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A Long Day for Dying

By: Patrick A. Davis

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New York Times bestselling author Patrick A. Davis spins a gripping tale of deadly intrigue in a time of national crisis that races to the explosive final act. A LONG DAY FOR DYING When General Michael Garber, the newly appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is discovered dead in the private compartment of his airplane, Air Force investigator Martin Collins finds himself thrust into the most dangerous case of his career. What initially appears to be an accidental death turns out to be a near-perfect murder -- and three members of the Joint Chiefs are the prime suspects. As Martin weaves his way through a puzzling maze of blood and deceit, he finds himself in the firing line of Garber's enemies, including a half-mad rival general who collects the ears of the men he's killed, and the ruthless female secretary of defense, whose hatred for Garber knows no bounds. With his life and the honor of the military at stake, Martin has only twenty-four hours to uncover a legacy of secrets that no one wants brought to light -- secrets that the most powerful forces in Washington will kill to keep buried....

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Simon and Schuster

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0743486420

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9780743486422

Chicken Pox

By: Patrick Guilfoile

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Chicken Pox

By: Patrick Guilfoile

Examines the history, causes, and treatments of chicken pox in both children and adults.

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Infobase Publishing

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1604132272

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9781604132274

Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia

By: Brendan Patrick Carmody

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Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia

By: Brendan Patrick Carmody

This book contains a grassroots history of schooling as an instrument of Catholic conversion at a Jesuit mission in southern Zambia over a 75 year period. It provides a threefold division of the history dealing with initial cultural contact of the missionaries with the local Tonga. It then outlines the mission's role during Zambia's pre-independence and its possible links to nationalism. The work finally identifies the challenge of being a denominational school in post-independence Zambia.

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BRILL

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9004094288

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9789004094284

Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media

A Quantitative Frame Analysis of Media Coverage and Restrictive Policy Responses

By: Patrick Bernhagen,David Kybelka

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Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media

A Quantitative Frame Analysis of Media Coverage and Restrictive Policy Responses

By: Patrick Bernhagen,David Kybelka

Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media investigates media influence on policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Bernhagen and Kybelka propose that news reporting on the pandemic pitches human impact against economic consequences of the virus and of restrictive policy measures designed to contain it. They argue that the use of these frames influences governments’ decisions to enact or lift lockdown measures. Using time series data from England, France, and Germany, the authors show that news reporting on COVID-19 was indeed characterized by these media frames. However, there is no evidence of media influence on government policy. Instead, the authors find that anti-pandemic policy decisions were responsive to public opinion in these countries.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110765381

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9783110765380

Crossmaglen Paddy Said

By: Patrick Joseph McEntegart

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Crossmaglen Paddy Said

By: Patrick Joseph McEntegart

Once every generation there comes along a book that both lifts the spirit and inspires the mind. Crossmaglen Paddy Said is one of those rare published gems. This is not a book to be read just for laughs, as it contains a mix of tragedy and comedy. It is a true story. All incidents mentioned happened as they are described and at that time and place. In the words of an eminent professional who first read the manuscript, “This book does not follow any set plot or order. Perhaps this is intentional, and you are going for a James Joyce stream of consciousness effect, or Beckett, where everything happens with only one or two characters in one room on one day, or Flann O’Brien’s writings, where there are surreal theories and weird characters, and the reader has the sense of entering a strange world.” It has been compared by a Hollywood producer with Conor McPherson’s Laurence Olivier award-winning play The Weir, which won the Play of the Year award in 1999. Crossmaglen Paddy Said contains authentic evidence of the British ships and regiments who exported the food off the island of Ireland during the period of the Great Hunger from 1845 to 1950. Inside, it also draws a unique paralleled comparison between an incident that occurred relating to Crossmaglen on August 15, 1971, and Boston Massachusetts on the March 5, 1770, the most important date in American history. In the second phase, this book becomes an inspirational story, which details and outlines the lifetime achievements of both Paddy and the narrator, Paudraic Moore. It then becomes a super motivational tool for its readers.

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1728385342

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States of Emergency

Essays on Culture and Politics

By: Patrick M. Brantlinger

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States of Emergency

Essays on Culture and Politics

By: Patrick M. Brantlinger

In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy, States of Emergency is a delightful mix of journalism, satire, and theory that addresses many of the most pressing issues of our time.

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Indiana University Press

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0253011965

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9780253011961

Horror Dogs

Man's Best Friend as Movie Monster

By: Brian Patrick Duggan

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Horror Dogs

Man's Best Friend as Movie Monster

By: Brian Patrick Duggan

How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent. Stretching back into Classical mythology, treacherous hounds are found only sporadically in art and literature until the appearance of cinema's first horror dog, Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles. The story intensifies through World War II's K-9 Corps to the 1970s animal horror films, which broke social taboos about the "good dog" on screen and deliberately vilified certain breeds--sometimes even fluffy lapdogs. With behind-the-scenes insights from writers, directors, actors, and dog trainers, here are the flickering hounds of silent films through talkies and Technicolor, to the latest computer-generated brutes--the supernatural, rabid, laboratory-made, alien, feral, and trained killers. "Cave Canem (Beware the Dog)"--or as one seminal film warned, "They're not pets anymore.

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McFarland

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1476685878

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9781476685878

Saint Crispian's Day

By: Patrick Brower

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Saint Crispian's Day

By: Patrick Brower

The war in Vietnam, like all wars, was about politics and power. But for a long time, Captain Mike Mallory and his corporal Tran Minh Jones didn't quite understand that. This was something they would learn the hard way in the latter days of their second tour of duty. Saint Crispian's Day takes the reader deep into the jungles of Vietnam and into the politics that ran the war as Mallory and Jones take on the Viet Cong and the power of the military justice system in a brutal struggle that neither side can afford to lose.

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iUniverse

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1469776863

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Neuro-oncology, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

By: Patrick Y Wen,Eudocia Quant Lee

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Neuro-oncology, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

By: Patrick Y Wen,Eudocia Quant Lee

This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Drs. Patrick Y. Wen and Eudocia Quant Lee, will focus on Neuro-oncology. Topiocs include, but are not limited to, Epidemiology of brain tumors, Molecular pathogenesis of brain tumors, Changes in WHO classification of brain tumors, Neurologic and medical management of brain tumors, Grade 2 and 3 Gliomas, Glioblastoma, Benign brain tumors, Primary CNS lymphoma and neurologic complications of systemic lymphoma, Pediatric brain tumors, Brain metastases, Metastatic complications of cancer, Neurologic complications of radiation therapy, Neurologic complications of systemic anticancer therapies, Neurocognitive complaints in cancer patients, and Paraneoplastic syndromes.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323614035

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9780323614030

Molecular Basis of Resilience

Adapting to a Changing Environment

By: Patrick L. Iversen

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Molecular Basis of Resilience

Adapting to a Changing Environment

By: Patrick L. Iversen

This book illuminates mechanisms of resilience. Threats and defense systems lead to adaptive changes in gene expression. Environmental conditions may dampen adaptive responses at the level of RNA expression. The first seven chapters elaborate threats to human health. Human populations spontaneously invade niche boundaries exposing us to threats that drive the resilience process. Emerging RNA viruses are a significant threat to human health. Antiviral drugs are reviewed and how viral genomes respond to the environment driving genome sequence plasticity. Limitations in predicting the human outcome are described in “nonlinear anomalies.” An example includes medical countermeasures for Ebola and Marburg viruses under the “Animal Rule.” Bacterial infections and a review of antibacterial drugs and bacterial resilience mediated by horizontal gene transfer follow. Chapter 6 shifts focus to cancer and discovery of novel therapeutics for leukemia. The spontaneous resolution of AML in children with Down syndrome highlights human resilience. Chapter 7 explores chemicals in the environment. Examples of chemical carcinogenesis illustrate how chemicals disrupt genomes. Historic research ignored RNA damage from chemically induced nucleic acid damage. The emergence of important forms of RNA and their possible role in resilience is proposed. Chapters 8-10 discuss threat recognition and defense systems responding to improve resilience. Chapter 8 describes the immune response as a threat recognition system and response via diverse RNA expression. Oligonucleotides designed to suppress specific RNA to manipulate the immune response including exon-skipping strategies are described. Threat recognition and response by the cytochrome P450 enzymes parallels immune responses. The author proposes metabolic clearance of small molecules is a companion to the immune system. Chapter 10 highlights RNA diversity expressed from a single gene. Molecular Resilience lists paths to RNA transcriptome plasticity forms the molecular basis for resilience. Chapter 11 is an account of ExonDys 51, an approved drug for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Chapter 12 addresses the question “what informs molecular mechanisms of resilience?” that drives the limits to adaptation and boundaries for molecular resilience. He speculates that radical oxygen, epigenetic modifications, and ligands to nuclear hormone receptors play critical roles in regulating molecular resilience.

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3319981641

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Essential Elements in Health Practices

By: Ogwok Patrick, Ehab Cherif, Atta Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Idris Khan, Bassem Zarif (MD)

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Essential Elements in Health Practices

By: Ogwok Patrick, Ehab Cherif, Atta Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Idris Khan, Bassem Zarif (MD)

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Factors Associated With Treatment Adherence of Patients on AntiTuberculosis Drugs Following Covid-19 Pandemic at Health Facilities of Masaka City, Uganda Impact of CT Enhanced Syntax Score (CTeSX) on Grading Complexity of Coronary Artery Disease Deficiency of Vitamin B12 in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Receiving Metformin Therapy at HMC Hospital Peshawar Surgical Management of Glioblastoma Multiforme Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in the COVID Era: Impact of Medical Education on Physician Concepts

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AJPO Journals USA LLC

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991474589X

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Mind Race

A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder

By: Patrick E. Jamieson,Moira A. Rynn

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Mind Race

A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder

By: Patrick E. Jamieson,Moira A. Rynn

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the sage of fifteen, author Patrick Jamieson found that there was not a single book on the illness available for young people - so he wrote his own. Jamieson, now an adult, tells his story with good humor and insight, discussing his own challenges and triumphs. An optimistic and practical guide designed for young people who have been diagnosed with this potentially devastating disorder, this book gives practical tips and easy-to-understand science about bipolar disorder, including its causes, symptoms, treatment, and management, and offers guidance on such issues as psychiatric hospitalization, living with mood-stabilizing medications, and how to talk to your family and friends about mental illness."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press

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0195309065

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The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

A Commentary

By: Patrick Thornberry

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The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

A Commentary

By: Patrick Thornberry

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on skin colour, descent, ethnic, and national origin. Victims of discrimination within the scope of the Convention include minorities, indigenous peoples, non-citizens, and caste or descent groups. Virtually all national societies are diverse in terms of ethnicity or 'race' and none is free from discrimination, making it one of the great issues of our time. Against the background of international human rights standards and mechanisms to counter racial and ethnic discrimination, this book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the provisions of the Convention on an article-by article basis. The book addresses the place of the Convention within the broader framework of United Nation's action against discrimination. The different chapters analyse and discuss broad topics of race, ethnicity, and international law, the genesis and drafting of the Convention, the aims and objectives of the Convention in light of its preamble, and principles of non-discrimination and equality. In particular, the book includes a critical appraisal of the contribution of the Convention to the eradication of racial discrimination. It also reflects on whether there is scope for modification of the substance or procedures of the Convention in light of challenges arising from enhanced transnational population movements, the intersection between discrimination on the ground of race and discrimination against religious communities, and the intersection of racial and gender-based discrimination.

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Oxford University Press

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0191669679

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9780191669675

The Beatles: The Music And The Myth

The Music and the Myth

By: Patrick Humphries,Peter Dogget

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The Beatles: The Music And The Myth

The Music and the Myth

By: Patrick Humphries,Peter Dogget

From their 1962 debut single Love Me Do to the most recent remastered albums, this is an album-by-album, track-by-track catalogue of every songs ever released by The Beatles Includes: A chronology of key events in the life of the greatest ever rock band Separate sections on compilation albums, the Anthology series and non-EMI recordings Eight pages of colour picturesThis is the books that Beatles fans have been looking for - packed with details, facts and pictures it's the definitive concise guide to the music of The Beatles.

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Omnibus Press

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0857123610

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9780857123619

After Miss Julie

A Version of Strindberg's Miss Julie

By: Patrick Marber

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After Miss Julie

A Version of Strindberg's Miss Julie

By: Patrick Marber

THE STORY: AFTER MISS JULIE transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822224399

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9780822224396

Asphalt Pavements

A Practical Guide to Design, Production and Maintenance for Engineers and Architects

By: Patrick Lavin

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Asphalt Pavements

A Practical Guide to Design, Production and Maintenance for Engineers and Architects

By: Patrick Lavin

Asphalt Pavements provides the know-how behind the design, production and maintenance of asphalt pavements and parking lots. Incorporating the latest technology, this book is the first to focus primarily on the design, production and maintenance of low-volume roads and parking areas. Special attention is given to determining the traffic capacity, required thickness and asphalt mixture type for parking applications. Topics covered include: material information such as binder properties, testing grading and selection; construction information such as mixing plant operation, proportioning, mixture placement and compaction; and design information such as thickness and mixture design methods and guidelines on applying these to highways, city streets and parking Areas. It is an essential practical guide aimed at those engineers and architects who are not directly involved in the asphalt industry, but who nonetheless need to have a good general knowledge of the subject. Asphalt Pavements provides a novice with enough information to completely design, construct and specify an asphalt pavement.

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CRC Press

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0203453298

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9780203453292

Dither

CIA - Espionage

By: Patrick Ryan

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Dither

CIA - Espionage

By: Patrick Ryan

Global Positioning System satellite codes have been stolen and auctioned to a six-country cartel. Two innocent characters become involved with two main CIA characters. The perpetrators, rouge Justice Department agents and a Chinese Army Major chase the innocents half way around the world trying to retrieve their codes.

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iUniverse

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0595358721

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9780595358724

The Political Power of Business

Structure and Information in Public Policy-Making

By: Patrick Bernhagen

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The Political Power of Business

Structure and Information in Public Policy-Making

By: Patrick Bernhagen

Investigates to what extent business can get what it wants politically as firms and trade associations have a better understanding of the likely effects of policy than politicians and because their decisions partly determine these effects.

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Routledge

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1134058004

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9781134058006

Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer

From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921–1938

By: Patrick Rössler

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Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer

From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921–1938

By: Patrick Rössler

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school. A true multimedia artist, he united graphic design, art, and architecture in a unique style that came to represent the bold aesthetic approach of the movement. A teacher with the school until 1928, Bayer went on to become a highly successful graphic designer in Germany, and later one of the most prominent figures in the 20th-century art scene of the United States. This broad biographical account, which presents previously unseen archival photographs and episodes from the life of Bayer and other influential Bauhaus artists such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, follows Bayer through the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and finally to his exile in the United States. Specifically, Patrick Rössler reveals for the first time Bayer's unique experience of 1930s Germany, where, with his commercial and artistic life shattered by terror and censorship, he distracted himself with leading a hedonistic life. Shining a light on Bayer's time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, and his route out of the Nazi state, Rössler provides rich new insights into how Bauhaus artists navigated a protracted period of social upheaval and dictatorship, where commercial success was fraught with a deep hostility towards the regime and the temptations of emigration. Revealing the tensions of an avant-garde artist struggling to practice during a period of repression, Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer speaks to both the memory of those who left Nazi Germany, but also the perseverance of artists and intellectuals throughout history who have worked under authoritarian regimes. Drawing on never before interpreted documents, letters and archival material, Rössler tells Bayer's compelling story – documenting the life of a unique artist and offering a valuable contribution to research in émigré experiences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350229695

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DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals

By: Dale R. Patrick,Stephen W. Fardo,Ray Richardson,Vigyan (Vigs) Chandra

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DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals

By: Dale R. Patrick,Stephen W. Fardo,Ray Richardson,Vigyan (Vigs) Chandra

This book explores many essential topics in a basic and easy-to-understand manner. This book, and the accompanying Electronic Devices and Circuit Fundamentals, have been modified with significant updates in content. The books are developed using a classic textbook – Electricity and Electronics: A Survey (5th Edition) – as a framework. Both new books have been structured using a similar sequence and organization as previous editions. The previous edition of Electricity and Electronics: A Survey contained 18 chapters, 8 in the Electricity section and 10 in the Electronics section. This book has been expanded to include 19 chapters, further simplifying content, and providing a more comprehensive coverage of the content. The content has been continually updated and revised through new editions and by reviewers over the years. Additional quality checks to ensure technical accuracy, clarity and coverage of content have always been an area of focus. Each edition of the text has been improved through the following features: Improved and updated text content Improved usage of illustrations and photos Use of color to add emphasis and clarify content.

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CRC Press

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100085177X

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Revived

By: Cat Patrick

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Revived

By: Cat Patrick

It started with a bus crash. Daisy Appleby was a little girl when it happened, and she barely remembers the accident or being brought back to life. At that moment, though, she became one of the first subjects in a covert government program that tests a drug called Revive. Now fifteen, Daisy has died and been Revived five times. Each death means a new name, a new city, a new identity. The only constant in Daisy's life is constant change. Then Daisy meets Matt and Audrey McKean, charismatic siblings who quickly become her first real friends. But if she's ever to have a normal life, Daisy must escape from an experiment that's much larger--and more sinister--than she ever imagined. From its striking first chapter to its emotionally charged ending, Cat Patrick's Revived is a riveting story about what happens when life and death collide.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316202037

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9780316202039

Trackers

By: Patrick Carman

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Trackers

By: Patrick Carman

Book has video/internet tie-ins.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545165008

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Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors

A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911

By: Patrick Taveirne

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Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors

A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911

By: Patrick Taveirne

The study describes the origins of the Southwest Mongolia vicariate beyond the Great Wall and along the Yellow River Bend during the transition period from Lazarist missionary activities in the 1840s to the Scheutists in the early 1870

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Leuven University Press

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9058673650

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9789058673657

Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary

By: Patrick Humphries

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Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary

By: Patrick Humphries

It's Number One... it's Top Of The Pops', for every generation from 1964, until the show ended in 2006, that was the sentence every young television viewer sat down to hear. At its peak, a quarter of the UKs entire population was watching. 'Top Of The Pops' was the pivotal pop television programme over its 2,000 weekly episodes, the programme gave peak airtime to every act, from The Beatles to Beyonce... from Cream to Coldplay... from Pink Floyd to Pink! From its humble beginnings in 1964 from a disused church through to the programme's pan-global appeal in the 1990s, 'Top Of The Pops' became synonymous with the best in pop television. This book tells the incredible story of 'Top of the Pops'. It is not just the story of a long-running television programme. The story of 'Top of the Pops' is the story of British popular music. It is a shadow history of British rock & roll, and beyond. It is the story of how a 6-week show turned into a pan-global phenomenon and how for 40 years, 'Top of the Pops' was a British institution. With a span of nearly half a century, there are so many highlights: The Beatles only live appearance, in 1966, promoting Paperback Writer... the Who getting banned... the first colour edition in 1969... David Bowie's breakthrough performance of Starman in 1972... Nirvana's chaotic 1991 appearance promoting Smells Like Teen Spirit... the Blur versus Oasis battle... Justin Timberlake playing bass with the Flaming Lips in 2003... 'Top Of The Pops II' was launched in 1994, bringing the programme to a whole new audience. Around the same time, the BBC licensed the 'Top Of The Pops' brand to over 90 countries, with an estimated audience of 100 million. Though it ceased broadcasting in 2006, thanks to the internet, compilation CDs; and repeated viewing on BBC4... 'Top Of The Pops' lives on.

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McNidder and Grace Limited

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085716063X

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9780857160638

The English Infinitive

By: Patrick Joseph Duffley

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The English Infinitive

By: Patrick Joseph Duffley

This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative. The texts are ideal for the scholar, the teacher, and the student, but especially for English speaking students in overseas universities where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in foreign universities. Although English is probably the most studied language in the world, this is one of the first systematic comparisons of infinitives with and without the use of "to". Patrick Duffley examines these uses adopting the semantic approach, which shows that the two infinitive forms each have a basic meaning which is capable of explaining all of their particular uses. The author has carried out detailed research for this book, examining over 24,000 occurences of the infinitive, as well as taking into account the observations of previous grammarians. The book challenges old assumptions that grammar is independent of meaning and should be dealt with in purely formal terms. It also fulfils a need for literature on an area of English grammar which has sometimes been presumed to be chaotic and unsystematic. The text is aimed specialists in linguistics and advanced students of English as a second language.

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Routledge

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1315504642

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The View from the Train

Cities and Other Landscapes

By: Patrick Keiller

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The View from the Train

Cities and Other Landscapes

By: Patrick Keiller

“Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future.” In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. Now, in this brilliant collection of essays, he offers a new perspective on how Britain works and sees itself. He discusses the background to his work and its development – from surrealism to post-2008 economic catastrophe – and expands on what the films reveal. Referencing writers including Benjamin and Lefebvre, the essays follow his career since the late 1970s, exploring themes including the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture and film; how cities change over time, and how films represent this; as well as accounts of cross-country journeys involving historical figures, unexpected ideas and an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain.

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Verso Books

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1781687765

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Fictions of State

Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994

By: Patrick Brantlinger

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Fictions of State

Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994

By: Patrick Brantlinger

The economic foundations of modern nation-states involved national debt, public credit, and paper money. Brantlinger traces the emergence of modern, imperial Great Britain from those foundations. He analyzes the process whereby nationalism, both the cause and the result of wars and imperial expansion, multiplied national debt and produced crises of public credit resolved only through more nationalism and war. During the first half of the eighteenth century, conservatives attacked public credit as fetishistic and characterized national debt as alchemical. From the 1850s, the stabilizing theories of public credit authored by David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Thornton, and others helped initiate the first "social science" economics.

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Cornell University Press

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0801482879

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9780801482878

The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta

A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

By: Anthony Patrick Russell,Aaron M. Bauer,Wayne Lynch,Irene McKinnon

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The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta

A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

By: Anthony Patrick Russell,Aaron M. Bauer,Wayne Lynch,Irene McKinnon

Amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) are a significant but much-neglected component of the natural economy of the province of Alberta. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta, Second Edition continues both as a field guide and a comprehensive natural history, builds on the strengths of the first with a richly illustrated text and colour photographs of the species taken by renowned wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta, First Edition won an Emerald Award for Environmental Excellence and an award from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Nomenclature has been changed to reflect current thinking in the field. New photographs have been added, and maps and illustrations have been updated. This is the essential reference for Alberta herpetofauna.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380386

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9781552380383

The Governance of World Trade

International Civil Servants and the GATT/WTO

By: Yi-Chong Xu,Patrick Moray Weller

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The Governance of World Trade

International Civil Servants and the GATT/WTO

By: Yi-Chong Xu,Patrick Moray Weller

A unique study of the internal operation of the GATT/WTO. It examines the role and influence of the invisible yet indispenable international civils servants working at GATT/WTO.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781957738

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9781781957738

A Journey Through Ruins

The Last Days of London

By: Patrick Wright

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A Journey Through Ruins

The Last Days of London

By: Patrick Wright

A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London.Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles.Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to livethrough the Thatcher years.

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0199541949

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