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In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

By: Stan Monaghan

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The principal characters reveal themselves in their brushes with everyday living - friendship, sexuality, passion, loss, loneliness and a melancholy that seems derived from family and Maureen's death - all of them forces that signify the power of past deeds to justify present behaviors. It is a story driven more by character revelation than by plot. The story of the Reilly family begins in Dublin, Ireland, and introduces sketches that trace the character of Maureen Reilly throughout a determined adolescence and a disastrous marriage. When she recovers she marries Jack Francis, and moves to a small town in Ontario, Canada, where she lives out her brief life. Twenty years after her death, her daughter Jacqueline experiences a psychotic episode that makes her the central character in a psychiatric treatment that in turn involves uncle Max Reilly, and father Jack Francis. Flash backs, triggered by psychiatrist Michael Regan, and his colleague Jodi Heatherington, challenged this family's accomodations to living, and helps to peel back layers of haunting memories of how life was, how each got to be the way they are. The minor characters in the story offer either comic relief, or life's darker side, all of them susceptible to failed experiments in their efforts to be appreciated if not loved. It is therefore a redemptive story of ordinary people who confront their personal ghosts with heart and humor.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412018188

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The Science of Fly-fishing

By: Stan L. Ulanski

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The Science of Fly-fishing

By: Stan L. Ulanski

Ulanski's thoughtful explorations of topics such as the physics of fly casting, the angler's environment, the diet of trout, and the role of lake geology and biology will help anglers reach a greater understanding of and appreciation for the natural aquatic home of their quarry.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813922100

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9780813922102

The Vertical Diet

By: Stan Efferding,Damon McCune

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The Vertical Diet

By: Stan Efferding,Damon McCune

With so many diets and programs to choose from, finding the right nutritional path can be challenging. Many modern diets are rooted in misrepresented science, rely heavily on supplements, or are just simply not sustainable in the long term. World’s Strongest IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Stan Efferding and Dr. Damon McCune have partnered to bring you a program that sets the confusion aside and puts you on the path to weight loss, better performance, and overall better health, today. The Vertical Diet provides practical nutrition and lifestyle solutions that are simple, sensible, and sustainable. Stan and Damon provide a specific plan and comprehensive tools that will help you develop a greater understanding of which foods are nutrient-dense and digested easily and efficiently for maximal health benefits. With example menus and easy-to-follow recipes, The Vertical Diet takes all the guesswork out of what to eat and when. You will also learn how to build a daily checklist of healthy behaviors to follow to support your long-term success on the program. The Vertical Diet is complete with: A selective (not restrictive) dietary plan that’s rich in easy-to-digest carbs and proteins Recommendations for lifestyle changes that address everything from ways to boost metabolism to better sleep hygiene Personal testimonials from Vertical Diet clients; data from scientific sources; references to experts in the field, and actionable tools such as calorie calculators, shopping lists, and recipes to help explain these concepts Stan and Damon’s Compliance Is the Science method to help you establish the motivation and mindset for lifelong success What you learn in these pages will allow you to make informed decisions about your diet and will enable you to approach the dieting process from a total-body perspective. Whether you are a performance athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply looking to take a step toward better health, look no further than The Vertical Diet.

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Victory Belt Publishing

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1628602422

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9781628602425

The California Current

A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers

By: Stan Ulanski

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The California Current

A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers

By: Stan Ulanski

The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. To a casual observer standing on the shore, the vast current betrays no discernible signs, yet life abounds just over the horizon. Stan Ulanski takes us into the water on a journey through this magnificent, unique marine ecosystem, illuminating the scientific and biological marvels and the astonishing array of flora and fauna streaming along our Pacific coast. The waters of the California Current yield a complex broth of planktonic organisms that form the base of an elaborate food web that many naturalists have compared to the species-rich Serengeti ecosystem of Africa. Every year, turtles, seals, fish, and seabirds travel great distances to feast in the current's distinct biological oases and feeding sites. Apex predators, such as the California gray whale, humpback whale, salmon shark, and bluefin tuna, undertake extensive north-south migrations within the current to find enough to eat. The California Current energizes us to celebrate and protect a marine ecosystem integral to the myriad fisheries, coastal communities, and cultures of the Pacific coast.

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UNC Press Books

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1469628252

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9781469628257

Mental Health and Criminal Justice

By: Anne F. Segal,L. Thomas Winfree,Stan Friedman

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Mental Health and Criminal Justice

By: Anne F. Segal,L. Thomas Winfree,Stan Friedman

In this student-friendly text, a team of respected scholars balances practical knowledge of how the mental healthcare system operates in conjunction with the criminal justice system, with an analytical framework that looks at how the quality of that collaboration is reflected in the issues, processes and outcomes of both institutions. Professors and students will benefit from an accessible new text that informs and explores: The role of mental healthcare law and procedure in the criminal justice system How mentally ill clients are processed through the criminal justice system Mental healthcare terms, resources, and treatment programs Contemporary issues in mental health and criminal justice, such as the treatment of mentally ill juveniles inside the criminal justice system, and lack of full access to mental healthcare for at-risk groups Discussion of systemic interface and entropy, two central themes to guide student analysis of issues and examples drawn from real life Mental Health and Criminal Justice is designed with a wealth of features for study and review, including: Learning Objectives Framing the Issues Prologues and Epilogues that frame issues and provide vivid examples Key Terms, highlighted in the text and defined in the Glossary Text boxes that expand on points of interest Summary and Chapter Review Questions at the end of each chapter

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Aspen Publishing

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154380294X

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9781543802948

Losing Our Cool

Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

By: Stan Cox

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Losing Our Cool

Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

By: Stan Cox

Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world's hot zones—from Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern India—Cox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is designed to help us endure, providing a potent commercial stimulant, making possible an impossible commuter economy, and altering migration patterns (air-conditioning has helped alter the political hue of the United States by enabling a population boom in the red-state Sun Belt). While the book proves that the planet's atmosphere cannot sustain even our current use of air-conditioning, it also makes a much more positive argument that loosening our attachment to refrigerated air could bring benefits to humans and the planet that go well beyond averting a climate crisis. Though it saves lives in heat waves, air-conditioning may also be altering our bodies' sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex drive. Air-conditioning has eroded social bonds and thwarted childhood adventure; it has transformed the ways we eat, sleep, travel, work, buy, relax, vote, and make both love and war. The final chapter surveys the many alternatives to conventional central air-conditioning. By reintroducing some traditional cooling methods, putting newly emerging technologies into practice, and getting beyond industrial definitions of comfort, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too.

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The New Press

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1595586024

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In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

By: Stan Monaghan

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In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

By: Stan Monaghan

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Trafford Publishing

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1412018188

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Stan Lee's Backchannel Volume 1

By: Stan Lee,Tom Akel

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Stan Lee's Backchannel Volume 1

By: Stan Lee,Tom Akel

One of the final projects of the legendary Stan Lee and beautifully illustrated by Spider-man veteran Andie Tong, BACKCHANNEL centers on Tom Tanner and his father, Martin. On the surface, Tom Tanner is having an average high school life - struggling to stay on the lacrosse team, hiding his affections for his friend Sally, and trying to keep his head down and grades up. What his father, an LA police detective, and friends don’t know is that Tom is an engineering prodigy and is being recruited by BACKCHANNEL, a decentralized hactivist group causing havoc at prisons across the U.S. While developing a highly sophisticated AI algorithm, a power awakens within Tom that grants him the ability to mentally hack into any device (technopathy). While initially using this newfound power for personal gain and petty revenge, he learns of a dark secret from his father’s past that will change him forever. In need of a moment of escapism, Tom returns to his favorite digital comics. This time though, the comic is disturbingly on point with what Tom has been experiencing. As he continues to read, Tom realizes that there are encrypted messages in the comic from an unknown ally who clearly knows everything Tom has been up to. When he discovers that the hacktivist group BACKCHANNEL has been tracking him and is aware of his new abilities and reaching out to him for help, Tom is set on a very dangerous path.

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Simon and Schuster

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195212624X

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9781952126246

Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

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Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

The man behind Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other superheroes tells his own amazing story in a book packed with punch, humor, anecdotes, and a gallery of never-before-seen photographs. Stan Lee is the most legendary name in the history of comicbooks. The leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics, he brought to life some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains. His stories, featuring super- heroes who struggled against personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity, added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in the super-human. In the process, he created a new mythology for the twentieth century. In this treasure trove of marvelous memories, Stan tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comicbooks. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comicbooks, followed by military training films during World War II, through the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his recent adventures in Hollywood. The story of a man who earned respect by blazing new creative trails in a storytelling form once dismissed as just for kids, Excelsior! is an inspirational story about following one's vision, no matter the odds. Yet it's also the story of how some of the most exciting and memorable characters in the pop-culture universe came to thrill a generation.

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Atria Books

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0684873052

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9780684873053

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

By: Stan Lee

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STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

By: Stan Lee

It's the night before Christmas when suddenly Santa's old nemesis, the evil Ice King, and his terrible ice trolls launch a surprise attack on the North Pole and capture Santa. But all is not lost -- the powerful Protector is on his way to save the day! However, when the Protector arrives at the North Pole, he too is captured and it's up to his superhero wife, the Protectress, and their two children, Carolyn and Robert, to find a way to save Christmas.

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Milk & Cookies

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1596875267

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Book's by Stan Monaghan

In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

The Science of Fly-fishing

The Science of Fly-fishing

The Vertical Diet

The Vertical Diet

The California Current

The California Current

Mental Health and Criminal Justice

Mental Health and Criminal Justice

Losing Our Cool

Losing Our Cool

In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

In the Wake of Maureen Reilly

Stan Lee's Backchannel Volume 1

Stan Lee's Backchannel Volume 1

Excelsior!

Excelsior!

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

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