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  • STRUCTURAL CONCRETE
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    STRUCTURAL CONCRETE
    J. D. DAVIES
    Structural Concrete examines the behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures under working load and ultimate load conditions. This eight-chapter text deals first with the analysis of concrete structures as a particular branch of structural mechanics. Other chapters explore the empirical methods and the practical design and detailing procedures. Considerable chap...

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  • HUMAN PERFORMANCE
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    HUMAN PERFORMANCE
    D. ROY DAVIES / GERALD MATTHEWS / ROB B. STAMMERS / STEVE J. WESTERMAN
    Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by contemporary cognitive science, including information processing and neuroscience...

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  • INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
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    INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
    D H DAVIES / M A HALABLAB / T W K YOUNG / F. E. G. COX / J. CLARKE
    This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and the immune system. Taking a disease-based approach, it explains how micro-organisms adapted to growth in human hosts can evade the immune system and cause disease.The opening chapter overviews the innate and adaptive immune responses to microbes. Subsequent chapters are specific ...

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  • THE MOUNTAIN OF GOLD
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    THE MOUNTAIN OF GOLD
    J. D. DAVIES
      “Swashbuckling suspense, royal intrigue, and high seas naval action” abound in this saga of a Royal Navy captain’s search for treasure in Africa (Publishers Weekly).   1663: Captain Matthew Quinton is thrilled to capture a corsair from under the nose of menacing Maltese Knight Montnoir. But his triumph is short lived. The “pirate” is in fact the infamous Irish adventurer O’Dw...

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  • ENSIGN ROYAL
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    ENSIGN ROYAL
    J. D. DAVIES
      Part of an “excellent series,” this prequel reveals a British military man’s first battles in support of the Crown Jewels in seventeenth-century England (Publishers Weekly).   Matthew Quinton, eighteen years old and an ensign in the Royalist Army in Exile, is sent by his older brother the Earl of Ravensden into the heart of Oliver Cromwell’s England. Surrounded by enemies, he...

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  • THE DEVIL UPON THE WAVE
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    THE DEVIL UPON THE WAVE
    J. D. DAVIES
      Broadsides, divided loyalties, and revenge on the high seas—eighth in the Matthew Quinton series from the award-winning author of Death’s Bright Angel.   1671: Matthew Quinton is on a mission into the heart of enemy waters, bent on revenge for England’s crushing defeat of 1667. The Dutch not only destroyed English ships and slaughtered their men, but stole the jewel of the fl...

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  • DEATH'S BRIGHT ANGEL
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    DEATH'S BRIGHT ANGEL
    J. D. DAVIES
      Part of an “excellent series,” this seafaring adventure features a Royal Navy captain as he battles terrorism in seventeenth-century England (Publishers Weekly).   London is burning, but who set the fire? In the weeks leading up to the Great Fire of 1666, Matthew Quinton, master of the H. M. S. Sceptre, is sent into the heart of London, seething with foreign plots and politic...

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  • THE BATTLE OF ALL THE AGES
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    THE BATTLE OF ALL THE AGES
    J. D. DAVIES
      Part of an “excellent series” of nautical sagas, a Royal Navy captain must find track down a turncoat and discovers an unexpected suspect (Publishers Weekly).   In the heat of a gigantic battle against the Dutch, the English fleet is mysteriously divided. A large portion of their resources is sent to meet a French threat which never materializes. Thousands are slaughtered. Co...

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  • THE RAGE OF FORTUNE
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    THE RAGE OF FORTUNE
    J. D. DAVIES
      This prequel to the “excellent” Matthew Quinton Journals series reveals the legacy of the Royal Navy captain (Publishers Weekly).   In 1651, eleven-year-old Matthew Quinton and his twin sister Henrietta discover long-forgotten papers of their grandfather. Dating back to 1598, they show the children an England locked into a bitter war with Spain. But their findings are interru...

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  • THE LION OF MIDNIGHT
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    THE LION OF MIDNIGHT
    J. D. DAVIES
      Part of an “excellent series,” this seventeenth-century naval adventure features a Royal Navy captain facing down a formidable enemy in the North Sea.   Winter, 1666. England is again at war with the Dutch, and Matthew Quinton is once more called to serve his King.   On a mission to the Swedish court, he must secure crucial support in the war against Sweden’s old enemy, the D...

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  • THE BLAST THAT TEARS THE SKIES
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    THE BLAST THAT TEARS THE SKIES
    J. D. DAVIES
      Part of an “excellent series” of nautical sagas, a Royal Navy captain commands a challenging warship as England enters the Anglo-Dutch wars” (Publishers Weekly).   1665: plague stalks the streets of London, the country is at war, and conspiracies against King Charles II are rife. When given command of a vast and ancient Man-of-War, Captain Matthew Quinton finds himself thrust...

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  • GENTLEMAN CAPTAIN
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    GENTLEMAN CAPTAIN
    J. D. DAVIES
      “A promising 17th-century English nautical saga” featuring a new captain whose command of a Royal Navy warship makes him “a hero worth rooting for” (Publishers Weekly).   1662: After Matthew Quinton sunk the first ship he was given to command, he is surprised when the King gives him captaincy of H.M.S. Jupiter with orders to stamp out a Scottish rebellion. This time Quinton i...

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  • KINGS OF THE SEA
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    KINGS OF THE SEA
    J. D. DAVIES
    It has always been widely accepted that the Stuart kings, Charles II and James II, had an interest in the navy and more generally in the sea. Their enthusiastic delight in sailing, for instance, is often cited as marking the establishment of yachting in England. The major naval developments in their reigns on the other hand developments that effectively turned the Royal Navy in...

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  • KINGS OF THE SEA
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    KINGS OF THE SEA
    J. D. DAVIES
    It has always been widely accepted that the Stuart kings, Charles II and James II, had an interest in the navy and more generally in the sea. Their enthusiastic delight in sailing, for instance, is often cited as marking the establishment of yachting in England. The major naval developments in their reigns on the other hand developments that effectively turned the Royal Navy in...

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  • PEPYS'S NAVY
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    PEPYS'S NAVY
    J. D. DAVIES
    An extensively illustrated reference covering four tumultuous decades that gave birth to the modern Royal Navy.   Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal   This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, u...

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