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Hearts

The Golden Years

By: Tom Purdie

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A decade of glory for Heart of Midlothian FC, the period from 1954 to 1963 saw the team win the Scottish League and Scottish Cups on numerous occasions. Tom Purdie tells the story of the best years in Tynecastle history.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes

15th International Symposium, AAECC-15, Toulouse, France, May 12-16, 2003, Proceedings

By: Tom Høholdt

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Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes

15th International Symposium, AAECC-15, Toulouse, France, May 12-16, 2003, Proceedings

By: Tom Høholdt

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes, AAECC-15, held in Toulouse, France, in May 2003. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Among the subjects addressed are block codes; algebra and codes: rings, fields, and AG codes; cryptography; sequences; decoding algorithms; and algebra: constructions in algebra, Galois groups, differential algebra, and polynomials.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540401113

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The Corvette in the Barn

More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology

By: Tom Cotter

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The Corvette in the Barn

More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology

By: Tom Cotter

It’s every car-guy’s fantasy—to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors and enthusiasts who have discovered unusual and desirable cars, forgotten in all manner of locations from barns, to old-school junkyards, to farmer’s fields. These are the stories that fuel the dreams of car collectors everywhere. See Tom Cotter, author of Motorbooks “In the Barn” series, interviewed by Jay Leno on JayLenosGarage.com: http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/jays-book-club-the-hemi-in-the-barn/1237422/

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Motorbooks

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1610600479

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Evolution in the Antipodes

Charles Darwin and Australia

By: Tom Frame

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Evolution in the Antipodes

Charles Darwin and Australia

By: Tom Frame

Charles Darwin's profound influence on Australian thinking is explored from a variety of positions in this carefully researched analysis. Providing useful contextual material on Darwin's life and times, including his 1836 visit to Australia in the HMS Beagle, the narrative examines historic disputes and contemporary debates about Darwin's motiva...

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Christian Responses to Five Views of the Bhagavad Gita

Entry into Dialogue

By: Tom Wilson

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Christian Responses to Five Views of the Bhagavad Gita

Entry into Dialogue

By: Tom Wilson

Of all the Hindu Scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read by Western audiences. Its brevity belies its complexity; as with all sacred texts, the only way to fully understand its teaching is to learn from those who live out a faith based on that text. This book examines five different readings of the Bhagavad Gita, juxtaposing these readings with a Western Protestant Christian response to both the text and the ideas and theology that lie beneath the surface of the text. Written for students and practitioners of interfaith dialogue, it is a resource to enable richer and deeper conversations between Hindus and Christians.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Say It with Music

A Story about Irving Berlin

By: Tom Streissguth

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Say It with Music

A Story about Irving Berlin

By: Tom Streissguth

As a boy, Israel Baline had to work after school to help his poor immigrant family. He sold newspapers on street corners to help his family survive. He loved to sing to pass the time, and sometimes listeners tossed an extra penny or two at his feet. No one who heard him could have guessed that he would someday become known as Irving Berlin, the best-loved songwriter in the land. The composer of "God Bless America," "White Christmas," and many other well-known tunes began his musical career on the streets and in the seedy cafes of New York City's Lower East Side. Author Tom Streissguth tells Berlin's remarkable story in lively prose that captures the spirit of the long-gone days of ragtime, vaudeville, and Broadway glory.

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Millbrook Press

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0761382666

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Cold Crime

How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Shocking Cases

By: Tom Brennan

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Cold Crime

How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Shocking Cases

By: Tom Brennan

Step by step, journalist Brennan walks readers through 13 notorious cases, drawing details from the confidential files of Alaska police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.

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Epicenter Press

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Harper's Team

Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By: Tom Flanagan

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Harper's Team

Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By: Tom Flanagan

Harper's team fought four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations, while simultaneously adopting the latest advances in information and communications technology.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578722

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The Giants of Sales

What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You about Real Sales Success

By: Tom Sant

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The Giants of Sales

What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You about Real Sales Success

By: Tom Sant

If you're weary of fads, one-size-fits-all methods, or missives from self-styled gurus, this is the sales book you've been waiting for. Packed with colourful historical detail and insights into the secrets of sales success, The Giants of Sales examines the key innovations and lasting impact of the four greatest sales gurus of the twentieth century.

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Amacom Books

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0814472915

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Tom Clancy's Power Plays 5 - 8

By: Tom Clancy

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Tom Clancy's Power Plays 5 - 8

By: Tom Clancy

Four novels in the Power Plays series created by #1 New York Times master of the techno-thriller Tom Clancy. When it comes to high-tech intelligence systems, UpLink Technologies is the leader in the field—and sometimes, the nation’s best hope in a time of crisis... COLD WAR CUTTING EDGE ZERO HOUR WILD CARD

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Penguin

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1101653051

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Cold War

Power Plays 05

By: Tom Clancy,Martin H. Greenberg,Jerome Preisler

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Cold War

Power Plays 05

By: Tom Clancy,Martin H. Greenberg,Jerome Preisler

Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack… On the wind-swept, ice-covered continent of Antarctica, Roger Gordian’s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears—along with the repair team sent out after it. Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium—that is illegally using Antarctica as a nuclear waste dump—to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station—and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter…

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1101002603

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The Great Highland Famine

Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century

By: Tom M. Devine

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The Great Highland Famine

Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century

By: Tom M. Devine

The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.

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Birlinn Ltd

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Unpacking the Kists

The Scots in New Zealand

By: Brad Patterson,Tom Brooking,Jim McAloon

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Unpacking the Kists

The Scots in New Zealand

By: Brad Patterson,Tom Brooking,Jim McAloon

Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society. The authors establish the dimensions of Scottish migration to New Zealand, the principal source areas, the migrants' demographic characteristics, and where they settled in the new land. Drawing from extended case-studies, they examine how migrants adapted to their new environment and the extent of longevity in diverse areas including the economy, religion, politics, education, and folkways. They also look at the private worlds of family, neighbourhood, community, customs of everyday life and leisure pursuits, and expressions of both high and low forms of transplanted culture. Adding to international scholarship on migrations and cultural adaptations, Unpacking the Kists demonstrates the historic contributions Scots made to New Zealand culture by retaining their ethnic connections and at the same time interacting with other ethnic groups.

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0773589783

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Pivot or Pirouette?

The 1993 Canadian General Election

By: Tom Flanagan

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Pivot or Pirouette?

The 1993 Canadian General Election

By: Tom Flanagan

Pivot or Pirouette? covers both the backstory and the aftermath of the strangest election in Canadian history, as told by an insider who was involved in the events before, during, and after the ballots were cast. In the early 1990s, a pan-Canadian coalition of Tory voters had been splintered by constitutional politics. Discontented voters flocked to new regional parties; the Conservatives attempted to turn the tide by choosing the first female prime minister, but their efforts fell flat. In the 1993 election, the party was reduced to two seats, the separatist Bloc Québécois became the official opposition, and the Reform Party swept the West. Although the shocking results seemed pivotal, ultimately the pivot turned into a full pirouette as Canadian politics returned to historical norms: new parties shake up the system but are eventually absorbed into it, bringing innovation but not transformation. You can’t understand modern Canadian politics without understanding the 1993 election.

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UBC Press

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0774867744

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Beyond Information

The Natural History of Intelligence

By: Tom Stonier

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Beyond Information

The Natural History of Intelligence

By: Tom Stonier

Preamble The emergence of machine intelligence during the second half of the twentieth century is the most important development in the evolution of this planet since the origin of life two to three thousand million years ago. The emergence of machine intelligence within the matrix of human society is analogous to the emergence, three billion years ago, of complex, self-replicating molecules within the matrix of an energy-rich molecular soup - the first step in the evolution of life. The emergence of machine intelligence within a human social context has set into motion irreversible processes which will lead to an evolutionary discontinuity. Just as the emergence of "Life" represented a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter and energy, so will pure "Intelligence" represent a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter, energy and life. The emergence of machine intelligence presages the progression of the human species as we know it, into a form which, at present, we would not recognise as "human". As Forsyth and Naylor (1985) have pointed out: "Humanity has opened two Pandora's boxes at the same time, one labelled genetic engineering, the other labelled knowledge engineering. What we have let out is not entirely clear, but it is reasonable to hazard a guess that it contains the seeds of our successors".

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Springer Science & Business Media

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Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

By: Tom Sandercock

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Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

By: Tom Sandercock

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature films—Youth Fiction and Trans Representation examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and closely analyzes a series of millennial literary and screen texts to consider how they communicate a range of, often competing, ideas about gender, identity, expression, and embodiment to implied child and adolescent audiences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000607089

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The Pursuit of Wow!

Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

By: Tom Peters

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The Pursuit of Wow!

Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

By: Tom Peters

Organized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements—from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets—Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times. In The Pursuit of Wow!, Tom Peters offers readers the words, the tools, to survive in tumultuous business environments. In his groundbreaking book, In Search of Excellence changed the way business does business. Now it’s time to take the next leap into the cyberstage era. Getting to a place called excellence is no longer the idea. You’ve got to take that leap, then leap again—catapult their imaginations, blow their mindsets—in a word, wow! them. Once more the unconventional Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A must-read for every business person.

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0307764737

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The Way of the Quiet Warrior

90 Days to the Life You Desire

By: Tom Dutta

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The Way of the Quiet Warrior

90 Days to the Life You Desire

By: Tom Dutta

“Through moments of true vulnerability, Dutta shows how we can overcome any obstacle to manifest our dreams and make them a reality” (Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” US Olympic hockey team). The Way of the Quiet Warrior: 90-Days to the Life You Desire is a unique hybrid of guide and fable. Mingling clear, nonfiction explanations of Tom Dutta’s revolutionary Way of the Quiet Warrior formula for success with fictional tales designed to illustrate those concepts, this book is designed to be highly readable and engaging. With more than three decades of experience in the corporate world, Dutta is perfectly positioned to identify and address the unmet needs and unresolved issues of CEOs, leaders, and executives the world over. “A story of personal triumph with a map to empower readers to do the same. A great example and lesson for anyone wishing to improve . . . in business and in life.” —Dan Jansen, Olympic gold medalist, speed skating “Illustrates the power of personal intention and purpose . . . interestingly illuminated through multiple metaphors.” —Ryan Walter, Stanley Cup champion, NHL player & coach, leadership/performance development expert “In the pages of this powerful book, you’ll discover your hero within.” —Baraladai Daniel Igali, Olympic gold medalist, Canadian freestyle wrestler

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1683502663

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Sandy

The Biography of Sandy Jardine

By: Tom Miller

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Sandy

The Biography of Sandy Jardine

By: Tom Miller

William Pullar Sandy Jardine is an Ibrox icon. Respected and revered throughout the football world and beyond, he will forever be a club legend. Sandy was the consummate professional. His silky skills, speed and ability to read the game were combined with a sense of fair play that made him truly world class. He was soon an integral part of the Rangers team and became a club legend when the Barcelona Bears won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1972. He also played in two dramatic World Cups and won 39 caps for Scotland. Later, Edinburgh-born Sandy fulfilled another personal dream when he signed for Hearts and his impact at Tynecastle was immense. Then, in 2012, the financial meltdown at Rangers brought Sandy back into the limelight. In those troubled times, nobody did more than Sandy Jardine to galvanise the club and its supporters, and he famously led 8,000 fans to Hampden to protest against sanctions imposed by the SFA. But in late 2012, Sandy announced that he was battling cancer, a fight he would bravely lose in April 2014. SANDY The Authorised Biography of Sandy Jardine is the definitive story of one of football s true legends and a fitting tribute to a man who was loved and respected by family, friends and football fans wherever he went.

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Black & White Publishing Ltd

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Modern Coding Theory

By: Tom Richardson,Rüdiger Urbanke

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Modern Coding Theory

By: Tom Richardson,Rüdiger Urbanke

Having trouble deciding which coding scheme to employ, how to design a new scheme, or how to improve an existing system? This summary of the state-of-the-art in iterative coding makes this decision more straightforward. With emphasis on the underlying theory, techniques to analyse and design practical iterative coding systems are presented. Using Gallager's original ensemble of LDPC codes, the basic concepts are extended for several general codes, including the practically important class of turbo codes. The simplicity of the binary erasure channel is exploited to develop analytical techniques and intuition, which are then applied to general channel models. A chapter on factor graphs helps to unify the important topics of information theory, coding and communication theory. Covering the most recent advances, this text is ideal for graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, and practitioners. Additional resources, including instructor's solutions and figures, available online: www.cambridge.org/9780521852296.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139469649

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Organisational Learning and the Modern Army

A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes

By: Tom Dyson

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Organisational Learning and the Modern Army

A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes

By: Tom Dyson

Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes. Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, often at great human and financial cost. This book analyses the organisational processes and activities which can help improve tactical- and operational-level learning through case studies of lessons learned in two key NATO armies: that of Britain and of Germany. Providing the first comparative analysis of the variables which facilitate or impede the emergence of best practice in military learning, it makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on knowledge management and learning in public organisations. It will be of much interest to lessons-learned practitioners, and students of military and strategic studies, defence studies, organisation studies and security studies.

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Routledge

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1000024059

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Information and Meaning

An Evolutionary Perspective

By: Tom Stonier

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Information and Meaning

An Evolutionary Perspective

By: Tom Stonier

Information and Meaning is the third book in a trilogy exploring the nature of information, intelligence and meaning. It begins by providing an overview of the first two works of the trilogy, then goes on to consider the meaning of meaning. This explorat ion leads to a theory of how the brain works. This book differs from others in the field, in that it is written from the perspective of a theoretical biologist looking at the evolution of information systems as a basis for studying the phenomena of information, intelligence and meaning. It describes how neurons create a brain which understands information inputs and then is able to operate on such information.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447109775

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Secrets of the Barn Find Hunter

The Art of Finding Lost Collector Cars

By: Tom Cotter

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Secrets of the Barn Find Hunter

The Art of Finding Lost Collector Cars

By: Tom Cotter

Automotive archaeologist Tom Cotter is “The Barn Find Hunter” in Hagerty’s popular YouTube series. In Secrets of the Barn Find Hunter, he reveals how he finds amazing collector cars otherwise long forgotten.

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Motorbooks International

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0760372977

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Through The Gates of Hell

By: Tom Gemmell

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Through The Gates of Hell

By: Tom Gemmell

Through The Gates of Hell BY Thomas Gemmell The story of one man's struggle to survive the horrors of the first world war. As a member of the 185th Nova Scotia Highlanders the most inexperienced unit in the Canadian Army. He is thrust headlong into the 1917 battle for Vimy Ridge, a turning point in the war, Can they win through against an enemy who has had three years to fortify the position, and achieve a much needed victory where others have failed. Can he hold himself together, as he thinks of his loved ones back home, Wishing that he was back there with them instead of leaning against the trench wall waiting for the signal to charge at an unforgiving enemy. He must win through! He has no other choice!

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Lulu.com

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132645823X

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What the Victorians Made of Romanticism

Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History

By: Tom Mole

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What the Victorians Made of Romanticism

Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History

By: Tom Mole

This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth—one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing—such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles—that in turn remade the public’s understanding of Romantic writers. Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences.

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Princeton University Press

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0691175365

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TC

By: Tom Carroll,Nick Carroll

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TC

By: Tom Carroll,Nick Carroll

The former professional surfer tells his own story On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, brilliant surfer, Australian sports hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, and big wave charger. But inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction--part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he'd done so much to legitimize. Tom's family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened, but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake. This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness, and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.

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Random House Australia

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0857987054

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The Adventures of the Submariner's Son

By: Tom Swicegood

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The Adventures of the Submariner's Son

By: Tom Swicegood

As a beautiful, young, well-to-do young woman sits upon her family's beach on the shore of a secluded island in the Florida Keys, a man clad in little more than the ancient ocean salt emerges from the waves. Günther Prien is a young German officer stationed on a cruise ship, and Eola Pinder is little more than putty in his hands. Their encounter leads to the birth of a son, Thomas Luther, who is destined for a life of adventure as he desperately seeks the love of a father throughout some of the worst events Key West and the world have ever seen. Tom's life shapes up to be one adventure after another. He experiences an unlikely rescue as his room goes up in flames around his crib flames that may have been started by the man Tom believes is his father. He's held hostage during a bank robbery and is nearly swept overboard from the deck of a freighter off Cape Hattaras during a major hurricane. Finally, in the midst of World War II, he finds himself carried away in a German submarine in the hands of the enemy by a man who turns out to be his father. In this rich historical novel, an unlikely cast of characters struggles to find the strength to survive not only some of the most horrible tragedies in Florida's history, but some of the most difficult lessons individuals can learn in a lifetime.

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147593498X

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Lonely Planet Coastal Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef

By: Lonely Planet,Paul Harding,Cristian Bonetto,Charles Rawlings-Way,Tamara Sheward,Tom Spurling,Donna Wheeler

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Lonely Planet Coastal Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef

By: Lonely Planet,Paul Harding,Cristian Bonetto,Charles Rawlings-Way,Tamara Sheward,Tom Spurling,Donna Wheeler

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Coastal Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef 8 is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive the Great Barrier Reef, walk through the magnificent Daintree Rainforest, then surf and play on the Gold Coast; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Coastal Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, art, cinema, music, politics, climate change, outdoor activities Covers Brisbane, Gold Coast, Noosa, Fraser Island, Whitsundays, Townsville, Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforest and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Coastal Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef , our most comprehensive guide to Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Seventh Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Ohio

By: Tom S. Cooperrider,Allison Cusick,John T. Kartesz

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Seventh Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Ohio

By: Tom S. Cooperrider,Allison Cusick,John T. Kartesz

Scientific study of Ohio's plant life began in the late eighteenth century, and the first catalog of Ohio's vascular plants was published in 1860. The most recent catalog, published in 1932, has understandably become outdated. Now Tom S. Cooperrider and his co-authors, Barbara K. Andreas, Allison W. Cusick, Guy L Denny, John V. Freudenstein, and John J. Furlow, provide a comprehensive, modern reference covering the Ohio vascular flora. Including two thorough indexes -- one to scientific names, one to common names -- this user-friendly book will be invaluable for conservation and environmental workers in Ohio and surrounding states.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814208584

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Losing My Religion

Unbelief in Australia

By: Tom Frame

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Losing My Religion

Unbelief in Australia

By: Tom Frame

In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best - known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief - most simply can't see ...

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1459605098

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Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

By: Tom Phillips

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Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

By: Tom Phillips

“A lighthearted history of lying”—from the international bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up (Kirkus Reviews). We live in a “post-truth” world, we’re told. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? Or have people been lying, fibbing and just plain bullsh*tting since the beginning of time? Tom Phillips, editor of a leading independent fact-checking organization, deals with this question every day. In Truth, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other—and ourselves—about everything from business to politics to plain old geography. Along the way, he chronicles the world’s oldest customer service complaint, the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 and the surprisingly dishonest career of Benjamin Franklin. Sharp, witty and with a clear-eyed view of humanity’s checkered past, Truth reveals why people lie—and how we can cut through the bullsh*t. Praise for Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up “A laugh-along, worst-hits album for humanity.” —Steve Brusatte, New York Times–bestselling author of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals “[A] perfect blend of brilliance and goofiness.” —BuzzFeed “[A] timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity.” —Nicholas Griffin, author of The Year of Dangerous Days “Chronicles humanity’s myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit . . . a rib-tickling page-turner.” —Business Standard

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1488076774

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Weir's Way

By: Tom Weir

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Weir's Way

By: Tom Weir

From the Solway Firth in the south to Shetland in the north, from remote St Kilda to the west to St Abbs in the east, Tom Weir explores Scotland as a walker and climber, and along the way introduces his readers to the range of wildlife and people living in the countryside, and historical aspects of various places. To his vivid descriptive writing he adds memories of some absent friends, and also retraces the path of Bonnie Prince Charlie on the run after Culloden. Tom Weir became a household name in Scotland as a result of the television series in which he explored his native country, but the book 'Weir's Way' is, to quote the author, 'not about every "e;Weir's Way"e; programme ... it is a broader vision of Scotland using the medium of written words'.

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