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    Rise & Fall of EMI Records

    Brian Southall

    Electric and Music Industries Ltd (EMI) first saw the light of day in the UK in 1931. In a visionary move for the gramophone age, it manufactured both hardware (recording and playback equipment) and...
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  • Last Stand at Mobile Last Stand at Mobile
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    Last Stand at Mobile

    John C. Waugh

    Admiral David Farragut eyed a potentially lethal minefield guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, as his attack column of ironclad monitors rushed forward, opening the assault against the...
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  • Confronting Dystopia
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    Confronting Dystopia

    Eva Paus

    In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and...
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  • Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
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    Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media

    David Ciccoricco

    How do writers represent cognition, and what can these representations tell us about how our own minds work? Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is the first single-author book to explore these...
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  • NATIONAL SECURITY FOR SALE NATIONAL SECURITY FOR SALE
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    NATIONAL SECURITY FOR SALE

    Monica Bennett-Ryan

    A true story of government corruption, greed, coercion and disinformation that from 2009 to 2012 severely damaged Australia's National Security infrastructure."This book is about the selling of our...
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  • Republic of Numbers
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    Republic of Numbers

    Roberts, David Lindsay

    Once upon a time in America, few knew or cared about math. In Republic of Numbers, David Lindsay Roberts tells the story of how all that changed, as America transformed into a powerhouse of...
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  • Posthuman Metamorphosis
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    Posthuman Metamorphosis

    Bruce Clarke

    From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman...
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  • Staring Into The Abyss Staring Into The Abyss
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    Staring Into The Abyss

    Patrick Thomas

    Sometimes even the Abyss can be frightened if those staring into it already are monsters.What if monsters were real? How would the existence of monsters play out on the international stage? How about...
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  • Cyber Security Culture Cyber Security Culture
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    Cyber Security Culture

    Peter Trim

    Focusing on countermeasures against orchestrated cyber-attacks, Cyber Security Culture is research-based and reinforced with insights from experts who do not normally release information into the...
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  • The Queen's Atlas
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    The Queen's Atlas

    David Fletcher

    Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds. In mid-Tudor England, they were rare. All this was to change in 1579 when Christopher Saxton, a farmer from the West Riding...
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  • Supercar Book
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    Supercar Book

    Martin Roach

    Fully illustrated throughout, The Supercar Book is a sumptuously designed guide full of everything you could ever want to know about the best supercars on the planet. From number-one bestselling...
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  • Ruling Fourteenth-Century England
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    Ruling Fourteenth-Century England

    Dr Remy Ambuehl

    Essays exploring how England was governed during a tumultuous period.The twin themes of power and authority in fourteenth-century England, a century of transition between the high and late medieval...
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  • To Orbit and Back Again To Orbit and Back Again
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    To Orbit and Back Again

    Davide Sivolella

    The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers...
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  • Planting and Reaping Albright
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    Planting and Reaping Albright

    Long, Burke

    This book examines the social formation and ideological practices of William Foxwell Albright, the gifted Johns Hopkins linguist and archaeologist who, along with a fiercely loyal and organized group...
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  • Battle For Bennelong
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    Battle For Bennelong

    Margot Saville

    It was an historic moment in Australian political history. A sea of purple balloons filled a packed hall in Sydney's North Ryde, faces young and old beamed with the excitement of change, and one...
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  • Fighting for Britain
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    Fighting for Britain

    The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War. During the Second World War over half-a-million...
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  • Persiflage Persiflage
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    Persiflage

    David Nichols

    When does the shadow of a legend merely block out the sun?

    Everyone remembers The Rest of Quiglet, that heartwarming sitcom starring Grace Mannix. For four years it told the...
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  • Texts and Practices Revisited Texts and Practices Revisited
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    Texts and Practices Revisited

    Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

    This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical...
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  • Technology Matters
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    Technology Matters

    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from...
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  • The Remarkable Reefs Of Cuba
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    The Remarkable Reefs Of Cuba

    Since 1970, the Caribbean has lost half of its coral reefs, an ominous and accelerating phenomenon that extends around the world. Today's remaining coral reefs - still a source of endless discovery...
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  • Models of a Man
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    Models of a Man

    Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends...
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  • Strangers at the Bedside Strangers at the Bedside
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    Strangers at the Bedside

    David J. Rothman

    David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and...
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    Faith in Reading

    In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading...
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  • International Chess Congress, London 1922 International Chess Congress, London 1922
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    International Chess Congress, London 1922

    David Regis

    London 1922 was the greatest tournament held in the capital of the British Empire since Emanuel Lasker won an historic double-rounder there in 1899. Now the old world of Edwardian niceties had been...
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  • Don't Count Me Out! Don't Count Me Out!
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    Don't Count Me Out!

    Elliott Nonas

    "Elliott Nonas will be 90 on January 21, '05. Born in Brooklyn, he wrote his first poem at 16: 'He Was Young and He Died' about a friend who was killed sleigh-riding down Snake Hill in Highland Park...
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  • Curiosity
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    Curiosity

    Pyle, Rod

    The story of the people who designed, built, launched, landed, and are now operating the Mars rover Curiosity Award-winning science writer Rod Pyle provides a behind-the-scenes look into the recent...
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  • Friction Science and Technology
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    Friction Science and Technology

    Peter J. Blau

    "Should have broad appeal in many kinds of industry, ranging from automotive to computers—basically any organization concerned with products having moving parts!"—David A. Rigney, Materials Science...
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  • Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
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    Story of the Bayeux Tapestry

    Michael Lewis

    A TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you're going to buy one book about the Tapestry, make it this one!' Matthew Lyons, writer and historian 'Essential reading for the serious visitor' TLS 'A superb book...
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  • Nano Comes to Life
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    Nano Comes to Life

    Sonia Contera

    Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale — the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet — and introduces readers to the rapidly...
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  • Hostile Takeover
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    Hostile Takeover

    For readers of- idea-based political books for progressives like George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant or Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas; serious partisan political books like...
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  • Harold Hardscrabble Harold Hardscrabble
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    Harold Hardscrabble

    G. D. Dess

    Harold Hardscrabble, by G. D. Dess, is a sympathetic novel filled with philosophical musings on the state of society and our place within it.* The story captures the feelings of frustration and...
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  • Pandora's Brain Pandora's Brain
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    Pandora's Brain

    Chace Calum

    Pandora's BrainDescriptionAround half the scientists researching artificial intelligence (AI) think that a conscious machine with cognitive abilities at or beyond human level will be created by 2050...
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  • What If? #2 What If? #2
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    What If? #2

    Erika M Szabo

    Intriguing, bone-chilling, heartwarming, and thought-provoking speculative fiction stories by various genre authors.Mysteries of the Wetland by Erika M Szabo and Lorraine CareyJoin Ava Jenson on...
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  • Explaining Humans
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    Explaining Humans

    How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviourWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020How do we understand the people around...
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  • Radio Girl
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    Radio Girl

    Dufty, David

    Winner, Best 2020 Non-fiction, ACT Notable AwardsAs you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney harbour in 1944, you would hear the thrum of clicks and buzzes. Rows of men and women...
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  • Forces of Production
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    Forces of Production

    David Noble

    Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Technology has been both a convenient...
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  • Disrupted
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    Disrupted

    Larry W Quick

    In the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections will grow by 400% from 5 billion to over 20 billion. In the past six years Uber has grown from a mere app to a 50 billion-dollar business...
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    Forces of Production

    David Noble

    Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Technology has been both a convenient...
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  • Imperative to Spare Imperative to Spare
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    Imperative to Spare

    Scott Hightower

    Imperative to Spare is the first installment of a trilogy in which Hightower seeks to explore diplomacies of the heart. He puts an altruistic human face on suffering and awe. The poetic voice is that...
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  • Strangers at the Bedside Strangers at the Bedside
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    Strangers at the Bedside

    David J. Rothman

    David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and...
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  • Nano Comes to Life
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    Nano Comes to Life

    Sonia Contera

    Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces readers to the rapidly...
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  • London, the City of Angels and Olympics London, the City of Angels and Olympics
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    London, the City of Angels and Olympics

    Bes and Syrk

    That little mental exercise became our funny game and could have continued without the end. We could invent something beneficial almost in every current discomfort and find new opportunities...
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  • In Praise of Radiant Beings In Praise of Radiant Beings
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    In Praise of Radiant Beings

    David W. Jardine

    A volume in Current Perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and EducationThis text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It...
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  • Adventures in Group Theory
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    Adventures in Group Theory

    Joyner, David

    David Joyner uses mathematical toys such as the Rubik's Cube to make abstract algebra and group theory fun. Joyner employs permutation puzzles such as the 15 puzzle, the Rainbow Masterball, the...
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