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Modern Optical Spectroscopy

With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry

By: William W. Parson

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Modern Optical Spectroscopy

With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry

By: William W. Parson

This textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern molecular and cellular biophysics and biochemistry. The topics covered include electronic and vibrational absorption, fluorescence, resonance energy transfer, exciton interactions, circular dichroism, coherence and dephasing, ultrafast pump-probe and photon-echo spectroscopy, single-molecule and fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy, Raman scattering, and multiphoton absorption. This revised and updated edition provides expanded discussions of quantum optics, metal-ligand charge-transfer transitions, entropy changes during photoexcitation, electron transfer from excited molecules, normal-mode calculations, vibrational Stark effects, studies of fast processes by resonance energy transfer in single molecules, and two-dimensional electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. The explanations are sufficiently thorough and detailed to be useful for researchers and graduate students and advanced undergraduates in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. They are based on time-dependent quantum mechanics, but are developed from first principles with a clarity that makes them accessible to readers with little prior training in this field. Extra topics and highlights are featured in special boxes throughout the text. The author also provides helpful exercises for each chapter.

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3662467771

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

This is the eagerly awaited new edition of Law of Torts, the complete Irish tort law reference book. For this, the contents have been extensively revised since the last edition was published in 2000. Key developments are detailed and relevant recent case law is examined. This book is essential for both legal practitioners and people studying Irish law. Recent important legislation examined in the book includes: Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011, Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, Defamation Act 2009, Consumer Protection Act 2007, Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003. Key developments and case law are examined in areas such as pure economic loss, limitations and purchase of financial products, vicarious liability for sexual assaults, damages, privacy, defamation, psychiatric injury, liability of public authorities, employers' liability, professional negligence, defective buildings and products and occupiers' liability. First published in 1980, Law of Torts has long been a cornerstone work in Irish law, indeed in the foreword to the first edition Judge Brian Walshe noted that the book represented a challenge to the 'unquestioned assumption that English text-books would satisfy all needs.' This new addition will only add to the book's long-established merit and value.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780438842

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The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia

The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print

By: William J. Birnes

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The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia

The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print

By: William J. Birnes

This is the most comprehensive UFO book in print, covering time travel, cloning and the raelians, antigravity propulsion, psychokinesis, astral projection and teleportation, and more.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743466748

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4

By: Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4

By: Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #4 includes 12 short stories: "Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain" — Cat Rambo "Forever" — Rachel Pollack "The Dragonmaster's Ghost" — Henry Szabranski "Restart" — William Reid "Feeling All Right" — Richard Zwicker "Universe in a Teacup" — Seth Chambers "Skipping Stones" — Erin Cole "Incriminating Evidence" — Charity Tahmaseb "Posthumous" — James B. Willard "Your Cities" — Anaea Lay "Seaside Sirens, 1848" — Anna Zumbro "#Dragonspit" — William Meikle In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Cat Rambo -Interview With Author Charity Tahmaseb -Interview With Author William Meikle -Interview With Editor Lynne Thomas -Artist Spotlight: Kuldar Leement -Book Review: Half a King (by Joe Abercrombie) -Movie Review: Interstellar (2014) (Christopher Nolan) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

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0991661931

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Ufo’S (The Reality)

“We Are Not Alone”

By: William Calderwood

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Ufo’S (The Reality)

“We Are Not Alone”

By: William Calderwood

The subject of UFOs I believe is one of the most important subjects there is, because of its implications. If an alien craft under intelligent control can shut down our nuclear missile systems, which is a national security issue, it has to be an important subject. My interest began while in the service on a destroyer off the Korean coast when I heard that in the fall of 1951 a UFO was observed circling the task force and was picked up on 14 radars in the task force, that began my interest in UFOs and have remained with me ever since. After returning from the service I later had the opportunity to work for Boeing aero-space on the Saturn V moon rocket, worked at Michoud, La 15 miles out of New Orleans. Had a classified clearance while working there. One night while lounging by the pool I was looking for the trail of a satellite going overhead, when I noticed one of the stars by the big dipper started to move, it traveled from the right side of the dipper to about the same distance on the left side and stopped. After about two minutes it slowly faded away, knowing about space, and that an object must travel at 17,000 miles an hour to remain in space or gravity would pull it down to earth. it had to be a UFO. After two and a half years at Michoud, Boeing opened a new branch at Cape Kennedy Florida, and I put in for a transfer there, was accepted and worked in system interface control, received a secret clearance while at the cape. During the time I sat in on two lectures of UFOs, the first was by Maj. Keyhoe at the Marriott hotel in Coco Beach, there was standing room only and he waved some documents and said UFOs were nuts & bolts machines and were real objects. The other lecture was at Patrick AFB next to where I lived at Satellite Beach, The first half of his presentation was a slide show showing the most ridiculous UFOs imaginable (an air-force presentation): The last half was his own personal experience when flying a cargo plane from a southern state to Washington D.C. A bright yellow UFO came His plane and followed him all the way to Washington D.C. after I left Boeing and came back home I turned on the TV to watch a new series called project blue book and it was directed by retired col. Coleman. Once hooked, the subject stays with you for life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503558614

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Bloodshed of the Mountain Man

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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Bloodshed of the Mountain Man

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

Where there's fire, there's Smoke . . . In this thrilling Western by the USA Today bestselling author, Smoke Jensen takes on a savage outlaw gang in the Rockies . . . Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. But the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and rescues them from the jaws of death. When the bloody onslaught is over, dead bodies litter the streets, and Smoke Jensen is a man on a mission. Calling themselves the Ghost Riders, a savage gang of outlaws has stealthily moved in from Wyoming Territory. Smoke now has a personal motive for going up against the Ghost Riders. No matter how many they are, no matter how many guns they have, he'll hunt them down—one killer at a time . . .

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Pinnacle Books

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0786031417

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UFOs and The White House

What Did Our Presidents Know and When Did They Know It?

By: William J. Birnes,Joel Martin

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UFOs and The White House

What Did Our Presidents Know and When Did They Know It?

By: William J. Birnes,Joel Martin

The author team that wrote the upcoming Skyhorse title Edison vs. Tesla, as well as The Haunting of the Presidents and other titles about the weird, the supernatural, and the unexplained, turn their attention to the oval office for a unique view of UFOs in America and more specifically, what America's presidents--from Washington to Obama--have witnessed and believed. Most of us know that George Washington was heavily involved with the secret society the Freemasons. But how many of us know about George Washington's UFO sighting during the terrible winter at Valley Forge, and how the experience guided his future? Marilyn Monroe is rumored to have had UFO intel that she gained via pillow-talk from JFK. Under Nixon's presidency we orbited and walked upon the surface the moon while almost at the same time the Air Force was exploiting the Air Force as scientific cover for its decision to terminate Project Blue Book. Jimmie Carter was visited by UFOs multiple times. UFOs and the White House is an oft-overlooked glimpse at history that will appeal to historians as well as advocates of the paranormal.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510724311

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A Talent to Deceive

The Search for the Real Killer of the Lindbergh Baby

By: William Norris

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A Talent to Deceive

The Search for the Real Killer of the Lindbergh Baby

By: William Norris

No one is innocent when a mystery is unsolved. Charles Lindbergh was known for many things during his lifetime. He was a famous aviator, the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, winner of the Orteig Prize, and a young American hero. But despite his honors and achievements, his name will forever be associated with the infamy of one of the Trials of the Century. The Lindbergh Kidnapping. On a dreary March night, Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was abducted from his crib. The baby’s kidnapper left behind muddy footprints, a broken ladder, and a ransom note demanding $50,000. Weeks later, Charles Lindbergh Jr. was found ... dead. Everyone was a suspect in this investigation, even the Lindberghs. After a six-week trial, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was named the ultimate culprit, but he claimed he was innocent even up to his execution day. For nearly 100 years, the Lindbergh Kidnapping still remains a major topic of controversy and fascination. A Talent to Deceive uses investigative journalism to dive into evidence ignored by previous investigators in search of the truth. Who really committed the crime? What really happened the night of March 1, 1932? What was the motive to kidnap and murder the Lindbergh baby? Follow Norris in this history-meets-mystery tale as he performs a thorough investigation to solve The Case That Will Never Die.

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0744300738

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History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine

By: Joseph Williamson,Alfred Johnson,William Cross Williamson

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History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine

By: Joseph Williamson,Alfred Johnson,William Cross Williamson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385536464

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A Question of Freedom

The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

By: William G. Thomas

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A Question of Freedom

The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

By: William G. Thomas

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

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Yale University Press

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0300256272

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9780300256277

Conspiracy Films

A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious

By: Barna William Donovan

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Conspiracy Films

A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious

By: Barna William Donovan

For many years, conspiracy theories have been among the most popular story elements in Hollywood films. According to the "conspiracy culture," Government, Big Business, the Church, even aliens--all of which, bundled together, comprise the ubiquitous "Them"--are concealing some of the biggest secrets in American and world history. From The Manchurian Candidate (1962) to JFK (1991), The Matrix (1999) to The Da Vinci Code (2006), this decade-by-decade history explores our fascination with paranoia. The work paints a vivid picture of several of the more prevalent conspiracy theories and the entertainment they have inspired, not only in theatrical films but also in such television series as The X-Files, Lost and V.

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McFarland

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0786486155

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9780786486151

The Collected Stories

By: William Trevor

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The Collected Stories

By: William Trevor

A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

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Penguin

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1101667230

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9781101667231

Irish Priests in the United States

A Vanishing Subculture

By: William L. Smith

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Irish Priests in the United States

A Vanishing Subculture

By: William L. Smith

This book is the beginning of a much-needed discussion about the experiences and beliefs of Irish priests. It provides a cultural analysis of these men, including the diverse and oftentimes contradictory sides they find themselves on regarding philosophical, theological, and pastoral issues.

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University Press of America

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0761828265

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Atkins' Physical Chemistry

By: Peter William Atkins,Julio de Paula

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Atkins' Physical Chemistry

By: Peter William Atkins,Julio de Paula

PART 1: THERMODYNAMICS PART 2: STRUCTURE PART 3: CHANGE

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Oxford University Press

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019969740X

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Savage Sunday

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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Savage Sunday

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

Johnstone Country. Shoot Straight or Die. Scottish cattleman Duff MacCallister staked a claim for his life in America—and reserves a righteous anger for those who break the law in this smoking six-gun shootout from National Bestselling Authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone . . . Thanks to a new line, the railroad has come to Chugwater, Wyoming, bridging the gap between the small town and the larger city of Cheyenne. Now Duff MacCallister can transport his 250 Black Angus cattle herd with ease by Iron Horse instead of enduring a two-day traildrive. But the day after depositing $15,000 in his Cheyenne account, Duff learns that bank president Jeremy Brinks embezzled every cent—totalling $65,000—and then guilt-ridden, committed suicide. Jeremy wasn’t just Duff’s banker, but his longtime friend. The widow Brinks doesn’t believe her husband was a thief or that he killed himself. Duff agrees. And after getting an appointment as Territorial Marshal, he’s aiming his barrel at putting every double-crossing lawman, red-handed outlaw, and corrupt businessmen he can rustle up behind bars—or six feet under . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786047542

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Venom of the Mountain Man

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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Venom of the Mountain Man

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

From the bestselling authors of Brutal Night of the Mountain Man, a gunslinger must ride through a nightmare to rescue his wife. When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, his gunfighter instincts take over and he storms in with guns blazing. He kills one of the gunmen, the rest scatter like the rats they are. Another notch on the sharpshooter’s weathered grip. But the dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs, and Briggs will want revenge… Tired of the savagery of the lawless countryside, Smoke’s wife Sally heads back east for a spell, only to find the big city choking in filth, violence, and corruption. Before Sally can head back home, though, she’s snatched right off the street. When Smoke gets word that Sally’s been kidnapped, he boards the first train east. But Gabe Briggs and his ruthless band of bad men are along for the ride. Unless Smoke can punch their ticket to hell first, they’ll blow this train sky high…

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0786033657

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9780786033652

High Frontier

A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania

By: William F. Trimble

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High Frontier

A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania

By: William F. Trimble

From the early days of hot air ballooning to supersonic aircraft, High Frontier chronicles the history of flight in Pennsylvania. Early experimentation with lighter-than-air craft in the nineteenth century was followed by significant advances in aerodynamics, the advent of the airplane, and its gradual acceptance by the public. The state had its own contingent of inventors and aviators, who flew and crashed their homemade machines in countless exhibitions. After World War I commercial flights took wing, including government airmail delivery, and expanded airports, federal and state regulation of aeronautics laid the groundwork for the growth of the industry.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822974266

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9780822974260

Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

By: William Barford

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Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

By: William Barford

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices. They are also active components in many important biological processes. In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of these systems, owing to both improved experimental measurements and the development of advanced computational techniques. The aim of this book is to describe and explain the electronic and optical properties of conjugated polymers. It focuses on the three key roles of electron-electron interactions, electron-nuclear coupling, and disorder in determining the character of the electronic states, and it relates these properties to experimental observations in real systems. A number of important optical and electronic processes in conjugated polymers are also described. The second edition has a more extended discussion of excitons in conjugated polymers. There is also a new chapter on the static and dynamical localization of excitons.

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OUP Oxford

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0191501700

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9780191501708

The Man Who Fell From the Sky

The Bizarre Life and Death of '20s Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein

By: William Norris

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The Man Who Fell From the Sky

The Bizarre Life and Death of '20s Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein

By: William Norris

How a multi-millionaire vanished into thin air. Captain Alfred Loewenstein was known as many things during his glamorous and gaudy life. Companion of the Bath, friend of kings, an aviator and sportsman, a maker and loser of fortunes, and most favorably, a multi-millionaire. That is, until his mysterious death. On a July evening in 1928, Loewenstein boarded his aircraft with six others to travel from England to Brussels. He never arrived. While flying over the English Channel, Loewenstein fell through an exit door of the airplane on his way to the lavatory. People were quick to explain his mysterious death. Many said his fall was an accident while others speculated that he jumped from the plane to commit suicide. And of course, there were the more sinister theories claiming that someone pushed him out of the aircraft. But who? And why? Investigative journalist William Norris develops a theory of how and why this prominent, rich, and famous man died so violently without any explanation or official investigation. Did Loewenstein fall, did he jump, or was he pushed from his own aircraft? The Man Who Fell From the Sky contains excitement and mystery as Norris researches the business tycoon’s life, death, and aftermath of his demise and comes to a conclusion of how Alfred Loewenstein vanished into thin air.

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CamCat Publishing, LLC

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0744300797

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9780744300796

Laser Fundamentals

By: William T. Silfvast

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Laser Fundamentals

By: William T. Silfvast

Laser Fundamentals, published in 2004, provides an introduction to the physical and engineering principles of laser operation and design.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521833450

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The Creation of Jazz

Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

By: Burton William Peretti

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The Creation of Jazz

Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

By: Burton William Peretti

As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz. From its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers and the streets and dance halls of 1890s New Orleans, through its later metamorphoses in the cities of the North, Peretti charts the life of jazz culture to the eve of bebop and World War II. In the course of those fifty years, jazz was the story of players who made the transition from childhood spasm bands to Carnegie Hall and worldwide touring and fame. It became the music of the Twenties, a decade of Prohibition, of adolescent discontent, of Harlem pride, and of Americans hoping to preserve cultural traditions in an urban, commercial age. And jazz was where black and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. "Blacks fought back by using jazz", states Peretti, "with its unique cultural and intellectual properties, to prove, assess, and evade the "dynamic of minstrelsy". Drawing on newspaper reports of the times and on the firsthand testimony of more than seventy prominent musicians and singers (among them Benny Carter, Bud Freeman, Kid Ory, and Mary Lou Williams), The Creation of Jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of early jazz in American social history.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252064216

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9780252064210

ZEKE Spectroscopy

By: Edward William Schlag

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ZEKE Spectroscopy

By: Edward William Schlag

This 1998 book was the first to describe ZEKE (ZEro Kinetic Energy) spectroscopy, a chemistry technique of increasing importance.

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0521581281

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Deadline for a Critic

The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 9

By: William Kienzle

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The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 9

By: William Kienzle

Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery." —Publishers Weekly "... good character analysis and a tantalizing story make this one of Kienzle's best." —Library Journal "As Kienzle addresses serious modern issues, he stops to digress and tell his wonderful stories. He always plays fair with readers, though, providing a neat solution with a twist." —Chicago Tribune It's curtains for Ridley Groendal. When the performing arts critic for the Detroit Suburban Reporter dies suddenly, insiders know he could have choked on his own rage. Having returned to Detroit from a vituperative career at the prestigious New York Herald, Groendal was known to have destroyed more than a few reputations with his vicious criticism. Was his death an act of revenge? If so, at least four of his victims had ample motive. Was it Dave Palmer, whose concerts after Groendal's review would forever be heard in a minor key? Was it Carroll Mitchell, whose plays could never again get a serious reading? Was it Charlie Hogan, whose newspaper career was put out with the garbage? Was it Valerie Walsh, who must now look offstage for a dramatic role? Or was it long-time companion Peter Harrison, who may have had his own dark reasons to want Groendal dead? Readers know Father Koesler is no newcomer to the role of sleuth. Deadline for a Critic is the ninth in the Father Koesler series.

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1449423663

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