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Uncertainty in Risk Assessment

The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods

By: Terje Aven,Piero Baraldi,Roger Flage,Enrico Zio

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Uncertainty in Risk Assessment

The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods

By: Terje Aven,Piero Baraldi,Roger Flage,Enrico Zio

Explores methods for the representation and treatment of uncertainty in risk assessment In providing guidance for practical decision-making situations concerning high-consequence technologies (e.g., nuclear, oil and gas, transport, etc.), the theories and methods studied in Uncertainty in Risk Assessment have wide-ranging applications from engineering and medicine to environmental impacts and natural disasters, security, and financial risk management. The main focus, however, is on engineering applications. While requiring some fundamental background in risk assessment, as well as a basic knowledge of probability theory and statistics, Uncertainty in Risk Assessment can be read profitably by a broad audience of professionals in the field, including researchers and graduate students on courses within risk analysis, statistics, engineering, and the physical sciences. Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: Illustrates the need for seeing beyond probability to represent uncertainties in risk assessment contexts. Provides simple explanations (supported by straightforward numerical examples) of the meaning of different types of probabilities, including interval probabilities, and the fundamentals of possibility theory and evidence theory. Offers guidance on when to use probability and when to use an alternative representation of uncertainty. Presents and discusses methods for the representation and characterization of uncertainty in risk assessment. Uses examples to clearly illustrate ideas and concepts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118489586

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9781118489581

The Gun Book for Girls

By: Silvio Calabi,Steve Helsley,Roger Sanger

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The Gun Book for Girls

By: Silvio Calabi,Steve Helsley,Roger Sanger

This third installment in the popular series of practical books about guns and shooting is aimed at women of all ages—the fastest-growing segment of the sport—and it couldn’t come at a better time. America and firearms literally grew up together, but today guns are often simply linked to crime and violence; gun control has become a polarizing political issue; and misinformation about firearms is spreading. Now three experts have tackled the subject in a series of books that explores the realities of guns and shooting and sets the record straight about some common misconceptions. On the heels of The Gun Book for Boys and The Gun Book for Parents, The Gun Book for Girls is for girls (and women) interested in guns and shooting but who have little or no background in firearms. Through example and anecdote, the book emphasizes safety and proper usage, and it defines terms and provides hands-on advice about using and maintaining guns. It also covers firearms, shooting methods, clothing and accessories for women, profiles females who shoot and who work in the gun trade, and discusses the issues around guns for self-defense (a topic of special interest to women). Like the other two titles, this book is non-political and written in an easy-to-understand conversational tone. Each book is thoroughly illustrated, and content is presented in easily managed portions that can be read in series or singly, all backed up with an index.

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Down East Books

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1608934403

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German Pocket Battleships

By: Roger Chesnaeu

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German Pocket Battleships

By: Roger Chesnaeu

Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship ? Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations ? Focuses on very popular modelling subjects which are represented by a wide selection of kits ??The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. For the first volume in this series, the author has chosen the German 'pocket battleships' of WW2, the best-known of which was the Graf Spee of Battle of the River Plate fame. This innovative and infamous class of surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modellers, many manufacturers producing kits of the Graf Spee and the rather different Admiral Scheer and Lützow. This book will show ship modellers how to turn their kits into something really special, but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the more general warship enthusiast. Roger Chesneau is a lifelong ship modeller and author of numerous naval books, including Ship Models in Plastic.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848321880

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Beyond the Enlightenment

Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

By: Roger A. Salerno

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Beyond the Enlightenment

Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

By: Roger A. Salerno

Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought—ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world—are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas. A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031305164X

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9780313051647

Sacrifice Regained

Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham

By: Roger Crisp

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Sacrifice Regained

Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham

By: Roger Crisp

From Thomas Hobbes to Jeremy Bentham, 'British Moralists' have questioned whether being virtuous makes you happy. Roger Crisp elucidaties their views on happiness and virtue, self-interest and sacrifice, and well-being and morality, and highlights key themes such as psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and moral reason in their thought.

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0198840470

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Ascended: The Omega Nexus

By: Roger Reece and Jerry Reece

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Ascended: The Omega Nexus

By: Roger Reece and Jerry Reece

In the late 1980s, the U.S. government commissioned a project to create the perfect soldier. A range of experiments was performed on a group of soldiers, including genetic reconstruction which was made possible by a serum created by Dr. Emanuel Brown. Despite the advancements made, the project was deemed a failure and the soldiers were discharged, much to the chagrin of its leader, General James S. Lassiter. The general and Dr. Brown continued their experiments, administering the trial serum to each other. After years of experimentation, Dr. Brown and General Lassiter would eventually part ways, both thinking that their efforts of perfecting the serum were fruitless. It wouldn’t be until the birth of the general’s son that the effects of the serum would be realized. The power of the serum had been passed down genetically from the original test subjects to their offspring, giving them super human abilities. The general realized that all of the offspring of those to whom the serum was administered would have superior traits as well. Realizing the potential of these children, the general gathered a group of renegade soldiers, who shared his views of hatred toward the government, and formed an organization known as STING. He hunted down and killed the soldiers of the original project and abducted their children. He took them to a hidden compound so he could raise and train them to be his superior army. Dr. Brown foresaw the evil of the general’s ambitions. With the help of a small band of Ascended children he called the Omega Nexus, he organized an escape that would lead to the destruction of the STING compound and STING. Now, STING has reassembled for the sole purpose of recollecting the Ascended who are now extremely powerful adults scattered throughout the United States. Unbeknownst to STING, the Omega Nexus is waiting...

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Author House

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1456729241

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Cephalopod Behaviour

By: Roger T. Hanlon,John B. Messenger

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Cephalopod Behaviour

By: Roger T. Hanlon,John B. Messenger

A comprehensive 1996 account of the complex behaviour of cephalopods in the sea and the laboratory.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521645832

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Taylor's Guide to Ornamental Grasses

By: Roger Holmes

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Taylor's Guide to Ornamental Grasses

By: Roger Holmes

The complete guide to the best grasses for every garden site. More than 165 full-color plant portraits and photos of landscape designs.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395797616

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9780395797617

Warships of the Bay of Quinte

By: Roger Litwiller

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Warships of the Bay of Quinte

By: Roger Litwiller

This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II). These histories give a unique account of the small ships that have been the backbone of the Canadian Navy during the Second World War and the Cold War. The stories record the accomplishments of these hardworking ships as well as the mistakes. This rich and vivid account of an important part of Canadas Naval Service draws from the records of the ships, interviews with their crews, letters, diaries, newspaper articles, community libraries and photographs. You will learn about the HMCS NAPANEE as she fights a five day battle against twenty-four German submarines in on one of Canadas most tragic convoy battles. Be with HMCS BELLEVILLE as she fights to rescue a torpedoed merchant ship and find out about how a German submarine sinks the HMCS TRENTONIAN late in the war killing six of her crew.

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Dundurn

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1554889308

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Concise Medical Immunology

By: Thao Doan,Roger Melvold,Carl Waltenbaugh

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Concise Medical Immunology

By: Thao Doan,Roger Melvold,Carl Waltenbaugh

Concise Medical Immunology is intended for medical and allied health students taking a short foundation course in immunology. The text provides a concise, clear, clinically oriented, user-friendly introduction to fundamental immunologic principles and their applications in medical practice. Clinical Application boxes and patient vignettes help students connect basic immunology with real-life clinical practice. Each chapter ends with a bulleted summary and review questions. Appendices include a lexicon of immunologic abbreviations and acronyms and a comprehensive glossary of immunologic terms with detailed definitions. 100 specially designed two-color illustrations illuminate key concepts. These images will be available free to adopters on connection.LWW.com/go/Doan.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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078175741X

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9780781757416

Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth

Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

By: Roger Cliff

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Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth

Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

By: Roger Cliff

This monograph analyzes published Chinese and Western sources about current and future capabilities and employment concepts of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and provides recommendations about actions that should be taken in response.

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Rand Corporation

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0833051911

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9780833051912

Anatomy and Human Movement

Structure and Function

By: Nigel Palastanga,Derek Field,Roger W. Soames

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Anatomy and Human Movement

Structure and Function

By: Nigel Palastanga,Derek Field,Roger W. Soames

Anatomy and Human Movement: Structure and Function, Second Edition, is concerned with the musculoskeletal system and its application to human movement. The design of this new edition builds on the success of the first edition. There has been some reorganization of the text and illustrations for better clarity, as well as new sections on the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and urogenital systems, and on the eye and ear. Apart from introductory sections (terminology; components of the musculoskeletal system; embryology; and skin, its appendages and special senses), the book has three sections dealing with the musculoskeletal system: the upper limb, the lower limb, and the head, neck and trunk. In addition there is a fourth section on the nervous system. Each musculoskeletal section is presented in a similar way beginning with a study of the bones, to provide the basic framework of the section. This is followed by a description of the muscles, which are considered in functional groups in an attempt to explain how movement is produced. Finally, the joints are described and discussed, building on the knowledge gained from a consideration of the bones and muscles: this last part of each section also serves to bring together the preceding parts. This book was written for the student of anatomy who wishes to use this knowledge functionally and desires an understanding of the mechanisms enabling movement to take place.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483141128

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9781483141121

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Provence and Cote D'Azur

By: Adele Evans,Roger Williams

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Provence and Cote D'Azur

By: Adele Evans,Roger Williams

This is the land for all the senses: the site of timeless light-suffused landscapes, the scents of lavender and olive groves, the taste of sun drenched produce and the sound of the sea gentle lapping the feel of the sun. This travel guide maps the region of Provence and sets it in its historical and cultural context. Learn about sites and sounds of Provence with maps, photographs and illustrations. All this and more can be found in the new Eyewitness Travel Guide. Annually revised and updated with beautiful new full-color photos, illustrations, and maps, this guide includes information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Consistently chosen over the competition in national consumer market research. The best keeps getting better!

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Penguin

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0756691060

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9780756691066

Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate Conscripta

Necnon Alia Quaedam Ad Eundem Regem Spectantia

By: Bernard Andreas

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Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate Conscripta

Necnon Alia Quaedam Ad Eundem Regem Spectantia

By: Bernard Andreas

Gairdner's 1858 edition of works on Henry VII reveals the origins of international relationships that greatly influenced the Tudor dynasty.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108042562

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9781108042567

Rotors

A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Roger Gallagher

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Rotors

A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Roger Gallagher

They were college kids and young soldiers who wanted to fly, and they knew little about Vietnam other than what they read in the newspapers before going there. But Ia Drang, Kontum, Bong Son, Pleiku, Dak To, and dozens of other places soon became their trials by fire as they flew the grunts into and out of hot LZs and exposed themselves to some of the most intense combat of the war. Their mission was to fly into isolated jungle hilltops and muddy rice fields often without knowing what they'd face. Consequently, the crewmen who flew the helicopters and manned the door guns suffered some of the highest percentages of dead and wounded in the history of American warfare.

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iUniverse

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0595887112

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9780595887118

Into Narsindal

By: Roger Taylor

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Into Narsindal

By: Roger Taylor

Book 4 of THE CHRONICLES OF HAWKLAN The evil Lord Dan-Tor has at last been driven out of Fyorlund and retreated to Narsindal, the realm of his dread master Sumeral. But Hawklan and his allies have won no more than a breathing space, for Dan-Tor is gathering his forces for a massive onslaught on all the free lands. An alliance of the free peoples must be forged, even those of peaceful Orthlund, to stand against Sumeral's dark battalions. The dwellers in the air and the mysterious inhabitants of the lands beneath the mountains must also play their part. A brave alliance; yet so great are Sumeral's forces that it can do no more than stave off the hour of defeat a little while. For Hawklan and the raven, Gavor, the road ahead is lonely and unknowable, for they must confront Sumeral himself, and in so doing discover, at last, what secret lies buried so deep in Hawklan's soul.

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Mushroom Publishing

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1843191474

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Faith Under Fire

An Army Chaplain's Memoir

By: Roger Benimoff,Eve Conant

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Faith Under Fire

An Army Chaplain's Memoir

By: Roger Benimoff,Eve Conant

“Running away from God doesn’t work. I had tried.” —Roger Benimoff As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God...He is my hope, strength, and focus. But not long after returning to Iraq, the burdens of his job–the memorial services for soldiers killed in action, the therapy sessions after contact with the enemy, the perilous excursions “outside the wire” while under enemy ﬁre–began to overwhelm him. Amid the dust, heat, and blood of Iraq, Benimoff felt the pillar of strength he’d always relied on to hold him up–his faith in God–begin to crumble. Unable to make sense of the senseless, Benimoff turned to his journal. What did it mean to believe in a God who would allow the utter horror and injustice of war? Did He want these brave young men and women to die? In his darkest moment, Benimoff wrote: Why am I so angry? I do not want anything to do with God. I am sick of religion. It is a crutch for the weak. Benimoff’s spiritual crisis heightened upon his return home to Fort Carson, Colorado. He withdrew emotionally from wife and sons, creating tensions that threatened to shatter the family. He was assigned to work at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he counseled returning soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder–until he was diagnosed himself with PTSD. Finding himself in the role of patient rather than caregiver, connecting as an equal with his fellow sufferers, and revisiting scriptural readings that once again rang with meaning and truth, he began his most decisive battle: for the love of his family and for the chance to once again open his heart to the healing grace of God. Intimate and powerful, drawing on Benimoff’s and his wife’s journals, Faith Under Fire chronicles a spiritual struggle through war, loss, and the hard process of learning to believe again.

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Crown

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0307408825

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9780307408822

An Army of Stories

Tales of a Cold War Veteran

By: Roger Mason

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An Army of Stories

Tales of a Cold War Veteran

By: Roger Mason

Private First Class R was an excellent soldier so it was unlike him to be late. When he came in a few minutes later I could see by the grim look on his face that something was terribly wrong. He immediately began to cry and tell me that his wife had miscarried the child they had so badly wanted. I had never seen anyone cry as much as he did that morning and one box of tissues simply was not enough. After a while, the front of his uniform was soaked from his many tears, and I felt horrible seeing him suffer. It was one of those times when I would have moved Heaven and Earth if I could have but I could not. It humbled me because I wanted to order someone to do something to fix the problem, but this time it would not be that simple. I had always taken pride in looking out for the welfare of the soldiers in my charge but this time was different; I knew I was not a miracle worker but I felt I had let him down because as much as I wanted to, I did not have the power to bring back his baby. It was the worst day of my Army career because a good soldier who looked up to me for wisdom and guidance was in peril, and there was nothing I could do. I felt like a weakened Superman hopelessly dragging his feet through a field of Kryptonite, because there I was with all my rank and power that the Army had entrusted in me, but I was useless to him.

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Outskirts Press

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1478736186

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9781478736189

On Point

By: Roger Hayes

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On Point

By: Roger Hayes

In the fall of 1967, the author went to Vietnam and there, on the strange battlefield amidst the dying and the loss, Hayes became a warrior, a leader, and a comrade. This penetrating diary of a young rifleman details Hayes's tour of duty with a mechanized infantry unit in the 5th Infantry during America's bloodiest year of fighting in Vietnam. photos.

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Macmillan

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0312980442

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9780312980443

The Ocean of Years

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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The Ocean of Years

By: Roger Macbride Allen

Time Is Up In a far-flung universe--where history is a timeshaft away--a manhunt begins to determine the future of a world.... Oskar DeSilvo was the founder of the planet Solace. As the director of its terraforming project, he literally made the world--but he’s been dead for over a hundred years. Or so Anton Koffield thought. Now, as Solace slides into ecological collapse, Koffield discovers that DeSilvo may still somehow be alive--and that the secrets he holds could save not only Solace but all of humanity. But Koffield has his own reasons to find DeSilvo. Once a decorated officer of the Chronologic Patrol, he now battles against all they stand for to find the man who nearly destroyed him. Driven by a ruthless sense of justice and honor, Koffield takes his crew back through a timeshaft wormhole to a time and a place none of them have ever seen: Earth of the next century. There the search begins. A quest not only to explore the past--but to free the future from the clutches of a genocidal madman.... From the Paperback edition.

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Spectra

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0307488977

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9780307488978

King George V Class Battleships

By: Roger Chesneau

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King George V Class Battleships

By: Roger Chesneau

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. The five battleships of the class covered by this volume were the most modern British capital ships to serve in the Second World War. They were involved in many famous actions including the sinking of both Bismarck and Scharnhorst, while Prince of Wales suffered the unfortunate distinction of being the first capital ship sunk at sea by air attack.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848321147

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The Handbook of Painted Decoration

The Tools, Materials, and Step-by-step Techniques of Trompe-l'oeil Painting

By: Yannick Guégan,Roger Le Puil

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The Handbook of Painted Decoration

The Tools, Materials, and Step-by-step Techniques of Trompe-l'oeil Painting

By: Yannick Guégan,Roger Le Puil

The essential reference for amateur and professional alike, The Handbook of Painted Decoration is the first book to cover the whole spectrum of trompe l'oeil decorative painting, from classic marbling and wood graining to ancient techniques of decorative painting that have been nearly forgotten.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730018

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9780393730012

A Paper Statue

By: Roger Naylor

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A Paper Statue

By: Roger Naylor

Lt. Lee Marks, a Fifth Air Force P-38 pilot, tastes the blend of excitement and fear as he enters the air war over 1944 New Guinea. In a campaign where the weather claims as many pilots as the Japanese, Marks must quickly learn the idiosyncrasies of both if he is to survive. A rapid succession of air victories confirms his preparation for combat. But nothing in his training has prepared him for duty under Major Mo Brennan. A triple ace, Brennan manipulates his men and the system as efficiently as he eliminates the enemy. Becoming his leader's Exec, Lee Marks finds himself torn between what works and what is right, what the future might bring-and what he must sacrifice to find out. And he learns along the way that sometimes an airman's toughest battles are fought on the ground. The rousing story traces the Allied course of action in the unique New Guinea campaign, and it explores the war, the men who make the war, and the natives who find themselves the hosts. The novel is sprinkled with GI humor, the uplifting ingredient that kept it all together, and it pays tribute to that highly sophisticated piece of engineering, Lockheed's P-38 Lightning.

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iUniverse

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0595851320

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9780595851324

Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

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Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

This is a long-overdue revision and expansion of what has become a classic book in marine literature. This lavishly illustrated volume provides exhaustive coverage of more than 90 percent of the region's reef fishes. Every species is thoroughly illustrated, including photographs of the juvenile, female and male in species that vary in appearance during their development. Besides the wide array of underwater and diagnostic laboratory photographs, the book also contains seven plates painted by the talented natural-history artist Roger Swainston. With an additional 32 pages and 90 photos (covering 60 new species in all), this revised and expanded edition will enable even a beginning layman to identify most of the region's reef fishes. Divers, anglers, underwater naturalists and professional biologists are equally catered to.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818954

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9780824818951

NowHere

Space, Time, and Modernity

By: Roger Friedland,Deirdre Boden

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NowHere

Space, Time, and Modernity

By: Roger Friedland,Deirdre Boden

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life. Their range is remarkable and includes English landscape painting, talk in corporations, agoraphobic women, the ecological structure of Los Angeles, the cosmology of the Holocaust, and the ritual spaces of Buddhist Japan and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The editors' introduction addresses the diversity of these empirical concerns and positions them within a rapidly expanding theoretical landscape. David Hockney's striking painting on the book jacket captures the tension between somewhere and everywhere, between space and place, now and just a moment ago—hence "nowhere" or "now/here.

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Univ of California Press

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0520342097

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9780520342095

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Compendium

By: Roger L. Lundblad

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Compendium

By: Roger L. Lundblad

This book is an accessible resource offering practical information not found in more database-oriented resources. The first chapter lists acronyms with definitions, and a glossary of terms and subjects used in biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, proteomics, genomics, and systems biology. There follows chapters on chemicals employed in biochemistry and molecular biology, complete with properties and structure drawings. Researchers will find this book to be a valuable tool that will save them time, as well as provide essential links to the roots of their science. Key selling features: Contains an extensive list of commonly used acronyms with definitions Offers a highly readable glossary for systems and techniques Provides comprehensive information for the validation of biotechnology assays and manufacturing processes Includes a list of Log P values, water solubility, and molecular weight for selected chemicals Gives a detailed listing of protease inhibitors and cocktails, as well as a list of buffers

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1351680544

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