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Trouble With Words - A Commonplace Book

by Maxine Ruvinsky

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 Mixing memoir, scholarship, and social commentary, The Trouble With Words uses the ancient technique of commonplacing to produce a series of essays on why language and learning still matter in a world awash in lies, a world increasingly described, blush-free, as "post-truth." It seeks to counteract the idea that words no longer matter and, while entertaining and engaging readers, to encourage them to take up the practice of keeping a commonplace book-and maybe even to write their own. The book''s final chapter offers tips on how best to keep a commonplace book.
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Through The Fire - A True Story About A Four Year Old Girl Maliciously Burned In A House Fire

by Theresa Anne Vandermeer

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 A childhood tragedy cost her more than she could've imagined, but it also gave a gift far worth more than she could've hoped for...In one of the most inspirational stories about God’s grace, Theresa holds nothing back as she retraces her traumatic childhood in the countryside of North Carolina in one of the most inspiring autobiographies ever written.Between unstable, alcoholic parents and the ever-present threat of emotional and physical neglect, Theresa never had the childhood every adult wished they could recall. After a horrible fire incident at the age of four, Theresa is left recognizably scarred for life. She is left to deal with pain, despair and hopelessness on a level that most people would have difficulty overcoming.Through the Fire is not just another personal memoir. Instead, it is considered by many one of the best books on childhood trauma. Her journey of getting over childhood trauma will touch your heart on many levels.Unabashed, deeply personal, and thoroughly captivating, Through the Fire is a touching story of pain, despair, courage, hope and redemption. It is both heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. Theresa’s telling of her childhood healing journey of walking through the fire is a story of pain, healing and forgiveness.Written to inspire and to bring hope to many, it is known as one of the most inspirational stories for young women to read. Her story of courage and hope will carry you through every emotion and leave you feeling nothing but inspired.One of the best Christian books for women of 2020, Through the Fire will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.Scroll up and click the buy now button to get started on reading her childhood trauma healing journey from tragedy to complete healing!HIGHLIGHTS:a true storybased in the mountains of North Carolinabest personal memoir about a childhood traumaheartbreaking and inspiringstory of pain, healing and forgivenessstory of courage and hopestory of tragedy and healinginspirational story about God's gracea page turner many have said it should be made into a movie
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Employment Of African Americans In Law Enforcement, 1803-1865 - None

by Lievin Kambamba Mboma

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 "The EMPLOYMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, 1803 - 1865," examines pertinent primary source and secondary data on police, justices of the peace, and militia duties entrusted to African Americans in Louisiana and in selected Northern states before the Civil War and during the Civil War. In addition, the book discusses African American's little known criminal justice appointments in the plantation regimes, their military police work, and spying missions. The book adeptly challenges the misconception that African Americans were not employed as lawmen prior to the Civil War. Through the discussion of major African American lawmen, Wentworth Cheswell, Captain William Ledesdorff, Macon Bolling Allen, and Robert Morris, the integrality of African Americans to the antebellum legal system is thoroughly examined. This work has major implications for understanding the historical role of the race in the American legal system.
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The Measure Of The West - A Representation Of Travel

by Giovanni Chiaramonte e Álvaro Siza

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 Two acclaimed artists and friends provide a unique visual account of the global urban landscape.
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The Rent Of Form - Architecture And Labor In The Digital Age

by Pedro Fiori Arantes

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 "The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na era digital-financeira: desenho, canteiro e renda da forma (Saao Paolo, Brazil: Editora 34 Ltdsa., 2012)".
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Raymond Klibansky And The Warburg Library Network - Intellectual Peregrinations From Hamburg To London And Montreal

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 A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy.
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Death, Burial, Resurrection 5 Chronicles Of Courage, Hope & Restoration

by Yvonne Holland

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 This faith-based book reveals what occasionally happens when bad things happen to good people. How does one go on? How does one pick up the pieces? How does tragedy become triumph? How do victims become victors? Designed for individual or book club reading, the discussion format encourages personal reflection and dialogue within the Christian community. Discover, you are never alone.
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Slow War

by Benjamin Hertwig

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 remember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.
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Mermaid In Chelsea Creek

by Jason D. Polan e Michelle Tea

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 <div>Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeat—from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they''re somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there’s one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most hopeful story, the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straighten it out. The girl who will bring the magic. Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she’s unconscious, Sophie could be the one to uncover the power flowing beneath Chelsea’s potholed streets and sludge-filled rivers, and the one to fight the evil that flows there, too. Sophie might discover her destiny, and maybe even in time to save them all. </div>
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Vicky Swanky Is A Beauty

by Diane Williams

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 <div>In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams''s unsettling stories—a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman''s sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire—are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling—the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams'' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today. </div>
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End Of War

by John Horgan

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 War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime "Scientific American" writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent. War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific problem--like curing cancer. But war and cancer differ in at least one crucial way: whereas cancer is a stubborn aspect of nature, war is our creation. It's our choice whether to unmake it or not. In this compact, methodical treatise, Horgan examines dozens of examples and counterexamples--discussing chimpanzees and bonobos, warring and peaceful indigenous people, the World War I and Vietnam, Margaret Mead and General Sherman--as he finds his way to war's complicated origins. Horgan argues for a far-reaching paradigm shift with profound implications for policy students, ethicists, military men and women, teachers, philosophers, or really, any engaged citizen.
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Judgments On History And Historians

by Jacob Burckhardt

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 <DIV>Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has well been described as "the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century." Judgments on History and Historians consists of records collected by Emil Dürr from Burckhardt’s lecture notes for history courses at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. The 149 brief sections span five eras: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, History from 1450 to 1598, the History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, and the Age of Revolution.</DIV>
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Essays: Moral, Political, And Literary

by David Hume

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 <DIV>This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time.This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index.Eugene F. Miller was Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia from 1967 until his retirement in 2003.</DIV>
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David Vizard'S Holley Carburetors - How To Super Tune And Modify

by David Vizard

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 <div>With its high degree of tuning ease, and with all the new models coming into the market, the knowledge of an expert like Vizard is a requirement to meet your carburetor performance goals, now more than ever. This book is an essential addition to any hot rodder''s library.</div>
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How To Restore Your Corvette: 1963-1967

by Chris Petris

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 <div>This book offers an ample amount of step-by-step information in color and focus on real-world restoration techniques. In addition, it contains essential authenticity information and key considerations involved in the restoration process.</div>
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Kippenberger - The Artist And His Families

by Susanne Kippenberger

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 <div>Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of the 1970s right up until his death in 1997, commissioning work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley, and acting as unofficial ringleader to a generation of German artists. Written by the artist''s sister, Susanne Kippenberger, this first English-language biography draws both from personal memories of their shared childhood and exhaustive interviews with Kippenberger''s extended family of friends and colleagues in the art world. Kippenberger gives insight into the psychology and drive behind this playful and provocative artist.This is the ebook edition of Kippenberger, originally published in print form in January 2012.</div>
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Carnap, Tarski, And Quine At Harvard - Conversations On Logic, Mathematics, And Science

by Greg

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 <div>During the academic year 1940-1941, several giants of analytic philosophy congregated at Harvard: Bertrand Russell, Alfred Tarski, Rudlof Carnap, W. V. Quine, Carl Hempel, and Nelson Goodman were all in residence. This group held regular private meetings, with Carnap, Tarski, and Quine being the most frequent attendees. Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard allows the reader to act as a fly on the wall for their conversations. Carnap took detailed notes during his year at Harvard. This book includes both a German transcription of these shorthand notes and an English translation in the appendix section. Carnap’s notes cover a wide range of topics, but surprisingly, the most prominent question is: if the number of physical items in the universe is finite (or possibly finite), what form should scientific discourse, and logic and mathematics in particular, take? This question is closely connected to an abiding philosophical problem, one that is of central philosophical importance to the logical empiricists: what is the relationship between the logico-mathematical realm and the material realm studied by natural science? Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s attempts to answer this question involve a number of issues that remain central to philosophy of logic, mathematics, and science today. This book focuses on three such issues: nominalism, the unity of science, and analyticity. In short, the book reconstructs the lines of argument represented in these Harvard discussions, discusses their historical significance (especially Quine’s break from Carnap), and relates them when possible to contemporary treatments of these issues. Nominalism. The founding document of twentieth-century Anglophone nominalism is Goodman and Quine’s 1947 "Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism." In it, the authors acknowledge that their project’s initial impetus was the conversations of 1940-1941 with Carnap and Tarski. Frost-Arnold''s exposition focuses upon the rationales given for and against the nominalist program at its inception. Tarski and Quine’s primary motivation for nominalism is that mathematical sentences will be ‘unintelligible’ or meaningless, and thus perniciously metaphysical, if (contra nominalism) their component terms are taken to refer to abstract objects. Their solution is to re-interpret mathematical language so that its terms only refer to concrete entities—and if the number of concreta is finite, then portions of classical mathematics will be considered meaningless. Frost-Arnold then identifies and reconstructs Carnap’s two most forceful responses to Tarski and Quine’s view: (1) all of classical mathematics is meaningful, even if the number of concreta is finite, and (2) nominalist strictures lead to absurd consequences in mathematics and logic. The second is familiar from modern debates over nominalism, and its force is proportional to the strength of one’s commitment to preserving all of classical mathematics. The first, however, has no direct correlate in the modern debate, and turns upon the question of whether Carnap’s technique for partially interpreting a language can confer meaningfulness on the whole language. Finally, the author compares the arguments for and against nominalism found in the discussion notes to the leading arguments in the current nominalist debate: the indispensability argument and the argument from causal theories of reference and knowledge. Analyticity. Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s conversations on finitism have a direct connection to the tenability of the analytic-synthetic distinction: under a finitist-nominalist regime, portions of arithmetic—a supposedly analytic enterprise—become empirical. Other portions of the 1940-41 notes address analyticity directly. Interestingly, Tarski’s criticisms are more sustained and pointed than Quine’s. For example, Tarski suggests that Gödel’s first incomple...
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From Harvard To Hell...And Back - A Doctor¿S Journey Through Addiction To Recovery

by Kerry Zukus e Sylvester Sviokla

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 Dr. Sylvester "Skip" Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour as a "celebrity doctor" until addiction brought his life crashing down. Miraculously, recovery gave him back his family, his self-respect, and much more.
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Craft Beer Revolution - The Insider''S Guide To B.C. Breweries

by Joe Wiebe

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 <DIV>A thirst-quenching guide to B.C.’s craft brewers and their beers from the province’s favourite beer writer. Canada''s microbrewing movement began in British Columbia with the founding of Horseshoe Bay Brewing in 1982. Three decades later, B.C. is home to more than fifty breweries, including a dozen brewpubs. Beer tourists are coming in droves, and private liquor stores are selling exclusive bottles of beer at prices previously reserved only for fine wine. With profiles of each of B.C.''s craft breweries, as well as maps, tasting tours and an insider''s look at the people behind the kegs and casks, Craft Beer Revolution is the definitive guide to British Columbia''s booming craft beer scene, from the movement''s early founders still thriving today-Spinnakers, Granville Island and Vancouver Island-to the current industry leaders-Central City, Howe Sound and Driftwood-as well as the most remote-Tofino Brewing, Townsite in Powell River, and Plan B in Smithers. Each brewery has a tale to tell, and Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty Writer, has heard them all. B.C.''s leading beer writer, he has spent the last decade travelling throughout the province, sampling craft beer wherever he can find it. His irreverent guide will be an indispensable companion for beer nerd and novice alike. </DIV>
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Born Naked

by Farley Mowat

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 <DIV>Farley Mowat''s outrageous memoir begins with his unlikely conception in a canoe and continues to his boyhood fascination with creatures of the natural world and on to his youthful rambles and adventures. To his immense pleasure and his parents'' dismay, he adopted various beasts (whom he affectionately calls "The Others") as roomates. In this boyhood memoir, he recounts the exploits of this second family, who have been the subjects of many of his beloved books for young readers. This is the tale of a mischievous, immensely gifted young naturalist, recounted with the wisdom, humour and grown-up perspective of a very talented writer.</DIV>
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Cold War - The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series Of 1972

by Roy Macskimming

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 <div>In 1972, after enduring years of embarrassing defeat at the hands of Soviet "amateurs," Canadian officials convinced their Moscow counterparts to allow a pre-season, eight-game series between the best hockey players from both nations. For Team Canada, this meant a chance to assemble a "dream team" of NHL professionals and show the world that they still owned ice hockey. Cold War takes you to the back rooms of the diplomats and apparatchiks who sanctioned this unlikely confrontation -- and then puts you on the ice for the rest. The first four games were played in four different Canadian cities; the final four in Moscow. Despite the absences of Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, Team Canada''s lineup was memorable: the Brothers Esposito, Phil and Tony; Paul Henderson; Serge Savard; Ken Dryden; and Frank Mahovlich. Canadians across the continent were confident of a blowout. "Eight-game sweep!" the leading sports columnists predicted. But the Red Machine came prepared. The Soviets'' fast-paced game of precision passing and surgical attack caught the Canadians off guard. By the time the series headed to Moscow, the Soviets had jolted Canada and insured that the remaining games would be remembered as perhaps the most fiercely fought hockey of all time.</div>
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Easy Hiking Around Vancouver - An All-Season Guide

by Jean Cousins

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 A guide to the most beautiful short and easy hikes around Vancouver Now in its seventh edition, this guide to exploring Vancouver's beautiful wilderness is an indispensable classic. Featuring sixty-eight superb hikes through forests, up hills and along rivers, many within an hour's reach of downtown Vancouver, this updated and expanded edition once again provides full descriptions of trails and nature highlights, easy-to-follow maps, atmospheric photos and helpful indexes indicating duration and difficulty. Including nineteen new circuits, this perennially popular guide also includes hikes that can be reached by public transit, those situated close by public campgrounds and those that are wheelchair accessible. And, for the first time, Easy Hiking around Vancouver features a hike on Galiano Island as well as a hike on a portion of the new Sea to Sky Trail along Howe Sound. Written for both novices and experienced hikers, this well-loved guide is a no-excuses introduction to exploring Vancouver's outdoor world.
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History Of The American Revolution - In Two Volumes

by David Ramsay

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 <DIV>David Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American national history written by an American revolutionary and printed in America.Ramsay, a well-known Federalist, was an active participant in many of the events of the period and a member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina.This is a comprehensive and exciting narrative of the events and ideas of the American Revolution (from the outbreak of turbulence in the 1760s to the onset of Washington’s administration) and an ardent Federalist defense of the Constitution of 1787.This is the first modern edition of the work, based on the original and authorized 1789 version.Lester H. Cohen taught history and American Studies at Purdue University. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/History-American-Revolution-v-ebook/dp/B00CY9TWKY">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-history-of-the-american-revolution-ramsay/1112814883?ean=9781614871354&itm=1&usri=history+of+the+american+revolution+liberty+fund">Barnes and Noble</a>, and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/history-american-revolution/id652562057?mt=11">iTunes</a>. </DIV>
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Ford Differentials - How To Rebuild The 8.8 And 9 Inch

by Joseph Palazzolo

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 <div>Chapters include axle identification, inspection, and purchasing axles for rebuilding, differential tear down, ring and pinion gear removal, inspection and reassembly, drive axle choices and more. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive 9-inch identification chart to ensure readers properly identify the model and specifics of the differential.</div>
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