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Thomas's World

By: Geoffrey Peyton

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Short visits to Laugharne,Tenby, Pontardawe, Pembrokeshire, and Glamorgan respectively. This is my short memoir of a truncated visit to the aforementioned towns and counties of South Wales in December 2013.

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3736845987

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9783736845985

Both Sides Now

By: Peyton Thomas

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Both Sides Now

By: Peyton Thomas

A witty and warm-hearted novel about a trans teen finding his place in the world perfect for fans of Red, White and Royal Blue There’s only one thing standing between Finch Kelly and a full-blown case of high school senioritis: the National Speech & Debate Tournament. Taking home the gold would not only be the pinnacle of Finch’s debating career, but the perfect way to launch himself into his next chapter: college in Washington, DC, and a history-making career as the first trans congressman. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, Finch could develop a teeny tiny crush on his very attractive, very taken, and very gay debate partner, Jonah. Never mind that Finch has never considered whether he’s interested in more than just girls. And that dream of college in DC? Finch hasn’t exactly been accepted anywhere yet, let alone received the full-ride scholarship he'll need to make this dream a reality. Worst of all, though, is this year's topic for Nationals: transgender rights. If he wants to cinch the gold, and get into college, Finch might have to argue against his own humanity. People say there are two sides to every argument. But, as Finch is about to discover, some things—like who you are and who you love—are not up for debate.

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Penguin

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0593322835

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9780593322833

Tested

How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope

By: Peyton Budd

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Tested

How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope

By: Peyton Budd

Wrongly convicted inmates of the Dallas prison system tell their stories of survival and exoneration through personal interviews in this revealing book. Advances in DNA technology have revolutionized how criminals are prosecuted, but it has also brought a ray of hope to those serving time for crimes they never committed. Across the country, DNA testing is exonerating wrongfully convicted and imprisoned people—and nowhere more so than in Dallas, Texas. In Tested, authors Peyton and Dorothy Budd dramatically reveal how these men kept their hope, their faith, and their sanity. Through a series of personal interviews, these men share the secrets of what sustained them behind bars. Whether through dreams or hustle, music or words, these men found what they needed to survive. Their stories illuminate both the failures of the justice system and the resilience of the human spirit.

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181

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612540090

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9781612540092

Spontaneous Order

How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up

By: H. Peyton Young

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Spontaneous Order

How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up

By: H. Peyton Young

Spontaneous Order brings together Peyton Young's research on evolutionary game theory and its diverse applications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology, philosophy, biology, computer science, and engineering. Enhanced with an introductory essay and commentaries, the book pulls together the author's work thematically to provide a valuable resource for scholars of economic theory. Young argues that equilibrium behaviors often coalesce from the interactions and experiences of many dispersed individuals acting with fragmentary knowledge of the world, rather than (as is often assumed in economics) from the actions of fully rational agents with commonly held beliefs. The author presents a unified and rigorous account of how such 'bottom-up' evolutionary processes work, using recent advances in stochastic dynamical systems theory. This analytical framework illuminates how social norms and institutions evolve, how social and technical innovations spread in society, and how these processes depend on adaptive learning behavior by human subjects.

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401

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Oxford University Press

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0198892993

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9780198892991

More Than a Reference

By: Mark M. Peyton

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More Than a Reference

By: Mark M. Peyton

Science education today focuses upon dates, names, and facts needed to answer questions on college entry exams. Forgotten in the effort to memorize the information are the stories about the people behind those dates and facts. The greatest of our scientists were also people with their strengths and weaknesses. Presented in More Than a Reference are short essays in the style of Paul Harvey’s Rest of the Story. These essays are about the people involved in world-changing discoveries. How did seasickness play a role in Darwin’s theory of natural selection? Why did Joseph Meister, the young man who was the first person to survive rabies, commit suicide? Why did Mendeleev go up in a hot air balloon without knowing how to control it? Who was Clara Louise Maass? These stories capture the interest of the reader by showing the human side of science not usually presented in textbooks or classrooms. These are the stories in More Than a Reference, a series of essays on the people who played a integral role in discoveries that have changed the world.

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158

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662446853

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9781662446856

City of Refuge

Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

By: Marcus Peyton Nevius

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City of Refuge

Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

By: Marcus Peyton Nevius

City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820356425

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9780820356426

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy

By: Will Peyton

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Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy

By: Will Peyton

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin’s acclaimed trilogy, a Chinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu’s writing is found in its conscious engagement with translated Western fiction rather than, as one might expect, in Chinese language science fiction of the past. The book illustrates how contemporary Chinese fiction, since the economic opening of China in the late 1980s, is deeply and complexly influenced by various strains in Western literary and intellectual thought, an area that scholars of Chinese literature have tended to neglect. Providing a lucid and succinct close-reading and textual analysis of Three Body trilogy, the book also makes reference to broader ideas and themes in modern Chinese and Western intellectual history.

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162

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Springer Nature

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303079315X

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9783030793159

Safety Culture

Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare

By: Edward J. Sabin,Thomas G. Bigda-Peyton,Mr Jeffrey P Brown,Professor Manoj S Patankar

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Safety Culture

Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare

By: Edward J. Sabin,Thomas G. Bigda-Peyton,Mr Jeffrey P Brown,Professor Manoj S Patankar

In Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare, the four authors draw upon their extensive teaching, research and field experience from multiple industries to describe the dynamic nature of a culture-change process, particularly in safety-critical domains. They use a "stories to numbers" approach that starts with felt experiences and stories of certain change programs that they have documented, then proceed to describe the use of key measurement tools that can be used to analyze the state of a change program. The book concludes with a description of empirical models that illustrate the dynamic nature of change programs.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409486915

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9781409486916

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs

The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914-1915

By: Robert Peyton Wiggins

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The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs

The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914-1915

By: Robert Peyton Wiggins

The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment baseball ever exerted so much influence on its rival, with some of the most recognizable elements of the game today—including the commissioner system, competition for free agents, baseball’s antitrust exemption, and even the beloved Wrigley Field—traceable to the so-called outlaw organization known as the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs. This comprehensive history covers the league from its formation in 1913 through its buyout, dissolution, and legal battles with the National and American leagues. The day-to-day operation of the franchises, the pennant races and outstanding players, the two-year competitive battle for fans and players, and the short- and long-term impact on the game are covered in detail.

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McFarland

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0786438355

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9780786438358

Managing Clergy Lives

Obedience, Sacrifice, Intimacy

By: Nigel Peyton,Caroline Gatrell

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Managing Clergy Lives

Obedience, Sacrifice, Intimacy

By: Nigel Peyton,Caroline Gatrell

A 'theology of the priesthood' revealing the enduring vocational commitment of Church of England parish priests in the context of 21st century challenges.

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A&C Black

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1441121250

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9781441121257

Comic Book Women

Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

By: Peyton Brunet,Blair Davis

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Comic Book Women

Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

By: Peyton Brunet,Blair Davis

2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) 2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture Award (Honorable Mention), Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (SWPACA) A revisionist history of women's pivotal roles as creators of and characters in comic books. The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers’ studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed. Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and characters into the canon of comics history.

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432

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University of Texas Press

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1477324143

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9781477324141

Jungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry

Three Texans in the Pacific in World War II

By: Robert Peyton Wiggins

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Jungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry

Three Texans in the Pacific in World War II

By: Robert Peyton Wiggins

This narrative tracks the experiences of three veterans while providing a comprehensive account of Troop G activities during the war years. The text follows the regiment from its time as mounted cavalry based in Fort Clark to New Caldonia, where the men gave up their horses to become infantymen in General Douglas MacArthur's conquest of New Guinea and the Philippines. Never as famous as the federalized infantrymen of the Texas 36th, the men of the 112th have often been overlooked in discussions of World War II, and this text seeks to restore them to their rightful place in the history of the Pacific theater operations.

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McFarland

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0786485299

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9780786485291

Book's by Peyton Thomas

Thomas's World

Thomas's World

Both Sides Now

Both Sides Now

Tested

Tested

Spontaneous Order

Spontaneous Order

More Than a Reference

More Than a Reference

City of Refuge

City of Refuge

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy

Safety Culture

Safety Culture

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs

Managing Clergy Lives

Managing Clergy Lives

Comic Book Women

Comic Book Women

Jungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry

Jungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry

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