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Income Support for the Poorest

A Review of Experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

By: Emil Tesliuc,Lucian Pop,Margaret Grosh,Ruslan Yemtsov

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Income Support for the Poorest

A Review of Experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

By: Emil Tesliuc,Lucian Pop,Margaret Grosh,Ruslan Yemtsov

This study reviews the role and workings, with their strengths and weaknesses of last-resort income support (LRIS) programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It draws on a combination of household survey and administrative data for a large group of countries and detailed case studies for a smaller number of countries that span the spectrum of the income range in the region. It thus combines the value of wide, comparable multi-country work with that of in-depth, country-specific probing on key themes. The experiences of LRIS programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have demonstrated the technical feasibility of highly efficient poverty-targeted programs in the region. The detailed case studies suggest how programs can improve their coverage, control error and fraud and be implemented effectively in decentralized settings. This experience is pertinent to other regions as well, adding to the know-how for poverty targeting programs in middle and low income countries. Perhaps especially importantly, the book shows that means testing can be accomplished in settings with sizeable informal sectors and at reasonable administrative costs. The study also suggests that currently the role of last resort income support programs within the overall social protection systems of the region is often too small and that their eligibility thresholds should be revised and indexed, so that the programs continue to serve a meaningful swath of the low income households in each country. Moreover the programs can be used as the nexus to weave together a variety of income supports and services for low income households.

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World Bank Publications

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1464802386

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Noel Gallagher - The Biography

By: Lucian Randall

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Noel Gallagher - The Biography

By: Lucian Randall

Noel Gallagher is as well-known for his singer-song writing talent as he is for his controversial, outspoken statements and his tempestuous relationships. With the renowned Britpop band, Oasis, Noel found worldwide acclaim and influenced the musical style of a generation. At the forefront of the Britpop movement in the Nineties, Noel was responsible for writing some of the big anthems of the period, including 'Wonderwall' and 'Champagne Supernova'. At their peak they were playing sold-out concerts to over 200,000 people. But what is the truth about the boy from Manchester? How did his relationship with his father affect him? What caused the public and personal rivalry with fellow Britpop band Blur? Why has he always had such a turbulent relationship with his brother and front man of Oasis, Liam? Is the band over for good this time? This book maps out Noel's story from the beginning. It takes you from his dysfunctional upbringing in Manchester to the man we know now. As an icon of the Nineties, Noel developed a reputation for his rock and roll lifestyle and rebellious attitude. This book offers an insight into the prolific, outspoken and controversial songwriter who has become a worldwide success.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782190910

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9781782190912

Quality of Telecommunication Services

By: Lucian Gabriel Ioan,Marius-Constantin Vochin,Grazziela Niculescu

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Quality of Telecommunication Services

By: Lucian Gabriel Ioan,Marius-Constantin Vochin,Grazziela Niculescu

Defining means and methods designed to ensure the quality of service (QoS mechanisms), which is the objective of the first part of this paper, involves a series of analytical or experimental modeling activities (for example, by simulation) and analysis which, in turn, involve various mathematical disciplines, such as probability theory and statistics, in order to determine how to act, considering the factors that influence the quality of service. Having a generous theoretical support, each of these mentioned activities and instruments is a separate subject, the exposure of which can be found in the following two parts of this paper. This is the Part II, which aims at presenting the basic analytical tools used in the description of random phenomena, and the Part III, dealing with the specific aspects of telecommunication services, regarding the modeling and analysis processes for their quality.

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Marius-Constantin Vochin

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6065159123

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Army Blue

By: Lucian K. Truscott

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Army Blue

By: Lucian K. Truscott

From the bestselling author of Dress Gray. “Part-war story, part-family saga . . . zeroes in on the men of the Blue family, three generations of soldiers” (The Washington Post). In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his first novel, Dress Gray, Truscott turns his attention to the Vietnam War and delivers a suspenseful, sprawling court-martial drama set in Saigon in 1969. At twenty-three, platoon leader Lt. Matthew Nelson Blue is the youngest member of an army family; his father is a colonel and his grandfather a profane, cantankerous retired general. Shortly after one of his men is killed by friendly fire while on routine patrol, Blue is arrested and charged with desertion in the face of the enemy. Arriving in Vietnam, his father and grandfather end their long estrangement and join forces to clear the young soldier’s name. Truscott’s plot offers less than initially meets the eye; the nature of the conspiracy and cover-up that nearly destroy Blue is fairly easy to predict, as is the disillusionment about Vietnam that eventually befalls his seniors. The author’s intimate portrayal of the texture of army life gives his narrative a more deeply felt sense of anger and regret than others in its genre, and makes its final revelations more powerful than they might otherwise have been.

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Open Road Media

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1497663490

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Campstar Chefs Cookbook and Guide

By: Lucian and Kitty Maynard

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Campstar Chefs Cookbook and Guide

By: Lucian and Kitty Maynard

A Camping Guide and Cookbook with recipes for Hikers, Tent Campers and RV Campers. More than 1000 recipes with directions for cooking on grills, camp stoves, and campfires. United States and Canadian recipes that reflect the diversity of cuisines. Trivia about National Parks, monuments, and forests in the U.S. and Canada. Many guidelines for preparing, packing- includes safety tips; pet tips; camping with children; backpacking equipment; camp kitchens; Menu planning; Dutch Oven cooking; Cooking over open fires and on grills; use of pie irons; and much much more. A Guide that introduces the reader to many of the Well known National Parks as well as those that are not as well known… All Produced compliments of Mother nature and Father Time!

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Page Publishing Inc

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1682894878

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History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

By: Lucian Boia

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History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

By: Lucian Boia

Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Boia's innovative analysis identifies several key mythical configurations and shows how Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.

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Central European University Press

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9639116971

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Rules of the Road

By: Lucian K. Truscott

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Rules of the Road

By: Lucian K. Truscott

“A solid men’s adventure yarn with loving descriptions of cars and their capabilities, and action scenes full of derring-do” from the bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). “Truscott, author of Army Blue and Dress Gray, has the makings of another hit here in this novel of old-fashioned honor and courage up against raw, violent political power. Major Sam Butterfield, en route to his new base in Kentucky, sees a man being savagely beaten and charges to the rescue. He ends up over his head in hot water; the man he rescued is blackmailing the political boss of southern Illinois, and Sam has accidentally been handed the evidence. When a friend who helps him escape is murdered, Sam, together with pool shark Johnny Gee and an old girlfriend in the governor’s office, stalks the politician to get evidence that will put him away forever.” —Library Journal

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1497663539

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Approximation by Max-Product Type Operators

By: Barnabás Bede,Lucian Coroianu,Sorin G. Gal

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Approximation by Max-Product Type Operators

By: Barnabás Bede,Lucian Coroianu,Sorin G. Gal

This monograph presents a broad treatment of developments in an area of constructive approximation involving the so-called "max-product" type operators. The exposition highlights the max-product operators as those which allow one to obtain, in many cases, more valuable estimates than those obtained by classical approaches. The text considers a wide variety of operators which are studied for a number of interesting problems such as quantitative estimates, convergence, saturation results, localization, to name several. Additionally, the book discusses the perfect analogies between the probabilistic approaches of the classical Bernstein type operators and of the classical convolution operators (non-periodic and periodic cases), and the possibilistic approaches of the max-product variants of these operators. These approaches allow for two natural interpretations of the max-product Bernstein type operators and convolution type operators: firstly, as possibilistic expectations of some fuzzy variables, and secondly, as bases for the Feller type scheme in terms of the possibilistic integral. These approaches also offer new proofs for the uniform convergence based on a Chebyshev type inequality in the theory of possibility. Researchers in the fields of approximation of functions, signal theory, approximation of fuzzy numbers, image processing, and numerical analysis will find this book most beneficial. This book is also a good reference for graduates and postgraduates taking courses in approximation theory.

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Springer

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3319341898

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Exiled in an Extraordinary World

The Poetry and the Short Stories, Thoughts Dancing in My Heart and Mind

By: Lucian A. Tower

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Exiled in an Extraordinary World

The Poetry and the Short Stories, Thoughts Dancing in My Heart and Mind

By: Lucian A. Tower

I began writing song lyric, then came poetry, and short stories, some 40-years-ago. When I was 10-years-old. During the sixties, and in high school, I had the privilege of meeting Poet Laureate of the United States, Mr. Robert Frost. He spoke with me discussing my poetry and my ideas. He told me to keep writing and reading, and as I continued I would learn so much more, and eventually become a published poet. I have continued writing lyrics, poetry, and short stories. I am now 64-years old, and I am published. I have always told other poets and writers to keep on writing, and learning about the many different styles of the written arts. The way I see writing poetry is a likeness to a photograph of a moment, a dream, a place, and a thing, a memory good or not so good. Life comes at us in many different ways, sometimes in many different ways at once. Its the situations that arise, the masks some people wear, the way they talk and rub shoulders with everybody. These things make up the poetry I write. When you sit down and look at life youll find its much bigger than just us. This is poetry, lyric writing, short stories from the imagination, journalism, and actually all the arts, they are great love affairs with life. I have found all things good in the written arts, even when Im turned down by an editor. Its all learning and enjoying what you do. So choose a photograph of a moment, a dream, or a situation, and then write about it. Create picture with words of description. I live a simple life as a Disabled Veteran of the U.S.M.C., and the Vietnam War. However, I am simply who I am, and I dont try to say Im someone else. I am a human being who loves the arts. My message to you all whom read this is KEEP ON WRITING; KEEP ON KEEPING ON. Lucian A. Tower

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483666875

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The All-New Diabetic Cookbook

A Complete Guide to Easy Meal Preparation and Enjoyable Eating for Healthy Living

By: Kitty Maynard,Lucian Maynard

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The All-New Diabetic Cookbook

A Complete Guide to Easy Meal Preparation and Enjoyable Eating for Healthy Living

By: Kitty Maynard,Lucian Maynard

Included are traditional recipes, from appetizers to desserts, and new vegetarian recipes using a variety of rice, grains, and vegetables. With recipes for children, it is the perfect book for young and old alike. A complete guide to healthy eating, The All-New Diabetic Cookbook includes up-to-date and easy-to-understand information on eating out, traveling, and stress management. In addition, it provides the ADA's new exchange lists and nutrition recommendations. Developed by a team uniquely qualified both in the medical care of those with diabetes and in cooking and meal planning. The All-New Diabetic Cookbook includes menu plans that accommodate several levels of caloric intake, from 1.000 to 3,000 calories per day. A detailed nutritional analysis of each dish, including the number of calories and percentage of calories that come from fat, follows each recipe. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs and containing more than 400 recipes, The All-New Diabetic Cookbook is a book doctors will recommend to their patients. It is a thorough revision of Cooking for Diabetics, which has sold over 100,000 copies.

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Thomas Nelson

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141856818X

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Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends

Volume 2, Part 1

By: Lucian Lamar Knight

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Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends

Volume 2, Part 1

By: Lucian Lamar Knight

Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.

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Pelican Publishing

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1589800001

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9781589800007

Political Culture and Political Development

By: Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba

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Political Culture and Political Development

By: Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba

Volume 5 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400875323

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Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed and Breakfasts

More Than 1,500 Mouthwatering Recipes from 340 of America's Favorite Inns

By: Kitty Maynard,Lucian Maynard

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Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed and Breakfasts

More Than 1,500 Mouthwatering Recipes from 340 of America's Favorite Inns

By: Kitty Maynard,Lucian Maynard

The best crowd-pleasing recipes from widely acclaimed country inns and bed & breakfasts in the United States are collected in this unique cookbook and travel guide. More than 340 inns and 1,500 recipes are collected here, some from the finest chefs in America, while others represent the best in mouth-watering homestyle cooking. More than a cookbook, Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts is organized alphabetically - state-by-state. It is a reliable guide to the inns themselves, including addresses, phone numbers, and a listing of activities available at each inn. There are two extensive indexes. One allows you to find the inns by city and state, and the other allows the reader to find any recipe or type of recipe quickly and easily. Kitty and Lucian Maynard have written two similar books, The American Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Cookbook, Vol. I and Vol. II. These have been selections of Book-of-the-Month Club, the Better Homes and Gardens Book Club, and Family Bookshelf. The first book was featured on the back of Just Right cereal boxes. Reviews rave about the excellent, tasty recipes: "Everything we tried was terrific!" - Brunswick (Maine) Times Record "Many of these dishes are unique creations of the inn chefs and are not to be found elsewhere." - The Midwest Book Review "Chock full of mouthwatering recipes . . . a grand selection of entrees." - Levittown (Pennsylvania) Courier-Times

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1418580457

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A Walk in the Garden of My Spirit

A Work of Thoughts, Short Stories, and Poetry

By: Lucian A. Tower

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A Walk in the Garden of My Spirit

A Work of Thoughts, Short Stories, and Poetry

By: Lucian A. Tower

I began writing song lyric, then came poetry, and short stories some 40- years-ago when I was 10-years-old. During the sixties in high school, I had the privilege of meeting The Poet Laureate of the United States, Mr. Robert Frost. He spoke with me discussing my poetry and my ideas. He told me to keep writing and reading, and as I continued I would learn so much more and eventually become a published poet. I have continued writing lyrics, poetry, and short stories. I am now 64-years old and I am published. I have always told other poets and writers to keep on writing, and learning about the many different styles of the written arts. The way I see writing poetry is a likeness to a photograph of a moment, a dream, a place, and a thing, a memory good or not so good. Life comes at us in many different ways, sometimes in many different ways at once. Its the situations that arise, the masks some people wear, the way they talk and rub shoulders with everybody. These things make up the poetry I write. When you sit down and look at life youll find its much bigger than just us. This is poetry, lyric writing, short stories from the imagination, journalism, and actually all the arts, they are great love affairs with life. I have found all things good in the written arts, even when Im turned down by an editor. Its all learning and enjoying what you do. So choose a photograph of a moment, a dream, or a situation, and then write about it. Create a picture with words of description. I live a simple life as a Disabled Veteran of the U.S.M.C., and the Vietnam War. However, I am simply who I am, and I dont try to say Im someone else. I am a human being who loves the arts. My message to you all whom read this is KEEP ON WRITING; KEEP ON KEEPING ON.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483633985

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Dreaming Home

By: Lucian Childs

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Dreaming Home

By: Lucian Childs

A Globe and Mail Best Spring Book • One of Lambda Literary Review's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 • A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023 A queer coming-of-age—and coming-to-terms—follows the after-effects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home. When a sister’s casual act of betrayal awakens their father’s demons—ones spawned by his time in Vietnamese POW camps—the effects of the ensuing violence against her brother ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock, to San Francisco, to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and their loved ones tell their tales. A queer coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms, and a poignant exploration of all the ways we search for home, Dreaming Home is the unforgettable story of the fragmenting of an American family.

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Biblioasis

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1771965509

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Disgusting Bliss

The Brass Eye of Chris Morris

By: Lucian Randall

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Disgusting Bliss

The Brass Eye of Chris Morris

By: Lucian Randall

The Sunnewspaper asked if Chris Morris's July 2001 Brass Eye Special on paedophilia was 'the sickest TV ever?' It was certainly the most controversial, though his uncompromising style of comedy meant he was rarely far from trouble. Morris first came to national prominence at the heart of a group of virtually unknown comedians brought together by Armando Iannucci. This book follows them from their 1991 news satire On the Hour, which transferred from radio to television where it was reinvented as the equally successful The Day Today. It became impossible to watch bulletins without thinking of Morris's Paxmanesque anchor character chastising a reporter -- 'Peter! You've lost the news!' -- or authoritatively delivering nonsense headlines: 'Sacked chimney worker pumps boss full of mayonnaise.' Meanwhile co-star Steve Coogan created a lasting anti-hero in Alan Partridge, imbued with a horrible life all of his own. But Morris himself was always the most compelling character of all. Drawing on exclusive new interviews and original research, this book creates a compelling portrait of Morris from his earliest radio days and of the comedians and writers who frequently took on the industry they worked in, polarising opinion to such a degree that government ministers threatened to ban them entirely. THIS IS THE NEEEWWWWS!

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Simon and Schuster

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0857200909

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9780857200907

Ripe Musings

By: Lucian Krukowski

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Ripe Musings

By: Lucian Krukowski

Musings are recollections of memories, of dreams, of ideas. Such recollections are persistent because they remain unresolved-whether as concepts about the world or as actions, taken or avoided, in art, life, and love. My musings are ripe because I have been chewing on them for many years. I am an old painter and a somewhat younger philosopher, and I remain concerned with how these fit together. So my first essay is about my journey through the landscape of such fitting. This done, I take on some art of our and other times that I revere or dislike. Then, as I am not a believer in straight paths, I go on to muse on how the world was before it began and how it will be after it ends, and how we can be who's and whats in places that are not the same. I return to art to argue against theories that champion brain over mind, and I enlist my artist-dog to illustrate my argument. My musings end with a broader journey that pits the alternate societies of crookeds and straights in their strivings for fulfillment-and their needs, on occasion, to come together.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630879886

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Four and Five Star Poetry

(Poetry.Com's Legendary Poet.)

By: Lucian A. Tower

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Four and Five Star Poetry

(Poetry.Com's Legendary Poet.)

By: Lucian A. Tower

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493148494

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Full Dress Gray

By: Lucian K. Truscott

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Full Dress Gray

By: Lucian K. Truscott

The death of a female cadet rocks West Point in this People Magazine “Beach Book of the Week” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dress Gray. A female cadet has collapsed and died while parading past the reviewing stand on a hot September morning. The autopsy establishes that she had sex with three different men the night before. Some claim that it’s evidence of a major military scandal. Superintendent Ry Slaight fears it may be evidence of a shocking crime. His daughter—a cadet herself—is endangering her life in a quest for the truth. And among those who know the truth, the watchword is don’t ask, don’t tell . . .

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Open Road Media

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1497663512

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Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania

By: Lavinia Stan,Lucian Turcescu

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Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania

By: Lavinia Stan,Lucian Turcescu

Stan and Turcescu examine the complex relationship between church and state in the new Romania, providing analysis in key areas: church collaboration with communist authorities, post-communist electoral politics, nationalism and ethno-politics, and religious education, among other areas.

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OUP USA

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0195308530

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Simone Weil and Theology

By: A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone,Lucian Stone

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Simone Weil and Theology

By: A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone,Lucian Stone

Simone Weil - philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, social/political activist - is notoriously difficult to categorize, since her life and writings challenge traditional academic boundaries. As many scholars have recognized, she set out few, if any, systematic theories, especially when it came to religious ideas. In this book, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone illuminate the ways in which Weil stands outside Western theological tradition by her use of paradox to resist the clamoring for greater degrees of certainty. Beyond a facile fallibilism, Simone Weil's ideas about the super-natural, love, Christianity, and spiritual action, and indeed, her seeming endorsement of a sort of atheism, detachment, foolishness, and passivity, begin to unravel old assumptions about what it is to encounter the divine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567424308

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9780567424303

Designing and Implementing Linux Firewalls with QoS Using Netfilter, Iproute2, NAT and L7-filter

By: Lucian Gheorghe

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Designing and Implementing Linux Firewalls with QoS Using Netfilter, Iproute2, NAT and L7-filter

By: Lucian Gheorghe

Learn how to secure your system and implement QoS using real-world scenarios for networks of all sizes.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1847190510

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9781847190512

Our Circus Presents--

By: Lucian Dan Teodorovici

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Our Circus Presents--

By: Lucian Dan Teodorovici

Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself and never does. The Birdman is a member of a loose-knit group of failed suicides, each pursuing absurd ways to end their lives: one saving up lost-dog reward money to buy enough good whiskey to drink himself to death, another hoping to contract a fatal disease by sleeping with as many women as possible. Just when it seems these routines will continue indefinitely, the Birdman meets a "professional" suicide: the dangerous and inscrutable "man with orange suspenders," who makes a living by trying to hang himself whenever he sees a potential rescuer approaching. This chance encounter, which leads at last to a real death, will force the Birdman to confront the roots of his desire to escape from life, and to see firsthand that dying is more than just a rehearsal." --Book Jacket.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564785564

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