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Dragon Force

The Last Salute

By: R.D. Moore

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An intriguing fast-paced story focused on exploits during the Vietnam War taking Americans beyond the borders of South Vietnam." - Michael Hayes, Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Vietnam 67-68, 70-71

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1681818124

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9781681818122

Who Dunn It??? The Memoirs of a Live Dead Man!!! Or Not???

By: R.D. Peterson

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Who Dunn It??? The Memoirs of a Live Dead Man!!! Or Not???

By: R.D. Peterson

(1) Have you ever thought with today's technology if the United States became involved in another world war how the United States would be victorious without firing a shot and the rest of the world not know the war existed? (2) With today's technology, have you ever pondered how the next World War would be conducted? (3) With recent revelations concerning the N.S.A. and the C.I.A., do you trust our clandestine covert operations? (4) Do you feel our government is telling us the truth or do

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1633380947

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9781633380943

The Divided Self

An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

By: R. D. Laing

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The Divided Self

An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

By: R. D. Laing

The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition, but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world. Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the 1960s, yet his work was most significant for its humane attitude, which put the patient back at the centre of treatment. Includes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David. 'One of the twentieth century's most influential psychotherapists' Guardian 'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time ... an icon of the 1960s counter-culture' The Times

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Penguin UK

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0141962089

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9780141962085

Dark Matter

By: R.D. Cain

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Dark Matter

By: R.D. Cain

A disgraced Toronto police detective tries to save a missing teenage girl in a novel that “ramps up the suspense to fever pitch” (Publishers Weekly). He may have been cleared of murder charges, but that doesn’t mean Steve Nastos’s troubles are over. Some of his former colleagues on the force still think he belongs in prison, and his wife wants him to finally free himself from the darkness that has been fueling his law enforcement career—and his life. But he’s made a promise to a stranger: to find Lindsay Bannerman, a troubled teenager who has gone missing from her upper-class adoptive home. Teaming up with his similarly disgraced lawyer, he is about to unravel a tale of sadistic abuse and follow a trail littered with lies, deceptions, and lifeless bodies . . .

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ECW/ORIM

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1770902570

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9781770902572

Wrestlecrap

The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling

By: Randy Baer,R. D. Reynolds

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Wrestlecrap

The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling

By: Randy Baer,R. D. Reynolds

WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually a reasonable idea' Was George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle, really the best gimmick that a major promotional organization could come up with' And who would charge fans to watch a wrestler named the Gobbeldy Gooker emerge from an egg' In an attempt to answer such questions and figure out just what the promoters were thinking, authors Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds go beyond what wrestling fans saw on the screen and delve into the mindset of those in the production booth. In some instances, the motivations driving the spectacle prove even more laughable than what was actually seen in the ring. Covering such entertainment catastrophes as an evil one-eyed midget and a wrestler from the mystical land of Oz, not to mention the utterly comprehensible Turkey-on-a-Pole match (a gimmick which AWA fans might recall), WrestleCrap is hysterically merciless in its evaluation of such organizations as the WCW and the WWF. This retrospective look at the wrestling world's misguided attempts to attract viewers will leave wrestling fans and critics alike in stitches.

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ECW Press

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1554905443

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9781554905447

New Earth

The Sedna/Kern Incident

By: R. D. Pittman

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New Earth

The Sedna/Kern Incident

By: R. D. Pittman

The third installment of the New Earth Trilogy finds Alex Hanken facing the ultimate threat to the planet Earth. In the terrifying conclusion of this series Alex must not only summon his courage, but the nation's as well, to face what could very well be the end of mankind. Alex reconstitutes his team of specialists from the ranks of his own family, the FBI, the U.S. Navy Seals, and the two Russian spies that came together to help in restoring democracy to the United States in the second book of the trilogy. A massive effort is put in motion to help prepare the nation for the impending disaster. The nation's economic might is unleashed against the backdrop of an unrelenting force of the universe moving toward the planet...a heartless, mindless entity that knows no geographic boundaries, speaks no language, and recognizes no God. While the world prepares for the inevitable rendezvous with fate, the story takes you around the globe so you can witness the drama that unfolds in people's lives and how they react to the reality they may perish very soon. This book is about courage, faith, human nature, and what desperate people will do when they fear for their lives. But in the end it's about an American patriot that steps forward when the nation needs him the most.

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1456606026

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9781456606022

A History of Old English Meter

By: R. D. Fulk

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A History of Old English Meter

By: R. D. Fulk

In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802220

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9781512802221

Inventing Secondary Education

The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

By: Millar,R.D. Gidney

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Inventing Secondary Education

The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

By: Millar,R.D. Gidney

Inventing Secondary Education is the first contemporary examination of the origins of the Ontario high school, and one of the very few which focuses on the development of secondary education anywhere in Canada. The authors chart the transformation of the high school from a peripheral to a central social institution. They explore the economic and social pressures which fuelled the expansion of secondary education, the political conflicts which shaped the schools, and the shifts in curriculum as new forms of knowledge disrupted traditional pedagogical values. By the late nineteenth century the high school had acquired a secure clientele by anchoring itself firmly to the educational and professional ambitions of young people and their families. Drawn from an enormous amount of empirical data derived from school records, census manuscript material, assessment rolls, and literary and biographical sources, Inventing Secondary Education enriches our historical understanding of schooling in nineteenth-century Ontario society and illuminates some of the roots of modern educational dilemmas.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773562397

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9780773562394

Sanity, Madness and the Family

By: R.D Laing,Aaron Esterson

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Sanity, Madness and the Family

By: R.D Laing,Aaron Esterson

In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.

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1315473879

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9781315473871

Book's by R.D. Blake

Dragon Force

Dragon Force

Who Dunn It??? The Memoirs of a Live Dead Man!!! Or Not???

Who Dunn It??? The Memoirs of a Live Dead Man!!! Or Not???

The Divided Self

The Divided Self

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Wrestlecrap

Wrestlecrap

New Earth

New Earth

A History of Old English Meter

A History of Old English Meter

Inventing Secondary Education

Inventing Secondary Education

Sanity, Madness and the Family

Sanity, Madness and the Family

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