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The Adventures of Chipper, The Dog of Dogdom

By: Richard Henry Carlson

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The Adventures of Chipper, The Dog of Dogdom

By: Richard Henry Carlson

Owners of beloved dogs will universally agree that, sometimes, it seems their pet understands everything that is being said around them. In this fantasy, Chipper provides some answers to the question: What adventures might a dog have if he could actually read words and understand what is being said by those nearby? Sit down and shake a paw with this special canine as he grows from a clumsy pup to a crime-stopping member of the local police force. Along the way, he learns to read. He is dog-napped, injured and almost euthanized. He becomes a dog who counsels other dogs...and he uses a special computer to tell the story of his adventures. Join Mary Anne and Chipper, together with their good friend Monty and his dog, Maggie, as they create a training school for dogs - The Learning Lab - whose results amaze and mystify the owners of the dogs in attendance. But these undertakings can't even compare with the superlative life-lessons Mary Anne and Chipper learn from Mom and Dad and Mr. Robb, their wise and kindly neighbor. This quirky canine is sure to find his way into your heart. He may not be able to speak, but Chipper's waggy-tailed escapades will keep you wondering, "...and what else can this dog do?"...

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FriesenPress

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1460213297

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9781460213292

The Blackbird

An Alan Grofield Novel

By: Richard Stark

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The Blackbird

An Alan Grofield Novel

By: Richard Stark

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating and more hot-blooded than Parker; think fewer guns, more dames. Not that there isn’t violence and adventure aplenty. The third Grofield novel, The Blackbird shares its first chapter with Slayground: after a traumatic car crash, Parker eludes the police, but Grofield gets caught. Lying injured in the hospital, Grofield is visited by G-Men who offer him an alternative to jail, and he finds himself forced into a deadly situation involving international criminals and a political conspiracy. With a new foreword by Sarah Weinman that situates the Grofield series within Westlake’s work as a whole, this novel is an exciting addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.

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194

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University of Chicago Press

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0226770435

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9780226770437

Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

Selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations

By: Richard Passingham

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Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

Selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations

By: Richard Passingham

A successor to the acclaimed 'Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex', 'Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex' presents a careful study of the anatomical connections in this brain region, showing how each area and subarea of the brain has a unique pattern of connections, and exploring the transformation that this area performs - from its inputs to it outputs. The book starts with two chapters of foundational material, before considering five subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex, and looking at the transformation that each one performs. Next it considers how the prefrontal cortex interacts with the rest of the brain, including not only cortical areas but also subcortical areas such as the basal ganglia and cerebellum. The book ends with a final section in which these principles are applied to the human brain. It starts by discussing the expansion of the prefrontal cortex during human evolution. It then considers how the human brain has co-opted mechanisms that existed in our primate ancestors, and by providing new inputs had extended them so as to support reasoning, remembering events from the distant past and imagining events in the distant future, the sense of self, language, the ability to understand the mental states of others, and the ability to cooperate and learn social and moral rules. Written by a leading brain scientist, the book will be an important and influential contribution to the neuroscience literature.

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528

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Oxford University Press

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019258300X

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9780192583000

In Search of the Republic

Public Virtue and the Roots of American Government

By: Richard Vetterli,Gary C. Bryner

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In Search of the Republic

Public Virtue and the Roots of American Government

By: Richard Vetterli,Gary C. Bryner

When In Search of the Republic was originally published in 1987, scholarly interpretations of the concept of virtue in the American founding were considered peripheral to mainstream political theory. Since then, the authors' arguments that public virtue, civic responsibility, and private morality were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' political thought is now accepted by a growing number of contemporary political theorists. This revised edition includes a new preface that places In Search of the Republic within the context of contemporary debates over the role of virtue and religion in early American political discourse. This is a superb introduction for students and scholars interested in learning about the moral, political, and constitutional theories of the Founding Fathers.

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294

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847681734

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9780847681730

Yours, D3

A Novel

By: Richard A. Davis

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Yours, D3

A Novel

By: Richard A. Davis

Young Alex Dunham was coming of age in turbulent days, and his life was complicated by a rigid, controlling father. Fortunately, however, Alex found love early, in the ebullient Steffi. This was the love that would sustain him as he, like so many others, entered that great maelstrom of our times, World War II. The conflicts of a courageous officer who experienced the violence of combat and the death of his men, are explored in perceptive detail in this intriguing work, richly evocative of those lost years.

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0966523407

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9780966523409

The Cunning of History

The Holocaust and the American Future

By: Richard L. Rubenstein

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The Cunning of History

The Holocaust and the American Future

By: Richard L. Rubenstein

Theologian Richard L. Rubenstein writes of the Holocaust, why it happened, why it happened when it did, and why it may happen again and again. "Few books possess the power to leave the reader with the feeling of awareness that we call a sense of revelation. The Cunning of History seems to me to be one of these . . . Rubenstein is forcing us to reinterpret the meaning of Auschwitz—especially, though not exclusively, from the standpoint of its existence as part of a continuum of slavery that has been engrafted for centuries onto the very body of Western civilization. Therefore, in the process of destroying the myth and the preconception, he is making us see that that encampment of death and suffering may have been more horrible than we had ever imagined. It was slavery in its ultimate embodiment. He is making us understand that the etiology of Auschwitz—to some, a diabolical, perhaps freakish excrescence, which vanished from the face of the earth with the destruction of the crematoria in 1945—is actually embedded deeply in a cultural tradition that stretches back to the Middle Passage from the coast of Africa, and beyond, to the enforced servitude in ancient Greece and Rome. Rubenstein is saying that we ignore this linkage, and the existence of the sleeping virus in the bloodstream of civilization, at risk of our future." — William Styron, from the Introduction.

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132

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Harper Collins

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0061852899

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9780061852893

Book's by Richard Henry Carlson

The Adventures of Chipper, The Dog of Dogdom

The Adventures of Chipper, The Dog of Dogdom

The Blackbird

The Blackbird

Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex

In Search of the Republic

In Search of the Republic

Yours, D3

Yours, D3

The Cunning of History

The Cunning of History

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