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View book details for The Fighting Dragon
How to Defeat the Yugoslav Attack
Whats the best way to start learning a new opening? You can either fill your head with masses of variations and then try to keep it all straight at the chessboard, or you can absorb key patterns and themes that …
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical …
The story takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam, and is told from the perspective of a young nameless Captain. The captain is unfamiliar with both his ship and his crew, having only joined their company a fortnight …
View book details for Competitive Strategy
Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicitylike all great breakthroughsPorters analysis of industries …
View book details for Debating Imaginal Politics
Dialogues with Chiara Bottici
Chiara Botticis influential work on imaginal politics has provided a rich theoretical framework and incisive critical analysis with which to engage the contemporary world. Rethinking the image as a pictorial space of political activity located between the poles of the …
View book details for Sites of Dissent
Nomad Science and Contentious Spatial Practice
Contemporary articulations of dissent to social order and its production of truth cannot be ignored any longer. Hamburg during the G20 gathering; Washington, D.C., on the day of Trumps inauguration; the squares and streets of Paris and Tunis at the …
View book details for The Right of Necessity
Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other peoples property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in …
View book details for Blackening Britain
Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British Caribbean by the early 1970s, this project situates the development …
View book details for Indigenous Knowledge
Philosophical and Educational Considerations
Although the manifestation of what is taken to be indigenous knowledge could presumably be traced back roughly to the origins of humankind, the idea of indigenous knowledge is a fairly recent phenomenon. It has arguably gained conceptual and discursive currency …
View book details for Field of Blessings
Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
Ji Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology, and its 'quick fix' of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true …
This book touches on certain dynamics regarding the theoretical and cultural basis of the model Fethullah Gulen has developed based on dialogue, tolerance, concurrence among different groups that come from different religions, cultures, and civilizations. Gulen's model focuses on human …
Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world …
The idol was shaped like a handsome young man. The surface had a curious texture, as if skin rather than stone. There is a deceptive simplicity to this story about a rather forceful woman explorer ( immensely practical, too) who …
In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W. Wimberly Jr. draws on the experience of the business community, and on a diverse group of skilled pastors and rabbis, as he lays out the opportunities and challenges of working from …
View book details for Wisconsin Logging Camp, 1921
A Boy's Extraordinary First Year in America Working as a "Chickadee"
"Wisconsin Logging Camp 1921". A beautifully written historical fiction novel by James Bastian set primarily in the north woods of Wisconsin during 1920-1921.
The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832, Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book." In 1851 …
How does one describe the indescribable? With trust, the words will come to paint a faint image of that which lives and dwells in us all. This is a true story of a blessed life that through a series of …
Nature is one of the best medicines for difficult times. An intimate awareness of the natural world, even within the city, can calm anxieties and help create healthy perspectives. This book will inspire and guide you as you deal with …
This study revealed the faulty design of panchayat finance in Tamil nadu. The appearance of decentralization of powers is deceptive. The three articies in this monograph analyses deeply how provision of the constitutions are violated through operationalising the decentralization design. …
View book details for Water
A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers
Water is arguably the most critical and least understood of the foundation elements in brewing. For many brewers used to choosing from a wide selection of hops and grain, water seems like an ingredient for which they have little choice …
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I suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its …
View book details for Spheres of Perception
Morality In A Post Technocratic Society
Our economic system is over-stimulated by the information age. Interconnection aids and abets companies earning trillions and their swift rise to global dominance. The 24-hour wired world has led to increased volatility; negative information, and even an accidental computer glitch …
View book details for Quaker Quicks - Money and Soul
Quaker Faith And Practice And The Economy
If money troubles your soul, try this down-to-earth Quaker perspective on economies large and small. The economy, as we usually encounter it, has nothing to do with values or faith. After all, the invisible hand caters to no religious belief. …
View book details for Resurrecting Church
Where Justice and Diversity Meet Radical Welcome and Healing Hope
Resurrecting Church interweaves three strands. First, it is the remarkable turnaround story of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, which was on the edge of extinction when author John Cleghorn filled the role of pastor. Second, Cleghorn tells the story of his own …
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Recognitions, Book II
Premonitions hints at past lives and common experiences, as it draws subtle connections between people on their personal quests for adventure, love and family. Amelia Rothman, a foreign-rights editor from New York, has a turbulent personal life. Adele Durand, a …
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