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  • TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS
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    TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS
    AMBROSE MONG
    Throughout history and literature, priests have been depicted as heroic figures battling evil and confronting moral dilemmas. These portrayals highlight their unwavering faith and commitment, even in the midst of personal sacrifices. In movies and novels priests are often portrayed as flawed characters struggling to fulfill their religious duties. These depictions aim to showca...

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  • ESSAYS IN ANALYSIS
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    ESSAYS IN ANALYSIS
    ALICE AMBROSE
    First published in English in 1966, Essays in Analysis addresses the problems in logic and foundations of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The problems are all root problems in their fields and range from questions concerning our knowledge of the external world to questions about logical entailment, mathematical proof, and induction. Their treatment is not guided by ...

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  • THE DESULTORY THOUGHTS OF TWO TRAVELING BROTHERS
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    THE DESULTORY THOUGHTS OF TWO TRAVELING BROTHERS
    AMBROSE BURKE / ZEBULON BURKE
    No one ever sits and observes things anymore, whether it be looking outward or inward. No one stops and contemplates why they feel a certain way, and as a result, they become rather disenchanted. Zebulon and Ambrose take the time and think. Even though they aren't in the same place, they both see the beautiful aspects of life just while sitting around a porch, or on the footbal...

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  • THE DESULTORY THOUGHTS OF TWO TRAVELING BROTHERS
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    THE DESULTORY THOUGHTS OF TWO TRAVELING BROTHERS
    AMBROSE BURKE / ZEBULON BURKE
    No one ever sits and observes things anymore, whether it be looking outward or inward. No one stops and contemplates why they feel a certain way, and as a result, they become rather disenchanted. Zebulon and Ambrose take the time and think. Even though they aren't in the same place, they both see the beautiful aspects of life just while sitting around a porch, or on the footbal...

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  • URBAN PROCESS AND POWER
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    URBAN PROCESS AND POWER
    PETER AMBROSE
    Urban Process and Power has two chief aims. Firstly, it analyses and explains a century of the production and reproduction of the urban environment in which most of us live. Secondly, the book focuses on recent changes in the control of these processes and the ideology that has brought these changes about. Immense disparities exist between the "best" and the "worst" urban areas...

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  • A CYNIC LOOKS AT LIFE
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    A CYNIC LOOKS AT LIFE
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    A Cynic Looks at Life consists of a collection of essays in which Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, the death penalty and many others. His arguments are still relevant to issues of today. Ambrose Bierce was well known for his biting wit and cynical approach to life. (Google) ...

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  • WRITE IT RIGHT, A LITTLE BLACKLIST OF LITERARY FAULTS
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    WRITE IT RIGHT, A LITTLE BLACKLIST OF LITERARY FAULTS
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    A collection of tips and pitfalls compiled by the great American short-story writer and satirist, to help attain mastery of English. (Google) ...

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  • THE FIEND'S DELIGHT
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    THE FIEND'S DELIGHT
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    A collection of essays, stories, poems and reflections, previously printed in American journals. Bierce has created a snapshot of journalism in the United States that is full of wit, gloom and everything in between. (Google) ...

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  • THE CYNIC'S WORD BOOK
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    THE CYNIC'S WORD BOOK
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    The dictionary was never meant to be an extensive project, and the entries don’t go any further than the one for “Lord.” As Bierce writes in the preface, “As it was no part of the author's purpose to define all the words in the language, or even to make a complete alphabetical series, the stopping-place of the book was determined by considerations of bulk. ... In the event of t...

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  • COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL
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    COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    The moral stories are at their best told by Ambrose Bierce in his book Cobwebs from an Empty Skull. The book is divided into three sections: "Fables of Zambri, the Parsee," an assortment of over 100 fables; "Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation," discussions between a fool and a philosopher, a doctor and a soldier, respectively; and "Divers Tales," 28 different stories of ...

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  • PRESENT AT A HANGING AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
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    PRESENT AT A HANGING AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some H...

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  • THE DAMNED THING
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    THE DAMNED THING
    AMBROSE BIERCE
    This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable – and untameable – essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description get at the truth of the matter? At least one witness is convinced otherwise. A story o...

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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF AIRLINE MARKETING
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    FUNDAMENTALS OF AIRLINE MARKETING
    SCOTT AMBROSE / BLAISE WAGUESPACK
    Applying fundamentals of marketing to commercial passenger air transportation, this textbook puts the emphasis on marketing principles and illustrative ways in which airlines can distinguish themselves within the highly competitive global marketplace. Fundamentals of Airline Marketing begins with a survey of current airline business strategies and the macro forces that have sha...

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  • THE LIVING MUMMY
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    THE LIVING MUMMY
    AMBROSE PRATT
    Excerpt: "I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling wonderfully self-satisfied in consequence, when of a sudden I heard a great commotion without. Almost immediately the tent flap was lifted, and Migdal Abu's black face app...

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  • DERIVATIVE PRICING
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    DERIVATIVE PRICING
    AMBROSE LO
    The proliferation of financial derivatives over the past decades, options in particular, has underscored the increasing importance of derivative pricing literacy among students, researchers, and practitioners. Derivative Pricing: A Problem-Based Primer demystifies the essential derivative pricing theory by adopting a mathematically rigorous yet widely accessible pedagogical app...

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  • LONDON MARITIME ARBITRATION
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    LONDON MARITIME ARBITRATION
    CLARE AMBROSE / KAREN MAXWELL / MICHAEL COLLETT
    Now in its fourth edition, this book provides detailed and practical guidance on how London Maritime Arbitration works in practice, against the background of English arbitration law and the Arbitration Act 1996. This unique title is the only book on the market that offers a practical focus on maritime disputes, while also providing a clear exposition of general principles of En...

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  • NECESSITY AND LANGUAGE
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    NECESSITY AND LANGUAGE
    MORRIS LAZEROWITZ / ALICE AMBROSE
    The problem of necessity remains one of the central issues in modern philosophy. The authors of this volume, originally published in 1985, developed a new approach to the problem, which focusses on the logical grammar of necessary propositions. This volume gathers their seminal essays on the problem of necessity, together with new material at the original time publication. ...

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  • THE THEOLOGY OF LOUIS-MARIE CHAUVET
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    THE THEOLOGY OF LOUIS-MARIE CHAUVET
    GLENN AMBROSE
    The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet provides a much needed accessible introduction to the philosophical and theological foundations of Chauvet's sacramental theology. Particular attention is given to his appropriation of Heidegger and use of the Social Sciences to elucidate the nature of the symbolic exchange that lies at the heart of the sacramental tradition. This book highli...

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  • THE WEISER BOOK OF HORROR AND THE OCCULT
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    THE WEISER BOOK OF HORROR AND THE OCCULT
    EDWARD BULWER LYTTON / MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES / MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN / AMBROSE BIERCE / RALPH ADAMS CR
    Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.   Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to...

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  • CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER
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    CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER
    STEPHEN E. AMBROSE
    A  New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two gr...

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  • WHAT HAPPENED TO PLANNING? (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    WHAT HAPPENED TO PLANNING? (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER AMBROSE
    This title was first published in 1986 during a recession much like that faced in recent years, which placed immense pressure on the British planning system and led to social unrest in the inner cities and in many disadvantaged areas. Within this context, Peter Ambrose outlines the features of land development and explores the circumstances of post-war planning. The central sec...

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  • CONFRONTING DOGMATISM IN GIFTED EDUCATION
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    CONFRONTING DOGMATISM IN GIFTED EDUCATION
    DON AMBROSE, ROBERT J. STERNBERG, AND BHARATH SRIRAMAN
    This title looks at the dogmatism that limits the perspectives of professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in gifted education. In a field where concepts and definitions surrounding high ability have been contested for many years, there is increasing interest in clarifying these notions today. This book offers such clarity, searching outside of the predominant concep...

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  • HOW DOGMATIC BELIEFS HARM CREATIVITY AND HIGHER-LEVEL THINKING
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    HOW DOGMATIC BELIEFS HARM CREATIVITY AND HIGHER-LEVEL THINKING
    DON AMBROSE / ROBERT STERNBERG
    In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly, explores the nature and nuances of dogmatic thinking from various disciplinary pers...

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  • FORWARD PLANNING
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    FORWARD PLANNING
    TIMOTHY AMBROSE
    Forward planning is esential for most organizations, but especially so for museums and heritage bodies, with responsibilities stretching forward to infinity. Forwrd Planning provides a complete basic guide, from the principles on which planning is founded, through drawing up the plan itself, implementation and monitoring, through to the wider potentials that good planning permi...

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  • FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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    FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
    AMBROSE MONG
    This work explores issues of forgiveness and reconciliation in countries that had experienced political conflicts, civil war, and even genocide. It attempts to move beyond mere discussion by examining case studies and the initiatives taken in dialogue and reconciliation. In many cases, religion can be a force for peace and play a significant role in resolving conflicts. This wo...

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  • POWER OF POPULAR PIETY
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    POWER OF POPULAR PIETY
    AMBROSE MONG
    This book examines the ambivalence of folk Catholicism as a resource to fight against injustice, exploitation, and oppression. Cases are cited to illuminate the value and potential trespasses of popular religious beliefs and practices. Over centuries, representatives of the powerful middle and upper middle classes did not hesitate to manipulate popular piety to protect their po...

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  • JEW AMONG JEWS
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    JEW AMONG JEWS
    KIMBERLY AMBROSE
    Misunderstanding of Paul had started already in his lifetime, and his letters offer many examples of this. Throughout the centuries, Paul has continued to be misunderstood by both Jews and Gentiles, especially in relation to his view of the law and the covenant. Paul has often been misunderstood because his form of argument, his use of Scripture, his view of Jews and Gentiles i...

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  • DIALOGUE DERAILED
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    DIALOGUE DERAILED
    AMBROSE MONG
    Joseph Ratzinger has shaped and guided the church's understanding of its mission to proclaim the good news, as well as to forge good relations with non-Catholic Christian communities, other religious traditions, and the secular world at large. Through a critique of Ratzinger's theology, this book draws attention to the importance of theological discourses originating from non-E...

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  • LOS OJOS DE LA PANTERA
    LOS OJOS DE LA PANTERA
    BIERCE AMBROSE
    Ambrose Bierce es uno de los escritores más originales, con imaginación viva y variada en el género del relato de terror. Teniendo como predecesor a Edgar Allan Poe, Bierce busca y encuentra el horror en los rincones más oscuros del espíritu humano, en donde acechan multiformes monstruosidades que se proyectan en determinadas circunstancias, en imágenes y situaciones escalofria...
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    $125.00

  • URBAN PROCESS AND POWER
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    URBAN PROCESS AND POWER
    PETER AMBROSE
    Urban Process and Power has two chief aims. Firstly, it analyses and explains a century of the production and reproduction of the urban environment in which most of us live. Secondly, the book focuses on recent changes in the control of these processes and the ideology that has brought these changes about. Immense disparities exist between the "best" and the "worst" urban areas...

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