Tom Williams
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English
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Hidden in deep grass, beyond the line of the distant ridge, half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or, finding fresh earth, rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape, populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have never crossed, or whose need for understanding leaves no intimate stone unturned. But as the sun rises and sets upon each story, what the searchers find...
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English
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Bill Tutte Codebreaker
'The greatest intellectual feat of the second world war.'
... a testimonial to Bill Tutte and his codebreaking discovery in 1942 at Bletchley Park.
Bill Tutte was a young, gauche PhD student, yet his remarkable breakthrough and continuing endeavour against a German cipher machine more complex than Enigma led to the development of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. Colossus allowed top-secret messages between...
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English
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Chinese medicine is growing ever more popular in the West. Increasing numbers of us know that acupuncture and herbal remedies can help us—yet we do not understand how they work or why. Tom Williams' timely introduction shows how Chinese medicine interprets the human body, and how Qi, Jing and Shen (the three treasures—energy, essence and mind/spirit) and the other basic body substances interact to bring bodily harmony.
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age. Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed...
5) Four Fathers
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English
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A collection of flash fiction (Tanzer), bookend short stories (Williams), a novella (Housley), and poetry written from father to daughter (Pawelek), Four Fathers is a hard-hitting definitive work that seeks to uncover what it takes to be a parent. These subjects are not easy, and through these introspective fathers, often agonized by the daily tensions of care-taking, we come to appreciate our own experiences more fully, or, at least prepare ourselves...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age. Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed...
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Texas A & M Univ Pr
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said...
8) Dark Magic
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English
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Two magic shows: the Maestros of Magic touring the country, playing provincial theatres; the Carnival of Conjurors successful in the West End. When the Maestros learn that the Conjurors are using real magic — Black Magic — to do their tricks they decide that they must use their own, distinctly unmagical, stage skills to stop them. Soon people are dying on stage — but can the Maestros really beat a team that has the devil on their side?
A darkly...
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English
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War Forged Leadership: Being The Leader Everyone Wants To Follow
A game-changer in the realm of leadership guides. Experience the paradigm shift in leadership ideologies!
Transforming Leaders, Empowering Teams
No matter your leadership challenges, War Forged Leadership provides a powerful blueprint for becoming a more effective leader. Tom Williams, an authority figure on leadership, unearths real-world strategies that can help you hone your leadership...
14) Canada
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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An introduction to Canada that discusses its geography, natural landscape, history, people, culture, government, and economy.