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Lost Portland, Oregon

By: Val C. Ballestrem

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As Portland has grown and changed, so has its architectural landscape. Once prominent landmarks have disappeared--the Marquam Building collapsed during 1912 renovations, the massive chamber of commerce building became a parking lot and the Corbett Building became a shopping mall. The city skyline was shaped by architects like Justus F. Krumbein and David L. Williams, only to drastically change in the face of urban renewal and the desire for modernization. Discover the stories behind some of Portland's most iconic buildings, including the Beth Israel Synagogue and the first East Side High School, both lost to fire. Join historian Val C. Ballestrem as he explores the city's architectural heritage from the 1890s to the present, as well as the creative forces behind it.

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Arcadia Publishing

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146713953X

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9781467139533

Stranded

By: Val McDermid

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Stranded

By: Val McDermid

A must-read collection of stories by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, “one of the bright lights of the mystery field” (The Washington Post). Val McDermid’s novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award and the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger and Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. Enjoyed by millions of fans worldwide, her intelligent, incisive crime fiction showcases the best and worst of human nature. Here it is now, distilled into a superb collection of nineteen nail-biting, perfectly plotted short stories, including two featuring private eye Kate Brannigan and a foreword by Ian Rankin. “McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there . . . She’s the best we’ve got.” —The New York Times Book Review

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176

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802191746

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9780802191748

Disability and Discourse

Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

By: Val Williams

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Disability and Discourse

Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

By: Val Williams

Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact. Explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities Introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners Adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed Follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research

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264

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119996163

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9781119996163

Robertson Davies

A Portrait in Mosaic

By: Val Ross

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Robertson Davies

A Portrait in Mosaic

By: Val Ross

National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait. From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was so clearly bound for a glorious future that some young friends even carefully preserved his letters. And everyone remembered their encounters with him. Later in life, as a world-famous writer, perhaps Canada’s pre-eminent man of letters (who “looked like Jehovah”), he attracted people eager to meet him, who also vividly remembered their meetings. So when Val Ross set out in search of people’s memories, she was faced with a wonderful embarrassment of riches. The one hundred or so contributors here range very widely. There are family memories, of course, and memories from colleagues in the academic world who knew him as a professor and the founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Predictably, there are other major writers like Margaret Atwood and John Irving. Less predictably, there are people from the world of Hollywood, such as Norman Jewison and David Cronenberg (who remembers Davies on-set, peering through a camera lens as he researched his newest novel). And we even hear from his barber, and from his gardener, Theo Henkenhaf. Some speakers contribute just a lively paragraph; others several pages. Yet all of them, through the magic of Val Ross’s art, help to create an intriguing, full-colour portrait of a complex man beloved by millions of readers around the world.

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402

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Douglas Gibson Books

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1551992116

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9781551992112

Parliament: A Question of Management

By: V M (Val) Barrett

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Parliament: A Question of Management

By: V M (Val) Barrett

For centuries scholars and practitioners have studied parliament and its potential reform from an institutional perspective. Until now, few authors have addressed in depth the internal relationships among parliamentary actors, their competing beliefs and their influence on parliament’s effectiveness. Parliament is overwhelmingly an agonistic institution, and competition for status, resources, influence and control has pervaded its administration and impeded reform. Parliaments appear to struggle with the concept of institutional management. The doctrine of exclusive cognisance or sole jurisdiction implies that parliament, and only parliament, should retain control of its internal business and processes. But why is parliament considered to be unique among public institutions, and why do parliaments appear to resist or even defy attempts to manage them more effectively? At a time when the public is losing confidence in governments, politics and political institutions, parliament’s role as a broker of ideas and a forum for deliberative policymaking is under threat. In an institution where no one has overall authority and direction, staying relevant and managing public expectations present major challenges for its members and administrators. This book examines parliamentary management in the national parliaments of Australia and the United Kingdom. Without claiming to be a ‘how to’ book, it attempts to provide a relatable account of how parliamentary officials and members of parliament carry out their inherently complex roles and how they might be assisted by contemporary public management approaches.

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ANU Press

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1760465461

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9781760465469

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement

A Comprehensive Treatise

By: Guillermo Velarde,Yigal Ronen,Jose M. Martinez-Val

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Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement

A Comprehensive Treatise

By: Guillermo Velarde,Yigal Ronen,Jose M. Martinez-Val

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement provides a comprehensive analysis of directly driven inertial confinement fusion. All important aspects of the process are covered, including scientific considerations that support the concept, lasers and particle beams as drivers, target fabrication, analytical and numerical calculations, and materials and engineering considerations. Authors from Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and the U.S. have contributed to the volume, making it an internationally significant work for all scientists working in the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) field, as well as for graduate students in engineering and physics with interest in ICF.

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784

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CRC Press

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1000141985

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9781000141986

Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis

By: Xianglin Shi,Vince Castranova,Val Vallyathan,William G. Perry

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Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis

By: Xianglin Shi,Vince Castranova,Val Vallyathan,William G. Perry

These proceedings focus on the latest research in molecular mechanisms of metal-induced toxicity and carcinogenesis. The conference promoted a multidisciplinary investigative approach and included presentations from international experts on state-of-the-art information in this field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461507936

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9781461507932

Designing Interface Animation

Improving the User Experience Through Animation

By: Val Head

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Designing Interface Animation

Improving the User Experience Through Animation

By: Val Head

Effective interface animation deftly combines form and function to improve feedback, aid in orientation, direct attention, show causality, and express your brand’s personality. Designing Interface Animation shows you how to create web animation that balances purpose and style while blending seamlessly into the user’s experience. This book is a crash course in motion design theory and practice for web designers, UX professionals, and front-end developers alike.

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Rosenfeld Media

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1933820160

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9781933820163

Winter in the Lake District

By: Val Corbett

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Winter in the Lake District

By: Val Corbett

Crisp snow in deep valleys, high peaks bright in winter sun, sheep huddled under a stone wall, waterfalls frozen into long glistening fingers and then scones by the log fire. Winter is photographer Val Corbett's favourite time of year and this wonderful book show why. Here we have mountains sharply reflected in still water and sweeping panoramas framed by skeleton branches or taken from high above valleys deep in soft cloud. The book opens with the first frosts of autumn and closes with the birth of the early spring lambs and the emergence of Wordsworth's beloved daffodils. Val Corbett's stunning photographs capture the wide winter landscape as well as seasonal festivities close to home - Christmas, pancakes and the annual marmalade competition. This book is a visual feast and a fine celebration of winter in the Lake District.

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White Lion Publishing

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0711230560

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9780711230569

Unfinished Business

By: Val Corbett,Joyce Hopkirk,Eve Pollard

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Unfinished Business

By: Val Corbett,Joyce Hopkirk,Eve Pollard

Not every couple could live together and work together, but Georgina and Alistair manage it. Alistair is set to get the top job at their company magazine. But someone thinks it's time to put a woman at the helm. Suddenly Georgina finds herself facing a dilemma that could tear her marriage apart.

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074725639X

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9780747256397

Law of Torts

By: Philip Burke,Val Corbett (LLM.)

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Law of Torts

By: Philip Burke,Val Corbett (LLM.)

The Law of Torts is a new addition to the Essential Law Text Series. It explains the key principles and concepts of this diverse and demanding subject in a manner that is easily comprehensible manner. It draws on comparative legal principles and provides practical examples with the most up-to-date case-law.

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Virago Press

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1858002346

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9781858002347

Arthur

By: Mikael Lindnord,Val Corbett

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Arthur

By: Mikael Lindnord,Val Corbett

When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon. When they left, the dog followed. Try as they might, they couldn't lose him - and soon Mikael realised he didn't want to. Crossing rivers, battling illness and injury, and struggling through some of the toughest terrain on the planet, the team and the dog walked together towards the finish line, where Mikael decided he would save Arthur and bring him back to his family in Sweden, whatever it took.

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Charnwood

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1444835378

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9781444835373

Arthur and Friends

The Incredible Story of a Rescue Dog, and How Our Dogs Rescue Us

By: Mikael Lindnord,Val Hudson

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Arthur and Friends

The Incredible Story of a Rescue Dog, and How Our Dogs Rescue Us

By: Mikael Lindnord,Val Hudson

A shaggy dog story with a lovely happy ending' - BBC Breakfast on Arthur THE SEQUEL TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ARTHUR Three years ago, Mikael Lindnord met a scruffy, plucky stray dog on an adventure race in Ecuador. Despite illness and injury the dog followed Mikael for hundreds of miles, and eventually he took him home to Sweden to be part of the family. He named him Arthur. Arthur & Friends is the story of what happened next, from Arthur's first Christmas, to book tours to London and around Europe, to a terrifying bout of illness and new races and adventures. Interspersed with this are heart-warming readers' stories of their own rescue dogs, from Afghanistan to Australia, and everywhere in between. Uplifting, gripping and moving in equal measure, Arthur & Friends is the inspirational story of how a little kindness can go a very, very long way. READERS' PRAISE FOR ARTHUR: the dog who crossed the jungle to find a home 'This book is just un-putdownable! For any dog lover it is a must-read and brings a tear to the eye.' 'One of the best books I have read in a long time' 'Absolutely amazing story, very moving

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Two Roads

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1473661625

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Book's by Val Corbett

Lost Portland, Oregon

Lost Portland, Oregon

Stranded

Stranded

Disability and Discourse

Disability and Discourse

Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Parliament: A Question of Management

Parliament: A Question of Management

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement

Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis

Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis

Designing Interface Animation

Designing Interface Animation

Winter in the Lake District

Winter in the Lake District

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Law of Torts

Law of Torts

Arthur

Arthur

Arthur and Friends

Arthur and Friends

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