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Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle

The Inspiring, Untold Story of the Making of a Holiday Classic

By: Michael Keane

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Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle

The Inspiring, Untold Story of the Making of a Holiday Classic

By: Michael Keane

Discover the inspiring, unknown, against-all-odds story of how the classic animated holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never made it on to television. Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special—given its incredibly tight five-month production schedule and the decidedly unfavorable reception it received by the skeptical network executives who first screened it—was nothing short of a miracle. Keane explains why the show, despite its technical shortcomings, has become an uplifting and enduring triumph embraced by millions of families every Christmas season, even more than fifty years after its premiere. This gripping and joyful behind-the-scenes story of how the creators of A Charlie Brown Christmas struggled to bring the program to life will also help readers (and loyal fans) understand how America’s favorite Christmas special changed our popular culture forever. Keane masterfully weaves the momentous events of 1965 (the turbulent year of the program’s production) into his story, providing critical context for a profound new understanding of the program’s famous climactic scene, Linus’s spot-lit soliloquy answering the question repeatedly posed by Charlie Brown—"Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?”

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Center Street

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1546004920

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9781546004929

California Mushrooms

The Comprehensive Identification Guide

By: Dennis E. Desjardin,Michael G. Wood,Frederick A. Stevens

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California Mushrooms

The Comprehensive Identification Guide

By: Dennis E. Desjardin,Michael G. Wood,Frederick A. Stevens

Winner of the CBHL Award of Excellence California is one of the most ecologically rich and diverse regions of North America, and home to hundreds of species of mushrooms. In California Mushrooms, mycologist experts Dennis Desjardin, Michael Wood, and Fred Stevens provide over 1100 species profiles, including comprehensive descriptions and spectacular photographs. Each profile includes information on macro- and micromorphology, habitat, edibility, and comparisons with closely related species and potential look-alikes. Although the focus of the book is on mushrooms of California, over 90% of the species treated occur elsewhere, making the book useful throughout western North America. This complete reference covers everything necessary for the mushroom hunter to accurately identify over 650 species.

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Timber Press

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1604696605

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9781604696608

Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident with Navigate Advantage Access

By: Gregory G. Noll,Michael S. Hildebrand

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Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident with Navigate Advantage Access

By: Gregory G. Noll,Michael S. Hildebrand

The Fifth edition reflects the job performance requirements for H A NFPA 470, 2022, integrates the skill and knowledge objectives with real-world applications, gives a historical perspective of major hazmat incidents resulting in emergency responder injuries, and explores key lessons learned.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284287769

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9781284287769

The New Cambridge English Course 2 Student's Book

By: Michael Swan,Catherine Walter

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The New Cambridge English Course 2 Student's Book

By: Michael Swan,Catherine Walter

The New Cambridge English Course is a course teachers and students can rely on to cover the complete range and depth of language and skills needed from beginner to upper-intermediate level. Each level is designed to provide at least 72 hours of class work using the Student's Book, with additional self-study material provided in the Practice Book. The course has a proven multi-syllabus approach which integrates work on all the vital aspects of language study: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, skills, notions and functions.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521376386

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9780521376389

The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

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The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704792

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9780893704797

The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed

A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

By: William S. Powell,Michael Hill

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The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed

A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

By: William S. Powell,Michael Hill

The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers. This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the number of North Carolina cities, towns, crossroads, waterways, mountains, and other places identified here. The stories attached to place names are at the core of the book and the reason why it has stood the test of time. Some recall faraway places: Bombay, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin. Others paint the locality as a little piece of heaven on earth: Bliss, Splendor, Sweet Home. In many cases the name derivations are unusual, sometimes wildly so: Cat Square, Huggins Hell, Tater Hill, Whynot. Telling us much about our own history in these snapshot histories of particular locales, The North Carolina Gazetteer provides an engaging, authoritative, and fully updated reference to place names from all corners of the Tar Heel State.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807898295

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9780807898291

Soils and Soil Landscapes of the Raganello River Catchment (Calabria, Italy)

By: Jan Sevink,Michael den Haan,Martijn van Leusen

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Soils and Soil Landscapes of the Raganello River Catchment (Calabria, Italy)

By: Jan Sevink,Michael den Haan,Martijn van Leusen

Understanding how past and current physical landscape processes, both natural and anthropogenic, affect the archaeological record has become one of the main aims of the burgeoning field of Geoarchaeology. But the ideal of effective multidisciplinary research collaboration is hard to achieve. This second volume of the 'Raganello Basin Studies' series demonstrates how intensive collaboration between earth scientists and archaeologists has resulted in a systematic approach to the description and assessment of archaeologically relevant soils and landscape processes in a typical Mediterranean landscape - the basin of the Raganello River in southern Italy. It is both a detailed report on the extensive field studies conducted by the authors in 2012-2014, and a much needed ?how to' guide to the study of landscapes and soils within the framework of landscape archaeological projects in the Mediterranean. The work described here builds on the expertise in Mediterranean soils and landscapes gained by the first author over decades of research, and avoids or explains jargon that would otherwise deter those with a purely humanities background

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Barkhuis

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9492444062

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9789492444066

Fela

Life and Times of an African

By: Michael Veal

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Fela

Life and Times of an African

By: Michael Veal

Musician, political critic, and hedonist, international superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a sensation throughout his career. In his own country of Nigeria he was simultaneously adulated and loathed, often by the same people at the same time. His outspoken political views and advocacy of marijuana smoking and sexual promiscuity offended many, even as his musical brilliance enthralled them. In his creation of afrobeat, he melded African traditions with African American and Afro-Caribbean influences to revolutionize world music. Although harassed, beaten, and jailed by Nigerian authorities, he continued his outspoken and derisive criticism of political corruption at home and economic exploitation from abroad. A volatile mixture of personal characteristics -- charisma, musical talent, maverick lifestyle, populist ideology, and persistence in the face of persecution -- made him a legend throughout Africa and the world. Celebrated during the 1970s as a musical innovator and spokesman for the continent's oppressed masses, he enjoyed worldwide celebrity during the 1980s and was recognized in the 1990s as a major pioneer and elder statesman of African music. By the time of his death in 1997 from AIDS-related complications, Fela had become something of a Nigerian institution. In Africa, the idea of transnational alliance, once thought to be outmoded, has gained new currency. In African America, during a period of increasing social conservatism and ethnic polarization, Africa has re-emerged as a symbol of cultural affirmation. At such an historical moment, Fela's music offers a perspective on race, class, and nation on both sides of the Atlantic. As Professor Veal demonstrates, over three decades Fela synthesized a unique musical language while also clearing -- if only temporarily -- a space for popular political dissent and a type of counter-cultural expression rarely seen in West Africa. In the midst of political turmoil in Africa, as well as renewal of pro-African cultural nationalism throughout the diaspora, Fela's political music functions as a post-colonial art form that uses cross-cultural exchange to voice a unique and powerful African essentialism.

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354

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Temple University Press

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1439907684

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9781439907689

The Kirkland Family Genealogy

By: Lanette Hill Brightwell,Michael Keith Kirkland

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The Kirkland Family Genealogy

By: Lanette Hill Brightwell,Michael Keith Kirkland

This book has the ancestry of the Henry County Alabama pioneer family of- THE KIRKLAND and then proceeds to list as much information as possible on the descendants. Beginning with the history of the KIRKLAND surname begins in the home country as Protector of the Church [Kirk}. Immigrating to the United States; South Carolina, South Alabama-Henry Co.; South Georgia to Donaldsonville and Bainbridge area. The last three generations settle in Leon Co. & Madison Co. Florida. This book is full of historical data, census records, wills, family stories, state and county records, churches, cemeteries, etc. Excellent for those who have the name KIRKLAND.

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158

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Lulu.com

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143573680X

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9781435736801

Authentic Fire

A Response to John MacArthur's Strange Fire

By: Michael L. Brown

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Authentic Fire

A Response to John MacArthur's Strange Fire

By: Michael L. Brown

In response to Pastor John MacArthur’s call for a “collective war,” against charismatics, Dr. Michael Brown has called for unity in Jesus based on a return to the truth of the Scriptures in the fullness of the Spirit.

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Charisma Media

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1629984566

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9781629984568

Supreme Court Case Briefs in Criminal Procedure

By: Michael A. Cretacci

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Supreme Court Case Briefs in Criminal Procedure

By: Michael A. Cretacci

Reasonable suspicion and stop and frisk -- Probable cause -- Arrest -- Searches and seizures with warrants -- Searches and seizures without warrants -- Searches and seizures without warrants II : special needs -- Automobile searches and seizures -- The exclusionary rule and its exceptions -- Interrogation and confessions -- The Miranda warnings -- Identification -- Prosecutorial procedures -- Right to counsel -- Juries and trial issues -- Posttrial procedures.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742558614

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9780742558618

Snakes of the Southeast

By: J. Whitfield Gibbons,Michael E. Dorcas

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Snakes of the Southeast

By: J. Whitfield Gibbons,Michael E. Dorcas

Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and nearly fifty distribution maps, Snakes of the Southeast is stuffed with both entertaining and detailed, in-depth information. Includes and explores size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820326526

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9780820326528

Crossing the Rubicon

The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

By: Michael C. Ruppert

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Crossing the Rubicon

The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

By: Michael C. Ruppert

The long-awaited exposé of 9/11 and Peak Oil - by the "Godfather of 9/11 research.

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New Society Publishers

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0865715408

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9780865715400

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Michael J. Klarman

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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Michael J. Klarman

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to racial change than for encouraging direct-action protest. Brown unquestioningly had a significant impact--it brought race issues to public attention and it mobilized supporters of the ruling. It also, however, energized the opposition. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the richest and most thorough discussion to date, how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.

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Oxford University Press

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0195351673

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9780195351675

In the Name of God and Country

Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

By: Michael Fellman

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In the Name of God and Country

Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

By: Michael Fellman

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of terrorism use to justify their actions. Fellman also argues that there is an intrinsic relationship between terrorist acts by non-state groups and responses on the part of the state; unlike many observers, he believes that both the action and the reaction constitute terrorism.Fellman’s compelling narrative focuses on five key episodes: John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry; terrorism during the American Civil War, especially race warfare and guerrilla warfare; the organized “White Line” paramilitary destruction of Reconstruction in Mississippi; the Haymarket Affair and its aftermath; and the Philippine-American war of 1899–1902. In an epilogue, he applies this history to illuminate the Bush-Cheney administration’s use of terrorism in the so-called war on terror. In the Name of God and Country demonstrates the centrality of terrorism in shaping America even to this day.

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Yale University Press

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0300155018

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9780300155013

The Complete Guide to Ireland's Birds

By: Eric Dempsey,Michael O'Clery

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The Complete Guide to Ireland's Birds

By: Eric Dempsey,Michael O'Clery

The Complete Guide to Ireland's Birds includes the most up-to-date distribution maps and full descriptions of males, females, immatures, voice, diet and preferred habitat of over 300 species.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717134016

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9780717134014

Who's Who in the JFK Assassination

An A to Z Encyclopedia

By: Michael Benson

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Who's Who in the JFK Assassination

An A to Z Encyclopedia

By: Michael Benson

An encyclopedic work providing vital information on the more than 1,400 individuals connected with the killing of President John F. Kennedy--from suspects to witnesses to investigators. Photos. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Citadel Press

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0806514442

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9780806514444

The One Year Christian History

By: E. Michael Rusten,Sharon O. Rusten

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The One Year Christian History

By: E. Michael Rusten,Sharon O. Rusten

What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to martyrs, this book shows how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people every day of the year. Each story appears on the day and month that it occurred and includes questions for reflection and a related Scripture verse.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842355073

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9780842355070

Experimental Music

Cage and Beyond

By: Michael Nyman

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Experimental Music

Cage and Beyond

By: Michael Nyman

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521653835

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9780521653831

Camera Works

Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

By: Michael North

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Camera Works

Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

By: Michael North

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventurous writers they constituted an element of modern experience that could hardly be ignored. Camera Works thus traces some of the more utopian projects of transatlantic avant-garde, including the Readie machine of Bob Brown, which was to turn stories and poems into strips of linguistic film. The influence of photography and film on the avant-garde is traced from the early days of Camera Work, through the enthusiasm of Eugene Jolas and the contributors to his magazine transition, to the crisis created by the introduction of sound in the late 1920's. Subseguent chapters describe the entirely new kind of sensory enjoyment brought into modern American fiction by the new media. What Fitzgerald calls "spectroscopic gayety," the enjoyable diorientation of the senses by machine perception, turns out to be a powerful force in much American fiction. The revolutionary possibilities of this new spectatorship and its limitations are pursued through a number of examples, including Dos Passos, James Weldon Johnson, and Hemingway. Together, these chapters offer a new and substantially different account of the relationship between modern American literature and the mediatized society of the early twentieth century. With a comprehensive introduction and detailed particular readings, Camera Works substantiates a new understanding of the formal and historical bases of modernism. It argues that when modern literature and art respond to modernity, on a formal level, they are responding to the intervention of technology in the transmission of meaning, an intervention that unsettles all the terms in the essential relationship of human consciousness to the world of phenomena.

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Oxford University Press

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0199721335

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9780199721337

The Redskins Encyclopedia

By: Michael Richman

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The Redskins Encyclopedia

By: Michael Richman

The definitive history of the Washington Redskins.

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Temple University Press

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1592135447

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9781592135448

The Exoplanet Handbook

By: Michael Perryman

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The Exoplanet Handbook

By: Michael Perryman

Exoplanet research is one of the most explosive subjects in astronomy today. More than 500 exoplanets are now known, and groups world-wide are actively involved in a broad range of observational and theoretical efforts. This book ties together these many avenues of investigation - from the perspectives of observation, technology and theory - to give a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the entire field. All areas of exoplanet investigation are covered, making it a unique and valuable guide for researchers in astronomy and planetary science, including those new to the field. It treats the many different techniques now available for exoplanet detection and characterisation, the broad range of underlying physics, the overlap with related topics in solar system and Earth sciences, and the concepts underpinning future developments. It emphasises the interconnection between the various fields and provides extensive references to more in-depth treatments and reviews.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139498517

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9781139498517

Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

A coast-to-coast tour of places that eyewitnesses claim have been, and may still be, haunted, from the former Peoria State Hospital in Illinois to San Diego's historic Whaley House Museum.

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Macmillan

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0765319705

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9780765319708

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