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Ecosystems of California

By: Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta

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This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.

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Univ of California Press

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0520278801

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Scarcity and Growth

The Economics of Natural Resource Availability

By: Harold J. Barnett,Chandler Morse

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Scarcity and Growth

The Economics of Natural Resource Availability

By: Harold J. Barnett,Chandler Morse

In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957. Originally published in 1963

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Routledge

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1135989109

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I Remember Laurier

Reflections by Retirees on Life at WLU

By: Harold Remus

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I Remember Laurier

Reflections by Retirees on Life at WLU

By: Harold Remus

I Remember Laurier is the story—actually, thirty-seven stories—of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the university whose growth, diversification, research, and partnerships characterize it today. Although the stories are diverse in content, viewpoint, and tone, readers will note a number of unifying themes, one being nostalgia for a small university where faculty, staff, and students were close and new initiatives were readily approved and easily implemented. Here too are reflections, sometimes bemused and sprinkled with humour, on professors, administrators, and students, the “Laurier Experience,” and significant events such as “WLU” becoming “WLU” (Waterloo Lutheran University was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973). Evident throughout is the pride of the contributors in the development of the university to its current status and in having played a role. In the photo album at the back of the book readers will find vintage prints of the authors and of many others mentioned in the book. More photos will soon be available on the website of the Wilfrid Laurier Retirees’ Association: http://www.wlu.ca/retirees.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554584116

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Blood Royal

By: Harold Robbins,Junius Podrug

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Blood Royal

By: Harold Robbins,Junius Podrug

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became the norm as the fairy tale turned into a horror story. After suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her husband, the heir to the British throne, she shot him with one of his own antique pistols. Paranoid that her own attorneys would deceive her, the princess reaches across the Atlantic to hire someone she knows for certain has no ties to the Crown. Marlowe James is an American trial lawyer. Running away from an abusive home, she supported herself by working as a waitress, rising to become a famous trial lawyer. Marlowe James has been dubbed the "burning bed lawyer" by the news media because of her successful defense of women who killed their abusive husbands. And to top that, she was the accused in her first murder trial. Now she not only has to do battle in the Old Bailey with barristers loyal to the Crown, she has to come to grips with her own feelings about a woman who has been handed everything any woman would desire---and throws it all away. The explosive tale that will be exposed in the courtroom is one of jealous rage and unfulfilled desires, of sexual deceit by one of the most powerful men on earth---and the bloody revenge enacted by a woman scorned.

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Macmillan

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0765347229

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Nose Dive

A Field Guide to the World's Smells

By: Harold McGee

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Nose Dive

A Field Guide to the World's Smells

By: Harold McGee

The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, and everything in between – from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good Cooking From Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the long-overlooked world of smell. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and the extraordinary (ambergris and truffles), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the challenging (swamplands and durians). We'll smell one another. We'll smell ourselves. Through it all, McGee familiarizes us with the actual bits of matter that we breathe in—the molecules that trigger our perceptions, that prompt the citrusy smells of coriander and beer and the medicinal smells of daffodils and sea urchins. And like everything in the physical world, molecules have histories. Many of the molecules that we smell every day existed long before any creature was around to smell them—before there was even a planet for those creatures to live on. Beginning with the origins of those molecules in interstellar space, McGee moves onward through the smells of our planet, the air and the oceans, the forest and the meadows and the city, all the way to the smells of incense, perfume, wine, and food. Here is a story of the world, of every smell under our collective nose. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Nose Dive distills the science behind the smells and translates it, as only McGee can, into an accessible and entertaining guide. Incorporating the latest insights of biology and chemistry, and interweaving them with personal observations, he reveals how our sense of smell has the power to expose invisible, intangible details of our material world and trigger in us feelings that are the very essence of being alive.

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Penguin

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1984881876

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Of Plymouth Plantation

By: William Bradford,Harold Paget

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Of Plymouth Plantation

By: William Bradford,Harold Paget

The most important source of information about Plymouth, this landmark account was written by the colony's governor. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' transatlantic crossing and early days in the settlement.

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Courier Corporation

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0486452603

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Jack Ward Thomas

The Journals of a Forest Service Chief

By: Harold K. Steen

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Jack Ward Thomas

The Journals of a Forest Service Chief

By: Harold K. Steen

Jack Ward Thomas, an eminent wildlife biologist and U.S. Forest Service career scientist, was drafted in the late 1980s to head teams of scientists developingstrategies for managing the habitat of the northern spotted owl. That assignment led to his selection as Forest Service chief during the early years of the Clinton administration. It is history�s good fortune that Thomas kept journals of his thoughts and daily experiences, and that he is a superb writer able to capture the moment with clarity and grace. The issues Thomas dealt with in office and noted in his journals lie at the heart of recent Forest Service policy and controversy, starting with President Clinton�s Timber Summit in Portland, Oregon, dealing with the spotted owl issue, and the 1994 loss of fourteen firefighters in the Storm King Mountain fire in Colorado. Against a constant backdrop of partisan politics in the White House and Congress, Thomas discusses issues ranging from grazing in the national forests, long-term pulp timber sales in Alaska, and the Forest Service Law Enforcement Division to the New World Mine near Yellowstone National Park. He considers the timber salvage rider and its linkage to forest health, the Department of Justice and Counsel on Environmental Quality influence on Forest Service policies, and interagency management for the Columbia River Basin. Woven throughout these excerpts from his diary is Thomas�s conviction that the effective, ethical management of wildlife depends on how the management effort is situated within the broader human context, with all its intransigence and unpredictability. Writing in 1995, Thomas says, "Things simply don�t work the way that students are taught in natural resources policy classes--not even close. . . .There is simply no way that scholars of the subject can understand the ad hoc processes that go on within only loosely defined boundaries.� Wildlife management, he says, is "90 percent about people and 10 percent about animals," and when it comes to learning about people, wildlife managers are on their own. This book is the record of how one man met that challenge.

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University of Washington Press

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0295803460

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The Way of the Cell

Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life

By: Franklin M. Harold

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The Way of the Cell

Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life

By: Franklin M. Harold

What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary science to provide fresh insight into this intriguing and all-important question. What is the relationship of living things to the inanimate realm of chemistry and physics? How do lifeless but special chemicals come together to form those intricate dynamic ensembles that we recognize as life? To shed light on these questions, Franklin Harold focuses here on microorganisms--in particular, the supremely well-researched bacterium E. coli--because the cell is the simplest level of organization that manifests all the features of the phenomenon of life. Harold shows that as simple as they appear when compared to ourselves, every cell displays a dynamic pattern in space and time, orders of magnitude richer than its elements. It integrates the writhings and couplings of billions of molecules into a coherent whole, draws matter and energy into itself, constructs and reproduces its own order, and persists in this manner for numberless generations while continuously adapting to a changing world. A cell constitutes a unitary whole, a unit of life, and in this volume one of the leading authorities on the cell gives us a vivid picture of what goes on within this minute precinct. The result is a richly detailed, meticulously crafted account of what modern science can tell us about life as well as one scientist's personal attempt to wring understanding from the tide of knowledge.

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Oxford University Press

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0198030886

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Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History

By: Harold James

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Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History

By: Harold James

With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result.

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1317317645

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An American Comedy

By: Harold Lloyd,Wesley W. Stout

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An American Comedy

By: Harold Lloyd,Wesley W. Stout

This autobiography by an influential silent film star gives an insider’s view of the motion picture industry in the early twentieth century. It’s one of the most enduring images in film history: a young man in circular glasses, dangling from the hands of a clock high above Los Angeles. The actor performing this daring stunt was Harold Lloyd, a highly successful comedian from the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly two hundred comedies, both silent and “talkies,” between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his “Glass” character, a bespectacled everyman who captured the mood of the 1920s. In this fascinating autobiography, which was written just around the time sound was revolutionizing cinema, Lloyd chronicles his experiences as a performer and producer of silent films, preserving firsthand details of Hollywood’s bygone period. This extraordinary memoir, originally published in 1928, discusses actors both comedic and dramatic, stage to film adaptations, producers, directors, and primarily, how early silent movies were made. It is a must-read for film historians and movie buffs alike.

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Open Road Media

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1504082265

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Lincoln and the Power of the Press

The War for Public Opinion

By: Harold Holzer

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Lincoln and the Power of the Press

The War for Public Opinion

By: Harold Holzer

Examines Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press, arguing that he used such intimidation and manipulation techniques as closing down dissenting newspapers, pampering favoring newspaper men, and physically moving official telegraph lines.

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1439192715

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Sea Battles on Dry Land

Essays

By: Harold Brodkey

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Sea Battles on Dry Land

Essays

By: Harold Brodkey

Sea Battles on Dry Land gathers the best of Harold Brodkey's essays into a single volume. His "One of the Rules of Foppishness" explains, with deadpan precision, just what men and women are trying to communicate to each other by the way they dress. The previously unpublished "Notes on American Fascism" eerily anticipates the violence of latter-day militia groups. And Brodkey's profile of Frank O'Hara's Harvard years stands as one of the most eloquent portraits of a legendary American writer.

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Macmillan

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0805060529

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9780805060522

Brandon of the Engineers

By: Harold Bindloss

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Brandon of the Engineers

By: Harold Bindloss

Reproduction of the original: Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

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3752373563

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Under the Yew

By: Harold Bell

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Under the Yew

By: Harold Bell

Under the Yew By: Harold Bell Taking place in the late sixties and early seventies, this historical fiction follows five characters, all of different backgrounds, who emigrate to England. During a time of great idealism, the characters’ quest for finding themselves and their passions gives a sense of belonging, sharing, and thriving.

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Dorrance Publishing

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New York

By: Jesse Zuba,Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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New York

By: Jesse Zuba,Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Discusses New York City as a source of inspiration as well as a home to writers throughout history.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438115563

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Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

By: Harold Abelson,Ken Ledeen,Harry R. Lewis

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Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

By: Harold Abelson,Ken Ledeen,Harry R. Lewis

Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0137135599

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International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods

By: Mr.Harold James

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International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods

By: Mr.Harold James

This comprehensive history, published jointly by the IMF and Oxford University Press, was written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of international monetary cooperation. From the establishment of the postwar international monetary system in 1944 to how the framework functions in a vastly expanded world economy, historian Harol James describes the tensions, negotiations, challenges, and progress of international monetary cooperation. This narrative offers a global perspective on the events and decisions that have shaped the world economy during the past fifty years.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475506961

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Depraved

By: Harold Schechter

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Depraved

By: Harold Schechter

The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holmes -- who alternately posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey -- was the architect of a labyrinthine "Castle of Horrors." Holmes admitted to twenty-seven murders by the time his madhouse of trapdoors, asphyxiation devices, body chutes, and acid vats was exposed. The seminal profile of a homegrown madman in the era of Jack the Ripper, Depraved is also a mesmerizing tale of true detection long before the age of technological wizardry.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439117314

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Japanese Buddhism

By: Charles Eliot,Sir Harold George Parlett

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Japanese Buddhism

By: Charles Eliot,Sir Harold George Parlett

Written by Sir Charles Eliot (1862-1931) one of the great scholars of Eastern religion and philosophy, this book provides an in depth account of the history of Buddhism in Japan.

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Psychology Press

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0700702636

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THE PAGAN MADONNA

A Tale of a Grand Theft, Thrilling Adventure and Treasure Hunt

By: Harold MacGrath

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THE PAGAN MADONNA

A Tale of a Grand Theft, Thrilling Adventure and Treasure Hunt

By: Harold MacGrath

Humdrum isn't where you live; it's what you are. Perhaps you are one of those whose lives are bound by neighbourly interests. Imaginatively, you never seek what lies under a gorgeous sunset; you are never stirred by any longing to investigate the ends of rainbows. You are more concerned by what your neighbour does every day than by what he might do if he were suddenly spun, whirled, jolted out of his poky orbit..." Harold MacGrath was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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e-artnow

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8026878515

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In Search of Cell History

The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

By: Franklin M. Harold

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In Search of Cell History

The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

By: Franklin M. Harold

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. In this book, the author offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the controversies that keep the field in turmoil.

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University of Chicago Press

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022617428X

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All Your Base Are Belong to Us

How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture

By: Harold Goldberg

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All Your Base Are Belong to Us

How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture

By: Harold Goldberg

Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon. Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world's most popular forms of mass entertainment. But as the gaming industry grows in numerous directions and everyone talks about the advance of the moment, few explore and seek to understand the forces behind this profound evolution. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How exactly did gaming become a $50 billion industry and a dominant pop culture form? What are the stories, the people, the innovations, and the fascinations behind this incredible growth? Through extensive interviews with gaming's greatest innovators, both its icons and those unfairly forgotten by history, All Your Base Are Belong To Us sets out to answer these questions, exposing the creativity, odd theories--and passion--behind the twenty-first century's fastest-growing medium. Go inside the creation of: Grand Theft Auto * World of Warcraft * Bioshock * Kings Quest * Bejeweled * Madden Football * Super Mario Brothers * Myst * Pong * Donkey Kong * Crash Bandicoot * The 7th Guest * Tetris * Shadow Complex * Everquest * The Sims * And many more!

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Crown

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0307463559

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Leadership in The Salvation Army

A Case Study in Clericalisation

By: Harold Hill

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Leadership in The Salvation Army

A Case Study in Clericalisation

By: Harold Hill

Leadership in The Salvation Army' is a review and analysis of Salvation Army history, focused on the process of clericalisation. The Army provides a case study of the way in which renewal movements in the church institutionalise. Their leadership roles, initially merely functional and based on the principle of the 'priesthood of all believers', begin to assume greater status. the adoption of the term 'ordination' for the commissioning of The Salvation Army's officers in 1978, a hundred years after its founding, illustrates this tendency. The Salvation Army's ecclesiology has been essentially pragmatic and has developed in comparative isolation from the wider church, perhaps with a greater role being played by sociological processes than by theological reflection in its development. The Army continues to exhibit a tension between its theology, which supports equality of status, and its military structure, which works against equality, and both schools of thought flourish within its ranks.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597529206

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9781597529204

Dumbfounded Praying

By: Harold M. Best

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Dumbfounded Praying

By: Harold M. Best

Dumbfounded Praying is a book of no-limits, uninhibited praying-dumfounded praying. It is a confessing book, an idea book, a wrestling and praise-filled book, and like the Psalms, intensely personal, but certainly not private. These prayers are for everybody who is thirsty and hungry, who doubts, who might be unsure of the value of prayer; they are for anybody who wants to question, confess, praise, lament, imagine, and speculate. This book is open to all who love the richness of speech with God and want his everlasting richness to flood their minds, hearts, and circumstances in return. Prayer is more than a narrow, tidied list of "proper things" to talk to God about. Nothing is off-limits with God, for he intimately knows what fills our minds, stirs in our hearts, and frames our circumstances. God invites us to talk everything over with him, honestly, fearlessly, even imaginatively. Out of sheer love, God has eternally befriended himself to us and asks us into his confidence and in turn invites us to confide freely in him. God wants us to know that while we would rather talk than listen, he always listens before he talks, and when he does, it is always with his Word, strongly yet sweetly offered to us by his Spirit and made eternally sure by his Son. This Word is inevitably filled with mercy, love, grace, forgiveness, correction, and unblemished wisdom.

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1621892964

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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

By: Harold Schechter

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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

By: Harold Schechter

Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination. From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zeitgeist (how killers past and present embody their times)...from Groupies (even the most sadistic killer can claim devoted fans) to Marriage (the perfect domestic disguise for demented killers)...from Homebodies (psychos who slay in the comfort of their homes) to Plumbing (how clogged drains have undone the most discreet killer), THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS is the ultimate reference for anyone compelled by the personalities and pathologies behind the most disturbing of crimes.

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1439138850

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THE CURSE OF THE PIRATE GOLD: 7 Treasure Hunt Classics & A True History of Buccaneers and Their Robberies

The Gold-Bug, The Book of Buried Treasure, Treasure Island, The Pirate of Panama, Black Bartlemy's Treasure, Pieces of Eight, The Pagan Madonna, Stolen Treasure...

By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Macleod Raine,Jeffery Farnol,Richard Le Gallienne,Harold MacGrath,Howard Pyle,Ralph D. Paine

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THE CURSE OF THE PIRATE GOLD: 7 Treasure Hunt Classics & A True History of Buccaneers and Their Robberies

The Gold-Bug, The Book of Buried Treasure, Treasure Island, The Pirate of Panama, Black Bartlemy's Treasure, Pieces of Eight, The Pagan Madonna, Stolen Treasure...

By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Macleod Raine,Jeffery Farnol,Richard Le Gallienne,Harold MacGrath,Howard Pyle,Ralph D. Paine

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe): A man is bitten by a golden bug and what ensues is a treasure hunt adventure featuring a cryptic message. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson): A young boy is trapped between fierce pirates and his desire to find the missing treasure. The Pirate of Panama (William Macleod Raine): A story of the fight for buried treasure. Black Bartlemy's Treasure (Jeffery Farnol): A treasure hunt for the gold of legendary pirate, Black Bartlemy. The Pagan Madonna (Harold MacGrath): An unusual treasure-hunt tale featuring a lost but precious glass bead and a modern pirate. Pieces of Eight (Richard Le Gallienne) The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates (Ralph D. Paine) Stolen Treasure (Howard Pyle): treasure hunt stories from the author of Peter Pan adventures: Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main The Ghost of Captain Brand With the Buccaneers Tom Chist and the Treasure Box Jack Ballister's Fortunes Blueskin, the Pirate Captain Scarfield The Ruby of Kishmoor A True History of the Devil at New Hope

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8026877926

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The Devil's Gentleman

Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

By: Harold Schechter

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The Devil's Gentleman

Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

By: Harold Schechter

From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier age, and the explosively dramatic trial that became a tabloid sensation at the turn of the century. Death was by poison and came in the mail: A package of Bromo Seltzer had been anonymously sent to Harry Cornish, the popular athletic director of Manhattan’s elite Knickerbocker Athletic Club. Cornish barely survived swallowing a small dose; his cousin Mrs. Katherine Adams died in agony after ingesting the toxic brew. Scandal sheets owned by Hearst and Pulitzer eagerly jumped on this story of fatal high-society intrigue, speculating that the devious killer was a chemist, a woman, or “an effeminate man.” Forensic studies suggested cyanide as the cause of death; handwriting on the deadly package and the vestige of a label glued to the bottle pointed to a handsome, athletic society scamp, Roland Molineux. The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Molineux had clashed bitterly with Cornish before. He had even furiously denounced Cornish when penning his resignation from the Knickerbocker Club, a letter that later proved a major clue. Bon vivant Molineux had recently wed the sensuous Blanche Chesebrough, an opera singer whose former lover, Henry Barnet, had also recently died . . . after taking medicine sent to him through the mail. Molineux’s subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials, a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation, and a lurid print-media circus that ended in madness and a proud family’s disgrace. In bold, brilliant strokes, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal case, gathering his own evidence and tackling subjects no one dared address at the time–all in hopes of answering the tantalizing question: What powerfully dark motives could drive the wealthy scion of an eminent New York family to foul murder? Schechter vividly portrays the case’s fascinating cast of characters, including Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a prolific yellow journalist who covered the story, and proud General Edward Leslie Molineux, whose son’s ignoble deeds besmirched a dignified national hero’s final years. All the while Schechter brings alive Manhattan’s Gilded Age: a gaslit world of elegant town houses and hidden bordellos, chic restaurants and shabby opium dens, a city peopled by men and women fighting and losing the battle against urges an upright era had ordered suppressed. Superbly researched and powerfully written, The Devil’s Gentleman is an insightful, gripping work, a true-crime historian’s crowning achievement.

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