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Golden Arrows

By: John Chelson

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Having met in college, Bill and Jessicas lives are drawn together as they both pursue a career in forestry. Their wilderness survival skills are tested as they explore the remote areas of the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. Who would have thought a hike in the mountains would lead to the discovery of a lost fortune of gold? What was the meaning of the golden arrowheads they found? Finding the skeletal remains of two miners lead to the answers a prominent Colorado family had been seeking. Bills friendship with a local Shoshone Indian leads him to discover a geological phenomenon in eastern Nevada that ends up changing his life forever. Bill and Jessica overcome threats on their lives and a heartbreaking end to their relationship. But in the end the discovery of a long lost legend allowed their dreams to finally come true.

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iUniverse

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1462026419

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9781462026418

Plymouth: A City at War, 1914-45

1914-45

By: John Kiste

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Plymouth: A City at War, 1914-45

1914-45

By: John Kiste

Home to all three armed services, Plymouth was greatly affected by both major conflicts of the twentieth century. Between 1914 and 1918, Devonport Dockyard was responsible for much routine repair and maintenance work as well as building new ships and submarines, while the Royal Marines and army battalions were active in various theatres of war overseas, and Mount Batten became one of the major stations of the newly formed Royal Air Force. During the Second World War, few cities in England suffered more devastating damage, with the heart of the old city destroyed and a death toll of 1,172.Richly illustrated and filled with true tales of local heroism and the unbreakable spirit of the people of Plymouth during these tumultuous years, this book looks at how the city fared during the wars and played her part in victory.

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173

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The History Press

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0750955287

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9780750955287

Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments

By: Christopher Scanlon,John Adlam

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Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments

By: Christopher Scanlon,John Adlam

The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our deeply fractured world. The authors offer a unique perspective on inter-group dynamics and structural violence at local, societal, cultural and global levels, dissecting processes of toxic ‘othering’ and psychosocial (re-)traumatisation. The book offers the Diogenes Paradigm as a unique conceptual tool with which to analyse the ways in which those of us who come to be located outside or on the margins of dominant social structures are, in one way or another, the inheritors of the legacies of centuries of oppression and exclusion. This analysis offers a distinctive psycho-social redefinition of trauma that foregrounds the relationship between the inhospitable environments we generate and the experiences of un-housedness that we thereby perpetuate. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence directly addresses pressing global issues of racial trauma, human mobility and climate disaster, and offers a manifesto for the creative re-imagining of the places and spaces in which conversations about restructuring and reparation can become sustainable. This is an essential and compelling book for anyone committed to social justice, especially for all practitioners working in health, social care and community justice settings, and researchers and academics across the behavioural and social sciences.

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197

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Routledge

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1000536246

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9781000536249

Plymouth Book of Days

By: John Kiste

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Plymouth Book of Days

By: John Kiste

Taking you through the year day by day, The Plymouth Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Plymouth’s archives, it will delight residents and visitors alike.

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399

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The History Press

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0752485970

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9780752485973

Explaining the Universe

The New Age of Physics

By: John M. Charap

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Explaining the Universe

The New Age of Physics

By: John M. Charap

In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and billions of years older. We know more about how it came to be and what it is. Because of physics, we live in a world of greater danger and more convenience, smaller particles and bigger ideas. Charap introduces these ideas but spares us the math behind them. After a review of the twentieth century's thorough transformation of physics, he checks in on the latest findings from particle physics, astrophysics, chaos theory, and cosmology. His tour includes ongoing efforts to find the universe's missing matter and to account for the first moments after the big bang. Taking readers right to the field's speculative edge, he explains how superstring theory may finally unite quantum mechanics with general relativity to produce a consistent quantum theory of gravity. Along the way, Charap poses the questions that continue to inspire research. Why is the universe flat? Why can't we forecast weather better? Can Schrodinger's cat really be simultaneously dead and alive? Why does fractal geometry keep showing up in strange places? Might spacetime have eleven dimensions? What does quantum mechanics mean about the nature of our world? In this book's pages, the nonphysicist will accept as commonsensical Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and physicists can meet across specialties. Students can access physics' critical concepts, and poets can learn a new language to describe the universe's many wonders. Taking us from the ultraviolet catastrophe that undid the Newtonian world to tomorrow's Theory of Everything, Charap brings today's most fascinating science down to Earth, where we can all enjoy it.

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241

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Princeton University Press

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0691187002

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9780691187006

Loving and Leaving Washington

Reflections on Public Service

By: John Yochelson

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Loving and Leaving Washington

Reflections on Public Service

By: John Yochelson

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, when the power game in Washington was played across party lines. Loving and Leaving Washington is his inside account of the lives of public servants from the perspective of a lifelong moderate. The Center for Strategic and International Studies brought Yochelson into close contact with such heavyweights as Henry Kissinger and Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker; work with the Council on Competitiveness kept him at the center of action. But the rise of bare-knuckled partisanship soured him on DC. In 2001 he left power politics to fight for a cause that he believed in, launching a San Diego–based nonprofit to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering. Funding realities and family ties, however, drew him back to the Beltway. The bittersweet experience of disengaging from and returning to Washington prompted Yochelson’s candid look at the loss of middle ground in U.S. politics and the decline of public trust in government. In this illuminating memoir, he reflects on the current generation’s dedication to their country and considers the rewards, limitations, and uncertain future of public service.

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305

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612348378

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9781612348377

Fighter Wing

A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

By: Tom Clancy,John Gresham

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Fighter Wing

A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

By: Tom Clancy,John Gresham

The #1 New York Times bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit. Tom Clancy's explorations of America's armed forces reveal exclusive, never- before-seen information on the people and technology that protect our nation. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force's elite: the Fighter Wing. With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best. This is the ultimate insider's look at an Air Force combat wing-the planes, the technology, and the people...with Tom Clancy behind the stick.

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388

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Penguin

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0425217027

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9780425217023

Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

By: John Kadvany

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Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

By: John Kadvany

The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as an Anglo-American philosopher of science and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced novel transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality. Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Before then, he had been an influential Communist intellectual and was imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime. He also wrote a lost doctoral thesis in the philosophy of science and participated in what was criminal behavior in all but a legal sense. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animates Lakatos’s English-language philosophy, and that, whether intended or not, Lakatos integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical proofs and controversial histories of science. Including new applications of Lakatos’s ideas to the histories of mathematical logic and economics and providing lucid exegesis of many of Hegel’s basic ideas, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason is an exciting reconstruction of ideas and episodes from the history of philosophy, science, mathematics, and modern political history.

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400

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Duke University Press

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0822380447

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9780822380443

Little Book of Devon

By: John Kiste

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Little Book of Devon

By: John Kiste

Do you know?Which MP was the first woman to take her seat in parliament?Who was the man they could not hang?Which member of the Beatles lost his temper at a famous Devon landmark?A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county’s famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry, and royal visits.A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.

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The History Press

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0750953942

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9780750953948

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: John D. Buenker,Joseph Buenker

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Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: John D. Buenker,Joseph Buenker

Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the U.S. in that era. Seventeen initial stand-alone essays describe as many themes.

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1412

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Routledge

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1317471687

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9781317471684

Picnic On Nearside

By: John Varley

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Picnic On Nearside

By: John Varley

A collection of short stories from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author who "has the imagination of six ordinary science fiction writers" (George R.R. Martin)—John Varley. Picnic on Nearside includes nine astonishing stories from an author whose imagination has changed the genre and the way that people envision the future.

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350

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Penguin

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1101656034

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9781101656037

Blue Champagne

By: John Varley

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Blue Champagne

By: John Varley

A collection of science fiction stories from "the best writer in America" (Tom Clancy)—Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley. John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major science fiction award several times over for both his novels and his short fiction. Blue Champagne collects eight thought-provoking stories from one of the genre's undisputed masters, including the Hugo Award-winner "The Pusher," and the Hugo and Nebula award-winner "Press Enter.

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452

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Penguin

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1101655828

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9781101655825

Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits

By: Roger D. Traub,John G. R. Jefferys,Miles A. Whittington

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Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits

By: Roger D. Traub,John G. R. Jefferys,Miles A. Whittington

In Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits, the authors use a combination of electrophysiological and computer modeling techniques to analyze how large networks of neurons can produce both epileptic seizures and functionally relevant synchronized oscillations.

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364

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MIT Press

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0262201186

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9780262201186

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Golden Arrows

Golden Arrows

Plymouth: A City at War, 1914-45

Plymouth: A City at War, 1914-45

Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

Plymouth Book of Days

Plymouth Book of Days

Explaining the Universe

Explaining the Universe

Loving and Leaving Washington

Loving and Leaving Washington

Fighter Wing

Fighter Wing

Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

Little Book of Devon

Little Book of Devon

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Picnic On Nearside

Picnic On Nearside

Blue Champagne

Blue Champagne

Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits

Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits

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