters.

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1351486977

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Legislative Leviathan

Party Government in the House

By: Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins

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Legislative Leviathan

Party Government in the House

By: Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Re-evaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of 'legislative cartel'. These cartels seize the power, theoretically resident in the House, to make rules governing the structure and process of legislation. Most of the cartel's efforts are focused on securing control of the legislative agenda for its members. The first edition of this book had significant influence on the study of American politics and is essential reading for students of Congress, the presidency, and the political party system.

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