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Michael Orton, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sam Burgum, Alan Walker, Steve Corbett, Paul Ward, Kate Pahl, Richard Williams, Gretel Taylor, Deborah Joy-Warr, Martin Coward, Anthony Ellis, Keith Jacobs, Iain Wilkinson

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. It argues that social scient...

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Clive Orton, Michael Hughes

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Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology

This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic handling and archiving of excavated pottery so that it can be used as a basis for further studies. The whole is set in th...

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D. L. Orton

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Noah Michael Levine, Erin deWard

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Madders of Time

The road to extinction starts with good intentions and tiny wings...Winner of the 2026 IndieReader Discovery Award for Science Fiction."Engrossing doomsday thriller spliced with heart, humor, and second chances."~Publishers WeeklyRead by Audie Award-Winning Duo Narrators for an Immersive Listening Experience!In a crumbling biodome surrounded by rising seas a...

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Carlene Wynter, Kevin Caraher, Enrico G. Reuter, Micheál Collins, Milena Buchs, Paul Bridgen, Steve D. McKay, Kevin Farnsworth, Susan Himmelweit, Michael Orton, Sally Ruane, Karen Rowlingson, James Gregory, Chris Pond

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other.The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This broad-based edited collection fills a significant gap in both literatures, bringing together disparate debates in this emerging area of analysis.It guides readers through the key interactions of tax and social policies and the central debates and challenges posed by their effect o...

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D. L. Orton

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Noah Michael Levine, Erin deWard

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Madders of Time

The multiverse is collapsing. The time machine is broken. And humanity’s last hope? Might already be dead.Seven months after the EMPs brought the world to its knees, a handful of scientists are racing against extinction—and each other. Somewhere in a flooded skyscraper lies a wormhole generator that might be able to undo the apocalypse. If they can find it. If it still works. If it doesn’t kill them first.Meanwhile, Diego Nadales wakes up chained to a wall,...

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D. L. Orton

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Noah Michael Levine, Erin deWard

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Between Two Evils

The past isn't over, it's an opening. The future isn't hidden, it's a trap.If she ever wants to see him again, she'll have to take the risk.Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "Funny, Romantic & Harrowing!"After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away—and then losing him in a pandemic—Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As loneliness and despair set in, she starts taking in abandoned pet...

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W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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Kevin Orton

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Contact: The Battle for America

Of best-selling husband-and-wife writing team W.Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Booklist proclaims that "nobody does Native Americana better than the Gears." Coming of the Storm launches a series featuring Black Shell, a Chicaza-clan trader, and his struggles with Hernando de Soto, an invader intent on spreading Catholicism at the point of his sword.

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Michael Burgan

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Kevin Orton

In 1922, explorers Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamen after years of searching. No one had been inside for about 3,000 years! What the men found in King Tut's tomb was amazing: gold, riches, and historical artifacts beyond their wildest dreams. But as excavation of the tomb continued, strange things began to happen-and what started as a mosquito bite would soon leave Lord Carnarvon dead. When a famous author publicized an inscription foun...

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D. L. Orton

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Erin deWard, Noah Michael Devine

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Between Two Evils

Across the expanse of space and time, love endures. (Unfortunately, it’s not going to be enough.)When a faulty time machine deposits Diego at the top of a pine tree, he knows he's in the wrong place—but has no idea he's in the wrong time. Naked and shivering in the chilly mountain air, he attempts to climb down, but slips, whacks his head, and falls into oblivion.He wakes up inside a darkened room, crippled and di...

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D. L. Orton

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Noah Michael Levine, Erin deWard

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Between Two Evils

From the award-winning author, D. L. ORTON, comes book three in the Between Two Evils series.Shannon fights to stay alive inside a rogue biodome and discovers something totally unexpected... Peter.Lani is forced into the role of the reluctant heroine but rediscovers her street-kid mojo and sets out to recover everything she's lost.Diego receives another dirty sock (and a note) from the fireball express: The wind...

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Thomas Powers

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John Pruden

He was the most feared and loathed Indian of his time, earning his reputation in surprise victories against the troops of Generals Crook and Custer at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn. Despite his enduring reputation, he has remained an enigma (even the whereabouts of his burial place are unknown, and no portrait or photograph of him exists). Now, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas Powers brings Crazy Horse to life in this vivid work of American history.Powers situates the crit...

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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear

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Nancy Peterson

In a magnificent war-torn world cut by soaring red canyons, an evil ruler launches a search for a mystical artifact that he hopes will bring him ultimate power—an ancient witch’s pot that reputedly contains the trapped soul of the most powerful witch ever to have lived. The aged healer Tocho has to stop him, but to do it he must ally himself with the bitter and broken witch hunter, Maicoh, whose only goal is achieving one last great kill. Caught in the middle is Tocho’s adopted granddaught...