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Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2007: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Plunkett Research Ltd,Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2007: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Plunkett Research Ltd,Jack W. Plunkett

Presents a market research guide to the business of biotech, genetics, proteomics and related services - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches, or financial research. This title provides profiles of over 400 biotech companies and in-depth chapters on trends.

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159392058X

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9781593920586

Health Policy and Ethics

By: Jack E. Fincham

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Health Policy and Ethics

By: Jack E. Fincham

This volume gives a thorough and global international coverage of health policy and ethics, with an in depth look at the pertinent background concepts, current issues and future needs and assessments. It includes economics, health care delivery, in depth coverage of issues of disparity, culture, and type of medicine.

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Pharmaceutical Press

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0853698384

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9780853698388

International Dispute Resolution: The Regulation of Forum Selection

By: Jack L. Goldsmith

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International Dispute Resolution: The Regulation of Forum Selection

By: Jack L. Goldsmith

For situations where the forum selection clause can make all the difference, this book is invaluable. The text shows how parties can mitigate the effects of concurrent jurisdiction ex ante through the use of forum selection clauses in arbitration agreements, and also explains the role of provisional and protective measures in the regulation of forum selection and judicial doctrines that directly regulate "improper" forum selections. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004636692

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9789004636699

Citizen Carl

The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter

By: Jack McElroy

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Citizen Carl

The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter

By: Jack McElroy

Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years after gaining statehood, garnering fame along the way. Jack McElroy's fascinating biography of "Citizen Carl" tells the story of a man whose exploits were as diverse and complex as the American Southwest he loved. Magee purchased the Albuquerque Journal from the syndicate responsible for reelecting Senator Albert Bacon Fall, soon to become secretary of the Interior. Magee battled the Republican machine in New Mexico, a fight that sent Fall to prison in the Teapot Dome scandal and saw Magee repeatedly tried on charges of criminal libel, contempt of court, and even manslaughter. Forced to sell the Journal, he then started the newspaper that would become the Albuquerque Tribune. Magee's fame prompted Scripps-Howard to buy the Tribune, retaining him as editor and adopting his motto: "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way." The company later transferred Magee to its struggling paper in Oklahoma City. There he solved the city's downtown parking problem by inventing the parking meter. Now mostly forgotten, Magee's legacy lives on, and many of the issues he confronted--press freedom, gun violence, public corruption, and demagoguery--remain relevant today.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826365760

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9780826365767

A New History of Documentary Film

By: Jack C. Ellis,Betsy A. McLane

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A New History of Documentary Film

By: Jack C. Ellis,Betsy A. McLane

This history of documentary film concentrates mainly on the output of the film industries in the US, the UK and Canada. The authors outline the origins of the form and trace its development over the next several decades. Each chapter concludes with a list of the key documentaries in that time period or genre.

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A&C Black

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0826417515

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9780826417510

Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials

By: R. Lea Brilmayer,Jack L. Goldsmith,Erin O'Hara O'Connor,Carlos Vázquez

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Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials

By: R. Lea Brilmayer,Jack L. Goldsmith,Erin O'Hara O'Connor,Carlos Vázquez

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Written by leading Conflict of Laws scholars, Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition, presents a balanced study of Conflict of Laws, otherwise known as Private International Law. The book begins with a discussion of traditional approaches to choice-of-law problems, both inter-state and international, followed by an examination of how modern courts and commentators have struggled to formulate new and better approaches. The remaining broad topics—constitutional limitations on choice of law, personal jurisdiction, conflicts in the federal system, recognition and enforcement of judgments, extraterritorial application of federal law, choice of legal regimes, and choice of law in complex litigation—are considered in light of the wisdom derived from consideration of the basic choice-of-law problems. New to the Eighth Edition: Addition of new co-author Carlos M. Vázquez, a leading scholar in Conflict of Laws as well as the adjacent fields of International Law and Foreign Relations Law Expanded coverage of Conflict of Laws in the international context, with a focus on the increasingly important topic of extraterritorial application of federal law New Supreme Court decisions on personal jurisdiction and constitutional limits on choice of law Expanded coverage of choice of law in marriage and divorce Discussion of draft Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws Professors and students will benefit from: A balance of historical and recent cases, with problems that test application of case precedents A balance between theoretical and practical aspects of Conflict of Laws, with coverage of state law and comparative perspectives where appropriate Focus on Choice of Law Broader coverage of extraterritorial application of federal law than any leading Conflict of Laws casebook Modern applications to internet disputes, complex litigation, party autonomy, and jurisdictional competition, among other cutting-edge topics

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Aspen Publishing

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1543815073

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9781543815078

Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius

By: Jack Stillinger

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Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius

By: Jack Stillinger

This is a study of the collaborative creation behind literary works that are usually considered to be written by a single author. Although most theories of interpretation and editing depend on a concept of single authorship, many works are actually developed by more than one author. Stillinger examines case histories from Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mill, and T.S. Eliot, as well as from American fiction, plays, and films, demonstrating that multiple authorship is a widespread phenomenon. He shows that the reality of how an author produces a work is often more complex than is expressed in the romantic notion of the author as solitary genius. The cumulative evidence revealed in this engaging study indicates that collaboration deserves to be included in any account of authorial achievement.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361687

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9780195361681

Naked Lens

By: Jack Sargeant

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Naked Lens

By: Jack Sargeant

Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit - arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture - Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked ...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459619188

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

This special anniversary collection of has a double-dose of inspiration - personal stories of how Chicken Soup for the Soul changed lives, and the life-changing story itself! Twenty years later, Chicken Soup for the Soul and its stories are still changing lives! This special twentieth anniversary collection celebrates the power of storytelling. Readers share their personal, inspiriting stories about how a Chicken Soup for the Soul story made a difference in their lives, paired with the life-changing story itself. It’s a double dose of inspiration!

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Simon and Schuster

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1611592240

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9781611592245

Clinical Ophthalmology

A Synopsis

By: Jack J. Kanski

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Clinical Ophthalmology

A Synopsis

By: Jack J. Kanski

Revised and expanded throughout with many new colour illustrations, this handbook forms a summary of Jack Kanski's best selling Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach 6th Edition. This book will be of particular value as a revision guide to those preparing for examinations, as well as the busy clinician requiring a quick reference to a particular diagnostic or therapeutic problem. Illustrated in colour, each condition is systematically presented for easy access to key information. Key information is provided at a glance for the busy practitioner, or as a study aid for students.Extensively illustrated, with a full-color clinical photograph of each important condition.Consistent presentation details each condition's signs, causes, treatment, differential diagnosis, and complications.Content reflects the material in Clinical Ophthalmology, 6th Edition in a quick-reference synopsis format.Many figures in this synopsis are entirely new, and additional rare diseases and examination techniques are also included.Written by one of the most respected writers and experts in the field, offering years of experience distilled into a portable, practical handbook. . Brand new material on examination techniques; imaging techniques; drug-induced disorders; and, developmental malformations and anomalies. . Over 250 more images and additional information on latest developments - all within the same portable and concise format. . Contains tables of differential diagnoses for maximum ease of use in the clinic

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702031356

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9780702031359

Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers: Mid-Size Firms: The Only Guide to America's Hottest, Fastest-Growing Mid-Sized Employers

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers: Mid-Size Firms: The Only Guide to America's Hottest, Fastest-Growing Mid-Sized Employers

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Contains profiles of hundreds of the best, rapidly-growing mid-size employers of 100 to 2,500 employees. These are highly-successful companies, located nationwide, that are of vital importance to job-seekers of all types.

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1593921268

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,David Tabatsky

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,David Tabatsky

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book delivers 101 powerful stories of courage, hope, support, and love to help cancer patients and their families. A bonus memoir by a cancer patient bound in, with intimate and helpful words of advice. A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving and inspirational collection of intimate stories, by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, clergy and friends, is a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences – from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school and work, from securing a medical team to living through an ever changing self-image, from the embarrassment of losing hair to discovering a new spirituality. A bonus book, a no-holds-barred memoir by cancer patient Elizabeth Bayer, is bound into this volume, after the full-length Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611591635

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Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul

Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul

Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul celebrates the people you'll meet, the lands you'll discover and the lessons you'll learn.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453280588

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Effective Expert Witnessing

Practices for the 21st Century

By: Jack V. Matson,S. Ravi Jagannathan

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Effective Expert Witnessing

Practices for the 21st Century

By: Jack V. Matson,S. Ravi Jagannathan

The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation’s impact on a jury. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of litigation, trial preparation, courtroom presentation, and the business of expert witnessing. Extensively updated to reflect new developments since the last edition, it provides practical advice enabling expert witnesses and attorneys to maximize the effectiveness of their expert testimony. The Fifth Edition includes three new chapters. The first uses a hypothetical case study to explore expert witness immunity and issues related to professional malpractice and civil liability. In a chapter on psychology and the art of expert persuasion, noted social psychologist and witness preparation specialist Ann T. Greeley reveals the psychology of juries, discusses what makes an expert effective, and provides tips for conveying effective testimony through verbal and nonverbal behavior and graphics and technology. The final chapter surveys nine of the worst mistakes an expert can make and provides tips on how to avoid them. Accompanying the book are downloadable resources in which Dr. Matson introduces video clips demonstrating effective and ineffective expert testimony at deposition and trial. The book and supplemental downloadable resources provide robust strategies ensuring that expert witnesses have the best possible advantage in presenting testimony that is credible, persuasive, and compelling.

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CRC Press

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1466578645

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9781466578647

Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach

By: Jack J. Kanski,Brad Bowling

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Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach

By: Jack J. Kanski,Brad Bowling

Ideally suited for rapid reference and efficient, effective recall, Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach will keep you up to date with current and evolving practice in the diagnosis and management of ophthalmic disorders, using a visually rich, succinct format that facilitates comprehension for trainees and practitioners. You’ll have access to the latest advances in the field. Grasp key information and effectively prepare for examinations with a pictorial, bulleted approach – both highly visual and concise, for more efficient study. Move rapidly throughout the text to find the information you need, with color coding and at-a-glance key points. Learn from two renowned experts in the field. Includes over 2,700 high-quality images, 1,000 of which appear for the first time in this edition. Master the latest advances in ophthalmology: radical changes in the management of macular disease, including the widespread introduction of VEGF inhibitor therapy; recent developments in the investigation and treatment of retinal vascular disease; new pharmaceutical interventions for a range of conditions, including infectious eye disease and glaucoma; and updated surgical procedures and methods, including oculoplastic, corneal, and glaucoma surgery. Guidance on examination, imaging, and recognition of systemic conditions associated with ocular disease.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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070204511X

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9780702045110

Safely to Earth

The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home

By: Jack Clemons

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Safely to Earth

The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home

By: Jack Clemons

National Federation of Press Women National Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir Delaware Press Association Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons—a former lead engineer in support of NASA—takes readers behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years. Discover the people, the events, and the risks involved in one of the most important parts of space missions: bringing the astronauts back home to Earth. Clemons joined Project Apollo in 1968, a young engineer inspired by science fiction and electrified by John F. Kennedy’s challenge to the nation to put a man on the moon. He describes his experiences supporting the NASA engineering team at what is now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he played a pivotal role in designing the reentry and landing procedures for Apollo astronauts and providing live support as part of the Mission Control Center’s backroom team. He went on to work on Skylab and the Space Shuttle Program, eventually assuming leadership for the entire integrated software system on board the Space Shuttle. Through personal stories, Clemons introduces readers to many of the unsung heroes of the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions—the people who worked side by side with NASA engineers supporting reentry and landing for each Apollo mission and the software team who fashioned the computer programs that accompanied the crews on the Space Shuttle. Clemons worked closely with astronauts who relied on him and his fellow engineers for directions to their destination, guidance on how to get there, control of their fate during their journeys, and a safe return. He reveals problems, challenges, and near-disasters previously unknown to the public and offers candid opinions on the preventable failures that led to the loss of fourteen astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia tragedies. Highlighting the staggering responsibility and the incredible technological challenges that Clemons and his colleagues took on in the race to reach the moon and explore the mysteries of space, this book is a fascinating insider’s view of some of the greatest adventures of the twentieth century.

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University Press of Florida

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0813063604

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9780813063607

Oral Communication

Speaking Across Cultures

By: Larry A. Samovar,Jack Mills

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Oral Communication

Speaking Across Cultures

By: Larry A. Samovar,Jack Mills

Leading the way in the integration of cultural material into the public speaking course, the new edition of Oral Communication features expanded coverage of cultural diversity and ethics while also including much new information on the uses of electronic technology in speech making. A new two-color design adds to the visual appeal of the book.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0697201589

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9780697201584

Deuteronomy

A Commentary

By: Jack R. Lundbom

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Deuteronomy

A Commentary

By: Jack R. Lundbom

This milestone commentary by Jack Lundbom is intended for any and all readers who want to better know and understand the key Pentateuchal book of Deuteronomy, which has had a huge influence on both Judaism and Christianity over the centuries. For Jews Deuteronomy contains the Decalogue and the Shema -- Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one (6:4) -- supplemented by a code of primal legislation. Deuteronomy is much cited in the New Testament and has come to occupy an important place in the life and doctrine of the Christian church. It lifts up important wisdom themes such as humane treatment and benevolence to the poor and needy and is rich in theology, calling repeatedly on Israel to reject other gods and worship the Lord alone as holy. Besides drawing on language, archaeology, and comparative Near Eastern material, Lundbom s commentary employs rhetorical criticism in explicating the biblical text. Lundbom also cites later Jewish interpretation of the book of Deuteronomy and makes numerous New Testament connections. An appendix contains all citations of Deuteronomy in the New Testament.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802826148

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9780802826145

Colorado Fishing Guide & Atlas

By: Outdoor Books & Maps (Firm),Jack O. Olofson

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Colorado Fishing Guide & Atlas

By: Outdoor Books & Maps (Firm),Jack O. Olofson

This top-selling guide is the ultimate for any angler looking for new fishing spots in Colorado. The book is packed with extensive information on where to fish within Colorado's national forests, national recreation areas, state parks, and state trust lands. It includes directions to lakes and streams, detailed maps, information about governing agencies, kinds of fish you will find, and insightful comments.

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Adler Publishing

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0930657411

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9780930657413

Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul

101 Stories to Touch the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul

101 Stories to Touch the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

A tribute to the women who uphold the written and unwritten oaths of service and of marriage.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453276424

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Cool Water

By: Jack Gale

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Cool Water

By: Jack Gale

Cool Water Jack Gale A novel, based on real places, real people and real life events, set in two parts. (Jack 1: Jack 2) Synopsis Jack 1. Describes the lifestyle of four Yorkshire teenage miners in the mid1950s; of their sexual frustrations, struggles and successes, as they grow into maturity. How the mother of one of them has a very serious problem, and the fours reaction to it, culminating in a murder. A mining disaster entombs the main character, Jack. He is rescued but vows never to go down a coal mine again. Jack 2. After Jack's long absence in the Army, a reunion now finds the four of them in middle age. One has a teenage daughter who dies in a very mysterious circumstance. The four friends set about righting a terrible wrong.

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Lulu.com

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0244934428

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9780244934422

Future of the Mind

By: Jack Huber

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Future of the Mind

By: Jack Huber

Our lives are increasingly spent online. Work, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtual. Google Glass is next. How are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our minds and the way we think, talk and relate? Parents, scientists, doom-mongers and sociologists are among the many people speculating about what is going to become of us as we become increasingly absorbed by electronic media and ever more remote from our natural environment. Jack Huber is clear that what he calls 'the cyberous' is changing the whole way that our minds work. But he is also clear that we can't hope to understand the effects and implications fully without a better understanding of how the mind came to be what it is over the course of human evolution. So he takes us on a historical and biological tour of the human-mind-in-its-environment and focuses on three 'trajectories' in particular: our capacity to recognise patterns (which includes our capacity to use and understand metaphor) vision (which is much more than sight post-birth development From there he looks at how our past will influence our future, giving us a glimpse of what collaboration with cyberous environments will bring to our minds and to 'self' in the future - a glimpse of what and who we will become. In doing so, he suggests three futures of the mind: Unknowable mind Absentee mind Transcendent mind Fascinating stuff! Is the future bright? You decide.

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Triarchy Press

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1909470090

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The Like Switch

An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over

By: Jack Schafer,Marvin Karlins

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The Like Switch

An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over

By: Jack Schafer,Marvin Karlins

From a former FBI Special Agent specializing in behavior analysis and recruiting spies comes a handbook filled with his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you, so you can easily turn on the like switch. The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends, whether you are on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a Special Agent for the FBI’s National Security Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program, Dr. Jack Schafer developed dynamic and breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists and detecting deception. Now, Dr. Schafer has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day, but no less critical battle of getting people to like you. In The Like Switch, he presents these techniques for how you can influence, attract, and win people over. Learn how to think and react like your favorite TV investigators from Criminal Minds or CSI as Dr. Schafer shows you how to improve your LQ (Likeability Quotient), “spot the lie” both in person and online, master nonverbal cues that influence how people perceive you, and turn up or turn down the intensity of a relationship. Dr. Schafer cracks the code on making great first impressions, building lasting relationships, and understanding others’ behavior to learn what they really think about you. With tips and techniques that hold the key to taking control of your communications, interactions, and relationships, The Like Switch shows you how to read others and get people to like you for a moment or a lifetime.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476754500

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9781476754505

The Story of a Remarkable Medicine

By: Jack Dreyfus

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The Story of a Remarkable Medicine

By: Jack Dreyfus

Autobiography of Jack Dreyfus, his battle with depression, its treatment with Dilantin (clinical name: Phenytoin, or Diphenylhydantoin), and his efforts to publicize the use of phenytoin to effectively treat depression, anger, behavior disorders, and a variety of other medical applications and treatments.

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Lantern Books

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1590560620

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9781590560624

Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

By: Irving B. Weiner,John R. Graham,Jack A. Naglieri

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Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

By: Irving B. Weiner,John R. Graham,Jack A. Naglieri

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118282043

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9781118282045

Electing to Fight

Why Emerging Democracies Go to War

By: Edward D. Mansfield,Jack Snyder

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Electing to Fight

Why Emerging Democracies Go to War

By: Edward D. Mansfield,Jack Snyder

Does the spread of democracy really contribute to international peace? Successive U. S. administrations have justified various policies intended to promote democracy not only by arguing that democracy is intrinsically good but by pointing to a wide range of research concluding that democracies rarely, if ever, go to war with one another. To promote democracy, the United States has provided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe, and it has attempted to remove undemocratic regimes through political pressure, economic sanctions, and military force. In Electing to Fight, Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder challenge the widely accepted basis of these policies by arguing that states in the early phases of transitions to democracy are more likely than other states to become involved in war. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative analysis, Mansfield and Snyder show that emerging democracies with weak political institutions are especially likely to go to war. Leaders of these countries attempt to rally support by invoking external threats and resorting to belligerent, nationalist rhetoric. Mansfield and Snyder point to this pattern in cases ranging from revolutionary France to contemporary Russia. Because the risk of a state's being involved in violent conflict is high until democracy is fully consolidated, Mansfield and Snyder argue, the best way to promote democracy is to begin by building the institutions that democracy requires—such as the rule of law—and only then encouraging mass political participation and elections. Readers will find this argument particularly relevant to prevailing concerns about the transitional government in Iraq. Electing to Fight also calls into question the wisdom of urging early elections elsewhere in the Islamic world and in China.

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MIT Press

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026226384X

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9780262263849

The Psychobiology of Emotions

By: Jack George Thompson

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The Psychobiology of Emotions

By: Jack George Thompson

Regardless of culture, most adult humans report experiencing similar feelings such as anger, fear, humor, and joy. Such subjective emotional states, however, are not universal. Members of some cultures deny experiencing specific emo tions such as fear or grief. Moreover, within any culture, individuals differ widely in their self-reports of both the variety and intensity of their emotions. Some people report a vivid tapestry of positive and negative emotional experi ences. Other people report that a single emotion such as depression or fear totally dominates their existences. Still others report flat and barren emotional lives. Over the past 100 years, scientists have proposed numerous rival explana tions of why such large individual differences in emotions occur. Various authors have offered anthropological, biochemical, ethological, neurological, psycholog ical, and sociological models of human emotions. Indeed, the sheer number of competing theories precludes a comprehensive review in a single volume. Ac cordingly, only a representative sample of models are discussed in this book, and many equally important theories have been omitted. These omissions were not intended to prejudice the reader in favor of any particular conceptual frame work. Rather, this selective coverage was intended to focus attention upon the empirical findings that contemporary theories attempt to explain.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489921214

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9781489921215

Personality as an Affect-processing System

Toward An Integrative Theory

By: Jack Block

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Personality as an Affect-processing System

Toward An Integrative Theory

By: Jack Block

At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering variety of construals and constructs. In this landmark book, Jack Block, who has spent more than 50 years studying the many facets of personality, takes a long look at current debates and finds common ground on which to construct an integrative model. Perceiving more congruence among disparate formulations than has hitherto been appreciated, he elaborates his vision of personality as an adaptive system that enables the individual to maintain equilibrium in an environment that is both threatening and engaging. Taking in and organizing information and maintaining nondisruptive levels of anxiety while responding to outer and inner demands are the tasks of this system, which consists of a perceptual apparatus and a control apparatus operating in delicate balance. After presenting his model of personality, Block discusses its intellectual history and its connections to major current alternatives. He lays out some implications for practitioners confronted by dysfunction. Finally, he traces the developmental origins of personality. Provocative, innovative, and analytical, Personality as an Affect-Processing System: Toward an Integrative Theory points to new directions for all those who seek to understand human psychological functioning.

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Psychology Press

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1135645833

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9781135645830

Basic

Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training

By: Jack Jacobs,David Fisher

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Basic

Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training

By: Jack Jacobs,David Fisher

Every American fighting man and woman share one thing in common: they have all survived basic military training. Basic tells the story of that training. Medal of Honor recipient Col. Jack Jacobs and David Fisher recount the funny, sad, dramatic, poignant, and sometimes crazy history of how America has trained its military, told through the personal accounts of those who remember the experiences as if they happened yesterday. If you've been through basic or boot camp, these memories of drill instructors, marching chants, combat training (and the "gas chamber"), hospital corners, and the shared feeling of triumph are guaranteed to make you smile. And those who haven't done it will understand and appreciate this life-changing experience that turns a civilian into a soldier—and in just eight weeks.

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Macmillan

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1466802448

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9781466802445

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