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The Witching Hour

By: Peter Brodowski

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Henry just wanted what most others want, a home and family. To live in peace away for the desert mayhem that still haunts his dreams. Returning home he may have found it until the magicians showed up threatening his new idyllic life, his new found friends and especially the boys he has come to befriend. There is a lot more to the magicians than meets the eye. They are Xacarbas inhabiting host human bodies, and they need a new one before they move on. Keywords: Fiction, Suspense, Horror, Thriller, Magic, Body-Snatchery

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1506907857

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9781506907857

The Welsh Girl

A Novel

By: Peter Ho Davies

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The Welsh Girl

A Novel

By: Peter Ho Davies

A WWII-era Welsh barmaid begins a secret relationship with a German POW in this “beautiful” novel by the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Ann Patchett). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two begin an unlikely—and perilous—romance. Meanwhile, a German-Jewish interrogator travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking “tour de force,” all will come to question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity (The New Yorker). “If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl.” —USA Today “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times “Beautifully conjures a place and its people, in an extraordinary time . . . A rare gem.” —Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “This first novel by Davies, author of two highly praised short story collections, has been anticipated—and, with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review

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HMH

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0547524900

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9780547524900

Young People, Place and Identity

By: Peter E. Hopkins

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Young People, Place and Identity

By: Peter E. Hopkins

Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people’s everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young people’s behaviours and the places they occupy, the author seeks to answer these and other questions. In doing so the book challenges and re-shapes understandings of young people’s relationships with different places and identities. The textbook is one of the first books to map out the scales, themes and sites engaged with by young people on a daily basis as they construct their multiple identities. The scales explored here include the body, neighbourhood and community, mobilities and transitions and urban-rural settings and how these all shape and are shaped by young people’s identities. Each chapter explores how social identities (such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and religion) are constructed within particular contexts and influenced by multiple processes of inclusion and exclusion. These discussions are supported by details of the research methods and ethical issues involved in researching young people’s lives. Drawing upon research from a range of contexts, including Europe, North America and Australasia, this book demonstrates the complex ways in which young people creatively shape, contest and resist their engagements with different places and identities. The range of issues, topics and case studies explored include: ethical and methodological issues in youth research; youth subcultures; experiences of home; territorialism; youth and crime; political engagement and participation; responses to global issues; engagements with different institutional contexts; negotiating public space; the transition to adulthood; drinking cultures. The author explores these issues through blending together original empirical research, theory and policy. Individual chapters are supported by key themes, project ideas and suggested further reading. Details of key authors, journals and research centres and organisations are also included at the end of the book. This textbook will be pertinent for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic researchers interested in better understanding the relationships between young people, places and identities.

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Routledge

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1136975691

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9781136975691

Lernpunkt Deutsch

With New German Spellings

By: Peter Morris,Alan Wesson

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Lernpunkt Deutsch

With New German Spellings

By: Peter Morris,Alan Wesson

Lernpunkt Deutsch provides a challenging and thorough approach to grammar, and encourages vocabulary acquisition, practice and retention. It is a three stage course which is rigorous and motivating.

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Nelson Thornes

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017440266X

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9780174402664

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

The Catholic Church in Every Place

By: Peter-Ben Smit

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Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

The Catholic Church in Every Place

By: Peter-Ben Smit

This study researches the historical development of the self-understanding of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Throughout the 20th century, both churches have been in a developing relationship with each other, resulting in full communion in 1965. In the same time period, both churches developed an ecclesiological self-understanding in which an ecclesiology of the national church gradually gave way to an ecclesiology of the local church. By outlining this development for each of these two churches and comparing the developments, the study gives insight both into the individual development of the two churches involved and shows how these developments relate to each other. In this way, the study presents a new historical portrait of these churches and their self-understanding.

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BRILL

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9004214984

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9789004214989

Heart Versus Head

Judge-made Law in Nineteenth-century America

By: Peter Karsten

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Heart Versus Head

Judge-made Law in Nineteenth-century America

By: Peter Karsten

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807823406

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9780807823408

Lernpunkt Deutsch

Copymasters

By: Peter Morris,Alan Wesson

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Copymasters

By: Peter Morris,Alan Wesson

Lernpunkt Deutsch provides a challenging and thorough approach to grammar, and encourages vocabulary acquisition, practice and retention. It is a three stage course which is rigorous and motivating.

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Nelson Thornes

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0174402643

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9780174402640

Mammography Screening

Truth, Lies and Controversy

By: Peter Gotzsche

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Mammography Screening

Truth, Lies and Controversy

By: Peter Gotzsche

This book gives plenty of examples of ad hominem attacks, intimidation, slander, threats of litigation, deception, dishonesty, lies and other violations of good scientific practice. For some years I kept a folder labeled Dishonesty in breast cancer screening on top of my filing cabinet, storing articles and letters to the editor that contained statements I knew were dishonest. Eventually I gave up on the idea of writing a paper about this collection, as the number of examples quickly exceeded what could be contained in a single article.' From the Introduction The most effective way to decrease women's risk of becoming a breast cancer patient is to avoid attending screening. Mammography screening is one of the greatest controversies in healthcare, and the extent to which some scientists have sacrificed sound scientific principles in order to arrive at politically acceptable results in their research is extraordinary. In contrast, neutral observers increasingly find that the benefit has been much oversold and that the harms are much greater than previously believed. This groundbreaking book takes an evidence-based, critical look at the scientific disputes and the information provided to women by governments and cancer charities. It also explains why mammography screening is unlikely to be effective today. All health professionals and members of the public will find these revelations disturbingly illuminating. It will radically transform the way healthcare policy makers view mammography screening in the future. 'If Peter Gotzsche did not exist, there would be a need to invent him ...It may still take time for the limitations and harms of screening to be properly acknowledged and for women to be enabled to make adequately informed decisions. When this happens, it will be almost entirely due to the intellectual rigour and determination of Peter Gotzsche.' From the Foreword by Iona Heath, President, RCGP 'If you care about breast cancer, and we all should, you must read this book. Breast cancer is complex and we cannot afford to rely on the popular media, or on information from marketing campaigns from those who are invested in screening. We need to question and to understand. The story that Peter tells matters very much.' From the Foreword by Fran Visco, President, National Breast Cancer Coalition.

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CRC Press

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1000477096

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9781000477092

Sea-level Change in Mesolithic Southern Scandinavia

Long- and Short-term Effects on Society and the Environment

By: Peter Moe Astrup

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Sea-level Change in Mesolithic Southern Scandinavia

Long- and Short-term Effects on Society and the Environment

By: Peter Moe Astrup

The seabed in southern Scandinavia contains numerous traces of a submerged landscape that is thought to be the remnant of a once important habitat for Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Large parts of this landscape were gradually flooded by rising seas between 9500 and 4000 BC and perceptions of the Maglemose culture (9500-6400 BC) have, consequently, been based almost exclusively on former inland settlements. As a result, Early and Late Mesolithic societies have been understood as almost diametrically opposed with regards to their reliance upon marine resources and their degree of sedentism. The main objective of the book is to investigate two questions that are directly related to our current understanding of the populations of the now submerged areas: 1) Do we have a representative picture of the spread of Early Mesolithic sites in southern Scandinavia, or does the weighting towards inland sites reflect the fact that coastal sites have not been identified below present-day sea-level? 2) How did sea-level changes impact Mesolithic populations at different temporal and spatial scales, and how were these experienced from 8000-4000 BC? The book presents an extensive and up-to-date review of various types of evidence from the Boreal period such as faunal remains, fishing instruments, d13C values in bones, settlement positions and available marine resources. These are used to discuss the extent to which marine resources were utilised in the Maglemose culture. Another central component of this book is a series of new coastline models made to determine the Mesolithic sea-level changes / coastline positions. The eight new coastline models are created to facilitate new evaluations of possible relationships between sea-level changes and cultural changes. On the basis of the new coastline models the book also presents the preliminary results of 47 diver investigations conducted with the aim of identifying potential coastal settlements from the Maglemose culture.

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Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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8793423365

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9788793423367

Military in America

By: Peter M. Karsten

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Military in America

By: Peter M. Karsten

In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while not avoiding the nature of battle, goes beyond tactics and strategy to include the enormous social and political impact of America's wars.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106207

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9781439106204

Wie, bitte?

Introductory German for Proficiency

By: William B. Fischer,Peter N. Richardson

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Introductory German for Proficiency

By: William B. Fischer,Peter N. Richardson

A brief, proficiency-based introductory program stressing communicative abilities, and organized according to ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Use of authentic listening and reading materials (e.g., radio broadcasts, transportation schedules, ads, magazine excerpts) promotes practical fluency. Cultural material is integrated into every aspect of the program. Class text has situational dialogues, brief grammar notes, cultural sections, class activities, and realia. Workbook contains chapter vocabularies, grammar and conversational exercises, lab manual, and reference grammar. Text includes many illustrations.

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Wiley

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0471848441

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9780471848448

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The Witching Hour

The Witching Hour

The Welsh Girl

The Welsh Girl

Young People, Place and Identity

Young People, Place and Identity

Lernpunkt Deutsch

Lernpunkt Deutsch

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

Heart Versus Head

Heart Versus Head

Lernpunkt Deutsch

Lernpunkt Deutsch

Mammography Screening

Mammography Screening

Sea-level Change in Mesolithic Southern Scandinavia

Sea-level Change in Mesolithic Southern Scandinavia

Military in America

Military in America

Wie, bitte?

Wie, bitte?

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