Jack Dee's Books

Thanks For Nothing

By: Jack Dee

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Comedian Jack Dee's hilarious account of how he became quite such a miserable git and a stand up comedian. 'A brilliant book. So funny. It's my bible' Paul O'Grady In this hilariously frank account of his life, Jack Dee finally reveals what turned a once optimistic young man into this grumpy middle-aged git. It's a journey that takes him from a first gig as a ventriloquist's dummy, to working in an artificial leg factory and delivering incontinence pads for the NHS, before he finally ends up on stage at the Comedy Store. Along the way, Jack shares his laugh-out-loud views on everything from the 'overrated moon landing' to boutique hotels, personal trainers and 'people who hold their cutlery the wrong way'. Outrageous, absurd, and full of surprises, this is Jack Dee at his funniest.

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Random House

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1409081435

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9781409081432

Nanoland

By: Jack McGuigan

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Nanoland

By: Jack McGuigan

WELCOME TO NANOLAND, where all your dreams can come true. But when those dreams turn deadly, survival becomes the ultimate fantasy. Nanoland brings legendary filmmaker Frank Nano's creative vision to life on an island off the coast of Florida. Visitors flock from around the globe to see colossal prehistoric beasts, ride sentient roller coasters, and battle in the Cosmic Coliseum. After ten years of playing a Nano Princess, Alicia Amandi's career is going nowhere fast. But when the attractions begin to attack the guests, she must use her unique talents and knowledge to lead a small band of survivors to safety. As the group navigates the perils of a park gone rogue, they discover the sinister side of movie magic and unearth the hidden legacy of Nanoland's enigmatic founder. The man who kindled their imaginations may have also sealed their doom. Will Alicia and her companions unravel Nanoland’s secrets in time to escape? Or will they become permanent prisoners of a world that blurs the boundaries between fantasy and reality? Dream big, nanofans—because this dream might be your last.

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Gorilla House

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0999298224

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9780999298220

The Voicemail

By: Jack E. Davis

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The Voicemail

By: Jack E. Davis

After listening to a brutal murder on her phone's voicemail, schoolteacher Samantha Harris sets out to discover who's responsible for the crime. Unfortunately, while trying to solve one murder, she inadvertently uncovers another. Now, pulled into the center of her normally quiet town's latest murder, Samantha begins to see her enigmatic friends as cold-blooded murderers. Armed with only a 15lbs dachshund by her side, Samantha is determined to uncover the truth. But when a new mysterious stranger blows into town, they bring up a few skeletons from this not so quiet town's past... from both the dead and the living.

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Jack E. Davis

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1667892126

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9781667892122

The Chaos Function

By: Jack Skillingstead

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The Chaos Function

By: Jack Skillingstead

For readers of the best-selling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, high-stakes thriller with a science-fiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions?

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Harper Voyager

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1328526151

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9781328526151

The Globe

The Science of Discworld II: A Novel

By: Terry Pratchett,Ian Stewart,Jack Cohen

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The Globe

The Science of Discworld II: A Novel

By: Terry Pratchett,Ian Stewart,Jack Cohen

Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat? When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants entirely. Now, they have noticed humanity. And humanity has company. Arriving in Roundworld, the wizards find the situation is even worse than they’d expected. Under the elves’ influence, humans are superstitious, fearful, and fruitlessly trying to work magic in a world ruled by logic. Ridcully, Rincewind, Ponder Stibbons, and the orangutan Librarian must travel through time to get humanity back on track and out of the dark ages. The Globe goes beyond science to explore the development of the human mind. Terry Pratchett and his acclaimed co-authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen combine the tale of the wizards rewriting human history with discussions of the origins and evolution of culture, language, art, and science, offering a fascinating and brilliantly original view of the world we live in.

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Anchor

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0804168970

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9780804168977

Conversation Analysis

An Introduction

By: Jack Sidnell

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Conversation Analysis

An Introduction

By: Jack Sidnell

Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of conversation analysis (CA) – a growing interdisciplinary field exploring language and social interaction Provides an engaging historical overview of the field, along with detailed coverage of the key findings in each area of CA and a guide to current research Examines the way talk is composed, and how conversation structures highlight aspects of human behavior Focuses on the most important domains of organization in conversation, including turn-taking, action sequencing, repair, stories, openings and closings, and the effect of context Includes real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, making it an ideal guide for students navigating this growing field

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358847

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9781444358841

American Sorcerer

By: Jack Cary

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American Sorcerer

By: Jack Cary

This book presents here for the first time a potent new system for the practical application of magick techniques. This is the first book to synthesize the U.S. military's remote viewing techniques with modern chaos magick theory and practice creating a powerful new paradigm of magickal application. This new system seeks to correctly harness human psychic functioning using scientific controls and protocols developed by America's top secret Stargate program and chaos magick techniques. Included are chapters on the astonishing true origins of magick and witchcraft, the secret conflict now taking place on this planet and the use of magick to effectively target all types of paranormal phenomena.

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Lulu.com

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0557071070

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9780557071074

Combinatorial Rigidity

By: Jack E. Graver,Brigitte Servatius,Herman Servatius

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Combinatorial Rigidity

By: Jack E. Graver,Brigitte Servatius,Herman Servatius

This book presents rigidity theory in a historical context. The combinatorial aspects of rigidity are isolated and framed in terms of a special class of matroids, which are a natural generalization of the connectivity matroid of a graph. The book includes an introduction to matroid theory and an extensive study of planar rigidity. The final chapter is devoted to higher dimensional rigidity, highlighting the main open questions. Also included is an extensive annotated bibiolography with over 150 entries. The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in graph theory and combinatorics or in fields which apply the structural aspects of these subjects in architecture and engineering. Accessible to those who have had an introduction to graph theory at the senior or graduate level, the book would be suitable for a graduate course in graph theory.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821838016

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9780821838013

Romans

Becoming New in Christ

By: Jack Kuhatschek

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Romans

Becoming New in Christ

By: Jack Kuhatschek

Sometimes our worship loses its passion. Our prayer life becomes stagnant. We forget why we are serving God. And slowly, subtly, the world's ways become our ways. In this nineteen-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on the book of Romans addresses these problems, showing us how we can break out of old patterns and become new in Christ.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830864415

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9780830864416

The American Dance Festival

By: Jack Anderson

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The American Dance Festival

By: Jack Anderson

The American Dance Festival has been a magnet drawing together diverse artists, styles, theories, and dance training methods; from this creative mix the ADF has emerged as the sponsor of performances by some of the greatest choreographers and dance companies of our time. Jack Anderson traces the development of ADF from its beginnings in New England to its seasons at Duke University. He displays the ADF for the multidimensional creature it is—a center for performances, a school for the best young dancers in the country, and a provider of community and professional services.

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Duke University Press

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0822306832

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9780822306832

The Wild West in Australia and America

By: Jack Drake

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The Wild West in Australia and America

By: Jack Drake

In this volume of The Wild West, Drake tells stories about the squattocracy, the cattle kings and the land barons; mounted police, sheriffs and posses in the pursuit of their elusive prey; bushrangers and outlaws and why they are so loved in popular fantasy; stockmen, ringers and cowboys; early white settlement and both friendly and hostile contact with indigenous peoples; and six shooters, gun slingers, snider rifles and infamous shoutouts.

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Boolarong Press

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1921920475

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9781921920479

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul

Inspirational Stories About Horses and the People Who Love Them

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul

Inspirational Stories About Horses and the People Who Love Them

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul is filled with inspiring stories of rescue and rehabilitation, heartbreaking losses, dedication and commitment, and positive messages of responsibility and unconditional love.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453279024

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9781453279021

Romans 1-8

Part 1: A New Life

By: Jack Kuhatschek

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Romans 1-8

Part 1: A New Life

By: Jack Kuhatschek

Sometimes our worship loses its passion. Our prayer life becomes stagnant. We forget why we are serving God. And slowly, subtly, the world's ways become our ways. In two parts, this eleven-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on the book of Romans 1-8 addresses these problems, showing us how we can break out of old patterns and become new in Christ.

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0830862102

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Blind Item

By: Kevin Dickson,Jack Ketsoyan

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Blind Item

By: Kevin Dickson,Jack Ketsoyan

An LA Times Bestseller One of People Magazine's “Summer’s Best Books” “Summer’s hottest new beach read, a juicy tome inspired by real-life Hollywood stories and scandals.” —E! Online “A dishy summer read about Hollywood’s underbelly, featuring twists on real celebrity scandals that weren’t fit for print in their original state.” —ET Online "This book is as outrageous as any true life tabloid scandal—a must read!" —Jenny McCarthy, talk show host, actress and New York Times-bestselling author of Belly Laughs No one knows her name, but now everyone wants to. As an assistant publicist in Hollywood, Nicola spends her days (and nights) sweeping up the scandals of singers, movie stars, and TV actors. Fresh from Ohio, she’s rapidly discovering the real Hollywood is rotten under its glittering skin. Everyone is a hustler with a hard bottom line and a soap opera sob story. When she breaks her own rules and starts dating a movie star, the Los Angeles scene starts to spill into her own life. As the paparazzi begin the hunt for sexy star Seamus O’Riordan’s new mystery girl, Nicola’s best friend Billy has her back while he prowls parties for the latest scoop to sell to the tabloids. Her roommate Kara keeps tabs on things too—in between befriending a former child star and transforming herself from stylist to reality TV sensation. As the scandals pile up behind them, their pasts will be exposed... And every secret can be sold. Written by two Hollywood insiders, Kevin Dickson and Jack Ketsoyan, Blind Item's jaw-dropping scandals are real, but the names are not. And they’ll never tell. Don't miss the sequel, Guilty Pleasure, a Hollywood tale of love and PRomance! An Imprint Book “[A] racy, rollicking novel by two industry insiders.” —In Touch Weekly “A dishy new book.” —Page Six “Sprinkled throughout this rags-to-riches wish-fulfillment story are real scandals that busy publicists and managers managed to hush up and hide.” —Publishers Weekly “This novel doesn’t just push the envelope but shreds it.” —School and Library Journal "What a sexy, fun read! It pulls back the curtain, for an inside look at the Hollywood that's behind the glitz and glamour. Blind Item leaves you wanting more." —Kristin Cavallari, television star, designer and author of Balancing in Heels

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Imprint

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1250122244

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9781250122247

Chicken Soup for the Soul: It's Christmas!

101 Joyful Stories about the Love, Fun, and Wonder of the Holidays

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: It's Christmas!

101 Joyful Stories about the Love, Fun, and Wonder of the Holidays

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

This collection of 101 festive holiday stories will warm readers’ hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love, joy, and awe. A fantastic holiday gift and a great way to start the season! Christmas is an exciting and joyous time of year, a time of family, friends, and traditions. You will delight in reading the 101 merry and heartwarming stories about holiday traditions, family, and goodwill. Remember, all our stories are “Santa safe” so they can be enjoyed by the whole family.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611592275

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9781611592276

Coding and Redundancy

Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals

By: Jack P. Hailman

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Coding and Redundancy

Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals

By: Jack P. Hailman

This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability. Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally, another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their separation into unwanted and desirable categories. This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.

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Harvard University Press

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0674027957

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9780674027954

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Loire Valley

By: Jack Tressider

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Loire Valley

By: Jack Tressider

DK Eyewitness Loire Valley will lead you straight to the best attractions this majestic region has on offer. Packed with stunning photography, illustrations and detailed maps, discover the Loire Valley area by area; from car racing in Le Mans to breathtaking châteaux and vibrant Nantes. DK Eyewitness Loire Valley provides all the insider tips every visitor needs from the spectacular son et lumière shows, to invigorating outdoors activities of the Atlantic Coast and wine tasting in the numerous vineyards. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites plus street-by-street maps of all the major towns and cities, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, museums and restaurants in each area for all budgets. DK Eyewitness Loire Valley explores the rich layers of culture, history, architecture and art of this beautiful region, not forgetting the best scenic routes and thematic tours. With up-to-date information on getting around by train, car and foot plus all the sights, beaches, churches, markets and festivals listed town by town, DK Eyewitness Loire Valley is indispensable. Don't miss a thing on your holiday with DK Eyewitness Loire Valley.

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Penguin

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075666571X

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9780756665715

Robert Recorde

Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation

By: Jack Williams

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Robert Recorde

Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation

By: Jack Williams

The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde’s life, throwing new light on a character deserving of greater recognition. Topics and features: presents a concise chronology of Recorde’s life; examines his published works; describes Recorde’s professional activities in the minting of money and the mining of silver, as well as his dispute with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; investigates Recorde’s work as a physician, his linguistic and antiquarian interests, and his religious beliefs; discusses the influence of Recorde’s publisher, Reyner Wolfe, in his life; reviews his legacy to 17th-Century science, and to modern computer science and mathematics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0857298623

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9780857298621

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

By: Jack Dann

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The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

By: Jack Dann

A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create recognizable 'divergent points' and how to employ paratextual elements and 'layering' to overcome readers' unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures. Alongside this, Dann takes you step-by-step through a complete short story to demonstrate, line-by-line, how alternative history fiction works. As well as Dann's exacting methodology for writing professional quality alternate history stories, this book also features a live-on-the-page Q&A with some of the most esteemed alternate history writers working today, including Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein among many others, who will detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies. Combining extensive and deep knowledge of the field with accessible writing advice, this is the ultimate guidebook to the broad and complex sub-genre of counterfactual and alterative history fiction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350351377

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9781350351370

Beautiful Man

And Other Stories

By: Jack Mauro

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Beautiful Man

And Other Stories

By: Jack Mauro

A young father struggles to shield his adopted child from the calculated, measured care of his wife. Two brothers and their wives combine feuding energies to provide an unforgettable holiday treat for the family matriarch. And a hotel manager eclipses the life of a girl captured by his beauty. After ten years, author Jack Mauro picks up the threads of his Gay Street: Stories of Knoxville, Tennessee. The twelve tales of Beautiful Man and Other Stories open doors to the sadness, the flashes of humor, and the implacable reality of the Southern city he loves so much.

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iUniverse

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1469732459

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9781469732459

Ace McCool

By: Jack Desmarais

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Ace McCool

By: Jack Desmarais

Ace McCool is an over-the-top spoof of the airline industry. It relates the hilarious misadventures of a fly-by-night, corner-cutting airline called Down East International, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. The stories start with Ace McCool, a World War II pilot, and the rag-tag characters he picks up along the way as his airline progresses from DC-3s to a Boeing 727 over the years from just after the war to 1985. Dim-witted pilot Pete Braddock "who could have flown the crate the airplane came in." The Smarts, an insufferable Englishman but "a polemaster of the first water." Churchy Laflamme, "de bes' co-pilot of dem all." Cowboy McCloskey, a big Albertan dinosaur with oil wells on his ranch. He commutes to Moncton in a privately-owned CF-104. Red Starr, a hippie pilot and, on the side, lead of a rock group called Red Starr and the Commies. Those pilots and a few more, as well as stewardesses (as they were called) Mile-High Millie, Crazy Iris and Stew Jane, and a few other characters stumble their way from one impossible situation to another. These are the same stories that brought laughter to readers of Canadian Aviation magazine. They are assembled together in book form. Come fly and laugh with Ace McCool of Down East International.

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FriesenPress

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1525597809

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9781525597800

Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande Del Norte

By: Jack Loeffler,Katherine Loeffler

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Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande Del Norte

By: Jack Loeffler,Katherine Loeffler

Each song appears both in Spanish and English. For many, transcriptions of the musical notations are provided as well as graphic illustrations of dance technique.

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UNM Press

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0826318843

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Lockestep

By: Jack Barnao

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Lockestep

By: Jack Barnao

A former British SAS agent turned Toronto bodyguard is hired by the Mounties to accompany a drug dealer to Mexico in this hard-boiled crime thriller. Professional bodyguard John Locke is in no mood to babysit Greg Amadeo, a drug dealer turncoat who wants to visit his wife in Mexico, collect some cash, and settle debts before testifying in the States, but how can Locke pass up the warm climate, lovely ladies, and a quick buck? Amadeo has a trick up his sleeve that may cause Locke to come back in a body bag if he does not use all the skills he learned in the British army’s SAS elite corps. With an appreciation for the more civilized aspects of life, Locke finds the fishing village, Zihuatanejo, right up his alley with two of his favorite things, fine women and tasty food, but there are just too many bullets flying around for Locke’s peace of mind . . . Praise for Lockestep “Locke is a hero midway between Bond and Spenser: large-hearted and educated, sensitive and physically very fit. . . . The Mexican background is pleasingly vivid and Barnao delivers a thriller.” —Publishers Weekly

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Open Road Media

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1497607582

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The Will To Kill

Making Sense of Senseless Murder

By: James Alan Fox,Jack Levin,Kenna Quinet

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The Will To Kill

Making Sense of Senseless Murder

By: James Alan Fox,Jack Levin,Kenna Quinet

Written in an engaging manner that challenges critical thinking throughout, the text is very readable and balances providing facts grounded in research with case examples." —Minna Cirino, Shenandoah University Now with SAGE Publishing, The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder explores extraordinary and seemingly inexplicable cases of homicide—not to sensationalize them—but to educate students about these crimes. Authored by renowned experts, the Fifth Edition places recent crimes in context by reviewing current homicide laws, introducing the latest theories that seek to explain murder, and presenting up-to-date statistical data that identify homicide patterns and trends. Students develop a foundational understanding of a variety of topics, for example, domestic and workplace homicide, cult and hate killings, murders committed by juveniles, and serial slayings. Students also examine various criminal justice responses to homicide, including the strategies and tactics employed to apprehend, prosecute, and punish killers. New to the Fifth Edition Up-to-date research and data offers students the latest statistics on homicide patterns and trends in recent years. New illustrative cases cover various forms of homicide, focusing on crimes that drew significant interest from the public and policymakers alike and provide students with unique insights into violent behavior. Updated coverage of recent controversies, legislative changes, and Supreme Court decisions includes heightened concern over mass shootings, hate-motivated homicide and terrorism; new laws, shifting policies, and Supreme Court rulings pertaining to gun rights, juvenile offenders and the death penalty; and advances in surveillance technology, computer-aided investigation, and DNA forensic testing. Early introduction of theories helps students to understand the definition of homicide/homicide laws before developing a theoretical framework to explain violence.

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SAGE Publications

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1506365957

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9781506365954

A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

More Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

More Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

This latest collection of stories celebrates the shared experiences of being a woman in a 101 new ways. You will be moved by these true accounts of how women like you have embraced life's defining moments by finding love, dealing with loss, overcoming obstacles and achieving their dreams and goals. Like spending time with a trusted friend, A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul will put difficult times into perspective, renew your faith in yourself and make you aware of the miracles in your own life.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453279075

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9781453279076

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