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JACKSON

By: John Hatch

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“Insurance,” he said, hefting the Winchester to a port-arms position. The feel of cold steel and the smell of well-oiled wood went a long way in eliminating any fear he felt. The tree of them moved into a dawn filled with mist and uncertainty. “What happened to Denise could happen to me,” said Carlton as he nervously fiddled with is jackets cuff while looking expectantly at her. “How is that for being honest?” What he found in Anna’s dark, European eyes was compassion.

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William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. Author of 'a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' &c. Formerly Follow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Sketch of His Life, Character, and Opinions

By: John Henry Overton

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William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. Author of 'a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' &c. Formerly Follow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Sketch of His Life, Character, and Opinions

By: John Henry Overton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385432235

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9783385432239

Professional Writing in Context

Lessons From Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work

By: John Frederick Reynolds,Carolyn B. Matalene,Joyce Neff Magnotto,Donald C. Samson, Jr.,Lynn Veach Sadler

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Professional Writing in Context

Lessons From Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work

By: John Frederick Reynolds,Carolyn B. Matalene,Joyce Neff Magnotto,Donald C. Samson, Jr.,Lynn Veach Sadler

This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world instructional practices and real-world problems and situations. After describing the five major economic sectors which are writing intensive, the text suggests curricular reforms which might better prepare college-educated writers for these worlds. Because the volume is based on the extensive work-world experiences of the authors, it offers numerous examples of real-world writing problems and strategies which illustrate concretely what goes wrong and what needs to be done about it.

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Routledge

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1136688889

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9781136688881

The Natural History of South Devon

By: John C. Bellamy

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The Natural History of South Devon

By: John C. Bellamy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368756761

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9783368756765

A Hymn Before Battle, Second Edition

By: John Ringo

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A Hymn Before Battle, Second Edition

By: John Ringo

Now with all new content by John Ringo! WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . . . With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans¾for a price. Humanity now has three worlds to defend. As Earth's armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625791593

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9781625791597

Stasi

The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

By: John O. Koehler

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Stasi

The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

By: John O. Koehler

In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.

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Basic Books

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0786724412

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Expect the Unexpected

Short Stories

By: John A. Broussard

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Expect the Unexpected

Short Stories

By: John A. Broussard

The lovely, lonely princess wandered along the edge of a pond thinking about finding a mate, but her fatherOCOs kingdom was poor, and no noble had ever asked for her hand. Suddenly a large bullfrog jumped up on the bank and said, OC Kiss me and you will find a mate.OCO OC What do I have to lose?OCO thought the princess, as she stooped down and kissed the frog. Within moments, two frogs jumped happily into the pond and swam out together among the lily pads. Not what you expected? A short story called The Search for a Mate from Expect the Unexpected OC .a collection of over 80 short stories covering the gamut of surprise with the typical Broussard cleverness and humor. Mystery, romance, science fiction, discoveryOC with story titles such as The Square Watermelon, The Deshredder, and Ms. Chips . Boson Books also offers several mysteries by John Broussard. Visit our fiction page. For an author bio, photo, and a sample read visit www.bosonbooks.com.

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Bitingduck Press LLC

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1932482423

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9781932482423

The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

By: John Arthos

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The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

By: John Arthos

Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to publication some effort had been made to review the subject and the problem. However, several questions still remained unanswered, and more exhaustive analysis needed to be undertaken. This volume was an effort to provide answers for some of these questions and to begin the analysis that was required.

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Routledge

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1000031101

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British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

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British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

This substantially expanded new edition of the Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking contains details of over 700 archive collections held in local record offices, university and local libraries and of course, banks. Wider coverage is given to the records of major domestic banks, British-owned overseas banks, merchant banks and discount houses. There are also additional listings of records of long defunct banks. Arranged alphabetically by name, the entries for each bank contain in most cases: · A brief history of the bank to explain numerous name changes. · Information as to where the bank's records are held. · Details of what the records consist of. The entries are set in context by introductory chapters covering the historical structure and function of British banking and the purpose, format and research value of the chief series of historical records commonly found in bank archives. Bank records concern not just banks but the varied activities that they financed. In addition to its contribution to the study of banking history, this monumental reference work facilitates a wider knowledge and understanding of the history of British finance.

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Routledge

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1351954679

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John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health

Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

By: John Armstrong

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John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health

Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

By: John Armstrong

Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's uniquely engaging perspective on the place of literature, medicine, the body, and the book trade in the literary history of sensibility.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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075466306X

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9780754663065

Fired by Ideals

Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement

By: Suzanne Baizerman,Lynn Downey,John Toki,Oakland Museum of California

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Fired by Ideals

Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement

By: Suzanne Baizerman,Lynn Downey,John Toki,Oakland Museum of California

The Arts and Crafts Movement exerted a profound influence on early-twentieth-century America, not only in the applied and decorative arts but also in the area of social reform. Standing at this intersection of art and reform were American art potteries that taught ceramics skills to working-class women as a means of securing income, restoring health, and/or uplifting the spirit. Like its better known and more successful predecessors -- the Marblehead Pottery in Massachusetts, the Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, and the Paul Revere Pottery in Boston (home of the "Saturday Evening Girls") -- the Arequipa Pottery in Fairfax, California, had fascinating origins, and it produced distinctive wares that today are prized by collectors. Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts & Crafts Movement tells the story of the Arequipa Sanatorium and Pottery, whose roots lie in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The dust and smoke from the disaster prompted an outbreak of tuberculosis, which afflicted "working girls" in particular. In 1911, a progressive physician, Dr. Philip King Brown, founded a treatment center in rural Marin County, north of San Francisco, where these women could get the rest and medical care they needed, as well as engage in a therapeutic and marketable pursuit: the manufacture of art pottery. In addition to its engaging historical narrative supported by dozens of vintage photographs, the book employs technical illustrations and beautiful full-color reproductions to examine the production process at Arequipa and the types of pottery made there.

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Pomegranate

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0764913999

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Escape, Escapism, Escapology

American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century

By: John Limon

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Escape, Escapism, Escapology

American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century

By: John Limon

Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape-from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death-at a time of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and messianic ideals have lost their power to compel belief. John Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings of some of the most important authors of the last two decades-Chabon, Diaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among others-and finds that it always involves the faux utopian freedom and pseudo-messianic salvation of childhood. When contemporary novelists feature actual historical escape, pervasively from slavery or Nazism, it appears in their novels as escape envy or escape nostalgia-as if globalization like slavery or Nazism could be escaped in a direction, from this place to another. Thus the closing of the world frontier inspires a mirror messianism and utopianism that in US novels can only be rendered as a performative, momentary, chiasmic relationship between precocious kids and their ludic guardians.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501391097

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9781501391095

Emperor Alexander Severus

Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD 222–235

By: John S. McHugh

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Emperor Alexander Severus

Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD 222–235

By: John S. McHugh

Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander at the Emperor's feet) and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient sources generally present his reign as a golden age of just government, prosperity and religious tolerance Not yet fourteen when he became emperor, Alexander was dominated by his mother, Julia Mammaea and advisors like the historian, Cassius Dio. In the military field, he successfully checked the aggressive Sassanid Persians but some sources see his Persian campaign as a costly failure marked by mutiny and reverses that weakened the army. When Germanic and Sarmatian tribes crossed the Rhine and Danube frontiers in 234, Alexander took the field against them but when he attempted to negotiate to buy time, his soldiers perceived him as weak, assassinated him and replaced him with the soldier Maximinus Thrax. John McHugh reassesses this fascinating emperor in detail.

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Pen and Sword

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1473845823

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9781473845824

Realpolitik

A History

By: John Bew

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Realpolitik

A History

By: John Bew

A concise book on Realpolitik: its origins as an idea; its practical application to statecraft in the recent past; and its relevance to contemporary foreign policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199331936

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Histories of Suicide

International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

By: John Weaver,David Wright

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Histories of Suicide

International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

By: John Weaver,David Wright

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to growing concern amongst health care practitioners and policy experts, relatively little is known about the history of attempted and completed suicide. Histories of Suicide is the first book to examine the history of suicide in diverse national contexts, including Japan, Scotland, Australia, Soviet Russia, Peru, United States, France, South Africa, and Canada, to reveal the different social, political, economic, and cultural factors that inform our understanding of suicide. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods. Focusing on developments from the eighteenth century to the present, the contributors examine vitally important topics such as the medicalization of suicide, representations of mental illness, psychiatric disputes, and the frequency of suicide amongst soldiers. An illuminating volume of studies, Histories of Suicide is a fascinating examination of the phenomenon of self-destruction throughout different historical periods and nations.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692049

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9781442692046

The Edges of Augustanism

The Aesthetics of Spirituality in Thomas Ken, John Byrom and William Law

By: John Hoyles

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The Edges of Augustanism

The Aesthetics of Spirituality in Thomas Ken, John Byrom and William Law

By: John Hoyles

It has recently been argued that the 18th century can no longer be 1 seen as gripped in the strait-jacket of Augustanism and Neoclassicism. Such labels are seen as doing less than justice to the rich variety of individual talents and intellectual trends which collectively constitute 18th century culture. While welcoming the interment of the long standing myth of the peace of the Augustans, there seems little point in placing an interdict on labels which, willy-nilly, have stuck. In economic, social and ecclesiastical terms there is an age between 1689 and 1789 whose homogeneity is reflected in its cultural products. There is a mainstream which the strength and variety of counter currents and cross-currents corroborate rather than disintegrate. It is the purpose of this study to reveal some aspects of this mainstream by examining certain cross-currents which overlap its edges. Hence the choice of Thomas Ken (1637-1711), John Byrom (1692-1763) and William Law (1686-1761).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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902471317X

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The Story of Modern Skiing

By: John Fry

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The Story of Modern Skiing

By: John Fry

This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author's personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women's World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing's relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport's heritage.

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University Press of New England

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151260156X

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Slavery and Augustan Literature

Swift, Pope, Gay

By: John A. Richardson

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Slavery and Augustan Literature

Swift, Pope, Gay

By: John A. Richardson

This book investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase the English share of the international slave trade.

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Psychology Press

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0415312868

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9780415312868

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