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As Luck Would Have It

An Autobiography

By: Tom de Paolo

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As Luck Would Gave It! is a memoir of Tom de Paolo's life. It follows his early years growing up in Hollywood, California amongst celebrities; to his stint in the Army Air Force as a photo- grapher during World War II; and his marketing career in the advertising business, television and Disneyland.

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Odyssey

Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World

By: Tom Chaffin

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Odyssey

Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World

By: Tom Chaffin

An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography/Memoir Charles Darwin—alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein—ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's voyage is frequently misunderstood, its mission and geographical breadth unacknowledged. The voyage's activities associated with South America—particularly its stop in the Galapagos archipelago, off Ecuador’s coast—eclipse the fact that the Beagle, sailing in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean waters, also circumnavigated the globe. Mere happenstance placed Darwin aboard the Beagle—an invitation to sail as a conversation companion on natural-history topics for the ship's depression-prone captain. Darwin was only twenty-two years old, an unproven, unknown, aspiring geologist when the ship embarked on what stretched into its five-year voyage. Moreover, conducting marine surveys of distance ports and coasts, the Beagle's purposes were only inadvertently scientific. And with no formal shipboard duties or rank, Darwin, after arranging to meet the Beagle at another port, often left the ship to conduct overland excursions. Those outings, lasting weeks, even months, took him across mountains, pampas, rainforests, and deserts. An expert horseman and marksman, he won the admiration of gauchos he encountered along the way. Yet another rarely acknowledged aspect of Darwin's Beagle travels, he also visited, often lingered in, cities—including Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Lima, Sydney, and Cape Town; and left colorful, often sharply opinionated, descriptions of them and his interactions with their residents. In the end, Darwin spent three-fifths of his five-year "voyage" on land—three years and three months on terra firma versus a total 533 days on water. Acclaimed historian Tom Chaffin reveals young Darwin in all his complexities—the brashness that came from his privileged background, the Faustian bargain he made with Argentina's notorious caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, his abhorrence of slavery, and his ambition to carve himself a place amongst his era's celebrated travelers and intellectual giants. Drawing on a rich array of sources— in a telling of an epic story that surpasses in breadth and intimacy the naturalist's own Voyage of the Beagle—Chaffin brings Darwin's odyssey to vivid life.

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Simon and Schuster

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164313907X

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As Luck Would Have It

An Autobiography

By: Tom de Paolo

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An Autobiography

By: Tom de Paolo

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Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

By: Axel Boëthius,Roger Ling,Tom Rasmussen

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Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

By: Axel Boëthius,Roger Ling,Tom Rasmussen

Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.

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Yale University Press

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0300052901

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Heartspeak: A Contemplative Chorus

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Do you speak from the heart? Do you wish others would? The poets represented in this volume speak from their hearts... What they have in common across the widest variety of styles and interests, is that they are Christians. Their inspiration - beyond culture or fashion - is Jesus Christ - their hearts' peak. (From the introduction by Piotr Stolarski.) 78 poems from 21 Christian poets, dedicated to Blessed John Paul II, and edited by Piotr Stolarski. Contributing Poets: Tom BENTALL Monika CHMELOVA Catherine CRUZ, FMVD Helen DE BORCHGRAVE Sarah DE NORDWALL Martin EARLE Jonathan FORDHAM Sarah FORDHAM Kate GOLDING Justin HARMER Michael HOARE Jacqui HOULIHAN Jean HUBERT Paula JORDAO, FMVD Kaye LEE Gabriel OLEARNIK Karolina STOLARSKA Piotr STOLARSKI Andrew THORNTON-NORRIS Anna VEREY Fr Dominic WHITE, O

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Lulu.com

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1471621316

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Ultrasound and Endoscopic Surgery in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

A Combined Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Dirk Timmerman,Jan Deprest,Tom Bourne

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Ultrasound and Endoscopic Surgery in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

A Combined Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Dirk Timmerman,Jan Deprest,Tom Bourne

This is a unique book in that it brings together the two key investigative techniques in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, namely ultrasound and endoscopy. So often in the past they were regarded by their exponents as rival techniques but it is now recognised that they are complementary to each other. Consequently future trainees in endoscopy should become efficient in transvaginal sonography and vice versa. Ultrasound can be used to study the morphology of the pelvic organs such as the endometrium, myometrium and ovaries, and being non-invasive, safe and convenient can be repeated as often as is deemed necessary to monitor changes over time; for example in the investigation of the infertile woman the development of the dominant follicle, the maturation of the endometrium and the formation of the corpus luteum can be documented throughout the menstrual cycle while growth of ovarian cysts can be precisely measured to determine the need for surgery. A seldom-mentioned strength of the ultrasound examination is its interactive quality, for example by performing abdominal palpation during the scan, the mobility of the uterus and ovaries can be assessed. Also the images as they appear can be shown to the patient to aid understanding. Ultrasound can also determine function and the use of Doppler has been used for example to access endometrial receptivity, follicular maturity and the likelihood of malignancy in the endometrium or ovary.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447106555

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The World Before Us

How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

By: Tom Higham

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The World Before Us

How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

By: Tom Higham

The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. This is the story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. 'Exciting' David Abulafia, author of The Boundless Sea 'Remarkable' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred 'Thrilling' David Reich, author of Who We Are and How We Got Here 'Brilliant' Chris Gosden, author of The History of Magic 'Gripping and fun' Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion 'Essential' Barry Cunliffe, author of The Scythians 'Profoundly entertaining' Brian Fagan, author of World Prehistory

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024198906X

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The World Before Us

The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

By: Thomas Higham,Tom Higham

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The World Before Us

The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

By: Thomas Higham,Tom Higham

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans, based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology "Conveys the thrill of archaeological discovery."--Alexander Larman, The Observer "Packs in startling discoveries, impressive insights and the occasional debunking of a foolish idea."--Michael Marshall, New Scientist Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia; Hobbits (H. floresiensis) on the island of Flores in Indonesia; Denisovans in Siberia and eastern Eurasia; and H. luzonensis in the Philippines. Tom Higham investigates what we know about these other human species and explores what can be learned from the genetic links between them and us. He also looks at whether H. erectus may have survived into the period when our ancestors first moved into Southeast Asia. Filled with thrilling tales of recent scientific discoveries, this book offers an engaging synopsis of our current understanding of human origins and raises new and interesting possibilities--particularly concerning what contact, if any, these other species might have had with us prior to their extinction.

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Yale University Press

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0300259220

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9780300259223

Paddy Platypus and the Mysterious Cave

By: Tom de Paolo

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Paddy Platypus and the Mysterious Cave

By: Tom de Paolo

This is another of the ongoing series of Paddy Platypus adventures. This time Paddy solves a great problem for a dear friend of his, Billy Badger. Billy had lost his old rotted tree trunk of a home to termites. Paddy father, old DB suggested that he take over a hidden cave which was empty. It was suggested by another of Paddy's friends, Beverly Bandicoot, that the cave was haunted. Billy didn't care; he moved in. His first night was a disaster, screams and yells and stuff. Paddy stayed with him the second night to make sure he wasn't dreaming--he wasn't--more screams and stuff. Both Billy and Paddy got brave and searched for the racket in the cave. They found it. It was just a parrot who was guarding the treasure of long John Silver. But they found out that there was no treasure in the chest. It was Zasu the parrot who was guarding and making all the scary noises. Zasu, furious with Lon John for taking the treasure he was guarding, decided to fly off into the forest and leave the cave for Billy. Paddy went for a long swim after his ordeal.

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The Emotional Mind

A Control Theory of Affective States

By: Tom Cochrane

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The Emotional Mind

A Control Theory of Affective States

By: Tom Cochrane

In this book, Tom Cochrane develops a new control theory of the emotions and related affective states. Grounded in the basic principle of negative feedback control, his original account outlines a new fundamental kind of mental content called 'valent representation'. Upon this foundation, Cochrane constructs new models for emotions, pains and pleasures, moods, expressive behaviours, evaluative reasoning, personality traits and long-term character commitments. These various states are presented as increasingly sophisticated layers of regulative control, which together underpin the architecture of the mind as a whole. Clearly structured and containing numerous diagrams and examples to illustrate the discussion, this study draws on the latest research from fields including philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, and will appeal to readers interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of emotion.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108588336

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Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning

By: AA. VV.,Marie-Louise Lillywhite,Tom Nichols,Giorgio Tagliaferro

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Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning

By: AA. VV.,Marie-Louise Lillywhite,Tom Nichols,Giorgio Tagliaferro

Over the past twenty years or so it has finally been understood that Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19-1594) is an old master of the very highest calibre, whose sharp visual intelligence and brilliant oil technique provides a match for any painter of any time. Based on papers given at a conference held at Keble College, Oxford, to mark the quincentenary of Tintoretto’s birth, this volume comprises ten new essays written by an international range of scholars that open many fresh perspectives on this remarkable Venetian painter. Reflecting current ‘hot spots’ in Tintoretto studies, and suggesting fruitful avenues for future research, chapters explore aspects of the artist’s professional and social identity; his graphic oeuvre and workshop practice; his secular and sacred works in their cultural context; and the emergent artistic personality of his painter-son Domenico. Building upon the opening-up of the Tintoretto phenomenon to less fixed or partial viewpoints in recent years, this volume reveals the great master’s painting practice as excitingly experimental, dynamic, open-ended, and original.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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9791254690338

The Hemi in the Barn

More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology

By: Tom Cotter

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The Hemi in the Barn

More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology

By: Tom Cotter

It’s every car lover’s fantasy: the perfectly preserved classic automobile discovered under a blanket in some great-granny’s garage. And as author Tom Cotter has discovered time and again, it’s a fantasy that can come true. The Hemi in the Barn offers more than forty stories of amazing finds and automotive resurrections. Avid collectors big and small recall the thrills of the hunt, the tips and hunches followed, clues pursued, the heart-stopping payoff. There’s the forgotten Duesenberg—probably one of the last unrestored ones around—that Jay Leno found in a Burbank garage. Unbelievably, Leno found another Duesenberg in a parking garage in New York City—a car that was parked in 1933 and never moved. There’s a Plymouth Superbird found buried in a hedge in Alabama. There’s the rescue of the first 1955 Corvette ever built. As entertaining as these tales are, they’re also full of tantalizing hints and suggestions for readers setting off on their own adventures in automotive archaeology.

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Motorbooks

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1616737573

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Tintoretto

Tradition and Identity

By: Tom Nichols

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Tintoretto

Tradition and Identity

By: Tom Nichols

The Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. Critics and writers such as Vasari, Ruskin and Sartre all placed him in opposition to the established artistic practice of his time, noting that he had abandoned the values that typified the venerable Venetian Renaissance tradition, even being expelled as an apprentice from the workshop of Titian. This generously illustrated book offers a long-overdue re-evaluation of Tintoretto. Tom Nichols charts the artist's life and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture of the Cinquecento. He shows how the artist created a new manner of painting, which for all its originality and sophistication made its first appeal to the shared emotions of the widest-possible viewing audience. The book deals extensively with Tintoretto's greatest works, including the paintings at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.

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Reaktion Books

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1861891202

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9781861891204

Making Other Plans

A Memoir

By: Tom Mackin

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Making Other Plans

A Memoir

By: Tom Mackin

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1452071519

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The Art Course

By: Tom Robb

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The Art Course

By: Tom Robb

Presents easy-to-follow instructions for learning how to paint.

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Crescent

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0517053802

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

Explores the 7500-year history of the area around Tuscania near Rome using the results of an extended archaeological investigation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009230026

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9781009230025

The World Encyclopedia of Soccer

A Complete Guide to the Beautiful Game

By: Tom Macdonald

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The World Encyclopedia of Soccer

A Complete Guide to the Beautiful Game

By: Tom Macdonald

This comprehensive guide is an up-to-the-minute profile of the global game in all its glory. Illustrated on every page with color photographs and archive material, this is the ultimate reference guide.

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Lorenz Books

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0754808289

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9780754808282

The Periodic Table: Nature's Building Blocks

An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses

By: J. Theo Kloprogge,Concepcion P. Ponce,Tom Loomis

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The Periodic Table: Nature's Building Blocks

An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses

By: J. Theo Kloprogge,Concepcion P. Ponce,Tom Loomis

The Periodic Table: Nature’s Building Blocks: An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses addresses how minerals and their elements are used, where the elements come from in nature, and their applications in modern society. The book is structured in a logical way using the periodic table as its outline. It begins with an introduction of the history of the periodic table and a short introduction to mineralogy. Element sections contain their history, how they were discovered, and a description of the minerals that contain the element. Sections conclude with our current use of each element. Abundant color photos of some of the most characteristic minerals containing the element accompany the discussion. Ideal for students and researchers working in inorganic chemistry, minerology and geology, this book provides the foundational knowledge needed for successful study and work in this exciting area. Describes the link between geology, minerals and chemistry to show how chemistry relies on elements from nature Emphasizes the connection between geology, mineralogy and daily life, showing how minerals contribute to the things we use and in our modern economy Contains abundant color photos of each mineral that bring the periodic table to life

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Elsevier

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0128215380

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9780128215388

The Official 2001 Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

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The Official 2001 Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

The blackbook price guide to U.S. Postage Stamps, with more than 20,000 prices listed.

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House of Collectibles

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0676601693

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9780676601695

Official Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

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Official Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

Collectors rely on this handy guide for affordable and up-to-date price listings of U.S. stamps, helpful advice from the experts on buying, grading, and selling, and tips on caring for stamps. Full color.

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0676600654

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9780676600650

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