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2016
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The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custers Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, bad guys, dreams, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, code breaking, salesmanship, Hollywood, and more. Many novels contai...
Isle of Wight
Landscape and Geology
2021
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The Isle of Wight is a geological gem with its 110km (68 mile) long coastline displaying a range of rocks dating from Lower Cretaceous to Oligocene age. Many of the sands and clays yield fossil bivalves and gastropods, and its famous dinosaur footprints attract much attention from geologists and tourists alike. Yet the scenic beauty of the island is the product of its differing strata, former earth movements and the erosive power of the sea and the rivers. The monoclinal fold that crosses ...
The Sourdough Loaf
A Comprehensive Guide to Great Sourdough by Australia's Original Artisan Baker
2022
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Sourdough is the original, the most delicious and the most nutritious bread, and John Downes is Australia's original traditional sourdough baker. In the Sourdough Loaf, John shares the techniques, recipes and insights, gained from over 40 years of artisan sourdough baking. He provides readers of all proficiency levels with a low fuss, step by step approach to baking great sourdough, with tips on ingredients, methods and techniques, as he takes us on a gastronomic journey through the histor...
Beating the Dow Completely Revised and Updated
A High-Return, Low-Risk Method for Investing in the Dow Jones Industrial Stocks with as Little as $5,000
2011
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In 1991, Michael B. O'Higgins, one of the nation's top money managers, turned the investment world upside down with an ingenious strategy, showing how all investors--from those with only $5,000 to invest to millionaires--could beat the pros 95% of the time by putting 100% of their equity investment into the high-yield, low-risk "dog" stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. His formula spawned a veritable industry, including websites, mutual funds, and $20 billion worth of investments, ...
Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep
Streamline Azure resource deployment by bypassing ARM complexities
2022
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The ultimate guide to becoming proficient in Azure Bicep while having a better development experience and making your Infrastructure as Code seamless and error free Key Features • Learn Azure Bicep from an official Microsoft trainer • Master the authoring experience to make your Infrastructure as Code journey seamless • Go beyond writing good templates with the help of advanced tips and tricks Book Description It's no secret that developers don't like using JSON files to declare their reso...
2006
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What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and prosperity; others see new and exciting ways of living in old age. The Futures of Old Age places these questions in the context of social and political change, and assesses what the various futures of old age might be.Pre...
Critical Voices in Teacher Education
Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times
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- Education (R0)
2012
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We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and perspectives to denounce these misguided norms. It explores what it means—practically and intellectually—to teach for social justice in conservative times. In a globalised world where the power of capital holds sway, the purposes o...
2016
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The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing individual natural rights, purports to be the ...
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
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- John LockeThomas PaineAlexis TocquevilleJohn RawlsNiccolo MachiavelliJean-Jacques RousseauJohn WinthropHorace MannFriedrich HayekMilton FriedmanArthur BentleyRobert DahlJoseph SchumpeterAnthony DownsJohn DeweyBenjamin BarberMax WeberNoberto BobbioMichel FoucaultWilliam ConnollyJurgen HabermasMahatma GandhiJean-bertrand AristideArchbishop Emeritus Desmond TutuLiberal/Democratic DivideSheldon WolinAnne PhillipsJohn Stuart MillIris Marion YoungAung San Suu KyiAdolfo Perez EsquivelAristotleJames MadisonRobert BellahChantal MouffeCornel West
2000
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Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse ...
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- John Curless
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- Jack McColl
Unabridged
15 hours 16 min
2018
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A LitHub Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Title of 2018In the series’ final installment, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won, but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hanging by a thread, plots and betrayals abound.London, 1921: Ex–Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time ...
2019
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The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn't need to campaign with friends like this. Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not. Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt. Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change? Custer's Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little Big Horn. Discord In River View Heights -- Border encroachments change everything. Three Days On An Orphan Tra...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
2014
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North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promot...