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The Bosses Club

The conspiracy that caused the Johnstown Flood,destroying the iron and steel capital of America

By: Richard A. Gregory

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The Bosses Club

The conspiracy that caused the Johnstown Flood,destroying the iron and steel capital of America

By: Richard A. Gregory

The Johnstown Flood is an iconic tragedy in our nation ́s history, like the Chicago Fire, the sinking of the Titanic or the San Francisco earthquake. Many books have been written about the devastating 1889 Johnstown Flood, but few about the period before or after the flood: why did the town develop in such a remote valley and why didn ́t those who livied below the dangerous dam do something about it? My book, "The Bosses Club", answers those questions, but more importantly illuminates often overlooked circumstances that contributed to the origin for the catastrophe, like the Pennsylvania Canal and Pennsylvania Railroad. How their rapid development set the stage and led to the rivaly between Cambria Iron Company and Carnegie to dominate the burgeoning Steel industry.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456860291

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9781456860295

Angels in Early Medieval England

By: Richard Sowerby

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Angels in Early Medieval England

By: Richard Sowerby

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for the living and the dead; others erected stone monuments carved with images of winged figures; and still others made angels the subject of poetic endeavour and theological scholarship. This wealth of material has never been fully explored, and was once dismissed as the detritus of a superstitious age. Angels in Early Medieval England offers a different perspective, by using angels as a prism through which to study the changing religious culture of an unfamiliar age. Focusing on one corner of medieval Europe which produced an abundance of material relating to angels, Richard Sowerby investigates the way that ancient beliefs about angels were preserved and adapted in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. Between the sixth century and the eleventh, the convictions of Anglo-Saxon men and women about the world of the spirits underwent a gradual transformation. This book is the first to explore that transformation, and to show the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons tried to reconcile their religious inheritance with their own perspectives about the world, human nature, and God.

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278

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Oxford University Press

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0191088110

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9780191088117

Longhorn Hoops

The History of Texas Basketball

By: Richard Pennington,Denton A. Cooley

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Longhorn Hoops

The History of Texas Basketball

By: Richard Pennington,Denton A. Cooley

Longhorn Hoops documents the history of basketball at the University of Texas. For men's basketball, Richard Pennington goes season by season, describing every game the Longhorns have ever played from 1906 to 1998. He does the same for women's basketball, except for the first two chapters, which cover longer spans of time leading up to the establishment of basketball as a varsity sport for women in 1974. Pennington demonstrates that Texas basketball, while always secondary to King Football, actually has a long and colorful history. Beside stories of games won or lost, points scored, and rebounds collected, Pennington recalls the orange-and-white stars of yesteryear--from Clyde Littlefield to Reggie Freeman--and brings the greatest teams to life, including the unbeaten Steers of 1924, the Final Four team of 1947, Harold Bradley's 1963 team, Abe Lemons' 1978 NIT champions, and Tom Penders' 1990 Longhorns. Perhaps the most interesting story in Longhorn Hoops is how Anna Hiss, director of women's physical education at Texas from 1921 to 1957, helped lead a nationwide movement against intercollegiate competition for women, which shut down UT women's basketball for several decades and and made progress in the 1960s and 1970s much more difficult. Some determined co-eds got it going again, and, with the energy and direction of women's athletic director Donna Lopiano and coach Jody Conradt (whose teams have won more than 700 games), the Longhorns built a powerhouse program that reached its apex with an undefeated team in 1986, winning the NCAA championship with the heroics of freshman star Clarissa Davis. Basketball, as Pennington notes in his preface, is the most beautiful sport ofall, and its history at the University of Texas has now been told. This comprehensive book features a foreword by Dr. Denton Cooley, the world-famous heart surgeon who helped the Longhorns win an SWC title in 1939.

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University of Texas Press

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0292765851

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9780292765856

Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War

The Memory of All That

By: Richard Carr

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Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War

The Memory of All That

By: Richard Carr

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital. Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.

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274

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Routledge

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1317002407

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Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

By: Tobin A. Driscoll,Richard J. Braun

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Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

By: Tobin A. Driscoll,Richard J. Braun

Fundamentals of Numerical Computation?is an advanced undergraduate-level introduction to the mathematics and use of algorithms for the fundamental problems of numerical computation: linear algebra, finding roots, approximating data and functions, and solving differential equations. The book is organized with simpler methods in the first half and more advanced methods in the second half, allowing use for either a single course or a sequence of two courses. The authors take readers from basic to advanced methods, illustrating them with over 200 self-contained MATLAB functions and examples designed for those with no prior MATLAB experience. Although the text provides many examples, exercises, and illustrations, the aim of the authors is not to provide a cookbook per se, but rather an exploration of the principles of cooking. The authors have developed an online resource that includes well-tested materials related to every chapter. Among these materials are lecture-related slides and videos, ideas for student projects, laboratory exercises, computational examples and scripts, and all the functions presented in the book. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates in math, applied math, engineering, or science disciplines, as well as for researchers and professionals looking for an introduction to a subject they missed or overlooked in their education.?

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SIAM

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1611975085

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9781611975086

The Recorder

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard W. Griscom,David Lasocki

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The Recorder

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard W. Griscom,David Lasocki

A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization.

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658

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Routledge

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1135949921

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Superradiance

Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics

By: Richard Brito,Vitor Cardoso,Paolo Pani

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Superradiance

Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics

By: Richard Brito,Vitor Cardoso,Paolo Pani

This volume gives a unified picture of the multifaceted subject of superradiance, with a focus on recent developments in the field, ranging from fundamental physics to astrophysics. Superradiance is a radiation enhancement process that involves dissipative systems. With a 60 year-old history, superradiance has played a prominent role in optics, quantum mechanics and especially in relativity and astrophysics. In Einstein's General Relativity, black-hole superradiance is permitted by dissipation at the event horizon, which allows energy extraction from the vacuum, even at the classical level. When confined, this amplified radiation can give rise to strong instabilities known as "blackhole bombs'', which have applications in searches for dark matter, in physics beyond the Standard Model and in analog models of gravity. This book discusses and draws together all these fascinating aspects of superradiance.

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Springer

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3319190008

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9783319190006

The Christian World Around the New Testament

Collected Essays II

By: Richard Bauckham

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The Christian World Around the New Testament

Collected Essays II

By: Richard Bauckham

Most of these thirty-one essays by Richard Bauckham, a well-known New Testament scholar, were first published between 1979 and 2015 in journals and multi-authored volumes. Two are previously unpublished and one has not been published in English before. They range widely over early Christianity and early Christian literature in both the New Testament period and the early patristic period, reflecting the author's conviction that the historical study of early Christianity should not isolate the New Testament literature from other early Christian sources, such as the apostolic fathers and the Christian apocryphal literature. Some of the essays develop further the themes of the author's books on aspects of the Gospels, such as the intended audiences of the Gospels, the way in which Gospel traditions were transmitted, the role of the eyewitnesses in the origins of the Gospels, the importance of Papias's evidence about Gospel traditions, and the relationship between canonical and Gnostic Gospels. Some of the essays relate to important persons, such as Peter, Barnabas, Paul and James. These include a full investigation of the evidence for the martyrdom of Peter and an attempt to locate the estate of Publius where Paul stayed on Malta. There are studies of the Sabbath and the Lord's Day in both the New Testament and patristic periods. There are studies that survey most of the main categories of apocryphal Christian literature, including apocryphal Gospels and Acts, and with a special focus on the non-canonical apocalypses, such as the Apocalypse of Peter and the Latin Vision of Ezra.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161533054

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9783161533051

Mohammed, Charlemagne & the Origins of Europe

Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis

By: Richard Hodges,David Whitehouse

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Mohammed, Charlemagne & the Origins of Europe

Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis

By: Richard Hodges,David Whitehouse

In this concise book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse review the 'Pirenne thesis' in the light of archaeological information from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia.

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Cornell University Press

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0801492629

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George Burns Television Productions

The Series and Pilots, 1950-1981

By: Richard Irvin

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George Burns Television Productions

The Series and Pilots, 1950-1981

By: Richard Irvin

An elementary school dropout, George Burns went on to become one of America's most beloved entertainers. This book covers a neglected part of his career--his work as a television producer. Burns was not only a behind-the-scenes producer, but also filled the role of producer in various comedies in which he starred. Though his forte was situation comedies, Burns' company, McCadden Productions, also produced dramatic anthology series and pilots, including a pilot considered to be a precursor to the popular TV series Mission: Impossible. This book focuses on Burns' wide variety of production efforts, and follows his involvement in television productions from his 1950 comedy series with his wife, Gracie Allen, through his participation in the fantasy sitcom Mister Ed, and finally to his last producer credit in 1981, I Love Her Anyway, a remake of The Burns and Allen Show.

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McFarland

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1476616213

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9781476616216

The International Law of the Shipmaster

By: John A. C. Cartner,Richard Fiske,Tara Leiter

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The International Law of the Shipmaster

By: John A. C. Cartner,Richard Fiske,Tara Leiter

A comprehensive review of the laws and regulations governing the shipmaster including customary law, case law, statutory law, treaty law and regulatory law, covering: • A brief history of the shipmaster • Manning and crewing requirements in relation to vessel registration • Comparison of regimes of law of agency for shipmasters and crews across jurisdictions • Examination of shipmaster liability (civil and criminal)

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874

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Routledge

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113665397X

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The Ear of the Heart

An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows

By: Mother Dolores Hart O.S.B.,Richard Deneut

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The Ear of the Heart

An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows

By: Mother Dolores Hart O.S.B.,Richard Deneut

Recounts the life of the actress turned nun who entered a contemplative monastery after ten highly successful feature films.

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Ignatius Press

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1586177478

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One Nation Britain

History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today’s Politicians

By: Richard Carr

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One Nation Britain

History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today’s Politicians

By: Richard Carr

What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband’s speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these questions have been much asked, but not so often clearly answered. Outlining the historical context, and offering suggestions for contemporary thinkers, this comprehensive overview shows how all three major UK political parties have made a significant contribution to the One Nation agenda over the past century and a half. Re-asserting the One Nation tradition inherent in interventionist liberals like Keynes and Lloyd George, it encourages us to look beyond reformist high Tory politicians such as Benjamin Disraeli and sketches out precedents for current politicians in areas such as house building, local government, the living wage, a financial transaction tax, and the welfare state. Providing an accessible guide to the One Nation ideal, Richard Carr gives those of all political persuasions some food for thought whilst pointing the way for future policy making.

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1317085639

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Book's by Richard A. Gregory

The Bosses Club

The Bosses Club

Angels in Early Medieval England

Angels in Early Medieval England

Longhorn Hoops

Longhorn Hoops

Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War

Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War

Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

The Recorder

The Recorder

Superradiance

Superradiance

The Christian World Around the New Testament

The Christian World Around the New Testament

Mohammed, Charlemagne & the Origins of Europe

Mohammed, Charlemagne & the Origins of Europe

George Burns Television Productions

George Burns Television Productions

The International Law of the Shipmaster

The International Law of the Shipmaster

The Ear of the Heart

The Ear of the Heart

One Nation Britain

One Nation Britain

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