S.D. Cook's Books

A Mess of Greens

Southern Gender and Southern Food

By: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

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A Mess of Greens

Southern Gender and Southern Food

By: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using perspectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women's choices about food tell us about race, class, gender, and social power. Shaken by the legacies of Reconstruction and the turmoil of the Jim Crow era, different races and classes came together in the kitchen, often as servants and mistresses but also as people with shared tastes and traditions. Generally focused on elite whites or poor blacks, southern foodways are often portrayed as stable and unchanging—even as an untroubled source of nostalgia. A Mess of Greens offers a different perspective, taking into account industrialization, environmental degradation, and women's increased role in the work force, all of which caused massive economic and social changes. Engelhardt reveals a broad middle of southerners that included poor whites, farm families, and middle- and working-class African Americans, for whom the stakes of what counted as southern food were very high. Five “moments” in the story of southern food—moonshine, biscuits versus cornbread, girls' tomato clubs, pellagra as depicted in mill literature, and cookbooks as means of communication—have been chosen to illuminate the connectedness of food, gender, and place. Incorporating community cookbooks, letters, diaries, and other archival materials, A Mess of Greens shows that choosing to serve cold biscuits instead of hot cornbread could affect a family's reputation for being hygienic, moral, educated, and even godly.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820340375

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Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

By: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

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Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

By: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South; some also carried the institution to far-flung places like California, New York, and London. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners. Within their walls, boardinghouse residents and owners developed the region's earliest printed cookbooks, created space for making music and writing literary works, formed ad hoc communities of support, tested boundaries of race and sexuality, and more. Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.

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1469676419

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9781469676418

Republic of Barbecue

Stories Beyond the Brisket

By: S. D. Engelhardt

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Republic of Barbecue

Stories Beyond the Brisket

By: S. D. Engelhardt

Explore the world of barbecue as food and culture through first-person stories from pit masters, barbecue joint owners, sausage makers, and wood suppliers. It’s no overstatement to say that the state of Texas is a republic of barbecue. Whether it’s brisket, sausage, ribs, or chicken, barbecue feeds friends while they catch up, soothes tensions at political events, fuels community festivals, sustains workers of all classes, celebrates brides and grooms, and even supports churches. Recognizing just how central barbecue is to Texas’s cultural life, Elizabeth Engelhardt and a team of eleven graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin set out to discover and describe what barbecue has meant to Texans ever since they first smoked a beef brisket. Republic of Barbecue presents a fascinating, multifaceted portrait of the world of barbecue in Central Texas. The authors look at everything from legendary barbecue joints in places such as Taylor and Lockhart to feedlots, ultra-modern sausage factories, and sustainable forests growing hardwoods for barbecue pits. They talk to pit masters and proprietors, who share the secrets of barbecue in their own words. Like side dishes to the first-person stories, short essays by the authors explore a myriad of barbecue’s themes—food history, manliness and meat, technology, nostalgia, civil rights, small-town Texas identity, barbecue’s connection to music, favorite drinks such as Big Red, Dr. Pepper, Shiner Bock, and Lone Star beer—to mention only a few. An ode to Texas barbecue in films, a celebration of sports and barbecue, and a pie chart of the desserts that accompany brisket all find homes in the sidebars of the book, while photographic portraits of people and places bring readers face-to-face with the culture of barbecue. “This beautiful collection, colorful enough to display as a coffee-table book, contributes significantly to the oral history tradition and the study of barbecue simultaneously.” —Journal of American Folklore “Tar Heels probably shouldn’t own up to liking Texas barbecue, but we have no hesitation about saying that we love this book about it. The voices of the folks who make it happen and this book’s wonderful photographs add up to a splendid portrait of Lone Star barbeculture.” —John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, authors of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North CarolinaBarbecue

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0292782144

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No Applause--Just Throw Money

The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

By: Trav S.D.

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No Applause--Just Throw Money

The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

By: Trav S.D.

A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly dominated American popular culture. Writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. chronicles vaudeville's far-reaching impact in No Applause--Just Throw Money. He explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is the story of show business in America and documents the rich history and cultural legacy of our country's only purely indigenous theatrical form, including its influence on everything from USO shows to Ed Sullivan to The Muppet Show and The Gong Show. More than a quaint historical curiosity, vaudeville is thriving today, and Trav S.D. pulls back the curtain on the vibrant subculture that exists across the United States--a vast grassroots network of fire-eaters, human blockheads, burlesque performers, and bad comics intent on taking vaudeville into its second century.

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1429930411

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The Cross of Sacrifice: The Officers, Men and Women of the Merchant Navy and MFA 1914–1919

By: S. D. & D. B. Jarvis

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The Cross of Sacrifice: The Officers, Men and Women of the Merchant Navy and MFA 1914–1919

By: S. D. & D. B. Jarvis

More than 2,500 merchant ships and auxiliaries were sunk during the war, by far the greatest majority by U boats. This volume contains the names of all who died serving in the merchant marine and in auxiliaries, armed merchant cruisers, hospital ships etc with the date of death. In each case the name of the ship is given and the individual's function on board, such as master, mate, stewardess, greaser, trimmer, fireman, lascar etc.

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178151397X

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A Soldier's Tale of Combating Hangovers

Debauchery Before the Internet

By: S.D. Turner

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A Soldier's Tale of Combating Hangovers

Debauchery Before the Internet

By: S.D. Turner

“This book makes you want more. I simply could not put it down –marvelous storytelling. Aside from being incredibly funny, S.D. Turner honors America’s soldiers past and present. I could easily see A Soldier’s Tale of Combating Hangovers being produced into a miniseries.” ̶ MAJ Donald “Captain Hand-grenade” Vandergriff, MA, RFSA, US Army (Retired) A Soldier’s Tale of Combating Hangovers: Debauchery Before the Internet is hands-down, the laugh-out-loud military guidebook to life in the U.S. Army in the early 1990s. In his debut memoir, author S.D. Turner brilliantly captures the hysterical side of life in the military. A week after his eighteenth birthday, he finds himself at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, training as an armored crewman aboard the M1A1 battle tank. As a new recruit, the story begins with him running from furious drill sergeants and ends with him running from angry 1800-pound bulls in the twisty, cobbled streets of Pamplona, Spain. Ride along as the author precariously finds himself naked, driving a 10-ton Army truck for his first adventure on Germany’s famed autobahn—all with an overzealous audience of French tour buses! Find out what happens to your drunken hero as he starts a beerfest brawl and almost goes to military prison for following his commander’s orders. It’s a non-stop, wild ride down memory lane that will, at times, have you on the edge of your seat or laughing yourself to the floor. It will definitely have you asking your friends and family more questions about their time in the military.

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1977230652

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Cinderella's Gold Slipper

Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimms' Tales

By: S. D. Fohr

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Cinderella's Gold Slipper

Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimms' Tales

By: S. D. Fohr

Samuel D. Fohr holds that the Grimms' tales are not just childish 'fairy tales', but are filled with spiritual symbolism, and as such have value for adults as well as children. Snow White, for example, is a story of creation and spiritual growth, and its message parallels Hindu and Judaic creation myths. Hansel and Gretel and Cinderella both portray the journey back to God. Fohr also looks at recurring themes in the stories, and answers such questions as: Why are giants always evil and dwarves always good? What is the symbolic significance of the hungry wolf who appears in many stories? Exactly what are genies, and why are they always trapped in bottles? A delightful but serious examination of cherished stories, this book reveals new meaning in familiar tales. Also included is an extensive bibliography and an Appendix on the authenticity of the Grimms' tales. The author is a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and has taught courses in both Western and Eastern Philosophy. He is the author of Adam and Eve: The Spiritual Symbolism of Genesis and Exodus, and editor of more than a dozen volumes of The Collected Works of Rene Guenon. To say that Fohr retrieves fairy tales from the nursery on the one hand, and retrieves them from mere entertainment for adults on the other, is only the start of the matter. Like Freud, Jung, and Levy-Strauss, he recognizes the wisdom folktales embody, but he goes beyond those students of myth in arguing that the authors knew what they were doing: they crafted their tales consciously. This is a courageous and cogent book that goes a long way toward revalidating a literary genre that modernity has irresponsibly trivialized. - Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, etc.

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1597310115

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The Maid of Honor

By: S. D. Lewis

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The Maid of Honor

By: S. D. Lewis

If you like reading about family, fights, sex, mystery, surprise, gossip, jealousy, excitement, suspense, pain, joy, sadness, death, life, love, hate, wealth, and poverty, you will love The Maid of Honor. This book is about the relationship between two sisters, Willie Mae and her younger sister Angie. Both girls have grown up in the lap of luxury, but that is all they have in common. Angie is spoiled rotten and takes full advantage of her status in life. She loves to spend money, and her attitude toward those that have less than she is, is blatant. She feels that she is better than almost everyone (including her sister). She is in a relationship with Darryl Jenkins, the son of a famous wealthy Holy Ghost–filled minister from the ATL. Willie Mae grew up in the same household, but these two girls are as different as day and night. Willie Mae works in a bank, and she loves her life of living a quiet life at home with her parents and leading the church youth. Not having a man in her life bothers her, but she realizes that the old saying "there is someone for everyone" is not necessarily true, and she is happy with the life she has made for herself. Being a daddy's girl is enough for her—well, it was until Angie came home after an evening with Darryl excited that she was now engaged. This announcement alone sent Willie Mae's life into a panic and everyone around her into a state of confusion. Describing this book, many words come to mind, superbly crafted, generous hearted, evil temptation, a delicious love story, engaging and memorable. When you read this book, you will experience many emotions. I promise you, you will laugh, cry, yell, curse, and you will relate differently to each character. The Maid of Honor is a book that will make you happy that you took the time to get to know the story of Willie Mae and Angie Johnson.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466947284

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9781466947283

Child of the Forest

Daughter of the KGB

By: S.D. Shadden

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Child of the Forest

Daughter of the KGB

By: S.D. Shadden

Orphaned in the wilderness of Siberia, forced into a Soviet state orphanage, taken by the KGB against her will to become a trained assassin for Moscow Center, KGB agent Anya Ruslanova fights to survive in a world which seeks to dominate and direct her formidable skills.Follow Anya's journey as she struggles to find her freedom and repay those who thrust her into the violent killing fields of "man's inhumanity to man." Anya Ruslanova—the child of the forest, the daughter of the KGB.

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1098042867

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9781098042868

Model Compositions Series (Primary 4)

By: Yvonne S. D.

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Model Compositions Series (Primary 4)

By: Yvonne S. D.

The Model Compositions for Primary Level 1-6 series is especially written with young learners in mind and is aimed at exposing them to composition writing in a very user-friendly and enjoyable manner on topics related to their everyday experiences as well as close to their hearts. The model compositions are carefully selected based on the understanding of how a young mind learns, thinks and feels. The topic for each model composition is drawn from the experiences, thoughts, ideas and feelings of young learners. The themes are presented in different writing styles. This series provides ample and consistent practice for young learners for every level of primary school. The variety of themes also enables the learners to be exposed to different topics and areas to write well. The first three levels are already published and the next three levels will be completed soon. A learner who starts to practice from Level 1 to Level 6 will have covered 1000 model compositions which will no doubt provide a very solid foundation for excellent writing once the learner moves up to junior high school. The vocabulary bank of the learner will also increase tremendously across a wide variety of topics and themes. Also, embedded in this gem is a good selection of children’s poems and haiku! Idioms, similes, collective nouns and animal sound enhance and enrich the writing mastery as well as the sophistication of expressions of the young learners as they not only grasp models of sentence structures but also learn to transform their ideas using meaningful vocabulary and common expressions. Each composition imparts the underlying values and positive attitudes for character building, living a meaningful life and contributing positively to the community, hence making a positive difference wherever the learners may be.

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9674314644

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9789674314644

Vivian Must Die

By: S. D. Lewis

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Vivian Must Die

By: S. D. Lewis

The last time the Johnson family were together all hell broke loose. Willie Mae informed her family that she was no longer the old maid just hoping some man, any man would pay her some attention but she let everyone especially her mother Vivian know that she had found love, true love with Dr. Harrington Wilson and she was his wife. Of course her mother thought it was just Willie Mae’s way of once again trying to upstage her younger sister Angie to get attention. It never even crossed Vivian’s mind to congratulate her oldest daughter and instead she tore her a new one by accusing her of being so desperate she would do anything to shine but no one shines more than her favorite daughter Angie. It didn’t take very long for Vivian to realize that she was the only one in the room with such a low opinion of Willie Mae. Angie and Darryl were happy for her. Her father Michael was a little disappointed that his eldest daughter had eloped but he was happy she was happy. He welcomed his new son-in law into the family. He even helped pack Willie Mae’s things together. When that day ended Vivian was left alone in her mansion with just her servants. Losing Willie Mae was something she had never thought about because in her mind Angie is the only child that she truly cared about and Michael still wanting the divorce only hardened her heart more. Vivian Must Die is the continuation of the story of the Johnson family with Vivian fighting as hard as she knows how to stop the divorce but when she realized that some things are beyond her control there were no limits she would not go to make everyone know she would not go down without a fight. She knew as long as she was Vivian Marie Johnson and she had a breath in her body she knew Michael could not resist her, would want her back and couldn’t live without her. That is until another woman with just as much beauty and sass made an entrance and took Michael’s focus off of Vivian once and for all. Get comfortable and sit back and prepare to get lost in the lives of all the wonderful and not so wonderful characters from the novel The Maid of Honor. You will laugh, you will cry, you will get angry, you will shout for joy and some of you may even sympathize with your most hater characters when you take a walk in their shoes. Vivian Must Die will tie up a lot of loose ends but don’t get too comfortable because when you think you have figured everyone out another surprise is around the corner.

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149079994X

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The Bone Fire

A Somershill Manor Mystery

By: S. D. Sykes

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The Bone Fire

A Somershill Manor Mystery

By: S. D. Sykes

In the new Somershill Manor Mystery, Oswald de Lacy brings his family to a secluded island castle to escape the Black Death, but soon a murder within the household proves that even the strongest fortresses aren't free from terror in fourteenth-century England. When the Black Death reappears in England in 1361, Oswald de Lacy knows that the safest place for his wife and young son is the island-fortress of Eden, where his eccentrically pious friend Godfrey has invited the family to stay to wait out the plague during the long, dark winter. But Oswald has barely had time to settle in when a brutal murder shocks the household and it soon becomes clear that the castle is not the stronghold of security that he was so desperately looking for. Oswald knows the castle isn’t safe, but escaping to the plague-infested countryside outside its walls is not an option. His only hope is to solve the mystery of the murder before the killer strikes again. With a cast of characters like something out of Chaucer—a lord and lady, a knight, a religious radical, a court jester, a drunk, and a couple of traveling craftsmen are just some of the suspects Oswald must reckon with—and the all-consuming threat of the plague hovering just outside the castle walls, the newest novel in the Somershill Manor Mysteries is the most brilliant and frightening yet.

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Simon and Schuster

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1643132970

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9781643132976

The Wineberg

By: S.D. Hill

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The Wineberg

By: S.D. Hill

A murderer!" Lorenzo interjected, asserting the words she couldn't bring herself to say, watching her closely, noting the offended expression on her face. "Yes! You see him in that light, I don't. I-didn't witness that side of him, I know my dad to be a giving, gentle man. I loved him, Lorenzo, he's the only father I had and I know, deep down, I know he killed your father and he regretted it." "Regret, my ass! He didn't regret damned thing he did until he burned down the Double C farm and you survived the fire. He witnessed your suffering and you became his conscience!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479766208

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Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic

The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834

By: S. D. Smith

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Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic

The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834

By: S. D. Smith

From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies. At the heart of the book lies a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the commercial and cultural network they created with their associates. The Lascelles exhibited high levels of business innovation and were accomplished risk-takers, overcoming daunting obstacles to make fortunes out of the New World. Dr Smith shows how the family raised themselves first to super-merchant status and then to aristocratic pre-eminence. He also explores the tragic consequences for enslaved Africans with chapters devoted to the slave populations and interracial relations. This widely researched book sheds new light on the networks and the culture of imperialism.

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Cambridge University Press

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113945885X

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Nazi UFOs

The Legends and Myths of Hitler's Flying Saucers in WW2

By: S.D. Tucker

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Nazi UFOs

The Legends and Myths of Hitler's Flying Saucers in WW2

By: S.D. Tucker

Nazi UFOs tells the strange tale of how, following the first alleged flying saucer sightings made in the USA in 1947, a series of fantasists and neo-fascists came forward to create a media myth that the Nazis may have invented these incredible craft as a means for winning the Second World War, a plan which was tantalisingly close to completion before the Allies conquered Berlin in 1945. Today, the fantasy of Nazi UFOs has grown into an entire mythology in books, on TV and online. Did Germany back-engineer anti-gravity craft, and even a full-blown time-machine, by stripping technology from a crashed alien saucer? Did the SS secretly invent ‘Green’ technology for use in their star ship engines, and was this planet-saving discovery later suppressed at the behest of a sinister Big Oil conspiracy? Did Himmler try to develop ‘lightning weapons’ for use in aerial combat? By contrasting the fake military-industrial pseudo-histories of Nazi UFO theorists with details of real-life Nazi aerospace achievements, the author demonstrates both how this modern-day mythology came about and how it cannot possibly be more than fractionally true. For the first time, this fake ‘alternative military history’ is laid out in full. This book features an appealing cast of con-men and spies, complete madmen, real-life Nazis and completely made-up ones, operating right across the globe from South America to wartime Europe and Japan. A good example may be the ‘mad professor’, Viktor Schauberger, who actually genuinely did manage to gain a personal audience with Adolf Hitler in order to try and convince him that he had discovered and then exploited some amazing new source of natural ‘free energy’ which could make objects (such as saucers, in the opinion of some) float. Hitler dismissed his plan, but it does nonetheless show how close some bizarre schemes came to being implemented in Nazi Germany.

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1399071599

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Genetic Determinants of Pulmonary Disease

By: S. D. Litwin

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Genetic Determinants of Pulmonary Disease

By: S. D. Litwin

This book provides a current and integrated approach to the subject of genetic determinants of pulmonary disease with emphasis on physiologic derangements and genetic mechanisms. It describes the epidemiologic-genetic approach to chronic pulmonary disease.

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CRC Press

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0824766083

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City of the Dead

By: S. D. Perry

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City of the Dead

By: S. D. Perry

A rookie cop and a resourceful young woman in search of her brother venture into Raccoon City on the very night that a horrifying viral outbreak has transformed every man, woman, and child into one of the living dead.

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0671024418

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Video Techniques in Animal Ecology and Behaviour

By: S.D. Wratten

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Video Techniques in Animal Ecology and Behaviour

By: S.D. Wratten

This book is about video techniques, not video technology. To deal with the latter would be a thankless task, as by the time the book was published it would be out of date, given the rapid rate of development of video hardware. However, these technological advances do help to make it an exciting field. As Joe Riley says in Chapter 1, 'Advances in video technology continually produce improvements in performance and reductions in both the cost and size of equipment, so it seems certain that the technique will prove to be an even more useful resource . . . in the future. ' In selecting the topics and authors represented in this book, I have tried to encompass most of the behavioural and ecological uses to which video is likely to be put over the next decade or so. I believe the book has captured the invaluable accumulated experience of the most active practitioners of the medium in this research area. The idea for the book arose from two workshops on the use of video in ecology and behaviour held at Southampton University, UK, during the 1980s. Three learned societies were involved in these meetings: the Association of Applied Biologists, the British Ecological Society and the Society for Experimental Biology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401106991

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9789401106993

Blood Sired

By: S. D. Lee

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Blood Sired

By: S. D. Lee

Growing up as an orphan is not easy for David. He feels differentand it does not help when he is called weird and strange by his foster families. When he is finally allowed to live on his own at age eighteen, he is determined to make a better life for himself. But when David awakens with blood on his hands next to his lifeless one-night stand in a hotel room, his life begins to unravel. Afraid of what he is becoming, David sets out on a quest to learn the truth about his parents. Led to a society of absolute evil, David develops an insatiable hunger for the forbidden that drives him to the verge of insanity. When he comes face-to-face with the truth, he begins to spiral out of control. Now David must somehow summon the strength to bring himself back or lose himself to his hunger forever. Blood Sired shares the tale of a young mans journey as he attempts to come to terms with the truth about his existence and decides which path to choose: good or evil.

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1504956362

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Great British Eccentrics

By: S. D. Tucker

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Great British Eccentrics

By: S. D. Tucker

An entertaining guide to the most eccentric characters from British history

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1445647710

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Resident Evil: City of the Dead

By: S.D. Perry

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Resident Evil: City of the Dead

By: S.D. Perry

Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city’s population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry.

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1781161852

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The Cross of Sacrifice: Officers Who Died in the Service of British, Indian and East African Regiments and Corps, 1914-1919

By: S. D. & D. B. Jarvis

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The Cross of Sacrifice: Officers Who Died in the Service of British, Indian and East African Regiments and Corps, 1914-1919

By: S. D. & D. B. Jarvis

A tremendous piece of research, conducted over ten years, in which are listed, in alphabetical order, the names of over 60,000 officers of the British Empire who died during the Great War, including nurses and female aid workers. Based on the CWGC Registers, the information provided includes not only that shown in ‘Officers Died' but also the place of burial or commemoration. The alphabetical listing means that looking up a name does not require prior knowledge of the regiment (as in ‘Officers Died') though this information is given, as well as cross-reference to the relevant page number in ‘Officers Died’.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781517614

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9781781517611

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