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Days of Danger

By: John Creasey

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Three men meet on the outskirts of London to hatch a plan to steal the wealth of a nation in this thriller by an Edgar Award–winning author. They are three ordinary-seeming men—one fat, one tall, one thin. But their goal is anything but ordinary, and they have no regard for the chaos and horror that will be unleashed in the process. Once their plan is put into action, the death toll will rise and rise . . . It is up to Department Z’s Gordon Craigie to put a stop to these powerful and ruthless men. His only clue is a mysterious diamond-shaped card. It is on this small lead that the fate of Department Z—the ace detectives within British intelligence—hinges. But with the life of Craigie’s top agent Toby Arran now on the line, this one clue may not be enough.

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Open Road Media

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150408733X

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9781504087339

Inventing Chemistry

Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

By: John C. Powers

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Inventing Chemistry

Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

By: John C. Powers

The story of this little-known Dutch physician “will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science” (Choice). In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave’s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave’s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiae in 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions (including craft chemistry, Paracelsian medical chemistry, and alchemy), shaping them into a chemical course that conformed to the pedagogical and philosophical norms of Leiden University’s medical faculty. In doing so, Boerhaave gave his chemistry a coherent organizational structure and philosophical foundation, and thus transformed an artisanal practice into an academic discipline. Inventing Chemistry is essential reading for historians of chemistry, medicine, and academic life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226677621

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9780226677620

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Volume I: A-Q

By: John Jamieson

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Volume I: A-Q

By: John Jamieson

Reproduction of the original: An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language by John Jamieson

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930

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734010241

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9783734010248

Your Mother's Not a Virgin!

The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout who changed the Face of American TV!

By: John Barbour

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Your Mother's Not a Virgin!

The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout who changed the Face of American TV!

By: John Barbour

A high school dropout at 15, and deported from Canada at 17, John Barbour is recognized as "the godfather of reality TV" for his role as the creator, producer, co-host, and writer of the trendsetting hit Real People. He won the first of his five Emmys as the original host of AM LA in 1970, where he interviewed controversial anti-war guests like Mohammed Ali, Cesar Chavez, and Jane Fonda. He was the first in America to do film reviews on the news, winning three more consecutive Emmys as KNBC's Critic-At-Large. He spent ten years as Los Angeles Magazine's most widely read and quoted critic and early in his career, he made stand-up comedy appearances on The Dean Martin Show, The Tonight Show, and others. In 1992 he wrote and directed the award-winning The Garrison Tapes, which Director Oliver Stone heralded as "the perfect companion piece to my movie, JFK." In 2017 he wrote and directed part two: The American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which was applauded as "the definitive film on JFK and the rise of Fake News." In this highly entertaining, deeply informative autobiography, readers will discover what a multifaceted storyteller Barbour is.

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TrineDay

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1634242475

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9781634242479

Black Cat Weekly #6

By: Barb Goffman,Dashiell Hammett,Edwin Balmer,A.R. Morlan,John Gregory Betancourt,Hal Charles,Frank Lovell Nelson,E. Nesbit,Bobbi A. Chukran,Ralph Milne Farley,Dwight V. Swain,Martin Suto

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Black Cat Weekly #6

By: Barb Goffman,Dashiell Hammett,Edwin Balmer,A.R. Morlan,John Gregory Betancourt,Hal Charles,Frank Lovell Nelson,E. Nesbit,Bobbi A. Chukran,Ralph Milne Farley,Dwight V. Swain,Martin Suto

Black Cat Weekly features an eclectic mix of original, classic, and rare stories and novels—science fiction, mysteries, fantasy (light and dark), and the uncategorizable. The latest issue is no exception. Here are 2 novels and 10 shorter works: MR. BIG NOSE, by Martin Suto [mystery short] THE PASSING OF BIG MAMA MAYHALL, by Bobbi A. Chukran [mystery short] ONE HOUR, by Dashiell Hammett [mystery short] IT’S A DATE, by Hal Charles [mystery short] KEEBAN, by Edwin Balmer [mystery novel] WISHFUL THINKING, by Barb Goffman [suspense/fantasy short] MYSTERY OF THE SILVER SKULL, by Frank Lovell Nelson [mystery short] JEMIMA, by A. R. Morlan [science fiction short] MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE, by E. Nesbit [fantasy short] SYMPATHY FOR ZOMBIES, by John Gregory Betancourt [science fiction short] HOLY CITY OF MARS, by Ralph Milne Farley [science fiction short] PLANET OF DREAD, by Dwight V. Swain [science novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479463124

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9781479463121

The Game Must Go On

Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII

By: John Klima

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The Game Must Go On

Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII

By: John Klima

The Game Must Go On offers a compelling and action packed story on how WWII changed American baseball, and how baseball helped to win the war. On December 7, 1941, as the battleships of Pearl Harbor smoldered, one of the most powerful athletes in America, Detroit Tigers MVP Hank Greenberg, made a tumultuous decision-to leave the baseball field for the field of war. His decision left baseball's place during the war uncertain as more and more ballplayers, famous and unknown alike, put off their careers to go into the fight. President Roosevelt was faced with a difficult decision: stop all of professional baseball for the good of the victory, but, in doing so, risk losing a vital part of morale. He decided that, whatever it took, THE GAME MUST GO ON. This is the story of American baseball history during World War II-of both the players who left to join the war and of the ones who struggled to keep the game alive on the home front. Taking the place of the big shots turned soldiers, sailors, and combat pilots were misfit replacement players. While Greenberg represented the player who served, Pete Gray symbolized the player who stayed. He was a one-armed outfielder who overcame insurmountable odds to become a professional athlete. John Klima drops us straight into 1941-1945. Culminating in the 1945 pennant race where Greenberg and Gray's paths memorably crossed, Klima shows us how World War II made the country come of age and took baseball with it. This is the story of how the games we play changed because of the battles we fought.

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Macmillan

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1466871083

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9781466871083

Carriers of Death

By: John Creasey

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Carriers of Death

By: John Creasey

From an Edgar Award–winning author: Someone is trying to force Britain to declare war—but with what motive? British armaments are being systematically destroyed, and the list of suspects stretches worldwide. Working alongside the British government, secret service agency Department Z is struggling to find the motive for this alarming sabotage when they discover a similar series of disasters are occurring, inexplicably, in America. Tensions between the two countries increase to a dangerous pitch. In a desperate race against time, will Department Z manage to avert impending catastrophe and save Britain’s relationship with America? Secret service agent Gordon Craigie faces a powerful madman with a devastating scheme for global murder, in this gripping novel that blends international intrigue and criminal detection.

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Open Road Media

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1504088077

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9781504088077

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida

Religion Without Religion

By: John D. Caputo

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The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida

Religion Without Religion

By: John D. Caputo

The Prayer and Tears of Jacques Derrida takes its point of departure from Derrida's more recent, sometimes autobiographical writings and closely examines the religious motifs that have emerged in his later works. John D. Caputo's provocative interpretation of Derrida's thinking also makes an original contribution to the question of the relevance of deconstruction for religion. Caputo's Derrida is a man of faith who bridges Jewish and Christian traditions. The deep messianic, apocalyptic, and prophetic tones in Derrida's writings, Caputo argues, bespeak his broken covenant with Judaism. Through its startling exploration of Derrida's impossible religion, the book sheds light on the implications of deconstruction for an understanding of religion and faith today--from back cover.

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Indiana University Press

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0253211123

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9780253211125

Cowboy Politics

Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood

By: John S. Nelson

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Cowboy Politics

Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood

By: John S. Nelson

The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood. Critics are apt to find in westerns the modern politics of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They tap devices of individuality, rationality, contract, sovereign enforcement, and representation to overcome the chaotic violence of a wild zone. Cowboy Politics examines how westerns often find such measures insufficient to tame the West as a culture of honor and anger that deteriorates into feud-al vengeance. Instead westerns see the West as the sunset land that is already growing old and moving on. So westerns seek fresh starts informed by comparing civilizations more than demonizing savages. Westerns worry that modern politics devolve into exploitation, oppression, spectacle, and terror. So they pursue supplements in such postmodern politics as republicanism, perfectionism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. Especially westerns explore politics of persuasive speech-in-action-in-public, doing beauty, and self-reliance in the modes of Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first two chapters of Cowboy Politics explain how westerns do political theory for popular audiences by making many of our myths: the symbolic stories of individuals and communities which we live daily. The next three chapters trace the initially modern theories of government in many westerns. Then western turns to republican honor, rhetoric, response-ability, and character tracking occupy the following four chapters. And these set the stage for another four chapters on western attention to postmodern terror, mythmaking, celebrity, spectacle, and forgiveness. The final two chapters analyze how “late,” “satirical,” and “transformative” westerns develop realist defenses for their surprisingly postmodern politics.

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Lexington Books

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1498549489

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9781498549486

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

By: John Harris,Jeffry L. Hirst,Michael Mossinghoff

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Combinatorics and Graph Theory

By: John Harris,Jeffry L. Hirst,Michael Mossinghoff

These notes were first used in an introductory course team taught by the authors at Appalachian State University to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates. The text was written with four pedagogical goals in mind: offer a variety of topics in one course, get to the main themes and tools as efficiently as possible, show the relationships between the different topics, and include recent results to convince students that mathematics is a living discipline.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387797114

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9780387797113

Hello to All That

A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace

By: John Falk

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Hello to All That

A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace

By: John Falk

An off-the-wall, heartbreaking, and often hilarious memoir of a correspondent reporting from the front lines while also battling his lifelong nemesis-chronic depression His own chemistry was his worst enemy, and it took John Falk to some very strange places-from Garden City, Long Island, to sniper-infested Sarajevo during the Bosnian bloodbath. But through it all, in the face of chronic depression, he kept reaching out for the life he'd always wanted. Hello to All That is his story-crazed, comic, poignant, suspenseful, hopeful. Falk was an average Long Island kid, until depression left him ashamed and trapped behind an impenetrable chemical wall. Barely surviving on "chin-up" tips from his big, loyal, boisterous family, Falk tried to fight his disease-or hide it. But by twenty-four, he was alone, living on books by war correspondents, their adventures his only escape. Then he found a blue pill called Zoloft and set out on a mission to make his own name as a correspondent during one of the most dangerous conflicts in recent memory. Falk's journey has never been predictable, and neither is his moving, outrageous, and sometimes frightening memoir. Here is the riveting tale of a man's lifelong battle-the struggle to defeat his greatest enemy and to connect, cure himself, and finally live.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466853204

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9781466853201

Adventures of Marmador & Ellen

By: John Cooke

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Adventures of Marmador & Ellen

By: John Cooke

The adventures of Marmardor & Ellen book contains three seperate stories following the adventures of two small sisters from the fictional village of Pentacon in Snowdonia North Wales. John Cooke the author used to tell his grand children fictional stories to keep them amused his wife suggested tha he should write a childrens book, it was then he wrote the marmardor and ellen book. The book proved to be a great success with his grandchildre and their fnends, so it was decided that he should have the book published for other children to enjoy.

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1434389464

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The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader

By: John Whitlam

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The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader

By: John Whitlam

The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Reader is a comprehensive reader aimed at intermediate level students of Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to provide a structured language teaching resource that is enjoyable and stimulating for learners, but that also provides meaningful cultural contexts. This Brazilian Reader consists of twenty readings graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, grammar and syntax. It presents a range of different text types which give a good representation of contemporary Brazilian writing, including fiction and non-fiction by some of Brazil’s most prominent and popular authors. Key features include: vocabulary lists for quick reference reading comprehension questions exercises to learn and review important vocabulary focus on idiomatic expressions full answer key to vocabulary and idiom exercises Portuguese-English glossary at the back Suitable for both class use and independent study, The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Reader is an essential tool for facilitating vocabulary learning and increasing reading proficiency.

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1317950224

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Days of Danger

Days of Danger

Inventing Chemistry

Inventing Chemistry

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Your Mother's Not a Virgin!

Your Mother's Not a Virgin!

Black Cat Weekly #6

Black Cat Weekly #6

The Game Must Go On

The Game Must Go On

Carriers of Death

Carriers of Death

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida

Cowboy Politics

Cowboy Politics

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Hello to All That

Hello to All That

Adventures of Marmador & Ellen

Adventures of Marmador & Ellen

The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader

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