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ANDREWS GEYSER

Star of the Mountain Railroad

By: Stephen R. Little

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ANDREWS GEYSER

Star of the Mountain Railroad

By: Stephen R. Little

What was that?!? DID I JUST SEE A GEYSER? Wait ... I just saw another one! No, that’s not possible. We’re on a train in the mountains, and ... There!! I SAW A THIRD ONE!! WHAT IS GOING ON ?!? For almost 100 years, passengers rode trains from all over, going all over. When they rode the train on the mountain between Old Fort and Asheville in western North Carolina, they got a very special treat. Nestled at WNCRR mile marker 116, just below the series of six tunnels, is Andrews Geyser. The curvy tracks allowed several sneak previews, first on one side of the train, and then on the other! For decades, it has puzzled, bewildered and delighted people of all ages. What is it? ...When was it built?....Who was Andrew?....Why is it here?

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1477259414

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The Mighty Locomotive

By: Stephen R. Little

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The Mighty Locomotive

By: Stephen R. Little

Wait a minute! I thought a train could only travel on train tracks! How did the locomotive get from the valley to the top of the mountain before the rails were laid??

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1477259376

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Silicon Carbide Biotechnology

A Biocompatible Semiconductor for Advanced Biomedical Devices and Applications

By: Stephen E. Saddow

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Silicon Carbide Biotechnology

A Biocompatible Semiconductor for Advanced Biomedical Devices and Applications

By: Stephen E. Saddow

Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a wide-band-gap semiconductor biocompatible material that has the potential to advance advanced biomedical applications. SiC devices offer higher power densities and lower energy losses, enabling lighter, more compact and higher efficiency products for biocompatible and long-term in vivo applications ranging from heart stent coatings and bone implant scaffolds to neurological implants and sensors. The main problem facing the medical community today is the lack of biocompatible materials that are also capable of electronic operation. Such devices are currently implemented using silicon technology, which either has to be hermetically sealed so it cannot interact with the body or the material is only stable in vivo for short periods of time. For long term use (permanent implanted devices such as glucose sensors, brain-machine-interface devices, smart bone and organ implants) a more robust material that the body does not recognize and reject as a foreign (i.e., not organic) material is needed. Silicon Carbide has been proven to be just such a material and will open up a whole new host of fields by allowing the development of advanced biomedical devices never before possible for long-term use in vivo. This book not only provides the materials and biomedical engineering communities with a seminal reference book on SiC that they can use to further develop the technology, it also provides a technology resource for medical doctors and practitioners who are hungry to identify and implement advanced engineering solutions to their everyday medical problems that currently lack long term, cost effective solutions. Discusses Silicon Carbide biomedical materials and technology in terms of their properties, processing, characterization, and application, in one book, from leading professionals and scientists Critical assesses existing literature, patents and FDA approvals for clinical trials, enabling the rapid assimilation of important data from the current disparate sources and promoting the transition from technology research and development to clinical trials Explores long-term use and applications in vivo in devices and applications with advanced sensing and semiconducting properties, pointing to new product devekipment particularly within brain trauma, bone implants, sub-cutaneous sensors and advanced kidney dialysis devices

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Elsevier

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0123859069

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9780123859068

Tunnels, Nitro and Convicts

Building the Railroad That Couldn't Be Built

By: Stephen R. Little

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Tunnels, Nitro and Convicts

Building the Railroad That Couldn't Be Built

By: Stephen R. Little

Still suffering the devastation of the Civil war that ended only ten years earlier, North Carolina shipped prison inmates from Raleigh to build the Mountain Division of the western North Carolina railroad. Some amazing and astonishing events occurred from 1875 through 1879 as this mountain railroad (3 miles straight-line distance, requiring 9+ miles of track) was pushed up the eastern continental divide. Six tunnels were excavated, from 89 to 1,800 feet long, each 15 feet tall. For open cuts, solid rock was cracked by dousing cold mountain water on roaring fires. The first use in the southeastern U.S. of a new product called Nobel's Blasting Oil (now called nitroglycerin!) was on the project. It was mixed with sawdust and corn meal, making nitroglycerin mash. A very heavy wood-burning locomotive was picked up off the tracks by the convicts and pushed several miles overland to the top of the mountain to help dig out the longest tunnel. The most common tool used was a flat rock held in the strong hands of the convicts to dig and spread dirt as they prepared the flat path needed to lay crossties for the rails. Tunnels, Nitro and Convicts condenses the incredible history of the most ambitious earth-moving, mountain-conquering project in the United States as of the 1870s into an engaging, easy-to-read story. The fascinating and compelling intertwining of long dark caves, blasting and cracking of massive rocks, the first use of nitroglycerin in the southeastern United States, and pushing a big locomotive several miles through the woods up a mountain ... all by hundreds of convicts who worked under severe conditions with the most basic tools ... makes this true account of post-civil war railroad history a story you must read!

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1452067716

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Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

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Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. With the insight and good humor his fans appreciated in On Writing, Danse Macabre is an enjoyably entertaining tour through Stephen King’s beloved world of horror.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439171165

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22

By: Stephen Jones

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22

By: Stephen Jones

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Robinson

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1849017727

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21

By: Stephen Jones

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21

By: Stephen Jones

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones, whose Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is one of the major bargains of this as of any other year.' Roz Kavaney 'An essential volume for horror readers.' Locus 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.' Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books

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1849016720

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Sport Public Relations

By: G. Clayton Stoldt,Stephen W. Dittmore,Mike Ross,Scott E. Branvold

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Sport Public Relations

By: G. Clayton Stoldt,Stephen W. Dittmore,Mike Ross,Scott E. Branvold

The text provides students and professionals with an understanding of all aspects of sport public relations, framing its discussion in terms of a managerial and proactive approach to PR"--

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Human Kinetics Publishers

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1492589381

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9781492589389

Soldier of Change

From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement

By: STEPHEN SNYDER-HILL

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Soldier of Change

From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement

By: STEPHEN SNYDER-HILL

When ôDonÆt Ask, DonÆt Tell,ö the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate (held two days after the repeal). In the video he asked for the RepublicansÆ thoughts regarding the repeal and their plans, if any, to extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was booed by the audience on national television. Soldier of Change captures not only the media frenzy that followed that moment, placing Snyder-Hill at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement, but also his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army: from self-loathing to self-acceptance, to the most important battle of his lifeûprotecting the disenfranchised. Since that time, Snyder-Hill has traveled the country with his husband, giving interviews on major news networks and speaking at universities, community centers, and pride parades, a champion of LGBT equality.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612347061

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9781612347066

The Trap

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Trap

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil Gaiman Sheriff Lafe Whitecotton has a problem: sleepwalking Whisperwell Jenkins has stolen and burned some important evidence -- as well as $500 in cold cash! -- from his office and now everyone blames him for just about everything. Throw in a mysterious letter that claims that a book called THE CHINESE CHARACTER holds the clue to a murder and a doddering old detective named Tuddleton Trotter and you have the makings of one of the goldangdest Keeler novels that never made it to print! How Lafe and Tuddleton band together to solve this case is a tale only webworking Harry Stephen Keeler could have devised.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425613

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American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission

By: Stephen Gill

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American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission

By: Stephen Gill

Dr Stephen Gill examines the extent and nature of Americas as a hegemonic state.

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CUP Archive

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052142433X

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9780521424332

Weird Tales 301 (Summer 1991)

By: Darrell Schweitzer,Stephen King,Ramsey Campbell

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Weird Tales 301 (Summer 1991)

By: Darrell Schweitzer,Stephen King,Ramsey Campbell

The special Ramsey Campbell issue of Weird Tales presents 4 short stories by this modern master, plus stories by Stephen King, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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0809532174

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Peasant Perceptions of Landscape

Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650

By: Stephen Mileson,Stuart Brookes

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Peasant Perceptions of Landscape

Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650

By: Stephen Mileson,Stuart Brookes

Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places where they lived. This volume provides exactly such an analysis by examining peasant perceptions in one geographical area over the long period from AD 500 to 1650. The study takes as its focus Ewelme hundred, a well-documented and archaeologically-rich area of lowland vale and hilly Chiltern wood-pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes. The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal depositions and thousands of field-names and bynames preserved in largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes a major contribution, particularly for understanding the period before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of villages and the framework for inhabitants' spatial practices and experiences. In its focus on the way inhabitants interacted with the landscape in which they worked, prayed, and socialised, Peasant Perceptions of Landscape supplies a new history of the lives and attitudes of the bulk of the rural population who so seldom make their mark in traditional landscape analysis or documentary history.

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Oxford University Press

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0192894897

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9780192894892

Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult

By: Jeffrey J. Schaider,Roger M. Barkin,Stephen R. Hayden,Richard E. Wolfe,Adam Z. Barkin,Philip Shayne,Peter Rosen

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Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult

By: Jeffrey J. Schaider,Roger M. Barkin,Stephen R. Hayden,Richard E. Wolfe,Adam Z. Barkin,Philip Shayne,Peter Rosen

This best-selling emergency department reference is now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition. The foremost authorities provide practical information on over 600 clinical problems in a fast-access two-page outline format that's perfect for on-the-spot consultation during care in the emergency department. Coverage of each disorder includes clinical presentation, pre-hospital, diagnosis, treatment, disposition, and ICD-9 coding. Icons enable practitioners to quickly spot the information they need. This edition provides up-to-date information on topics such as emerging infections, new protocols, and new treatments.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451160976

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9781451160970

The Home Tree

By: Stephen R. Little

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The Home Tree

By: Stephen R. Little

Having a home and having connections to family. These are some of life's most basic values and needs. When times get tough, even those who have left seeking a new life of their own often return to their roots and find comfort and security. Some animals in The Home Tree left their long-time family home. But when something happened beyond their control, they sought safety and community ... and ended up right where their ancestors started. The Home Tree is a sweet story about small animals in a forest, with stunningly beautiful illustrations that pre-school children will love. While they enjoy the story book, they will learn the strength and security of family and community. The important themes of sharing and cooperation are also woven into the short text that children will want to hear again and again. The Home Tree was created when the author (elected mayor of Marion, NC in 2009) held his toddler daughters in the front porch swing at home near the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. This bed-time story was many years later put in writing, with magnificent customized illustrations by a young man who teaches elementary school in Texas. You and your child will love The Home Tree.

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1456725726

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The Last Prairie

A Sandhills Journal

By: Stephen R. Jones

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The Last Prairie

A Sandhills Journal

By: Stephen R. Jones

The co-author of "The Shortgrass Prairie" paints a startlingly vivid portrait of the Nebraska Sandhills as he delivers riveting accounts of the flora, fauna, wildlife, and rich cultural history of the region.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803276303

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9780803276307

Roman Mosaics of Britain

South-east Britain

By: David S. Neal,Stephen R. Cosh

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Roman Mosaics of Britain

South-east Britain

By: David S. Neal,Stephen R. Cosh

The third volume in this massive project to create the first complete corpus of the Roman mosaics of Britain covers the areas of Britain that were first to come under Roman control and where some of Britain's most impressive mosaics are to be found.

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0854312897

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9780854312894

Wheel Boats on the Missouri

The Journals and Documents of the Atkinson-O'Fallon Expedition, 1824-26

By: Henry Atkinson,Stephen Watts Kearny

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Wheel Boats on the Missouri

The Journals and Documents of the Atkinson-O'Fallon Expedition, 1824-26

By: Henry Atkinson,Stephen Watts Kearny

In 1824 Brig. Gen. Henry Atkinson and Indian Agent Benjamin O'Fallon traveled up the Missouri River, along with 475 soldiers of the First and Sixth Infantry regiments. Their mission: to negotiate peace treaties with tribes along the Missouri River, and to secure their promise to trade exclusively with American citizens. It was hoped this combination of military power and proffered friendship would put an end to Indian attacks on American fur trappers and traders. The full record of this early military expedition is now available. The diaries of General Atkinson and Maj. Stephen Watts Kearny describe the trip from St. Louis to Fort Atkinson in the fall of 1824, the expedition from the fort to the Yellowstone River and back in 1825, and the return of a portion of the troops to St. Louis in 1826, while the diary of Angus Lewis Langham, the expedition's secretary, describes the passage of the wheel boat Antelope from St. Louis to Fort Atkinson in early spring of 1825. This fully annotated volume also includes a discussion of the early use of the wheel boat to travel the Missouri and the expedition's financial records.

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Montana Historical Society

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0917298691

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9780917298691

Epic Retreats

From 1776 to the Evacuation of Saigon

By: Stephen Tanner

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Epic Retreats

From 1776 to the Evacuation of Saigon

By: Stephen Tanner

In between glorious triumphs and noble catastrophes of military history lies a neglected stepchild: retreat. This book spans the modern era -- from horses to helicopters -- with highly detailed analysis of seven campaigns.

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0785814035

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9780785814030

Our Fifty States

By: Mark H. Bockenhauer,Stephen F. Cunha

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Our Fifty States

By: Mark H. Bockenhauer,Stephen F. Cunha

Presents maps that introduce each region of the United States along with essays which describe the area's history, climate, natural resources, and physical features as well as additional information on each state of that region.

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0792297644

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9780792297642

Crittenden County, Kentucky Obituaries and Death Notices Volume V 1918-1922 Addendum 1904-1907

By: Stephen Eskew

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Crittenden County, Kentucky Obituaries and Death Notices Volume V 1918-1922 Addendum 1904-1907

By: Stephen Eskew

This book is a compilation of obituaries and death notices transcribed from issues of the Crittenden Record-Press dating from 03 January 1918 through 29 August 1918 and issues of The Crittenden Press dating from 07 August 1919 through 22 December 1922. An Addendum is located at the end of this volume and includes issues of The Crittenden Record dating from 15 July 1904 through 08 February 1907 which were made available after Volume II and Volume III were published.

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