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What actions must a boy take to become a man? One might use a razor
to clear his first growth of beard, while another could employ it
as a weapon -- both actions might be a fitting rite of passage.
In these dazzling works of fiction, seventeen masters of crime
and suspense explore what it means to be a son, what it means to be
a father, what it means to be a man. Spanning continents and
decades, the stories are set in interconnected worlds both
instantly recognizable and astonishingly believable, from long
stretches on a dry Texas highway to a bleak London alley, from the
claustrophobic confines of an after-hours backroom poker game to a
rundown jazz joint in Manhattan.
Amid card sharks, revolvers, and shallow graves, the characters
who inhabit these stories strive to discover what is right, what
will give them dignity, what will earn them respect. Whether at the
age of ten or thirty-five, all will come face-to-face with a
situation that will brutally separate the men from the boys.
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A Game of Murder (DVD)
June Barry, Murray Hayne, Diana King, Anthony Sagar, Lesley Carole, …
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Six-part thriller series from Francis Durbridge. When a famous
athlete (Anthony Sagar) dies on a golf course, his detective son
Jack (Gerald Harper) supects murder, despite the coroner's
misadventure verdict. In pursuit of the facts and events behind his
death, Jack embarks on a murder hunt that takes him into the seedy
underworld of the Soho red-light district. As the body count rises
Jack's suspicions are proved correct but will he be able to
discover the mystery behind it all?
First published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John
Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed. The
first part of the volume derives from Muirhead's own
autobiographical narrative, left unfinished when he died in May
1940. The second part features two final chapters written by John
W. Harvey that comprehensively record the final stages of
Muirhead's life. Harvey's chapters incorporate Muirhead's
unfinished final years of commentary and begin at the man's
retirement from Birmingham Chair in 1921. As a student and teacher
of philosophy, Muirhead's life ran almost precisely parallel to
what he himself refers to as 'one of the most vivid and important
movements in British and American philosophy'. He came into contact
with some of the age's primary thinkers and as such, his own
autobiography is important in providing an insight into his
contemporary philosophical environment.
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Pax (Hardcover)
John Harvey
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When artist Stephen Bloodsmith creates a series of images inspired
by Rubens' trip to London in 1629, he enters a historical world of
suspicion and intrigue. But will the manipulations he portrays in
art spill over into the real world? When he practises deception
inside his own marriage, falling in love with his model even as the
romance of his wife Robyn unravels, the corrosive parallels between
Bloodsmith's and Rubens' lives - the discovery of intimate secrets,
the pain caused by desire and jealousy, the consequences of power
and conflict - become hard to live with and impossible to ignore.
Rubens believed he could make peace between the warring powers of
Europe. To succeed he must win over Charles I of England, while in
Paris 'the Cardinal' is working to frustrate him. Will nation cheat
nation as people deceive one another in their personal lives? At
once an intimate portrait of sexual pain in two centuries, and a
gripping depiction of international 'deal-making', Pax is a rich,
compelling study of desire, power, art - and the necessity of
finding peace.
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Aslant (Paperback)
John Harvey; Photographs by Molly Ernestine Boiling
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Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 (LCA 2020, Sacramento, CA, 3-6 June 2020) (Hardcover)
John Harvey, Imad L Al-Qadi, Hasan Ozer, Gerardo Flintsch
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An increasing number of agencies, academic institutes, and
governmental and industrial bodies are embracing the principles of
sustainability in managing their activities. Life Cycle Assessment
(LCA) is an approach developed to provide decision support
regarding the environmental impact of industrial processes and
products. LCA is a field with ongoing research, development and
improvement and is being implemented world-wide, particularly in
the areas of pavement, roadways and bridges. Pavement, Roadway, and
Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 contains the contributions to the
International Symposium on Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle
Assessment 2020 (Davis, CA, USA, June 3-6, 2020) covering research
and practical issues related to pavement, roadway and bridge LCA,
including data and tools, asset management, environmental product
declarations, procurement, planning, vehicle interaction, and
impact of materials, structure, and construction. Pavement,
Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 will be of interest
to researchers, professionals, and policymakers in academia,
industry, and government who are interested in the sustainability
of pavements, roadways and bridges.
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Daggers Drawn (Hardcover)
Maxim Jakubowski; Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, John Harvey, …
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NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF
THE BEST IN CRIME FICTION Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great
names in crime fiction and stories from his anthologies have won
the CWA Dagger six times. Now he has collected 19 Dagger
award-winning stories in one volume, making it the first
retrospective deep dive into the CWA's archive of Dagger Award
winners. Bringing together the greatest crime fictions authors such
as Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John
Harvey and many more. Edgy, twisted and disturbing, Daggers Drawn
is a visceral and thrilling collection showcasing the very best
modern crime fiction has to offer. Contributors include: Ian Rankin
Jeffery Deaver John Connolly John Harvey Denise Mina Julian
Rathbone Martin Edwards Peter Lovesey Lauren Henderson Stella Duffy
Peter O'Donnell (writing as Madeleine Brent) Danuta Reah Cath
Staincliffe Margaret Murphy L.C. Tyler Phil Lovesey Larry Beinhart
Richard Lange Jerry Sykes
First published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John
Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed. The
first part of the volume derives from Muirhead's own
autobiographical narrative, left unfinished when he died in May
1940. The second part features two final chapters written by John
W. Harvey that comprehensively record the final stages of
Muirhead's life. Harvey's chapters incorporate Muirhead's
unfinished final years of commentary and begin at the man's
retirement from Birmingham Chair in 1921. As a student and teacher
of philosophy, Muirhead's life ran almost precisely parallel to
what he himself refers to as 'one of the most vivid and important
movements in British and American philosophy'. He came into contact
with some of the age's primary thinkers and as such, his own
autobiography is important in providing an insight into his
contemporary philosophical environment.
Jack Kiley, a professional footballer turned private investigator,
is hired to track down a soldier who has gone missing while on
leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has
seen and done in the war, and he is armed.
An increasing number of agencies, academic institutes, and
governmental and industrial bodies are embracing the principles of
sustainability in managing their activities and conducting
business. Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment contains contributions to
the Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment Symposium 2017 (Champaign, IL,
USA, 12-13 April 2017) and discusses the current status of as well
as future developments for LCA implementation in project- and
network-level applications. The papers cover a wide variety of
topics: - Recent developments for the regional inventory databases
for materials, construction, and maintenance and rehabilitation
life-cycle stages and critical challenges - Review of
methodological choices and impact on LCA results - Use of LCA in
decision making for project selection - Implementation of case
studies and lessons learned: agency perspectives - Integration of
LCA into pavement management systems (PMS) - Project-level LCA
implementation case studies - Network-level LCA applications and
critical challenges - Use-phase rolling resistance models and field
validation - Uncertainty assessment in all life-cycle stages - Role
of PCR and EPDs in the implementation of LCA Pavement Life-Cycle
Assessment will be of interest to academics, professionals, and
policymakers involved or interested in Highway and Airport
Pavements.
Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool.
They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work
or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are
basic, much as food and shelter are - and also may be beautiful -
they have long had a bad press in serious, moral and philosophical
writing. The main reason for this is that they are external to us,
a cover we may hide behind, and one on which some people spend too
much money, perfecting a pompous plumage of vanity: also they, and
the fashions for them, may not last long. Nonetheless, when we
choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter
and far from being merely superficial. John Harvey considers the
overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and
advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and
women we are, and help us to attract each other. They enroll us in
groups, from our own circle to our generation worldwide; and they
show just how, as individuals, we want to be noticed. Clothes, like
their wearers, may compete in claiming power. They may also, on and
off the catwalk, compete to claim the spotlight. In sum they show
how we think we matter - and they can matter themselves in ways
that may be intimate and even crucial to us. At all times clothes
have demanded attention, even when they have been castigated for
their vanity, and contemporary opinion is still divided. Are
clothes the most frivolous of consumer disposables - or are they,
however extravagant, art? Though we wear and see them every day,
the value that they have for us is multiple and fugitive and hard
to catch exactly. "Clothes" attempts to sort the many-coloured
wardrobe which marks off mankind from other creatures.
Pack: Book and CD Internationally, full-scale accelerated pavement
testing, either on test roads or linear/circular test tracks, has
proven to be a valuable tool that fills the gap between models and
laboratory tests and long-term experiments on in-service pavements.
Accelerated pavement testing is used to improve understanding of
pavement behavior, and evaluation of innovative materials and
additives, alternative materials processing, new construction
techniques, and new types of structures. It provides quick
comparisons between current and new practice and the ability to
rapidly validate and calibrate models with quality data, with
minimal risk at relatively low cost. Advances in Pavement Design
through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing is a collection of
papers from the 4th International Conference on Accelerated
Pavement Testing (Davies, CA, USA, 19-21 September 2012), and
includes contributions on a variety of topics including: - Overview
of Accelerated Pavement Testing - Establishment of New Accelerated
Pavement Testing Facilities - Review of the Impact of Accelerated
Pavement Testing Programs on Practice - Instrumentation for
Accelerated Pavement Testing - Accelerated Pavement Testing on
Asphalt Concrete Pavements - Accelerated Pavement Testing on
Portland Cement Concrete Pavements - Accelerated Pavement Testing
to Evaluate Functional Performance - Relating Laboratory Tests to
Performance using Accelerated Pavement Testing - Development and
Calibration of Empirical and Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design
Procedures and Models - Benefit-cost Analysis of Accelerated
Pavement Testing Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale
Accelerated Pavement Testing will be useful to academics and
professionals involved in pavement engineering.
Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool.
They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work
or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are
basic, much as food and shelter are - and also may be beautiful -
they have long had a bad press in serious, moral and philosophical
writing. The main reason for this is that they are external to us,
a cover we may hide behind, and one on which some people spend too
much money, perfecting a pompous plumage of vanity: also they, and
the fashions for them, may not last long. Nonetheless, when we
choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter
and far from being merely superficial. John Harvey considers the
overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and
advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and
women we are, and help us to attract each other. They enroll us in
groups, from our own circle to our generation worldwide; and they
show just how, as individuals, we want to be noticed. Clothes, like
their wearers, may compete in claiming power. They may also, on and
off the catwalk, compete to claim the spotlight. In sum they show
how we think we matter - and they can matter themselves in ways
that may be intimate and even crucial to us. At all times clothes
have demanded attention, even when they have been castigated for
their vanity, and contemporary opinion is still divided. Are
clothes the most frivolous of consumer disposables - or are they,
however extravagant, art? Though we wear and see them every day,
the value that they have for us is multiple and fugitive and hard
to catch exactly. "Clothes" attempts to sort the many-coloured
wardrobe which marks off mankind from other creatures.
How do you feel about networking? I can help you love it as much as
I do. Most people see networking as a necessary evil - something to
be endured or even avoided. But there is a minority who really
embrace and enjoy networking. Like me, they understand the vast
benefits it brings, the extraordinary value it adds to their
professional and personal lives and, crucially, they know how to do
it well and with ease. In this handy book, I'll show you how you
can overcome your reservations and fears about networking, and I'll
coach you in all the skills and insider secrets that I've developed
over the years. These secrets and skills have helped make
networking a vital ingredient in my success, and they can do the
same for you, too. So, whether it's entering a room full of
strangers that fills you with dread, or the idea of striking up a
conversation with someone you've never met that makes you anxious,
let me help you. I'll explain how to build a robust networking
strategy that can revolutionise finding exciting opportunities,
lucrative new clients, and sought-after decision makers. And, by
placing networking at the heart of what you do, you'll discover
exactly how to make it more rewarding, productive, effective and,
yes, even fun!
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and
applications in the field of accelerated pavement testing (APT),
presented at the 6th International Conference on Accelerated
Pavement Testing, in Nantes, France, in April 2022. Discussing APT,
which involves rapid testing of full-scale pavement constructions
for structural deterioration, the book covers topics such as APT
facilities, APT of asphalt concrete and sustainable/innovative
materials, APT for airfield pavements, testing of maintenance and
rehabilitation solutions, testing of smart and multi-functional
pavements, data analysis and modeling, monitoring and
non-destructive testing, and efficient means of
calibrating/developing pavement design methods. Featuring
peer-reviewed contributions by leading international researchers
and engineers, the book is a timely and highly relevant resource
for materials scientists and engineers interested in determining
the performance of pavement structures during their service life
(10+ years) in a few weeks or months.
The Handbook of Relationship Initiation is the first volume to
focus specifically on the very beginning stage of relationships
their origin. In this Handbook, leading scholars on relationships
review the literature on various processes related to the
initiation of relationships: how people meet, communicate for the
first time, and begin to define themselves as being in a
relationship. Topics include attraction, mate selection, influence
of social networks on relationship initiation, initiation over the
internet, hook-ups among young adults, and flirting and opening
gambits. In addition, the dark side of relationship initiation is
considered, including unwanted relationship pursuit and barriers to
relationship initiation including social anxiety.
This volume provides an overdue synthesis of the literature on
this topic. It is especially timely in view of the growing
prevalence on relationship initiation online, through matchmaking
and other social networking sites, which has increased awareness
that science can be used to understand, create, and facilitate
compatible matching.
This Handbook provides an essential resource for an
interdisciplinary range of researchers and students who study
relationships, including social psychologists, communication
scientists and scholars of marriage and the family.
Contents: Part I: General Perspectives on Loss, Trauma, Coping and Positive Impacts of Loss. From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events. The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation. Bereavement. Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A Social Psychological Perspective. Victim Thinking. The Ranking of Personal Grief: Death and Comparative Loss. Parallel Selves as Ending of the Grief Work. Rational Suicide. Part 2: Loss and Trauma Associated with Specific Populations. The Role of Perceived Control in Coping with the Losses Associated with Chronic Illness. Coping as a "Reality Construction": On the Role of Attentive, Comparative, and Interpretive Processes in Coping with Cancer. Loss, Adjustment, and Growth after Cancer: Lessons from Patients' children. The Few Gains and Many Losses for Those Stigmatized by Psychiatric Disorders. The Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: The "Irrational" Effects of The Justice Motive on Managers, Dismissed Workers, and Survivors. Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: kers, and Survivors. Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: Grief and Loss. On Being Homeless and Mentally Ill: A Multitude of Losses and the Possibility of Recovery. Part 3: Loss and Trauma Associated with Close Relationships. Loss, Resources, and Resiliency in Close Interpersonal Relationships. Negotiating Terminal Illness: Communication, Collusion, and Coalition in Caregiving. Caregiver Loss and Quality of Care Provided: Pre-Illness Relationship Makes a Difference. Adjusting to Infertility. Widowhood in Later-Life. The Loss of Loved Ones: the Impact of Relationship Infidelity. Unyielding custody disputes: Tempering Loss and Courting disaster. Cognitive Interdependence and the Experience of Relationship Loss. Part 4: Conclusion. Commentary on Field of Loss and Trauma and Chapters.
Against a background of shifting allegiances, involving the violent
gangs on the estate where he lives and his first serious
involvement with a girl, Nick is forced to come to terms, not only
with whom his father was but who he is himself.
Wizards that can change cats into frogs, heal the sick and make
trains disappear. Fairies dancing over a stream, owls that befriend
other creatures and a mystical, magical, bright blue cat. All and
more in The Opposite Stone: A Collection of Magical Stories for
Children. Written by John Harvey Illustrated in colour and black
and white by Eileen Soper, Mark Goddard and Paul Goddard
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