Matthew Archer's Books

They Killed the President

By: Matthew McTiernan

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The story you are about to read is fictitious, that is to say, no evidence or proof exist to substantiate what is said within the context of the story. Although fictitious names are used, the reader will no doubt recognize certain personalities in the narrative. Events will, for the most part, be easier to relate too, as any attempt to leave them out or charge them would render the story incomprehensible. Perhaps as the personalities involved pass into the continuum of time, the events, being more distant and less subject to distortion, will be subjected to a deeper more perspective examination, and the speculation contained within these pages will ring closer to the truth than the current suspect official explanation.

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iUniverse

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0595004326

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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Form, Ethics, and the Novel

By: Matthew Sussman

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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Form, Ethics, and the Novel

By: Matthew Sussman

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108967248

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London and the Modernist Bookshop

By: Matthew Chambers

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London and the Modernist Bookshop

By: Matthew Chambers

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108850278

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A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World

A philosophy for success through education

By: Matthew L.N. Wilkinson

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A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World

A philosophy for success through education

By: Matthew L.N. Wilkinson

***WINNER: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize, International Association of Critical Realism.*** A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World provides a comprehensively theorised and practical approach to thinking systematically and deeply about Islam and Muslims in a multi-faith world. It makes the case for a contemporary educational philosophy to help young Muslims surmount the challenges of post-modernity and to transcend the hiatuses and obstacles that they face in their interaction and relationships with non-Muslims and visa-versa. It argues that the philosophy of critical realism in its original, dialectical and metaReal moments so fittingly ‘underlabours’ (Bhaskar, 1975) for the contemporary interpretation, clarification and conceptual deepening of Islamic doctrine, practice and education as to suggest a distinctive branch of critical realist philosophy, specifically suited for this purpose. This approach is called Islamic Critical Realism. The book proceeds to explain how this Islamic Critical Realist approach can serve the interpretation of the consensual elements of Islamic doctrine, such as the six elements of Islamic belief and the five ‘pillars’ of Islamic practice, so that these essential features of the Muslim way of life can help Muslim young people to contribute positively to life in multi-faith liberal democracies in a globalising world. Finally, the book shows how this Islamic Critical Realist approach can be brought to bear in humanities classrooms by history, religious education and citizenship teachers to help Muslim young people engage informatively and transformatively with themselves and others in multi-faith contexts.

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Routledge

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131759598X

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

By: Matthew Spady

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

By: Matthew Spady

“An illuminating treat! . . . it retraces the neighborhood’s fascinating arc from remote woodland estate to the enduring Beaux Arts streetscape.” —Eric K. Washington, award-winning author of Boss of the Grips This fully illustrated history peels back the many layers of a rural society evolving into an urban community, enlivened by the people who propelled it forward: property owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. It tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today. A longtime evangelist for Manhattan’s Audubon Park neighborhood, author Matthew Spady delves deep into the lives of the two families most responsible over time for the anomalous arrangement of today’s streetscape: the Audubons and the Grinnells. Beginning with the Audubons’ return to America in 1839 and John James Audubon’s purchase of fourteen acres of farmland, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot follows the many twists and turns of the area’s path from forest to city, ending in the twenty-first century with the Audubon name re-purposed in today’s historic district, a multiethnic, multi-racial urban neighborhood far removed from the homogeneous, Eurocentric Audubon Park suburb. “This well-documented saga of demographics chronicles a dazzling cast of characters and a plot fraught with idealism, speculation, and expansion, as well as religious, political, and real estate machinations.” —Roberta J.M. Olson, PhD, Curator of Drawings, New-York Historical Society The story of the area’s evolution from hinterland to suburb to city is comprehensively told in Matthew Spady’s fluidly written new history.” —The New York Times

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823289435

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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow

Perform fast and efficient data analytics on both flat and hierarchical structured data

By: Matthew Topol

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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow

Perform fast and efficient data analytics on both flat and hierarchical structured data

By: Matthew Topol

Process tabular data and build high-performance query engines on modern CPUs and GPUs using Apache Arrow, a standardized language-independent memory format, for optimal performance Key Features Learn about Apache Arrow's data types and interoperability with pandas and Parquet Work with Apache Arrow Flight RPC, Compute, and Dataset APIs to produce and consume tabular data Reviewed, contributed, and supported by Dremio, the co-creator of Apache Arrow Book DescriptionApache Arrow is designed to accelerate analytics and allow the exchange of data across big data systems easily. In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow begins with a quick overview of the Apache Arrow format, before moving on to helping you to understand Arrow’s versatility and benefits as you walk through a variety of real-world use cases. You'll cover key tasks such as enhancing data science workflows with Arrow, using Arrow and Apache Parquet with Apache Spark and Jupyter for better performance and hassle-free data translation, as well as working with Perspective, an open source interactive graphical and tabular analysis tool for browsers. As you advance, you'll explore the different data interchange and storage formats and become well-versed with the relationships between Arrow, Parquet, Feather, Protobuf, Flatbuffers, JSON, and CSV. In addition to understanding the basic structure of the Arrow Flight and Flight SQL protocols, you'll learn about Dremio’s usage of Apache Arrow to enhance SQL analytics and discover how Arrow can be used in web-based browser apps. Finally, you'll get to grips with the upcoming features of Arrow to help you stay ahead of the curve. By the end of this book, you will have all the building blocks to create useful, efficient, and powerful analytical services and utilities with Apache Arrow.What you will learn Use Apache Arrow libraries to access data files both locally and in the cloud Understand the zero-copy elements of the Apache Arrow format Improve read performance by memory-mapping files with Apache Arrow Produce or consume Apache Arrow data efficiently using a C API Use the Apache Arrow Compute APIs to perform complex operations Create Arrow Flight servers and clients for transferring data quickly Build the Arrow libraries locally and contribute back to the community Who this book is for This book is for developers, data analysts, and data scientists looking to explore the capabilities of Apache Arrow from the ground up. This book will also be useful for any engineers who are working on building utilities for data analytics and query engines, or otherwise working with tabular data, regardless of the programming language. Some familiarity with basic concepts of data analysis will help you to get the most out of this book but isn't required. Code examples are provided in the C++, Go, and Python programming languages.

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1801073430

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The Scarlet Papers

The Times Thriller of the Year 2023

By: Matthew Richardson

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The Scarlet Papers

The Times Thriller of the Year 2023

By: Matthew Richardson

THE BOOK THOSE IN THE KNOW ARE CALLING THE BEST SPY NOVEL OF THE YEAR *** One of the 50 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 in the Daily Telegraph *** *** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 *** *** A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 *** ‘Superbly constructed in an elaborate twisty spy yarn. It's highly unlikely that there will be a better espionage novel this year’ THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A breathtaking thriller. A classic in the making' PETER JAMES 'Hugely impressive and compelling' WILLIAM BOYD ‘A natural-born storyteller’ JEFFERY DEAVER ___________ London, present day Historian Max Archer is invited to a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster, Scarlet King. Her offer to share the explosive secrets born of over half a century at the heart of global espionage would be life-changing. But Max has little reason to trust a woman whose name is a byword for deceit and ruthlessness. Soon he is on the wrong side of the law and on the run. As the net closes tighter around him he must somehow discover the truth. Because it’s not just his life on the line – but also the fate of the Western world . . . ___________ ‘Intricate and fast moving, it weaves a thrilling spell’ DAILY MAIL 'Smart, slick and totally gripping . . . The Scarlet Papers is always credible, always startling and almost painfully human. A total triumph' TONY PARSONS 'A masterpiece' TIM GLISTER *** DISCOVER MY NAME IS NOBODY AND THE INSIDER, FURTHER SPY NOVELS BY MATTHEW RICHARDSON ***

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1405924845

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Taxonomy of Australian Mammals

By: Stephen Matthew Jackson,Stephen Jackson,Colin Groves

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Taxonomy of Australian Mammals

By: Stephen Matthew Jackson,Stephen Jackson,Colin Groves

Taxonomy of Australian Mammals utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian mammals undertaken to date. It proposes significant changes to the higher ranks of a number of groups and recognises several genera and species that have only very recently been identified as distinct. This easy to use reference also includes a complete listing of all species, subspecies and synonyms for all of Australia’s mammals, both native and introduced as well as terrestrial and marine. This book lays a foundation for future taxonomic work and identifies areas where taxonomic studies should be targeted, not only at the species and subspecies level but also broader phylogenetic relationships. This work will be an essential reference for students, scientists, wildlife managers and those interested in the science of taxonomy.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486300138

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Gliding Mammals of the World

By: Stephen Matthew Jackson

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Gliding Mammals of the World

By: Stephen Matthew Jackson

This book provides a synthesis of all that is known about the biology of gliding mammals. It includes a brief description of each species, together with a map and a full-colour painting. It outlines the origins and biogeography of each group of gliding mammals and examines the incredible physical adaptations.

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0643092609

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9780643092600

Seven Deadly Wonders

A Novel

By: Matthew Reilly

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Seven Deadly Wonders

A Novel

By: Matthew Reilly

Includes interview with the author.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416505067

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The Last Garrison

By: Matthew Beard

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The Last Garrison

By: Matthew Beard

In the shadows between the living world and the land of the dead, the night’s terrors lurk… For as long as anyone can remember, the mountain village of Haven has been under the protection of an ancient warlock known as the Old Stargazer. But after countless years spent deciphering the language of the cosmos, the old man is losing himself to the many voices of the night sky. Now, a dark figure controls the forest with minions of kenku marauders—crowlike humanoids that menace Haven with violence and mayhem. If the Old Stargazer cannot or will not protect the villagers, they will have to find someone who can. Nergei, an orphan raised by the warlock, knows they must venture beyond the safety of Haven to find the help they need. With little to offer mercenaries, and a ragged band at his side, he sets forth in search of heroes, never believing in what he might find.

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Wizards of the Coast

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0786959428

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Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche

The Bow with the Greatest Tension

By: Matthew P. Meyer

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Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche

The Bow with the Greatest Tension

By: Matthew P. Meyer

Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Awa Kenzo. The book weaves together a psychoanalytic account of infant development, the obstacles faced by Greek heroes, and virtue theory to explore the tension between the forces inside and outside of the human that subject the human beingit to conditions beyond its control. Meyer develops this side of the tension through Jacques Lacan’s theory of human drive, illustrating the three parts of drive theory through application to three works in Greek literature and philosophy. He The second part of the text describes the other side of this fundamental tension--the ability to control drive impulses—through Aristotle’s use of the archer as a metaphor in his virtue theory. The book illustrates the productive nature of this tension through an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas about drives and sublimation, especially his contention that the “highest” types are like “the bow with the greatest tension.”

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498560458

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The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

By: Matthew Van Natta

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The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

By: Matthew Van Natta

Optimize joy, overcome obstacles—discover the calm of stoicism Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction. This easy-to-navigate stoicism guide gives you the emotional tools needed to let go of the things you can't control and find joy in what you have. Through thought-provoking strategies and exercises, this book helps you find contentment so you can build closer relationships and become an active member of society. The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism includes: Evolution of stoicism—Discover the history of stoicism and how its principles can help you find peace. Complete the mindset—Find acceptance using an essential emotional toolkit based on the disciplines of Desire, Action, and Assent. Time to reflect—Apply what you've learned to your own life with ethical questions, quotes, and exercises. Change your perception, focus on positivity—become the best version of yourself with The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1641527226

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The History of Warfare

The Ultimate Visual Guide to the History of Warfare from the Ancient World to the American Civil War

By: Matthew Bennett,Doyne Dawson,Ron Field,Philip Hawthornwaite,Mike Loades

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The History of Warfare

The Ultimate Visual Guide to the History of Warfare from the Ancient World to the American Civil War

By: Matthew Bennett,Doyne Dawson,Ron Field,Philip Hawthornwaite,Mike Loades

The History of Warfare blends beautiful art and diagrams with engaging and informative modern text to narrate Man's timeless capacity for waging war.

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Chartwell Books

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0785834613

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In Between Two

By: Matthew Lodge

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In Between Two

By: Matthew Lodge

It is the last generation of man-One is reborn from Zion's sanctuary. It will be his last attempt to achieve redemption for humanity and all of Creation. A World of realism collides with fantasy as events sounding eerily similar to our current era, start to build a fantastic, gripping story that will leave you an instant fan.

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Exposing Slavery

Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

By: Matthew Fox-Amato

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Exposing Slavery

Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

By: Matthew Fox-Amato

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell. In these ways and others, from the earliest days of the medium to the first moments of emancipation, photography powerfully influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and contested. By 1865, it would be difficult for many Americans to look back upon slavery and its fall without thinking of a photograph. Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery, enslaved people to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen their movement, and soldiers to pictorially enact interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity into a political tool over only a few decades. This creative first book sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, while also revealing a key moment in the relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of power and resistance.

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Oxford University Press

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0190663952

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SUPERPOWER

By: Matthew Bryan

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SUPERPOWER

By: Matthew Bryan

Everyone prays, but is anyone content with their prayer life? Most of us are discouraged or intimidated at the thought of improving our prayer lives. SuperPower offers bold teachings about prayer in down-to-earth terms for supernatural results. Surprise yourself by understanding the primary purpose of prayer. Find out in practical terms how your experience of prayer can become radically more exciting. And settle those nagging doubts that unanswered prayers have created. In an old book called the Bible, an ancient people's prayers were answered almost every time. That same SuperPower is available to us today!

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1257845993

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The Carpenter of Nazareth paper

By: Dr. Matthew Price

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The Carpenter of Nazareth paper

By: Dr. Matthew Price

A young carpenter engaged to be married must make the desicion of a lifetime amid a changing society that is as deadly as it is unforgiving. Matt Price, PhD in Theology takes you on a journey back to the time just before and during the birth of Jesus Christ. Dr. Price gathers all of the Gospels and combines them with his years of study to give the reader a more clear picture of the events and person's surrounding the birth of Christ. Come along on the adventure with the three wise magi triplets who are direct descendents and namesakes of the three Hebrew children who were tossed into the fire. Be facinated and appalled by the syphlitic and tyrannical King Herod who will stop at nothing to make sure he is the only king of the Jews. Marval at the humble daughter of Israel who will strive only to be pleasing to her God - even if it means her disgrace and death. Identify with a young master carpenter who by faith takes on the task of raising the Son of God.

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0557107733

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Philosophy for Everyone

By: Matthew Chrisman,Duncan Pritchard,Guy Fletcher,Elinor Mason,Jane Suilin Lavelle,Michela Massimi,Alasdair Richmond,Dave Ward

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Philosophy for Everyone

By: Matthew Chrisman,Duncan Pritchard,Guy Fletcher,Elinor Mason,Jane Suilin Lavelle,Michela Massimi,Alasdair Richmond,Dave Ward

Philosophy for Everyone begins by explaining what philosophy is before exploring the questions and issues at the foundation of this important subject. Key topics in this new edition and their areas of focus include: Moral philosophy – the nature of our moral judgments and reactions, whether they aim at some objective moral truth, or are mere personal or cultural preferences; and the possibility of moral responsibility given the sorts of things that cause behavior; Political philosophy – fundamental questions about the nature of states and their relationship to the citizens within those states Epistemology – what our knowledge of the world and ourselves consists in, and how we come to have it; and whether we should form beliefs by trusting what other people tell us; Philosophy of mind – what it means for something to have a mind, and how minds should be understood and explained; Philosophy of science – foundational conceptual issues in scientific research and practice, such as whether scientific theories are true; and Metaphysics - fundamental questions about the nature of reality, such as whether we have free will, or whether time travel is possible. This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ MOOC (massive open online course) created by the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn research centre, and hosted by the Coursera platform (www.coursera.org/course/introphil).This book is also highly recommended for anyone looking for a short overview of this fascinating discipline.

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Routledge

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1315449749

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My Cancer Card

By: Matthew Swarley

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My Cancer Card

By: Matthew Swarley

My Cancer Card describes concepts that I think about including some of the non-traditional therapies that I took part including First Descents (basically an adventure camp for cancer survivors). I also talk about adaptive skiing and how I benefited from it so much that I will hopefully be volunteering with them soon enough (although, I haven't added in my plans to volunteer for them in the future). Finally I talk about education and I'd like to add my hope for the next two years of school as well as my hope for adaptive work.

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1329048393

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The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company

By: Matthew Davies

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The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company

By: Matthew Davies

One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book will also focus on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book will contribute to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty colour illustrations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351543636

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Explaining Tort and Crime

Legal Development Across Laws and Legal Systems, 1850–2020

By: Matthew Dyson

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Explaining Tort and Crime

Legal Development Across Laws and Legal Systems, 1850–2020

By: Matthew Dyson

Tracing almost 200 years of history, Explaining Tort and Crime explains the development of tort law and criminal law in England compared with other legal systems. Referencing legal systems from around the globe, it uses innovative comparative and historical methods to identify patterns of legal development, to investigate the English law of fault doctrine across tort and crime, and to chart and explain three procedural interfaces: criminal powers to compensate, timing rules to control parallel actions, and convictions as evidence in later civil cases. Matthew Dyson draws on decades of research to offer an analysis of the field, examining patterns of legal development, visible as motifs in the law of many legal systems.

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1009302922

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Frostgrave: Second Chances

A Tale of the Frozen City

By: Matthew Ward

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Frostgrave: Second Chances

A Tale of the Frozen City

By: Matthew Ward

Time is running out for Yelen and Mirika Semova. Though the sisters have earned an enviable reputation amongst their fellow explorers of the Frozen City, their lives are haunted by a curse – the more Yelen uses her magic, the closer the demon Azzanar comes to claiming her, body and soul. But Azzanar is not the only one manipulating Yelen and Mirika... When catastrophe separates the Semova sisters, it falls to Yelen to save them both. But in a city shrouded in deceit, who can she turn to for help... and what price will she pay to get it?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472824652

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Accountants' Truth

Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World

By: Matthew Gill

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Accountants' Truth

Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World

By: Matthew Gill

Accounting is the language of business, increasingly standardized across the world through powerful global corporations: a technical skill used to reach the correct, unquestionable answer. Yet, as recent corporate scandals have shown, a whole range of financial professionals (auditors, bankers, analysts, company directors) can collectively fail to question dubious actions. How can this be possible? To understand such failures, this book explores how accountants construct the technical knowledge they deem relevant to decision-making. In doing so, it not only offers a new way to understand deviance and scandals, but also suggests a reappraisal of accounting knowledge which has important implications for everyday commercial life. The book's findings are based on interviews with chartered accountants working in the largest accountancy practices in London. The interviews reveal that although accounting decisions seem clear after they have been made, the process of making them is contested and opaque. Yet accountants nonetheless tend to describe their work as if it were straightforward and technical. Accountants' Truth digs beneath the surface to explore how accountants actually construct knowledge, and draws out the implications of that process with respect to issues such as professionalism, performance, transparency, and ethics. This important book concludes that accountants' technical discourse undermines their ethical reasoning by obscuring the ways in which accounting decisions must be thought through in practice. Accountants with particular ethical perspectives more readily understand and construct particular types of knowledge, so the two issues of knowledge and of ethics are inseparable. Increasingly technical accounting rules can therefore counterproductive. Instead, our best approach to avoiding future scandals is to redefine and reinvigorate professional ethics in the financial world.

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OUP Oxford

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0191615862

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Subscription Theater

Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1939

By: Matthew Franks

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Subscription Theater

Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1939

By: Matthew Franks

Subscription Theater asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort adding their names to subscription lists. Shining a spotlight on private play-producing clubs, public repertory theaters, amateur drama groups, and theatrical magazines, Matthew Franks locates subscription theaters in a vast constellation of civic subscription initiatives, ranging from voluntary schools and workers' hospitals to soldiers' memorials and Diamond Jubilee funds. Across these enterprises, Franks argues, subscribers created their own spaces for performing social roles from which they had long been excluded. Whether by undermining the authority of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and London's commercial theater producers, or by extending rights to disenfranchised women and property-less men, a diverse cast of subscribers including typists, plumbers, and maids acted as political representatives for their fellow citizens, both inside the theater and far beyond it. Citizens prized a "democratic" or "representative" subscription list as an end in itself, and such lists set the stage for the eventual public subsidy of subscription endeavors. Subscription Theater points to the importance of printed ephemera such as programs, tickets, and prospectuses in questioning any assumption that theatrical collectivity is confined to the live performance event. Drawing on new media as well as old, Franks uses a database of over 23,000 stage productions to reveal that subscribers introduced nearly a third of the plays that were most frequently revived between 1890 and the mid-twentieth century, as well as nearly half of all new translations, and they were instrumental in staging the work of such writers as Shaw and Ibsen, whose plays featured subscription lists as a plot point or prop. Although subscribers often are blamed for being a conservative force in theater, Franks demonstrates that they have been responsible for how we value audience and repertoire today, and their history offers a new account of the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.

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0812297415

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Diagnostic Pathology: Soft Tissue Tumors

By: Matthew R. Lindberg, MD

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Diagnostic Pathology: Soft Tissue Tumors

By: Matthew R. Lindberg, MD

Part of the highly regarded Diagnostic Pathology series, this updated volume by Matthew Lindberg, MD, is a visually stunning, easy-to-use reference covering all aspects of soft tissue pathology. Outstanding images – including gross pathology, a wide range of stains, and detailed medical illustrations – make this an invaluable diagnostic aid for every practicing pathologist, resident, or fellow. Packed with even more high-resolution images than the previous edition – more than 2,000 images in all – it clearly depicts not only the key features of each tumor, but also the wide array of histologic variants. "I'd strongly recommend this book to both pathology residents and seasoned diagnostic pathologists alike." Reviewed by Todd Stevens, Oct 2015 Time-saving reference features include bulleted text, a variety of test data tables, key facts in each chapter, annotated images, and an extensive index. Thoroughly updated content throughout with a particular emphasis on the practical information that directly assists in making and supporting a diagnosis. High-quality, carefully annotated histologic images depicting unique features provide extensive photodocumentation of the diverse spectrum of mesenchymal tumors and their morphologic variants. Up-to-date coverage of the most recent WHO soft tissue tumor classification scheme, the wealth of new data in the field, and the newest and most diagnostically useful antibody and molecular tests. Introductory sections include new "Approach to Diagnosis" chapters that help you successfully diagnose challenging soft tissue tumors through the recognition of distinct architectural growth pattern and histologic features. More differential tables help you decide which stains to order and when, and new algorithmic guides assist with work-up and diagnosis of soft tissue tumors.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323376754

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Wolf of Wessex

By: Matthew Harffy

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Wolf of Wessex

By: Matthew Harffy

Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation – old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a book' The Times. AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a mutilated corpse. Accused of the murder, Dunston must clear his name and keep the dead man's daughter alive in the face of savage pursuers desperate to prevent a terrible secret from being revealed. Rushing headlong through Wessex, Dunston will need to use all the skills of survival garnered from a lifetime in the wilderness. And if he has any hope of victory against the implacable enemies on their trail, he must confront his long-buried past – becoming the man he once was and embracing traits he had promised he would never return to. The Wolf of Wessex must hunt again; honour and duty demand it. 'A page-turner... Matthew Harffy tells a great story' Joanna Hickson. 'A breathtaking novel that sweeps the reader into a dark and dangerous world' Paul Fraser Collard. 'Harffy's writing just gets better and better... He is really proving himself the rightful heir to Gemmell's crown' Jemahl Evans. 'Harffy has a real winner on his hands... A genuinely superb novel' Steven McKay.

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1838932844

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Wolves of the Shadowlands

By: Matthew Manyak

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Wolves of the Shadowlands

By: Matthew Manyak

Centuries have passed since mankind vanished from the Earth, and in that time, the Wolves have risen to inherit the title of "Alpha Predator". They have lived in peace and thrived for generations. But that is all about to change... The Wolves tell stories, of beings that strode upright, the Walkers, who would one day return to ravage the Earth and take back their "Alpha" crown. Ukita, a young wolf, dismisses these stories as nothing more than fiction, until he meets one for himself. Faced with the looming shadow of a violent war between their races, these creatures must either learn to coexist as beings of nature, or fall to ruin.

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