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"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

The Life and Adventures of an American Pioneer

By: John R. Abernathy

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"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

The Life and Adventures of an American Pioneer

By: John R. Abernathy

Best known for catching wolves alive with his bare hands, John R. Abernathy (1876?1941) was born to Scottish ancestors in Texas. Raised in the burgeoning railroad town of Sweetwater, Abernathy considered himself a true son of the Wild West. In his amazing life he worked as a U.S. marshal, sheriff, Secret Service agent, and wildcat oil driller. But it was the accidental discovery of a bold means of catching wolves alive that made Abernathy famous and drew the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt. By forcing his hand deep enough into a wolf's mouth, he could stun the creature long enough to capture it, a service for which he was paid fifty dollars by eager ranchers. ø This Bison Books edition brings Abernathy's vivid account of his life into print for the first time since its original publication in 1936.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803236042

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King of Poisons

A History of Arsenic

By: John Parascandola

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King of Poisons

A History of Arsenic

By: John Parascandola

For centuries, arsenic's image as a poison has been inextricably tied to images of foul play. In King of Poisons, John Parascandola examines the surprising history of this deadly element. From Gustave Flaubert to Dorothy Sayers, arsenic has long held a place in the literary realm as an instrument of murder and suicide. It was delightfully used as a source of comedy in the famous play Arsenic and Old Lace. But as Parascandola shows, arsenic has had a number of surprising real-world applications. It was frequently found in such common items as wallpaper, paint, cosmetics, and even candy, and its use in medical treatments was widespread. American ambassador Clare Boothe Luce suffered from exposure to arsenical paint in her study, and Napoleon's death has long been speculated to be the result of accidental or intentional poisoning. But arsenic poisoning is still a public menace. In the neighborhood surrounding American University in Washington, D.C., the army has undertaken a massive cleanup of artillery shells and bottles containing chemical warfare agents such as arsenical lewisite after a number of workmen and residents became ill. Arsenic contamination of the water supply in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India, is a major public health problem today as well. From murder to crime fiction, from industrial toxin to chemical warfare, arsenic remains a powerful force in modern life.

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209

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597977039

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9781597977036

Sherman's Other War

The General and the Civil War Press

By: John F. Marszalek

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Sherman's Other War

The General and the Civil War Press

By: John F. Marszalek

This work traces the roots of General Sherman's hostility toward the press and details his attempts to silence reporters during the American Civil War, culminating in his exclusion of all reporters from his famous March to the Sea.

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276

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Kent State University Press

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0873386191

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9780873386197

Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #7

By: John M. Samson

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Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #7

By: John M. Samson

The classic crossword series returns with 300 never-before-published puzzles! In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title, The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it the publisher’s first release, it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed. Today, more than eighty years later, Simon & Schuster’s legendary crossword puzzle book series maintains its status as the standard-bearer for cruciverbal excellence. This series continues to provide the most challenging, fresh, and original puzzles on the market. Created by the best contemporary constructors—and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson—these Thursday to Sunday–size brain breakers offer hours of stimulation for solvers of every level. With hundreds of puzzles in one volume, the Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book will test the knowledge of solvers everywhere. Can you avoid turning to the answer key? Sharpen your pencils, grit your teeth, and find out!

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Simon and Schuster

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143915807X

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9781439158074

Shot in Oklahoma

A Century of Sooner State Cinema

By: John Wooley

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Shot in Oklahoma

A Century of Sooner State Cinema

By: John Wooley

When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton's acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. The only book to chronicle the history of made-in-Oklahoma films, John Wooley's Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century. Wooley's trek through cinematic history, buttressed by meticulous research and interviews, hits the big films readers have heard of—but maybe didn't realize were shot in the state—along with lesser-known offerings. We also get the films' intriguing backstories. For instance, President Theodore Roosevelt's fascination with a man purportedly able to catch a wolf in his hands led to The Wolf Hunt, shot in the Wichita Mountains and screened in the White House in 1909. Over time, homegrown movies such as Where the Red Fern Grows (1974, 2003) have given way to feature films including The Outsiders and Rain Man (1988). Throughout this tale, Wooley draws attention to unsung aspects of state and cinematic history, including early all-black movies lensed in Oklahoma's African American towns and films starring American Indian leads. With a nod to more recent Hollywood productions such as Twister (1996) and Elizabethtown (2005), Wooley ultimately explores how a low-budget slasher movie created in Oklahoma in the 1980s transformed the movie business worldwide. Punctuated with photographs and including a filmography of more than one hundred productions filmed in the state, Shot in Oklahoma offers movie lovers and historians alike an engaging ride through untold cinematic history.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806184078

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9780806184074

New Topics in Condensed Matter Research

By: John V. Chang

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New Topics in Condensed Matter Research

By: John V. Chang

Condensed matter is one of the most active fields of physics, with a stream of discoveries in areas from superfluidity and magnetism to the optical, electronic and mechanical properties of materials such as semiconductors, polymers and carbon nanotubes. It includes the study of well-characterised solid surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures as well as studies of molecular liquids (molten salts, ionic solutions, liquid metals and semiconductors) and soft matter systems (colloidal suspensions, polymers, surfactants, foams, liquid crystals, membranes, biomolecules etc) including glasses and biological aspects of soft matter. This book presents state-of-the-art research in this exciting field.

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Nova Publishers

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1600210236

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9781600210235

Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Vol. 2

By: John W. Moore

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Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Vol. 2

By: John W. Moore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385412870

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9783385412873

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: John P. Greer,Daniel A. Arber,Bertil Glader,Alan F. List,Robert T. Means,Frixos Paraskevas,George M. Rodgers

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Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: John P. Greer,Daniel A. Arber,Bertil Glader,Alan F. List,Robert T. Means,Frixos Paraskevas,George M. Rodgers

With the 13th edition, Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology once again bridges the gap between the clinical practice of hematology and the basic foundations of science. Broken down into eight parts, this book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of: Laboratory Hematology, The Normal Hematologic System, Transfusion Medicine, Disorders of Red Cells, Hemostasis and Coagulation; Benign Disorders of Leukocytes, The Spleen and/or Immunoglobulins; Hematologic Malignancies, and Transplantation. Within these sections, there is a heavy focus on the morphological exam of the peripheral blood smear, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and other tissues. With the knowledge about gene therapy and immunotherapy expanding, new, up-to-date information about the process and application of these therapies is included. Likewise, the editors have completely revised material on stem cell transplantation in regards to both malignant and benign disorders, graft versus host disease, and the importance of long-term follow-up of transplantation survivors.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469846225

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9781469846224

Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis

A Beginner's Guide

By: Helen Causton,John Quackenbush,Alvis Brazma

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Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis

A Beginner's Guide

By: Helen Causton,John Quackenbush,Alvis Brazma

This guide covers aspects of designing microarray experiments and analysing the data generated, including information on some of the tools that are available from non-commercial sources. Concepts and principles underpinning gene expression analysis are emphasised and wherever possible, the mathematics has been simplified. The guide is intended for use by graduates and researchers in bioinformatics and the life sciences and is also suitable for statisticians who are interested in the approaches currently used to study gene expression. Microarrays are an automated way of carrying out thousands of experiments at once, and allows scientists to obtain huge amounts of information very quickly Short, concise text on this difficult topic area Clear illustrations throughout Written by well-known teachers in the subject Provides insight into how to analyse the data produced from microarrays

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176

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444311565

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9781444311563

Jansenism and England

Moral Rigorism Across the Confessions

By: Thomas John Palmer

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Jansenism and England

Moral Rigorism Across the Confessions

By: Thomas John Palmer

Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions examines the impact in mid- to later-seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism. The associated debates involved fundamental questions about the doctrine of grace and moral theology, about the life of the Church and the conduct of individual Christians. Thomas Palmer analyses the main themes of the controversy and an account of instances of English interest, arguing that English Protestant theologians who were in the process of working out their own views on basic theological questions recognised the relevance of the continental debates. The arguments evolved by the French writers also constitute a point of comparison for the developing views of English theologians. Where the Jansenists reasserted an Augustinian emphasis on the gratuity of salvation against Catholic theologians who over-valued the powers of human nature, the English writers examined here, arguing against Protestant theologians who denied nature any moral potency, emphasised man's contribution to his own salvation. Both arguments have been seen to contain a corrosive individualism, the former through its preoccupation with the luminous experience of grace, the latter through its tendency to elide grace and moral virtue. These assessments are challenged here. Nevertheless, these theologians did encourage greater individualism. Focusing on the affective experience of conversion, they developed forms of moral rigorism which represented, in both cases, an attempt to provide a reliable basis for Christian faith and practice in the fragmented intellectual context of post-reformation Europe.

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Oxford University Press

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0198816650

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9780198816652

Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques

By: J.A. Saunders,B.F. Matthews,John Romeo

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Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques

By: J.A. Saunders,B.F. Matthews,John Romeo

The papers assembled in this volume were originally presented at the joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. The symposium from which these chapters were prepared was entitled "Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques" and was organised by James Saunders and Ben Matthews. This joint meeting was timely because of recent landmark advances in molecular biology and genomics as well as the renewed interest in phytochemistry as a rich source of nutraceuticals, drugs, and alternatives to synthetic agriculture pesticides. Progress in genome sequencing in plants such as Arabidopsis and rice has been remarkable, as have expressed sequence tag (EST) projects in other plants, including maize and soybean. Recently, private and public sector participants of the Human Genome Project announced that a rough draft of the human genome has been constructed. These advances directly influence phytochemical investigations by providing both insight and tools for exploring and manipulating genomes. The chapters cover a wide range of applications from molecular biology to phytochemistry, and from basic studies on promoters and gene expression to pathway regulation and engineering with transformed plants. A number of noteworthy aspects emerge from this volume: applications of molecular biology to phytochemical practical problems are succeeding; newly emerging molecular tools promise to open new doors to discovery; and remarkable progress has already occurred in phytochemical pathway engineering.

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Elsevier

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0080540449

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9780080540443

"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

The Life and Adventures of an American Pioneer

By: John R. Abernathy

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"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

The Life and Adventures of an American Pioneer

By: John R. Abernathy

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Book's by John R. Abernathy

"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

King of Poisons

King of Poisons

Sherman's Other War

Sherman's Other War

Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #7

Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #7

Shot in Oklahoma

Shot in Oklahoma

New Topics in Condensed Matter Research

New Topics in Condensed Matter Research

Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis

Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis

Jansenism and England

Jansenism and England

Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques

Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques

"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

"Catch 'em Alive Jack"

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