Jane Scott's Books

The Face in the Shadows

By: Wendy Jane Collins

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Lucy and Ben Reid and their children Jake and Emily are about to change their whole lives and move away from their family home at Primrose Hill. After Ben's Great Aunt Maud dies and his parents mysteriously disappear without a trace, they decide to move away to continue running Maud's shop, Bartons, in Frank and Janet Reid's absence. Follow their journey and see how they navigate their new lilfe living at Hilltop Manor. You will meet the staff who reside there with them, lots of new friends, and maybe some people who are not so nice along the way. Be prepared to face plenty of dramatic twists and turns throughout and, when Lucy is alone in the study (or so she thinks), near the big bookcases and filing cabinets in the darkest corner of the room, someone else joins her, but there is one big question... who is the face in the shadows?

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1665580747

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Secrets Can Be Murder

What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves

By: Jane Velez-Mitchell

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Secrets Can Be Murder

What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves

By: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Respected television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young woman who's been brutally raped, or a family who's been slaughtered, that's the question most of us ask. Secrets Can Be Murder exposes the hidden motivations behind the most sinister acts of recent times, with a behind-closed-doors look at these sensational crimes that will astound you. After weighing in on high-profile cases for CNN, Fox News, Court TV, and MSNBC, author Jane Velez-Mitchell helps us understand these infamous crimes by unmasking the deceptions that turned toxic, exploding in rage and violence. People lie every day to protect secrets, big and small. From desperate Hollywood personalities covering up their eccentric lifestyles to Bible Belt mothers who take the lives of their own children, Secrets Can Be Murder probes twenty-one separate cases. Each illustrates how leading a double life can land you in prison, and how failing to spot liars can get you killed. Secrets Can Be Murder offers the inside story on each horrific case, unlocking the jaw-dropping secrets of the accused and revealing the common, innocent mistakes of the victims. After all, many of us have gone out alone late at night like Imette St. Guillen, or partied while on vacation like George Smith and Natalee Holloway. From Dan Horowitz, the high-profile lawyer whose wife was brutally murdered by a teenage neighbor while Horowitz was defending a housewife accused of murder, to Neil Entwistle, the British husband who ran out of funds for an extravagant American lifestyle, Velez-Mitchell shows how each of these crimes has its own secrets to spill. Many of us possess the same trusting nature as victims and carry around the same secrets as criminals -- whether it's debt, infidelity, or fetishes. With fascinating new insights from investigators and psychologists plus the friends and family of both the victims and the perpetrators, Secrets Can Be Murder illustrates just how little separates our so-called normal lives from that of a sociopath -- and how you can stay out of harm's way.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416546057

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9781416546054

Positive Discipline for Today's Busy (and Overwhelmed) Parent

How to Balance Work, Parenting, and Self for Lasting Well-Being

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Kristina Bill,Joy Marchese

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Positive Discipline for Today's Busy (and Overwhelmed) Parent

How to Balance Work, Parenting, and Self for Lasting Well-Being

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Kristina Bill,Joy Marchese

With the increasing pressure to excel at parenting, work, and personal relationships, it's easy to feel stressed and dissatisfied. This targeted Positive Discipline guide gives parents the tools to parent effectively without sacrificing their well-being or giving up on their life goals. Instead of creating unachievable expectations, you will instead learn to play to your strengths at work and at home. You’ll integrate your seemingly disparate areas of life and use Positive Discipline to make the most out of your time, energy and relationships. By helping you get to the bottom of the underlying causes of misbehavior, busy parents will also be able to avoid pampering and keep permissive and punitive parenting at bay. Instead of feeling fragmented and guilty, you’ll have the presence of mind to explore what works best for you and your family. Attitude is key – we’ll help you feel confident in your parenting abilities and your professional choices, making your children more likely to adopt an attitude of self-reliance and cooperation. Armed with communication strategies and tips for self-reflection, moms (and dads!) won't have to feel guilty about leaving their child with a sitter during the day, or leaving work early to go to a soccer game.

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Harmony

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0525574905

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An Extraordinary Wedding

After a dramatic journey to the altar

By: Jane Ellyson

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An Extraordinary Wedding

After a dramatic journey to the altar

By: Jane Ellyson

Charlotte is a fashion designer creating her own wedding dress while delivering costumes for the bridal party of an Indian wedding. It’s an arranged marriage and the bride-to-be, who is now staying in Charlotte’s fashion design studio, is having doubts. Scott her fiancé, is locked up in quarantine spending time alternately writing his wedding vows and competing in a fitness competition with his sailing crew who are also contained in the hotel. Discovery of paint splatters on her own wedding dress is a first clue that the Indian bride-to-be has been kidnapped. Humour is ever present in the daily call between Charlotte and her best friend Miranda who now lives in London, is painfully pregnant and is a self-appointed organiser for their wedding. Best-man Mason, married to Miranda, is a journalist, constantly on the lookout for an intriguing story. Both bridal parties want to ensure that as few people as possible are aware of what’s happening in the run up to their big day. While Charlotte wants a simple wedding, her parents want something special. As a result of everything that transpires, something extraordinary results. A mystery and a romance with a healthy dash of suspense, culminating in a surprising start to a happily ever after. All set in the delightfully sleepy town of Bangalow in northern, New South Wales, Australia.

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Jane Ellyson

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0645135879

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Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA

A State and the Nation

By: Donald G. Mathews,Jane S. De Hart

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Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA

A State and the Nation

By: Donald G. Mathews,Jane S. De Hart

Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA is the most profound and sensitive discussion to date of the way in which women responded to feminism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Mathews and De Hart explore the fate of the ERA in North Carolina--one of the three states targeted by both sides as essential to ratification--to reveal the dynamics that stunned supporters across America. The authors insightfully link public discourse and private feelings, placing arguments used throughout the nation in the personal contexts of women who pleaded their cases for and against equality. Beginning with a study of woman suffrage, the book shows how issues of sex, gender, race, and power remained potent weapons on the ERA battlefield. The ideas of such vocal opponents as Phyllis Schlafly and Senator Sam Ervin set the perfect stage for mothers to confess their terror at the violation of their daughters in a post-ERA world, while the prospect of losing ratification to this terror impelled supporters to shed the white gloves of genteel lobbying for the combat boots of political in-fighting. In the end, the efforts of ERA supporters could neither outweigh the symbolic actions of its opponents nor weaken the resistance of those same legislators to further federal guarantees of equality. Ultimately, opponents succeeded in making equality for women seem dangerous. In thus explaining the ERA controversy, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many meanings of feminism for the American people.

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Oxford University Press

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0195360109

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Captain Starlight

The Strange but True Story of a Bushranger, Imposter and Murderer

By: Jane Smith

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Captain Starlight

The Strange but True Story of a Bushranger, Imposter and Murderer

By: Jane Smith

Perth, 1899: a respected public servant mistakes a bottle of cyanide for his heart medicine, swallows it and dies. Months later on the other side of the country, a prisoner of Pentridge gaol with the same name as the deceased reads of the inquest with alarm. He writes to the coroner with his suspicions: the supposedly upstanding government accountant was an impostor – an ex-con – who had stolen his identity and deceived people at the highest level. The claims sent the authorities into a spin; who really was the deceased? Was it possible he was the bushranger known as ‘Captain Starlight’ who, thirty years earlier, had callously murdered a policeman and been sentenced to hang? How had he pulled off the subterfuge and what other secrets remained hidden? As the investigation unfolds, the remarkable life and crimes of Captain Starlight, committed across four states of Australia under countless aliases, are revealed. Author Jane Smith’s meticulous research reveals the stranger than fiction story of a compulsive liar and serial imposter: a doctor, a stockman and an accountant – and a bushranger, forger, con-man and killer. It is a true story of murder and deceit that reveals new information and presents, for the first time, a theory as to the real identity of the bushranger known as ‘Captain Starlight’.

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Simon and Schuster

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1925275310

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Senator's Bride

By: Jane Peart

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Senator's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Have you any plans for the rest of the day?" he asked. "Plans?" she echoed. "Whatever they were, cancel them." He grinned. Crystal nodded, dazed, knowing somehow that if he had proposed a trip to Mars she would have been helpless to refuse. She had come to Virginia to work, not to fall in love -- certainly not with someone like Kip Montrose. Both Kip and his ancestral mansion, Montclair, had captured her imagination. The history of the house intrigued her as much as its master. Even ten years after the end of WWI, the families of Mayfield, VA, still feel its destructive effects. With his days as a dare-devil flying ace behind him, Kip Montrose is having a hard time settling down in the small Southern town and finding a new direction for his life. At the same time, the twins, Cara and Kitty Cameron, are also trying to rebuild their lives shadowed by loss. Then, the arrival of Crystal Kirk, an attractive young career woman, to rent Eden Cottage, and the return of Garnet with Bryane, and her English companion, Jill, sparks excitement, romance, as well as unexpected problems. The era of the Roaring Twenties brings new challenges to the younger members of the Montrose and Cameron clans, as they search for new purpose for their lives, face their inherited destiny, and hope for lasting love. Suddenly, a senatorial campaign tears the families apart and plunges old friends into a bitter political battle in which both winners and losers attain unexpected results.

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0310833205

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Leonard Warren, American Baritone

By: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

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Leonard Warren, American Baritone

By: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

(Amadeus). The great baritone Leonard Warren was history's most notable interpreter of Verdi, making his mark in the title roles of Rigoletto , Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra . Warren's dramatic death over 40 years ago is famous: he collapsed and died onstage at the Met on March 4, 1960 in a performance as Carlo in La forza del destino . In this definitive biography, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, author of an acclaimed biography of Giuseppe Verdi, offers an intimate portrait of a beloved opera star, based on hundreds of interviews. More than 100 rare photographs capture Warren in his great roles as well as in private moments. HARDCOVER.

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1574670530

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True Believers

A Gregor Demarkian Novel

By: Jane Haddam

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True Believers

A Gregor Demarkian Novel

By: Jane Haddam

Former Vice President Al Gore has moved on. These days the two-term vice president and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient maintains a schedule almost as busy as when he was in politics: Generation Investment Management CEO, on the board of directors for Apple Inc. and senior adviser to Google. In 1976, Gore abruptly left law school to run for Congress at the age of twenty-eight. His decision to enter politics signalled the beginning of a long illustrious political career that included two terms as Vice President of the United States. Author Troy Gipson met Gore in 1976, a chance encounter which created a lifelong friendship that has provided Mr. Gipson with rare access to one of the most influential figures in modern American politics. Providing a detailed, personal account of Al Gore's life and career, Gipson includes a behind-the-scenes accounting of the man and his actions that allows readers to discover a different side of Al Gore: the man himself; his motivations; his character, and his insatiable appetite to make a positive difference in our country-and the world. Breathtaking in scope and moving in intimacy, From Carthage to Oslo is the definitive insiders look at one of the most influential politicians of the last century.

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Macmillan

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0312982860

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Emma

200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Jane Austen

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Emma

200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Jane Austen

The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage—now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates two hundred years of Austen’s beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes drawing specially from the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0143107712

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Lethal Treasure

A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

By: Jane K. Cleland

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Lethal Treasure

A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

By: Jane K. Cleland

Joining the crowds at abandoned storage units being sold at auction a week before Valentine's Day, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is compelled to use her unique skills to solve the murder of a friend who is killed immediately after the auction.

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1250026946

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Reclaiming Catherine of Siena

Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others

By: Jane Tylus

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Reclaiming Catherine of Siena

Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others

By: Jane Tylus

Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no formal education, and her accomplishments were considered miracles rather than the work of her own hand. As a result, she has been largely excluded from accounts of the development of European humanism and the language and literature of Italy. Reclaiming Catherine ofSiena makes the case for considering Catherine alongside literary giants such as Dante and Petrarch, as it underscores Catherine's commitment to using the vernacular to manifest Christ's message—and her own. Jane Tylus charts here the contested struggles of scholars over the centuries to situate Catherine in the history of Italian culture in early modernity. But she mainly focuses on Catherine’s works, calling attention to the interplay between orality and textuality in the letters and demonstrating why it was so important for Catherine to envision herself as a writer. Tylus argues for a reevalution of Catherine as not just a medieval saint, but one of the major figures at the birth of the Italian literary canon.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226821285

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Auditing

A Practical Approach with Data Analytics

By: Raymond N. Johnson,Laura Davis Wiley,Robyn Moroney,Fiona Campbell,Jane Hamilton

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Auditing

A Practical Approach with Data Analytics

By: Raymond N. Johnson,Laura Davis Wiley,Robyn Moroney,Fiona Campbell,Jane Hamilton

The explosion of data analytics in the auditing profession demands a different kind of auditor. Auditing: A Practical Approach with Data Analytics prepares students for the rapidly changing demands of the auditing profession by meeting the data-driven requirements of today's workforce. Because no two audits are alike, this course uses a practical, case-based approach to help students develop professional judgement, think critically about the auditing process, and develop the decision-making skills necessary to perform a real-world audit. To further prepare students for the profession, this course integrates seamless exam review for successful completion of the CPA Exam.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119401747

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9781119401742

Walter Scott

The Making of the Novelist

By: Jane Millgate

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Walter Scott

The Making of the Novelist

By: Jane Millgate

Between 1814 and 1819 Walter Scott published a remarkable sequence of eight historical and regional novels, beginning with Waverley and culminating in The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose. In the process he made the Author of Waverley into the most successful and famous novelist in the world; by chooseing to remain anonymous, however, Scott deliberately separated this new achievemtn from the fame he had already gained as editor and poet. This study of the first and major phase of Scott's career as a novelist reconsiders his act of secession from his own literary past and examines the interconnections between Scott the antiquarian and editor, Scott the romantic poet, and Scott the novelist.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802066925

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Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep

All-in-One Review and Testing to Pass Alabama's AMP/PSI Real Estate Exam

By: Stephen Mettling,David Cusic,Ryan Mettling,Jane Somers

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Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep

All-in-One Review and Testing to Pass Alabama's AMP/PSI Real Estate Exam

By: Stephen Mettling,David Cusic,Ryan Mettling,Jane Somers

Features of Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep (AL-RELEP): National Principles & Law Key Point Review (60 pages) Real Estate Math Key Formula Review & Practice (20 pages) Alabama-Specific Laws and Practices (28 pages) National Practice Tests (500 questions) Alabama Practice Tests (125 questions) Alabama Sample Exam (100 questions) We know the real estate licensing exam can be tough, and very nerve-wracking to prepare for. That’s why we created the Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep (AL-RELEP) the way we did. Since we have been managing real estate schools and developing curriculum for forty years, we know how all this works – or fails to work. AL-RELEP is comprehensive in that it contains both key content review and testing practice. And the text review is Alabama-specific – not just simplistic national content, but terse, relevant and accurate Alabama laws and regulations presented as a well-organized set of state ‘key point reviews’ ideal for pre-test memorization. But let’s not dismiss the importance of the national content either. AL-RELEP’s national key point reviews are a succinct compression of tested national principles and practices that comprise the national portion of state license exams from coast to coast. Our content is drawn from our own national textbook, Principles of Real Estate Practice – one of the most widely used principles textbooks in the country. Finally, our national content, as well as our question selection, is further tailored to the state testing outline promulgated by AMP for Alabama. Thus the breadth and depth of the law reviews and test questions reflect the topic emphasis of your state’s testing service and your Alabama license exam. A word about the test questions… AL-RELEP’s testing practice section consists of ten national practice tests, five state practice tests, and one state exam sample test. The practice tests are roughly 50 questions in length and the sample test is 100 questions. The test questions are designed to cover the content covered by the law reviews – which reinforces your learning of the total body of information tested by your state exam. The questions are direct, to the point, and designed to test your understanding. When you have completed a given test, you can check your answers against the answer key in the appendix. You may also note that each question’s answer is accompanied by a brief explanation, or “rationale” to further reinforce your understanding. In the end, as you know, it’s all up to you. Unlike other publications, we are not going to tell you that using this book will guarantee that you pass your state exam. It still takes hard work and study to pass. But we have done our best here to get you ready. Following that, the most we can do is wish you the best of success in taking and passing your Alabama real estate exam. So good luck!! For Alabama students looking for an Alabama textbook to complement Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep, we have Principles of Real Estate Practice in Alabama.

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Performance Programs Company

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0915777444

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Open Hearts Family

Connecting with One Another

By: Jane Seymour

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Open Hearts Family

Connecting with One Another

By: Jane Seymour

Inspired by Jane Seymour's "Healing Hearts" paintings and the actress's trademarked Open Hearts Family jewelry collection, this book celebrates both the families we were born to and the families that we make for ourselves among friends and all who touch our lives. The Open Hearts design reflects life's joys, heartaches, and inspirations. Moving quotes, poems, real-life stories submitted by fans to the Open Hearts blog and Jane's equally inspirational artwork come together in this book that reminds us that if we keep our hearts open love will always find its way in.

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Running Press Adult

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0762449187

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Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations

Vol. 1: Theory

By: Jane K. Cullum,Ralph A. Willoughby

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Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations

Vol. 1: Theory

By: Jane K. Cullum,Ralph A. Willoughby

First published in 1985, this book presents background material, descriptions, and supporting theory relating to practical numerical algorithms for the solution of huge eigenvalue problems. This book deals with 'symmetric' problems. However, in this book, 'symmetric' also encompasses numerical procedures for computing singular values and vectors of real rectangular matrices and numerical procedures for computing eigenelements of nondefective complex symmetric matrices. Although preserving orthogonality has been the golden rule in linear algebra, most of the algorithms in this book conform to that rule only locally, resulting in markedly reduced memory requirements. Additionally, most of the algorithms discussed separate the eigenvalue (singular value) computations from the corresponding eigenvector (singular vector) computations. This separation prevents losses in accuracy that can occur in methods which, in order to be able to compute further into the spectrum, use successive implicit deflation by computed eigenvector or singular vector approximations.

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SIAM

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0898715237

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Hero's Bride

By: Jane Peart

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Hero's Bride

By: Jane Peart

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0310671418

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Alone with a Tasman Tiger

A high stakes race, a missing friend and a search for the impossible

By: Jane Ellyson

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Alone with a Tasman Tiger

A high stakes race, a missing friend and a search for the impossible

By: Jane Ellyson

Winning $250,000 in a bush-survival competition in Tasmania would give Sebastian Ward choices. But he’s promised his mate Scott he’ll sail in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 100 days’ time. Seb’s confident he’ll outlast the other competitors and make it back to Sydney before the starting cannon fires. At the beginning of the contest, he forms an unlikely relationship with the wild-spirited Galina. This breaks all the rules of the game. When Galina is declared the winner and the organisers report that Seb has already left the competition, Galina suspects foul play. Meanwhile, Scott and crew have set sail, encountering a phantom yacht during a storm. They are blasted by laser, rendering them unable to sail swiftly to the finish. When their yacht limps into port, few believe their reports of the encounter. Scott’s wife Charlotte, who’s in London and previously worked as an Intelligence Officer, wonders if the incident at sea is more than a prank. She hears about a Belarusian scientist who may hold the key. Can Charlotte and Galina women unravel the mystery surrounding Sebastian, Scott and the phantom yacht and save the world from a deadly technology?

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0648660796

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Literary Relations

Kinship and the Canon 1660-1830

By: Jane Spencer

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Literary Relations

Kinship and the Canon 1660-1830

By: Jane Spencer

The English literary tradition has been constituted as a patriarchal family. Great fathers are supposed to pass on a place to worthy sons, and the status of women's writing within the canon is contested. This book shows how kinship and mentoring relationships between writers helped to form the national tradition. Writers featured include Dryden, Congreve, Johnson, Burney, the Fieldings, the Wordsworths, and Austen.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199262969

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Reigning in His Power

A Study on How to Rein in the Power of the Holy Spirit in Your Daily Walk

By: Jane Boston

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Reigning in His Power

A Study on How to Rein in the Power of the Holy Spirit in Your Daily Walk

By: Jane Boston

Understanding the power of the Holy Spirit is the key to taking the Christian faith from the church pew into your daily walk. Jane Boston is a living example that Gods ways lead to success, peace, and results. Author and speaker Jane Boston has built a million-dollar national company for medical rehabilitation personnel by accessing the power of the Holy Spirit. Her account of trusting God through the birth trauma of her only child raised her faith to a higher level and will open your eyes to how real God is around you. Are you seeking to accept the life the Bible promises of peace, prosperity, and perfection in Gods plan for you? Then Reigning in His Power is the perfect Bible study for you! This study will answer the following questions for you: How do I find Gods perfect will for me? What are the means God uses to speak to us? What are the three Cs to knowing when God has directed me to act or wait? How do I pray effectively and efficiently? What can I do to live more peacefully and stress-free? Growing these skills will take your Christian faith to the next level and change your life! This mastery will put you on a path to living out Gods purpose and unique plan for you. And in time, your success, with amazing results, will speak for itself! A new life awaits you www.motivationsministries.org

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WestBow Press

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1449711235

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The Burning of the White House

James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

By: Jane Hampton Cook

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The Burning of the White House

James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

By: Jane Hampton Cook

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

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Simon and Schuster

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1621575497

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Slipstream

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Slipstream

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

The intimate and revealing memoir of the woman behind the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles and a fascinating window into the British literary world. One of Britain’s most famous and beloved authors, Elizabeth Jane Howard’s life was as rich, varied, and passionate as the characters in her novels. In her brutally honest, at times humorous, wholly captivating autobiography, the woman who felt she lived “in the slipstream of experience” employs her prodigious skills as a novelist to chart the course of an eventful life—including three marriages, multiple affairs, and friendships with the literary giants of the day, among them Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis. Born in 1923 to bohemian parents within a large Edwardian family, Howard was raised in privilege and security. Educated at home from the age of eleven, she enjoyed short-lived careers as a model, an actress, and an editor before she found her métier as a novelist. She gained invaluable experience growing up in a time bookended by two world wars and enjoyed a level of independence denied an earlier generation of British women. In her memoir, Howard writes with painful candor about her introduction to sex—her father abused her when she was fifteen—and her marriage to Peter Scott, son of the famed British explorer, along with her tempestuous third marriage to Kingsley Amis. She delves into complicated romantic and family relationships, inviting the reader to accompany her on her search for truth in life. Featuring cameos by William Faulkner, Rosamond Lehmann, Evelyn Waugh, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Scofield, and many others, Slipstream finally illuminates a struggle common to women writers of every time and place: carving out a room of one’s own.

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Open Road Media

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1504036743

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Frankenstein's Daughters

Women Writing Science Fiction

By: Jane L. Donawerth

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Frankenstein's Daughters

Women Writing Science Fiction

By: Jane L. Donawerth

Women Science fiction authors—past and present—are united by the problems they face in attempting to write in this genre, an overwhelmingly male-dominated field. Science fiction has been defined by male-centered, scientific discourse that describes women as alien "others" rather than rational beings. This perspective has defined the boundaries of science fiction, resulting in women writers being excluded as equal participants in the genre. Frankenstein's Daughters explores the different strategies women have used to negotiate the minefields of their chosen career: they have created a unique utopian science formulated by and for women, with women characters taking center stage and actively confronting oppressors. This type of depiction is a radical departure from the condition where women are relegated to marginal roles within the narratives. Donawerth takes a comprehensive look at the field and explores the works of authors such as Mary Shelley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Anne McCaffrey.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815603959

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Making Ireland English

By: Jane Ohlmeyer

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Making Ireland English

By: Jane Ohlmeyer

This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. Jane Ohlmeyer's research in the archives of the era yields a major new understanding of early Irish and British elite, and it offers fresh perspectives on the experiences of the Irish, English, and Scottish lords in wider British and continental contexts. The book examines the resident peerage as an aggregate of 91 families, not simply 311 individuals, and demonstrates how a reconstituted peerage of mixed faith and ethnicity assimilated the established Catholic aristocracy. Tracking the impact of colonization, civil war, and other significant factors on the fortunes of the peerage in Ireland, Ohlmeyer arrives at a fresh assessment of the key accomplishment of the new Irish elite: making Ireland English.

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Yale University Press

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030017750X

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Simple Joys: The American Folk Art of Jane Wooster Scott

By: Jane Wooster Scott

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Simple Joys: The American Folk Art of Jane Wooster Scott

By: Jane Wooster Scott

Jane Wooster Scott's paintings celebrate American ideals from a simpler time. Featuring charming depictions of everyday scenes from the turn of the twentieth century, this collection includes a Sunday in New England, Autumn Hayride, and Quilts of Cape Cod, as well as quotes from famous Americans on the simple truths for leading a happy, rewarding life.

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0762426713

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Key Concepts in Romantic Literature

By: Jane Moore,John Strachan

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Key Concepts in Romantic Literature

By: Jane Moore,John Strachan

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature is an accessible and easy-to-use scholarly guide to the literature, criticism and history of the culturally rich and politically turbulent Romantic era (1789-1832). The book offers a comprehensive and critically up-to-date account of the fascinating poetry, novels and drama which characterized the Romantic period alongside an historically-informed account of the important social, political and aesthetic contexts which shaped that body of writing. The epochal poetry of William Wordsworth, William Blake, Mary Robinson, S. T. Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, P. B. Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon; the drama of Joanna Baillie and Charles Robert Maturin; the novels of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley; all of these figures and many more are insightfully discussed here, together with clear and helpful accounts of the key contexts of the age's literature (including the French Revolution, slavery, industrialisation, empire and the rise of feminism) as well as accounts of perhaps less familiar aspects of late Georgian culture (such as visionary spirituality, atheism, gambling, fashion, music and sport). This is the broadest guide available to late eighteenth and early 19th century British and Irish literature, history and culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350310379

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Interpreting Complex Forensic DNA Evidence

By: Jane Moira Taupin

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Interpreting Complex Forensic DNA Evidence

By: Jane Moira Taupin

Interpreting Complex Forensic DNA Evidence is a handy guide to recent advances—and emerging issues—in interpreting complex DNA evidence and profiles for use in criminal investigations. In certain cases, DNA cannot be connected to a specific biological material such as blood, semen or saliva. How or when the DNA was deposited may be an issue. The possibility of generating DNA profiles from touched objects, where there may not be a visible deposit, has expanded the scope and number of exhibits submitted for DNA analysis. With such advances, and increasing improvements in technological capabilities in testing samples, this means it is possible to detect ever smaller amounts of DNA. There are also many efforts underway to seek was to interpret DNA profiles that are sub-optimal—either relative to the amount required by the testing kit and, potentially, the quality of the obtained sample. Laboratories often use enhancements in order to obtain a readable DNA profile. The broad-reaching implications of improving DNA sensitivity have led to this next, emerging generation of more complex profiles. Examples partial profiles that do not faithfully reflect the proposed donor, or mixtures of partial DNA from multiple people. A complexity threshold has been proposed to limit interpretation of poor-quality data. Research is now addressing the interpretation of transfer of trace amounts of DNA. Complex issues are arising in trial that need to be reconciled as such complexity has added challenges to the interpretation of evidence and its introduction or dismissal in certain cases in the courts. Key Features: Addresses DNA transfer, from person-to-person as well as to objects Outlines each stage required to produce a DNA profile from an exhibit—including collection, handling, storage, and analysis Discusses ethics, subjectivity, and bias—including cognitive dissonance—as they relate specifically to complex DNA evidence Highlights current techniques and the latest advances in DNA analysis, including advances in familial DNA searches Interpreting Complex Forensic DNA Evidence provides tools to assist the criminal investigator, forensic expert, and legal professional when posed with a DNA result in a forensic report or testimony. The result—and any associated statistic—may not reveal any ambiguity, complexity, or the assumptions involved in deriving it. Questions from resolved criminal cases are posed, and the relevant forensic literature, provided for the reader to assess a DNA result and any associated statistic. Case studies throughout illustrate concepts and emphasize the need for conclusions in the forensic report that are supported by the data.

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1351023772

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Renato Beluche

Smuggler, Privateer, and Patriot, 1780–1860

By: Jane Lucas De Grummond

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Renato Beluche

Smuggler, Privateer, and Patriot, 1780–1860

By: Jane Lucas De Grummond

Renato Beluche played many roles in the turbulent world of the nineteenth-century Caribbean. He was a merchant sea captain as well as a successful Privateer. He was Simón Bolívar's favorite admiral as well as an active partner in the affairs of the Laffite brothers. He fought both as a revolutionary and as a defender against revolt. He was a patriot in the eyes of eight American nations and a brigand in the eyes of England and France. In tracing the course of Beluche's chameleonlike career, this biography by Jane Lucas De Grummond gives us a panoramic view of the complex affairs of the Caribbean during one of the most volatile periods in its history. Renato Beluche is the product of the more than forty years that De Grummond has devoted to the history of the United States, the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and Latin America. It draws together her knowledge not only of Beluche's exploits but also of the wars, revolutions ,and treacherous allegiances that shaped the development of the Caribbean.Renato Beluche was born in New Orleans in 1780, the son of a recently emigrated Frenchman whose wig-making business was a front for smuggling. In 1802 Beluche went to sea as a pilot's mate on the flagship of the Spanish fleet, and by 1805 he was master of a merchant schooner. By this time, the Laffite brothers had established a smuggling base at Grande Terre on the Louisiana coast. Flying the French flag, Beluche captured Spanish and English ships and sent them to Grande Terre, Cartagena, and New Granada.In 1813, Beluche became associated with the Venezuelan patriots who were rebelling against Spanish rule, and with their leader, Simón Bolívar. Beluche would spend the next decade in the service of the Venezuelan revolution, interrupted only by a brief period when he joined with Jean Laffite and the Baratarian smugglers who had come to the aid of General Andrew Jackson during the British invasion of the Gulf Coast.After serving as an artillery commander beside Dominique You in the Battle of New Orleans, Beluche was drawn back into the liberation of Venezuela. He participated in the Aux Cayes Expedition, the Battle of Los Frailes, the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, and the Siege of Puerto Cabello. In 1824, Beluche settled his family in Puerto Cabello, and after independence was finally won, he worked as a coastal shipping captain.In 1836 Beluche fought on the losing side of a rebellion against the Venezuelan government and was exiled for nine years. He returned in 1845 and helped crush another revolt that raged from 1848 until 1850. For the next decade he led an uncharacteristically quiet existence, and he died peacefully in Puerto Cabello in 1860. Renator Beluche's vigorous career on the sea had taken him to nearly every corner of the Caribbean; he had lived a life intertwined with the history of his world.

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0807124591

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Roots and Branches

Or Growing up in Maine

By: Jane Rozelle

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Roots and Branches

Or Growing up in Maine

By: Jane Rozelle

Roots and Branches flows from the early 1800 Hanson and Rozelle families to the joining of Jane to her husband Lloyd and their continued life through the years to 2015 atleast. Their lifes trails took lots of twist and turns, but always they gave the credit to the Lord, for restoration, comfort, and rejoicing. All of their family is discussed as a very big part of their life with thankfulness for each other. The writer of Roots and Branches hopes that the readers will be reminded of the value on your lives and count your blessings too. Think on your past and the trail that you have traveled maybe jot it down as I have. Oh, how the memories have a way of resurfacing. Try it!!

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150354401X

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