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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

By: Steve Kovsky

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

By: Steve Kovsky

Although the Windows XP Media Center is designed as a consumer product, it is actually more complex than the conventional computer and home entertainment devices it replaces. That's why this book--written in the fun, friendly Absolute Beginner's style--is required reading for buyers of these multitasking, media-centric machines. It is written in an easy-to-understand tone that won't confuse readers with lots of technical jargon.

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408

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Que Publishing

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0789730030

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9780789730039

Private Empire

ExxonMobil and American Power

By: Steve Coll

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Private Empire

ExxonMobil and American Power

By: Steve Coll

“ExxonMobil has met its match in Coll, an elegant writer and dogged reporter . . . extraordinary . . . monumental.” —The Washington Post “Fascinating . . . Private Empire is a book meticulously prepared as if for trial . . . a compelling and elucidatory work.” —Bloomberg From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, an extraordinary exposé of Big Oil. Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe—featuring kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin—and the narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron Ass” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005, and current chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of State. A penetrating, news-breaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.

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705

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Penguin

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0143123548

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9780143123545

Nationalist and Populist Composers

Voices of the American People

By: Steve Schwartz

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Nationalist and Populist Composers

Voices of the American People

By: Steve Schwartz

Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy between the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People, Steve Schwartz offers an overdue correction to this distortion of the American classical music tradition by showing that not all composers of this era fall into either the Stravinsky or Schoenberg camps. Exploring the rise and decline of musical populism in the United States, Schwartz examines the major works of George Gershwin, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Kurt Weill, Morton Gould, and Leonard Bernstein. Organized chronologically, chapters cover each composer’s life and career and then reveal how key works participated in populist and nationalist themes. Written for the both the scholar and amateur enthusiast interested in modern classical music and American social history, Nationalist and Populist Composers creates a contextual frame through which all audiences can better understand such works as Rhapsody in Blue, Appalachian Spring, and West Side Story.

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439

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442257679

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9781442257672

Nietzschean Meditations

Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era

By: Steve Fuller

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Nietzschean Meditations

Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era

By: Steve Fuller

Nietzschean Meditations takes its inspiration from the version of Nietzsche that was popular before the Second World War, which stressed the 'Zarathustrian' elements of his thought as the harbinger of a new sort of being – the Übermensch. The book updates the image of this creature to present a version of 'transhumanism' that breaks with the more precautionary and pessimistic approaches of humanity's future in contemporary 'posthumanist' thought. Fuller follows Nietzsche in discussing deeply and frankly the challenging issues that aspiring transhumanists face. They include their philosophical and especially theological roots, the implications of transhumanism for matters of life and death, and whether any traces of classical humanity will remain in the 'transhuman' being.

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222

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Schwabe Verlag (Basel)

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3796540112

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9783796540110

The Third Secret

A Novel of Suspense

By: Steve Berry

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The Third Secret

A Novel of Suspense

By: Steve Berry

Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion. Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary’s words–or if a message far more important has been left in the shadows. Vatican City, present day: Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, Pope Clement XV enters the Vatican’s Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Church’s most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Pope’ s distress stems from the revelations of Fatima. Equally concerned, but not out of any sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican’s Secretary of State,. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement at the last conclave. Now the Pope’s interest in Fatima threatens to uncover a shocking ancient truth that Valendrea has kept to himself for many years. When Pope Clement sends Michener to the Romanian highlands, then to a Bosnian holy site, in search of a priest–possibly one of the last people on Earth who knows Mary’s true message– a perilous set of events unfolds. Michener finds himself embroiled in murder, suspicion, suicide, deceit, and his forbidden passion for a beloved woman. In a desperate search for answers, he travels to Pope Clement’s birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima may dictate the very fate of the Church–a fate now lying in Michener’s own hands. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Columbus Affair.

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418

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Ballantine Books

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0345484347

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9780345484345

Mirror Image

Op-Center 02

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

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Mirror Image

Op-Center 02

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

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449

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Penguin

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1101003618

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9781101003619

Prior to Meaning

The Protosemantic and Poetics

By: Steve McCaffery

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Prior to Meaning

The Protosemantic and Poetics

By: Steve McCaffery

Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.

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372

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117908

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9780810117907

Steve Mizerak's Complete Book of Pool

By: Steve Mizerak,Michael E. Panozzo

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Steve Mizerak's Complete Book of Pool

By: Steve Mizerak,Michael E. Panozzo

Includes playing fundamentals, trick shots, facts, unwritten rules, legends, rules of the major cue games, practice drills, selecting equipment.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0809242559

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9780809242559

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

Private Empire

Private Empire

Nationalist and Populist Composers

Nationalist and Populist Composers

Nietzschean Meditations

Nietzschean Meditations

The Third Secret

The Third Secret

Mirror Image

Mirror Image

Prior to Meaning

Prior to Meaning

Steve Mizerak's Complete Book of Pool

Steve Mizerak's Complete Book of Pool

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