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  • GOD, PANDEMICS, AND THE HOLOCAUST
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    GOD, PANDEMICS, AND THE HOLOCAUST
    CLIFFORD CHALMERS CAIN
    How is a loving, powerful, good, and cognizant God related to human lives that are beset with pain and suffering and plagued by diseases and natural catastrophes? What is the role and activity of God in history and nature? How does God help us in our struggles and our tragedies? God, Pandemics, and the Holocaust suggests answers to these questions and others through the prisms ...

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  • INTO ANOTHER MOULD
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    INTO ANOTHER MOULD
    T.G.S. CAIN
    It is widely agreed that the period from 1625 to 1700 witnessed radical shifts in English life and thought. For historians of politics, science, religion, and philosophy, it is a time when the intellectual bases of modern thought and modern institutions were in the process of formation: divine monarchy gave way to contractual monarchy, the ‘truths’ of received authority gave wa...

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  • THE MAGICIAN'S WIFE
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    THE MAGICIAN'S WIFE
    JAMES M. CAIN
    For the love of a beautiful waitress, a meat salesman will turn butcher in this crime thriller by "one of the greats of American noir" ( The Guardian). Clay Lockwood. is a top distributing executive with Grant's Meats, and the contract with the Portico restaurant chain is only the latest in a long line of boardroom coups. He arrives at the Portico for lunch, and eats his fill o...

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  • PAST ALL DISHONOR
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    PAST ALL DISHONOR
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A naïve young man follows a fallen woman to a Nevada mining town and risks his life to win her: "Entertaining . . . Cain [has a] flair for realistic detail." — The New York Times Early in the Civil War, the Confederacy sends Roger Duval to Sacramento to keep an eye on the situation in California in hopes of turning the Western territory toward the Southern cause. It's a plush a...

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  • THE INSTITUTE
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    THE INSTITUTE
    JAMES M. CAIN
    An academic looking for money finds a seductive woman—and trouble—in this suspenseful tale by the Edgar Award–winning crime writer. Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money to make his dreams come true. In the Washington area, the oldest money is found not in the...

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  • GALATEA
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    GALATEA
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A down-on-his-luck boxing trainer finds a woman worth fighting for in this "assured" novel by an MWA Grand Master Award winner ( Kirkus Reviews). It took some doing, but Duke Webster is out of prison. Val Valenty arranged the parole, and now the onetime prizefighter and boxing coach is his puppet, breaking his back on Valenty's farm in exchange for a pittance. But Valenty is ab...

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  • SINFUL WOMAN
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    SINFUL WOMAN
    JAMES M. CAIN
    In this novel by "one of the greats of American noir," a starlet comes to Reno to start a new life—and end her old one forever ( The Guardian). Sylvia Shoreham's Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked ...

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  • THE ENCHANTED ISLE
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    THE ENCHANTED ISLE
    JAMES M. CAIN
    While searching for her real father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess in this gritty noir novel by the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice. With just seventy-four bucks in her pocket, Mandy packs her things and buys the bus ticket that will get her away from the stepfather who's been abusing her for years—and the mother who lets it happen. She plans to head to Baltimo...

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  • THE EMBEZZLER
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    THE EMBEZZLER
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A bank employee's wife teams up with his boss—with fatal results—in this noir novella by the legendary author of The Postman Always Rings Twice. Despite an ulcer that requires surgery, workaholic Charles Brent doesn't want to take time off from his job as a head teller at the bank. What eventually convinces him to give in and take a break is the prospect of his young wife, Shei...

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  • CLOUD NINE
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    CLOUD NINE
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A twisted tale of heinous crimes and hidden motives by the legendary author of Double Indemnity. Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and drops a bombshell—she's there because Graham's half-brother, Burl, raped her, leaving her frightened, pregnant, and very much alone. All she wants is the $1,111 it will cost to hide out for the next...

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  • AMERICAN NOIR CLASSICS
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    AMERICAN NOIR CLASSICS
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A collection of hardboiled crime fiction from the author of Double Indemnity, "one of the greats of American noir" ( The Guardian). They call him Lucky—but he's never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is hiding in the coal car when the railroad detective comes through. They get into a scuffle, and Lucky's hand finds a rail...

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  • THE ROOT OF HIS EVIL
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    THE ROOT OF HIS EVIL
    JAMES M. CAIN
    From the author of Double Indemnity, a tale of an ambitious young waitress whose fairy-tale romance may have an unhappy ending . . . Carrie Selden is not at all like the woman you've read about in the papers. Though she spent time in an orphanage, she isn't an orphan. She didn't finish high school until she was nineteen, not because she struggled to make the grade but because s...

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  • MIGNON
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    MIGNON
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A money-hungry ex-soldier in Civil War New Orleans is seduced into a web of treason and temptation in this novel by “one of the greats of American noir” (The Guardian). The Union has captured New Orleans, and Bill Cresap has come to reap the profits. A school friend has a line on some easy money, and Cresap is eager to make his fortune. But when he lands in the Crescent City, s...

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  • RAINBOW'S END
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    RAINBOW'S END
    JAMES M. CAIN
    "Vintage Cain . . . it's all here—the big money, the unusual circumstances, the spare, tight style, and the staccato dialogue." — The Miami Herald Since his father died, every Saturday night has been the same for Dave and his mother. She starts to talk, weaving aimless, weird fantasies about get-rich-quick schemes that never amount to anything. But when, finally, she is silent,...

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  • THE MOTH
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    THE MOTH
    JAMES M. CAIN
    A novel of a privileged young man's twisting, troubled journey through Depression-era America: "A great book by a great author." — Los Angeles Daily News Jack Dillon has been a golden child since birth. Blessed with blond locks, glittering eyes, and a perfect voice, he is the most popular child singer in Baltimore. But when puberty robs him of his voice and the stock market wip...

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  • JEALOUS WOMAN
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    JEALOUS WOMAN
    JAMES M. CAIN
    An ambitious Reno salesman. A wealthy would-be divorcée. An insurance policy. It's a toxic combination in this noir thriller by an MWA Grand Master . . . If Las Vegas is a city of lovers, in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how to pass the time—craps or roulette? Jane Delavan is a roulette woman, a statel...

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  • IMPERIALISM
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    IMPERIALISM
    PETER J. CAIN
    First published in 2004. This is Volume II in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes Part III on Modern Marxism and Dependency Theories and Part IV on Modern Historians and Imperialism. ...

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  • IMPERIALISM
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    IMPERIALISM
    PETER J. CAIN
    First published in 2004. This is Volume I in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes part one on the Emergence of Imperialism as a Concept and part two, Early Marxist Theories and their Critics. ...

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  • IMPERIALISM:CRIT CONCEPTS V3
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    IMPERIALISM:CRIT CONCEPTS V3
    PETER J. CAIN
    First published in 2004. This is Volume III in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes PART V Cultural and ‘Postcolonial’ Critiques. ...

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  • BUILDING SUCCESSFUL EXTRACURRICULAR ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
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    BUILDING SUCCESSFUL EXTRACURRICULAR ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
    MICHAEL CAIN
    Building Successful Extracurricular Enrichment Programs is a must-read for educators or administrators who want to develop, implement and maintain engaging out-of-school programs. Accessible and easy to use, this book focuses on four basic approaches to building enrichment programs: grassroots, semi-structured, franchise and fully structured. Readers will walk through each stag...

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  • MATHEMATICS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
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    MATHEMATICS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
    FRANK KREITH / WILLIAM F. AMES / GEORGE CAIN / Y. L. TONG / W. GLENN STEELE / HUGH W. COLEMAN / RICHARD L.
    Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers gives mechanical engineers convenient access to the essential problem solving tools that they use each day. It covers applications employed in many different facets of mechanical engineering, from basic through advanced, to ensure that you will easily find answers you need in this handy guide.For the engineer venturing out of familiar territ...

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  • THE POEMS OF BEN JONSON
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    THE POEMS OF BEN JONSON
    TOM CAIN
    Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ and his moving elegy ‘On my First Son’, his work inspired the whole generation of seventeenth-century poets who declared themselves the ‘Sons of Ben’. This edition brings his...

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  • MATHABILITY
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    MATHABILITY
    MICHAEL CAIN
    Mathability gives students the experience and ability to analyze and solve real-life mathematical problems, and explain their methods for arriving at the solution. Mathability is an excellent resource for preparing students for the performance tasks of standards-based tests. The six units in this book each have 10 problems that deal with a variety of real-life situations, such ...

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  • INNATENESS AND COGNITION
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    INNATENESS AND COGNITION
    M. J. CAIN
    The question of innateness, or nativism, is one of the most heated problems in philosophy, reaching as far back as Plato but generating fierce debates in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science. Which aspects of the human mind are innate and which are the products of experience? Do we have any innate concepts or knowledge or are all the contents of the mind acquired by me...

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  • ATTUNEMENT
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    ATTUNEMENT
    CLIFFORD CHALMERS CAIN
    We live in a century in which we must either change our way of regarding and acting toward nature or else imperil our survival as a species and jeopardize as well the fate of the planet itself. This book by a theologian and environmental scientist examines four religious figures from European and Asian contexts who could aid us in developing a more sustainable and caring orient...

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  • BECOMING A GLOBALLY COMPETENT TEACHER
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    BECOMING A GLOBALLY COMPETENT TEACHER
    ARIEL TICHNOR-WAGNER / HILLARY PARKHOUSE / JOCELYN GLAZIER / J. MONTANA CAIN
    Teachers today must prepare students for an increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world. Being a globally competent teacher requires embracing a mindset that translates personal global competence into professional classroom practice. It is a vision of equitable teaching and learning that enables students to thrive in an ever-changing world.This thought-provok...

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  • COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH RESEARCH
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    COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH RESEARCH
    ROY LILLEY / BILL CAIN
    A workbook for the health service and primary care team on working in teams. It takes team players through the foundation processes involved in starting teams off, working together and getting the best from each other. It is written by authors with experience of facilitation and training in the health care field and is practical and interactive. ...

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  • BECOMING A RESEARCH-INFORMED SCHOOL
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    BECOMING A RESEARCH-INFORMED SCHOOL
    TIM CAIN
    Becoming a Research-Informed School examines the reasons why teachers and leaders use research to improve their schools, and explores how teachers select, understand and use research to enhance learning experiences in fast-moving classroom environments. It analyses what teachers and school leaders actually do, to use research in their schools, and how they build a research-info...

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  • CHARACTER, ETHICS AND ECONOMICS
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    CHARACTER, ETHICS AND ECONOMICS
    PETER CAIN
    This book is an examination of the concept of ‘character’ as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the ‘character talk’ that helped to shape elite Britons’ sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences, both in Britain and in the places they had conquered, that empire could be morally as we...

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  • RAINBOW RIGHTS
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    RAINBOW RIGHTS
    PATRICIA CAIN
    This book describes the substantive state of the law with regard to lesbian and gay rights. It begins with some background information to put the modern fight for lesbian and gay rights in its proper historical context, then categorizes lesbian and gay rights claims into three areas-individual rights in private contexts, individual rights in public contexts, and couple or famil...

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