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Sociology

The Basics

By: Ken Plummer

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A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is packed with thought-provoking summaries, questions, quotations and activities. It offers an absorbing narrative about what we mean by the social, and how we can think about it, weaving in discussions of the personal, the political and social change, along with concepts and vivid contemporary examples, and answering questions such as: What is the scope, history and purpose of sociology? How do we cultivate ways of understanding society and ‘the social’? What is the state of the world we live in today? How do we analyse suffering and inequalities? What are key methods and tools for researching and thinking about society? How has digitalism reshaped sociology and its method? How might sociology help us understand the changes brought about by Covid-19? Does sociology have values? What is the role of sociology in making a better world? In this thoroughly revised and updated Third edition the reader is encouraged to think critically about the structures, meanings, histories and cultures found in the rapidly changing world we live in. With tasks to stimulate the sociological mind and suggestions for further reading both within the text and on an accompanying website, this book is essential reading for all those studying sociology and those with an interest in how the modern world works.

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Routledge

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1000432211

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Pioneering Social Research

Life Stories of a Generation

By: Thompson, Paul,Plummer, Ken,Neli Demireva

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Pioneering Social Research

Life Stories of a Generation

By: Thompson, Paul,Plummer, Ken,Neli Demireva

Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It combines a fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and influential social research with a valuable resource for future research and teaching on methods.

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Policy Press

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1447333578

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Sociology

The Basics

By: Ken Plummer

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Sociology

The Basics

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From The Grave To The Cradle

By: Keith Plummer

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From The Grave To The Cradle

By: Keith Plummer

The action in this novel takes place in East Anglia and India with a brief sojourn in South Africa. Sir David Fairfax heads some of the UK's most successful and profitable businesses. He is a Member of Parliament, a newly appointed Cabinet Minister and a happily married family man. But there is a dark side to Sir David. Privately he is a crooked, black marketeer, people trafficker and a sadistic tyrant who terrifies staff and managing directors alike. Did he really kill his first two wives in order to acquire their businesses before marrying his childhood sweetheart? Sir David has many dark secrets and one shocking secret he thought was safely buried in the past. But someone has discovered that secret and embarked on a revenge killing spree involving the gruesome and ritualistic murders of his family. What is the significance of vintage clothing and underwear found at the scene of the murders? What lies behind the family's bizarre Christmas presents? Are they echoes of the past, pointers to the future and the terrible fate awaiting the family, or both? In a highly original narrative spanning three continents, Detective Chief Inspector Ben Westwood of Essex Police and disgraced former detective James Palmer, race against time to solve the murders and try to prevent the inevitable – the death of Sir David himself. A worthy successor to the author's collection of short stories entitled 'Tales of the Completely Unexpected'.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1839759658

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Project Engineering

The Essential Toolbox for Young Engineers

By: Frederick Plummer

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Project Engineering

The Essential Toolbox for Young Engineers

By: Frederick Plummer

For newly hired young engineers assigned to their first real 'project', there has been little to offer in the way of advice on 'where to begin', 'what to look out for and avoid', and 'how to get the job done right'. This book gives this advice from an author with long experience as senior engineer in government and industry (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Exxon-Mobil). Beginning with guidance on understanding the typical organizational structure of any type of technical firm or company, author Plummer incorporates numerous hands-on examples and provides help on getting started with a project team, understanding key roles, and avoiding common pitfalls. In addition, he offers unique help on first-time experiences of working in other countries with engineering cultures that can be considerably different from the US. - Reviews essentials of management for any new engineer suddenly thrust into responsibility - Emphasizes skills that can get you promoted—and pitfalls that can get you fired - Expanded case study to show typical evolution of a new engineer handed responsibility for a major design project

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0080546218

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9780080546216

Apple Training Series

iLife '11

By: Dion Scoppettuolo,Mary Plummer

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Apple Training Series

iLife '11

By: Dion Scoppettuolo,Mary Plummer

In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife '11, Dion Scoppettuolo and Mary Plummer will have readers working wonders with iLife within the first few pages. Featuring high-quality footage and images, this book/DVD combo uses real life material and practical lessons that readers can apply immediately to their own projects. Focused lessons take readers step by step through all aspects of iLife '11 - everything from organizing and sharing their photo library to creating polished video and soundtracks. This guide is completely updated to cover all the new features in iLife '11 including the immersive New Full Screen Modes in iPhoto; the stunning new Movie Trailers in iMovie which can turn your home videos into Hollywood-style coming attractions; the new Flex Time and Groove Matching tools in Garageband '11, and much more! All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.

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Pearson Education

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013211755X

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Cosmopolitan Sexualities

Hope and the Humanist Imagination

By: Ken Plummer

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Cosmopolitan Sexualities

Hope and the Humanist Imagination

By: Ken Plummer

How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. In this compelling and original study, Ken Plummer argues the need for a practical utopian project of hope that he calls ‘cosmopolitan sexualities’. He asks: how can we connect our differences with collective values, our uniqueness with multiple group belonging, our sexual and gendered individualities with a broader common humanity? Showing how a foundation for this new ethics, politics and imagination are evolving across the world, he discusses the many possible pitfalls being encountered. He highlights the complexity of sexual and gender cultures, the ubiquity of human conflict, the difficulties of dialogue and the problems with finding any common ground for our humanity. Cosmopolitan Sexualities takes a bold critical humanist view and argues the need for positive norms to guide us into the future. Highlighting the vulnerability of the human being, Plummer goes in search of historically grounded and potentially global human values like empathy and sympathy, care and kindness, dignity and rights, human flourishing and social justice. These harbour visions of what is acceptable and unacceptable in the sexual and intimate life. Clearly written, the book speaks to important issues of our time and will interest all those who are struggling to finding ways to live together well in spite of our different genders and sexualities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745695086

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Rising Wind

Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

By: Brenda Gayle Plummer

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Rising Wind

Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

By: Brenda Gayle Plummer

African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through the wave of African independence movements of the early 1960s. Plummer first examines how collective definitions of ethnic identity, race, and racism have influenced African American views on foreign affairs. She then probes specific developments in the international arena that galvanized the black community, including the rise of fascism, World War II, the emergence of human rights as a factor in international law, the Cold War, and the American civil rights movement, which had important foreign policy implications. However, she demonstrates that not all African Americans held the same views on particular issues and that a variety of considerations helped shape foreign affairs agendas within the black community just as in American society at large.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807863866

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9780807863862

The Life Cycle Hypothesis

Groundbreaking new research into the regular rhythms and recurring patterns that underpin financial markets, the economy and human life

By: Tony Plummer

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The Life Cycle Hypothesis

Groundbreaking new research into the regular rhythms and recurring patterns that underpin financial markets, the economy and human life

By: Tony Plummer

The Life Cycle Hypothesis provides evidence of an ordered process behind the apparent randomness of financial asset price movements, economic fluctuations, and social trends. It shows how genuine information will have a dramatic effect on any system into which it is inserted, and will generate reactions that are essentially pre-programmed. These reactions involve the processes of advance and decline, and therefore embrace a set of specific lower-order fluctuations. Financial and economic analysts have long been familiar with the resulting phenomena, but have had difficulty providing a satisfactory explanation. The Life Cycle Hypothesis builds on the findings of Tony Plummer's previous book, The Law of Vibration, and shows that nature itself contains the answer. There is a universal blueprint that manages growth, that organises evolution, and that contends with decline. In effect, the shock of fresh information creates a new organism whose energy travels along a natural pathway between birth and death. It is this pathway that generates such widely diverse phenomena as personal mid-life crises, the swarming of innovations, recurring patterns in financial markets, and rhythmic oscillations in national economies. It is this pathway that produced the Great Depression of the 1930s, the inflation trauma of the 1970s, and the global financial crisis of 2007-08. The same pathway now suggests that there may be a major global crisis in the early years of the next decade. The Life Cycle Hypothesis has the potential to change the way that we understand the world. It will therefore have a natural appeal for investors, economists, and social scientists. It will also be of great interest to those who sense a connection between the diverse social and political upheavals that are currently impacting us, and who want to understand the forces at work.

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Harriman House Limited

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0857196340

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A Different Kind of Love

By: Edna Louise McQueen Plummer

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A Different Kind of Love

By: Edna Louise McQueen Plummer

A Different Kind of Love By: Edna Louise McQueen Plummer Margaret was a chic tall green-eyed beauty with curly red hair. She grew up in a large close-knit family. She was closest to her youngest sister, Betty-Jean. They were more than sisters. They were like best friends. Betty-Jean confided in her and kept no secrets. She’d tell Margaret her troubles and triumphs before she’d tell anyone. Margaret lived in a small quiet town, Hollis Hill, which was a warm and peaceful place. She was a head buyer for McQueen’s, a large department store chain, and had impeccable taste and fashion sense. She met Sherry on a business trip to the big city. Margaret preferred the comfort of her small town. She stopped off at a small bar for a drink, where she met Sherry. They hit it off right away. Sherry was a pretty brunette. She had a no-nonsense personality and a temper to match. She had a complicated history full of foster homes and sexual abuse, but Margaret fell head over heels. Betty-Jean and Sherry didn’t like each other. They only tolerated each other because of Margaret. As Sherry and Margaret’s relationship deepened, Betty-Jean and Sherry’s dislike for each other grew deeper. Sherry had started receiving crank calls and roses, which became a nuisance. Sherry and Margaret met the handsome Storm Winters at a launch party. He was from Tennessee. He was a business tycoon and a jetsetter. He took an instant liking to Margaret as she did to him. Margaret didn’t warm up to people right away. However, he was different. They became good friends. After that, their lives would never be the same.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480920444

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Apple Training Series

iLife (iLife '09 Edition)

By: Michael E. Cohen,Michael Wohl,Mary Plummer

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Apple Training Series

iLife (iLife '09 Edition)

By: Michael E. Cohen,Michael Wohl,Mary Plummer

In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife ’09, the authors have you working miracles with iLife within the first few pages. Featuring footage and images from around the world, this book uses real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to your own projects. Focused lessons take you step by step through all aspects of iLife ’09—everything from organizing and sharing your photo library to creating polished video and soundtracks. Along the way, you’ll produce movies, photobooks, podcasts, websites, blogs, and custom DVDs. • Master the iLife suite of tools quickly through fun, real-world projects • Turn your photos into cards, picture books, calendars, or a web gallery • Add motion and music to a slideshow, then publish it online • Create a video with polished transitions, music, effects, and even greenscreen • Learn “Hollywood-style” techniques for making better videos • Build a soundtrack in GarageBand, and learn to score a simple movie • Create websites, blogs, podcasts, and DVD menus in a snap. The Apple Training Series is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum of the Apple Training and Certification Program. To find out more about Apple Training, or to find an Authorized Training Center near you, go to www.apple.com/training. All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: · If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" · Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. · You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. · Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.

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Peachpit Press

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0132089289

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Terror

Color Code Red

By: S.R. Plummer

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Terror

Color Code Red

By: S.R. Plummer

This book takes Angus McPherson, a Canadian Joint Task Force two-member, to Kabul, where he is injured by a suicide bomber, which leads Angus into thee years of intense therapy. When Angus has almost recovered back to the physical shape he had before the attack, he decides to take a job in civilian life as a plumbing sales rep, working for a former football teammate. As a plumbing salesman, Angus heads to Chicago for the annual Kitchen and Bayh show. In Chicago Angus meets April, a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old teacher who is staying in town visiting her brother, an FBI antiterror agent. While at the show, Angus stumbles upon four suspicious men talking in Arabic, posing as Italian exporters. Anguss spider sense kicks in, and he contacts Aprils brother Dave to inform Dave off his suspicions. Together Dave and Angus try to prevent a couple of terror attacks scheduled for that week in Chicago. After the episode in Chicago, April heads to Toronto to visit Angus, her newfound boyfriend. At the same time, Dave heads to Toronto, following some leads he is following up on that have tied the al-Qaeda terrorists with the Russian mob that is based in Toronto. While in Toronto Dave gets too close to the bad guys as they arrest the leading Russian mob leader. This prompts the mob to fight back by trying to kill Daves partner and then by kidnapping April in hopes to have their boss released. After Dave contacts Angus , Dave and Angus race to free April from the clutches of the Russian mob. Dave and Angus who has now come out of retirement trying to free his newfound girlfriend April. Dave and Angus follow a lead to Quantanimo Bay where they learn of another terror plot to set off two suitcase nuclear explosives in the United States. After interrogating the Russian prisoner who is now being held at Gitmo about the nuclear terror plot, Dave and Angus fly to Rochester Hills Michigan where they learn that the two suitcase bombs have already been shipped to a terror cell in New York City. Dave and Angus race off to New York and race against the clock in an attempt to stop the planned nuclear attack.

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AuthorHouse

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1504909267

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In Spite of Myself

A Memoir

By: Christopher Plummer

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In Spite of Myself

A Memoir

By: Christopher Plummer

Canada’s most celebrated and acclaimed actor lets loose in a magnificent memoir that will delight and enchant readers across the country. A rollicking, rich self-portrait written by one of today’s greatest living actors. The story of a “young wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten” – his privileged Montreal background, rich in Victorian gentility, included steam yachts, rare orchid farms, music lessons in Paris and Berlin – “who tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big, bad world of theater not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down.” Plummer writes of his early acting days – on radio and stage with William Shatner and other fellow Canadians; of the early days of the Stratford Festival in southern Ontario; of his Broadway debut at twenty-four in The Starcross Story, starring Eva Le Gallienne (“It opened and closed in one night, but what a night!”); of joining Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Company (its other members included Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Peter O’Toole); of his first picture, Stage Struck, directed by Sidney Lumet; and of The Sound of Music, which he affectionately dubbed “S&M.” He writes about his legendary colleagues: Dame Judith Anderson (“the Tasmanian devil from Down Under”); Sir Tyrone Guthrie; Sir Laurence Olivier; Elia Kazan (“this chameleon of chameleons might change into you, wear your skin, steal your soul”); and “that reprobate” Jason Robards, among many others. A revelation of the wild and exuberant ride that is the actor’s – at least this actor’s – life.

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Vintage Canada

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0307373126

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9780307373120

Documents of Life 2

An Invitation to A Critical Humanism

By: Ken Plummer,Kenneth Plummer

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Documents of Life 2

An Invitation to A Critical Humanism

By: Ken Plummer,Kenneth Plummer

This study champions the use of life stories and other perosnal documents in social research. It considers recent developments in the humanist approach to social research, looking at writing and narrative, memory, and the auto/biographical society.

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SAGE

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0761961321

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9780761961321

Critical Humanism

A Manifesto for the 21st Century

By: Ken Plummer

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Critical Humanism

A Manifesto for the 21st Century

By: Ken Plummer

We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new transformative understanding of humanity. Critical Humanism critically reflects upon and reimagines humanism for the twenty-first century. What is now required is a fresh, wide-ranging imaginary of an open, worldly, plural and caring humanity. It needs to take a critical stance towards older, often divisive ideas of what it means to be human, while reconnecting to a wider understanding of the rich diversity of life in the pluriverse. In an age of post- and transhumanist turns, Plummer provides a personal, political and passionate call for thinkers, researchers and activists to not turn their backs on humanism. We need instead to create a vital new political imaginary of being human in a connected planet. We simply cannot afford to be anti-human or posthuman. Restoring our belief in humanity has never been more important for edging towards a better world for all.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509527982

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9781509527984

Intimate Citizenship

Private Decisions and Public Dialogues

By: Ken Plummer

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Intimate Citizenship

Private Decisions and Public Dialogues

By: Ken Plummer

Solo parenting, in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, gay and lesbian families, cloning and the prospect of �designer babies,� Viagra and the morning-after pill, HIV/AIDS, the global porn industry, on-line dating services, virtual sex--whether for better of worse, our intimate lives are in the throes of dramatic change. In this thought-provoking study, sociologist Ken Plummer examines the transformations taking place in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts--the �intimate troubles�--to which these changes constantly give rise. In surveying the intimate possibilities now available to us and the issues swirling around them, Plummer focuses especially on the overlap of public and private. Increasingly, our most private decisions are bound up with public institutions such as legal codes, the medical system, or the media. What impact does the increasingly public character of personal life have on our sense of ourselves and on how we view our own intimate choices? To navigate our way through a world in which people�s private lives are so often subject to public scrutiny and debate, and in which the public sphere is increasingly pluralized and contested, we must broaden our understanding of what it means to be a citizen. Through the idea of "intimate citizenship," Plummer sets an important agenda for the years to come.

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University of Washington Press

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0295802243

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9780295802244

Toy Train Repair Made Easy

21 Lionel Postwar Projects

By: Ray L. Plummer

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Toy Train Repair Made Easy

21 Lionel Postwar Projects

By: Ray L. Plummer

Learn how to take it apart, fix it, rewire it, and make your Lionel train or accessory work again! Step-by-step instructions in this detailed 21-project book can help you get your collection running.

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