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The Sol-Bect War, Part 1

By: Paul J Belanger

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Humanity is near the tail end of an intergalactic war with an alien race called the Bect -- a war we are losing. The only thing we have in shorter supply than combat pilots is hope. After a rough skirmish, a strange object is picked up by the United Earth carrier Ticonderoga. Within the object, the ship's scientists find something even stranger: a man, cryogenically frozen and shot into space more than 300 years ago. The fact that he's still technically alive raises questions of Fate's hand in life and war.

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489066

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9781936489060

Purgatory Beckons

By: Paul J Belanger

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Purgatory Beckons

By: Paul J Belanger

Criminals walk the streets as their innocent victims suffer. The police arrive just in time to clean up the mess, and the legal system often prevents them from even doing that. In a world descending quickly into moral depravity, it seems that Evil has won. After a botched arrest attempt, Detective Debbie Mason's life begins spiraling out of control, forcing her to question whether fighting crime at all is worth the effort. The only thing holding her together is the support from the other officers who treat her like family. But even with the entire department looking out for her, nothing could prepare Debbie for the arrival of Garrett Carmichael, a stone-cold killer sent on a mission of mass homicide by his mysterious employer.

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204

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489015

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How Mal 780

By: Paul J Belanger

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How Mal 780

By: Paul J Belanger

From the author of the Sol-Bect War saga comes How Mal 780, a collection of stories in a variety of genres, from horror to science fiction to farce. In fact, the only thing these stories have in common is their How Mal code. The United States Air Force uses number codes to describe the condition of parts in or from an aircraft. This is called a "How Malfunction" code, or "How Mal" for short. The How Mal code 780 indicates the part is bent, buckled, collapsed, dented, distorted, or twisted. The twelve stories in How Mal 780 carefully fall into any, or all, of the above designations. Some stories push the boundaries of good taste, and some clearly step over that line, shotgun in hand. From a garage band pursued by Killer Dogs to a pair of Geeks on a zany road trip to Miami, these stories will entertain and/or confuse you. So grab a beer and a bucket and start reading today!

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489171

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The Sol-Bect War, Part 2

By: Paul J Belanger

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The Sol-Bect War, Part 2

By: Paul J Belanger

The war against the Bect rages on. Humanity, after spending years reacting and retreating, is now on the offensive. The Bect show no sign of letting up on their assault, however, and begin to send larger forces against us. Our weapons and tactics may have improved, but our forces are beginning to dwindle. And the strange newcomer who showed us a path to victory, Peter McCabe, is Missing-In-Action and presumed dead. Can the human war machine complete what he started?

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489082

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Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Paul J Belanger,Timothy Lynch,Alan Belanger,D.L. Harvey

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Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Paul J Belanger,Timothy Lynch,Alan Belanger,D.L. Harvey

Terran Shift Anthology, Volume 2: The Bio-Tech Era is the second collection of stories set exclusively in the Terran Shift universe. The collection contains seven science fiction stories from five authors, focusing entirely on stories set in the Bio-Tech Era, a plausible near-future where humanity becomes even more dependent on technology.

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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193648918X

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Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Timothy Lynch,Paul J Belanger,Alan Belanger,Cynthia Ravinski

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Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Timothy Lynch,Paul J Belanger,Alan Belanger,Cynthia Ravinski

The Terran Shift Anthology, Volume 1, the first collection of stories set exclusively in the Terran Shift universe, contains seven science fiction stories from five authors set in all four eras -- from Bio-Tech dystopia to The Sol-Bect War era. This anthology includes The Sol-Bect Setup, the thrilling lost chapter in which Peter McCabe visits the past to lay the groundwork for his future.

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489120

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The Sol-Bect War, Part 3

By: Paul J Belanger

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The Sol-Bect War, Part 3

By: Paul J Belanger

Almost six years after the end of the Sol-Bect War, peace is still elusive. While the Bectolothian home world is being torn apart by civil war, their military ignites another conflict with the Terrans. As the Terran war machine builds momentum, a Bect spy betrays Peter McCabe. Terran and Bect forces converge on Vale-4, where Peter is busy building a family with Gaelei. The Terrans want Peter to help them fight the Bect. The Bect want Peter dead. Amidst the turmoil, a surprising third choice appears. With war on every front, spies on every side, and the lines of friendship so blurry, how can Peter know who to trust?

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Lost Luggage Studios LLC

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1936489147

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Philosophy of Devotion

The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals

By: Paul Katsafanas

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Philosophy of Devotion

The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals

By: Paul Katsafanas

Why do people persist in commitments that threaten their happiness, security, and comfort? Why do some of our most central, identity-defining commitments seem to resist the effects of reasoning and critical reflection? Drawing on real-life examples, empirical psychology, and philosophical reflection, Paul Katsafanas argues that these commitments involve an ethical stance called devotion, which plays a pervasive--but often hidden--role in human life. Devotion typically involves sacralizing certain values, goals, or relationships. To sacralize a value is to treat it as inviolable (trade-offs with ordinary values are forbidden), incontestable (even contemplating such trade-offs is prohibited), and dialectically invulnerable (no rational considerations can disrupt the agent's commitment to the value). Philosophy of Devotion offers a detailed philosophical account and defense of these features. Devotion and the sacralization of values can be reasonable; indeed, a life involving meaningful, sustained commitment depends on these stances. Without devotion, we risk an existential condition that Katsafanas describes as normative dissipation, in which all of our commitments become etiolated. Yet devotion can easily go wrong, deforming into the individual and group fanaticism that have become pervasive features of modern social life. Katsafanas provides an alternative to fanaticism, investigating the way in which we can express non-pathological forms of devotion. We can be devoted through affirmation and through what Katsafanas calls the deepening move, which treats the agent's central commitments as systematically inchoate. Each of these stances enables a wholehearted form of devotion that nevertheless preserves flexibility and openness, avoiding the dangers of fanaticism on the one hand and normative dissipation on the other. But this is inevitably a fragile and precarious achievement: affirmation can slide into a focus on rejecting what isn't affirmed, and the deepening move can ossify into rigidity. Only the perpetual quest to maintain a form of existential flexibility, which may require oscillation between affirmation and deepening, can stave off these dangers

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Oxford University Press

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0192867679

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9780192867674

Comparative Stylistics of French and English

A methodology for translation

By: Jean-Paul Vinay,Jean Darbelnet

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Comparative Stylistics of French and English

A methodology for translation

By: Jean-Paul Vinay,Jean Darbelnet

The Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais has become a standard text in the French-speaking world for the study of comparative stylistics and the training of translators. This updated, first English edition makes Vinay & Darbelnet's classic methodology of translation available to a wider readership. The translation-oriented contrastive grammatical and stylistic analyses of the two languages are extensively exemplified by expressions, phrases and texts. Combining description with methodological guidelines for translation, this volume serves both as a course book and through its detailed index and glossary as a reference manual for specific translation problems.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027291136

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9789027291134

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The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies

By: Paul G. Yock,Stefanos Zenios,Josh Makower,Todd J. Brinton,Uday N. Kumar,F. T. Jay Watkins,Lyn Denend,Thomas M. Krummel,Christine Q. Kurihara

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The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies

By: Paul G. Yock,Stefanos Zenios,Josh Makower,Todd J. Brinton,Uday N. Kumar,F. T. Jay Watkins,Lyn Denend,Thomas M. Krummel,Christine Q. Kurihara

This step-by-step guide to medical technology innovation, now in full color, has been rewritten to reflect recent trends of industry globalization and value-conscious healthcare. Written by a team of medical, engineering, and business experts, the authors provide a comprehensive resource that leads students, researchers, and entrepreneurs through a proven process for the identification, invention, and implementation of new solutions. Case studies on innovative products from around the world, successes and failures, practical advice, and end-of-chapter 'Getting Started' sections encourage readers to learn from real projects and apply important lessons to their own work. A wealth of additional material supports the book, including a collection of nearly one hundred videos created for the second edition, active links to external websites, supplementary appendices, and timely updates on the companion website at ebiodesign.org. Readers can access this material quickly, easily, and at the most relevant point in the text from within the ebook.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316195589

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Falsehoods Fly

Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

By: Paul Thagard

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Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

By: Paul Thagard

Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century’s greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works—and breaks down. Paul Thagard examines the dangers of misinformation on COVID-19, climate change, conspiracy theories, inequality, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He argues that effective responses to these problems require understanding how information is generated and spread. Bringing together empirical findings about the psychological and social mechanisms that drive cognitive errors with philosophical accounts of critical thinking, Thagard develops an innovative theory of how we gain information. Grasping how the generation and transmission of knowledge can fail helps us find ways to repair it and provides tools for converting misinformation into facts. Offering a deep and rich account of the nature and workings of information, Falsehoods Fly provides practical, concrete strategies to stop the creation and spread of misinformation.

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Columbia University Press

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0231560117

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9780231560115

Reassessing Human Resource Management

By: Paul Blyton Peter Turnbull,Professor Paul Blyton,Prof Peter J Turnbull

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Reassessing Human Resource Management

By: Paul Blyton Peter Turnbull,Professor Paul Blyton,Prof Peter J Turnbull

Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee management that will tend to prevail in certain contexts and conditions rather than universally. Specific themes include: HRM and competitive success; organizational culture and HRM; HRM, flexibility and decentralization; reward management and HRM; HRM, Just-in-Time manufacturing and new technology; HRM and trade unions; HRM as the management of managerial meaning.

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SAGE

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1446235173

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Book's by Paul J Belanger

The Sol-Bect War, Part 1

The Sol-Bect War, Part 1

Purgatory Beckons

Purgatory Beckons

How Mal 780

How Mal 780

The Sol-Bect War, Part 2

The Sol-Bect War, Part 2

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1

The Sol-Bect War, Part 3

The Sol-Bect War, Part 3

Philosophy of Devotion

Philosophy of Devotion

Comparative Stylistics of French and English

Comparative Stylistics of French and English

Biodesign

Biodesign

Falsehoods Fly

Falsehoods Fly

Reassessing Human Resource Management

Reassessing Human Resource Management

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