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John Grant

The idea of political unity – or belonging – contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification and hierarchy within the political unit itself.Lived Fictions explores how the notion of political unity generates a collective commitment to imagining the structure of Canadian society. These political imaginaries – the citizen-state, the market economy, ...

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John D Grant

Call her Earth, or call her Gaia, years from now, our planet is almost uninhabitable as a result ofenvironmental chaos and war. In the middle of the ocean, two small, conjoined islands still thriveand serve as home to a unique population of survivors, the Wiconi. These peaceful, agrarian-based islanders have genetically evolved affinities that allow them to influence earth, water, air,and fire, talents they use to protect and aid Gaia, the Earth Mother. They...

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John Grant

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Applause Books

Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, double-crossers, femmes fatales, and, of course, losers who find themselves down on their luck yet again, film noir is a perennially popular cinematic genre. This extensive encyclopedia describes movies from noir's earliest days – and even before, looking at some of noir's ancestors in US and European cinema – as well as noir's more recent offshoots, from neonoirs to erotic thrillers. Entries are arranged alphabetically, covering...

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John Grant

Is it a scam or is it legitimate? If you have to ask, you probably already know the answer. There are many thousands of scams on the internet. Innoculate yourself against them.

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John Grant

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Albion Series

Terman: the lost solider unable to help the people he has encountered who have no memory. Lian: the son of Therman who is destined to battle against the repressive House of Ellon and uphold his father's gift of naming. Anya: the daughter of He Who Leads, Lian, she is an unpredictable youth living in dangerous times, but one who is destined to follow in the footsteps of her courageous family. Albion: a vivid story of the struggles of a people who strive for knowledge and release from a life...

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John Picha, Grant Gardiner, Jack Philpott

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Dieselpunk ePulp Showcase

This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows!Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth."Flying taxis fight for space over...

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John Grant

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A Judge Dredd Novel

Four million years ago a Dyson sphere was built on the fringes of our solar system. A few thousand early hominid species were transported from the third planet to colonise the vast spaces of the hollow world. On the third planet, and within the Dyson sphere, mankind evolved separately.For years Mega-City One has secretly been sending its most dangerous criminals through a matter transmitter to the sphere nicknamed Big Dunkin Donut. But now arch-villain Dennis the Complete Bloody Sa...

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Michael Grant, John Hazel

Who's Who in Classical Mythology is the most complete and detailed reference book of its kind. It offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apollo, Zeus, Athena and Dionysus, and mortals such as Achilles, Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus and Tarquin.It contains over 1200 extensive entries, covering both Greek and Roman characters, providing detailed biographical information, together with historical and geograph...

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John Grant

How to for those who are not natural dog people. Understanding and interacting successfully with dogs.

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John Grant

Since 9/11, the world has lost touch on how we should treat one another. We all witnessed racial shootings, racial attacks, both verbal and physical. We watched in horror school shooting after school shooting. Countless amber alerts instructing us to watch out for this color car with such and such plates. The idols we grew up with charged and convicted of rape, insider trading, domestic violence, etc.My name is John Grant. I am a Colorado native, born on November 19, 1965, to Patri...

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John Grant - Bruce Seton

This record of the achievements of pipers during the war of 1914-18 is not intended to be an appeal to emotionalism. It aims at showing that, in spite of the efforts of a very efficient enemy to prevent individual gallantry, in spite of the physical conditions of the modern battlefield, the pipes of war, the oldest instrument in the world, have played an even greater part in the orchestra of battle in this than they have in past campaigns. The piper, be he Highlander, or Lowlander, or Scot...

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John K. Grant

Jesus is King, but not in the way people might normally think of "kingship." Jesus' power didn't come through military strength, high GDP earnings, or political alliances such as NATO. None of those power bases can guarantee a lasting kingdom because those means of power are conditional. There is a power that is unconditional: Truth. The Ideal King, Truth incarnate, founded his kingdom on truth and holiness. These two ideals are so challenging to worldly power that the world executed Jesus...