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  • PATTON'S SPACESHIP
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    PATTON'S SPACESHIP
    JOHN BARNES
    First in the series blending alternate history, time travel, and detective thriller, from a Nebula and Hugo Award nominee. There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril. Mark Strang became a bodyguard and private investigator when terrorists killed his family; now he spends his days protecting Pittsburgh's helpless...

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  • CAESAR'S BICYCLE
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    CAESAR'S BICYCLE
    JOHN BARNES
    In an alternate Roman Empire, the ultimate battle is being waged for domination of the multiverse in the epic conclusion of the war for a million Earths There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril. John Barnes's ingenious science fiction saga the Timeline Wars reaches a breathtaking climax in  Caesar's Bicycle as...

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  • WASHINGTON'S DIRIGIBLE
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    WASHINGTON'S DIRIGIBLE
    JOHN BARNES
    The war for a million Earths spreads to an alternate eighteenth century in the second book of the epic science fiction series the Timeline Wars John Barnes has reinvented alternate-history science fiction in his ingenious saga of the battle to save the multiverse from enslavement by an alien enemy who can transcend time and reality. In the second volume of his remarkable trilog...

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  • DECISION TABLE LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
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    DECISION TABLE LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
    JOHN R. METZNER / BRUCE H. BARNES
    ACM Monograph Series: Decision Table Languages and Systems focuses on linguistic examination of decision tables and survey of the features of existing decision table languages and systems. The book first offers information on semiotics, programming language features, and generalization. Discussions focus on semantic broadening, outer language enrichments, generalization of sy...

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  • IN THE HALL OF THE MARTIAN KING
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    IN THE HALL OF THE MARTIAN KING
    JOHN BARNES
    With the soul of thirty-sixth-century humanity at stake, Jak Jinnaka steps in . . . now we're really in trouble Jak Jinnaka parlayed his powerful family connections, unearned media fame, and consistent dumb luck into a cushy job as vice procurator of the Martian moon Deimos, an office he precariously maintains alongside his top-secret post as a station chief for Hive Intelligen...

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  • A PRINCESS OF THE AERIE
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    A PRINCESS OF THE AERIE
    JOHN BARNES
    Jak Jinnaka is off to save a princess yet again—except . . . Ostensibly a diplomat, really a spy in training, Jak Jinnaka has such a gift for getting into trouble that his fellow students have voted him "most likely to have a war named after him." His latest offense against cultural sensitivity would have ended his career at his junior year—except that the Academy is thoroughly...

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  • THE DUKE OF URANIUM
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    THE DUKE OF URANIUM
    JOHN BARNES
    A "wildly entertaining homage to the best '60s Heinlein juveniles," from a multiple Nebula finalist ( Publishers Weekly).   Jak Jinnaka's teenage life in the thirty-sixth century has been nothing but fun—ignoring school, partying outrageously with his beautiful girlfriend, Sesh, and spending his uncle Sib's huge fortune. But then, while they are out for a wild night of post-gra...

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  • ENCOUNTER WITH TIBER
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    ENCOUNTER WITH TIBER
    BUZZ ALDRIN / JOHN BARNES
    An Apollo 11 astronaut and the Nebula Award–nominated author of Directive 51 present a novel that " conveys the wonder and promise of space" ( Publishers Weekly). Born the year of the Moon landing, Chris Terence spends his life fighting to return humanity to that pinnacle. An engineering student with dreams of spaceflight, he finds upon graduation that the United States no long...

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  • EVITA, FIRST LADY
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    EVITA, FIRST LADY
    JOHN BARNES
    The story of one of the most fascinating women of all time—Maria Eva Duarte, who rose from poverty to become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world.   Eva Perón was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the re...

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  • THE MERCHANTS OF SOULS
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    THE MERCHANTS OF SOULS
    JOHN BARNES
    The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again--but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures--wh...

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  • THE TIMELINE WARS
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    THE TIMELINE WARS
    JOHN BARNES
    Blending alternate history, time travel, and detective thriller, the "able and impressive" Nebula and Hugo Award nominee gives us Nazis, Tories, and togas ( The Washington Post).   An attack by time-hopping terrorists turns Mark Strang's life upside down, and the Pittsburgh art historian discovers his calling as a bodyguard for hire. Strap yourself in for a ride through alterna...

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  • READING 1 CORINTHIANS WITH PHILOSOPHICALLY EDUCATED WOMEN
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    READING 1 CORINTHIANS WITH PHILOSOPHICALLY EDUCATED WOMEN
    NATHAN JOHN BARNES
    Women were involved in every popular philosophy in the first century, and the participation of women reaches back to the Greek origins of these schools. Philosophers often taught their daughters, wives, and other friends the basic tenets of their thinking. The Isthmian games and a tolerance for independent thinking made Corinth an attractive place for philosophers to engage in ...

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  • BEHIND THE THISTLE
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    BEHIND THE THISTLE
    DAVID BARNES / PETER BURNS / JOHN GRIFFITHS
    A rugby history based on exclusive interviews that "takes the reader as close to the action as it is possible to get, short of invading the pitch" ( The Scotsman). Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments—Test match rugby. Drawi...

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  • THE IMPACT OF NOISE POLLUTION
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    THE IMPACT OF NOISE POLLUTION
    GEORGE BUGLIARELLO / ARIEL ALEXANDRE / JOHN BARNES
    The Impact of Noise Pollution: A Socio-Technological Introduction explores the areas that contribute to the generation of noise in the environment. Also covered are the different aspects of human life that is being affected by daily exposure to noise. Issues such as the increasing number of people who have impaired hearing are also addressed in the book. The book first give...

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  • CANDLE
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    CANDLE
    JOHN BARNES
    Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth have in their minds a copy of One True, software that grants its hosts limited telepathy and instills a kind of general cooperation....

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  • GENOMES AND WHAT TO MAKE OF THEM
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    GENOMES AND WHAT TO MAKE OF THEM
    BARRY BARNES / JOHN DUPRÉ
    The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits—and warnings of the dangers—of genomics have remained front-page news, with everyone agreeing that genomics has the pot...

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  • THE SKY SO BIG AND BLACK
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    THE SKY SO BIG AND BLACK
    JOHN BARNES
    At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life. Terpsichore Murr...

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  • THE ARMIES OF MEMORY
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    THE ARMIES OF MEMORY
    JOHN BARNES
    Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him. Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitless. But recently Giraut was approached by the Lost Legion, an Occitan underground linked to an alliance of illegally human-settled wor...

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  • THE DUKE OF URANIUM
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    THE DUKE OF URANIUM
    JOHN BARNES
    A “wildly entertaining homage to the best ’60s Heinlein juveniles,” from a multiple Nebula finalist (Publishers Weekly).   Jak Jinnaka’s teenage life in the thirty-sixth century has been nothing but fun—ignoring school, partying outrageously with his beautiful girlfriend, Sesh, and spending his uncle Sib’s huge fortune. But then, while they are out for a wild night of post-grad...

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  • CAESAR'S BICYCLE
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    CAESAR'S BICYCLE
    JOHN BARNES
    In an alternate Roman Empire, the ultimate battle is being waged for domination of the multiverse in the epic conclusion of the war for a million Earths There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril. John Barnes’s ingenious science fiction saga the Timeline Wars reaches a breathtaking climax in Caesar’s Bicycle as ...

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