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Inspector West Collection Two

By: Peter Mulraney

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Another three stories of murder that will keep you guessing until the end. Whistleblower - A whistleblower exposes other people's secrets. Death exposes the secrets of all, including a whistleblower's. Inspector West investigates the death of a public service whistleblower, and discovers the whistleblower has a few secrets of his own. Twisted Justice - Revenge. Betrayal. Murder. Detective Inspector West scrambles to stop a serial killer and smash a car-stealing racket. Trent Mitchell is a man with a grudge and a list of people to execute. He’s started on his mission. Ian Holden is a car thief with a problem. Someone wants him dead. Can Inspector West bring them to justice before Trent kills everyone on his list and Ian disappears without a trace? The East Park Syndicate - Murder Mystery. Detective Inspector Carl West investigates the murder of the mayor of East Park - businessman and political insider - Doug Clarke. Carl struggles to find a motive for Clarke’s murder until his detectives explore the activities of the poker playing East Park Syndicate. If you like stories with twists and surprises, you’ll enjoy this collection of stories from Peter Mulraney’s Inspector West series.

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0648811905

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A Christian Response to Horror Cinema

Ten Films in Theological Perspective

By: Peter Fraser

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A Christian Response to Horror Cinema

Ten Films in Theological Perspective

By: Peter Fraser

Christianity has had a powerful influence on every sphere of Western art, even art which on the surface might seem antithetical to the faith. This book argues that point with an analysis of the horror film genre, examining nine classics which illustrate the evolution of horror and reveal a culture haunted by fear of the unspeakable. The history and literary roots of the horror genre are also discussed. The author concludes that our innate dread of evil and the imperative of warding it off are the key mechanics of the horror experience. Films covered include Vampyr (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Thing (1951), Night of the Demon (1957), The Wicker Man (1973), The Exorcist (1973), Halloween (1978), Ringu (1998) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006).

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McFarland

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0786498242

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Land Renewed

Reworking the Countryside

By: Hetherington, Peter

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Land Renewed

Reworking the Countryside

By: Hetherington, Peter

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, Peter Hetherington sets out the innovative measures needed for nature’s recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and ‘re-peopling’ remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, he argues that we need to re-shape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.

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Policy Press

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1529217431

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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

By: Peter Mason

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Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management

By: Peter Mason

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management. Tourism impacts are multifaceted and are therefore difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the key players involved – be they tourists, host communities or industry members – and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully. Now in its Fourth Edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include: new material on overtourism, dark tourism, child sex tourism in South East Asia, festival tourism, regional development and Artificial Intelligence updated tourism data and statistics new case studies on the economic impacts of tourism in France, the 20 places most reliant on tourism in 2018, Fáilte Ireland’s survey of good environmental practice in the industry, corporate social responsibility, as well as the above topical issues in tourism an updated Companion Website that includes PowerPoints, video and web links and a case study archive. The text is written in an accessible style and includes a plethora of features that engage and aid understanding. This accessible yet academically rigorous introduction to tourism impacts, planning and management is essential reading for all tourism students.

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1000060543

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Twisted Justice

By: Peter Mulraney

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Twisted Justice

By: Peter Mulraney

Revenge. Betrayal. Murder. Detective Inspector West scrambles to stop a serial killer and smash a car-stealing racket. Trent Mitchell is a man with a grudge and a list of people to execute. He’s started on his mission. Ian Holden is a car thief with a problem. Someone wants him dead. Can Inspector West bring them to justice before Trent kills everyone on his list and Ian disappears without a trace? If you like a story with twists and surprises, you’ll enjoy Peter Mulraney’s Twisted Justice, the fifth book in his Inspector West series.

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0648266109

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Glory Days: Steam in East Anglia

By: Peter Swinger

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Glory Days: Steam in East Anglia

By: Peter Swinger

A highly illustrated survey of the glory days of steam in Essex, Sussex, Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445699656

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Who the Devil Made It

Conversations with ...

By: Peter Bogdanovich

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Who the Devil Made It

Conversations with ...

By: Peter Bogdanovich

“A must have for any film nut.”—Details Peter Bogdanovich, award-winning director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews 16 legendary directors over a 15-year period. Their richly illuminating conversations combine to make this a riveting chronicle of Hollywood and picture making. Join him in conversations with: Robert Aldrich • George Cukor • Allan Dwan • Howard Hanks • Alfred Hitchcock • Chuck Jones • Fritz Lang • Joseph H. Lewis • Sidney Lumet • Leo McCarey • Otto Preminger • Don Siegel • Josef von Sternberg • Frank Tashlin • Edgar G. Ulmer • Raoul Walsh NOTE: This edition does not include photographs. Praise for Who the Devil Made It “Illuminating . . . These were (and sometimes are: a few yet breathe) men rooted in history as much as in Hollywood. Their collected memories make the past look fearfully rich beside a present that is poverty-stricken in everything except money.”—The New Yorker “Bogdanovich is one of America’s finest writers on the cinema. . . . Thank goodness [his] Who the Devil Made It has come along to remind us that films and writing about film were, at one time, focused on the work and not strictly on the bottom line.”—The Boston Globe “A treasure trove on the craft of directing.”—Newsday “Monumental . . . The directors’ reminiscences about technique, working methods, sources of ideas, and relationships with actors and studios are thoroughly entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly “A fine achievement that helps illuminate the art and craft of some remarkable directors . . . There are plenty of revealing anecdotes.”—Kirkus Reviews

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0307817458

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Geography of Tourism

Image, Impacts and Issues

By: Peter Mason

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Geography of Tourism

Image, Impacts and Issues

By: Peter Mason

Provides an awareness of the spatial nature of tourism by means of a geographical perspective, and offers a critical analysis of major contemporary geographical themes and issues relating to tourism. This fully revised 2nd edition includes new material on 'post' COVID implications, global climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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1915097495

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Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa

A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis

By: Ara Monadjem,Peter J. Taylor,Christiane Denys,Fenton P.D. Cotterill

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Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa

A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis

By: Ara Monadjem,Peter J. Taylor,Christiane Denys,Fenton P.D. Cotterill

This comprehensive handbook covers all the rodents occurring in Southern, Central, East and West Africa, south of the Sahara. Genus and species accounts include diagnostic descriptions, systematics and taxonomy, biogeographical environment, fossil species, photographs of skull and mandible, illustrations of molar dentition, photographs of live animals, distribution maps and tables of standard museum measurements.

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3110389231

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A Festschrift For Erich L. Lehmann

By: Peter .J. Bickel,K. Doksum,J.L. Hodges

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A Festschrift For Erich L. Lehmann

By: Peter .J. Bickel,K. Doksum,J.L. Hodges

A collection of essays and articles In honour of Erich. L. Lehmann's sixty-fifth birthday. Including works on Vector Autoregressive models, Bootstrapping Regression Models, Bootstrapping Regression Models and Estimation of the Mean or Total when Measurement Protocols.

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0534980449

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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV

Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958

By: Martin Luther King,Clayborne Carson,Peter Holloran,Penny A. Russell

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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV

Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958

By: Martin Luther King,Clayborne Carson,Peter Holloran,Penny A. Russell

This fourth volume in the highly-praised edition of the Papers of Martin Luther King covers the period (1957-58) when King, fresh from his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, consolidated his position as leader of the civil rights movement.

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0520222318

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Where No Shadows Fall

By: Peter Ritchie

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Where No Shadows Fall

By: Peter Ritchie

Expose the truth or let the dead lie still? Grace Macallan's life is on an even keel – at last. But a 9-to-5 career away from the frontline isn't all it's cracked up to be. So when she's sent to investigate a suicide at Glasgow's notorious Barlinnie prison, Grace gladly escapes her desk. The dead inmate is Tommy McMartin, heir to a ferocious criminal family. His murder conviction saw Tommy's fall from power; cast out not for violence but because the victim was his gay lover. The investigation drags Grace into contact with her McMartin adversaries of old. But the gangland dynasty is under threat and, as it topples, secrets once dead and buried are unearthed. As she unravels Tommy McMartin's fate, Grace senses someone watching her from the shadows, someone who aches for revenge. An awful dilemma faces her: to expose the truth or let the dead lie still.

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1785302566

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Savage Journey

Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo

By: Peter Richardson

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Savage Journey

Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo

By: Peter Richardson

A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson’s literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic. Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century.

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0520395638

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Grande Dame Guignol Cinema

A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother

By: Peter Shelley

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Grande Dame Guignol Cinema

A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother

By: Peter Shelley

This critically analytical filmography examines 45 movies featuring "grande dames" in horror settings. Following a history of women in horror before 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which launched the "Grande Dame Guignol" subgenre of older women featured as morally ambiguous leading ladies, are all such films (mostly U.S.) that came after that landmark release. The filmographic data includes cast, crew, reviews, synopses, and production notes, as well as recurring motifs and each role's effect on the star's career.

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0786454857

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It's Prickly Under There

By: Simon Peter Broughton

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It's Prickly Under There

By: Simon Peter Broughton

It's Prickly Under There is the title of the second book in the murder mystery series. It's set in Victorian England. A month has passed on from Brookland Manor. Chief Inspector Daisy Magee is now back at work. News comes in that there has been a body found in the Blue Tunnel. A new mind game is now placed before Daisy. This time she has to deal with fairies and pixie clubs, David's star, pine needles, hedgehogs, a straw hat along with the magical world of make-believe and ricin. A long-lost family relative comes back into Daisy's life, and they will help her solve the case along with a new police profiler. Once again, some characters have surprising names to remember. It is also a story that teaches moral and spiritual life lessons. Simon-Peter hopes and prays that you will enjoy the read in the new mind game. The third book is in the works. It's titled Anyone's Willing For A Shilling. Please send your constructive criticism only to his email at LionheartAuthorship@gmail.com.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662462913

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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics

By: Peter L. Francia

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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics

By: Peter L. Francia

In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to Sweeney's leadership threatened to divide the labor movement. In The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, Peter L. Francia discusses the effects of Sweeney's controversial tenure as president and assesses labor's influence on American political elections and legislation. Drawing on interviews with union and business leaders, as well as campaign-finance and public-opinion data, Francia argues that Sweeney has employed a more effective and expansive grassroots political operation than his predecessors. He challenges critics who dismiss Sweeney's efforts as a failure but cautions that the decline in union membership presents a serious crisis for the labor movement. When unions emphasize "grassroots" strategies they can effectively compete against the financial power of big business and can make a significant difference in congressional politics. Francia analyzes organized labor's political activities, its coalitions with other interest groups, and its influence on voter turnout, election results, and votes in Congress. He also examines the effects of Sweeney's embrace of progressive causes and labor's increasing willingness to challenge Democrats who vote against labor's interests. For all his successes, Sweeney's tenure has not been without its problems. Labor's presence in American politics is threatened by shrinking membership in unions. Francia suggests that if unions want to remain a viable political force in congressional politics, they must devote more resources to organizing workers.

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Columbia University Press

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0231503938

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Dot Dot Dot 8

By: Peter Bilak

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Dot Dot Dot 8

By: Peter Bilak

The journal whose very name promises more to come delivers two issues this season. There aren't too many places to find intelligent, passionate, and witty writing about the past, present, and future of visual culture. Dot Dot Dot, the brilliant journal edited by Stuart Bailey and Peter Bilak, is one of the few we've found, and we're happy to be able to present it in our catalog. Issue 8 contains articles by Ryan Gander, Paul Elliman, Stuart Bailey, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anna Gwendoline Jackson, Momus, Brian McMullen, Antonin Kosik, David Reinfurt, Graham Meyer, Katherine Gillieson, Karel Martens, and Peter Bilak, among others. Articles range from "Why Are All These BooksOrange?" to "A Coming of Age Reading Checklist" to "City Turned Upside Down" and concluding with "About Nothing, Really.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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9077620028

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Farragut's Captain

Percival Drayton, 1861-1865

By: Peter Barratt

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Farragut's Captain

Percival Drayton, 1861-1865

By: Peter Barratt

Captain Percival Drayton played a central role in four of the key naval engagements of the American Civil War, and as a personal friend and trusted subordinate of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut and Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, Drayton made a vital contribution to the ultimate success of the Union Navy in the struggle to maintain the Union. As the son of a noted Jacksonian Unionist obligated to leave South Carolina for Philadelphia many years before the war, Drayton was the very embodiment of the romantic war between brothers. Captain Drayton was a highly literate and intelligent observer of the world around him and the people in it. And throughout the war, he maintained a constant flow of letters to naval colleagues and friends. His letters provide a captivating insight into his service and into the personalities of many Civil WarÐera figures, and so his lettersÑand his biographyÑstand as a primary record of the war at sea and of the collapse of the slave system on the South Carolina coast.

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1483487954

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Sonic Boom

The History of Northwest Rock, from "Louie Louie" to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

By: Peter Blecha

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Sonic Boom

The History of Northwest Rock, from "Louie Louie" to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

By: Peter Blecha

(Book). The compelling saga of how one backwater music scene could produce such disparate mega-talents as the Ventures, Jimi Hendrix, Heart, Robert Cray, Queensryche, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Nirvana, and the legendary garage stompers, the Sonics. Includes 500-plus exclusive interviews with trailblazing DJs, sound engineers, label founders, and the luminaries of Northwest rock.

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Puttin' On the Ritz

Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography

By: Peter Levinson

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Puttin' On the Ritz

Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography

By: Peter Levinson

Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant. His origins, though, were far more humble: Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fred Astaire came from Midwestern stock that partially had its origin in the late nineteenth century Jewish communities of Austria. At first, he played second fiddle in vaudeville to his sister, Adele; however, once he learned how to tap and bought his first Brooks Brothers suit, the game changed. How did he transform himself from a small town Nebraska boy into the most sophisticated man ever to dance across a dance floor? In this comprehensive new book about the life and artistry of Fred Astaire, Peter Levinson looks carefully at the entirety of Astaire's career from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood to television. He explores Astaire's relationships with his vivacious dance partners, his friendship with songwriters like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and his relationship with choreographers like Hermes Pan to discover how Astaire, in effect, created his elegant persona. Astaire put his mark on the Hollywood musical, starting his career at RKO and then moving to MGM. From his long list of films, certain classics like "Swing Time", "Top Hat", "Royal Wedding" and "The Bandwagon" revolutionized the presentation of dance on film; but, he also revolutionized the television variety special with the Emmy-Award-Winning "An Evening With Fred Astaire". For 'Puttin' on the Ritz", veteran Hollywood insider, Peter Levinson interviewed over two hundred people who worked closely with Astaire such as Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Artie Shaw, Bobby Short, Oscar Peterson, Mel Ferrer, Betty Garrett, Joel Grey, Arlene Dahl, Michael Kidd, Betty Comden, Onna White, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, and others like Quincy Jones, John Travolta, and John Williams, to provide an intimate window on to his professional as well as his personal life. His new biography of Astaire is a celebration of the great era of sophistication on Broadway and in Hollywood as seen through the life of a man who learned how to put on the Ritz and become America's premiere song-and-dance-man: Fred Astaire.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250091497

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Philosophy and Biblical Interpretation

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Conflict

By: Peter Addinall

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Philosophy and Biblical Interpretation

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Conflict

By: Peter Addinall

A workbook for adult learners on word problems.

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Cambridge University Press

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Lessons from the Edge

Survival Skills for Starting and Growing a Company

By: Jana B. Matthews,Jeff Dennis,Peter Economy

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Lessons from the Edge

Survival Skills for Starting and Growing a Company

By: Jana B. Matthews,Jeff Dennis,Peter Economy

Entrepreneurs often struggle with many aspects of business: planning and financing company growth, creating a company vision, recruiting, leading, and managing people, as well as personal costs. In Lessons from the Edge, more than 50 business owners and entrepreneurs offer a wealth of real-life stories--in their own words--that provide rare insights about keeping a company healthy and growing. Here is a unique collection of first-person accounts by entrepreneurs who describe their mistakes in business and the lessons they have learned as a result. The stories cover a wide range of experiences from the trials and tribulations of partnerships, to the loss of key customers, theft, finding and retaining employees, and the personal cost of living on the edge. The authors have drawn on interviews with more than 50 entrepreneurs, all of whom are under 45 years of age and are founders or presidents of companies with revenues over $1 million and growing rapidly. They volunteered to share their stories, describing why they lost or almost lost their companies, what they did wrong, and the lessons they have learned. Their narratives are full of mistakes, failure, courage, moments of realization, and timely moves that saved the day. Every company owner will find these accounts insightful, compelling, and occasionally gut wrenching, especially because most face similar challenges and live with the reality that they too could fall off the edge. This instructive and inspiring book brims with lessons for all business owners about courage, persistence, and survival. Lessons from the Edge is an essential read for both established and prospective entrepreneurs.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195168259

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Conserving the Railway Heritage

By: Peter Burman,Michael Stratton

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Conserving the Railway Heritage

By: Peter Burman,Michael Stratton

Great Britain not only invented the main-line railway but has also led the way in it's preservation - not just locomotves and carriages but also the buildings and structures that bear witness to the confidence of railway developers, architects and engineers. This book defines the nature of the railway heritage - from signalboxes, viaducts, tunnels and locomotive depots - and then discusses priorities and the best practice for it's conservation. The subject is a strongly topical one due to current concern over privatization, the effects of planned high-speed rail links and lively debates concerning the role of the enthusiast in railway preservation.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136745009

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The Future Is Faster Than You Think

How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

By: Peter H. Diamandis,Steven Kotler

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The Future Is Faster Than You Think

How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

By: Peter H. Diamandis,Steven Kotler

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet? Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives—transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance—taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it. As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982109688

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Information, Opportunism and Economic Coordination

By: Peter E. Earl

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Information, Opportunism and Economic Coordination

By: Peter E. Earl

An integrated collection of a dozen of Peter Earl's lively and thought-provoking essays, carefully edited and updated. Theoretical topics include the prediction of corporate behaviour, the economic foundations of marketing and shopping mall design, pricing strategy and its relationship with the existence of second-hand markets, and the microfoundations of macroeconomics. Case studies include co-operation in the car industry, managerialist reforms in New Zealand and the university sector, structural change in the advertising industry and the place of GB Richardson and GLS Shackle in the literature of economics.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781956960

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Saudi Arabia: The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

By: Peter W. Wilson,Douglas F. Graham

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Saudi Arabia: The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

By: Peter W. Wilson,Douglas F. Graham

Some of the best writings on issues involving local government can be found in journals published by the American Society for Public Administration or journals with which ASPA is associated. This volume includes 30 of the most outstanding articles that have been published.

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1315286998

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AMTIL the Source

The Australian Advanced Manufacturing Yearbook

By: Peter Lambeck

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The Australian Advanced Manufacturing Yearbook

By: Peter Lambeck

Journal dates: 2008-2009 Annual, 2008-

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AMTIL

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0646510991

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Death by Design

British Tank Development in the Second World War

By: Peter Beale

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Death by Design

British Tank Development in the Second World War

By: Peter Beale

At the outbreak of war in 1939 British tank crews were ill-equipped, under trained and badly led. As a consequence the lives of hundreds of crewmen were wasted unnecessarily. This was due not only to the poor design and construction of British tanks, but also to the lack of thought and planning on the part of successive pre-war governments and the War Office. Death by Design explores how and why Britain went from leading the world in tank design at the end of the First World War to lagging far behind the design quality of Russian and German tanks in the Second World War. This book is a much-needed warning to governments and military planners: a nation must always be prepared to defend itself and ensure that its soldiers are equipped with the tools to do so.

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The History Press

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0750979348

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