Novels of Testimony and Resistance from Central America

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A collection of inventive short stories, all previously published in literary journals, uncovering the truths hidden in our lives. The settings range from familiar suburbia to a science-fiction flavored (but recognizable) police state. Some explore delicate nuances of human behavior with sly humor and serious underpinnings of private pain, others take a wider, political view. In one story, a respectable married woman, environmentally and politically concerned, contemplates deceiving her husband as to his father's medical condition in order to save their weekend away at a country inn.

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Savvy and Then Some.......2003-05-03

This writer is brilliant. The prose is fluent and sparkling, the intent and mastery universal and challenging. Postpartum, Our Lady of the Finger, abortion, Saudi Arabian women, every micro-culture she puts her hands on is illuminated and pinned to the wall. Anyone who is sick of the same old gosh-it-didn't-work-out-like-we-wanted-it-to short story should go here. Brava!

Funny and real at the same time.......2002-11-15

If you were raised in the suburbs you won't be able to stop laughing, if you're from the city, you REALLY won't be able to stop laughing. If you're from the country, hide it from your partner. A great collection of stories.

Funny and real at the same time.......2002-11-15

Fascinating, strong work.......2002-11-08

This writer has a real skill at grabbing you by the throat and pulling you into a sometimes bizarre but always very real world. Some of her work is very in touch with the zeitgeist of the times -- war, excess commercialism, domestic tedium, etc., etc. Really fine work.

Wonderful!.......2002-11-02

Wonderfully imaginative twists and surprising characters permeate nearly every story in this fabulous collection. For years I've seen Japely's name attached to stand-out stories that leap from the pages of literary journals. Now at last we're treated to a collection of her best work, and it's a joy for the reader. Treat yourself to the unexpected: stories in everyday and not-so-everyday settings, inhabited by clever people we sometimes wish we were, and sometimes wish we weren't. I wish Japely continued success, more for OUR sakes than for hers! We need and deserve more writers like her.

Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890-1945 (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890-1945 (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Pamela Fox
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the concept of class shame, she produces a model of working-class subjectivity that understands resistance in a more accurate and useful way—as a complicated kind of refusal, directed at both dominated and dominant culture.
With a focus on certain classics in the working-class literary "canon," such as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Love on the Dole, as well as lesser-known texts by working-class women, Fox uncovers the anxieties that underlie representations of class and consciousness. Shame repeatedly emerges as a powerful counterforce in these works, continually unsettling the surface narrative of protest to reveal an ambivalent relation toward the working-class identities the novels apparently champion.
Class Fictions offers an equally rigorous analysis of cultural studies itself, which has historically sought to defend and value the radical difference of working-class culture. Fox also brings to her analysis a strong feminist perspective that devotes considerable attention to the often overlooked role of gender in working-class fiction. She demonstrates that working-class novels not only expose master narratives of middle-class culture that must be resisted, but that they also reveal to us a need to create counter narratives or formulas of working-class life. In doing so, this book provides a more subtle sense of the role of resistance in working class culture. While of interest to scholars of Victorian and working-class fiction, Pamela Fox’s argument has far-reaching implications for the way literary and cultural studies will be defined and practiced.

The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

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The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
Steven G. Kellman
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Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction

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Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction
Neil Lazarus
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Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romanitics : Essays in Honor of Jean H. Hagstrum

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Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romanitics : Essays in Honor of Jean H. Hagstrum
Sydney McMillen Conger
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The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)

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The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
Carole Anne Taylor
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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ASIN: 081223510X

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You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to “get unstuck” can put your career and personal life—as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization—at risk.

In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse—by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change.

Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward.

Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. He teaches career coaching and consults to organizations worldwide on career development issues.

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He knows what he's talking about........2007-09-21

The author does a great job of helping one to realize and appreciate that a "dead end" may be door to one of the best opportunities for growth one will ever receive in life. He helps one to address the fact that oftentimes being "stuck" is a very good and positive thing. The title of my review is appropriate because he obviously has worked with people, of different ages, who have felt stuck, how they got through it, and how positive it ended up being for most of them.

Buitler does an excellent job of acknowldging and dealing with the feelings that accompany "stuckness." In my opinion, chapter two "Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves" is worth the price of the book alone. "The Accuser" is who he calls the Superego who relentlessly doubts and questions "stuck" people. He helps the "stuck" to see how pathetic "the Accuser" really is, how and when he often strikes and what "the Accuser" really is: "it's concern is to punish us and stop us from taking that action which would allow us to experience new possibilities." (p. 32)

This book is both psychologically insightful and of great practical help. It helped me a lot.

A fresh approach with useful exercises.......2007-06-27

Tim Butler's latest book addresses takes a creative approach to "getting unstuck", which he calls "impasse," in a clear, engaging and enjoyable read for coaches and clients alike.

Butler states that shifting to a new understanding of ourselves `is a "dropping down" into more imaginative and less conditioned ways of looking at ourselves and the world. We shift from cognitive analysis based on an old mental model to information that comes from giving our essence a chance to speak in the fresh language of image and metaphor. . . A new life vision has to come from employing all aspects of our consciousness . . . It has to arise from deep intuition.' [...]., includes access to audio downloads of some of his image gathering exercises.

This practical book includes exercises to help clients identify career interest patterns as well as "dynamic tensions," goals or motivations that may appear to be contradictory. Readers can assess themselves based on ten interest patterns, based on Butler's research. The next step is to explore the role of three social motivators: power, affiliation, and achievement and to identify which are most dominant.

By working through these exercises, clients assemble a powerful roadmap of life interests, motivators, themes, and dynamic tensions. Much of the books accessibility comes from the numerous examples of how clients resolved dynamic tensions and moved towards new, more fulfilling careers. Clients will find value in these examples and exercises and coaches will enjoy adding this creative approach to their coaching repertoire.

Boy Did I need this!.......2007-06-08

I have just started this book, but it has hit home already. The Deep Dive exercises are really good and helps you resolve things in your life. I Love the way the book takes you from one place to another to clear up issues in your life. I think this is a must read for all.

Probably best explored with guidance..........2007-04-04

There comes a time (or many times, actually) in everyone's life when things appear to be at a dead end. You know you don't want to be where you're at, but you're in a quandary about how to move on. That's the subject of the book Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler. If you're willing to work his process and exercises, you may well find that "new path" to take you to the next level.

Contents:
Part 1 - Impasse: Facing Crisis; Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves; Opening Up and Letting Go; Shifting to a New Understanding
Part 2 - Vision: Our Deepest Interests (The First Pattern in the Carpet); Learning to Let Our Passions Guide Us; Power, People, and Achievement (Three Interwoven Patterns); Mapping Our Insights (Patterns in the Sand)
Part 3 - Getting Unstuck: Moving from Impasse to Action; Living at the Border
Appendixes: Continuing the Journey (An Annotated Bibliography); A Note on Impasse and Depression; Scoring the One Hundred Jobs Exercise
Notes; Index; About the Author

Butler is a researcher and business psychologist who works with people who have hit a "dead end" in their life. Many of the stories in the book involve students who have gone to business school, have a number of options in front of them, but nothing seems quite right. His approach to getting unstuck is to allow the inner thoughts and passions to direct us towards what we probably already know the answer to be, but we just haven't tuned into it. Many of these exercises are covered in sidebar entries called "deep dives". These sidebars go into detail about how an exercise works and how to do it. For instance, "free attention" is the technique of allowing your focus to reside on a particular part of the body, letting the sensations and feelings wash over you without judgement. When your mind wanders, you've lost your free attention and need to refocus on the body part. This then shifts to focus on breathing, and the goal is to let emotions run their course and learn from them. Another technique is paying attention to images that form in your mind. These images can often be formed from deeper core feelings and emotions, and taking the time to reflect and analyze them can cast light on your situation and point to a new path. Probably one of the most in-depth exercises is the 100 Jobs list. You choose 12 jobs from a list of 100 that appeal to you on an emotional basis. Scoring the exercise involves categorizing the types of attributes that make up those jobs. By grouping and classifying the different underlying traits, you'll see trends such as leadership, persuasion, coaching, etc. These trends can then be used to examine your direction and make corrections...

On the whole, the ideas are solid. I can see where working through the process could lead to dramatic changes that might not be explored by a more cursory examination of your life. But while the book is designed to be used on your own, I think it'd work best if you had someone skilled in these techniques working with you. It's hard to be objective about your own mind, and an external viewpoint would help keep things focused. I also think that the material would appeal most to business professionals who are at a career crisis. Most of the material is slanted towards job-related issues, and the stories are largely about college and grad school students. While anyone could use these ideas in various areas of their lives, I think the "average" person might find it all a bit daunting...

How to avoid a dead end or to find a better path to follow .......2007-03-11

Well before reading the final chapter of this book, I concluded that Timothy Butler is both a relentless empiricist (i.e. being keenly observant of human experience, especially his own) and a relentless pragmatist (i.e. leveraging this experience to apply lessons learned in terms of what works...and what doesn't). In the Introduction he focuses on the six phases of what he characterizes as "The Cycle of Impasse." They are (1) the arrival of the [given] crisis and impasse, (2) its deepening and the attendant re-emergence of unresolved issues, (3) the dropping of old assumptions and the opening up to new information, (4) the shift to a new way of understanding our situation, (5) the greater recognition of deep patterns of our personality, and eventuaolly (6) the decision to take concrete action." Once having carefully presented the "what," Butler then focuses almost all of his attention on the "how" of "getting unstuck."

It is important to keep in mind that as Butler duly acknowledges, crises vary (sometimes significantly) in terms of their relative importance; also, impasses also vary in terms of their nature and extent; moreover, "getting unstuck" from one crisis does not mean that it will never recur; in addition, most people find themselves struggling to cope with more than one crisis at a time; finally, and obviously, its is highly advisable to prevent a crisis, if at all possible, and thus eliminate the need to get "unstuck" from one.

The subtitle suggests another interesting aspect of this book's appeal: "How Dead Ends Become New Paths." I am among those who believe that every problem and, especially, every failure offers an invaluable learning opportunity. Long ago, Jack Dempsey suggested that "champions get up when they can't." More recently Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas, in Geeks and Geezers and then in Leading for a Lifetime, assert that most (if not all) great leaders - at one time - experienced a "crucible" which forged qualities of character they would not otherwise develop. In Authentic Leadership and then in True North, Bill George makes essentially the same point. With all due respect to Yogi Berra (reputed to have suggested that "When you get to a fork in the road, take it"), what seem to be "dead ends" can become "new paths" if - huge if -- we can summon the courage and sustain the determination to take "concrete action."

To this last point, Butler insists - and I agree - that "our lives do not change without action. The impasse crisis has its resolution in a decision to make specific choices that change our day-to-day reality...Know what the action needs to be, and actually performing it, is what seals the cycle of learning and change and allows us to move forward."

I commend Butler for providing three valuable appendices: "Continuing the Journey" (an annotated bibliography), "A Note on Impasse and Depression" (differences between symptoms of clinical depression and symptoms at impasse), and "Scoring the One Hundred Jobs Exercise" (a self-diagnostic to accompany an exercise in Chapter 4). All of those who read this book find themselves "stuck" from time to time. On occasion, the "impasse" is minor and only temporary (e.g. missing several days at work because of having the flu). On other occasions, the situation is much more serious and seems hopeless, or at least daunting (e.g. an extended period of unemployment as bills pile up). Butler seems genuinely determined to help his readers cope effectively with all manner of crises, especially those which may seem hopeless. Obviously, it remains for each reader to determine the value of this book to her or his own circumstances.

When thinking about the many benefits that Butler's book offers, I am reminded of a prayer generally thought to have been composed by Reinhold Niebuhr: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Book 1)

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The Paths of the Dull
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The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Book 1)
Steven Brust
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
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ASIN: 0812534174

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The long-awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years AfterTwo hundred years after Adron's Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn't what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire's power, of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life.Now the descendants and successors of the great ad-venturers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, con-vinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong . . . .For even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight, plot, and conspire as they breathe, and so do their still-powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges, in-scrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain....and, unex-pectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir, young Zerika, is discovered-setting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again.

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Super Reader.......2007-08-04

Paarfi the Historian continues his writings, and this time, his subject is the events of the period of approximately two centuries after Adron's disaster blew up a whole lot of Dragaera.

For those that have read any of Vlad Taltos' books some of this will be more familiar, with Zerika, Sethra Lavode, and others.

The starring roles go to the next generation. Khaavren's son and his friends are bored, they think no more adventure is ever going to happen.

A war for the empire and the various machinations of deities and sorceresesses soon show them that things are not so dull after all.

The Paths of the Dull.......2006-09-30

This book reads like a "reverse" Cliff Notes. What could have been written in 50 pages takes over 300. Mind-numbingly slow. Loose sample translation in plain English of the type of written exchanges: "I think I'd like to tell you something. "Then do so. "I will. "OK, I'd like to hear it. "Then I will tell you at once. "Please do. "OK, I shall." On and on and on. Randomly pick up ANY other book in the Fantasy section of a bookstore and you will probably enjoy it more. At least it will be more readable.

Terrible Writing Style.......2006-08-10

The supposed narrator, "Paarfi" is verbose and inane. In the Vlad Taltos books, the sarcastic humor was hilarious. Here,the author takes five sentances in the dialogue that should take one. "Why do you say that?"/" Do not despair, I will tell you post haste"/"That would be most appreciated"/"This manner of speech gets old REAL QUICK!!!!!" It's worse than Robert Jordan's constant prattle about what people are wearing down to the last stitch!!
It's a shame, because I consider the Vlad series as one of my top three book series.

Great book, just don't read it first.......2005-03-17

This is my first online review for any book and I chose to do a review for this book specifically because I could not fathom the poor reviews others have posted. Are they reading the same book?

Well... perhaps the poor reviews are understandable given that POTD is not meant to stand on its own and depends very much on the "greater myth" being developed between this series and the Vlad Taltos series.

These points have been touched on in other reviews but I will emphasize them again here:

First, POTD does NOT stand on its own. One reviewer said reading POTD alone would be like reading "The Fellowship of the Ring" and expecting a complete self-contained story. I disagree - POTD is more like "The Two Towers", it's neither at the beginning nor at the end. Either way, POTD should not be your first choice as either an introduction to Brust, nor a reacquaintence after a lengthy abstinence. You just miss too much.

Secondly, both the Khaavren Romances (of which POTD is the third) and the Vlad Taltos series are both set in the same world and together tell a much larger epic story. I would add that POTD is the first book in the Khaavren series that really makes this apparent. If you've read the Vlad Taltos books then you will recognize names and events mentioned in "The Phoenix Guards" and "500 Years After" and go "a-ha", but in POTD you are just plain missing out if you haven't read the other series. For instance, the whole conversation between the "gods" makes almost no meaningful sense unless if you've read the Taltos books. I'd seriously recommend reading all the way up to Issola before starting POTD.

As far as the writing style goes, some may not like it but I happen to love it. Brust never ceases to leave me breathless with his writing "agility". He is quite simply the best writer of "conversation" I've yet encountered and the Paarfi style is a lot of fun. Wordy, yes, but not verbose. You have to read it to understand what I mean.

So to summarize, don't read POTD unless and until you've read both "The Phoenix Guards" and "500 Hundred Years After" AND you've also read the Taltos series. You will seriously kill the enjoyment of the book if you do otherwise plus you will miss out on too many of the "inside" jokes. For instance, the whole "elf" thing is not new as the subtitle to chapter 7 should have made clear. If that chapter's revelation tickled you then you'll be even more delighted to know that the Easterners are referred to as "dwarfs" in one of the Taltos books. So there you go, elfs and dwarfs and they all think they're human. Make of it what you will.

Excellent books.

Aaarghh!.......2005-02-20

I hate to say this, but the only character in this book that comes across as "real" is Sir Paarfi of Roundwood, and at that it would have been best had the reader been apprised of his death at childbirth.

This is a story that you really have to work for, dragging the relevant bits and pieces from the dregs of "Sir Paarfi's" stilted writing style, which I enjoyed in the other books. Perhaps that is because the style is not used to enhance, but to enlength the book to something with the requisite number of pages.

Erech and Paths of the Dead (Middle Earth Role Playing)

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Ruth Sochard , and Peter C. Fenlon
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ASIN: 0915795396

Deicide: Path of the Dead - Book #1 (Deicide)

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Deicide: Path of the Dead - Book #1 (Deicide)
Carlos Portela
Manufacturer: Humanoids - Rebellion
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Decently Odd.......2006-05-31

This book is for adults only because of sex, violence, and lots of nudity. The art is fanstastic. I picked it up used after flipping through and seeing some truely spectacular images of a desert culture where gods are real and a man quests to recover his lover from the god of death she was sacrificed to. Unfortunately, it is plotted like a bad B movie, complete with silly sidekicks and lots of T&A. In a lot of cases the action is stilted and forced, and because the world is weird, a lot is left unexplained as to how or why characters decide what they will do next. Still, worth the used price, and I will pick up the next one in the series if/when it comes out.

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Dead Man's Path
John Buxton Hilton
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A very good debut!
A real page turner!

The Path of the Dead
Caroline Benton
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A middle of the night call to a burnt out house is pretty much routine for Devon Fire Brigade photographer Gus Tavender. But finding a charred body locked in a secret room is not, and from that moment, very little in Gus’s life can be considered routine.

The following day she meets with an old college friend who has come to Dartmoor to learn the truth about her aunt’s death. The old lady fell into a quarry when out walking on Dartmoor — a tragic accident say the police, but Judith has good reason to think otherwise. She enlists Gus’s help and as the two women uncover more information, Gus begins to suspect a connection between her friend’s aunt and the body in the burnt house.

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A very good debut!.......2006-10-09

Gus Tavender is a photographer for the Devon Fire Brigade. In the aftermath of a house fire, Gus finds something the
Brigade has missed; a charred body that had been locked in a closet. A few days later, Gus run into an acquaintance from her collage days and is surprised when she later receives an invitation to visit. Judith is the heir to her late aunt who apparently died in a walking accident on the Moors. But Judith believes her aunt was murdered and wants Gus to investigate.

Gus is a wonderful character, strong, caring, and determined, but also smart enough to know when to seek help, even though she may drive on and hopes help arrives. I particularly liked her relationship with her father. I'll admit there were a few British-isms with which I was unfamiliar, but it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story. The story unfolds to the reader as it does to the protagonist, which I enjoyed. There were some very good twists in a solid plot that built to an exciting scene and realistic conclusion. With wonderful descriptions of the Moors, Ms. Benton has created a very good, suspenseful first book and I am looking forward to her second.

A real page turner!.......2006-04-07

I have just finished this first novel by Caroline Benton.
Set on and around the wonderful, brooding Dartmoor landscape,this first novel is a very enjoyable read. It grabs your attention early on and then takes you on a roller coaster ride over the moor!! An interesting twist is that the narrator works for the Fire Service, which makes a pleasant change from pathologists and detectives!! Knowing the area personally made the book even more interesting for me, though the descriptions are great and the reader would quickly get the feel of the area.
This a good first novel and I'm sure readers will await the next one with keen anticipation.

The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: Seven Lectures Held in Various Cities Between April 17 and May 26, 1914

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The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: Seven Lectures Held in Various Cities Between April 17 and May 26, 1914
Rudolf Steiner , and Joachim Reuter
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Star Wars Jedi Apprentice #1-#10. Rising Force, Dark Rival, Hidden Past, Mark of the Crown, Defenders of the Dead, Uncertain Path, Captive Temple, Day of Reckoning, Fight for Truth, Shattered Peace,

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Star Wars Jedi Apprentice #1-#10. Rising Force, Dark Rival, Hidden Past, Mark of the Crown, Defenders of the Dead, Uncertain Path, Captive Temple, Day of Reckoning, Fight for Truth, Shattered Peace,
Jude Watson , and Dave Wolverton
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Set of the first 10 volumes in the Star Wars Jedi Apprentice series. Issued as separate volumes with no slipcase.

Fusion research with a future: it's time for the U.S. program to abandon its dead-end focus and to explore alternative paths to practical fusion power.: ... from: Issues in Science and Technology

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Fusion research with a future: it's time for the U.S. program to abandon its dead-end focus and to explore alternative paths to practical fusion power.: ... from: Issues in Science and Technology
Robert L. Hirsch , Gerald Kulcinski , and Ramy Shanny
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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 3179 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Federal research programs on fusion power should be redirected to the development of alternative systems, in lieu of the tokamaks, such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. In addition to very significant costs to build and operate tokamaks, there are also problems in the use of deuterium-tritium fuel. Considering federal budget constraints for R&D, a commitment by the US to ITER construction must not be undertaken. Instead, systems that use advanced fusion fuel cycles with low or zero neutron fluxes must be explored.

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Title: Fusion research with a future: it's time for the U.S. program to abandon its dead-end focus and to explore alternative paths to practical fusion power.
Author: Robert L. Hirsch
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
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4 Titles in Inspector Kenworthy Series - Death in Midwinter - Corridors of Guilt - Cradle of Crime - Dead Man's Path

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John Buxton Hilton
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4 massmarket paperback Titles in Inspector Kenworthy Series - Death in Midwinter - Corridors of Guilt - Cradle of Crime - Dead Man's Path

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