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Last Essays

By: Joseph Conrad

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Last Essays

By: Joseph Conrad

The first scholarly edition of Conrad's posthumously published prose pieces, as well as his Congo notebooks.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521190592

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9780521190596

Bloody Okinawa

The Last Great Battle of World War II

By: Joseph Wheelan

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Bloody Okinawa

The Last Great Battle of World War II

By: Joseph Wheelan

A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. Waves of Japanese kamikaze and conventional warplanes sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others, and killed nearly 5,000 US seamen. When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more than 125,000 enemy soldiers lay dead—along with 7,500 US ground troops. Tragically, more than 100,000 Okinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The brutal campaign persuaded US leaders to drop the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan. Utilizing accounts by US combatants and Japanese sources, author Joseph Wheelan endows this riveting story of the war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension.

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Hachette Books

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0306903210

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9780306903212

The Exorcist Effect

Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

By: Joseph P. Laycock,Eric Harrelson

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The Exorcist Effect

Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

By: Joseph P. Laycock,Eric Harrelson

The Exorcist Effect examines the relationship between horror films and religious culture, focusing on the period from 1968 to the present. Films like Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973), and The Omen (1976) claimed to be based on actual events, religious traditions, and Biblical texts. These films inspired subsequent beliefs and experiences, which became the basis for yet more horror films. This book draws on archival research to shed new light on such figures as Ed and Lorraine Warren and Malachi Martin, who inserted themselves into this cycle. It also incorporates interviews with horror authors, film writers, and paranormal investigators.

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313

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Oxford University Press

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0197635393

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9780197635391

Satanism

By: Joseph P. Laycock

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Satanism

By: Joseph P. Laycock

What is Satanism? The word has functioned as a powerful indictment of one's rivals, an expression of rebellion against authority, and sometimes to describe the deliberate worship of dark, supernatural forces. This Element provides a concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern Europe through the present. It covers such topics as legends of the black mass, hell-fire clubs, the Romantic Satanism of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and nineteenth-century occultists who expressed reverence for Satan. It describes modern Satanic religions including the Church of Satan, The Temple of Set, The Order of Nine Angles, The Satanic Temple, and others. It also addresses contemporary Satanic Panic from the 1980s through QAnon. This Element should prove useful to anyone seeking to learn more about this complicated and frequently misunderstood tradition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009076531

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9781009076531

Walls of Illusion

By: Joseph A. Bulko

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Walls of Illusion

By: Joseph A. Bulko

We come into this world surrounded by Walls of Illusion. Some go through their entire lifetime, and die, surrounded by these walls. While for others these walls come crumbling down as a result of lifes experience, knowledge, and the wisdom that comes from both, allowing the sea of reality to come flooding in, and life is different!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462839541

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9781462839544

Shots Fired

The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings

By: Joseph K. Loughlin,Kate Clark Flora

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Shots Fired

The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings

By: Joseph K. Loughlin,Kate Clark Flora

Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in real-life cases Today’s media is filled with discussions about officer-involved shootings. Too often missing from that discussion are the police officers’ voices and the reality of what happens in actual shooting incidents. Through actual interviews with involved officers, this book addresses common myths and misunderstandings about these shootings. Shots Fired is a journey “behind the shield” and the experiences of the real human beings behind the badge. It explores true events through the participants’ own eyes and takes readers inside the minds of officers during the actual event. The officers detail the roller coaster of emotions and severe trauma experienced during and after a shooting event. Along with the intimate, in-depth explorations of the incidents themselves, the book touches the aftermath of police-involved shootings—the debriefings, internal and external investigations, and psychological evaluations. It challenges many commonly held assumptions created by the media such as the meaning of “unarmed” and why the police can’t just “shoot him in the leg,” creating an understanding that reaches beyond slogans such as “hands up, don’t shoot.” The book is valuable reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of police shootings—officers and police departments, reporters and politicians, and the public who rely on the police to keep them safe.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510722785

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9781510722781

Staten Island in the Nineteenth Century: From Boomtown to Forgotten Borough

By: Joseph Borelli

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Staten Island in the Nineteenth Century: From Boomtown to Forgotten Borough

By: Joseph Borelli

Emerging from the Revolutionary War and the formation of a new nation, Staten Island was poised to enter the nineteenth century ripe for growth and prosperity. Fueled by waves of immigration, Richmond County became a boomtown of industry and transportation. Piloting his first ferry with just two small masts and eighteen-cent fares, Cornelius Vanderbilt built a transit empire from his native shores of Staten Island. When the Civil War erupted, Richmond played a key role in housing and training Union troops as 125 naval guns protected New York Harbor at the Narrows. At the close of the century, Staten Island was swept up in the politics of consolidation, with 84 percent of locals voting to join Greater New York, yet the promised benefits of a new mega-city never materialized. Author Joe Borelli charts the trials and triumphs of Staten Island in the nineteenth century.

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192

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467150290

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9781467150293

What Are Weather Instruments?

By: Joseph Kampff

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What Are Weather Instruments?

By: Joseph Kampff

If theres one thing that many of us find ourselves talking about, its the weather. Such discussions, however, usually involve general observations, not data-based information derived from the instruments that actually measure such variables as air pressure, humidity, or wind strength. In this concise and compelling volume, young readers will be treated to clear information and useful illustrations that will help them gain a true understanding of whats behind all the talk about weather. In fact, this accessible book provides tips so that would-be meteorologists can take a hands-on approach to measuring rainfall, wind direction, humidity, and more.

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Britannica Educational Publishing

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1622757947

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9781622757947

Disorders of the Shoulder: Reconstruction

By: Joseph P. Iannotti,Gerald R. Williams

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Disorders of the Shoulder: Reconstruction

By: Joseph P. Iannotti,Gerald R. Williams

Designed to address all aspects of shoulder reconstruction, this volume in the Disorders of the Shoulder series provides complete and practical discussions of the reconstructive process—from diagnosis and planning, through surgical and nonsurgical treatments, to outcome and return to functionality.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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146983782X

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9781469837826

Things Come On

An amneoir

By: Joseph Harrington

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Things Come On

An amneoir

By: Joseph Harrington

Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet's mother's illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies—showing how the language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another. The resulting "amneoir" (a blend of "memoir" and "amnesia") explores a time for which the author must rely largely on testimony and documentary evidence—not unlike the Congress and the nation did during the same period. Absences, amnesia, and silences count for at least as much as words. As the double tragedy unfolds, it refuses to become part of an overarching system, metaphor, or metanarrative, but rather raises questions of memory and evidence, gender and genre, personal and political, and expert vs. lay language. This haunting experimental biography challenges our assumptions about the distance between individual experience and history. A reader's companion is available at http://thingscomeonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/ Hardcover is un-jacketed.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819571369

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9780819571366

Biological Intelligence for Biomimetic Robots

An Introduction to Synthetic Neuroethology

By: Joseph Ayers

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Biological Intelligence for Biomimetic Robots

An Introduction to Synthetic Neuroethology

By: Joseph Ayers

An introduction to how neuroethology can inform the development of robots controlled by synaptic networks instead of algorithms, from a pioneer in biorobotics. The trait most fundamental to the evolution of animals is the capability to adapt to novel circumstances in unpredictable environments. Recent advances in biomimetics have made it feasible to construct robots modeled on such unsupervised autonomous behavior, and animal models provide a library of existence proofs. Filling an important gap in the field, this introductory textbook illuminates how neurobiological principles can inform the development of robots that are controlled by synaptic networks, as opposed to algorithms. Joseph Ayers provides a comprehensive overview of the sensory and motor systems of a variety of model biological systems and shows how their behaviors may be implemented in artificial systems, such as biomimetic robots. Introduces the concept of biological intelligence as applied to robots, building a strategy for autonomy based on the neuroethology of simple animal models Provides a mechanistic physiological framework for the control of innate behavior Illustrates how biomimetic vehicles can be operated in the field persistently and adaptively Developed by a pioneer in biorobotics with decades of teaching experience Proven in the classroom Suitable for professionals and researchers as well as undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science and computer science

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MIT Press

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0262048140

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9780262048149

Faith in Markets

Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic

By: Joseph P. Slaughter

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Faith in Markets

Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic

By: Joseph P. Slaughter

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many of the nineteenth-century believers who experienced these transformations offered different, competing visions of the link between commerce and Christianity. Joseph P. Slaughter offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in American history by telling the stories of the Protestant entrepreneurs who established businesses to serve as agents of cultural and economic reform. Faith in Markets examines three Christian business enterprises and the visions of a Christian marketplace they represented. Shaped by Pietist, Calvinist, and Arminian theologies, each offered different answers to the question of what a moral, Christian market should look like. George Rapp & Associates operated sophisticated textile factories as the business side of the model community the Harmony Society, which practiced communal living in pursuit of a harmonious workforce. The Pioneer Stage Coach Line provided transportation services only six days a week to keep Sunday sacred, attempting to reform society by outcompeting less pious businesses. The publisher Harper & Brothers sought to elevate American culture through commerce by producing virtuous products like lavishly illustrated Bibles. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Faith in Markets explores how the founders and owners of these enterprises infused their faith into their businesses and, in turn, how distinctly religious businesses shaped American capitalism and society.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549253

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9780231549257

Roosevelt's Secret War

FDR and World War II Espionage

By: Joseph E. Persico

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Roosevelt's Secret War

FDR and World War II Espionage

By: Joseph E. Persico

Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor -A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office -Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia -Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret -An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils Roosevelt's Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? By temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, "I never let my right hand know what my left hand does." Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under "Wild Bill" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. FDR was also spied against. Roosevelt's Secret War presents evidence that the Soviet Union had a source inside the Roosevelt White House; that British agents fed FDR total fabrications to draw the United States into war; and that Roosevelt, by yielding to Churchill's demand that British scientists be allowed to work on the Manhattan Project, enabled the secrets of the bomb to be stolen. And these are only a few of the scores of revelations in this constantly surprising story of Roosevelt's hidden role in World War II.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0375761268

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9780375761263

Book's by Joseph Snedeker

Last Essays

Last Essays

Bloody Okinawa

Bloody Okinawa

The Exorcist Effect

The Exorcist Effect

Satanism

Satanism

Walls of Illusion

Walls of Illusion

Shots Fired

Shots Fired

Staten Island in the Nineteenth Century: From Boomtown to Forgotten Borough

Staten Island in the Nineteenth Century: From Boomtown to Forgotten Borough

What Are Weather Instruments?

What Are Weather Instruments?

Disorders of the Shoulder: Reconstruction

Disorders of the Shoulder: Reconstruction

Things Come On

Things Come On

Biological Intelligence for Biomimetic Robots

Biological Intelligence for Biomimetic Robots

Faith in Markets

Faith in Markets

Roosevelt's Secret War

Roosevelt's Secret War

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