Ken Bangs's Books

Cosmology in a Nutshell

By: Ken Johnson

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This is a short book on basic cosmology designed for the reader with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. Starting with simple physics it moves on to discuss the universe, relativity, time, basic particle theory, quantum mechanics and the possibility of a multi-universe. The book employs simplifications of complex topics, and is quite concise. It is written in an informal style and uses simple analogies along with twelve diagrams to aid the reader's understanding. Some parts are noted as being more difficult to follow than others, and thus may be omitted or left for later reading. The possibility of a multi-universe is explored in the last chapter and is treated in a positive way, using simple ideas introduced in the previous chapters. The book is written by a physics lecturer with a strong interest in Cosmology.

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1470943662

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The Universe at Midnight

Observations Illuminating the Cosmos

By: Ken Croswell

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The Universe at Midnight

Observations Illuminating the Cosmos

By: Ken Croswell

From the internationally acclaimed author of Magnificent Universe, Ken Croswell, comes the definitive story of the golden age in our understanding of the universe -- the age we live in right now. The universe's origin, evolution, and fate have long fascinated humanity, but until recently these subjects resided in astronomy's never-never land. The last ten years, however, have witnessed a stunning turnabout: an avalanche of new cosmological discoveries that illuminate the greatest questions of all. The Universe at Midnight is a platform from which to observe these new deep-space landmarks. Mammoth new telescopes on Earth, such as the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and Japan's Subaru Telescope, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope overhead, are probing the frontiers of the universe with stunning results. In 1996 astronomers pinpointed the center of the elusive "Great Attractor, " a mass of galaxies 250 million light-years away that is trying to tug our Galaxy andthousands of others across the universe. In late 1997, two teams hunting supernovae in galaxies billions of light-years away shocked their colle

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Simon and Schuster

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0743218817

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9780743218818

Spirits of the Border V

The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

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Spirits of the Border V

The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.

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Omega Press

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0962608793

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Open Verdict

By: Ken Bridgewater

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Open Verdict

By: Ken Bridgewater

When John MacLennan invaded the life of Aileen, a radio talk show host, in 1980 he was already dead. He was on a dissecting table with a pathologist cutting out his heart. Police Inspector MacLennan was found dead in his locked Hong Kong flat. At first glance, his death appeared to be suicide; there was a note. But there were also five bullet wounds in his chest-seemingly too many to be self-inflicted. Rumours swirl about his suspicious death. Maybe MacLennan had upset the gangsters by hounding them. Perhaps he had angered the police by digging too deeply into their culture. He may have offended the Hong Kong government by straying from the party line. The Inspector's death was discussed daily on Aileen's show, debating the question of whether it was suicide or murder. Aileen was threatened with a criminal libel suit for broadcasting and causing open discussion on such a sensitive issue. Based on actual events, Open Verdict offers a fictionalized account of MacLennan's case written by Ken Bridgewater, who lived in Hong Kong at the time. In this real-life mystery, Bridgewater seeks to reveal the facts of this mysterious case.

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PartridgeIndia

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1482896206

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Plays 1

Small Towns and Sea : Horseplay, Flipside, Trick of the Light

By: Ken Duncum

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Small Towns and Sea : Horseplay, Flipside, Trick of the Light

By: Ken Duncum

Each of these three plays takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders. In Horseplay novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K. Baxter meet and share the stage with the rear end of a horse, while in Flipside four sailors confront the elements for 119 days, adrift on the overturned boat Rose-Noëlle. Finally, Trick of the Light revisits the infamous Crewe murders when a brother and sister bring their mother's ashes to a motel room that hasn't been opened in three decades.

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Victoria University Press

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0864734948

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Man Made

A Memoir

By: Ken Baker

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Man Made

A Memoir

By: Ken Baker

Soon to be a major motion picture, here is the funny, revealing, harrowing memoir of a star journalist and hotshot hockey pro who discovers that he is biochemically changing into a woman. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be. Ken found that despite being attracted to women, he had little sex drive and even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. Regardless of strenuous workouts, his body remained flabby and soft, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters grew even more bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denail could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man. Ken's story is coming to the screen in Fall 2016 in a much-anticipted Netflix feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner JK Simmons (Law & Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man) and Jane Lynch (Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin). Watch for the TarcherPerigee movie tie-in edition.

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Penguin

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1101655968

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Fractions

The First Half of The Fall Revolution

By: Ken MacLeod

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Fractions

The First Half of The Fall Revolution

By: Ken MacLeod

The first half of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's landmark modern science fiction series, this volume comprises The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal. In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star. Against this background, men and women struggle for a better future against the betrayals that went before. Death is sometimes the end, and sometimes something altogether different... Both The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal won the Prometheus Award on their original publication. They are followed by The Cassini Division and the British Science Fiction Association Award-winning The Sky Road. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1429965525

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The Medium's Story

By: Ken Morris

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The Medium's Story

By: Ken Morris

This is the true-life story of Ken Morris and how he went from being a child frightened by the sight of a ghost in his bedroom to one of the United Kingdom's top Spiritualist Mediums. After being awakened by the spirit of a young boy sitting on the end of his bed at the tender age of seven, Ken has spent most of his childhood and adult life communicating with Spirit and learning how to pass on the messages they have for those on the Earth Plane. Find out how Spirit helped Ken while he was a boy in school, while he was raising his younger sisters and brother and in his first job as an adult. Travel with him as he goes from church to church giving messages that prove life after death really does exist. Join him as he clears houses of unwanted spirit and helps guide and protect the public during paranormal investigations at some of England's most haunted locations. Included in the book is a section of poetry designed to bring comfort to those who have lost a loved one and descriptions of spiritual things ordinary people can be taught to do, such as reading tea leaves and doodles.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462804292

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You, Your Child, and School

Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

By: Sir Ken Robinson, PhD,Lou Aronica

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You, Your Child, and School

Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

By: Sir Ken Robinson, PhD,Lou Aronica

An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world’s most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face. As a parent, what should you look for in your children’s education? How can you tell if their school is right for them and what can you do if it isn’t? In this important new book, he offers clear principles and practical advice on how to support your child through the K-12 education system, or outside it if you choose to homeschool or un-school. Dispelling many myths and tackling critical schooling options and controversies, You, Your Child, and School is a key book for parents to learn about the kind of education their children really need and what they can do to make sure they get it.

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0143108840

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Altars of Tomorrow

By: Ken R. Abell

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Altars of Tomorrow

By: Ken R. Abell

Set in and around the boomtown of Creede, Colorado, in 1892, Altars of Tomorrow is the final chapter of the Deacon Coburn narrative that began in Days of Purgatory. It is a poignant story that explores the triumph of hope and redemption in the context of human frailty. Worn down to a ragged frazzle, the River Brethren man from Conoy Creek arrives in town after being in the saddle for nearly eight months. He discovers his daughter now has two rough and tumble sons running along a thin line between shenanigans and delinquency. Coburn comes to the aid of a victim of their mischievous pranks, extending tender mercies to a soul-scarred man whose mind was broken at Chancellorsville. The mystery of Lucinda Enochelli is drawn to a surprising completion when she delivers Coburn a document from his past. The cast of characters is woven into reflective subplots imbued by the tension that comes from confronting questions about life and death, and the contrast between the temporal and the eternal. The words of Sally Twosongs serve as a ribbon wrapped around the ambiguities to provide a bedrock foundation on which to stand: "The Creator's plans and purposes are beyond our ability to reason or comprehend. As it has always been and always shall be.

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1532609221

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Who Shot the Water Buffalo?

A Novel

By: Ken Babbs

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Who Shot the Water Buffalo?

A Novel

By: Ken Babbs

This debut novel of the Vietnam War from the veteran and famous Merry Prankster is a “cross between Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson” (Booklist). Lt. Tom Huckelbee, leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage, and Lt. Mike Cochran, loquacious son of an Ohio gangster, make an unlikely pair training to be marine corps chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. But they soon go through a strange transformation together—from a couple of know-nothing young men straight out of flight school into marine aviators caught in the middle of a disorienting war. Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous, and always vivid and poetic, Ken Babbs—who cowrote The Last Go Round with fellow Prankster Ken Kesey—is at the top of his craft in this debut novel. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? manages to capture the tumult of the 1960s in all its guts and glory through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another. “An impeccable, humorous heirloom, a shock of napalm that smells like . . . victory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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ABRAMS

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1590208889

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Temptation

By: Ken Saik

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Temptation

By: Ken Saik

Ashley Norris is a recently divorced young lady. Through an odd set of circumstances she finds herself without her girlfriends from the bank on a dearly dreamed of, discounted Mediterranean cruise. The timing of her holiday also catches her accountant boyfriend, Adam Aski, when he’s anchored to the deadline demands of tax returns. A young, attractive athletic soccer team manager, Randy Watson, who happens to live in a city near Ashley, enriches several of her excursion adventures. Ashley’s only defense from Randy’s persistent amorous attention is a poem created by Adam and printed as a bookmarker. The poem, she feels, captures her feelings about relationships perfectly. The question is, could this paper shield protect Ashley from Randy’s, at times, welcomed gentle strategic advances?

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1465340599

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Ebony Gate

The Phoenix Hoard

By: Julia Vee,Ken Bebelle

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Ebony Gate

The Phoenix Hoard

By: Julia Vee,Ken Bebelle

A CALIBA 2023 Golden Poppy Book Award Finalist Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco’s Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she’s drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher of Beijing now lives a quiet life in San Francisco, importing antiques. But when a shinigami, a god of death itself, calls in a family blood debt, Emiko must recover the Ebony Gate that holds back the hungry ghosts of the Yomi underworld. Or forfeit her soul as the anchor. What's a retired assassin to do but save the City by the Bay from an army of the dead? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1250837448

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In the Shadow of Arnhem

By: Ken Tout

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In the Shadow of Arnhem

By: Ken Tout

The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised, with its extraordinary parachute drop and gallant defence by Frost's few men of the bridge at Arnhem. Although the campaign came close to success, its relative failure left the Allies trapped within a thirty-mile stretch of road. The Arnhem debacle saw vast stretches of Holland to the left and right of the salient occupied by enemy forces. These areas of Holland, criss-crossed by unfordable rivers and closely populated by small villages, had to be cleared by Allied troops in platoon or company strength, fighting in tight situations against bitter skilled resistance. There was none of the awesome and inspirational massing of troops seen in the battle of Normandy, for Arnhem itself. Interweaving his engaging narrative style with the eyewitness accounts and personal reminiscences of British, Canadian and Polish troops, Ken Tout reveals how these men performed their heroic deeds. They suffered and died in unheralded, largely forgotten minor skirmishes, but on a scale far exceeding the casualties of the immediate assault on Arnhem. They deserve to be remembered. This is their story.

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The History Press

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075095132X

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9780750951326

How I Got Skinny, Famous, and Fell Madly in Love

By: Ken Baker

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How I Got Skinny, Famous, and Fell Madly in Love

By: Ken Baker

When Emery Jackson's mother signs her up for a weight loss competition reality show, she must learn how to balance the trials of her new figure, her newfound fame, and her relationships with family and friends.

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Running Press Kids

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0762450142

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9780762450145

Heartbeat in the Amazon

By: Ken Filing

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Heartbeat in the Amazon

By: Ken Filing

A young doctor and his wife find life in the village of a lost tribe in the Amazon Basin more of a challenge than they expected. They attempt to establish a mission and a clinic treating a tribe with centuries of ancient customs. Encounters [with] wild predators, flesh-eating fish, [and] a tribe of huge aggressive women only add to the difficult and exciting adventure facing them every day. Satisfaction comes when after a lifetime of struggle an Indian girl and her half-caste child, who was delivered by the doctor, become the next generation of missionaries."--Page 4 of cover.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490742093

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Chasing Tales

A Different Kind of Travel Book

By: Ken Hopley

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Chasing Tales

A Different Kind of Travel Book

By: Ken Hopley

Chasing Tales is the first-hand account of a working man's travels round some of the world's hottest spots - literally and metaphorically. Written by Liverpool-born engineer, Ken Hopley, it spans his first sea-trip to Mexico in 1967 as a young Merchant Navy officer to being bombed in the Iran-Iraq War, from being awake during an appendicitis operation in a Syria hospital to an enforced retirement after suffering two strokes aged 65, giving a funny and uncompromising view of a changed man and a changing world. This book contains his experience of 50 years working all over the world as an engineer, from major oil and gas companies (including the shady ones) to oil rigs, FPSO's refineries, gas plants and universities in some extremely interesting places, with highly interesting people. And yes, by interesting, he almost always means odd. And sometimes just downright dangerous.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1803811625

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Man in the Middle

By: Ken Morris

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Man in the Middle

By: Ken Morris

After Peter Neil joins the firm of Stenman Partners he is swept up in the manic world of trading, but the discovery of shady dealings and mysterious deaths finds Peter in danger and with the help of SEC investigator Oliver Dawson, they plan to bring downthe firm.

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Bancroft Press

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1890862762

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9781890862763

Love Hina Omnibus

By: Ken Akamatsu

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Love Hina Omnibus

By: Ken Akamatsu

When Keitaro Urashima fails his entrance exams to get into Tokyo University for the second time, he's officially an unemployed and uneducated slacker. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his grandmother owns the fabulous Hinata Lodge and has agreed to take Keitaro in as caretaker. What he doesn't know is that the lodge is actually a girl's dorm and he's the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with five sexy ladies, but if Keitaro's not careful, this job will kill him. FINAL VOLUME!

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Kodansha Comics

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161262958X

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Barrington

By: Ken Munson,Ken Munson with the Barrington Area Historical Soc

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Barrington

By: Ken Munson,Ken Munson with the Barrington Area Historical Soc

Barrington, located between Chicago and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, along the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad corridor (now Metra), has enriched area history from the days of the Potawatomi Indians through the railroad age. Later, Barrington became the stage for relaxed country living away from the busy financial and industrial districts of Chicago. Businesses, churches, and architecture are captured in these historical postcard photographs, along with the people who helped the community grow and prosper.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738588563

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The Irish Wine Trilogy (Large Print 16pt)

By: Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio

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The Irish Wine Trilogy (Large Print 16pt)

By: Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio

Irish Wine; The Trilogy is the original group of short comic novels that first introduced Dick Wimmer's beloved cast of characters' the same characters who most recently reappeared in The Wildly Irish Sextet. In these novels' which span ten years and two continents' readers are introduced to Seamus Boyne' the greatest painter since Picasso; his old friend' erstwhile writer and practicing pest - control specialist Gene Hagar; his beautiful Dutch wife - and Hagar's lost love - Ciara; and his estranged' rebellious teenage daughter' Tory. From the first pages' in which an overwrought Boyne's suicide attempt is rudely interrupted by an attempted assassination' readers are in for a wild ride. A staged death' an unexpected father - daughter reunion' a madcap adventure of kidnapping and mistaken identity' and bizarre love triangles are some of the hijinks and tomfoolery to be found in Irish Wine' Boyne's Lassie' and Hagar's Dream - now back in print to the delight of Seamus Boyne devotees across the land.

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145878097X

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Colour

By: Ken Reynolds

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Colour

By: Ken Reynolds

For many months, Ed has chatted on the phone to Gail, the Bronson and Schubert’s order clerk with a spine-tingling voice, without ever seeing her. Yet, he has fallen in love and is desperate to meet her. When he finally contrives to see her, he’s in for a shock, leading to a romance fraught with difficulties, censure, high adventure, and danger. This is South Africa in 1970.

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1685262414

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Bloody Belfast

An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA

By: Ken Wharton

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Bloody Belfast

An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA

By: Ken Wharton

Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets. Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer, but no less violent streets of the 'Murph, Turf Lodge and Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed and shot by the IRA not once, but twice, and Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant, who, through the incredible ability of his dog, tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge, desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence. Wharton's reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britain's forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work, presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment.

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The History Press

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0752475983

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The Stone Canal

A Novel

By: Ken MacLeod

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The Stone Canal

A Novel

By: Ken MacLeod

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0812568648

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New World Disorder

The Leninist Extinction

By: Ken Jowitt

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New World Disorder

The Leninist Extinction

By: Ken Jowitt

Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder, Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and highly unsettling legacy. Earlier attempts to grasp the essence of Leninism have treated the Soviet experience as either a variant of or alien to Western history, an approach that robs Leninism of much of its intriguing novelty. Jowitt instead takes a "polytheist" approach, Weberian in tenor and terms, comparing the Leninist to the liberal experience in the West, rather than assimilating it or alienating it. Approaching the Leninist phenomenon in these terms and spirit emphasizes how powerful the imperatives set by the West for the rest of the world are as sources of emulation, assimilation, rejection, and adaptation; how unyielding premodern forms of identification, organization, and action are; how novel, powerful, and dangerous charisma as a mode of organized indentity and action can be. The progression from essay to essay is lucid and coherent. The first six essays reject the fundamental assumptions about social change that inform the work of modernization theorists. Written between 1974 and 1990, they are, we know now, startingly prescient. The last three essays, written in early 1991, are the most controversial: they will be called alarmist, pessimistic, apocalyptic. They challenge the complacent, optimistic, and self-serving belief that the world is being decisively shaped in the image of the West—that the end of history is at hand. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder, Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinar

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0520913787

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A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

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A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.

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0307775194

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92 Winslow Gardens

By: Ken Christensen

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92 Winslow Gardens

By: Ken Christensen

92 Winslow Gardens relates the author's remarkable nine months in London as a struggling artist. Without funds, work papers, or resources, he struck upon the idea of selling his sketches in the streets of London. But the most remarkable part of his adventurous life was his relationship with an older woman of overwhelming character and beauty. Together they forged a powerful bond that like all great loves existed in a world of their own. Every day was an adventure and together they were ready for anything.

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1794881492

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Baggage Burdens.

By: Ken Saik

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Baggage Burdens.

By: Ken Saik

Jill Kreshky has not had an easy life, and the latest incident is no exception. She has been separated from her Ukrainian husband, Joseph, for six months when she is involved in a horrific car accident that leaves her seriously injured and lying in a hospital bed. Desperate to find someone to care for her children while she recovers, Jill has no one else to turn to except Bill Wynchuk, a recently widowed friend who is burdened with guilt over abandoning his wife in her final months of life and his failure to save Jill and Josephs marriage. As Bill willingly steps in to help, Jill is transported back into her memories and to a dark time when she was forced to escape her alcoholic fathers beatings, find refuge with her grandmother, and ultimately marry a man she did not love. With Bill at her side, Jill embarks on a journey of recovery where she bravely faces haunting demons from the past and learns that psychological scars take the longest to heal. Baggage burdens. shares the story of one womans quest to find healing, forgiveness, and peace after fleeing a life of abuse and unhealthy relationships.

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1532029586

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Dark Light

By: Ken MacLeod

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Dark Light

By: Ken MacLeod

As the humans of Earth finally achieve space travel, they discover that the universe is filled with an infinite variety of intelligent alien life and that they have become pawns in the deadly wars of the alien gods.

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Macmillan

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0765303027

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Caveat Emptor

The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

By: Ken Perenyi

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Caveat Emptor

The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

By: Ken Perenyi

It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. Caveat Emptor reveals the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.

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Simon and Schuster

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163936305X

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9781639363056

Hippolyte

Little Known Facts About Alexis De Tocqueville's Lesser Known Brother

By: Ken Hinrichs

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Hippolyte

Little Known Facts About Alexis De Tocqueville's Lesser Known Brother

By: Ken Hinrichs

Arriving from France in the Spring of 1831 on a mission to learn about America and its unique new government, a young Alexis de Tocqueville future world renowned writer and philosopher found many things to excite and inspire him, especially in its third largest city, New Orleans. At the time, the Crescent City was the most wide open of Americas cities. It was a thriving melting pot teaming with creativity, intrigue, and heavy on personality. Blood was shed nearly every day beneath the huge spreading oaks of City Park. When war came, New Orleans assumed the mantle of largest city in the Confederacy and the Unions Number One Military Target. Secretly accompanying Tocqueville to America was his brother, Hippolyte. In December of 1831, the two accidently separated, never to see each other again. Alexis returned to France and fame as a world renowned social commentator, Hippolyte stayed on in America and accomplished even more in his own way. This is Hippolytes story. It is also the story of Abraham Lincoln, steamboating, the pirate Jean Lafitte, a slave named Tom Armstrong, a host of other famous American heroes, of the birth of technology, and of Americas Civil War. It is also the story of Longfellow, Louisiana, Huey Long, and a love affair so intense it is commemorated in one of Americas most famous pieces of classic literature.

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799

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iUniverse

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1475989849

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Physics Problems for Aspiring Physical Scientists and Engineers

With Hints and Full Solutions

By: Kenneth Franklin Riley,Ken Riley

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Physics Problems for Aspiring Physical Scientists and Engineers

With Hints and Full Solutions

By: Kenneth Franklin Riley,Ken Riley

Containing over 200 physics problems, with hints and full solutions, this book develops the skill of finding solutions to scientific problems.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108476694

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The Radioactive Boy Scout

The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor

By: Ken Silverstein

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The Radioactive Boy Scout

The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor

By: Ken Silverstein

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear reactor in his backyard garden shed. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town’s forty thousand suburbanites at risk. The EPA ended up burying his lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.

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Villard

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0812966600

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9780812966602

To a Dark Place

Experiences from Survivors of the Troubles

By: Ken Wharton

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To a Dark Place

Experiences from Survivors of the Troubles

By: Ken Wharton

Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectarian in nature and involved ordinary civilians, killed by the various paramilitary groups. These organisations murdered freely and without remorse, considering life a cheap price to pay in the furtherance of their cause. The words 'Why us?' were uttered by many families whose lives were ripped asunder by The Troubles. Thousands of innocents received a life sentence at the hands of the terrorists; these, then, are their words, the words of those who survived such attacks, and of those left behind. These poignant and tragic stories come from the people who have been forced to live with the emotional shrapnel of terrorism.

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The History Press

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0750999764

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9780750999762

Googled

The End of the World As We Know It

By: Ken Auletta

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Googled

The End of the World As We Know It

By: Ken Auletta

A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape. There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses?from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft. With unprecedented access to Google?s founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Using Google as a stand-in for the digital revolution, Auletta takes readers inside Google?s closed-door meetings and paints portraits of Google?s notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with?and against?them. In his narrative, Auletta provides the fullest account ever told of Google?s rise, shares the ?secret sauce? of Google?s success, and shows why the worlds of ?new? and ?old? media often communicate as if residents of different planets. Google engineers start from an assumption that the old ways of doing things can be improved and made more efficient, an approach that has yielded remarkable results? Google will generate about $20 billion in advertising revenues this year, or more than the combined prime-time ad revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX. And with its ownership of YouTube and its mobile phone and other initiatives, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Auletta his company is poised to become the world?s first $100 billion media company. Yet there are many obstacles that threaten Google?s future, and opposition from media companies and government regulators may be the least of these. Google faces internal threats, from its burgeoning size to losing focus to hubris. In coming years, Google?s faith in mathematical formulas and in slide rule logic will be tested, just as it has been on Wall Street. Distilling the knowledge accrued from a career of covering the media, Auletta will offer insights into what we know, and don?t know, about what the future holds for the imperiled industry.

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Penguin

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1101151404

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