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The complete Rhodesian Ridgeback
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Peter Nicholson, Janet Parker
Within Africa and around the world, the Ridgeback has proven its versatility, devotion and intelligence. This text examines the breed's unique appearance and its ability to hunt, as well as its adaptability as a family companion.
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Framing the Sexual Subject
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Richard Parker (Editor), Peter Aggleton (Editor), Regina Maria Barbosa (Editor)
This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the ...
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Event Horizon
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Jeff Parker, Peter David, Jimmie Robinson
Marvel once again poses the question, "What If...?" What if Peter Parker had been completely consumed by his inner, bestial impulses and became more spider than man in "The Other?" What if the greatest threat in Avengers history had gone undetected in "Disassembled?" What if Wolverine, the world's deadliest killing machine, was never de-programmed ...
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Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos
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Peter Parker
Long unavailable, this acclaimed book traces the history of an ideal and examines its effect on the lives of those caught up in the First World War. Rupert Brooke's apparent enthusiasm for the War in 1914 was echoed throughout England, particularly by young men who had been educated in a gentlemanly tradition of patriotism, chivalry and ...
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A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers
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Peter Parker (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor)
Curious about the lives of Auden, Tennessee Williams, Hemingway, or Samuel Beckett? Need to know when James Baldwin published Notes of a Native Son? A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers provides the answers. More than 1,000 biographical entries profile novelists, short-story writers, poets, and playwrights from the United States, Canada, ...
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Cassell English-Japanese Business Dictionary
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Gene Ferber, Peter Parker (Foreword by)
This dictionary represents a reference volume for English speakers. It provides the correct Japanese translation of over 10,000 terms and phrases under the headings: economics, trade and industry, finance, insurance, business, company law and employment. Each topic has the relevant Japanese words and expressions in context, helping to identify the ...
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A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel
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Peter Parker, Frank Kermode (Editor)
Wide-ranging and authoritative, A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel is a unique and invaluable guide to modern fiction written in English. Arranged chronologically from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim to E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, it contains detailed accounts of some 750 novels from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, ...
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Science
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Steve Parker, Peter D Riley (Consultant editor)
"100 Things You Should Know About Science" takes you on an amazing journey of discovery. Exactly 100 facts accompanied by detailed artwork reveal the fundamentals of science; and unravel some of its mysteries! Throughout there are puzzles, quizzes, and projects: create an electric circuit, watch chemical reactions take place, and make a pulse ...
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Symplectic Amalgams
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Christopher Parker, Peter Rowley, Gerald Goldstein
The aim of this book is the classification of symplectic amalgams - structures which are intimately related to the finite simple groups. In all there sixteen infinite families of symplectic amalgams together with 62 more exotic examples. The classification touches on many important aspects of modern group theory: * p-local analysis * the amalgam ...
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Silencer History and Performance: CQB, Assault Rifle, and Sniper Technology
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Alan C Paulson, N R Parker, Peter G Kokalis
This highly anticipated second volume in the Silencer History and Performance series provides an unprecedented look into the evolution, tactical employment and performance of historic and state-of-the-art silenced firearms suitable for close-quarters combat, long-distance sniping and other professional applications. It chronicles the production of ...
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An introduction to animal behavior; ethology's first century
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Peter H. Klopfer
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Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William M. Shea
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Kenneth L Parker (Editor), Peter A Huff (Editor), Michael J G Pahls (Editor)
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The reader's companion to the twentieth century novel
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Peter Parker
This reference work is a chronological guide of some 700 entries arranged from Conrad's "Lord Jim" (1900) to Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" (1993); together they present a view of the range and variety of the English novel in the 20th century. The varied selection takes in the best novels of writers like D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and William ...
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For starters : the business of life
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Sir Peter Parker
This autobiography of Sir Peter Parker gives the full story of his time as Chairman of British Rail, from the political debacle of his refused 1967 appointment, to cliff-hanging nights in his fight with penny-pinching governments and intransigent unions to win a more efficient but socially committed railway service. His broad experience gave him a ...
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Supporting the Families of Children with Autism
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Peter Randall
Intended to help the wide range of professionals who work with autistic children and their families, this text demonstrates how autism affects parents, siblings and carers, examines the diagnostic process from the viewpoint of parents/primary carers, and develops strategies for supporting and empowering families to better assist their children ...
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Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest
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Robert A Sedgewick, Peter Derow (Editor), Robert Parker (Editor)
Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of lively essays by an international team of experts illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. The novel and enlightening contributions are as varied in focus and approach as the interests and backgrounds of the authors. There are detailed studies of a number of individual passages and ...
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Short walks in the Peak Park
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William Parker, Vera Parker, P. J. Williamson, Pat Tidsall, Peter Tidsall
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Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley
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Peter Parker
"Peter Parker's biography is as frank and often almost as witty as Ackerley's own books . . . But Ackerley is more than a candid account of one man's public and private life; it is also a candid view of London in mid-century, full of entertaining anecdotes about literary figures. If Ackerley had chosen a biographer himself he could hardly have ...
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The reader's companion to twentieth century writers
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Peter Parker
The second of two companion volumes, this title is arranged alphabetically and comprises some 700 entries containing information about writers from Peter Ackroyd to Benjamin Zephaniah. Each entry gives biographical summaries of the life and work of the most prominent novelists, poets and dramatists of the 20th-century writing in English. The ...
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Witchcraft and Black Magic
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Peter Haining
Discusses the history and practices of witchcraft and black magic.
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By These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor
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David L Parker, Ted Hartwell (Selected by), Peter Rachleff (Introduction by)
From a foundry in which the very fires of hell seem to blast to an air-conditioned computer control room in which the workers appear casual and comfortable, David Parker's lens captures what Peter Rachleff calls 'a performance, a ritual, an exercise centuries old' -- men and women at work on factory floors. These photos, taken in 20 plants in all ...
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Here and there; 100 poems about places
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Elinor Milnor Parker (Compiled by), Peter Spier
A poets' guide to places real and imaginary such as beaches, highways, cities, and far countries of the earth and of fantasy.
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Ackerley
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Peter Parker
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Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
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Frances Shani Parker, Peter A Lichtenberg (Foreword by)
Becoming Dead Right" guides readers through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares them for dealing with death. This book is filled with poetry, stories, wisdom, and common sense that can help baby boomers, students, caregivers, and policy makers understand that society can make important changes that can ensure safe, dignified, ...
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Helicopters : the British Columbia story
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Peter Corley-Smith, David N. Parker
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