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Celestial Wife Club

By: Len deBoer

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Set during the tumultuous first sixty-year history of the Mormon church, Celestial Wife Club is an epic story of one man´s journey through the complicated world of polygamy. It started in his hometown of Kirtland, Ohio when out of survival, he was forced to become a Mormon. The story follows Tom as he earns the trust of the two most powerful leaders of the church and becomes a church "insider." Following the doctrines of the Prophet, under his threat of eternal damnation, Tom is later forced to become a polygamist. After joining the church leaders in an elite esoteric society called the Celestial Wife Club, his life becomes filled with deep, dark secrets. The religious principles of the Mormons were constantly challenged. They established thriving communities in three different states, but each time angry vigilante mobs and government threats of extermination forced them to abandon their homes and start over again. While continuing to build his harem of wives, Tom played a vital role in the Mormon´s long and difficult migration west to the desolate Salt Lake Basin. Unwillingly he joined in the battle against the Native Ute Indians, and a traumatic confrontation with a renegade Indian named Whitehorse would haunt Tom for the rest of his life. The church quickly gained complete control over the Utah Territory and the practice of polygamy among Mormon´s became common knowledge throughout the country. When the federal government enacted a series of anti-bigamy laws, the "Most Wanted Polygamist List" was created. As a target of "polygamy hunters," Tom and the church leaders were forced to play a dangerous cat and mouse game while hiding in the Mormon underground to elude federal marshals. Throughout his years of hardship, prosperity, and personal tragedies, Tom underwent a constant struggle with his decision to become a polygamist. The question in his mind was always the same - How had he allowed Joseph Smith, a self-proclaimed prophet, a man who many considered to be a charlatan, to convince him to be unfaithful to his wife and family? Tom eventually tries to break free of his complicated lifestyle, and the story concludes with an explosive and shocking ending that reveals the last bizarre secrets in Tom ́s clandestine life. www.celestialwifeclubbook.com

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456829734

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9781456829735

Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs

By: Len Fisher

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Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs

By: Len Fisher

Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead. Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, Crashes, Crises, and Calamities offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories. In accessible prose, Len Fisher demonstrates how we can foresee and manage events that might otherwise catch us by surprise. At the cutting edge of science, Fisher helps us find ways to act before a full-fledged catastrophe is upon us. Crashes, Crises, and Calamities is a witty and informative exploration of the chaos, complexity, and patterns of our daily lives.

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Basic Books

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0465023355

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9780465023356

The selfmade land

culture and evolution of urban and regional planning in the Netherlands

By: Gerhard Dekker,Len de Klerk,Peter Paul Witsen,Hans van der Cammen

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The selfmade land

culture and evolution of urban and regional planning in the Netherlands

By: Gerhard Dekker,Len de Klerk,Peter Paul Witsen,Hans van der Cammen

Nederland is één van de meest dichtbevolkte landen ter wereld. Dan moet je verstandig omgaan met de beschikbare ruimte. Waar gaan we werken, waar wonen en waar vakantie houden? Wat bebouwen en wat blijft ongerept? Nergens ter wereld wordt daar zo grondig over nagedacht als in Nederland. Internationaal geldt Nederland als gidsland op het gebied van de ruimtelijke ordening. Vanwege deze positie, en om aan de vraag vanuit het Engelstalige onderwijs te voorzien, verschijnt nu deze geheel herziene, Engelstalige editie van het standaardwerk Ruimtelijke ordening.

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Spectrum

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9000317207

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9789000317202

Documenting Software Architectures

Views and Beyond

By: Paul Clements,Felix Bachmann,Len Bass,David Garlan,James Ivers,Reed Little,Paulo Merson,Robert Nord,Judith Stafford

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Documenting Software Architectures

Views and Beyond

By: Paul Clements,Felix Bachmann,Len Bass,David Garlan,James Ivers,Reed Little,Paulo Merson,Robert Nord,Judith Stafford

Software architecture—the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders—is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system’s architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project will stumble along or, most likely, fail. Even with a superb architecture, if that architecture is not well understood or well communicated the project is unlikely to succeed. Documenting Software Architectures, Second Edition, provides the most complete and current guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors first help you decide what information to document, and then, with guidelines and examples (in various notations, including UML), show you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it. The book features rules for sound documentation, the goals and strategies of documentation, architectural views and styles, documentation for software interfaces and software behavior, and templates for capturing and organizing information to generate a coherent package. New and improved in this second edition: Coverage of architectural styles such as service-oriented architectures, multi-tier architectures, and data models Guidance for documentation in an Agile development environment Deeper treatment of documentation of rationale, reflecting best industrial practices Improved templates, reflecting years of use and feedback, and more documentation layout options A new, comprehensive example (available online), featuring documentation of a Web-based service-oriented system Reference guides for three important architecture documentation languages: UML, AADL, and SySML

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Pearson Education

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0132488590

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9780132488594

The Shaping of German Identity

Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414

By: Len Scales

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The Shaping of German Identity

Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414

By: Len Scales

German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject in any language - poses a challenge to some dominant assumptions of current historical scholarship: that early European nation-making inevitably took place within the developing structures of the institutional state; and that, in the absence of such structural growth, the idea of a German nation was uniquely, radically and fatally retarded. In recounting the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages, this book offers an important new perspective both on German history and on European nation-making.

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Cambridge University Press

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110737622X

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9781107376229

International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

By: Len Fulton

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International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

By: Len Fulton

This 37th Edition will continue to be an essential reference, used worldwide by writers, librarians, students of modern literature, and readers every-where. Len Fulton's legendary directory now includes over 5,000 presses and journals listed with addresses, payment rates, manuscript requirements, and recent publications. Subject and regional indexes are also provided.

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0916685837

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Celestial Wife Club

Celestial Wife Club

Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

The selfmade land

The selfmade land

Documenting Software Architectures

Documenting Software Architectures

The Shaping of German Identity

The Shaping of German Identity

International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

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