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  • THE VIKING SAINT
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    THE VIKING SAINT
    JOHN CARR
    The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids . Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness a...

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  • THE VIKING SAINT
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    THE VIKING SAINT
    JOHN CARR
    The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway's King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids . Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness a...

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  • TEACHERS AND TEACHER UNIONS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
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    TEACHERS AND TEACHER UNIONS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
    JOHN CARR / LORI BECKETT
    Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism. As governments around the world support austerity politics in the face of financial meltdowns, social inequalities, terrorist threats, climate catastrophe, wars and mass migrations, the book questions...

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  • PIG HEALTH
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    PIG HEALTH
    JOHN CARR / SHIH-PING CHEN / JOSEPH F. CONNOR / ROY KIRKWOOD / JOAQUIM SEGALÉS
    Maintaining the health of pigs is vital in pig farming and production. This new book written by experts from around the world focuses on the health of pigs, first with coverage of the disorders of pigs organised by clinical sign and body system. The book explores environmental medicine and then health maintenance. Treatment options are discussed, emphasizing a reduction in anti...

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  • THE HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE
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    THE HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE
    ALAN CARR, CHRISTINE LINEHAN, GARY O’REILLY, PATRICIA NOONAN WALSH AND JOHN MCEVOY
    The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability. Building on the success of the previous edition this handbook has been extensively revised. Throughout, the text, references, and website addresses and have been...

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  • THE DEVIL IN VELVET
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    THE DEVIL IN VELVET
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: "The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful" ( San Francisco Chronicle). An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in mind—May 10, 1675—as well as a purpose: to solve the murder case of the woman he loves, hi...

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  • THE GHOSTS' HIGH NOON
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    THE GHOSTS' HIGH NOON
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    John Dickson Carr, one of the masters of the British-style detective novel, evokes the danger and delights of 1912 New Orleans in this puzzling murder mystery Journalist and spy novelist Jim Blake takes an assignment for Harper's Weekly that puts him on a train to New Orleans, where congressional candidate James Claiborne Blake is being targeted by enemies who threaten to revea...

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  • TO WAKE THE DEAD
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    TO WAKE THE DEAD
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and th...

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  • MOST SECRET
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    MOST SECRET
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    John Dickson Carr, master of the Golden Age British-style whodunit, delivers a dazzling historical mystery set in Restoration London In England, the Civil War is finished, Cromwell is dead, and the monarch Charles II sits happily upon the throne. It is a fine time to be rich, young, and bold—and there are few in the kingdom more daring than Roderick Kinsmere. A country boy come...

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  • THE DEMONIACS
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    THE DEMONIACS
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as "mystery fiction at its finest" When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends dashing rake Jeffrey Wynne to bring her home from the court of England's greatest enemy....

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  • THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SHUDDER
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    THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SHUDDER
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novel The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough...

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  • THE BRIDE OF NEWGATE
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    THE BRIDE OF NEWGATE
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England To inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony,...

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  • THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE
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    THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novel David Garth has just stepped off the train at Charing Cross when he is summoned to Scotland Yard to answer questions about a person believed to be living a double life. A neurologist, Garth is an expert on the brain, but in matter...

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  • FIRE, BURN!
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    FIRE, BURN!
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr's thrilling mystery novel A woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more than a century, this baffling murder lies cold in the files of Scotland Yard until ...

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  • DEADLY HALL
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    DEADLY HALL
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr draws readers into a thrilling tale of a family's hunt for an inheritance hidden in a haunted New Orleans mansion Before he became a commodore in the Confederate Navy, Serena Hobart's grandfather was a treasure hunter who combed the bottom of the sea in search of Spanish gold. In 1927, after h...

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  • ON SPARTAN WINGS
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    ON SPARTAN WINGS
    JOHN CARR
    This WWII history chronicles the courageous but ill-prepared Greek air force from the Battle of Greece to the Battle of El Alamein and beyond. On October 28th, 1940, when Greece was invaded by Mussolini's Italy, the Royal Hellenic Air Force was severely outgunned. Without warning, the RHAF's paltry fleet was pitted against the much larger and more advanced Regia Aeronautica, wh...

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  • NATURAL AND ENGINEERED RESISTANCE TO PLANT VIRUSES
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    NATURAL AND ENGINEERED RESISTANCE TO PLANT VIRUSES
    JOHN CARR
    Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture. In the past, viruses used to be controlled using conventional methods, such as crop rotation and destruction of the infected plants, but now there are more novel ways to control them. This volume focuses on topics that must be better understood in order to foster future developments in basic and applied plant virology. These range from ...

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  • THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER
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    THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER
    JOHN CARR
    A military history of the medieval Catholic order that arose during the Crusades in the Holy Land. The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervor and discipline made them an el...

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  • THE DR. GIDEON FELL MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
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    THE DR. GIDEON FELL MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Three Golden Age British-style whodunits from the Edgar Award–winning writer Agatha Christie called “a master magician . . . the king of the art of misdirection.”   One of the most popular Golden Age mystery authors, John Dickson Carr was also lauded by his peers. Agatha Christie offered him the highest praise from one mystery writer to another: “Very few detective stories baff...

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  • THE KOMNENE DYNASTY
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    THE KOMNENE DYNASTY
    JOHN CARR
    The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played their strategic cards very well. Though the dynasty ended in cruelty and incompetence under Andronikos I (th...

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  • DEATH-WATCH
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    DEATH-WATCH
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    In this Golden Age British-style mystery, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master John Dickson Carr presents Dr. Gideon Fell’s most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the stolen hands is found buried betw...

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  • IN SPITE OF THUNDER
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    IN SPITE OF THUNDER
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly, she goes anyway and finds herself encircled by terror when a murderer strikes. Wit...

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  • THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS
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    THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s sophisticated and surprising novel London lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firm’s senior partners to handle a delicate case. Revelations about playboy Ralph Douglas’s former mistress, the stunning redhead Rose Klonec, ...

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  • THE EMPEROR'S SNUFF-BOX
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    THE EMPEROR'S SNUFF-BOX
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as “one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told” After divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. ...

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  • SCANDAL AT HIGH CHIMNEYS
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    SCANDAL AT HIGH CHIMNEYS
    JOHN DICKSON CARR
    A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis wh...

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  • SPARTA'S KINGS
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    SPARTA'S KINGS
    JOHN CARR
    In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was already well-developed by the 8th century BC, when Theopompos of the Eurypontid clan emerges as the first recorded Spartan king. At least fifty-seven men held office as Spartan king between Theopompos and the...

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  • THE POPE'S ARMY
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    THE POPE'S ARMY
    JOHN CARR
    For much of its 2,000-year history, the Roman Catholic Church was a formidable political and military power, in contrast to its pacifist origins and its present concentration on spiritual matters. The period of political and military activism can be dated to roughly between 410, when Pope Innocent I vainly tried to avert the sack of Rome by the Visigoths, and about 1870, when P...

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  • MUSSOLINI'S DEFEAT AT HILL 731, MARCH 1941
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    MUSSOLINI'S DEFEAT AT HILL 731, MARCH 1941
    JOHN CARR
    This WWII history examines the most consequential and hard-fought battle between Greek and Italian forces in Albania. On March 9th, 1941, the Italians launched their Spring Offensive, designed to stem four months of humiliating reverses. Watched by Mussolini himself, the operation’s objective was a pair of parallel valleys dominated by the Greek-held Hill 731. The Italian Eight...

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  • PHILIP, PRINCE OF GREECE
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    PHILIP, PRINCE OF GREECE
    CONSTANTINOS LAGOS / JOHN CARR
    Many books have been written about the life of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, yet there always seem to be corners of his long life that have remained unexplored. In this long look back into his early years, Constantinos Lagos and John Carr uncover hitherto unknown aspects of Philip's life as a Greek prince and his gradual transformation from a mere appendage of the troub...

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  • RHNS AVEROF
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    RHNS AVEROF
    JOHN CARR
    Journalist John Carr tells the riveting history of Greece's RHNS Averof—an armored cruiser that served in three of the twentieth century's major wars. Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof was the flagship—and largest warship—of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armored cruisers ...

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