Roy Faulkner's Books

Faulkner's Unified Jujitsu

By: Roy Faulkner

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As a martial artist, your ability to defend yourself should not only focus upon your skills to block, punch, and kick. It should also include the ability to observe your opponents behavior. For example, your opponents facial expression; body movement or actions; gestures made in motion; the way one blinks, smiles, or frowns; shifting of the body; tone of voice; constant movement; and posture are all key. These will help you determine what your opponent may be thinking or their intent. These are can all be red flags and should place you on the alert. As a martial artist, your awareness, separate from the conditioning of your body, should be greatly emphasized. These traits make a skilled practitioner. The ability to kick, punch, block, evade, and redirect come with the growth of these components.

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Long Time Leaving

Dispatches from Up South

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

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Long Time Leaving

Dispatches from Up South

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative years (toilet training through college), living in the South. Mathematically, that makes me just about exactly as Southern as the American people, 34 percent of whom are Southern residents. But it goes deeper than math—my roots are Southern, I sound Southern, I love a lot of Southern stuff, and when my [Northern] local paper announces a festival to ‘celebrate the spirit of differently abled dogs,’ I react as a Southerner. I believe I care as much about dogs’ feelings as anybody. It is hard for me to imagine that a dog with three legs minds being called a three-legged dog.” A sly, dry, hilarious collection of essays—his first in more than ten years—from the writer who, according to The New York Times Book Review, is “in serious contention for the title of America’s most cherished humorist.” This time Blount focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South. Scholarly, raunchy, biting and affable, ol’ Roy takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers to yellow-dog Democrats to Elvis’s toes. And he shares experiences: chatting with Ray Charles, rounding up rattlesnakes, watching George and Tammy record, meeting an Okefenokee alligator (also named George, or Georgette), imagining Faulkner’s tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between. Roy on language: “Remember when there was lots of agitated discussion of Ebonics, pro and con? I kept waiting for someone to say that if you acquire white English, you can become Clarence Thomas, whereas if you acquire black English, you can become Quentin Tarantino.” Roy on eating: “The way folks were meant to eat is the way my family ate when I was growing up in Georgia. We ate till we got tired. Then we went “Whoo!” and leaned back and wholeheartedly expressed how much we regretted that we couldn’t summon up the strength, right then, to eat some more.” Roy on racism: “Anybody who claims . . . not to have ‘a racist bone’ in his or her body is, at best, preracist and has a longer way to go than the rest of us.” Blount’s previous books have included reflections on a Southern president (Jimmy Carter), a novel about a Southern president (Clementine Fox), a biography of Robert E. Lee, a celebration of New Orleans, a memoir of growing up in Georgia, and the definitive anthology of Southern humor. Long Time Leaving is the capper. Maybe it won’t end the Civil War at last, but it does clarify, or aptly complicate, divisive delusions on both sides of the longstanding national rift. It’s a comic ode to American variety and also a droll assault on complacency North and South—a glorious union of diverse pieces reshaped and expanded into an American classic, from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time.

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0307496600

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Alabama Afternoons

Profiles and Conversations

By: Roy Hoffman

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Alabama Afternoons

Profiles and Conversations

By: Roy Hoffman

Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown in her library in Hamburg, with photographer William Christenberry in a field in Newbern, and with storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham and folk artist Charlie ?Tin Man? Lucas at their neighboring houses in Selma. Also highlighted are the lives of numerous alumni of The University of Alabama?among them Mel Allen, the ?Voice of the Yankees? from 1939 to 1964; Forrest Gump author Winston Groom; and Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two students who entered the schoolhouse door in 1963. Hoffman profiles distinguished Auburn University alumni as well, including Eugene Sledge, renowned World War II veteran and memorist, and Neil Davis, the outspoken, nationally visible editor of the Lee County Bulletin.

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The Postcolonial Epic

From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

By: Sneharika Roy

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The Postcolonial Epic

From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

By: Sneharika Roy

This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy. The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of ‘political epic’, where an avowed national politics promoting a culture’s ‘pure’ origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from ‘other’ cultures. An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351201573

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American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

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American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

Artistic vanguards plot new aesthetic movements, print controversial magazines, hold provocative art shows, and stage experimental theatrical and musical performances. These revolutionaries have often helped create America's countercultural movements, from the early romantics and bohemians to the beatniks and hippies. This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists' lifestyles have influenced, and at times transformed, American culture since the mid-nineteenth century. The work will introduce readers to these artists and rebels, making a careful distinction between the worlds of the high modern artist (salons and galleries) and the bohemian.

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McFarland

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078643709X

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Crackers

By: Roy Blount

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Crackers

By: Roy Blount

An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums, and a great number of other things. Blount turns his gimlet eye on his Dixie home, and in the process, he clears up long-held misconceptions (and creates new ones) about the people who reside below the Mason-Dixon line. Crackers delivers classic Blount, whether you are a proud southerner or a clueless Yankee.

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Open Road Media

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1480471909

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Beware of Limbo Dancers

A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times

By: Roy Reed

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Beware of Limbo Dancers

A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times

By: Roy Reed

A noted reporter’s recollections

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557289883

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William March

An Annotated Checklist

By: Roy S. Simmonds

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William March

An Annotated Checklist

By: Roy S. Simmonds

William March: An Annotated Checklist is the definitive resource for readers and scholars of southern writer William March, author of the best-selling Company K, The Bad Seed, and the Pearl County series.

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Ritual Blasphemy

By: Roy E. Day Jr.

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Ritual Blasphemy

By: Roy E. Day Jr.

Follow an ex-con, shaman trained, private detective trying to solve what appears to be a satanic ritual sacrifice. As he investigates a powerful and wealthy families' dark secrets, he finds love with a beautiful Native American journalist. Under the guidance of a Medicine Man he engages in a spiritual battle with the soul of a young woman hanging in the balance. Drawing from Day's shamanic training and personal experiences Roy has written what he considers to be a realistic book about spiritual warfare and the fight between good and evil as it exists in the modern world. Readers should be warned that although the author disagrees when people call it a work of horror, it has terrified some readers causing some sleepless nights.

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Save Room for Pie

Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

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Save Room for Pie

Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

The author of Alphabet Juice presents a wry exploration of the complicated consequences of food choices in today's world, sharing meditative poems, limericks and satirical articles on subjects ranging from bacon froth and kobe beef to the global climate and personal health., "--NoveList.

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0374175209

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The Two Worlds of William March

By: Roy S. Simmonds

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The Two Worlds of William March

By: Roy S. Simmonds

“Described by José Garcia Villa as America’s ‘greatest short story writer,’ by Alistair Cooke as the ‘the unrecognized genius of our time,’ and by his biographer as ‘one of the most remarkable, talented, and shamefully neglected writers that America has pro- duced,’ William March (1893–1954) is remembered, if at all, for The Bad Seed, which March ironically regarded as his worst work. The emphasis in The Two Worlds of William March is on the literary career, and we get a fairly full picture of a hardworking, oversensitive, compassionate bachelor, who suffered a tragic breakdown late in life . . . [and] whose best long works, Company K and The Looking-Glass, as well as March himself are almost forgotten. . . . Simmonds’s comprehensive, scholarly, and sympathetic study may redress this unwarranted neglect.” —CHOICE

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0817356878

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Into The Darkness: An Anthology of Gothic Fiction

By: Roy Bearden-White

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Into The Darkness: An Anthology of Gothic Fiction

By: Roy Bearden-White

This collection of gothic stories includes selections from the late 18th century to the early 20th century and includes: Barbauld, Anna. "Sir Bertrand, a Fragment"; Crookenden, Isaac "The Vindictive Monk"; Brown, Charles Brockden. "Somnambulism"; Polidori, John William. "The Vampyre"; Irving, Washington. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; Scott, Walter "The Tapestried Chamber"; Le Fanu, Sheridan "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Masque of the Red Death"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Cask of Amontillado"; Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Rappaccini's Daughter"; Collins, Wilkie. "The Traveler's Story"; Gaskell, Elizabeth. "The Old Nurse's Story"; Hauff, Wilhelm. "The Severed Hand"; Kipling, Rudyard. "The Mark of the Beast"; Doyle, A. Conan. "Lot No. 249"; Freeman, Mary Wilkins. "Luella Miller"; Blackwood, Algernon. "The Willows"; Gautier, Th�ophile. "The Mummy's Foot"; Loring, F. G. "The Tomb of Sarah"; Lovecraft, H. P. "The Call of Cthulhu".

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1794780505

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Historicism Once More

Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar

By: Roy Harvey Pearce

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Historicism Once More

Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar

By: Roy Harvey Pearce

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself and his culture, past and present. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400876001

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Pendulum

How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future

By: Roy Williams,Michael Drew

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Pendulum

How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future

By: Roy Williams,Michael Drew

Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, you would do well to read this book.

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Vanguard

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1593157150

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Wrestling with Pigs

A Story of Bayou Drug Smuggling

By: Roy Frusha

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Wrestling with Pigs

A Story of Bayou Drug Smuggling

By: Roy Frusha

A Tale of Bayou drug smuggling The mystery begins when a barge and tug appear one morning, seemingly abandoned, at a remote shipyard on a South Louisiana bayou. Oddly, there are three national flags on board, but its owner and crew have vanished. The suspense builds when Louisiana State Police narcotics agents find fifteen tons of oil and water soaked marijuana in the hold. They quickly learn it is just the damaged dregs of the single largest importation of drugs in the history of the United States. Wrestling with Pigs is a novel about smugglers, cops and corruption on the Cajun coast. Based on real events, this authentic story provides humorous, and sometimes graphic insight into police life complete with complex and flawed characters. It gives a gritty, and in-the-trenches look at the lucrative Central American-originating drug smuggling operations of the 80's and how U.S. law enforcement struggled to combat it. Political insights revealed may just change the reader's perception of organizational leadership inside police agencies and their bureaucracies.

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Loose Cannon

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1939812070

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Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics

A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans

By: Tom Dillard,Roy Reed

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Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics

A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans

By: Tom Dillard,Roy Reed

From Native Americans, explorers, and early settlers to entertainers, business people, politicians, lawyers, artists, and many others, the well-known and not-so-well-known Arkansans featured in Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics have fascinating stories. To name a few, there’s the “Hanging Judge,” Isaac C. Parker of Fort Smith, and Hattie Caraway, the first elected female U.S. senator. Isaac T. Gillam, a slave who became a prominent politician in post–Civil War Little Rock, is included, as is Norman McLeod, an eccentric Hot Springs photographer and owner of the city’s first large tourist trap. These entertaining short biographies from Dillard’s Remembering Arkansas column will be enjoyed by all kinds of readers, young and old alike. All the original columns reprinted here have also been enhanced with Dillard’s own recommended reading lists. Statesmen will serve as an introduction or reintroduction to the state’s wonderfully complex heritage, full of rhythm and discord, peopled by generations of hardworking men and women who have contributed much to the region and nation.

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1557289271

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The Armed Rovers

Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean

By: Roy Conyers Nesbit

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The Armed Rovers

Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean

By: Roy Conyers Nesbit

The little-known story of how the Royal Air Force kept supplies from reaching Rommel’s Afrika Korps, by an RAF veteran and renowned aviation historian. By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular, the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been neglected in histories of the war in North Africa and Italy. Roy Nesbit, in this classic account, sets the record straight by describing in vivid detail how a few RAF squadrons were successful in destroying supplies vital to the Italian and German armies during the fighting in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia. At critical moments during the land battles, during the dramatic advances and retreats that characterized the fighting in the desert, the failure of supplies to get through to Rommel’s Afrika Korps was decisive. But the casualties suffered by the airmen in these low-level attacks were daunting, as were those among the naval and merchant seamen whose vessels were targeted. This is their dramatic true story, by the author of The Royal Air Force: An Illustrated History From 1918 and Arctic Airmen.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526704544

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Book Row

An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

By: Marvin Mondlin,Roy Meador

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Book Row

An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

By: Marvin Mondlin,Roy Meador

The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960s New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row. This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes (or sixteen miles of books) in twelve miles of space. It’s a story cast with characters as legendary and colorful as the horse-betting, poker-playing, go-getter of a book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer; the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; and gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his formidably shrewd wife, Jenny. Book Row remembers places that all lovers of books should never forget, like Biblo & Tamen, the shop that defied book-banning laws; the Green Book Shop, favored by John Dickson Carr; Ellenor Lowenstein’s world-renowned gastronomical Corner Book Shop (which was not on a corner); and the Abbey Bookshop, the last of the Fourth Avenue bookstores to close its doors. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, and television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, collected, and breathed in its rare, bibliodiferous air, it lives again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510752560

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Alan Paton Speaking

By: Roy Holland

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Alan Paton Speaking

By: Roy Holland

This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton's home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into Paton's life, his political involvement as the founder of the Liberal party in South Africa, and his writings.

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0955974143

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Concepts in Submarine Design

By: Roy Burcher,Louis J. Rydill

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Concepts in Submarine Design

By: Roy Burcher,Louis J. Rydill

This book explores the many engineering and architectural aspects of submarine design and how they relate to each other and the operational performance required of the vessel. Concepts of hydrodynamics, structure, powering and dynamics are explained, in addition to architectural considerations which bear on the submarine design process. The interplay between these aspects of design is given particular attention, and a final chapter is devoted to the generation of the concept design for the submarine as a whole. Submarine design makes extensive use of computer aids, and examples of algorithms used in concept design are given. The emphasis in the book is on providing engineering insight as well as an understanding of the intricacies of the submarine design process. It will serve as a text for students and as a reference manual for practising engineers and designers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139935895

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Bilston, Bradley and Ladymoor from Old Photographs

By: Ron Davies,Roy Hawthorne

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Bilston, Bradley and Ladymoor from Old Photographs

By: Ron Davies,Roy Hawthorne

A unique and charming look at the history of Bilston, Bradley and Ladymoor and their inhabitants, through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445626926

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The History of Bethlem

By: Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington

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The History of Bethlem

By: Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.

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Routledge

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1136098526

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Heart Rate Training

By: Roy Benson,Declan Connolly

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Heart Rate Training

By: Roy Benson,Declan Connolly

Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, helps athletes and fitness enthusiasts use the data captured by heart rate monitors to create and customize training programs that improve performance.

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1492590223

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Topics in Signal Processing

Analog and Digital

By: Suhash Chandra Dutta Roy

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Topics in Signal Processing

Analog and Digital

By: Suhash Chandra Dutta Roy

This book is a collection of specific research problems in signal processing and their solutions. It touches upon most core topics, including active and passive processing, discrete-time and continuous signals, and design of filters and networks for specific applications. This unique collection of design problems and conceptual insights will be useful to graduate students, researchers, and professionals working on signal processing problems. In addition, the book can also be used as a supplementary text for graduate courses in advanced signal processing, and for professional development courses for practicing engineers.

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Springer Nature

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9811395322

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The Yellow Note

By: April Ann Roy

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The Yellow Note

By: April Ann Roy

High school writing teacher, Don Graham, has been receiving strange notes on yellow stationary. The same kind of notes found on a tree outside of Laura Thayer's house the night she was murdered. Don wants to go to the police but something is holding him back. Pete Monson is a homicide detective for the Raile Police Department. His job is a bore until Laura Thayer, a seventeen-year old girl, is found murdered in her home. With the long hours Pete is putting in at work, his already unstable marriage hangs in the balance. Suspects turn up at Raile High School, all of them students, one of them friends with Pete's own rebellious, teenage daughter. Will Pete be able to save his marriage before his wife has had enough? And will Don Graham find out who's writing these yellow notes before it's too late? In her early years, April was raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota and as a teenager moved with her parents and younger sister in to a small log cabin in the great woods of the north eastern part of Minnesota. Since the age of thirteen, April has been writing poems, shorts stories and working on novels. The Yellow Note is her first published work as an author. Currently, April works as a manger for a canoe outfitters and makes her home in Ely, Minnesota with her husband Jason. In her spare time, April also enjoys writing original music, leading worship at her church and is a fashion designer for women's one-of-a-kind handbags, purses, jewelry and clothing. She also spends time oil painting and drawing.

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1607910381

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Back Home

Journeys Through Mobile

By: Roy Hoffman

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Journeys Through Mobile

By: Roy Hoffman

Roy Hoffman tells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one of the South's oldest and most colorful port cities

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

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0520309936

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Books on Colour 1495-2015: History and Bibliography

By: Roy Osborne

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Books on Colour 1495-2015: History and Bibliography

By: Roy Osborne

Updated to 2020, BOOKS ON COLOUR 1495-2015 offers quick and easy reference to 2,500 authors and editors and over 3,000 titles published by them. Following a concise historical survey of colour literature, authors are listed in an A-Z directory, together with titles, dates and places of publication, and translations for non-English titles. Biographical references are included where known. Chronological indexes of authors precede the bibliographical listing and alphabetical indexes of authors follow it. Publications are categorised under 27 general headings: Architecture, Chemistry, Classification, Colorants, Computing & Television, Decoration, Design, Dress & Cosmetics, Dyeing, Flora & Fauna, Food, Glass, History, Lighting, Metrology, Music, Optics, Painting, Perception, Philosophy, Photography & Cinema, Printing, Psychology, Symbolism, Terminology, Therapy, and Vision.

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Lulu.com

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1326459716

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9781326459710

The Art of X-Ray Reading

How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

By: Roy Peter Clark

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The Art of X-Ray Reading

How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

By: Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for invaluable writing strategies that you can add to your arsenal and apply in your own writing. Once you've experienced X-ray reading, your writing will never be the same again.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316282162

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9780316282161

The Third Girl Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Margaret Sutton,Alice B. Emerson,Roy G. Snell,Helen Wells

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The Third Girl Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Margaret Sutton,Alice B. Emerson,Roy G. Snell,Helen Wells

I’m pleased to present our third collection of mystery stories written for girls. This time we include tales by many popular children’s authors of the early to mid 20th century -- more than 1,300 pages of classic kid sleuthing. Included are: THE PHANTOM TREASURE, by Harriet Pyne Grove THE HAUNTED FOUNTAIN, by Margaret Sutton THE YELLOW PHANTOM, by Margaret Sutton RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL: SOLVING THE CAMPUS MYSTERY, by Alice B. Emerson PENNY ALLEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE, by Jean McKechnie THE SILVER RING MYSTERY, by Helen Wells THE SLIPPER POINT MYSTERY, by Augusta Huiell Seaman GYPSY FLIGHT, by Roy G. Snell THE S. P. MYSTERY, by Harriet Pyne Grove If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479429945

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