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From Here to Absurdity

The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller

By: Stephen W. Potts

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From Here to Absurdity

The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller

By: Stephen W. Potts

Potts here provides a comprehensive critical examination of Joseph Heller's literary career, from his earliest published short stories to Closing Time (1994), the long-awaited sequel to Catch-22. Complete with Chronology, Notes, Primary Bibliography, Secondary Bibliography, and Index.

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182

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704180

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9780893704186

The Second Marxian Invasion

The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers

By: Stephen W. Potts

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The Second Marxian Invasion

The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers

By: Stephen W. Potts

Stephen W. Potts presents Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in terms of their dual contributions to the SF genre and to modern Russian literature, placing their work in both its historical and literary context.

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110

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Wildside Press LLC

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089370279X

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9780893702793

Brotherhood of the Sea

A History of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985

By: Stephen Schwartz

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Brotherhood of the Sea

A History of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985

By: Stephen Schwartz

In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it's defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco's Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the 'front'. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985.

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226

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Transaction Publishers

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0887381219

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9780887381218

VCs Gallipoli

By: Stephen Snelling

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VCs Gallipoli

By: Stephen Snelling

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign which Churchill hoped would knock Turkey out of the war. For a campaign that promised so much, it ultimately bacame a tragedy of lost opportunities. By January 1916, when the last men were taken off the peninsula, the casualties totalled 205,000.This book contains new material from recently released archives and tells the stories of the thirty-nine men whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, among them the war's first Australian VC, first New Zealand VC, and first Royal Marine VC. It represents the highest number of VCs won in a theatre of war, other than the Western Front.

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350

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The History Press

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0752487523

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9780752487526

Mating Systems and Strategies

By: Stephen M. Shuster,Michael J. Wade

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Mating Systems and Strategies

By: Stephen M. Shuster,Michael J. Wade

This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. Directly challenging verbal evolutionary models that attempt to explain reproductive behavior without quantitative reference to evolutionary genetics, this book establishes a more solid theoretical foundation for the field. Among the weaknesses the authors find in the existing data is the apparent ubiquity of condition-dependent mating tactics. They identify factors likely to contribute to the evolution of alternative mating strategies--which they argue are more common than generally believed--and illustrate how to measure the strength of selection acting on them. Lastly, they offer predictions on the covariation of mating systems and strategies, consider the underlying developmental biology behind male polyphenism, and propose directions for future research. Informed by genetics, this is a comprehensive and rigorous new approach to explaining mating systems and strategies that will influence a wide swath of evolutionary biology.

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546

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Princeton University Press

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0691206880

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9780691206882

Book's by Stephen W. Potts

From Here to Absurdity

From Here to Absurdity

The Second Marxian Invasion

The Second Marxian Invasion

Brotherhood of the Sea

Brotherhood of the Sea

VCs Gallipoli

VCs Gallipoli

Mating Systems and Strategies

Mating Systems and Strategies

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