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Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age

Desmond and the Quest for God

By: Ryan G. Duns, SJ

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Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age

Desmond and the Quest for God

By: Ryan G. Duns, SJ

In A Secular Age, Charles Taylor, faced with contemporary challenges to belief, issues a call for “new and unprecedented itineraries” that might be capable of leading seekers to encounter God. In Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age, Ryan G. Duns demonstrates that William Desmond’s philosophy has the resources to offer a compelling response to Taylor. To show how, Duns makes use of the work of Pierre Hadot. In Hadot’s view, the point of philosophy is “not to inform but to form”—that is, not to provide abstract answers to abstruse questions but rather to form the human being such that she can approach reality as such in a new way. Drawing on Hadot, Duns frames Desmond’s metaphysical thought as a form of spiritual exercise. So framed, Duns argues, Desmond’s metaphysics attunes its readers to perceive disclosure of the divine in the everyday. Approached in this way, studying Desmond’s metaphysics can transform how readers behold reality itself by attuning them to discern the presence of God, who can be sought, and disclosed through, all things in the world. Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age offers a readable and engaging introduction to the thought of Charles Taylor and William Desmond, and demonstrates how practicing metaphysics can be understood as a form of spiritual exercise that renews in its practitioners an attentiveness to God in all things. As a unique contribution at the crossroads of theology and philosophy, it will appeal to readers in continental philosophy, theology, and religious studies broadly.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268108153

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606

“Lest Our Lamp be Entirely Extinguished”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606

“Lest Our Lamp be Entirely Extinguished”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

In 1598, Jesuit missions in Ireland, Scotland, and England were either suspended, undermanned, or under attack. With the Elizabethan government’s collusion, secular clerics hostile to Robert Persons and his tactics campaigned in Rome for the Society’s removal from the administration of continental English seminaries and from the mission itself. Continental Jesuits alarmed by the English mission’s idiosyncratic status within the Society, sought to restrict the mission’s privileges and curb its independence. Meanwhile the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, the subject that dared not speak its name, had become a more pressing concern. One candidate, King James VI of Scotland, courted Catholic support with promises of conversion. His peaceful accession in 1603 raised expectations, but as the royal promises went unfulfilled, anger replaced hope.

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BRILL

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9004330682

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9789004330689

Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum

By: Josef Mario Briffa SJ,Claudia Sagona

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Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum

By: Josef Mario Briffa SJ,Claudia Sagona

Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784915890

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The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions

Volume Two: Missions, Relations, and Persons

By: Robert M. Doran, S.J.

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The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions

Volume Two: Missions, Relations, and Persons

By: Robert M. Doran, S.J.

The second volume of Robert M. Doran’s magisterial The Trinity in History continues his exploration of the Trinitarian theology of Bernard Lonergan, focusing now on the notions of relations and persons and connecting the systematic proposals with the so-called "Third Quest for the Historical Jesus." Doran not only interprets Lonergan’s major work in Trinitarian theology and Christology but also suggests at least a twofold advance: a new version of the psychological analogy for understanding Trinitarian doctrine and a new starting point for the whole of systematic theology. He links these theological concerns with René Girard’s mimetic theory, proposes a theory of history based in Lonergan’s scale of values, and creates a link between exegetical and historical scholarship and systematic theology.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487530994

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Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering

A Comprehensive Guide

By: K. F. Riley,M. P. Hobson,S. J. Bence

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Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering

A Comprehensive Guide

By: K. F. Riley,M. P. Hobson,S. J. Bence

The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics and many worked examples, it contains over 800 exercises. New stand-alone chapters give a systematic account of the 'special functions' of physical science, cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables, and give an introduction to quantum operators. Further tabulations, of relevance in statistics and numerical integration, have been added. In this edition, half of the exercises are provided with hints and answers and, in a separate manual available to both students and their teachers, complete worked solutions. The remaining exercises have no hints, answers or worked solutions and can be used for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors on a password-protected web site, www.cambridge.org/9780521679718.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139450999

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Coffee Cafe

By: S.J Hardy

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Coffee Cafe

By: S.J Hardy

The Past is far from dead You can run. Change your face, who you are, but it won't mean they won't find you, that your past won't follow. You can make a memory bearable, by remembering it a different way, but it won't change reality. A monster is still a monster regardless of its face and the dark is still the dark, even when your heart makes your eyes blind. Based on the first instalment of Coffee Café Trilogy from author and director S.J Hardy, Coffee Café follows the story of Sarah as she tries to escape her past, but her past is never too far behind. She is tormented, haunted by her dreams that conceal more than she wishes to remember; people she rather forget. Her heart is heavy, guilt-ridden and for her own good reasons. She begins working at Coffee Café and soon discovers that Coffee Café holds its own dark secrets too, starting with a spilt coffee, landing in a patron's lap.

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Lulu.com

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1326149725

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The Common Murders

By: S J Ridgway

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The Common Murders

By: S J Ridgway

Thomas hears voices. They tell him to kill women with auburn hair. Superintendent Cadema Sharma, a SIO in the Met, is on a mission for justice. She investigates all five vicious murders of young women. But each enquiry leads to a dead end. DNA left at each scene, is useless. One victim has blond hair. An intended victim whispers the name Thomas, but later denies having said this. Being pulled in too many directions, she must focus on the only suspects she has; none are called Thomas. So who is Thomas? If he is the perpetrator, what is his motive? Cadema needs answers now, before any more murders are committed.

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1326463438

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Ignatian Spirituality at Ecclesial Frontiers

By: Fredrik Heiding S.J.

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Ignatian Spirituality at Ecclesial Frontiers

By: Fredrik Heiding S.J.

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, presuppose Roman Catholicism, but are today made by many who are not Catholics. Moreover, even Roman Catholics who make Ignatian Exercises often are not spontaneously inclined to obey Roman ecclesiastical authority. Neither avoiding the ecclesial dimension nor an authoritarian 'follow the rules!' provides adequate orientation when working with issues at Church frontiers. This ground-breaking study in pastoral theology seeks to navigate a middle position by moving beyond the individualism and the a-historical assumptions of the existing relevant literature. The aim of this book is to take Ignatian studies forward by combining relational anthropology, hermeneutics and a sacramental understanding of the Church, and to apply this synthesis to the practice of Ignatian Exercises. (D.Phil. at the University of Oxford.) Lulu Publishing (www.lulu.com)

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1105868966

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Acts of Faith and Imagination

Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction

By: Brent Little,Florian Michel

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Acts of Faith and Imagination

Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction

By: Brent Little,Florian Michel

Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: "what is faith?" To speak of a person's "faith-life" is to speak of change and development. As a narrative form, literature can illustrate the dynamics of faith, which remains in flux over the course of one's life. Because human beings must possess faith in something (whether religious or not), it inevitably has a narrative structure?faith ebbs and flows, flourishes and decays, develops and stagnates. Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, Brent Little argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon their faith holistically, that is, the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Amidst the diverse stories of modern and contemporary fiction, a consistent pattern emerges: Catholic fiction portrays faith?at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level?as an act of the imagination. Faith is the way one imagines themselves, others, and creation. A person's primary faith conditions how they live in the world, regardless of the level of conscious reflection, and regardless of whether this is a "religious" faith. Acts of Faith and Imagination investigates the creative depth and vitality of the Catholic literary imagination by bringing late modern Catholic authors into dialogue with more contemporary ones. Readers will then consider well-known works, such as those by Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, and Muriel Spark in the fresh light of contemporary stories by Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, Uwem Akpan, and several others.

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CUA Press

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0813236657

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The Denounced

Book 3 Creaking Dawn

By: SJ Sherwood

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The Denounced

Book 3 Creaking Dawn

By: SJ Sherwood

Pod Fifteen finally navigate their way home, but have they made the mistake of their lives? They are still convicted Denounced. Hunted by a System desperate to hang them. Ned and the rest of the Pod need a place to bide their time and think, finding refuge in a Doubter’s Camp. But is their safe haven really that safe, or just another deadly trap waiting to spring? With the Unification War looming and nobody willing to listen, Ned is torn between saving his Pod and the love of his life, or saving a Secular World that wants him dead.

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1999792947

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The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

By: S. J. Barnett

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The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

By: S. J. Barnett

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For, despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement which formed the “intellectual solvent” of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.

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Manchester University Press

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1847795935

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Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops

By: Chirantan Chattopadhyay,S. J. Kolte,Farid Waliyar

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Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops

By: Chirantan Chattopadhyay,S. J. Kolte,Farid Waliyar

This book presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. It covers and integrates global literature on the subject up to 2014, setting it apart from other books that are only of regional importance. The authors are internationally recognized experts who have compiled decades of information from previously scattered research into a single volume that provides much-needed updates to oilseed crop disease research.

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CRC Press

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1466595663

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The Darker Side to Dr Carter

By: S. J. Groves

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The Darker Side to Dr Carter

By: S. J. Groves

A dark tale of hidden betrayal, lies and secrets, A man determined to keep his darker interests out of sight. No matter the cost, that ends with terrible consequences as this demon of man shows himself, as the darkness of this evil deep inside comes forth to those closest to him, like his dearly beloved wife Helena and daughter Anna and those who dare cross this devil of a man!

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1496975359

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Who Spiked the Eggs?

By: S.J. Altree

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Who Spiked the Eggs?

By: S.J. Altree

Detective Angie Taylor has a puzzler on her hands when a couple vanishes into thin air, leaving behind their money, credit cards, phones, and a half-eaten breakfast. On the surface it appears that Ronald and Jessica Thornton were interrupted in the middle of their meal, but appearances can be deceiving. Were the Thorntons really abducted, or is something else going on? Find out in the first Angie Taylor mystery. Who Spiked the Eggs? is a 14,000-word cozy mystery perfect for your daily commute, the beach, or a rainy day. KEYWORDS: mystery, cozy mystery, women sleuths, detective, mystery series, short reads, whodunit

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Norn Publishing

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1927369614

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Meat Refrigeration

By: S J James,Christian James

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Meat Refrigeration

By: S J James,Christian James

Refrigeration and meat quality; The cold chain from carcass to consumer; Process control.

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Woodhead Publishing

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1855734427

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The Effects of Psychological Therapy

International Series in Experimental Psychology

By: S.J. Rachman,G.T. Wilson

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The Effects of Psychological Therapy

International Series in Experimental Psychology

By: S.J. Rachman,G.T. Wilson

The Effects of Psychological Therapy, Second Enlarged Edition focuses on trends, methodologies, and technologies used in determining the effects of psychological therapy on neurotic disorders, behavior therapy, and psychotherapy. The manuscript first discusses conventional outcome research, need for evaluations, and Eysenck's argument. The book also focuses on the spontaneous remission of neurotic disorders and effects of psychoanalytic treatment, including spontaneous remission rates in childhood, the American Psychoanalytic Association survey, Malan's contribution, and the Menninger clinic report. The text ponders on the effects of psychotherapy, Rogerian psychotherapy, and psychotherapy with psychotic patients. The manuscript also takes a look at behavior therapy, as well as external and internal validity of studies on systematic desensitazion, controlled-treatment outcome studies, and outcome of behavior therapy. Meichenbaum's self-instructional training, cognitive restructuring methods, and Beck's cognitive therapy are discussed. The manuscript is a dependable reference for readers interested in the effects of psychological therapy.

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Elsevier

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1483161986

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9781483161983

The Great Catastrophe of My Life

Divorce in the Old Dominion

By: Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

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The Great Catastrophe of My Life

Divorce in the Old Dominion

By: Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern life. Through the lens of this hostile environment, Thomas Buckley explores with sympathy the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it. Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians. Their stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence. Although the oppressive legal regime these husbands and wives battled has passed away, the emotions behind their efforts to dissolve the bonds of marriage still resonate strongly.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861480

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9780807861486

Statistical Methods in Biology

Design and Analysis of Experiments and Regression

By: S.J. Welham,S.A. Gezan,S.J. Clark,A. Mead

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Statistical Methods in Biology

Design and Analysis of Experiments and Regression

By: S.J. Welham,S.A. Gezan,S.J. Clark,A. Mead

Written in simple language with relevant examples, this illustrative introductory book presents best practices in experimental design and simple data analysis. Taking a practical and intuitive approach, it only uses mathematical formulae to formalize the methods where necessary and appropriate. The text features extended discussions of examples that include real data sets arising from research. The authors analyze data in detail to illustrate the use of basic formulae for simple examples while using the GenStat statistical package for more complex examples. Each chapter offers instructions on how to obtain the example analyses in GenStat and R.

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CRC Press

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1439898057

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9781439898055

Muslims in the Margin

Political Responses to the Presence of Islam in Western Europe

By: W. A. R. Shadid,P. Sj. van Koningsveld

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Muslims in the Margin

Political Responses to the Presence of Islam in Western Europe

By: W. A. R. Shadid,P. Sj. van Koningsveld

The involvement of minorities in politics has been the subject of a considerable number of studies. However, these studies are rarely concerned with the political role in Western Europe of both Islam as a mobilising factor, and the Muslims as a religious group comparable with other confessional groups creating political parties. The importance of political participation of Muslims for the improvement of their social, economic, and cultural position as well as for the establishing of religious infrastructure, has been widely recognized by politicians and scientists alike. As relative newcomers in Western Europe, most Muslims still occupy a marginal position, which makes their active political participation all the more urgent. Over the last decades, initiatives have been taken in several countries to create Islamic political parties. At the same, in most countries of Western Europe, the established political parties are nominating members with an Islamic background among their candidates. Furthermore, many discussions have taken place about the feasability of the integration of Islam within the European social and political systems. Cabinet ministers and established political parties have developed views about the nature of Islam, which are being crystalized in the policies of the national governments. Central issues in these discussions are, for instance, the compatibility of Islam and parliamentary democracy and human rights, the fear of religious fundamentalism and fanaticism, as well as the oppression of women by Islam. The present book contains fourteen contributions by specialists from various European countries.

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Peeters Publishers

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9039005206

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9789039005200

Bayesian Methods in Finance

By: Svetlozar T. Rachev,John S. J. Hsu,Biliana S. Bagasheva,Frank J. Fabozzi

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Bayesian Methods in Finance

By: Svetlozar T. Rachev,John S. J. Hsu,Biliana S. Bagasheva,Frank J. Fabozzi

Bayesian Methods in Finance provides a detailed overview of the theory of Bayesian methods and explains their real-world applications to financial modeling. While the principles and concepts explained throughout the book can be used in financial modeling and decision making in general, the authors focus on portfolio management and market risk management—since these are the areas in finance where Bayesian methods have had the greatest penetration to date.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470249242

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9780470249246

The Kennedy Family

An American Dynasty : a Bibliography with Indexes

By: S. J. Fuller

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The Kennedy Family

An American Dynasty : a Bibliography with Indexes

By: S. J. Fuller

America has no official royalty by design. Yet there have been the Roosevelts, the Adams, the Bushes, the wanabee Clintons and most intriguing of all -- the Kennedys. The Kennedys have so far only reached the presidency once but the assassination of JFK and his brother Robert, and the trials and tribulations of the family members and society in general continue to fascinate the world. This new book presents more than 1200 citations of books and related materials arranged by family member. The accompanying CD-ROM offers ready access and easy searching.

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Nova Publishers

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1594543631

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9781594543630

Chemistry of the Semiconductor Industry

By: S.J. Moss,A. Ledwith

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Chemistry of the Semiconductor Industry

By: S.J. Moss,A. Ledwith

This book covers the chemistry of the major processes involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The authors describe all the major processes in use, together with some interesting processes which are currently being developed and hold future promise. Each chapter covers the current state of knowledge of the underlying chemistry of a particular process, and identifies areas of uncertainty requiring further research.

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0216920051

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9780216920057

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