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Reimagining Chan Buddhism

Sheng Yen and the Creation of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan

By: Jimmy Yu

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Reimagining Chan Buddhism

Sheng Yen and the Creation of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan

By: Jimmy Yu

This book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new lineage of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931–2009)—arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times. The book challenges the received academic and popular image of Chan Buddhism as a meditation school that bypasses scriptural learning. Using Sheng Yen’s doctrinal classification (Chn. panjiao) chart as an example, the book shows Sheng Yen’s Chan as a synthesis of both Indian and Chinese premodern forms of Buddhism, and as the summum bonum of Han transmission of Chinese Buddhism (Chn. Hanchuan fojiao). The book demonstrates how Sheng Yen’s presentation of Chan was intimately related to the volatile social and political realities of his life—the Communist takeover of China and the subsequent industrial boom that impacted Taiwanese society. In short, this book presents a historically and culturally embodied approach to the formation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Drawing on the works of postcolonial theories that integrate the role of the researcher into the research, the book also offers a more integrated approach between emic and etic, insider and outsider perspectives to research. Advancing the field of Buddhist studies, the book will be of interest to scholars of Buddhism in the modern period, twentieth-century religious history of China and Taiwan, Chan/Zen studies, World Religions, Asian civilizations, and Modern Biographies.

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Routledge

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1000476529

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9781000476521

Coastal Hydrogeology

By: Jimmy Jiao,Vincent Post

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Coastal Hydrogeology

By: Jimmy Jiao,Vincent Post

Offers a comprehensive volume discussing groundwater problems in coastal areas, spanning fundamental science to practical water management.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107030595

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9781107030596

Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta

A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather

By: Jimmy DiResta,John Baichtal

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Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta

A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather

By: Jimmy DiResta,John Baichtal

Jimmy DiResta has made a name for himself with his inventiveness and workshop skills, creating dozens of projects for YouTube videos and television shows such as Hammered and Against the Grain on the DIY network. In Make: Workshop Mastery With Jimmy DiResta, Jimmy and co-author John Baichtal teach readers essential workshop skills with over a dozen projects that explore everything from mold-making to CNC routing on to metalsmithing.Projects in this book include: Tool-drawer cabinet A chess set One-sheet metal stool A machete Crowbar-hammer mashup An electric guitar with a carved body Your own sign A leather backpack

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Maker Media, Inc.

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145719399X

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9781457193996

Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700

By: Jimmy Yu

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Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700

By: Jimmy Yu

Also includes some discussion of chastity suicides.

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OUP USA

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0199844887

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9780199844883

There and Back

Photographs from the Edge

By: Jimmy Chin

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There and Back

Photographs from the Edge

By: Jimmy Chin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the first collection of his iconic adventure photography, featuring some of the greatest moments of the most accomplished climbers and outdoor athletes in the world, and including more than 200 extraordinary photographs. “An extraordinary work of art.”—Jon Krakauer Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents—from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to first ascents in Chad’s Ennedi Desert and Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land. Along the way, Chin shares behind-the-scenes details about how he captured such astounding images in impossible conditions, and tells the stories of the legendary adventurers and remarkable athletes he has photographed, including Alex Honnold, the star of his Academy Award–winning documentary film Free Solo; ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers; snowboarder Travis Rice; and mountaineers Conrad Anker and Yvon Chouinard. These larger-than-life images, coupled with stories of outsized drive and passion, of impossible goals with life or death stakes, of partnerships forged through incredible hardship, are sure to inspire wonder and awe.

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Ten Speed Press

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198485951X

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9781984859518

Changing China

A Geographic Appraisal

By: Chiao-min "Jimmy" Hsieh

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Changing China

A Geographic Appraisal

By: Chiao-min "Jimmy" Hsieh

This textbook will be welcomed by professors and students who have been long looking for an appropriate textbook for teaching and studying the changing geography of post-reform China." —Hongmian Gong, Hunter College, CUNY "A wonderful collection of current source data. The range of bibliographic material in these pages is great." —Kit Salter, University of Missouri, Columbia Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the giant country that is undergoing an unparalleled and historic transition from a centralized command economy to a market-based economy, and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial power. Contributions from a distinguished team of geographers both inside and outside of China are divided into three parts that assess, respectively, economic changes since the reform of 1978, recent social transformations, and changes along China's peripheries including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and inner Mongolia. An introductory chapter provides an overview of major themes. Includes a chronology of major events in Chinese history and a glossary of Chinese terms.

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Routledge

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0429981392

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9780429981395

Musket, Map and Money:

How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics

By: Jimmy Teng

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Musket, Map and Money:

How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics

By: Jimmy Teng

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of these military technological changes is in fact to understand the causes behind the following major historical puzzles or important facts: the leading position of the Near East during the dawn of civilization; the splendid achievements of Greece, India and China during the axial era; the classical golden age of India under the Gupta Empire; the Abbasid Golden Age of the Islamic world and the Sung Puzzle of China during the medieval era; and the rise of the West during the early modern and modern era.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110399261

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9783110399264

There and Back (Deluxe Signed Edition)

Photographs from the Edge

By: Jimmy Chin

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There and Back (Deluxe Signed Edition)

Photographs from the Edge

By: Jimmy Chin

A deluxe signed edition of the New York Times bestselling collection of adventure photography from the Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo, with exclusive features including: • An oversized clothbound hardcover format • Author signature page • Clothbound clamshell case • A separate 12” x 10.75” Jimmy Chin B&W photo printed on archival high quality Fuji Photographic matte paper • All 200+ extraordinary images from the original edition, including many in a larger size Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents—from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet’s Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to first ascents in Chad’s Ennedi Desert and Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land. Along the way, Chin shares behind-the-scenes details about how he captured such astounding images in impossible conditions, and tells the stories of the legendary adventurers and remarkable athletes he has photographed, including Alex Honnold, the star of his Academy Award–winning documentary film Free Solo; ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers; snowboarder Travis Rice; and mountaineers Conrad Anker and Yvon Chouinard. These larger-than-life images, coupled with stories of outsized drive and passion, of impossible goals with life or death stakes, of partnerships forged through incredible hardship, are sure to inspire wonder and awe.

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Ten Speed Press

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1984862987

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9781984862983

Silent King

By: Jimmy Jones

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Silent King

By: Jimmy Jones

Don't let the bright lights of the Sears Tower fool you. This is Englewood, Chicago, known to most as "Chiraq," an infested gangland captured under the thumb of a vicious dictatorship. Unlike any other major city, the control of the streets doesn't lie in the conniving hands of the city's top cops or politicians. In plain view, the city is controlled by the iron fist of over two hundred thousand religiously dedicated Gangster Disciples, BDs, Vice Lords, and Black P. Stones. Only the people of high society who reside in the downtown area are barely safe. But within the surrounding districts, suicidal pawns dominate their gang territories, not using common sense but reverting to assault rifles to settle their different views and disagreements, causing the citizens of Chicago to live in constant fear. There in the midst of the gang infestation stood a young, curious, and malleable ten-year-old Englewood kid named Jimmy, better known as Jay. Once left behind by his family, feeling abandoned, Jay took to the allure of the "street life," opposed to the golden teachings and directions of his stern father. No longer exhausting his mental energy behind unanswered questions like "Why my momma leave me?" with his mind made up, along with a grudge and a chip on his shoulder, Jay, with high street ambition, set out to be King of a world that assured only one thing: all kings eventually wake up with their heads cut off! This is the unflattering true story of Jimmy Jones Jr.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1684090326

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9781684090327

A Place to Stand

By: Jimmy Santiago Baca

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A Place to Stand

By: Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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1555848907

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9781555848903

Streams of Consciousness 69 Times

By: Jimmy Chan

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Streams of Consciousness 69 Times

By: Jimmy Chan

Streams of Consciousness 69Times" This Is Poetry! "...as the wind dances across the midnight sky hear the windchimes tickling your mind to find truth heed the wisdom as it fires off from the wisdom tooth..." Come and take a sophisticated ride of poetry in motion!The "floatry" of this author is based on the voices whispering in the wind as they guide this conscious poet into realms of enlightenment. Romantic, Sultry and Honest is how this poet expresses himself while allowing the reader to journey within his world of droning vibrations based on love and his deep profound passion for l i f e ! S of C 69Times is 269 pages full of beautiful art work, illustrations, photography and rich luscious poetry! It's been a while since someone has bared their soul in such a romantic, caring and self healing way, you can't help but to wonder how this "ghetto buddha"could have possibly journeyed such a path? Are the stories fiction or non? Travel through the gates of this mindful student as he steps into the Temple Hall of Shaolin and becomes the "heart and spirit of the Buddha"! Warning:some of the images shown and pieces written could make you want to become a disciple to "The Way". The number 69 is prevalent throughout these 69 chapters for it represents balance as in the yin and yang. Rule #9 at the temple is simple "Do not judge any other, only judge your self" Throughout these pages, examine the wealth in written text form for the Mind, Body and Soul! Some are erotic and others are brewed in the conscious pool! Some are hot while others will keep you cool keep a cuspidor by your side just in case you start to drool! Welcome to the book of Life! "Streams of Consciousness 69Times

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AuthorHouse

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147723571X

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9781477235713

Synthetic Data

Revolutionizing the Industrial Metaverse

By: Jimmy Nassif,Joe Tekli,Marc Kamradt

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Synthetic Data

Revolutionizing the Industrial Metaverse

By: Jimmy Nassif,Joe Tekli,Marc Kamradt

The book concentrates on the impact of digitalization and digital transformation technologies on the Industry 4.0 and smart factories, how the factory of tomorrow can be designed, built, and run virtually as a digital twin likeness of its real-world counterpart, before the physical structure is actually erected. It highlights the main digitalization technologies that have stimulated the Industry 4.0, how these technologies work and integrate with each other, and how they are shaping the industry of the future. It examines how multimedia data and digital images in particular are being leveraged to create fully virtualized worlds in the form of digital twin factories and fully virtualized industrial assets. It uses BMW Group’s latest SORDI dataset (Synthetic Object Recognition Dataset for Industry), i.e., the largest industrial images dataset to-date and its applications at BMW Group and Idealworks, as one of the main explanatory scenarios throughout the book. It discusses the need of synthetic data to train advanced deep learning computer vision models, and how such datasets will help create the “robot gym” of the future: training robots on synthetic images to prepare them to function in the real world.

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Springer Nature

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3031475607

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9783031475603

Dad Jokes

Good, Clean Fun for All Ages!

By: Jimmy Niro

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Dad Jokes

Good, Clean Fun for All Ages!

By: Jimmy Niro

A USA Today bestseller! Dad Jokes: the good, the bad, and the terrible, a perfect gift for dads and pun-lovers alike! With over 600 knee-slappers, head-shakers, and groan-makers, Dad Jokes is packed with enough witty quips and cheesy-but-grate jokes for even the most embarrassing of dads. Perfect for the father experts, new dads, and all the fathers-to-be, this is the ideal funny gift from any daughter, son, wife, or partner that celebrates how great (terrible) their jokes truly are! But remember—you don't have to be a dad to tell dad jokes! Be prepared for the obvious, silly, and awkward in this massive collection of the best groan-worthy dad jokes around, including clever quips, overly literal dialogue, and punny one-liners. Great for Father's Day, Christmas, white elephant, birthdays, and more! These jokes may be on porpoise, but they whale definitely make you laugh: I used to hate facial hair, but then it started growing on me. "Dad, can you put my shoes on?" "No, I don't think they'll fit me." I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down! Q: What's the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle? A: The road.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492679216

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9781492679219

Mississippi Noir

By: Ace Atkins,Jimmy Cajoleas,RaShell R. Smith-Spears

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Mississippi Noir

By: Ace Atkins,Jimmy Cajoleas,RaShell R. Smith-Spears

This anthology of Mississippi crime fiction “has produced a unique, delicious flavor of noir” with stories by Ace Atkins, Megan Abott and more (New York Daily News). From poverty to state corruption, Mississippi has a well-deserved reputation for trouble. Could there be a connection between its many misfortunes and its rich literary legacy? Mississippians from Tennessee Williams and Eudora Welty to Richard Ford and John Grisham certainly know how to tell a good story. Now Mississippi Noir offers “a devilishly wrought introduction” to a new generation of “writers with a feel for Mississippi who are pursuing lonely, haunting paths of the imagination” (Associated Press). Mississippi Noir includes brand-new stories by Ace Atkins, William Boyle, Megan Abbott, Jack Pendarvis, Dominiqua Dickey, Michael Kardos, Jamie Paige, Jimmy Cajoleas, Chris Offutt, Michael Farris Smith, Andrew Paul, Lee Durkee, Robert Busby, John M. Floyd, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, and Mary Miller.

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Akashic Books

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1617754609

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9781617754609

Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking

BERT and Beyond

By: Jimmy Lin,Rodrigo Nogueira,Andrew Yates

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Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking

BERT and Beyond

By: Jimmy Lin,Rodrigo Nogueira,Andrew Yates

The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search, instances of the task can also be found in many natural language processing (NLP) applications.This book provides an overview of text ranking with neural network architectures known as transformers, of which BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is the best-known example. The combination of transformers and self-supervised pretraining has been responsible for a paradigm shift in NLP, information retrieval (IR), and beyond. This book provides a synthesis of existing work as a single point of entry for practitioners who wish to gain a better understanding of how to apply transformers to text ranking problems and researchers who wish to pursue work in this area. It covers a wide range of modern techniques, grouped into two high-level categories: transformer models that perform reranking in multi-stage architectures and dense retrieval techniques that perform ranking directly. Two themes pervade the book: techniques for handling long documents, beyond typical sentence-by-sentence processing in NLP, and techniques for addressing the tradeoff between effectiveness (i.e., result quality) and efficiency (e.g., query latency, model and index size). Although transformer architectures and pretraining techniques are recent innovations, many aspects of how they are applied to text ranking are relatively well understood and represent mature techniques. However, there remain many open research questions, and thus in addition to laying out the foundations of pretrained transformers for text ranking, this book also attempts to prognosticate where the field is heading.

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Springer Nature

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3031021819

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9783031021817

End-Time Prophecies Revelation

Raptures and Christ's Imminent Return

By: Jimmy Poon

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End-Time Prophecies Revelation

Raptures and Christ's Imminent Return

By: Jimmy Poon

What happened in 2020 is just the beginning of a series of wakeup calls God is sending to mankind regarding the impending tribulations and judgments prophesied about in the Bible which will precede Jesus Christ’s return to Jerusalem. he mysteries of raptures and jubilee cycles (the “seventy sevens” in Daniel 9) have been unsealed. The final seven years of this age, foretold in Daniel 9, will begin in 2025 when the Antichrist will sign a seven-year covenant with Israel. The fourth seal in Revelation 6, predicting massive death by war, violence, pestilence, and famine involving a quarter of the earth, is beginning to open. This book will open your eyes to biblical prophecies to see what has been sealed up until now. Following sound hermeneutic principles, Dr. Poon has decoded all the symbols and metaphors used in the books of Revelation and Daniel so that the events which will happen between now and 2032 have been written in plain language for all to understand. Through a Jewish perspective, he explains how Old Testament prophecies are fulfilled in Revelation, even digging into the original text on certain key words. This is a must-read for our generation.

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Word Alive Press

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1486616011

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9781486616015

Wolverine

The Amazing Immortal Man And Other Bloody Tales

By: Dean Motter,Zeb Wells,Rick Spears,Jimmy Palmiotti,Duane Swierczynski,Joshua Fialkov,David Lapham,Stuart Moore,Frank Tieri,Ryan Dunlavey

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Wolverine

The Amazing Immortal Man And Other Bloody Tales

By: Dean Motter,Zeb Wells,Rick Spears,Jimmy Palmiotti,Duane Swierczynski,Joshua Fialkov,David Lapham,Stuart Moore,Frank Tieri,Ryan Dunlavey

Collects Wolverine #900 And #1000; Wolverine Annual #2; Rampaging Wolverine #1; Wolverine: The Amazing Immortal Man & Other Bloody Tales, Under The Boardwalk, Wendigo!, Carni-Brawl, Savage, Mr. X, Dust From Above And Debt Of Death; And Material From Wolverine: Switchback. Wolverine unleashed in savage stories spanning his century-long life! Logans long life has taken him to every corner of the globe from terrifying crowds in a 1930s freak show; to battling Nazi werewolves during World War II; to fighting pirates in Korea, mobsters in New Jersey and a mythical creature in the American Southwest. Now, in rarely seen tales by an army of top talent, watch Wolverine take on ninjas, monsters, zombies, Morlocks and more and face off against both the Hulk and Thor! Plus: Grudge matches with Mojo, the Wendigo and more! Its Wolverine as you like him best!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302504584

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9781302504588

101 Amazing Facts About Everything - Volume 1

By: Jack Goldstein,Jimmy Russell

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101 Amazing Facts About Everything - Volume 1

By: Jack Goldstein,Jimmy Russell

Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt had a guinea pig called Fighting Bob Evans along with many other hilariously named pets? Were you aware that a certain Brazilian Emperor didn't oppose a military coup because he no longer enjoyed his job? Brought to you by renowned trivia historians Jack Goldstein and Jimmy Russell, this eBook is full of facts that will make you laugh, gasp in amazement and possibly blow your mind. Find out what percentage of the world's wood is used just by IKEA, the unusual job Sylvester Stallone once had, who wrote the world’s first knock-knock joke and much, much more.

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Andrews UK Limited

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178333312X

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Up the Nano Creek

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alex Zaslavsky

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Up the Nano Creek

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alex Zaslavsky

In this book leading profesionals in the semiconductor microelectronics field discuss the future evolution of their profession. The following are some of the questions discussed: Does CMOS technology have a real problem? Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials? What is to come after semiconductors? Superconductors or molecular conductors? Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography? Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution? Quantum Computing, Spintronics? Where is the printable plastic electronics proposed 10 years ago? Are carbon nanotube transistors the CMOS of the future?

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470168250

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9780470168257

The Cake and the Rain

A Memoir

By: Jimmy Webb

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The Cake and the Rain

A Memoir

By: Jimmy Webb

Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street Journal Jimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He’s the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now, in his first memoir, Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from simple and sere Oklahoma to fast and fantastical Los Angeles, from the crucible of his family to the top of his longed-for profession. Webb was a preacher’s son whose father climbed off a tractor to receive his epiphany, and Jimmy, barely out of his teen age years, sank down into the driver’s seat of a Cobra to speed to Las Vegas to meet with Elvis. Classics such as “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, “The Worst that Could Happen”, “All I Know”, and “MacArthur Park” were all recorded by some of the most important voices in pop before Webb’s twenty-fifth birthday: he thought it was easy. The sixties were a supernova, and Webb was at their center, whipsawed from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars and planes. That stew almost took him down—but Webb survived, his passion for music and work among his lifelines. The Cake and The Rain is a surprising and unusual book: Webb’s talent as a writer and storyteller is here on every page. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, but all intimately involved with him in his youth, when life seemed nothing more than a party and Webb the eternal guest of honor.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466862572

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9781466862579

Moonless Night

The Second World War Escape Epic

By: B A 'Jimmy' James

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Moonless Night

The Second World War Escape Epic

By: B A 'Jimmy' James

“James is the sort of person they write legends about. A participant in the mass escape that was the basis for the movie The Great Escape.” —AudioFile From the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James’ one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape. Moonless Night describes his experiences and those of his fellow prisoners in the most gripping and thrilling manner. The author made more than twelve escape attempts including his participation in The Great Escape, where fifty of the seventy-six escapees were executed in cold blood on Hitler’s orders. On re-capture, James was sent to the infamous Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where, undeterred, he tunneled out. That was not the end of his remarkable story. Moonless Night has strong claim to be the finest escape story of the Second World War. “An amazing story.” —The Sunday Express

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Pen and Sword

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1848845081

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9781848845084

Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual

By: Hock Heng Tan,Mark Leong,R Ponampalam,Chun Yue Lee,Jimmy Goh

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Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual

By: Hock Heng Tan,Mark Leong,R Ponampalam,Chun Yue Lee,Jimmy Goh

The Hazmat medical life support basic provider course book aims to equip medical responders to a hazmat incident — chemical, radiological or biological — with essential skills and knowledge to safely manage casualties. It includes basic information about hazmat agents and provides easy to remember algorithmic approaches for the on-scene management of a hazmat event. Essential information on setting up medical operations, triaging and approach to hazmat event, personal protective equipment, decontamination, wound management, life support as well as paediatric-specific issues are discussed in this book.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814583170

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9789814583176

The Keto Cure

A Low-Carb, High-Fat Dietary Solution to Heal Your Body & Optimize Your Health

By: Jimmy Moore

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The Keto Cure

A Low-Carb, High-Fat Dietary Solution to Heal Your Body & Optimize Your Health

By: Jimmy Moore

The ketogenic diet isn’t just a great tool for helping people lose weight and feel their best; it’s also an extremely effective method for treating the common diseases of civilization. The Keto Cure will give readers the prescription they need to heal their bodies by eating plenty of fat and moderating protein and carbs. Dr. Adam Nally has been advocating a low-carb, high-fat diet in his clinical practice for more than fifteen years, helping people address their health problems by making better food choices. Dr. Nally and bestselling low-carb author and podcaster Jimmy Moore have worked together to create a top-50 health podcast espousing the benefits of eating keto. Now, for the first time, Dr. Nally has teamed up with Moore to take his years of clinical experience, put everything down on paper, and create a how-to guide that details all the ways in which the ketogenic diet can help remedy common ailments. The Keto Cure details the science behind the keto diet’s effectiveness at treating a wide range of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, fatty liver disease, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, Parkinson’s disease, thyroiditis, type-2 diabetes, and many more. The Keto Cure also outlines practical tips gleaned from Dr. Nally’s fifteen-plus years in medical practice, as well as Moore’s ten-plus years as a health and wellness podcaster, on overcoming the common pitfalls that people experience when adapting to a high-fat way of eating, including fatigue and keto flu. This helpful information, combined with a wide variety of delicious keto recipes from international bestselling cookbook author Maria Emmerich, makes The Keto Cure a complete resource for healing yourself with the ketogenic diet.

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Victory Belt Publishing

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1628603097

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The Heaven on Seven Cookbook

Where It's Mardis Gras All the Time!

By: Jimmy Bannos,John DeMers

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The Heaven on Seven Cookbook

Where It's Mardis Gras All the Time!

By: Jimmy Bannos,John DeMers

A full-color collection of inventive Creole-inflected recipes from Chicago's celebrated restaurant, in a paperback edition.

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168

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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1580088287

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Tunnel Rats

The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

By: Jimmy Thomson

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Tunnel Rats

The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

By: Jimmy Thomson

WARFARE & DEFENCE. AUSTRALIAN. The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers who risked their lives in the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743317352

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