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The First of Men

A Life of George Washington

By: John E. Ferling

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The First of Men

A Life of George Washington

By: John E. Ferling

Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting not only Washington's familiar sterling qualities--courage, industry, ability to make difficult decisions, ceaseless striving for self-improvement, love of his family and loyalty to friends--but also his less well known character flaws. Indeed, as Ferling shows, Washington had to overcome many negative traits as he matured into a leader. The young Washington was accused of ingratitude and certain of his letters from this period read as if they were written by "a pompous martinet and a whining, petulant brat." As commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he lost his temper more than once and indulged flatterers. Aaron Burr found him "a boring, colorless person." As president, he often believed the worst about individual officials. Ferling concludes that Washington's personality and temperament were those of "a self-centered and self-absorbed man, one who since youth had exhibited a fragile self-esteem." And yet he managed to realize virtually every grand design he ever conceived. Ferling's Washington is driven, fired by ambition, envy, and dreams of fame and fortune. Yet his leadership and character galvanized the American Revolution--probably no one else could have kept the war going until the master stroke at Yorktown--and helped the fledgling nation take, and survive, its first unsteady steps. This superb paperback makes available once again an unflinchingly honest and compelling biography of the father of our country.

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Oxford University Press

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0199742278

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God and Stephen Hawking

Whose design is it anyway?

By: John C Lennox

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God and Stephen Hawking

Whose design is it anyway?

By: John C Lennox

The Grand Design, by eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, is the latest blockbusting contribution to the so-called New Atheist debate, and claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the Universe into being, rather than God. In this swift and forthright reply, John Lennox, Oxford mathematician and author of God's Undertaker, exposes the flaws in Hawking's logic. In lively, layman's terms, Lennox guides us through the key points in Hawking's arguments - with clear explanations of the latest scientific and philosophical methods and theories - and demonstrates that far from disproving a Creator God, they make his existence seem all the more probable.

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Lion Books

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0745959377

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9780745959375

Surface Electrochemistry

A Molecular Level Approach

By: John O'M. Bockris,Shahad U.M. Khan

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Surface Electrochemistry

A Molecular Level Approach

By: John O'M. Bockris,Shahad U.M. Khan

The text Modern Electrochemistry (authored by J. O'M. Bockris and A. K. N. Reddy and published by Plenum Press in 1970) was written between 1967 and 1969. The concept for it arose in 1962 in the Energy Conversion Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and it was intended to act as a base for interdisciplinary students and mature scientists~hemists, physicists, biologists, metallurgists, and engineers-who wanted to know about electrochemical energy conversion and storage. In writing the book, the stress, therefore, was placed above all on lucidity in teaching physical electrochemistry from the beginning. Although this fundamentally undergraduate text continues to find purchasers 20 years after its birth, it has long been clear that a modernized edition should be written, and the plans to do so were the origin of the present book. However, if a new Bockris and Reddy was to be prepared and include the advances of the last 20 years, with the same degree of lucidity as characterized the first one, the depth of the development would have to be well short of that needed by professional electrochemists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461530407

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9781461530404

Someone to Teach Them

York and the Great University Explosion, 1960 -1973

By: John T. Saywell

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Someone to Teach Them

York and the Great University Explosion, 1960 -1973

By: John T. Saywell

From the early 1960s to the 1970s, the province of Ontario witnessed an explosion in university enrolment. So dramatic was the increase that there were neither the institutions nor the faculty in place to meet the demand. In response, a dozen new universities from Trent in the southeast to Lakehead in the northwest were established, and faculty had to be recruited wherever they could be found. It was the events and developments of this decade, many argue, that created the university system that exists in Ontario today. Someone to Teach Them is an insider's account of this period as told by historian John T. Saywell. As Dean of Arts at York University from 1963 to 1973, Saywell witnessed the expansion of the university from 500 students in 1963 to 7000 by 1970, and the many changes it took to accommodate such a change. York managed to recruit the necessary faculty, he writes, but the large number of American instructors led to a radical attack on the so-called Americanization of the universities. Saywell also elucidates the adverse effect that the reduction of government funding and enrolment had on the administration of the university in the 1970s. Featuring many of the elements of personal memoir, this is also a thoroughly researched account of a critical decade for the history of education in Ontario.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692804

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9781442692800

The Last Jeep to Baclaran

By: John Pullinger

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The Last Jeep to Baclaran

By: John Pullinger

When Vietnam vet Steve Conway, takes a position as hotel manager in Manila to seek peace and overcome a personal tragedy instead of tranquility, he finds a country in throes of revolution. The Marcos regime is tottering and “People Power” is about to show the world that love of country transcends all. In this highly charged atmosphere he finds the operation he is working for is not what it seems. Behind the scenes are secret deals involving drugs, corruption and murder. It is a world of greed, deception and depravity in which he encounters degenerate expats, crooked cops, murderous locals and exotic women. Despite their hardship, poverty and oppression, the flame of democracy still burns brightly in the heart of the Filipino people and they are determined to throw off the yoke of the dictator and regain their freedom.

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Booksmango

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6162220168

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9786162220166

The Ascent of George Washington

The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

By: John Ferling

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The Ascent of George Washington

The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

By: John Ferling

A behind-the-scenes portrait of the first president reveals his formidable persuasive talents, careful display of a virtuous public image and leadership capabilities of particular compatibility with a young America. Reprint.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608190951

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Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

By: John W. Frick

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Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

By: John W. Frick

No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

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Springer

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1137566450

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Into the Minds of Madmen

How the Fbi's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation

By: Don Denevi,John H. Campbell

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Into the Minds of Madmen

How the Fbi's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation

By: Don Denevi,John H. Campbell

In a fascinating account, full of quiet heroics and grisly criminal details, the authors describe the difficult work of the tireless professionals who have devoted their careers to investigating and analyzing the deeds and personalities of the macabre psychopaths who haunt the nation's streets.

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Prometheus Books

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1615922466

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USA by Rail

plus Canada's main routes

By: John Pitt

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USA by Rail

plus Canada's main routes

By: John Pitt

This ninth edition of Bradt's USA by Rail guidebook has been fully revised and expanded to take account of changes to Amtrak routes and services, plus the latest Amtrak and VIA Rail pass details, and features over 500 destinations, including Disney World, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. With 25 long-distance train journeys across the United States and a further 12 in Canada, plus sightseeing highlights for 38 major cities, accommodation options from cheap to chic and everything you need to find your way around unfamiliar train stations, this book has all the practical information required to make the most of a rail pass. There are maps, route plans and photographs, up-to-date security and immigration information, plus vital tips for sightseeing, local transport and accommodation, as well as chapters on VIA Rail, the Rocky Mountaineer and other trains in Canada. The book also includes a history of North American railroads, current steam train operators, tourist railways and museums, as well as sound advice for the visitor from overseas. Hundreds of Internet contacts make it easy to plan and make reservations for any trip you desire. The grandeur of America's scenery - from its never-ending prairies, the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert and the saw-toothed peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the pounding surf of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans - is one of the continent's greatest attractions and there is no better way to enjoy it than by train. Written by an expert author who has travelled around 80,000 miles by train in North America in the last 25 years, Bradt's USA by Rail is the essential companion for a successful trip.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1784776254

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9781784776251

The Toff In New York

By: John Creasey

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The Toff In New York

By: John Creasey

Will Hall had been kidnapped and the Honourable Richard Rollison, known by the apt if absurd soubriquet of The ‘Toff’ is soon on the scene, but not before a murdered man falls into Valerie Hall’s arms. Action and a rich private eye and the NYPD all on the case, with the Toff tracking Dutch Himmy, surely the worst man in New York . . . .

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House of Stratus

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0755134508

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9780755134502

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Vol. II

By: John d'Alton

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Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Vol. II

By: John d'Alton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375064128

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9783375064129

Emergence and Empire

Innis, Complexity, and the Trajectory of History

By: John Bonnett

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Emergence and Empire

Innis, Complexity, and the Trajectory of History

By: John Bonnett

Harold Innis was one of the most profound thinkers that Canada ever produced. Such was his influence on the field of communication that Marshall McLuhan once declared his own work was a mere footnote to Innis. But over the past sixty years scholars have had a hard time explaining his brilliance, in large measure because Innis's dense, elliptical writing style has hindered easy explication and interpretation. But behind the dense verbiage lies a profound philosophy of history. In Emergence and Empire, John Bonnett offers a fresh take on Innis's work by demonstrating that his purpose was to understand the impact of self-organizing, emergent change on economies and societies. Innis's interest in emergent change induced him to craft an original and bold philosophy of history informed by concepts as diverse as information, Kantian idealism, and business cycle theory. Bonnett provides a close reading of Innis's oeuvre that connects works of communication and economic history to present a fuller understanding of Innis's influences and influence. Emergence and Empire presents a portrait of an original and prescient thinker who anticipated the importance of developments such as information visualization and whose understanding of change is remarkably similar to that which is promoted by the science of complexity today.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773589120

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9780773589124

The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

By: John Lippitt

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The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

By: John Lippitt

Søren Kierkegaard is one of the key figures of nineteenth century thought, whose influence on subsequent philosophy, theology and literature is both extensive and profound. Fear and Trembling, which investigates the nature of faith through an exploration of the story of Abraham and Isaac, is one of Kierkegaard’s most compelling and widely read works. It combines an arresting narrative, an unorthodox literary structure and a fascinating account of faith and its relation to ‘the ethical’. The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling introduces and assesses: Kierkegaard’s life and the background to Fear and Trembling, including aspects of its philosophical and theological context The text and key ideas of Fear and Trembling, including the details of its account of faith and its connection to trust and hope The book’s reception history, the diversity of interpretations it has been given and its continuing interest and importance This Guidebook assumes no previous knowledge of Kierkegaard's work and will be essential reading for anyone studying the most famous text of this important thinker.

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Routledge

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1317376919

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9781317376910

America Goes to College

Political Theory for the Liberal Arts

By: John E. Seery

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America Goes to College

Political Theory for the Liberal Arts

By: John E. Seery

A rallying cry on behalf of a distinctly American institution of higher learning—the small liberal arts college—America Goes to College combines broad-based scholarship with personal narrative and reflection. In a highly entertaining manner, John E. Seery showcases the precarious successes of a well-rounded liberal arts college education, while at the same time signaling some of the dangers that loom on the horizon. Seery contends that the liberal arts are best pursued within the face-to-face interactive setting, characteristic of the small college classroom, as opposed to the large university lecture hall. Moreover and more provocatively, he identifies political theorists as the proper custodians and practitioners of the liberal arts tradition as it unfolds today. It is the unfettered freedom of the small liberal arts college, where vision and practice can actually coincide, that makes it the embodiment of the advantages of the American higher education system—a national treasure deserving of support.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487520

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9780791487525

The Last Tuk Tuk to Bang Na

By: John J. Pullinger

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The Last Tuk Tuk to Bang Na

By: John J. Pullinger

Intrigue, Murder, Deception n Romance Steve Conway returns to Bangkok to run his company s local operation and saves the life of a beautiful Thai girl during a shoot out on arrival at Bangkok airport. A romance develops but Conway is unaware her family is marked for death by a Romanian drug lord because of a crackdown by her father, a high-ranking policeman. Conway is drawn further into this dangerous web of intrigue when the drug lord becomes aware of his association with this family. He befriends a young Thai undercover cop who saves his life and tells him of a plot to assassinate the father at an award ceremony to be attended by the king of Thailand. Suddenly a pleasant sojourn in the Thai capital turns deadly as in true Conway style he once again confronts murderous foes, exotic women intent on his seduction including the outrageously flamboyant and sexy Lily Li, Thai female boxers and British skinheads looking for trouble, in this tale of murder, deception, intrigue and romance set in Bangkok, Thailand s exotic island of Koh Samet and Manila.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479717185

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9781479717187

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The First of Men

The First of Men

God and Stephen Hawking

God and Stephen Hawking

Surface Electrochemistry

Surface Electrochemistry

Someone to Teach Them

Someone to Teach Them

The Last Jeep to Baclaran

The Last Jeep to Baclaran

The Ascent of George Washington

The Ascent of George Washington

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Into the Minds of Madmen

Into the Minds of Madmen

USA by Rail

USA by Rail

The Toff In New York

The Toff In New York

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Emergence and Empire

Emergence and Empire

The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

America Goes to College

America Goes to College

The Last Tuk Tuk to Bang Na

The Last Tuk Tuk to Bang Na

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