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Producing Success

The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

By: Peter Demerath

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Producing Success

The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

By: Peter Demerath

Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as Producing Success makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. Demerath undertook four years of research at a Midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. Producing Success reveals the many ways the community’s ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethics and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students “valedictorians.” Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, Producing Success is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226142426

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9780226142425

The Shakespeare Enigma

By: Peter Dawkins

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The Shakespeare Enigma

By: Peter Dawkins

Simply asking, 'Who was Shakespeare?', this book comes up with surprising conclusions. It offers a trail that leads to a very different person from the Stratford actor. It contains insights into the plays and poems, and into the English Renaissance that followed the final break with Rome.

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Polair Publishing

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0954538943

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9780954538941

Detailing for Acoustics

By: Peter Lord,Duncan Templeton

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Detailing for Acoustics

By: Peter Lord,Duncan Templeton

Detailing for Acoustics, Second Edition focuses on the techniques, principles, and approaches involved in acoustics. The publication first elaborates on objectives and details. Topics cover sources, format, content, roofs, ceilings, partitions, walls, floors, doors, windows, linings, and services. Sketches that represent the standard details of roofs, partitions, walls, and floors, sound absorption and standard details of ceilings, machinery enclosures, noise barriers, and standard details and sound absorption of timber floors and concrete floors are presented. The manuscript examines sound absorption and insulation and external noise. Drawings that show the acoustic capabilities of different walls or ceiling finishes and the effect of enclosure on sound absorption are presented. The publication is a useful reference for architects and design engineers wanting to pursue further studies in acoustics.

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Elsevier

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1483280020

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9781483280028

The Battle of Long Tan

By: Peter FitzSimons

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The Battle of Long Tan

By: Peter FitzSimons

From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the afternoon of 18 August 1966, hot, humid with grey monsoonal skies. D Company, 6RAR were four kilometres east of their Nui Dat base, on patrol in a rubber plantation not far from the abandoned village of Long Tan. A day after their base had suffered a mortar strike, they were looking for Viet Cong soldiers. Then - just when they were least expecting - they found them. Under withering fire, some Diggers perished, some were grievously wounded, the rest fought on, as they remained under sustained attack. For hours these men fought for their lives against the enemy onslaught. The skies opened and the rain fell as ferocious mortar and automatic fire pinned them down. Snipers shot at close quarters from the trees that surrounded them. The Aussie, Kiwi and Yankee artillery batteries knew it was up to them but, outnumbered and running out of ammunition they fired, loaded, fired as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces just kept coming. And coming. Their only hope was if Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) could reach them before they were wiped out. The APCs did their best but low cloud and thunderstorms meant air support was stalled. A daring helicopter resupply mission was suggested but who would want to fly that? The odds against this small force were monumental... By far the deadliest battle for Australian forces in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan has a proud place in the annals of Australian military history - and every ANZAC who fought there could hold his head high. Peter FitzSimons, Australia's greatest storyteller, tells the real story of this classic battle. He reveals the horror, the bravery, the wins and the losses that faced our soldiers. He brings to life the personal stories of the men who fought, the events leading up to that memorable battle and the long war that followed, and the political decisions made in the halls of power that sealed their fates. The Battle of Long Tan is an engrossing and powerful history that shows the costs of war never end.

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Hachette Australia

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0733646638

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9780733646638

Lonely Planet Best Day Hikes New Zealand 1

By: Craig McLachlan,Andrew Bain,Peter Dragicevich,Rebecca Milner

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Lonely Planet Best Day Hikes New Zealand 1

By: Craig McLachlan,Andrew Bain,Peter Dragicevich,Rebecca Milner

Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes New Zealand is your passport to 60 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs outside the city by picking a hike that works for you, from a few hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Climb ancient volcanoes, view amazing vistas, and scale tall mountains. Get to the heart of New Zealand and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes New Zealand Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak Color maps and images throughout Special features - on New Zealand's highlights for hikers, kid-friendly hikes, accessible trails and what to take Best for... section helps you plan your trip and select hikes that appeal to your interests Region profiles cover when to go, where to stay, what's on, cultural insights, and local food and drink recommendations to refuel and refresh. Featured regions include: The North, Central North Island, Southern North Island, Top of the South, Canterbury, West Coast, Otago, The South Essential info at your fingertips - hiking itineraries accompanied by illustrative maps are combined with details about hike duration, distance, terrain, start/end locations and difficulty (classified as easy, easy-moderate, moderate, moderate-hard, or hard) Over 65 maps The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Best Day Hikes New Zealand, our most comprehensive guide to hiking in New Zealand, is perfect for those planning to explore New Zealand on foot. Looking for more information on New Zealand? Check out Lonely Planet's New Zealand guide for a comprehensive look at what the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

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Lonely Planet

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1838693270

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9781838693275

Modernism and Physical Illness

Sick Books

By: Peter Fifield

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Modernism and Physical Illness

Sick Books

By: Peter Fifield

T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in physical illness as a subject, method, and stylizing force. Experience of physical ailments, from the fleeting to the fatal, the familiar to the unusual, structures the writing of the modernists, both as sufferers and onlookers. Illness reorients the relation to, and appearance of, the world, making it appear newly strange; it determines the character of human interactions and models of behaviour. As a topic, illness requires new ways of writing and thinking, altered ideas of the subject, and a re-examination of the roles of invalids and carers. This book reads the work five authors, who are also known for their illness, hypochondria, or medical work: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby. It overturns the assumption that illness is a simple obstacle to creativity and instead argues that it is a subject of careful thought and cultural significance.

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Oxford University Press

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0192559354

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9780192559357

Artisanal Gluten-Free Cupcakes: 50 Enticing Recipes to Satisfy Every Cupcake Craving (No Gluten, No Problem)

By: Kelli Bronski,Peter Bronski

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Artisanal Gluten-Free Cupcakes: 50 Enticing Recipes to Satisfy Every Cupcake Craving (No Gluten, No Problem)

By: Kelli Bronski,Peter Bronski

From simple to spectacular—50 enticing recipes to satisfy every cupcake craving! The wait for an entire cookbook of gluten-free cupcakes is over! Kelli and Peter Bronski’s Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking garnered a PW starred review and airtime on The Splendid Table, and within one year of publication has established itself as a category-leading all-purpose gluten-free cookbook. Now the Bronskis bring their accessible but “artisanal” approach to these from-scratch, high-quality homemade cupcakes. The foundation of these recipes is their intensively developed gluten-free flour blend, which enables home cooks to craft bakery-quality confections, from kid-pleasing favorites like Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting or “Peanut Butter Cup” Cakes, to more subtle and surprising treats like Mojito or Poached Pearfection cupcakes. They include tips for adapting the recipes to alternative diets of all kinds, including egg-, dairy-, and refined sugar–free versions. These are cupcakes so good even those who don’t eat gluten-free will love them.

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The Experiment, LLC

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1615191364

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9781615191369

Red Cat

By: Peter Spiegelman

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Red Cat

By: Peter Spiegelman

This riveting mystery finds Private Investigator John March descending into Manhattan’s dark and scandalous underworld to help a member of his own family. David March, John’s brother, has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet. Now one of these women is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren. She, however, knows everything about David—and she's threatening to tell his wife and colleagues, ruining his life. With his marriage, career, and reputation at stake, David asks John to find her. What John discovers is there is more to Wren than David knows. She’s an intriguing mystery, an internet pornographer and video artist with a penchant for turning the tables on her subjects. But when she turns up dead, John finds he's no longer searching for a stalker—now he's looking for a murderer, and the clues keep leading him back to his older brother’s doorstep.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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1400097045

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9781400097043

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

By: Peter Mitchell

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa

By: Peter Mitchell

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009324764

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9781009324762

Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Peter Fusco

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Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Peter Fusco

Although one of the newer collections in the Getty Museum, sculpture occupies an important place in the Museum’s acquisition efforts. For the first time, the entire sculpture collection is catalogued in a book designed for scholars and students of sculpture. Reproductions of each piece are accompanied by text that identifies the sculptor, the medium, the dimensions, and the year the work was created.

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Getty Publications

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0892364882

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A Life of James Boswell

By: Peter Martin

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A Life of James Boswell

By: Peter Martin

Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300093128

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9780300093124

Lonely Planet Great Britain's Best Trips

By: Isabel Albiston,Oliver Berry,Marc Di Duca,Peter Dragicevich,Anna Kaminski,Catherine Le Nevez,Hugh McNaughtan,Isabella Noble,Andy Symington,Neil Wilson

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Lonely Planet Great Britain's Best Trips

By: Isabel Albiston,Oliver Berry,Marc Di Duca,Peter Dragicevich,Anna Kaminski,Catherine Le Nevez,Hugh McNaughtan,Isabella Noble,Andy Symington,Neil Wilson

Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Great Britain's Best Trips. This trusted travel companion features 36 amazing road trips, from 3-day escapes to 3-week adventures. Wind through majestic Welsh mountains, visit quaint English villages, and cruise grand Scottish moors. Get to Great Britain, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's Great Britain's Best Trips: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored trips for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers England, Scotland, Wales, the West Country, the Cotswolds, Bath, Edinburgh, Stonehenge, Welsh Mountains, Cambridge, Oxford, the Scottish Highlands, Stratford-upon-Avon, Blenheim Palace and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Great Britain's Best Trips is perfect for exploring Great Britain via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a Great Britain trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Great Britain, our most comprehensive guides to Great Britain, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide focused on a specific British country? Check out Lonely Planet's England, Scotland, or Wales guides for a comprehensive look at all that these countries have to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

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Lonely Planet

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183869630X

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9781838696306

John Dee

The World of an Elizabethan Magus

By: Peter J. French

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John Dee

The World of an Elizabethan Magus

By: Peter J. French

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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074480079X

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Life After Death

The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

By: Peter Holman

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Life After Death

The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

By: Peter Holman

New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843835746

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9781843835745

Social Care

Level 4

By: Frances Sussex,Peter Scourfield

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Social Care

Level 4

By: Frances Sussex,Peter Scourfield

Covering all of the NVQ level 4 care core units, this text includes actual examples followed by in-depth questions and further research sections, to aid the reader's understanding and knowledge of the subject.

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Heinemann

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0435401335

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9780435401337

Delphi Collected Works of Peter Cheyney (Illustrated)

By: Peter Cheyney

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Delphi Collected Works of Peter Cheyney (Illustrated)

By: Peter Cheyney

The British crime fiction writer Peter Cheyney is the creator of the American FBI agent Lemmy Caution and the English detective Slim Callaghan. These characters were constructed as a British response to the hardboiled detectives of American fiction. In later years Cheyney’s style matured with the ‘Dark’ books, drawing wide praise during World War II for bringing more realism to espionage fiction. Although his works have suffered neglect in recent times, the fame of Cheyney’s novels in the post-war period cannot be underestimated, having sold over 5 million copies. This eBook presents Cheyney’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cheyney’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 29 novels available in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels and story collections * The complete short stories * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Rare uncollected tales appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, 12 novels cannot appear in this edition. When new works enter the public domain, they will be added to the collection as a free update. CONTENTS: The Lemmy Caution Novels This Man is Dangerous (1936) Poison Ivy (1937) Dames Don’t Care (1937) Can Ladies Kill? (1938) Don’t Get Me Wrong (1939) You’d be Surprised (1940) Never a Dull Moment (1942) You Can Always Duck (1943) G-Man at the Yard (1946) The Slim Callaghan Stories The Urgent Hangman (1938) Dangerous Curves (1939) You Can’t Keep the Change (1940) It Couldn’t Matter Less (1941) Sorry You’ve Been Troubled (1942) Calling Mr. Callaghan (1953) The Dark Series Dark Duet (1942) The Stars are Dark (1943) The Dark Street (1944) Dark Hero (1946) Dark Bahama (1950) Ladies Won’t Wait (1951) Other Novels The Vengeance of Hop Fi (1928) The Curiosity of Etienne MacGregor (1928) The Gold Kimono (1931) Death Chair (1931) The Deadly Fresco (1932) The Sign on the Roof (1935) Another Little Drink (1940) Night Club (1945) The Short Story Collections You Can’t Hit a Woman (1937) Knave Takes Queen (1939) Mr. Caution — Mr. Callaghan (1941) Making Crime Pay (1944) No Ordinary Cheyney (1948) Velvet Johnnie (1952) The Adventures of Julia (1954) He Walked in Her Sleep (1954) The Mystery Blues (1954) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

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Delphi Classics

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1801701709

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Change Your Genetic Destiny

The Revolutionary Genotype Diet

By: Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo,Catherine Whitney

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Change Your Genetic Destiny

The Revolutionary Genotype Diet

By: Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo,Catherine Whitney

“D'Adamo's engaging writing style, enthusiasm for his subject, and personalized advice will appeal to those who enjoy taking a hands-on approach to their health and exploring new theories.” –Publishers Weekly With over five million copies sold worldwide of Eat Right 4 Your Type and additional books in the Blood Type Diet series, Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo pioneered a new, revolutionary approach to dieting–one linked to a person’ s blood type. In Change Your Genetic Destiny, he takes his groundbreaking research to the next level by identifying six unique genetic types. Whether you are a Hunter, Gatherer, Teacher, Explorer, Warrior, or Nomad, Dr. D’Adamo offers a customized program that complements your genetic makeup to maximize health and weight loss, as well as prevent or even reverse disease. In simple, concise prose, Dr. D’Adamo explains how a host of environmental factors, including diet and lifestyle, dictate how and when your genes express themselves. He goes on to demonstrate precisely how, with the right tools, you can alter your genetic destiny by turning on the good genes and silencing the bad ones. Your health risks, weight, and life span can all be improved by following the GenoType Diet that’s right for you. Using family history and blood type, as well as simple diagnostic tools like fingerprint analysis, leg length measurements, and dental characteristics, Dr. D’Adamo shows you how to map out your genetic identity and discover which of the six GenoType plans you should follow. Without expensive tests or a visit to the doctor, Change Your Genetic Destiny reveals previously hidden genetic strengths and weaknesses and provides a precise diet and lifestyle plan for every individual. Based on the latest and most cutting-edge research, this is a twenty-first-century plan for wellness and weight loss from a renowned healthcare pioneer.

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Harmony

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0767925254

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9780767925259

Salisbury From Old Photographs

By: Peter Daniels

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Salisbury From Old Photographs

By: Peter Daniels

Explore a unique and charming look at the history of Salisbury, its surrounding areas and its local inhabitants, through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445616068

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9781445616063

The Architect of Victory

The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman

By: Peter J. Dean

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The Architect of Victory

The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman

By: Peter J. Dean

Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman is one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army. Despite his reputedly caustic personality and noted conflicts with some senior officers, Berryman was crucial to Australia's success during the Second World War. But did the man known as 'Berry the Bastard' deserve his reputation? Bold, calculating and talented, Berryman was at the forefront of operations that led to the defeat of the Japanese, and his operational planning secured Australia's victories at Bardia, Tobruk and in New Guinea during the Pacific War. With access to rare private papers, Peter Dean charts Berryman's special relationships with senior US and Australian officers such as MacArthur, Chamberlin, Blamey, Lavarack and Morshead, and explains why the man poised to become the next Chief of General Staff would never fulfil his ambition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139494848

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Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century

By: Peter J. A. Jones

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Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century

By: Peter J. A. Jones

Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s. With an expansive survey of theological and literary texts, bringing a range of unedited manuscript material to light in the process, Peter J. A. Jones exposes how twelfth-century writers came to connect laughter with spiritual transcendence and justice, and how this connection gave humour a unique political and spiritual power in both text and action. Ultimately, Jones argues that England's popular images of laughing kings and saints effectively reinstated a sublime charismatic authority, something truly rebellious at a moment in history when bureaucracy and codification were first coming to dominate European political life.

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0198843542

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A History of Domestic Space

Privacy and the Canadian Home

By: Peter Ward

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A History of Domestic Space

Privacy and the Canadian Home

By: Peter Ward

This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and been shaped by – these changing spaces. A fundamental element of daily life for individuals and families is domestic privacy, that of individuals and that of the family or household. There are also two facets of privacy – privacy from and privacy to. Personal privacy sets the individual apart from the group, creating opportunities for seclusion. Family privacy draws boundaries between the household and the community, defending the solidarity of the home and providing a basis for family relationships. In both ways, privacy is intimately involved with the history of the house. Over time, the changing size, shape, and location of the home have created widely different opportunities for family and personal privacy. Together with major shifts in household composition, family size, and domestic technology, they have gradually altered the conditions of everyday domestic life. But the pattern of change has been far from uniform, for the nature, meaning, and experience of privacy in Canadian have varied widely over the past 300 years. This book explores some of those experiences and meanings, reflecting on their impllications for family and social life historically as well as in the recent past.

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UBC Press

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0774841826

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9780774841825

Stagestruck

A Peter Diamond Investigation

By: Peter Lovesey

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Stagestruck

A Peter Diamond Investigation

By: Peter Lovesey

Detective Peter Diamond takes on the theater as he investigates a murder behind the scenes of a production in Bath.

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Soho Press

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156947947X

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John Winston Howard

By: Wayne Errington,Peter Van Onselen

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John Winston Howard

By: Wayne Errington,Peter Van Onselen

In 1996, when John Howard wrested the prime ministership from Paul Keating, many people wrote off his election win as an aberration. More than ten years later, he is on the cusp of leading the Liberal Party into another election. John Winston Howard is a frank and engrossing portrait of the Prime Minister. For the first time ever, in unprecedented and extensive interviews conducted by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen with Howard's family, friends, political supporters and detractors, we get a rare insight into the man and the government he runs. The result is a portrait of how Team Howard operates, and why it has been so successful. Errington and van Onselen contend that Howard is the first professional politician the country has seen, and assess the impact he has made on modern politics, government and the country. John Winston Howard is a revealing study of the nature of modern politics. Crucially, it offers an insightful understanding of the John Howard who lies-and is mostly missed-between the public vitriol and the ungainly praise that passes as analysis.--publisher.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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052285334X

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9780522853346

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