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Communications and Broadcasting

From Wired Words to Wireless Web

By: Harry Henderson

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Communications and Broadcasting

From Wired Words to Wireless Web

By: Harry Henderson

Learn about the development and interconnection of scientific ideas (ex. electromagnetism, leading to the telegraph and telephone; Maxwells wave theory, leading to radio and television), as well as the inventors themselves.

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0816057486

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Oka

A Political Crisis and Its Legacy

By: Harry Swain

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Oka

A Political Crisis and Its Legacy

By: Harry Swain

On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked Canadians and galvanized Aboriginal people from coast to coast. In August, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa called for the Canadian army to step in. Harry Swain was deputy minister of Indian Affairs throughout the 78-day standoff, and his recreation of events is dramatic and opinionated. In Oka, Swain writes frankly about his own role and offers fascinating profiles of the high-level players on the government's side -- Quebec Native Affairs Minister John Ciaccia, federal Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon, Chief of the Defence Staff General John de Chastelain, Premier Robert Bourassa and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Swain offers rare insight into the workings of government in a time of crisis, but he also traces what he calls the 200-year tail of history and shows how the Mohawk experience reflects the collision between European and Aboriginal cultures. Twenty years on, health, social and economic indicators for Aboriginal Canadians are still shameful. The well-funded "Indian industry" is a national disgrace, Swain says, and the Indian Act is in urgent need of replacement. Identifying current flashpoints for Aboriginal land rights across the country, he argues that true reconciliation will not be possible until government commits to meaningful reform.

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1553654293

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Saving Lives

Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk

By: Sandy Summers,Harry Summers

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Saving Lives

Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk

By: Sandy Summers,Harry Summers

This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199337063

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Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

By: Hal Abelson,Ken Ledeen,Harry Lewis,Wendy Seltzer

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Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

By: Hal Abelson,Ken Ledeen,Harry Lewis,Wendy Seltzer

What you must know to protect yourself today The digital technology explosion has blown everything to bits—and the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This second edition of Blown to Bits delivers the knowledge you need to take greater control of your information environment and thrive in a world that's coming whether you like it or not. Straight from internationally respected Harvard/MIT experts, this plain-English bestseller has been fully revised for the latest controversies over social media, “fake news,” big data, cyberthreats, privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, and much more. • Discover who owns all that data about you—and what they can infer from it • Learn to challenge algorithmic decisions • See how close you can get to sending truly secure messages • Decide whether you really want always-on cameras and microphones • Explore the realities of Internet free speech • Protect yourself against out-of-control technologies (and the powerful organizations that wield them) You'll find clear explanations, practical examples, and real insight into what digital tech means to you—as an individual, and as a citizen.

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Journey to the Abyss

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880-1918

By: Harry Kessler

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Journey to the Abyss

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880-1918

By: Harry Kessler

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century. The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Éduard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others. Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler’s diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history.

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Vintage

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0307278433

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The Mathematics of Murder

By: Harry R. Albers

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The Mathematics of Murder

By: Harry R. Albers

Harry R. Albers has degrees in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University. He has previously published three books: Murder at Lake Tomahawk, The Discovery, and The 4th Icon. His career has included the Smithsonian Institution, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Barnard College and San Diego State University Research Foundation. He and his wife, Jean, have three children, five grandchildren, and live in San Diego and the Big Island of Hawai’i.

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Boss-busters & Sin Hounds

Kansas City and Its Star

By: Harry Haskell

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Boss-busters & Sin Hounds

Kansas City and Its Star

By: Harry Haskell

Haskell tells the tale of the Kansas City Star's rise and decline, taking readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers. This story includes Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J. C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell and Roy A. Roberts"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826266126

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Kilo 17

By: Harry Ferguson

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Kilo 17

By: Harry Ferguson

A thrilling account from the front-line in the war against international drug smugglers, from a former Customs and Excise investigator Kilo 17 gives the inside story of a close-knit Customs team during a major drugs investigation. As an Oxford-educated, former member of MI6, Harry is promoted straight over the heads of more experienced officers. But with no previous experience of the drugs world, the Kilos think they need Harry like a hole in the head. But Harry sticks at the job and begins to make progress with his investigation into the affairs of Frank Davies, the local Mister Big. And in the long desperate hunt for evidence, involving a transit van smashing through the front window of an Indian restaurant, chance tip-offs, a moonlit search for a missing ex-SAS soldier, a dawn raid on a fortress-like country house and barely legal flights by light aircraft to Holland, the Kilos begin to chip away at Frank Davies's criminal empire.

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1408833379

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Signal Charley Flaps, Wheels, Hook Down

By: Harry D. Hamilton

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Signal Charley Flaps, Wheels, Hook Down

By: Harry D. Hamilton

Signal Charley will captivate flight-fanciers, adventure readers and US Navy buffs alike. Ride along with the author through Midshipman cruises, pilot training, day and night aircraft carrier qualifications, the transition from straight-deck to angled-deck carriers, operations in the Pacific, squadron operations, and in-flight emergencies. Experience first-hand accounts of Super Typhoon Karen on Guam (1962), temporary additional duties in Moscow (1967), and landing on an oceanic ice floe north of Alaska.Share the author's experiences as a pilot and meteorologist during the evolutionary change from manual to numerical analysis and forecasting, and the initial introduction of satellite (TIROS) data to improve both methods. Savor, from start to finish, thoroughly-researched details, accompanying period photographs, meticulous accuracy, and the author's insightful and engaging perspective.

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1411655087

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Computer Fundamentals Success Master Edition - 2000+ MCQ E-Book

Handy E-Book Series for All Computer Science & I.T Exams- Interviews.

By: Harry Chaudhary.

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Computer Fundamentals Success Master Edition - 2000+ MCQ E-Book

Handy E-Book Series for All Computer Science & I.T Exams- Interviews.

By: Harry Chaudhary.

Our 2000+ Computer Fundamentals Success Master Questions and Answers focuses on all areas of Computer Fundamentals subject covering 110+ topics in Computer Fundamentals. These topics are chosen from a collection of most authoritative and best reference books on Computer Fundamentals. One should spend 1 hour daily for 15 days to learn and assimilate Computer Fundamentals comprehensively. This way of systematic learning will prepare anyone easily towards Computer Fundamentals interviews, online tests, Examinations and Certifications. Highlights  2000+ Basic and Hard Core High level Multiple Choice Questions & Answers in Computer Fundamentals with Explanations.  Prepare anyone easily towards Computer Fundamentals interviews, online tests, Government Examinations and certifications.  Every MCQ set focuses on a specific topic in Computer Fundamentals.  Specially designed for IBPS IT, SBI IT, RRB IT, GATE CSE, UGC NET CS, PROGRAMMER, RSCIT and other IT & Computer Science related Exams. Who should Practice these Computer Fundamentals Questions?  Anyone wishing to sharpen their skills on Computer Fundamentals.  Anyone preparing for aptitude test in Computer Fundamentals.  Anyone preparing for interviews (campus/off-campus interviews, walk-in interviews)  Anyone preparing for entrance examinations and other competitive examinations.  All – Experienced, Freshers and Students.

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0359107494

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Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805, Part I

By: Harry T. Dickinson

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Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805, Part I

By: Harry T. Dickinson

The latter half of the eighteenth-century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.

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1000743713

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The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

By: Harry Justin Elam

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The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

By: Harry Justin Elam

Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).

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0472021842

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A Mind for Language

An Introduction to the Innateness Debate

By: Harry van der Hulst

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A Mind for Language

An Introduction to the Innateness Debate

By: Harry van der Hulst

Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics.

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1108471579

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Neuromimetic Semantics

Coordination, quantification, and collective predicates

By: Harry Howard

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Neuromimetic Semantics

Coordination, quantification, and collective predicates

By: Harry Howard

This book attempts to marry truth-conditional semantics with cognitive linguistics in the church of computational neuroscience. To this end, it examines the truth-conditional meanings of coordinators, quantifiers, and collective predicates as neurophysiological phenomena that are amenable to a neurocomputational analysis. Drawing inspiration from work on visual processing, and especially the simple/complex cell distinction in early vision (V1), we claim that a similar two-layer architecture is sufficient to learn the truth-conditional meanings of the logical coordinators and logical quantifiers. As a prerequisite, much discussion is given over to what a neurologically plausible representation of the meanings of these items would look like. We eventually settle on a representation in terms of correlation, so that, for instance, the semantic input to the universal operators (e.g. and, all)is represented as maximally correlated, while the semantic input to the universal negative operators (e.g. nor, no)is represented as maximally anticorrelated. On the basis this representation, the hypothesis can be offered that the function of the logical operators is to extract an invariant feature from natural situations, that of degree of correlation between parts of the situation. This result sets up an elegant formal analogy to recent models of visual processing, which argue that the function of early vision is to reduce the redundancy inherent in natural images. Computational simulations are designed in which the logical operators are learned by associating their phonological form with some degree of correlation in the inputs, so that the overall function of the system is as a simple kind of pattern recognition. Several learning rules are assayed, especially those of the Hebbian sort, which are the ones with the most neurological support. Learning vector quantization (LVQ) is shown to be a perspicuous and efficient means of learning the patterns that are of interest. We draw a formal parallelism between the initial, competitive layer of LVQ and the simple cell layer in V1, and between the final, linear layer of LVQ and the complex cell layer in V1, in that the initial layers are both selective, while the final layers both generalize. It is also shown how the representations argued for can be used to draw the traditionally-recognized inferences arising from coordination and quantification, and why the inference of subalternacy breaks down for collective predicates. Finally, the analogies between early vision and the logical operators allow us to advance the claim of cognitive linguistics that language is not processed by proprietary algorithms, but rather by algorithms that are general to the entire brain. Thus in the debate between objectivist and experiential metaphysics, this book falls squarely into the camp of the latter. Yet it does so by means of a rigorous formal, mathematical, and neurological exposition – in contradiction of the experiential claim that formal analysis has no place in the understanding of cognition. To make our own counter-claim as explicit as possible, we present a sketch of the LVQ structure in terms of mereotopology, in which the initial layer of the network performs topological operations, while the final layer performs mereological operations.The book is meant to be self-contained, in the sense that it does not assume any prior knowledge of any of the many areas that are touched upon. It therefore contains mini-summaries of biological visual processing, especially the retinocortical and ventral /what?/ parvocellular pathways; computational models of neural signaling, and in particular the reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations to the connectionist and integrate-and-fire neurons; Hebbian learning rules and the elaboration of learning vector quantization; the linguistic pathway in the left hemisphere; memory and the hippocampus; truth-conditional vs. image-schematic semantics; objectivist vs.

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0080537448

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Paul & Rosa

By: Harry M. Anderson Jr.

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Paul & Rosa

By: Harry M. Anderson Jr.

It's the years 1964 and 1965 . . . Malt Shops . . . jukeboxes with rock and roll . . . souped-up cars at the dragstrip . . . high school games . . . house and school parties . . . high school games . . . movies at the theater . . . and the Vietnam War! Paul Edmonds is head over heels in love with his fellow classmate, Rosa Kay Robinson, at Detroit's Southwestern High School. Paul has a crush on her and is going out of his way to develop a relationship with her, despite her mother's objections. As members of the Class of 1965, Paul is an outstanding athlete on the school football, basketball and track teams; while Rosa is a member of the cheer team. They use that time to see each other. Her good friend and classmate, and fellow cheerleader, Patty Wisniewski, also makes sure they spend time together. Paul is an outstanding drag racer at Detroit Dragway with his 421 Pontiac Tempest nicknamed Little Rosa. But the dark cloud of the Vietnam War comes into focus and drives them closer together. They make an effort for their love to work!

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164191971X

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MCSA 70-687 Cert Guide

Configuring Microsoft Windows 8.1

By: Don Poulton,Randy Bellet,Harry Holt

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MCSA 70-687 Cert Guide

Configuring Microsoft Windows 8.1

By: Don Poulton,Randy Bellet,Harry Holt

The study guide helps you master all the topics on the MCSA 70-687 exam, including the following: Installation and upgrades, including VHDs Migrating users, profiles, and applications Installing, configuring, and securing applications Configuring Hyper-V virtualization Configuring TCP/IP, network settings, and network security Configuring and securing access to files and folders, including OneDrive and NFC Configuring local security, authentication, and authorization Configuring remote connections and management Configuring and securing mobile devices Managing disks, backups, and system/file recovery MCSA 70-687 Cert Guide: Configuring Microsoft(R) Windows 8.1 is a best-of-breed exam study guide. Best-selling authors and expert instructors Don Poulton, Randy Bellet, and Harry Holt share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. The book presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. Review questions help you assess your knowledge, and a final preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan. The companion CD contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine, complete with hundreds of exam-realistic questions. The assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most. Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time. Don Poulton (A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA, MCSE) is an independent consultant who has worked with computers since the days of 80-column punch cards. He has consulted extensively with training providers, preparing study materials for Windows technologies. He has written or contributed to several Que titles, including Security+ Lab Manual, MCSA/MCSE 70-299 Exam Cram 2, and MCTS 70-620 Exam Prep. Randy Bellet (Network+, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA) has worked in IT since 1981, and has written multiple applications for the banking, insurance, and food industries. Now on the faculty of ECPI University, he has developed courses in network security and programming. Harry Holt has worked as a computer operator, programmer, LAN administrator, network engineer, DBA, and project manager. He has used his skills to improve efficiency in organizations including Fortune(R) 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, small partnerships, and sole proprietorships. Master MCSA 70-687 exam topics for Windows 8.1 configuration Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD

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0789748797

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Thomas Merton's Gethsemani

Landscapes of Paradise

By: Harry L. Hinkle

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Thomas Merton's Gethsemani

Landscapes of Paradise

By: Harry L. Hinkle

For twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton's Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white photographs by Harry L. Hinkle and artful text by Merton scholar Monica Weis converge in a unique experience for lovers of Merton. Hinkle was allowed unprecedented access to many areas inside the monastery and on its grounds that are generally restricted. His photographs invite the reader to experience the various knobs, lakes, woods, and hermitages Merton sought out for times of solitude and contemplation and for reading and writing. These unique images, each accompanied by a passage from Merton's writings, evoke personal reflection and a deeper understanding of how and why Merton came to recognize himself as a part of his Kentucky landscape. Woven throughout the book, Weis's text explores Merton's fascination with nature not only at Gethsemani, but during his early childhood, throughout his spiritual conversion to Roman Catholicism, and while a member of the Trappist community. She examines how Merton's lifelong interaction with nature subtly revealed and informed his profound spiritual experiences and his writing about contemplation. Thomas Merton's Gethsemani replicates Merton's path on his solitary hikes in the woods and conveys the wonder of the landscapes that inspired him.

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0813127203

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Connie

The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine

By: Harry Pearson

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Connie

The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine

By: Harry Pearson

Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for the West Indies and club cricket for Nelson. Few who saw Constantine in action would ever forget the experience. As well as the cricketing genius that led to Constantine being described as 'the most original cricketer of his time', Connie illuminates the world that he grew up in, a place where the memories of slavery were still fresh and where a peculiar, almost obsessive, devotion to 'Englishness' created a society that was often more British than Britain itself. Harry Pearson looks too at the society Constantine came to in England, which he would embrace as much as it embraced him: the narrow working-class world of the industrial North during a time of grave economic depression. Connie reveals how a flamboyant showman from the West Indies actually dovetailed rather well in a place where local music-hall stars such as George Formby, Frank Randle and Gracie Fields were fêted as heroes, and how Lancashire League cricket fitted into this world of popular entertainment. Connie tells an uplifting story about sport and prejudice, genius and human decency, and the unlikely cultural exchange between two very different places - the tropical island of Trinidad and the cloth-manufacturing towns of northern England - which shared the common language of cricket.

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1408705710

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9781408705711

The War of 1812

By: Harry L. Coles,The Chicago History of American Civilization

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The War of 1812

By: Harry L. Coles,The Chicago History of American Civilization

This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point of view, relating events in America to the larger war going on in Europe. "A balanced analysis of tactics and strategy, this book also summarizes succinctly and clearly recent scholarship on causes and describes briefly the war's military, economic, and political consequences. Coles has surveyed thoroughly the existing literature but arrives at a number of independent judgments. It is the best single-volume account of the war in all its aspects. In recounting sea battles, Coles puts aside the patriotic blinders that have for so long prevented a sensible understanding of American capabilities and strategic necessities; thus American naval victories are put in a proper perspective. And in dealing with land engagements, he has shunned the mocking and amused attitude which has so often passed for historical judgment. Undergraduates will be stimulated by the hints of modern parallels and will find useful the excellent annotated bibliography and simple maps."—Choice

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022622029X

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The Jesus Ring

By: Daniel Harry

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The Jesus Ring

By: Daniel Harry

An ancient ring washes onto the sand and shells of the Florida shoreline. Peter Christian, a young American veteran struggling with PTSD, finds the ring and slips it on his finger. He isn't aware the ring's last wearer was God's own son. The ring's purpose is to find the person chosen to champion the faithful into the future, if it has one. Peter discovers the ring will change him physically and gives him the ability to communicate directly with God. God has given the humans this last chance to come back to him, or he will wash his hands of the petri dish we call Earth and leave it to Satan and his swarm to devour and destroy. This time, the ring has chosen a warrior instead of a lover of peace, as there are harsh times coming. Peter is very familiar with the ominous, horrific events predicted for the end-time, and he will be given the means to build fantastic devices to help save mankind, if the faithful win. Peter and eleven disciples have been destined for this seemingly insurmountable task. This time God will take a bigger presence in the fight, but He won't win the battle for them if there are not enough faithful to make winning worthwhile. Satan's harvesters, huge carnivores that can only prey on the unfaithful, are coming, and time is running short for the Golden Twelve to save as many as they can. The Jesus Ring is a modern-day interpretationaEUR"but with many new twistsaEUR"of the events foretold in the Bible's book of Revelation.

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