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The Art of Making Small Wood Boxes

Award-winning Designs

By: Tony Lydgate

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The Art of Making Small Wood Boxes

Award-winning Designs

By: Tony Lydgate

Written instructions, photographs, designs, patterns, and projects.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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0806995769

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9780806995762

The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook

By: Tony Bacon

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The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook

By: Tony Bacon

A stunning visual guide to the history and development of all types of guitars, packed with detailed information and profiling everything from the legendary Martin flat-tops to Gibson's arch-tops guitars and Fender's twelve-string electrics. The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook is divided by type into nine chapters, each telling the full story of a major type of guitar. It is sub-divided geographically so the reader gets a global picture of guitar making from the United States to the Far East and from Europe to Australia. The introduction examines the development of the world's most popular instrument over the years.

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Race Point Publishing

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1610588428

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9781610588423

Reefer Men: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Drug Ring

By: Tony Thompson

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Reefer Men: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Drug Ring

By: Tony Thompson

This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice. There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first began exporting marijuana in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, and over the years they smuggled vast shipments into the USA and Europe, becoming multi-millionaires in the process. In 1988, they decided to carry out one final heist that would ensure they could retire forever. However, they were intercepted by the police, and the key Ring members all had to flee to avoid being arrested. With unlimited money at their disposal and contacts in all parts of the globe, they were the ultimate fugitives. Tracking them down would call for a fifteen-year international manhunt. Tony Thompson, bestselling author of Gangland Britain and Gangs, describes their rise, fall and eventual capture in a thrilling, fast-paced true crime adventure.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444719866

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9781444719864

Patton's Pawns

The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line

By: Tony Le Tissier

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Patton's Pawns

The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line

By: Tony Le Tissier

Abstract: The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings. This book presents a study of the fighting between the 94th US Infantry Division and their German counterparts.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817315578

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9780817315573

The Moral Voyages of Stephen King

By: Tony Magistrale,Anthony Magistrale

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The Moral Voyages of Stephen King

By: Tony Magistrale,Anthony Magistrale

Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.

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Wildside Press LLC

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155742070X

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9781557420701

In the Midnight Hour

The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

By: Tony Fletcher

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In the Midnight Hour

The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

By: Tony Fletcher

Looks at the life and music career of prominent soul singer Wilson Pickett, chronicling the performer's rise to stardom and his self-destructive fall into alcohol and drug addiction before ending his career on a high note with a Grammy-nominated album.

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Oxford University Press

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0190252944

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9780190252946

Thetis Down

The Slow Death of a Submarine

By: Tony Booth

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Thetis Down

The Slow Death of a Submarine

By: Tony Booth

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.The disaster became an international media event, mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18 ft above sea level. Still the Royal Navy-led rescue operation failed to find the submarine for many hours, only to rescue four of all those trapped. Very little is known about what actually happened, as the only comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958.Many years have now passed since the Thetis and her men died, for which no one was held to be ultimately accountable. However, a great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. After four years of painstaking research Thetis; The Slow Death of a Submarine explores in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened before, during and after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booths book also takes a fresh look at culpability and explores some of the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise.The result is the first definitive account what happened to HMS Thetis and her men a fitting tribute, as the seventieth anniversary of her loss will be on 1 June 2009.

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Casemate Publishers

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1844689573

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9781844689576

Ghost, Android, Animal

Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human

By: Tony M. Vinci

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Ghost, Android, Animal

Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human

By: Tony M. Vinci

Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic experience, this book revisits canonical texts by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and aligns them with experimental and popular texts by Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, and Clive Barker. In establishing this textual field, the book reveals how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross subjective and cultural thresholds and interact with the "impossible" pain of others. Ultimately, this study asks us to consider new practices for reading trauma literature that enlarges our conceptions of the human and the real.

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Routledge

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1000760561

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9781000760569

Arc of the Medicine Line

Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains

By: Tony Rees

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Arc of the Medicine Line

Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains

By: Tony Rees

Today the borderland between Canada and the United States is a wide, empty sweep of wheat fields and pasture, measured by a grid of gravel roads that sees little traffic and few people who do not make their lives there. It has been much this way for more than a century now, but there was a moment when the great silence shrouding this place was broken, and that moment changed it forever. Arc of the Medicine Line is a compelling narrative of that moment?the completion of the official border between the United States and Canada in 1874. ø In late July of 1874, the Sweetgrass Hills sheltered the greatest accumulation of scientists, teamsters, scouts, cooks, and soldiers to be seen in this part of the world before the coming of the railways. The men of the boundary commissions?American, British, and Canadian?established an astronomical station and the last of their supply depots as they prepared to draw the Medicine Line across the final hundred of the nearly nine hundred miles between Manitoba?s Lake of the Woods and the Continental Divide. In the brief weeks the surveyors and soldiers spent in Milk River country, they witnessed, and played a singular part in, the beginning of the end for the open West. That hot, dry summer of 1874 marked the outside world?s final assault on this last frontier.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803217919

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9780803217911

Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds

By: Tony D. Williams

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Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds

By: Tony D. Williams

Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration of female avian reproductive physiology and ecology, and an emphasis on individual variation in life-history traits. Tony Williams investigates the physiological, metabolic, energetic, and hormonal mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the key female-specific reproductive traits and the trade-offs between these traits that determine variation in fitness. The core of the book deals with the avian reproductive cycle, from seasonal gonadal development, through egg laying and incubation, to chick rearing. Reproduction is considered in the context of the annual cycle and through an individual's entire life history. The book focuses on timing of breeding, clutch size, egg size and egg quality, and parental care. It also provides a primer on female reproductive physiology and considers trade-offs and carryover effects between reproduction and other life-history stages. In each chapter, Williams describes individual variation in the trait of interest and the evolutionary context for trait variation. He argues that there is only a rudimentary, and in some cases nonexistent, understanding of the physiological mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the major reproductive life-history traits, and that research efforts should refocus on these key unresolved problems by incorporating detailed physiological studies into existing long-term population studies, generating a new synthesis of physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

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Princeton University Press

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1400842794

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9781400842797

Dallas Teen Triangle

By: Tony Johnson

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Dallas Teen Triangle

By: Tony Johnson

A love triangle of three teenagers turns into tragedy. Eighteen-year-old Bridget Morgan, a lovely girl who was top of the cheerleaders in a popular school, is living life to its fullest. Despite all her success, she feels that something is missing in her life. Then she runs into Alvin Blake, a wealthy young football bachelor, but she is diverted by Randy Anderson, a violent young man with an ambiguous temper. Bridget is reported missing, and the only last person seen with her on the night of the prom is Alvin Blake. Two days later, her body is found buried in a shallow grave with a gay classmate. The investigative officer, Robertson, turns to her boyfriend, believing he is the culprit due to some evidence on the crime scene. Alvin Blake is arrested and sentenced for a crime he didn’t commit.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499080883

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9781499080889

Postwar

A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

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Postwar

A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Penguin

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1440624763

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9781440624766

Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

Good Neighbours

By: Ruth Gilchrist,Tony Jeffs

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Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

Good Neighbours

By: Ruth Gilchrist,Tony Jeffs

Reflecting the current emphasis in social policy on the ideas of community and active citizenship, the contributors to this book develop the basic settlement concepts of strong communities and links across groups, and apply them to current policy developments in community responsibility, the role of voluntary work and the future of social care.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853027642

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9781853027642

Zhukov at the Oder

The Decisive Battle for Berlin

By: Tony Le Tissier

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Zhukov at the Oder

The Decisive Battle for Berlin

By: Tony Le Tissier

First detailed account of the Soviet advance on Berlin in the closing months of World War II The battles that made Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov famous Numerous maps illustrating how operations unfolded On January 31, 1945, the Red Army stood on a line along the Oder River, about thirty-five miles east of Berlin. They would not reach Berlin for another two months, after battles to cross the river, seize the fortress of Küstrin, and take the Seelow Heights.

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Stackpole Books

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1461752140

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9781461752141

Trees

A Visual Guide

By: Tony Rodd,Jennifer Stackhouse

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Trees

A Visual Guide

By: Tony Rodd,Jennifer Stackhouse

Beautifully illustrated and designed, this gorgeous reference book explores the world of trees from every perspective--from the world's great forests to the lifespan of a single leaf. Arresting color photographs of a wide variety of trees and close-ups of many of their remarkable features provide an enormous amount of information in a highly accessible format. The volume illustrates how trees grow and function, looks at their astounding diversity and adaptations, documents the key role they play in ecosystems, and explores the multitude of uses to which we put trees--from timber and pharmaceuticals to shade and shelter. A highly absorbing read cover to cover or dipped into at random, Trees: A Visual Guide delves into many specific topics: the details of flowers, bark, and roots; profiles of favorite trees; how animals and insects interact with trees; trees in urban landscapes; the role trees play in our changing climate; deforestation and reforestation; and much more. With clear diagrams, illustrations, and intriguing sidebars on many featured topics, this unique volume is a complete visual guide to the magnificence of the arboreal world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520256506

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9780520256507

Tony Woods

An Archive

By: Tony Woods,Alexander Selenitsch,Gary Willis,Phil Edwards,Lesley Chow,Jake Wilson,Sheridan Palmer

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Tony Woods

An Archive

By: Tony Woods,Alexander Selenitsch,Gary Willis,Phil Edwards,Lesley Chow,Jake Wilson,Sheridan Palmer

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0646594567

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9780646594569

Risk-Based Thinking

Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

By: Tony Muschara

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Risk-Based Thinking

Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

By: Tony Muschara

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about. It is not just the absence of harm. When nothing bad happens over a period of time, how do you know you are safe? In reality, safety is what you and your people do moment by moment, day by day to protect assets from harm and to control the hazards inherent in your operations. This is the purpose of risk-based thinking, the key element of the six building blocks of Human and Organizational Performance (H&OP). Generally, H&OP provides a risk-based approach to managing human performance in operations. But, specifically, risk-based thinking enables foresight and flexibility—even when surprised—to do what is necessary to protect assets from harm but also achieve mission success despite ongoing stresses or shocks to the operation. Although you cannot prepare for every adverse scenario, you can be ready for almost anything. When risk-based thinking is integrated into the DNA of an organization’s way of doing business, people will be ready for most unexpected situations. Eventually, safety becomes a core value, not a priority to be negotiated with others depending on circumstances. This book provides a coherent perspective on what executives and line managers within operational environments need to focus on to efficiently and effectively control, learn, and adapt.

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Routledge

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1351400177

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9781351400176

Slaughter at Halbe

The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army April 1945

By: Tony Le Tissier

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Slaughter at Halbe

The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army April 1945

By: Tony Le Tissier

Operation ‘Berlin’, the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April 1945 by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German 9th Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald ‘pocket’, south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction, and his subordinates, eager to win the race to the Reichstag, pushed General Busse’s 9th Army into a tiny area east of the village of Halbe. To escape the Spreewald pocket, the remnants of 9th Army had to pass through Halbe, where barricades constructed by both sides formed formidable obstacles and the converging Soviet forces subjected the area to heavy artillery fire. By the time 9th Army eventually escaped the Soviet pincers, it had suffered 40,000 killed and 60,000 taken prisoner. In Slaughter at Halbe, teenaged refugees recount their experiences alongside Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans attempting to maintain military discipline amid the chaos and carnage of headlong retreat. Relating the story day by day, Tony Le Tissier shows the impact of total war upon soldier and civilian alike.

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The History Press

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0752495348

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9780752495347

Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics

By: Tony Trigilio

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Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics

By: Tony Trigilio

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SIU Press

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0809327554

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9780809327553

The Dragon Hammer

By: Tony Daniel

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The Dragon Hammer

By: Tony Daniel

WULF'S SAGA BEGINS Evil from the dawn of time is on the verge of domination—but Wulf von Dunstig figured none of that mattered to him. What could he do about it? After all, he was basically nobody—the sixteen-year-old third son of a duke destined for an uneventful life as a ranger. But when destiny comes calling, it turns out there is only Wulf to answer. After a devastating invasion of his native land, Wulf must rally the peaceful valley of Shenandoah. He must free his family and his land from the grip of intruders controlled by vampiric evil. It’s time to grow up. It’s time to fight for what is right. It’s time to wield the Dragon Hammer. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Lexile Score: 680 About The Dragon Hammer: “A fun and fast-paced adeventure of a young man coming of age in a well-realized Tolkienesque world. The emphasis is on wonder—and courage—though there's plenty of magic also.”—David Drake, author of best-selling Lord of the Isles fantasy series About Tony Daniel: “[D]azzling stuff.”—New York Times Book Review “Remember his name, and keep watching for whatever he does.”—Roger Zelazny “Daniel proves that the Golden Age of science fiction is right here and now.”—Greg Bear About Guardian of Night by Tony Daniel: “[A] large cast of utterly graspable humans . . . .Following in the footsteps of Poul Anderson and Greg Bear, Tony Daniel makes a triumphant return.”—Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine “. . .an unparalleled success and could easily become a classic in military science fiction. . .Daniel creates. . .believable aliens as well as humans who are all striving for the same goal: capture the Guardian of Night. I was surprised and delighted by the depth of characterization in this book and recommend it to you heartily.”—Galaxy’s Edge About Metaplanetary, by Tony Daniel “[A] panoramic tale of men and women engaged in a war that spans both virtual and normal realities and that calls into question the nature of human intelligence and the price of freedom.”—Library Journal "The best science fiction novel I've read in five years.”—Lucius Shepard About Superluminal, by Tony Daniel “Daniel renders his 31st-century battles and human dilemmas utterly fascinating.”—Washington Post Book World “[T]eems with vivid characters and surprising action.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[B]rilliantly realized. . . the story remains gripping throughout.”—Booklist

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Baen Books

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1625795092

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9781625795090

Robert Bresson

A Passion for Film

By: Tony Pipolo

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Robert Bresson

A Passion for Film

By: Tony Pipolo

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films' cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic structures, Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each film-including nearly 100 illustrations-elucidating Bresson's unique style as it evolved from the impassioned Les Anges du péche to such disconsolate meditations on the world as The Devil Probably and L'Argent. Special attention is also given to psychosexual aspects of the films that are usually neglected. Bresson has long needed a thoroughgoing treatment by a critic worthy to the task: he gets it here. From it emerges a provocative portrait of an extraordinary artist whose moral engagement and devotion to the craft of filmmaking are without equal.

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Oxford University Press

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0199717834

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9780199717835

Marxism and Social Science

By: David Marsh,Tony Tant

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Marxism and Social Science

By: David Marsh,Tony Tant

Has Marxism ceased to be part of our political present and future? Has its theory or doctrine anything to contribute to our understanding of the new millennium? In these original, commissioned essays, the contributors argue that Marxism continues as a living tradition. They show how it still engages with other theoretical positions, how it has evolved in response to both these engagements and contemporary world changes, and they assess its relevance and contribution to modern social science.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068165

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The God of Wild Places

Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

By: Tony Jones

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The God of Wild Places

Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

By: Tony Jones

I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... this captivating memoir will take you places you might never have gone on your own: into the elemental mysteries of life, death, creatureliness, and divinity with someone who has turned from the orderliness of religion to find salvation in the God of the Wild. I'm glad I went." —Barbara Brown Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Church and Learning to Walk in the Dark A pastor walks out of the church and into the woods, in pursuit of the God he's lost. Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones, Ph.D., had his crisis of faith, brought on by personal trauma and broken relationships, he sought solace in the outdoors - paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer. When he walked out of the church and into the woods, he left the orderly pews and numbered hymns for chaotic spaces and untamed wilderness. And he re-discovered God — a God who brings peace in the midst of storms, a God who lives in the community of our fellow creatures, a God who's acquainted with death. This is the God of wild places. In The God of Wild Places, Tony mines his own experiences, recent research in evolutionary psychology, and ancient wisdom from various spiritual and philosophical traditions to fashion lessons about solitude, the predator-prey relationship, the importance of place, risk, failure, and death, and the chaotic presence of God. Tony's guidance in The God of Wild Places promises to introduce a generation of Americans to the transcendence available only in untamed spaces; his writing draws on wisdom from Christianity to Buddhism, Kant to Cioran, Jim Harrison to Annie Dillard. This is a journey of loss and discovery through forests and fields, lakes and streams, from knowing to unknowing, from finding to losing — from life to death, and then back to life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538184451

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9781538184455

Recursion

By: Tony Ballantyne

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Recursion

By: Tony Ballantyne

The future is everything we wanted it to be—and far more than we bargained for. It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city—and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own—in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims. . . . Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago—by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.

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Spectra

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0553902873

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9780553902877

Manage Your Mind

The Mental Fitness Guide

By: Gillian Butler,Nick Grey,Tony Hope

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Manage Your Mind

The Mental Fitness Guide

By: Gillian Butler,Nick Grey,Tony Hope

Manage Your Mind is a book for building resilience, overcoming emotional difficulties and enabling self-development. It is for any of us who wish to understand ourselves better, to be more effective in day-to-day life, or to overcome current problems; or who want to support others in these tasks. The authors have, between them, almost 100 years of experience of helping people through difficult times. This experience, together with the results from scientific research, leads to Manage Your Mind distilling effective techniques and ideas so that readers can select those that suit their preferences and needs. The book explains and illustrates how to respond skilfully to life's challenges.

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Oxford University Press

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0198747276

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9780198747277

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Making Machines that Make Meaning

By: Tony Veale,Mike Cook

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Making Machines that Make Meaning

By: Tony Veale,Mike Cook

The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe. Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape. In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots, from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of Microsoft's @TayAndYou (which “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation. Some bots are as malevolent as their authors. Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on The Dark Web.” —@PROSECCOnetwork "If writing is like cooking then this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made with whale blubber instead of butter.” —@PROSECCOnetwork These bot critiques generated at https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/PROSECCOnetwork

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MIT Press

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0262037904

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Kent Folk Tales

By: Tony Cooper

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Kent Folk Tales

By: Tony Cooper

These traditional stories and local legends have been handed down by storytellers for centuries. As folk tales reveal a lot about the people who invented them, this book provides a link to the ethics and way of life of generations of Kentish people. Herein you will find the intriguing tales of Brave Mary of Mill Hill, King Herla, the Pickpockets of Sturry, the Wantsum Wyrm and the Battle of Sandwich, to name but a few. These captivating stories, brought to life with a collection of unique illustrations, will be enjoyed by readers time and again. Tony Cooper has been a full-time storyteller for the past twenty-five years. He attends regular storytelling events, with a particular favourite being the Winter Tales Festival, 'a dark evening of storytelling and object theatre for adults' held in his hometown of Sandwich.

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The History Press

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075247037X

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9780752470375

Lost in the Mountains

By: Tony Monte

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Lost in the Mountains

By: Tony Monte

In 1828, Shawn ?Skip? Sullivan is somewhere around fourteen years old when the Indians attack his family's homestead and kill both his mother and father. Warned by the barking dogs, Skip's mother forced him to hide in the cabin's false floor. Though Skip is unharmed, his journey is just beginning. After burying his parents, Skip knows he can't stay at the cabin alone forever. He remembers that there's a small settlement with a trading post about thirty miles away, but he hasn't been there since he was seven years old. With just a small backpack filled with the items the Indians didn't scavenge, Skips sets off for the nearest civilization. He soon finds himself alone and lost in the mountains?until he meets an old trapper called Big Jim, who teaches him how to survive. Together, the two navigate the wilderness while fending off attackers both human and beast. Skip comes of an age while learning tough lessons about the world and the nature around him.

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iUniverse

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1491730137

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Managing Your Mind

The Mental Fitness Guide

By: Gillian Butler,Nick Grey,Tony Hope

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Managing Your Mind

The Mental Fitness Guide

By: Gillian Butler,Nick Grey,Tony Hope

Managing Your Mind is a book for building resilience, overcoming emotional difficulties and enabling self-development. It is for any of us who wish to understand ourselves better, to be more effective in day-to-day life, to overcome current problems; or who want to support others in these tasks. The authors have between them almost 100 years of experience helping people respond skillfully to life's challenges. Drawing on this experience as well as on cutting-edge scientific research, Managing Your Mind distills effective techniques and ideas, enabling readers to select those that suit their preferences and needs. Part One of the book helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and provides tools for clarifying what we value most in life. It highlights the benefits of the practice of acceptance and kindness, and shows how to build self-esteem and self-confidence. Part Two presents practical tools and methods, relevant to everyone, for making our way in the world. This includes the importance of perspective and how we can best use our thinking skills. It also covers everyday topics such as the value of useful habits, time management, looking after our physical health, increasing happiness, well-being and creativity, and developing and maintaining good relationships. The third part of the book provides scientifically-tested approaches to overcoming specific emotional difficulties, such as worry, panic, low mood, anger, addictions, and coping with trauma, loss and chronic ill health. With well over 150,000 copies in print, Managing Your Mind remains the definitive self-help guide for anyone seeking to lead a more fulfilling and productive life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190866780

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