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Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research

By: Jean-Louis Sébédio,William W. Christie,Richard Adlof

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Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research

By: Jean-Louis Sébédio,William W. Christie,Richard Adlof

Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research, Volume 2 is the second book in a series devoted entirely to conjugated linoleic acid. This book has updated information on the analysis, biochemistry and applications of conjugated fatty acids in an attempt to make Volume 2, in conjunction with Volume 1 (published in 1999), the most comprehensive, up-to-date sources of CLA-related information available today. Both scientific and commercial views are presented, with the same data sometimes interpreted differently.

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The American Oil Chemists Society

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1893997286

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Reading Virgil and His Texts

Studies in Intertextuality

By: Richard F. Thomas

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Reading Virgil and His Texts

Studies in Intertextuality

By: Richard F. Thomas

Dynamic textual interplay: inherent and inherited

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108972

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Independence

By: Richard N. Piland,Marietta Wilson Boenker

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Independence

By: Richard N. Piland,Marietta Wilson Boenker

Chiefly photographs of historical Independence, Missouri, the start of wagon trails, the home of President Truman, and the headquarters of the Community of Christ Church.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738552194

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Internal Family Systems Therapy

By: Richard C. Schwartz

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Internal Family Systems Therapy

By: Richard C. Schwartz

This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.

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Guilford Publications

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1462513956

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Suspension

A Novel

By: Richard E. Crabbe

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Suspension

A Novel

By: Richard E. Crabbe

May 31, 1883, 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of New York and Brooklyn. Anxious to escape the heat, overcrowding, and disease of the tenements, thousands stream onto the soaring span. To breathe free, high above the choking confines of the city is an experience like no other. An engineering marvel of transcending beauty, the bridge is simply breathtaking. In precisely five minutes, it will fall. Seven desperate men, former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs, have labored for years to destroy the bridge. A symbol of hated Yankee supremacy, the bridge is the creation of Chief Engineer, Washington Roebling. They have stalked him down through the years, with hatred born of bitter loss. His actions at Gettysburg have earned him terrible retribution. It is his bridge, his life's work that will pay the price. The river will run red but for one man. Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock is one step behind the conspirators. Working through a series of murderous dead-ends, Braddock has dogged the seven men from the cables of the bridge to the shadowy alleys of the Lower East Side and the back streets of Richmond, Virginia. With the help of an eager roundsman, new to the force, he has slowly drawn closer to the unthinkable truth, a truth that none can accept. Braddock's adversaries are many. Enemies within the police department seek to draw him deeper into a cesspool of corruption from which there seems no escape. To lose that battle is to surrender all hope, for his hands are far from clean already. Braddock must prevail against the enemy within if the bridge is to be saved. It is the love of Mary, the captivating Madame of a mid-town brothel that helps him find the way. Their fates are bound together, as surely as they are bound to the bridge. But it is Mike, a boy of the tenements, who literally holds the key to all their futures. Suspension is a riveting historical thriller filled with fascinating details of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Macmillan

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1429972564

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Godfather of the Music Business

Morris Levy

By: Richard Carlin

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Godfather of the Music Business

Morris Levy

By: Richard Carlin

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Record Labels – Best History (2017) This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. Levy operated one of the first integrated clubs on Broadway and helped build the careers of Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell and most notably aided the reemergence of Count Basie. In 1957, he founded a record label, Roulette Records. Roulette featured many of the significant jazz artists who played Birdland but also scored top pop hits with acts like Buddy Knox, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Joey Dee and the Starliters, and, in the mid-1960s, Tommy James. Stories abound of Levy threatening artists, songwriters, and producers, sometimes just for the sport, other times so he could continue to build his empire. Along the way, Levy attracted "investors" with ties to the Mafia, including Dominic Ciaffone (a.k.a. "Swats" Mulligan), Tommy Eboli, and the most notorious of them all, Vincent Gigante. Gigante allegedly owned large pieces of Levy's recording and retail businesses. Starting in the late 1950s, the FBI and IRS investigated Levy but could not make anything stick until the early 1980s, when Levy foolishly got involved in a deal to sell remaindered records to a small-time reseller, John LaMonte. With partners in the mob, Levy tried to force LaMonte to pay for four million remaindered records. When the FBI secretly wiretapped LaMonte in an unrelated investigation and agents learned about the deal, investigators successfully prosecuted Levy in the extortion scheme. Convicted in 1988, Levy did not live to serve prison time. Stricken with cancer, he died just as his last appeals were exhausted. However, even if he had lived, Levy's brand of storied high life was effectively bust. Corporate ownership of record labels doomed most independents in the business, ending the days when a savvy if ruthless hustler could blaze a path to the top.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496805712

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The Dishonest Murderer

By: Richard Lockridge,Frances Lockridge

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The Dishonest Murderer

By: Richard Lockridge,Frances Lockridge

The Dishonest Murderer, first published in 1949 and book no. 13 in the Mr. and Mrs. North series, finds the couple attempting to solve the case of a murdered U.S. senator, a case which may involve members of the senator’s own family. This Mr. & Mrs. North mystery has the couple involved in solving the case of a murdered senator, a case which may (or may not) involve members of his family. John Michalski provides subtle vocal characterizations for most characters; police and villains are given various New York accents. Conversations are well paced and convey the emotions of the moment, a plus since much of the action is detailed through dialogue. Thanks to a few references to the decade and Michalski’s brisk and often wry narration, this plays well today for fans of gentler, less graphic murder mysteries.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789129427

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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

A New History of the American West

By: Richard White

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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

A New History of the American West

By: Richard White

A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboy herding the dogies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they have derived from their transformation of the land. Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labor history, as well as on more traditional western sources, It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own is about the creation of the region rather than the vanishing of the frontier. Richard White tells how the various parts of the West—its distinct environments, its metropolitan areas and vast hinterlands, the various ethnic and racial groups and classes—are held together by a series of historical relationships that are developed over time. Widespread aridity and a common geographical location between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean would have provided but weak regional ties if other stronger relationships had not been created. A common dependence on the deferral government and common roots in a largely extractive and service-based economy were formative influences on western states and territories. A dual labor system based on race and the existence of minority groups with distinctive legal status have helped further define the region. Patterns of political participation and political organization have proved enduring. Together, these relationships among people, and between people and place, have made the West a historical creation and a distinctive region. From Europeans contact and subsequent Anglo-American conquest, through the civil-rights movement, the energy crisis, and the current reconstructing of the national and world economies, the West has remained a distinctive section in a much larger nation. In the American imagination the West still embodies possibilities inherent in the vastness and beauty of the place itself. But, Richard White explains, the possibilities many imagined for themselves have yielded to the possibilities seized by others. Many who thought themselves cowboys have in the end turned out to be dogies.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806148993

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Central Neural States Relating Sex and Pain

By: Richard J. Bodnar,Kathryn Grace Commons,Donald W. Pfaff

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Central Neural States Relating Sex and Pain

By: Richard J. Bodnar,Kathryn Grace Commons,Donald W. Pfaff

Explores the authors' novel and provocative hypothesis that neural mechanisms controlling reproductive behavior and pain are intricately intertwined." -- Karen J. Berkley, Ph.D., Florida State University.

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JHU Press

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0801868270

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The Right Thing

By: James Richard Larson

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The Right Thing

By: James Richard Larson

From James Richard Larson, author of The Eye of Odin and Wolfgar: The Story of a Viking, comes his third novel, a study in horror titled The Right Thing. When a woman is found wandering on a quiet rural road her incoherent rambling is dismissed as fantasy. But others are about to learn that the man from the woods, the man attired in black, intends to pay them a visit as well. Not only will he enter their lives, he will alter their very reality. The Right Thing will take you on a journey into a world of kabbalistic magic, a world of trance and ritual, where an ancient evil is released from the power of one woman's will. So pick up the wand, sword, cup and pentacle, step into the magic circle, and accompany us on a tour of the dark place.

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iUniverse

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0595870678

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Theory Building in Applied Disciplines

By: Richard A. Swanson,Thomas J. Chermack

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Theory Building in Applied Disciplines

By: Richard A. Swanson,Thomas J. Chermack

A Comprehensive Method, Tools, and Techniques for Building Sound Theory Richard Swanson and Thomas Chermack present a complete five-step approach for developing sound theory in applied disciplines, from conceptualizing a theory to creating relevant assessment criteria, establishing a research agenda to test the theory’s validity, applying the theoretical concepts in the real world, and using that experience to further refine and improve the theory. The method is not restricted to any single discipline, nor is it limited by any research ideology. The authors provide a set of tools for each phase of the process, making this book accessible to a wide audience. And in addition to examples in each chapter, they offer two extended case examples of full theory building.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1609947347

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Foundations of Human Resource Development, Third Edition

By: Richard A. Swanson

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Foundations of Human Resource Development, Third Edition

By: Richard A. Swanson

The third edition of this classic is a must-have text for the human resource development (HRD) profession. It has with brand-new material on the impact of technology, globalization, and emerging business trends on HRD practice. Human Resource Development is a large field of practice but a relatively young academic discipline. For the last two decades, Foundations of Human Resource Development has fulfilled the field's need for a complete and thoughtful foundational text. This essential text provides an up-to-date overview of the HRD profession, along with the terminology and processes required for sound HRD research and practice. Readers will gain a basic understanding of • HRD models and theories that support best practice • History and philosophical foundations of the field • HRD's role in learning, performance, and change in organizations This new edition has been updated throughout and contains new chapters on assessment, technology, globalization, and future challenges. Examples of best practices are included, along with variations in core thinking, processes, interventions, tools, and much more. This must-have reference will help both practitioners and academics add clarity to their professional journeys.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523092106

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Foundations of Human Resource Development

Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment

By: Richard A Swanson

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Foundations of Human Resource Development

Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment

By: Richard A Swanson

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523092114

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9781523092116

The Angry Assassin

By: Richard McDaniel

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The Angry Assassin

By: Richard McDaniel

A Matt Dawson Cybernetic Investigation A man and woman and their new expensive sailboat are missing. Are they lost at sea or is there a more sinister explanation? If falls to Matt Dawson to track them down.

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Lulu.com

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1411615417

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Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Expanded Second Edition

By: Richard Porton

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Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Expanded Second Edition

By: Richard Porton

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism’s long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema’s predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zéro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052218

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Ethical Practice in the Human Services

From Knowing to Being

By: Richard D. Parsons,Karen L. Dickinson

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Ethical Practice in the Human Services

From Knowing to Being

By: Richard D. Parsons,Karen L. Dickinson

Ethical Practice in the Human Services by Richard D. Parsons and Karen L. Dickinson moves beyond addressing ethical issues and principles to helping readers actually practice ethical behavior through awareness of their personal morals, values, and choices. With coverage of ethical standards from six different associations, the text addresses ethical issues and principles in social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. Robust pedagogy includes case illustrations and guided exercises to give readers a deeper understanding of the underlying moral principles and values that serve as a foundation for the various ethical codes.

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SAGE Publications

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1506332900

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The Chain Gang

One Newspaper Versus the Gannett Empire

By: Richard McCord

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The Chain Gang

One Newspaper Versus the Gannett Empire

By: Richard McCord

McCord recounts his successful efforts as editor and publisher of the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico to fend off the Gannett corporation's takeover, and to help save a small Green Bay daily newspaper from Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain. For general readers, journalists, and students. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Missouri Press

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0826213758

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The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700

By: Nigel Baker,Pat Hughes,Richard K. Morriss

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The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700

By: Nigel Baker,Pat Hughes,Richard K. Morriss

The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval plan and contains some of the earliest houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. Three leading authorities on the buildings of the English Midlands have joined forces combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical research, and topographical analysis to examine 24 of the most important buildings, from the great hall of the Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving brick town-house of c.1690. Fully illustrated with photographs, historic maps, and explanatory diagrams, the case-studies include canonical and mercantile hall-houses of the Middle Ages, mansions, commercial premises, and simple suburban dwellings of the early modern period. Owners and builders are identified from documentary sources wherever possible, from the Bishop of Hereford and the medieval cathedral canons, through civic office-holding merchant dynasties, to minor tradesmen otherwise known only for their brushes with the law.

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Oxbow Books

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1785708198

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The Penguin Jazz Guide

The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

By: Brian Morton,Richard Cook

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The Penguin Jazz Guide

The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

By: Brian Morton,Richard Cook

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history of the music and with it the history of the twentieth century. He has completely revised his and Richard Cook's entries and reassessed each artist's entry for this book. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. 'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' Fortune 'Part jazz history, part jazz Karma Sutra with Cook and Morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guides ... This is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' Irish Times

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Penguin UK

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0141959002

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A Genius for Confusion

Joseph R. McCarthy and the Politics of Deceit

By: Richard M. Fried

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A Genius for Confusion

Joseph R. McCarthy and the Politics of Deceit

By: Richard M. Fried

This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin Senator’s campaign against American Communists prized sensation above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough that some con artists managed to lure him on wild goose chases. The man who charged others with being “dupes” was sometimes one himself. Historian Fried’s book builds on over a decade’s research in a multitude of sources, many of them newly opened—not just McCarthy’s own papers but those of forty-seven Senate colleagues, plus records of journalists, observers, and activists. It brings to light such theatrical episodes as a CIA “op” against McCarthy as well as Joe’s quixotic search for Soviet security chief Lavrenti Beria in Spain. The resulting multi-focal perspective on the political and institutional setting in which McCarthy operated with such abandon is full of drama.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538145782

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Acid Rock

By: Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir

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Acid Rock

By: Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir

Vickie Stoner knows some things. Things that could put a number of very wealthy, very influential men in prison if she testifies. At least one of those wealthy, influential men would prefer that she does not, and has offered one million dollars to the first assassin to silence her. Vickie just wants to pop some pills, expand her mind and bed the lead singer of Maggot and the Dead Meat Lice. Which makes her a hard girl to keep safe. There’s only one man for the job . . . Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for the secret government law-enforcement organisation CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America’s last line of defence. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1035998564

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Sensory Mechanisms of the Spinal Cord

By: William D. Willis,Richard E. Coggeshall

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Sensory Mechanisms of the Spinal Cord

By: William D. Willis,Richard E. Coggeshall

This monograph thoroughly examines the latest theory and research concerning spinal cord mechanisms of sensory processing. The book begins with a historical review of the organization of the peripheral nervous system is outlined in terms of sensory receptors and primary afferent axons. The authors examine the dorsal horn and the structure and function of dorsal horn internurons, and neurophysiological evidence concerning the location of sensory pathways in the spinal cord white matter. After te dorsal column, dorshlateral fasciculus, and the ventral quadrant are covered, the final chapter summarizes knowledge on receptors and spinal cord pathways of various sensations, including touch-pressure, flutter-vibration, pain, temperature, position sense, visceral sensation, and descending control systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306437813

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Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

By: Richard A. Grusin

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Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

By: Richard A. Grusin

Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that parks must be understood as complex cultural technologies for the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon--in relation to other forms of landscape representation including photography, mapping, travel writing and fiction.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521826497

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Destroyer at War

The Fighting Life and Loss of HMS Havock from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 1939–42

By: David Goodey,Richard Osborne

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Destroyer at War

The Fighting Life and Loss of HMS Havock from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 1939–42

By: David Goodey,Richard Osborne

It was headline news on 8 April 1942: One of the Navys most famous destroyers, a ship which survived bombs, torpedoes and full scale battles, has been wrecked. That destroyer was HMS Havock, described in another newspaper as Britains No 2 Destroyer of this war second only in fame and glory to the Cossack.Havock had earned her reputation guarding the convoys across the Atlantic in 1939 and at Narvik in the abortive bid to stave off the German occupation of Norway in 1940. Havock was then transferred to the Mediterranean, fighting at the Battle of Cape Spada in 1940 and in 1941 at the Battle of Matapan and in the evacuations of Greece and Crete.Havocks duties in the Med continued, escorting the convoys to the besieged island of Malta and the equally beleaguered garrison at Tobruk. Then in the Battle of Sirte in 1942 Havock was badly damaged and she limped into Malta for repairs. There she was heavy bombed and when Havock made a bid to reach Gibraltar, she was wrecked off Cape Bon. Her crew was captured and imprisoned in the infamous Laghouat internment camp.The authors have tracked down fifty of the surviving crew and from interviews have been able to compile one of the most detailed, and certainly one of the most dramatic, histories of a destroyer during the Second World War. Destroyer at War tells the story of the battles and operations of a famous ship, and its sad destruction, through newspaper reports, official documents, and the words of the men who sailed and fought in HMS Havock as she earned an astonishing eleven battle honors in her brief but glorious career.

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Pen and Sword

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1526709023

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Sunset Limited

The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930

By: Richard J. Orsi

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Sunset Limited

The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930

By: Richard J. Orsi

The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Univ of California Press

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0520940865

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Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder

By: Richard P. Kluft

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Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder

By: Richard P. Kluft

The diagnosis of multiple personality disorder (MPD) entered the clinical mainstream with a rapidity and in a manner atypical for new descriptions of psychiatric illness. This book contains the most up-to-date information on MPD available written by experts in this field. The first section is a memorial to Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D., a pioneer in MPD treatment. It is full of personal accounts from people who knew her well. The second section deals with general issues in the treatment of MPD. It discusses basic principles in conducting the psychotherapy of MPD, posttraumatic and dissociative phenomena in transference and countertransference, and treatment of MPD as a posttraumatic condition. The third section goes on to give case studies that illustrate the application of techniques, approaches, and insights that are considered important in the treatment of MPD patients but are difficult to learn because they have not been documented in detail in the literature. Methods discussed include the use of Amytal interviews, play therapy, egoûstate therapy, and the use of sand trays. The last section of the book discusses some of the contemporary concerns in the field (including consultation in the public psychiatric sector and the incidence of eating disorders in MPD patients), and on the recent history of the study of MPD.

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American Psychiatric Pub

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0880483652

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Essays and Reviews

By: Edgar Allan Poe,Gary Richard Thompson

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Essays and Reviews

By: Edgar Allan Poe,Gary Richard Thompson

Gathers Poe's essays on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, the role of the critic, leading nineteenth-century writers, and the New York literary world.

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Library of America

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0940450194

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9780940450196

In Search of the Black Fantastic

Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Richard Iton

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In Search of the Black Fantastic

Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Richard Iton

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows, despite the changes politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making of critical social spaces.

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Oxford University Press

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0199733600

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