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The Religions Of Star Trek

By: Ross Kraemer,William Cassidy,Susan L Schwartz

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The Religions Of Star Trek

By: Ross Kraemer,William Cassidy,Susan L Schwartz

Is there a God? What evil lurks beyond the stars? Can science save one's soul? Profound questions like these have consumed human thought over the ages; they also inspired the original creators of the Star Trek canon of TV series and films. Religions of Star Trek tackles these challenging questions head-on in a remarkable look at one of sci-fi's great success stories. Analyzing more than three decades of screen adventure, the authors depict a Star Trek transformed, corresponding to the resurgence of religion in American public discourse. The authors identify the many religious characters in Star Trek, tracing the roots of scientific humanism to more contemporary aspects of religion and spirituality. Through it all, the creators' visionary outlook remains constant: a humanistic faith in free will and the salvific nature of dispassionate scientific inquiry. This book was not prepared, licensed, approved, or endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing the Star Trek television series or films.

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260

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Basic Books

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0786750227

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9780786750221

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest

By: Ross Russell

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Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest

By: Ross Russell

From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just a few of the jazz luminaries discussed in Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop. Book jacket.

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348

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Univ of California Press

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0520018532

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9780520018532

David Livingstone

Mission and Empire

By: Andrew C. Ross

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David Livingstone

Mission and Empire

By: Andrew C. Ross

Now in paperback, Ross's biography is already established as the leading authority on its subject. >

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300

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A&C Black

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1852855657

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9781852855659

Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

By: C. Ross

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Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

By: C. Ross

When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered to them at Kanchedza Camp in Limbe were the late Rev Jonathan Sangaya and Rev Andrew C. Ross. They soon discovered that around 700 of the thousand men were members of the Church of Central African Presbyterian. This raised a question in the mind of the recently arrived Scottish missionary: how may we account historically for the fact that so many national leaders were Presbyterians? The quest to answer that question led him to produce the thorough examination of the foundation and early history of the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland which is found in this book. Written in the mid-1960s, it remains today an indispensable work of reference for understanding the history of both church and nation in Malawi.

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285

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African Books Collective

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9996060551

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9789996060557

Unusually Stupid Americans

A Compendium of All-American Stupidity

By: Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras

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Unusually Stupid Americans

A Compendium of All-American Stupidity

By: Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras

A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said Everyone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” but sometimes that means we’re free to be as bravely stupid as we want! In Unusually Stupid Americans, Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras assemble choice bits of stupidity, U.S.A.-style, including •the top seriously flawed American advertising moments, including Pacific Airlines’ brilliant “You’re scared of flying? So’s our pilot!” ad campaign, which led the airline to bankruptcy within two months of the campaign’s inception •the Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration in Florida, where a plaque was un-veiled that was intended to honor the actor James Earl Jones but instead read, “Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive” (an unfortunate slip-up, as James Earl Ray was King’s assassin) •and much more!

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305

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Villard

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0307417611

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9780307417619

Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?

And Other Historical Mysteries

By: Hugh Ross Williamson

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Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?

And Other Historical Mysteries

By: Hugh Ross Williamson

Sheds new light on a broad spectrum of tantalizing historical mysteries, answering questions, re-evaluating the evidence, and drawing on the latest research to offer provocative questions about Charles I's executioner, the true identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, the real father of Elizabeth I, and more. Original.

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380

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Penguin

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0141390972

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9780141390970

The Strategy Workout

The 10 Tried-And-Tested Steps That Will Build Your Strategic Thinking Skills

By: Bernard Ross,Clare Segal

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The Strategy Workout

The 10 Tried-And-Tested Steps That Will Build Your Strategic Thinking Skills

By: Bernard Ross,Clare Segal

The Strategy Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.

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170

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Pearson UK

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1292084650

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9781292084657

Oreo

By: Fran Ross

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Oreo

By: Fran Ross

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.

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156

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New Directions Publishing

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081122323X

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9780811223232

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Second Edition

By: Tom Bevel,Ross M. Gardner

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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Second Edition

By: Tom Bevel,Ross M. Gardner

Bloodstain pattern analysis helps establish events associated with violent crimes. It is a critical bridge between forensics and the definition of a precise crime reconstruction. The second edition of this bestselling book is thoroughly updated to employ recent protocols, including the application of scientific method, the use of flow charts, and the inter-relationship of crime scene analysis to criminal profiling. It provides more illustrations, including color photographs, and explains the use of computer programs to create demonstrative evidence for court.

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420

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CRC Press

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1420041258

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9781420041255

Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Yorkshire Terrier

By: ROSS D. CLARK, DVM

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Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Yorkshire Terrier

By: ROSS D. CLARK, DVM

This book provides you with a through description and positive attributes of this breed including origin, purpose, history, normal heights and weights, acceptable colors and behavioral traits. Our books diff er from most books on dog breeds because this book also provides you with a comprehensive and authoritative source of all the known predisposed hereditary health syndromes for the breed. You will find extensive references for each problem described. We also provide the breed club address for this breed and a list of laboratories and organizations that can provide professional help and information. As a small animal veterinarian, I have always been intrigued by the way dogs have been bred to fill a purpose in life and further impressed that they also tend to love performing that service. Greyhounds and other sight hounds are built for speed with aerodynamic bodies consisting of small head, deep chest, narrow waist and large leg muscles. On the other hand Dachshunds take their name from German words meaning “badger dog” and they use their long nose, long body and short legs to both track, enter and dig into badger dens. After developing a practice that catered to clients with show dogs, my interest in each breed continued to grow as I studied and observed more and more about the unique predisposition and incidence of health problems in each breed. Breeders of purebred dogs for show were a challenge and inspirational for me to research and help them with their unique health problems. Historically references to hereditary problems are scattered throughout various Veterinary medical texts and journals such as ophthalmology, neurology, gastroenterology, cardiovascular and dermatology. This book, as well as the other books and articles I have written, is researched and compiled with the intention to provide both veterinarians and dog owners with comprehensive and authoritative predisposition information under the breed name. At the date of this publication, The American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation and the The Kennel Club of England reports over 400 known hereditary health syndromes throughout the dog kingdom. At the writing of my fi rst book in 1983, less than 50 hereditary issues are able to be predicted and or diagnosed. Sequencing of the canine genome, DNA tests, metabolic testing including blood tests and urine testing; plus, phenotypic examinations such as radiographs, ultrasound, and CERF or OFA eye registry exams by a Board Certified Veterinary Ophthalmologist have advanced the science of breed related health and behavioral problems. This book will provide veterinarians, researchers, pet owners and breeders with a comprehensive guide to all the known problems veterinarians and dog owners should consider during pet selection and throughout each life stage of our canine friends.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493196995

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9781493196999

The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick

the Scottish Seabird centre Excavations 1999-2006

By: Thomas Addyman,Kenneth Macfadyen,Tanja Romankiewicz,Alasdair Ross

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The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick

the Scottish Seabird centre Excavations 1999-2006

By: Thomas Addyman,Kenneth Macfadyen,Tanja Romankiewicz,Alasdair Ross

Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. This book presents the results of these works but its scope is much broader. Against the background of important new discoveries made at the site it brings together and re-examines all the evidence for early North Berwick – archaeological, historical, documentary, pictorial and cartographic – and includes much previously unpublished material. An essential new resource, it opens a fascinating window on the history of the ancient burgh. Kirk Ness is well known as the site of the medieval church of the parish and later royal burgh of North Berwick but it has long been suggested that it was also a centre of early Christian activity. The dedication of the church to St Andrew was speculatively linked to the translation of the Saint's relics to St Andrews in Fife in the 8th century. An early medieval component of the site was indeed confirmed by the excavation, with structural remains, individual finds and an important new series of radiocarbon dates. Occupation of a domestic character may possibly reflect a monastic community associated with an early church. Individual finds included stone tools, lead objects, ceramic material and a faunal assemblage that included bones of butchered seals, fish and seabirds such as the now-extinct Great Auk. The site continued in use as the medieval and early post-medieval parish and burgh church of St Andrew. In this period Kirk Ness and its harbour was an important staging point for pilgrims on route to the shrine of St Andrew in Fife. Domestic occupation discovered in the excavations is likely to be associated with a pilgrims’ hospice, also suggested in historical sources. This publication also provides a new analysis of the church ruin and an account of the major unpublished excavation of the site carried out in 1951-52 by the scholar and antiquary Dr James Richardson, Scotland's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments and resident of North Berwick. The excavations also revealed areas of the cemetery associated with the church, dating to the 12th–17th centuries, where inhumations presented notable contrasts in burial practice. Osteological study shed much light upon the health and demographics of North Berwick’s early population and identified one individual who met with a particularly violent death.

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Oxbow Books

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1842176633

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9781842176634

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The Religions Of Star Trek

The Religions Of Star Trek

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest

David Livingstone

David Livingstone

Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

Unusually Stupid Americans

Unusually Stupid Americans

Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?

Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?

The Strategy Workout

The Strategy Workout

Oreo

Oreo

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Yorkshire Terrier

Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Yorkshire Terrier

The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick

The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick

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