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  • TRADITIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
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    TRADITIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
    JAMES ATHEARN JONES
    The first of three volumes of collected Native American folktales or oral traditions. Born in Massachusetts in 1790, James Athearn Jones grew up with Native American culture all around him. His childhood nursemaid was from the Gay Head tribe, and his household was frequented by other local Indigenous people of all ages. He enjoyed hearing their folktales. As an adult, he travel...

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  • AEROFORM
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    AEROFORM
    JAMES JONES / DEMETRI TELIONIS
    Aeroform: Designing for Wind and Air Movement provides a comprehensive introduction to applying aerodynamic principles to architectural design. It presents a challenge to architects and architectural engineers to give shape to the wind and express its influence on architectural form. The wind pushes and pulls on our buildings, infiltrates and exfiltrates through cracks and open...

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  • EAST-WEST AGRICULTURAL TRADE
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    EAST-WEST AGRICULTURAL TRADE
    JAMES R JONES
    The first study to focus specifically on the economics of agricultural trade issues in centrally planned economies, this volume contains recent findings of economists who have examined the decisionmaking processes and the trends that relate to agricultural trade with the West by Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China. Future prospects for agri ...

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  • MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR ENGAGEMENT
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    MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR ENGAGEMENT
    JAMES SALE / STEVE JONES
    Employee engagement is undeniably a crucial focus point for organisations in the twenty-first century, with motivation comprising the often missing, but vital, component of the developmental mix. Mapping Motivation for Engagement advocates a new paradigm for the twenty-first century: away from hierarchies and command-and-control management styles, towards a bottom-up approach i...

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  • WWII
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    WWII
    JAMES JONES
    In 1975, James Jones—the American author whose novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II—was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by former Yank magazine art director Art Weithas and featuring visual art from World War II. The book was a best seller, praised for both its...

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  • URBAN REGENERATION IN THE UK
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    URBAN REGENERATION IN THE UK
    PHIL JONES / JAMES EVANS
    A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis is comprehensive, and ensures that this latest edition will remain a key reference work for students and practitioners alike. - Dr David Jarvis, Coventry University and Deputy Director, Applie...

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  • THE WORLD WAR II TRILOGY
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    THE WORLD WAR II TRILOGY
    JAMES JONES
    Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity. An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones’s World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. This c...

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  • THE THIN RED LINE
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    THE THIN RED LINE
    JAMES JONES
    With “shattering prose,” the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle).   In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jum...

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  • THE PISTOL
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    THE PISTOL
    JAMES JONES
    As Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor, an army private commits a simple crime that will change his life forever Richard Mast is a misfit in the infantry unit at Pearl Harbor. A bright mind in a sea of grunts, his only joy on the morning of December 7, 1941, is that today he has guard duty, which means he gets to carry a pistol. Usually reserved only for officers, the close-qua...

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  • WHISTLE
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    WHISTLE
    JAMES JONES
    Four World War II infantrymen recover at an army hospital, and struggle to readjust to the home front, in this New York Times–bestselling novel.   At the end of a long journey across the Pacific, a ship catches sight of California. On board are hundreds of injured soldiers, survivors of the American infantry’s battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. As the men ...

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  • D.C. NOIR 2
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    D.C. NOIR 2
    EDWARD P. JONES / MARITA GOLDEN / PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR / JULIAN MAYFIELD / ELIZABETH HAND / JAMES GRADY /  
    In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America’s mighty capital. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fi...

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  • SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN CHINA
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    SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN CHINA
    ROBIN JONES / JAMES (JIM) RIORDAN
    Written by a number of expert scholars from around the world, including China itself, with the aim of extending knowledge and taking the cross-cultural study of PE and sport beyond the descriptive level, this book provides unique and up to date material. Subjects covered include: *ancient and modern history *structure, administration and finance *PE in schools and colleges *eli...

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  • CTESIAS' 'HISTORY OF PERSIA'
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    CTESIAS' 'HISTORY OF PERSIA'
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES / JAMES ROBSON
    Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian histo...

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  • WORKING WITH DYNAMIC CROP MODELS: METHODS, TOOLS AND EXAMPLES FOR AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
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    WORKING WITH DYNAMIC CROP MODELS: METHODS, TOOLS AND EXAMPLES FOR AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
    WALLACH, DANIEL / MAKOWSKI, DAVID / JONES, JAMES W. / BRUN, FRANCOIS
    This second edition of Working with Dynamic Crop Models is meant for self-learning by researchers or for use in graduate level courses devoted to methods for working with dynamic models in crop, agricultural, and related sciences. Each chapter focuses on a particular topic and includes an introduction, a detailed explanation of the available methods, applications of the method...

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  • TERROR AND TRANSFORMATION
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    TERROR AND TRANSFORMATION
    JAMES W. JONES
    Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisation. At the heart of living religion is the idealisation of everyday objects. Such idea...

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  • FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
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    FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
    JAMES JONES
    A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and “one of the great books of our time” (Newsday).  At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam’s finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army politics, Prewitt becomes incensed when a commander’s favorite wins the title of...

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  • GO TO THE WIDOW-MAKER
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    GO TO THE WIDOW-MAKER
    JAMES JONES
    A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving Ron Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an ice queen who considers him her personal trophy, his thoughts are back in New York City, w...

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  • SOME CAME RUNNING
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    SOME CAME RUNNING
    JAMES JONES
    James Jones’s saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie Jones After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers’ Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a...

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  • THE ICE-CREAM HEADACHE
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    THE ICE-CREAM HEADACHE
    JAMES JONES
    Short stories by the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity:“One of the significant writers of his generation” (The New York Times Book Review).  In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill...

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  • THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY
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    THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY
    JAMES JONES
    A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in Paris The Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the country—and the European continent—to its foundations. In a tradition-obsessed nation where the old-guard bourgeoisie had spent decades oppressing youthful unrest, every flavor of rage suddenly had a voice.   Hill Gallagher is there—a br...

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  • TO THE END OF THE WAR
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    TO THE END OF THE WAR
    JAMES JONES
    Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experie...

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  • ADVANCED SURVIVAL
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    ADVANCED SURVIVAL
    JAMES C. JONES
    A comprehensive guide to independent living—before, during, and after a crisis—from the author of The Live Free Book of Total Survival. While self-reliance is often seen as a kind of survival preparedness, it is actually quite different in both psychology and execution. Preparing anticipates a threatening event that must be endured until life can return to the way it was before...

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  • WAKING FROM NEWTON'S SLEEP
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    WAKING FROM NEWTON'S SLEEP
    JAMES W. JONES
    Must religion and science conflict? Can a man of science find a spiritual path? Meet Tim, a chemical engineer, who gradually finds his exclusive reliance on science being called into question by the events of his life, by his dreams, and by discussions with his coworker Matt and Matt's wife June. Their conversations probe, debate, and explore whether science alone is sufficient...

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