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Mechanical Working of Metals

Theory and Practice

By: John Noel Harris

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Mechanical Working of Metals: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive examination of the stress–strain relationships involved in the principal methods of shaping materials by mechanical working. This book discusses the various processing equipment and its application. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the metals utilized on a substantial scale for construction and engineering purposes. This text then examines the behavior of metal under compressive stress, which can be seen from an analysis of what happens when a cylindrical sample is compressed between two platens. Other chapters consider the effect of mechanical work on the structure and macro-properties of metals. This book discusses as well the classification of the processes used for mechanical working. The final chapter deals with the techniques of manufacturing tin cans, which are ideal packaging for food and beverages. This book is a valuable resource for mechanical engineers and metallurgists.

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Elsevier

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148318952X

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9781483189529

Stark Shadows

By: John Worsley Simpson

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Stark Shadows

By: John Worsley Simpson

Young, successful men with unblemished reputations—each of them living a contented, "normal" life—are being murdered, one month apart. The killings seem to be unconnected, but are they? Are there dark secrets in the dead men’s pasts? Homicide Detective Harry Stark has to untangle the mystery of the links among these men in a case that takes him and his partner, Noel Harris, on a tortuous and deadly trip into the world of shadows.

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197

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509240322

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9781509240326

Stark Choice

By: John Worsley Simpson

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Stark Choice

By: John Worsley Simpson

Homicide detective Harry Stark takes a twisting path to solve a million-dollar jewel robbery and murder, a path that leads him to a mob connection, an insurance scam and a depraved family. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Detective Mary Weems, is on a similarly tortuous path toward solving a cold case of a rape-murder that brings her into contact with another depraved family.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509240284

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9781509240289

'An Alien Ideology'

Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left

By: John Mulqueen

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'An Alien Ideology'

Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left

By: John Mulqueen

An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state's non-aligned status to prevent them joining the West's crusade against communism. Leading officials, such as Colonel Dan Bryan in G2, the Irish army intelligence directorate, argued that Ireland should assist the NATO powers. These officials believed Irish communists were directed by the British communist party, the CPGB. If communists in Belfast and Dublin were too isolated to pose a threat in either Irish jurisdiction, the republican movement was a different matter. The authorities, north and south, saw that a communist-influenced IRA had potential appeal. This Cold War nightmare arrived with the civil rights agitation in Northern Ireland in the 1960s. Did the left-wing republican movement constitute a security threat? Whitehall feared Dublin could become a Russian espionage hub, with the Marxist-led Official IRA acting as a Soviet proxy. To what extent was the Official IRA's political creation, the Workers' Party, useful to the Soviets' Cold War agenda, in a militarily neutral state? With a parliamentary presence in the Irish state, the party warned against Ireland's incorporation into NATO and denounced the modernization of the Western alliance's nuclear arsenal. This book offers a valuable new perspective on a much-studied period of Irish and British history.

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1789620643

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9781789620641

Aborigines and the Sport of Kings

Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history

By: John Maynard

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Aborigines and the Sport of Kings

Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history

By: John Maynard

Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’ celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history. A remarkable history considering that Australian Aboriginal people’s first contact with the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror because violent massacres and unprovoked vicious attacks were conducted from horseback. However, within a short period they adapted and shed their fears. Over time they caught horses and taught themselves to ride, using sheets of bark as makeshift saddles. Settler accounts record Aboriginal people’s uncanny affinity with horses; their excellence in caring for them and in riding. So, moving from the skilled workers who were the backbone of the Australian pastoral industries to racing horses was an obvious step. Amongst the many Aboriginal jockeys highlighted in the book are Merv Maynard, Norm Rose, Frank Reys, Richard Lawrence 'Darby' McCarthy and Leigh-Anne Goodwin, Australia's first female Aboriginal jockey to ride a winner at a metropolitan track.

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Aboriginal Studies Press

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1922059544

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9781922059543

The Protection of Children (Second Edition)

State Intervention and Family Life

By: Robert Dingwall,John Eekelaar,Topsy Murray

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The Protection of Children (Second Edition)

State Intervention and Family Life

By: Robert Dingwall,John Eekelaar,Topsy Murray

This classic study of law and social work in action is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain. The authors followed the course of numerous cases from the first detection of ill-treatment to the resolution (or otherwise) of the problem. Famous for coining the much-used (and often misunderstood or misused) phrase "the rule of optimism," this book is updated with an extensive Postscript from 1995 and a new, 2014 Preface that explains the uneven history of the optimism principle, in both the UK and US -- and in both social work practice and sociological scholarship.

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486

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Quid Pro Books

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161027220X

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9781610272209

Victim

By: John Coldstream

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Victim

By: John Coldstream

Victim (1961) was a landmark in the history both of the cinema and of British society. This modest black-and-white thriller, produced by Michael Relph and directed by Basil Dearden, tackled explicitly the existing law governing homosexual offences, and in doing so eased the path towards partial decriminalisation in 1967. It was also a key moment in the life of its star, Dirk Bogarde, who, despite the risk to his box-office appeal, seized upon the role of a compromised barrister. In doing so, he shed the mantle of matinée idol and soon afterwards embarked on a more fulfilling career in the intellectual cinema. John Coldstream's intimate study of Victim examines in detail the background to the production, focusing especially on the relationship between the film-makers, the screenwriters and the censor, John Trevelyan, whose participation at the script stage was crucial to its development. Half a century after its original release, one looks in vain to find Victim in the spasmodic surveys dedicated to identifying the greatest films of all time. However, as Coldstream argues, its recognition as a classic is more than justified by the vital contribution it made to gay cultural history and by its status as 'a movie that mattered'.

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118

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1844577112

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9781844577118

Persistent Progressives

The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

By: John F. Freeman

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Persistent Progressives

The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

By: John F. Freeman

Persistent Progressives tells the story of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union’s evolution from an early movement against monopolists and wholesalers to a regional trailblazer for agriculture ideologies built on social democracy, the family farmer, and cooperative enterprises. As a continuing advocate for saving the family farm, the Farmers Union legacy provides a unique window into the transformation of the agriculture and rural communities in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Using data spanning decades, author John Freeman covers the founding of the RMFU in 1907 until the present, demonstrating how members continually sought to control the means of production and marketing by forming cooperatives, providing consumer services, and engaging in politics. Powering this evolution was a group of “practical idealists”—the Farmers Union leaders and titular persistent progressives who shaped the organization’s growth and expansion. Initiated by Jim Patton, who brought the organization out of its oppositional roots and into its cooperative advocacy, the RMFU passed to John Stencel and then David Carter, joining hands with agricultural conservationists and small organic producers along the way to carry the torch for progressive agrarianism in today’s urbanized world. Shaken but undeterred by some notable failures, its leadership remains convinced of the efficacy of cooperatives as a means to achieve justice for all. Discussing the broader social, economic, political, and environmental issues related to farming, ranching, and urbanization, Persistent Progressives seamlessly blends regional history with ongoing issues of agricultural and economic development.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607324334

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9781607324331

Dirk Bogarde

The authorised biography

By: John Coldstream

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Dirk Bogarde

The authorised biography

By: John Coldstream

Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. As an actor Dirk Bogarde was a Rank contract artist and matinee idol who became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working on films such as Death in Venice, The Servant and Providence. Fiercely protective of his privacy, and that of his partner of 40 years, he left England in the 1960s to live abroad, where he carved a second career for himself as a bestselling author. Although Bogarde destroyed many of his papers, John Coldstream has had unique access to his personal archives and to friends and family who knew him well. The result is a fascinating biography of a complex and intriguing personality.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780221746

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9781780221748

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

By: John A. McGeachy

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Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

By: John A. McGeachy

These volumes contains a verbatim transcription of the Wilkes County Court minutes. Two individuals have abstracted the earliest Wilkes County court minutes, those for the period 1778 to 1797. First, in 1974-1975 by Mrs. W.O. Absher, and in 2014 as 2nd edition by James Alan Williams.

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Lulu.com

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1794774750

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9781794774759

Screen World 2003

By: John Willis

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Screen World 2003

By: John Willis

(Screen World). Movie fans eagerly await each year's new edition of Screen World , the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 54 provides an illustrated listing of every American and foreign film released in the United States in 2002, all documented with more than 1000 photographs. The 2003 edition of Screen World features such notable films as Chicago , the Academy Award winner for Best Picture; Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-nominated Gangs of New York ; The Pianist , featuring the surprise Academy Award winners Adrien Brody for Best Actor and Roman Polanski for Best Director; Spider-Man , the highest grossing film of 2002; The Hours with Academy Award winner for Best Actress Nicole Kidman; and About Schmidt starring Academy Award nominees Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. As always, Screen World's outstanding features include: photographic stills and shots of the four Academy Award-winning actors as well as all acting nominees; a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities; complete filmographies cast and characters, credits, production company, date released, rating and running time; and biographical entries a priceless reference for over 2,400 living stars, including real name, school, and date and place of birth. Includes over 1,000 photos! "The enduring film classic." Variety

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835268

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9781557835260

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1854-1860

By: John A. McGeachy

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Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1854-1860

By: John A. McGeachy

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0359834728

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9780359834723

Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952

By: John D. Meehan

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Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952

By: John D. Meehan

Canadians share a long history with China. Canada is home to a large Chinese diaspora, it appointed a trade commissioner to Shanghai over a century ago, and it was one of the first Western nations to recognize the People’s Republic of China. This absorbing account of Canadian sojourners in Shanghai, from the arrival of Lord Elgin in 1858 to the closing of the consulate general in 1952, gives a human face to that history. Some Canadians came to save souls, nourish bodies, and educate minds; others sought financial and political gain. Their experiences – which unfolded against a backdrop of civil war, invasion, and revolution in China and were coloured by Canada’s evolution from colony to nation – reflected Canada’s deepening relationship with China and the troubling asymmetries that underpinned it. Although Canadians, like other foreigners, had left Shanghai by the early 1950s, their lives and activities foreshadowed more recent Canadian initiatives in that city, and in China more generally.

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UBC Press

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0774820403

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9780774820400

Book's by John Noel Harris

Mechanical Working of Metals

Mechanical Working of Metals

Stark Shadows

Stark Shadows

Stark Choice

Stark Choice

'An Alien Ideology'

'An Alien Ideology'

Aborigines and the Sport of Kings

Aborigines and the Sport of Kings

The Protection of Children (Second Edition)

The Protection of Children (Second Edition)

Victim

Victim

Persistent Progressives

Persistent Progressives

Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

Screen World 2003

Screen World 2003

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1854-1860

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1854-1860

Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

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