Phil Sherry's Books

Cleod

By: Phil Horsley

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An acrimonious relationship breakdown leads to Fiona McCleod travelling to the Lake District to use her rock climbing skills in an act of protest. There she joins Cuddy and Mott living in a bender and treehouse in an ancient oak wood. When the local pub is threatened with closure she is forced to choose between protest and helping the locals take control of their lives. This story of love and death in a time of change, is told with the surreal assistance of the Viking Sagas, and with the help of two of the pubs most curious inhabitants, Fifi the cat and Sigmund the dog. Are the wood dwellers and the grumpy Cumbrian villagers able to overcome such wild differences in age and culture?

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Lulu.com

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1471638936

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Urban Regeneration in the UK

Boom, Bust and Recovery

By: Phil Jones,James Evans

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Urban Regeneration in the UK

Boom, Bust and Recovery

By: Phil Jones,James Evans

A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis is comprehensive, and ensures that this latest edition will remain a key reference work for students and practitioners alike." - Dr David Jarvis, Coventry University and Deputy Director, Applied Research Centre in Sustainable Regeneration (SURGE) "An accessible text for students that provides an excellent summary of the challenges facing the UK regeneration sector up to and including the present age of austerity." - Dr Lee Pugalis School of Built Environment, Northumbria University An engaging, systematic guide to the most dramatic transformation of our urban landscape since post-war reconstruction. This new edition has been fully revised to include: Improved pedagogical features, including an expanded glossary and increased visuals, as well as key learning points, useful websites and suggestions for further reading More content on local sustainability and issues linked to climate change A new chapter, ′Scaling Up′, which examines how regeneration operates when considering very large schemes, such as the London 2012 Olympics. Jones and Evans draw together a mass of information around key themes in governance, sustainability, competition and design - from policy reports to academic studies - into a single coherent text, making this essential reading for anyone studying or working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.

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SAGE

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1446275450

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Tax Revolt

The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government

By: Phil Valentine

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Tax Revolt

The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government

By: Phil Valentine

Ever since the Boston Tea Party, courageous and patriotic citizens have rebelled against the government's overbearing and abusive taxation of its constituents. This book is the powerful rallying cry to all Americans to continue to fight against our ever-increasing taxes. Using as a touchstone the heroic incident in Tennessee, when citizens converged on the state capitol to protest and repeatedly beat back attempts to pass a state tax, Valentine weaves an inspiring story of how patriotic citizens have stood up to taxes in the past, how many intrepid constituents continue to fight, and how Americans should resist and even revolt against taxes on a state and national level. By exploring the crippling effects of taxes on our economy and the lives of each individual citizen and drawing from the stories of other revolts (with exclusive behind-the-scenes details about the Tennessee rebellion), Valentine will anger and incite readers to action, giving them the motivation and know-how to spread the word and activate a powerful new revolution.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418508462

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9781418508463

The Mini Rough Guide to Menorca

By: Phil Lee

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The Mini Rough Guide to Menorca

By: Phil Lee

The definitive handbook to the island with in-depth coverage of Mao, Ciutadella and all the sights, from megalithic monuments to fine old country mansions. Includes up-to-the-minute recommendations of the best places to eat, drink and stay, in all price ranges, and practical tips on the island's favourite walking routes, plus the pick of the beaches.

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Rough Guides

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1858287081

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9781858287089

The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Volume 2

By: Phil Farrand

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The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Volume 2

By: Phil Farrand

A follow-up to the first, best-selling Nitpicker's guide ferrets out the plot inconsistencies, scientific inaccuracies, and other foul-ups in the seventh, final season of the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Random House Worlds

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0307799247

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9780307799241

The Forsaken Series Collection

The Complete Series

By: Phil Price

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The Forsaken Series Collection

The Complete Series

By: Phil Price

All four books in Phil Price's 'The Forsaken Series', now available in one volume! Unknown: Every year, a select few disappear never to return. From the Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England - people are vanishing without a trace. After a young man stumbles across an ancient secret, he faces a mystery. But can he find those who need him... and can he escape the Unknown? The Turning: He had started a new life, with his new family. His scars were healing. But they found him and took his loved ones to their world. Now, Jake must follow. But can he reach them in time... before they are turned against him? The Witch and the Watcher: In a faraway place, two lost souls are being hunted. An ancient evil, hell-bent on revenge, wants to claim them for his own. Meanwhile, a mother and son are coming to terms with the death of their loved ones. The boy dreams of distant souls who need help. Can he help them find the way home before they are lost to the darkness? Secrets Beneath The Sea: A child is taken from her mother by a powerful family, and her father is banished. Emma Thorne doesn't know if her daughter is alive or dead; the village offers no clues and gives away no secrets. Private investigator Jake Stevenson knows how to find missing people - he's done it before. In an ancient lighthouse, cut off from the outside world, a doorway pulses gently in the darkness. A doorway that no one comes out of.

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JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

By: Phil Ballard

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JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

By: Phil Ballard

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours helps you learn the fundamentals of programming using the JavaScript language. Designed for beginners with no previous programming experience, this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach shows you how to use JavaScript to add a wide array of interactive features and effects to your web pages. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common JavaScript programming tasks. Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn. Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills. Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions. Learn how to: Use JavaScript to build dynamic, interactive web pages Debug scripts Create scripts that work in all browsers Write clear, reliable, and reusable code Use object-oriented programming techniques Script with the DOM Access JSON data Work with HTML5 and CSS3 Leverage the popular jQuery library Control CSS with simple JavaScripts Read and write cookies Use some of the new ECMAScript 6 features today Get started with frameworks such as AngularJS Build browser add-ons and extensions Who This Book Is For: Those who have at least a basic understanding of HTML and web page design in general and want to move on to adding some extra interactivity to your pages. Those who currently code in another programming language and want to see what additional capabilities JavaScript can add to your armory Someone who has never done any computer programming. Browse through an HTML primer before using this book. You don't need to be an HTML expert to use JavaScript but should have a basic understanding. Contents at a Glance: Part I: First Steps with JavaScript 1 Introducing JavaScript 2 Writing Simple Scripts 3 Using Functions 4 DOM Objects and Built-in Objects Part II: Cooking with Code 5 Numbers and Strings 6 Arrays 7 Program Control Part III: Objects 8 Object-Oriented Programming 9 Scripting with the DOM 10 Meet JSON Part IV: HTML5 and CSS3 11 JavaScript and HTML5 12 JavaScript and CSS 13 Introducing CSS3 Part V: Using JavaScript Libraries 14 Using Libraries 15 A Closer Look at jQuery 16 The jQuery UI User Interface Library 17 Ajax with jQuery Part VI: Advanced Topics 18 Reading and Writing Cookies 19 Coming Soon to JavaScript 20 Using Frameworks 21 JavaScript Beyond the Web Page Part VII: Learning the Trade 22 Good Coding Practice 23 Debugging Your Code 24 JavaScript Unit Testing Part VIII: Appendices A Tools for JavaScript Development B JavaScript Quick Reference

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0134172175

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Farmhouse Ales

Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition

By: Phil Markowski

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Farmhouse Ales

Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition

By: Phil Markowski

Farmhouse Ales defines the results of years of evolution, refinement, of simple rustic ales in modern and historical terms, while guiding today's brewers toward credible—and enjoyable—reproductions of these old world classics.

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0984075674

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Diabetes Meal Planner

Deliciously simple recipes and weekly weight-loss menus – Supported by Diabetes UK

By: Phil Vickery

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Diabetes Meal Planner

Deliciously simple recipes and weekly weight-loss menus – Supported by Diabetes UK

By: Phil Vickery

Phil Vickery is not only a talented chef, but something rarer still, a sensible and sensitive one.' The Independent Phil Vickery's Diabetes Meal Planner gives anyone living with diabetes the tools to make the right choices and achieve a healthy, balanced lifestyle. The tempting dishes can be enjoyed by the whole family and range from Braised Aubergines with Spiced Butterbeans and Crispy Garlic to Five Vegetable Curry, Spring Braised Chicken with Little Gem, Peas and Beans, Banana, Oat and Peanut Cookie Balls and Plum Compote. All of them are accompanied by nutritional analysis and traffic light labelling that reveals at a glance what you are eating, as well as useful tips about food groups and ingredients.

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Kyle Books

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085783911X

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9780857839114

Game

New Ways to Prepare, Cook & Cure

By: Phil Vickery,Simon Boddy

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Game

New Ways to Prepare, Cook & Cure

By: Phil Vickery,Simon Boddy

Popular TV chef Phil Vickery and award-winning butcher Simon Boddy demystify the subject by showing you how to prepare and cook a whole range of wildfowl, fish, feathered and furred game at home. Phil's inventive and internationally influenced dishes cover everything from Pot Roast Coconut Stuffed Partridge and Spiced Pigeon with Green Lentils to Thai Quail Salad, Japanese Mirin Salmon and Pan-Fried Sea Trout with Warm Tomato Sauce Sauce, while Simon guides you through the skills and techniques needed to create everything from Hot Smoked Partridge and Spiced Hare and Chocolate Salami to Venison Bresaola.

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085783813X

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Exploding the Phone

The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell

By: Phil Lapsley

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Exploding the Phone

The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell

By: Phil Lapsley

“A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI. The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a groundbreaking, captivating book that “does for the phone phreaks what Steven Levy’s Hackers did for computer pioneers” (Boing Boing). “An authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly researched.” —The Atlantic “A fantastically fun romp through the world of early phone hackers, who sought free long distance, and in the end helped launch the computer era.” —The Seattle Times

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802193757

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Commando Hunt, and Linebacker air campaigns, independently air power repeatedly failed to achieve US military and political objectives. In contrast, air forces in combined arms operations succeeded more often than not. In addition to predicting how armies will react to a lethal air threat, he identifies operational factors of air superiority, air-to-ground capabilities, and friendly ground force capabilities, along with environmental factors of weather, lighting, geography and terrain, and cover and concealment in order to explain air power effectiveness. The book concludes with analysis of modern air warfare since Vietnam along with an assessment of tactical air power relevance now and for the future.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009364189

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Community Planning

Integrating social and physical environments

By: Phil Heywood

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Community Planning

Integrating social and physical environments

By: Phil Heywood

This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality of urban living. The author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organization and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and life styles. This involves bringing together fields of study and practice including urban and regional planning, design, communication, housing, community organization, employment, transport, and governance. Links drawn between personal values, human activities, physical spaces and societal governance assist this process of synthesis. Establishing a common vocabulary to discuss planning - for urban and regional planners, including health planners; and open space planners - enables both students and practitioners to work with each other and with those for whom they provide services to create stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities. The aims and roles of community planning are explored and the key planning operations are explained, including the phases and applications of community planning method; the planning and location of community facilities; the roles of design in shaping responsive community spaces; and the capacity of different types of community governance to improve the relations between citizens and societies. The book is organized into two main parts: after the first three chapters have established the interests and scope of community planning, the next six each moves from an account of issues and theoretical concerns, through a review of case studies, to summaries of leading practice. This positive approach is intended to encourage readers to develop their own capacities for effective participation and action. The concluding chapter draws together the contributions of preceding ones to demonstrate the integrity of the community planning process Supplementary website: www.wiley.com/go/heywood

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405198877

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Seriously Good! Gluten-free Cooking for Kids

By: Phil Vickery

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Seriously Good! Gluten-free Cooking for Kids

By: Phil Vickery

Phil Vickery believes that he can revolutionise the notoriously restrictive gluten-free diet. Using his Michelin-starred cooking talents and his nurturing of simple, honest ingredients, Phil has created over 150 recipes that coeliacs have until now only dreamed of. Food to enjoy, food that is nutritious, food that will make you feel good. There are recipes for breakfasts, healthy snacks, light lunches, easy suppers and sophisticated dinners, including Crispy Pork Salad with Lemon Dressing and a Lemon and Leek Risotto. Phil also brings his skills to cakes, puddings and pastries - recipes that are the hardest of all to find if you are following a gluten-free diet. The 30 sweet ideas include a Fudgy Almond Cake with Mint Syrup & Frosting, Millionaire's Shortbread with Bramley Apple Dip and a great kids' Birthday Cake Sponge. There are also a number of delicious bread ideas, including Chestnut & Roasted Onion Bread.

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Kyle Books

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0857837451

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9780857837455

Ordinary People

By: Phil Boast

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Ordinary People

By: Phil Boast

The village of Middlewapping, a small and ancient rural backwater of southern England, forms a stage upon or within which the characters in this tale live out their various lives. Each has come to the village via a very different road; for some, such as Sally who works in a bank in the town, to own a house around the village Green has fulfilled a lifetimes' ambition, whilst others such as Rose, a prostitute from one of the less salubrious parts of London, arrive here quite by chance and not of their own volition. And each brings to the tale the manifestation their own experience, and how they now see the world. They are as disparate in age as they are in background; from Will and Emily who are on the cusp of adulthood, to Daphne, in the twilight years of her life. In their middle years are Percival, a former city banker and drug addict, who has come to seek refuge from his former life, and Keith, who with his lady, Meadow, lives on a bus on the outskirts of the village, and yet all are or become in their own way dependant upon one another to gain passage through the business of life, and alliances are formed which would seem unlikely, unless one knew the story. And so, from the very mundane to the very significant, 'Ordinary People' attempts to chart the progress of these people; their loves, their ambitions, and their own very individual ways of living out their lives. There may be irony in the book title, the reader will decide this for themselves, but however this may be perceived, the author has done his best to bring each character to life, and to present them in their stark manifestation, and in their collective manifestation of the human spirit.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490723358

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Medicine: Preserving the Passion

By: Phil R. Manning,Lois DeBakey

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Medicine: Preserving the Passion

By: Phil R. Manning,Lois DeBakey

In Medicine: Preserving the Passion, Phil R. Manning, a pioneer and recognized authority in continuing medical education, and Lois DeBakey, a passionate advocate of critical reasoning and leading scholar in scientific communication, endeavor to shift the focus in lifelong learning from group exercises in a lecture hall to self-directed, practice-related activities. Al though most experts have applauded this new concept, few publications have addressed methods for implementation. The Manning-DeBakey book describes such methods as devised by outstanding clinicians and acade micians to obtain educational benefit from their clinical experience. Some techniques inspired by quality assurance, for example, these master cli nicians have used successfully to improve their knowledge, skills, and patient care. This book not only identifies the primary concerns in con tinuing medical education, but also offers sound recommendations and effective solutions and suggests future directions and approaches. The authors have analyzed the continuing educational practices of phy sicians in a wide range of environments, from small communities to the most acclaimed medical centers, and have extracted additional advice from the writings of past authorities like Osler. The resulting concepts will un doubtedly attract wide public attention. Office practice audit, self-directed learning, case indexing, patient education, computer-assisted education, and collegial networks, as well as regular reading, writing, and teaching, are among the successful methods described by physicians and surgeons who exemplify the highest standards of medical practice.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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147571954X

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9781475719543

Perioperative Medicine

Managing surgical patients with medical problems

By: Joanna Chikwe,Axel Walther,Phil Jones

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Perioperative Medicine

Managing surgical patients with medical problems

By: Joanna Chikwe,Axel Walther,Phil Jones

Medical handbooks rarely provide advice on what to do when your patient has to undergo surgery. Similarly surgical handbooks focus on conditions that need surgery, and the main problems caused by that surgery. In contrast, Perioperative Medicine is a concise, practical text that gives junior doctors the guidance that they need to cope with medical problems in surgical patients that might occur early in pre-assessment clinic, the night before surgery, out-of-hours or on the wards post-operatively. It is an invaluable guide to covering surgical patients, and appeals to a wide readership, including junior surgical doctors, medical doctors covering surgical acute admissions, and members of the hospital-at-night teams. It will also appeal to medical students interested in learning more about the practical management of patients, and all those who need to know how to sort out common, important and occasionally life threatening 'non-surgical' conditions that frequently happen in surgical patients, such as heart attacks, strokes and asthma. Previously published in the Oxford Pocket Medicine series, this new edition is fully revised and is written as a guide for trainees in surgery and its sub-disciplines dealing with day-to-day medical problems arising in surgical patients. It covers all the fundamentals of the medical care of surgical patients, with new sections on surgical oncology, theatre etiquette, and planning lists, with most text rewritten to reflect new headings and recent guidelines.

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OUP Oxford

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0191559849

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9780191559846

Once and Future Myths

The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives

By: Phil Cousineau

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Once and Future Myths

The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives

By: Phil Cousineau

DIVThe bestselling author of The Art of Pilgrimage examines the connection mythology to contemporary life, and what that means for self-improvement. Author Phil Cousineau elucidates how myths are the stories of real life whether people are conscious of them as myths or not. He shows readers how, by becoming aware of myths in both their historical and present form, they can read the world better, with a deeper understanding of work, love, creativity, and spirituality. The book retells classic myths such as Eros and Psyche and provides new accounts of more contemporary mythmakers such as Jim Morrison and Vincent van Gogh, illustrating how these legends have affected history, culture, and individuals. The timelessness of myth is conveyed through Cousineau’s discussions of the mythology of travel, mentors, cities, baseball, and vampires. Praise for Once and Future Myths “A tantalizing, delightfully personal travelogue through the landscape of some of the modern myths that shape and misshape our lives.” —Sam Keen, author of Learning to Fly and Hymns to an Unknown God “Cousineau draws on his extensive work with Joseph Campbell to reveal mythic insights for everyday life. He finds openings in the tidy margins of experience to the enveloping intensity of the archetypal dimension.” —Jonathon Young, PhD, founding curator, Joseph Campbell Archives and Library “Cousineau proves himself to be a meaning-maker par excellence as he delves deeply into some of the major concerns of our age . . . . Cousineau enables us to understand myth as the soulful pulse underlying our deepest yearnings for meaning.” —Spirituality & Practice

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Mango Media

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1609254104

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9781609254100

Phil Vickery's Essential Gluten Free

By: Phil Vickery

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Phil Vickery's Essential Gluten Free

By: Phil Vickery

Since Phil Vickery published his first gluten-free book in 2009, the number of people opting to go gluten-free has risen dramatically - 13% of the UK population now say they avoid gluten; in Finland the number of coeliacs has more than doubled in 20 years and in Italy it has doubled since 2007. A notoriously restrictive diet, it can seem the end of exciting food, but Phil uses his Michelin-starred cooking talents and simple, honest ingredients to create dishes that everyone in the family can eat - including the pizza, bread, pasta, cakes and biscuits that you thought you would never enjoy again. The 175 delicious recipes take their inspiration from cuisines around the world and range from Lasagnette with Asparagus and Tomatoes to Easy Pad Thai Noodles and American-style Pancakes with Pears and Almonds.

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Kyle Books

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085783729X

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Few and Chosen Cardinals

Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras

By: Tim McCarver,Phil Pepe

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Few and Chosen Cardinals

Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras

By: Tim McCarver,Phil Pepe

From Patsy Tebeau in 1900 to Tony LaRussa in 2002, the St. Louis Cardinals' managers have overseen rosters for one of the most historic franchises and some of the best players in the history of the game. Along the way immortals such as Cy Young, Stan Musial, Ozzie Smith, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Leo Durocher, Steve Carlton, and Mark McGwire have taken the field between the lines for the Cardinals. Few and Chosen: Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras does what no other book has ever attempted to do—list the best five players at each position by one of the best players in St. Louis' history. Part historical catalog, part biography, and part baseball primer for beginners and experts alike, Few and Chosen: Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras is ideal for every proud member of Cardinals nation—and any baseball fan who wants to learn more about the game.

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Triumph Books

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1617490563

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9781617490569

The Book of Absinthe

A Cultural History

By: Phil Baker

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The Book of Absinthe

A Cultural History

By: Phil Baker

A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink. La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous “special” ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as an herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Chronicling a fascinatingly lurid cast of historical characters who often died young, the absinthe scrapbook includes Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, August Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Allais, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. Along with discussing the rituals and modus operandi of absinthe drinking, Baker reveals the recently discovered pharmacology of how real absinthe actually works on the nervous system, and he tests the various real and fake absinthe products that are available overseas. “Formidably researched, beautifully written, and abundant with telling detail and pitch-black humor.” —The Daily Telegraph

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0802199771

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9780802199775

Dig

Sound and Music in Hip Culture

By: Phil Ford

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Sound and Music in Hip Culture

By: Phil Ford

Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienation from society--alienation due not to any specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of perception and consciousness. From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus to define himself against this system, to resist being stamped in its uniform, squarish mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity. Indeed, for many avant-garde subcultures music is their raison d'être. Hip intellectuals conceived of sound itself as a way of challenging meaning--that which is cognitive and abstract, timeless and placeless--with experience--that which is embodied, concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie Parker's "Ornithology," Ken Nordine's "Sound Museum," Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," and a range of other illuminating examples, Ford shows why and how music came to be at the center of hipness. Shedding new light on an enigmatic concept, Dig is essential reading for students and scholars of popular music and culture, as well as anyone fascinated by the counterculture movement of the mid-twentieth-century. Publication of this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Few and Chosen Dodgers

Defining Dodgers Greatness Across the Eras

By: Duke Snider,Phil Pepe

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Few and Chosen Dodgers

Defining Dodgers Greatness Across the Eras

By: Duke Snider,Phil Pepe

A Brooklyn and L.A. Dodger legend lists the top five all-time Dodgers at each position, spanning the eras of the club's long history and including names such as Jackie Robinson, PeeWee Reese, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Steve Garvey, Mike Piazza, and many more.

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1572438053

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Pork

By: Phil Vickery,Simon Boddy

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Pork

By: Phil Vickery,Simon Boddy

This celebration of all that is great about pork showcases its fantastic versatility. Chapters cover Shoulder & Ribs, Belly, Loin & Fillet, Ham, Bacon, Sausages and Oddbits (offal), and cover the recipes and techniques needed to make everything from Dry-cured Ham, Chorizo and Salami to Smoked Pig Cheek Pancetta and Black Pudding Fritters. The 100 international recipes hail from the USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hungary, France and India, among others, and explore the cooking and preserving of pork around the globe. The book also covers the rearing of pigs, including their feed regimes, day-to-day care and the best diets to produce flavoursome meat. Essential reading for pork lovers everywhere.

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Kyle Books

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0857837354

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The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca

By: Phil Lee

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The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca

By: Phil Lee

The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca is your ultimate travel guide to two of the Mediterranean's most beautiful islands, with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions. From Mallorca's wild and wonderful Serra de Tramuntana and the hustle and bustle of Palma, to Menorca's remote coves and fishing villages, discover the highlights these two islands have to offer inspired by dozens of colour photos. Find detailed historical coverage of the must-see sights and practical advice on travelling around whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca includes two full-colour sections on architecture and spectacular hiking and a crucial language section with basic, words, phrases and handy tips for pronunciation. You'll find up-to-date information on excursions including coastal walks from cove to cove, and riding the Palma-Soller train. Explore every corner of Mallorca and Menorca with expert background knowledge on everything from carob trees to fincas. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca

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Penguin

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1405387289

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Crisis of Empire

Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity

By: Phil Booth

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Crisis of Empire

Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity

By: Phil Booth

This book focuses on the attempts of three asceticsÑJohn Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus ConfessorÑto determine the ChurchÕs power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church, these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople's most vociferous religious critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in matters of the faith. Situated within the broader religious currents of the fourth to seventh centuries, this book throws new light on the nature not only of the holy man in late antiquity, but also of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the Middle Ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe.

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0520280423

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The Strivers

Adventure in Science, and Significance Forging a Fueled Future for Mankind Book I

By: Phil Wallace Payne

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The Strivers

Adventure in Science, and Significance Forging a Fueled Future for Mankind Book I

By: Phil Wallace Payne

Civilization is in an energy crisis. Human beings have wasted away the majority of their natural resources, but without energy, the world will die. Who will come to the rescue? In secret, a technical team of geniuses has developed a way to harvest usable and never ending energy from polar seas. In concept, their mission is simple; in delivery, it proves to be difficult and possibly tragic. The Strivers tells a story of life, love, and the labors undertaken by a brave few who believe in the energy of the ocean. From diverse backgrounds, the team is brought together by a shared mission; they change each other, and relationships evolve that never would have flourished without the world's energy crisis. They are inventors, but they are also human beings, looking for connection in an inhospitable place. With luck, the team will find a way to convert ocean energy into the next great fuel for mankind. If they fail, they will not only lose their own lives, but they will cause the extinction of planet Earth. Human life is in the hands of the strivers, who must harness the fury of the sea to save the world. Will they succeed, or will the weakness of their humanity make them fail?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477114971

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The Miami Police Worksheet

By: Phil Doherty

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The Miami Police Worksheet

By: Phil Doherty

The MIAMI POLICE WORKSHEET introduces readers to the "proud" yet sometimes "lurid" past of the Miami Police Department. Take an 09, check into service, and enjoy some real police stories from the offi cers that lived them.

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All the Worst Humans

How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

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All the Worst Humans

How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain. After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that’s made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he’s been up to for the past twenty years—and it isn’t pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer’s row of questionable clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar. In All the Worst Humans, Elwood unveils how the PR business works, and how the truth gets made, spun, and sold to the public—not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career. This is a piercing look into the corridors of money, power, politics, and control, all told in Elwood’s disarmingly funny and entertaining voice. He recounts a four-day Las Vegas bacchanal with a dictator’s son, plotting communications strategies against a terrorist organization in Western Africa, and helping to land a Middle Eastern dictator’s wife a glowing profile in Vogue on the same time the Arab Spring broke out. And he reveals all his slippery tricks for seducing journalists in order to create chaos and ultimately cover for politicians, dictators, and spies—the industry-secret tactics that led to his rise as a political PR pro. Along the way, Phil walks the halls of the Capitol, rides in armored cars through Abuja, and watches his client lose his annual income at the roulette table. But as he moved up the ranks, he felt worse and worse about the sleaziness of it all—until Elwood receives a shocking wake-up call from the FBI. This risky game nearly cost Elwood his life and his freedom. Seeing the light, Elwood decides to change his ways, and his clients, and to tell the full truth about who is the worst human.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1250321581

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December

By: Phil Rickman

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December

By: Phil Rickman

In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history—an experience that almost destroys them Thirteen years ago on a cold December night, a rock band called The Philosophers Stone gathered in the ancient ruins of an abbey to record their new album.The evening ended in bloodshed and death. Now, the tapes from that fateful recording session have been released as The Black Album, and the scattered members of the band know it's time for a reunion. Time to return to that dark December night—for one final performance.

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0857896903

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Dreamland

Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

By: Phil Patton

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Dreamland

Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

By: Phil Patton

There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and --not coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland--or Area 51. For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually visit was irresistible. What he found was a world where Chick Yeager and the secret planes of the Cold War converged with the Nevada Test Site and alien landings at Roswell. A think tank for aviation engineering, Dreamland can be seen from a summit outside the base's perimeter, a hundred miles north of Las Vegas. On Freedom Ridge, groups of airplane buffs gather with their camouflage outfits and binoculars. These are the Stealth chasers, the Skunkers, guys with code names like Agent X and Zero, hoping for a glimpse of the rumored raylike shapes of planes like Black Manta and "the mother ship." The most mysterious craft is Aurora, the successor to the legendary U-2, said to run on methane and fly as fast as Mach 6. Scanning the same horizon, the UFO buffs are looking for the hovering lights and doughnut-shaped contrails of alien aircraft. Are they looking at something sinister and mysterious? Imagined? Or more terrestrial than they think? Dreamland shows how much we need mystery in the information age, and how the cultures of nuclear power and airpower merge with the folklores of extraterrestrials and earthly conspiracies. Patton found people who found themselves in the mysteries of the place. John Lear, the son of aviation pioneer Bill Lear--who gave his name to the jet--served as a pilot for the CIA's Air America, but back home, he became fascinated by UFOs and eventually believed in it all: the underground bases, the alien-human hybrids, the secret treaties. But was he a true believer, or part of a disinformation campaign? Bob Lazar seems to know when the saucers will come, and has made three clear sightings at night along Dreamland's perimeter, but is his story real, or a vision of what's possible? Dreamland is an exploration of America's most secret place: the base for our experimental airplanes, the fount of UFO rumors, an offshoot of the Nevada Test Site. How this "blackspot" came to exist--its history, its creators, its spies and counterspies--is Phil Patton's tale. He tunnels into the subcultures of the conspiracy buffs, the true believers, and the aeronautic geniuses, creating a novelistic tour de force destined to make us all rethink our convictions about American know-how--and alien inventiveness.

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0307828603

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The RAF's Armourers

Safely Making Aircraft Dangerous Since the First World War

By: Tony Lamsdale,Phil Appleby

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The RAF's Armourers

Safely Making Aircraft Dangerous Since the First World War

By: Tony Lamsdale,Phil Appleby

It is said that one of the earliest trades in the world is that of the armorer. Historically, it is a profession dated slightly after prostitution, but well before banking! Since the birth of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 through to the modern Royal Air Force, the role of the armorer has been pivotal. Not for nothing did the founder of the RAF, Lord Trenchard, once declare: ‘The armorer – without him there is no need for an air force.’ In the years since the need for RAF armorers was first recognized, it has been a role that has evolved with the times. What has remained constant, however, is the fact that it is still a fascinating and potentially dangerous trade with many different branches and specialisms. In this book the authors, one of whom, Tony Lamsdale, is himself a former RAF armorer, reveal the previously untold story of how the trade has adapted to the most modern of military machines, the aircraft. The authors look at the shared history of the armorer and the RAF through the eyes of those who served. These veterans’ stories span decades, and their first-hand accounts and insights into conflict and peace-time operations demonstrate the qualities and characteristics that make armorers unique. The book starts with a brief history of the armorer, then before capturing the adventures and exploits of RAF armorers from the Second World War and on into the Cold War. The dangerous duties of the armorers on deployment in such places as the Falklands, Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan are all explored. There is also the question of having to learn of bomb dumps, the use of small arms and the unique world of the armorer with its own peculiar language and the camaraderie of the crew room. With each chapter brought to life through personal anecdotes and shared experiences, this book provides an insight into an utterly essential role which has remained largely hidden – until now.

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