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THE HORROR EXPERT

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Excerpt: ""She had a secret library of psychological case histories, featuring pathological and brutal departures from normalcy in the area of sex. She never missed a weird movie. Terror in any form excited her physically...." Helen Lathrup had a curious twist in her imagination ... a twist that needed an outlet in real life. Close friends found themselves drawn into a nightmar...

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MATING CENTER

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Sci-fi love story set in 1961, where love is forbidden in a dystopian future. ...

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WOMAN FROM ANOTHER PLANET

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

This is the unusual and sensual story of David Loring, an artist, and his beautiful fiancée, Janice Reece. David loved Janice but the Martian Empire had a plan to entice David away from his beloved. With their plan for world domination at stake the Martians selected these two lovers’ for their first attack. Together, David and Janice became involved in a highly emotional and ph...

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AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 150

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Amazing Stories Volume 150 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by three different authors: "Salvage In Space" by Jack Williamson, "The Miniature Menace" by Frank Belknap Long, and "When Time Rolled Back" by Ed Earl Repp. ...

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THE WORKS OF LIN YUTANG

YANGYANG LONG

The Works of Lin Yutang is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Lin Yutang’s translation theory and translated (and written) works in English as a whole, examined from the perspective of his pursuit of recognition of cultural equity between China and the English-speaking world. The arc of the book is Lin’s new method of translating China to the Anglophone world, w...

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APPLICATIONS OF REGRESSION FOR CATEGORICAL OUTCOMES USING R

DAVID MELAMED / LONG DOAN

This book covers the main models within the GLM (i.e., logistic, Poisson, negative binomial, ordinal, and multinomial). For each model, estimations, interpretations, model fit, diagnostics, and how to convey results graphically are provided. There is a focus on graphic displays of results as these are a core strength of using R for statistical analysis. Many in the social scien...

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AVENGING CHILD SEX ABUSE

JOSHUA LONG / JASON VUKOVICH

This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment. Child sex abuse leaves a scar that lasts a lifetime. Can any legal punishment balance the scales of justice? Can sex offenders ever repay their debt to society, or more importantly, to the victim? For s...

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FUZZY HEAD

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

For the first time on Earth a human child had been born who could summon us! He was eight years old now, but wise beyond his years and he had summoned us deliberately across space. He had sat, hunched and shivering, in his own small room, staring up at the far-flung constellations. Then, abruptly, he had thrown out his arms and called to us. ...

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS

D. STEPHEN LONG

The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics brings together two different but related disciplines; the first is contemplative or theoretical, asking what are the beliefs or doctrines that characterize Christianity, whilst the second is practical, asking what are the ethical practices that attend its teachings. The movement between the theoretical and practical aspects is not, h...

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AMAZING STORIES 137

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Amazing Stories Volume 137 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Atomic Station" by Frank Belknap Long, "The Rogue Waveform" by R. W. Stockheker, "Information Please" by Stanley Whiteside, "The Pleasure Age" by Joed Cahill and "The Vortex Blaster Makes War" by E. E. Smi...

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SECRETS OF THE COLD WAR

ANDREW LONG

The dramatic story of how the superpowers collected secrets and used intelligence to build an advantage during the Cold War, the longest and most dangerous confrontation of the twentieth century. The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers maneuvering for stra...

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ADAM SMITH AND THE INVISIBLE HAND OF GOD

BRENDAN LONG

This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Smith built a moral philosophy on the foundations of a natural theology of human sociality. Examination of his life, relationship with David Hume and use of divine names shows that he retained a progressive form of Christian theism. Th...

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INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SPORT AND THE ARTS

JONATHAN LONG AND DOUG SANDLE

This multidisciplinary collection examines different dimensions of the interrelationships between sport and the arts. It is a consequence of the Fields of Vision initiative that challenges their typical separation into distinct realms. Whether at school or in the highest realms of public life people struggle to reconcile the two; they lack the necessary conceptual vocabulary. W...

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ESSAYS IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LEARNING

FIACHRA LONG

This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the ‘closeness’ or ‘proximity’ of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old. Studying the power of learning to transform human beings, this book offers an in-depth discussion of how different phenomenologists understand this ‘proximate’ power. It draws on ideas of encounter from Husserl, care ...

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THE ST IVES BRANCH LINE

RICHARD C. LONG

In 1963 comic duo Flanders and Swann composed Slow Train - a lament for some of the many railway lines proposed for closure by Dr Beeching. Among the destinations listed in their song is the refrain “from St Erth to St Ives”. Constructed in 1877 as the last broad gauge line to be built in the UK, the St Ives branch did not close in the 1960s and survives to this day – now widel...

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A GENTLE INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

DAN STANESCU / LONG LEE

Scientific Computation has established itself as a stand-alone area of knowledge at the borderline between computer science and applied mathematics. Nonetheless, its interdisciplinary character cannot be denied: its methodologies are increasingly used in a wide variety of branches of science and engineering. A Gentle Introduction to Scientific Computing intends to serve a very ...

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ESSENTIALS OF SAFETY

IAN LONG

This book is not about safety. It is about people and leadership. It explores the few things in Safety that sit beneath all of the complexity and complicatedness of the workplace and that we simply must get right. It explores what the underlying elements are that look through each of the lenses of the Individual, Leaders and leadership, the Systems we use and the workplace Cult...

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THE MOLECULARISATION OF SECURITY

CHRISTOPHER LONG

This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats. In response to biological threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the world have developed a range of new security technologies, called medical countermeasures, to protect their populations. This book...

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MEDIA STUDIES

PAUL LONG / BETH JOHNSON / SHANA MACDONALD / SCHEM ROGERSON BADER / TIM WALL

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches to the field, explaining why media messages matter, how media businesses prosper and why media is integral to defining contemporary life. The text is divided into three parts – Media texts and meanings; Producing media; and Media and social contexts – exploring the ...

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HOLIDAY HUNGER IN THE UK

MICHAEL A. LONG / MARGARET ANNE DEFEYTER / PAUL B. STRETESKY

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom. The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger – the condition that occurs when a child’s household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer holidays. The decline of the UK welfare state and the rise of neoliberalism have creat...

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THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER AND SEVEN MORE STORIES

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Eight Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Frank Belknap Long. Featured here: "The Mississippi Saucer", "The Sky Trap", "The Calm Man", "The Man from Time", "The Man the Martians Made", "The Mercurian", "Lake of Fire", and "The Vibration Wasps". ...

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THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

KIMBERLY L. GEESLIN / AVIZIA Y. LONG / MEGAN SOLON

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to theoretical and empirical issues in the field of second language acquisition more generally by exemplifying central concepts in second language acquisition through the expl...

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AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 36

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

Amazing Stories Volume 36 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Frank Belknap Long: "The Mercurian", "Time Trap", "The Timeless Ones", "The Mississippi Saucer", "The Sky Trap", "The Calm Man", "The Man from Time", and "The Man the Martians Made". ...

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SPACE STATION 1

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

The Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself trapped in unexpected terrors. The grim reality was that an unknown, unsuspected outer space power had usurped control of the artificial moon. A beautiful woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, ...

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MARS IS MY DESTINATION

FRANK BELKNAP LONG

There was trouble brewing on Mars—bad trouble. Two giant industrial empires fought for control there, and their struggle imperilled the whole Mars colony. Civil war—atomic civil war second—could break out any second, leaving Earth’s only foothold in space a mass of radioactive rubble. One man was needed to take charge—one man who could act fast and decisively, brutally if he ha...

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THE CHARACTER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

JILL LONG THOMPSON

This illuminating examination of democratic ethics is “a resource for Americans who are seeking ways to secure our democracy and our future as a nation” (Congressman John Lewis). Ethical leadership, steeped in integrity and fairness, matters. The future of our nation and our world depends upon the quality of America’s character. In this absorbing look at our contemporary societ...

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SEPARATION PROCESSES IN WASTE MINIMIZATION

ROBERT B. LONG

This work offers an accessible discussion of current and emerging separation processes used for waste minimization, showing how the processes work on a day-to-day basis and providing troubleshooting tips for equipment that doesn't function according to design specifications. It describes the fundamentals of over 30 processes, types of equipment available, vendors, and common pr...

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CHINESE BUDDHIST CANONS IN THE AGE OF PRINTING

DARUI LONG / ‎JINHUA CHEN

The study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon—the basic literature of Buddhism—does not have an eminent place in study either in China or in the Western World. For the contributors to this volume, their chapters are the result of decades of dedication to academic research, and they reveal many facets of the Buddhist Canon that were previously unstudied. This book originated in the fi...

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THE UNITED STATES AND SAUDI ARABIA

DAVID E. LONG

U.S.-Saudi relations have been marked by ambivalence since their inception over 50 years ago. The Arab-Israeli conflict, the division between buyer and seller of oil, the superpower-small state dichotomy, and the divergence of cultures, traditions, and perceptions have all contributed to the anomalies that have marked the relationship between the two countries, although mutual ...

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SUN YAT-SEN'S DOCTRINE IN THE MODERN WORLD

CHU-YUAN CHENG / HUNG-CHAO TAI / HAROLD Z SCHIFFRIN / YU-LONG LING

This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen's social, political, and economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principles of the People, which discusses nationalism, democracy, and people's welfare, examining his doctrines as well as a his ideas with other contemporary ideologies. ...

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