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Biographia Halifaxiensis: or, Halifax Families and Worthies. A Biographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish

Vol. I

By: Joseph Horsfall Turner,John Watson

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Biographia Halifaxiensis: or, Halifax Families and Worthies. A Biographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish

Vol. I

By: Joseph Horsfall Turner,John Watson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338530640X

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9783385306400

Raciolinguistics

How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race

By: John R. Rickford

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Raciolinguistics

How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race

By: John R. Rickford

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. This team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-shares powerful, much-needed research to help us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world.

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377

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Oxford University Press

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0190625694

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Handbook of Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data (1990)

By: John C. Tebby

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Handbook of Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data (1990)

By: John C. Tebby

To fully utilize Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a comprehensive and well-organized compilation of NMR data is necessary. While compilations have been available for other important NMR nuclei, such as carbon and fluorine, no comprehensive collection of data has been prepared for phosphorus-until now. The CRC Handbook of Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data provides a collection of 31P NMR chemical shifts for nearly 20,000 organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds. Each class of phosphorus compound is discussed. Bond types, stereochemistry (with the exception of metal complexes), media, important coupling constants, and data sources are included. The information is systematically organized according to coordination state, the atoms bound to phosphorus, and their connectivities. A comprehensive series of bar charts is also included to allow structure types to be assigned to chemical shift data. This handbook is an invaluable resource for all scientists working with phosphorus compounds, including chemists, biochemists, medical researchers, and pharmaceutical chemists.

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CRC Press

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1351362046

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9781351362047

Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment

By: Dan DeBlasio,John Kececioglu

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Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment

By: Dan DeBlasio,John Kececioglu

This book develops a new approach called parameter advising for finding a parameter setting for a sequence aligner that yields a quality alignment of a given set of input sequences. In this framework, a parameter advisor is a procedure that automatically chooses a parameter setting for the input, and has two main ingredients: (a) the set of parameter choices considered by the advisor, and (b) an estimator of alignment accuracy used to rank alignments produced by the aligner. On coupling a parameter advisor with an aligner, once the advisor is trained in a learning phase, the user simply inputs sequences to align, and receives an output alignment from the aligner, where the advisor has automatically selected the parameter setting. The chapters first lay out the foundations of parameter advising, and then cover applications and extensions of advising. The content • examines formulations of parameter advising and their computational complexity, • develops methods for learning good accuracy estimators, • presents approximation algorithms for finding good sets of parameter choices, and • assesses software implementations of advising that perform well on real biological data. Also explored are applications of parameter advising to • adaptive local realignment, where advising is performed on local regions of the sequences to automatically adapt to varying mutation rates, and • ensemble alignment, where advising is applied to an ensemble of aligners to effectively yield a new aligner of higher quality than the individual aligners in the ensemble. The book concludes by offering future directions in advising research.

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Springer

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3319649183

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Aztec Warrior

AD 1325–1521

By: John Pohl

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Aztec Warrior

AD 1325–1521

By: John Pohl

According to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors, sacrificing thousands to bloodthirsty gods along the way. From a contrasting perspective, its native warriors were no match for the modern warring methods of Cortés' greatly outnumbered Spaniards, who decisively defeated them. The reality of the Aztec warrior's ability and effectiveness lies somewhere between those two extremes, as this title makes clear. By examining the experiences of a hypothetical individual, Cuauhtli, this meticulously researched book shows that the history of Aztec warfare is much richer and far more complex than previously understood, and reveals the close relationship between social and military matters in Aztec society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780968159

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9781780968155

Actin

By: Peter Sheterline,Jon Clayton,John C. Sparrow

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Actin

By: Peter Sheterline,Jon Clayton,John C. Sparrow

Actins are a highly conserved family of proteins found in virtually all eukaryotic cells. They have prolific roles in cell motility - from the contraction of striated muscle to the movement of organelles within cells, and are known to interact with a diverse number of proteins families from myosins to gelsolins. This up-to-date edition gives a comprehensive account of actin sequence, mutation and structure as well as providing insight into ligand-binding sites and drug and toxin binding. Illustrated throughout, this modern text also contains an extensive bibliography for the interested reader.

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OUP Oxford

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0191589934

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9780191589935

Genesis Force

Star Trek: The Next Generation

By: John Vornholt

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Genesis Force

Star Trek: The Next Generation

By: John Vornholt

The full extent of the devastation caused by the Genesis Wave is only now being recognised. An entire sector of space has been reduced to the most primitive levels, and more than one high-tech interstellar civilisation lies in ruins. Helping rebuild them from the ground up is the Genesis Force, a covert Federation group of humans and aliens with extra abilties greater than those of the average humanoid. Their mission: to remake the devastated worlds so that new life can flourish, and to protect the people of the newly named Genesis Sector from those who would seek to conquer and exploit them.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471107493

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9781471107498

Journey Into Darkness

By: John E. Douglas,Mark Olshaker

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Journey Into Darkness

By: John E. Douglas,Mark Olshaker

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit. In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers. Some of the unique cases Douglas discusses include: -The Clairemont killer -The schoolgirl murders -Richmond's First Serial Murderer -The brutal and sadistic murder of Suzanne Marie Collins -Polly Klaas' abduction and murder by Richard Allen Davis, -The tragedy that lead to the creation of Megan's Law With Journey into Darkness, Douglas provides more than a glimpse into the minds of serial killers; he demonstrates what a powerful weapon behavioral science has become. Profiling criminals helps not only to capture them, but also helps society understand how these predators work and what can be done to prevent them from striking again. Douglas focuses especially on pedophiles and child abductors, fully explaining what drives them, and how to keep children away from them. As he points out, "The best way to protect your children is to know your enemy." He includes eight rules for safety, a list of steps parents can take to prevent child abduction and exploitation, tips on how to detect sexual exploitation, basic rules of safety for children, and a chart, based on age, which details the safety skills children should have to protect themselves. In his review for Mindhunter in The New York Times Book Review, Dean Koontz said, "Because of his insights and the power of the material, he leaves us shaken, gripped by a quiet grief for the innocent victims and anguished by the human condition." Journey into Darkness continues this perilous trip into the psyche of the serial killer, but also offers a glimmer of hope that profiling may enable law enforcement to see the indicators of a serial killer's mind and intervene before he kills, or kills again.

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403

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Simon and Schuster

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1439107815

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9781439107812

The Foresight of Dark Knowing

Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea

By: John Jorgensen

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The Foresight of Dark Knowing

Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea

By: John Jorgensen

Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese occupation to spin doctors in the South Korean elections of the 1990s to proponents of an aborted attempt to move the capital from Seoul in the early 2000s. Written to inspire uprisings and foment dissatisfaction, the Chŏng Kam nok texts are anonymous and undated. (Most were probably written between the seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries.) In his expansive introduction to this first English translation, John Jorgensen notes that the work employs forms or codes of political prediction (Ch. tuch’en; Kor. toch’am) allied with Chinese geomancy (fengshui) but in a combination unique to Korea. The two types of codes appear to deal with different subjects—the potency of geographical locations and political predictions derived from numerological cycles, omens, and symbols—but both emerge from a similar intellectual sphere of prognostication arts that includes divination, the Yijing (Book of Changes), physiognomy, and astrology in early China, and both share theoretical components, such as the fluctuation of ki (Ch. qi). In addition to ambiguous and obscure passages, allusion and indirection abound; many predictions are attributed to famous people in the distant past or made after the fact to lend the final outcome an air of authority. Jorgensen’s invaluable introduction contains a wealth of background on the history and techniques of political prediction, augury, and geomancy from the first-century Han dynasty in China to the end of the nineteenth century in Korea, providing readers with a thorough account of East Asian geomancy based on original sources. This volume will be welcomed by students and scholars of premodern Korean history and beliefs and those with an interest in early, arcane sources of political disinformation that remain relevant in South Korea to this day.

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465

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824875508

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9780824875503

Tales of extraordinary experience

The whaling indians: West Coast legends and stories — Part 10 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts

By: Edward Sapir,Morris Swadesh,Alexander Thomas,John Thomas

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Tales of extraordinary experience

The whaling indians: West Coast legends and stories — Part 10 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts

By: Edward Sapir,Morris Swadesh,Alexander Thomas,John Thomas

These Tales of Extraordinary Experience detail encounters with spirit-beings and other supernatural occurrences, as related by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of Vancouver Island’s west coast. They were recorded primarily in the area of Port Alberni between 1910 and 1923 by the famous linguist Edward Sapir and by his chief interpreter, Alexander Thomas.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772822981

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9781772822984

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Biographia Halifaxiensis: or, Halifax Families and Worthies. A Biographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish

Biographia Halifaxiensis: or, Halifax Families and Worthies. A Biographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish

Raciolinguistics

Raciolinguistics

Handbook of Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data (1990)

Handbook of Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data (1990)

Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment

Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment

Aztec Warrior

Aztec Warrior

Actin

Actin

Genesis Force

Genesis Force

Journey Into Darkness

Journey Into Darkness

The Foresight of Dark Knowing

The Foresight of Dark Knowing

Tales of extraordinary experience

Tales of extraordinary experience

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