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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam

A Life in Physics

by John Archibald Wheeler ...

**Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award"This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review**He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. ... Read more

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**Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award"This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review**He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein.
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One Plus One Equals One

Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life

by John Archibald ...

We are in the midst of a revolution. It is a scientific revolution built upon the tools of molecular biology, with which we probe and prod the living world in ways unimaginable a few decades ago. Need to track a bacterium at the root of a hospital outbreak? No problem: the offending germ's complete genetic profile can be obtained in 24 hours. We insert human DNA into E. coli bacteria to produce ... Read more

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We are in the midst of a revolution. It is a scientific revolution built upon the tools of molecular biology, with which we probe and prod the living world in ways unimaginable a few decades ago. Need to track a bacterium at the root of a hospital outbreak? No problem: the offending germ's complete genetic profile can be obtained in 24 hours. We insert human DNA into E. coli bacteria to produce
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Shaking the Gates of Hell

A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution

by John Archibald ...

On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News."My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. ... Read more

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On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News."My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald.
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Genomics

A Very Short Introduction

by John M. Archibald ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its most celebrated achievement was the Human Genome Project, a technologically challenging endeavor that took thousands of scientists around the ... Read more

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Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its most celebrated achievement was the Human Genome Project, a technologically challenging endeavor that took thousands of scientists around the
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The Ultimate Christmas Collection

by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.
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The Inferno

by Dante Alighieri ...

Translated by John Ciardi ...

Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.The first part of Dante**’**s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways ... Read more

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Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.The first part of Dante**’**s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways
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Phonology in Multilingual Grammars

Representational Complexity and Linguistic Interfaces

by John Archibald ...

This book explores questions about the nature of an interlanguage grammar, i.e. the grammar of a bilingual. John Archibald approaches these questions within a cognitive science perspective that draws upon abstract representational structures in demonstrating that phonological knowledge underlies the surface phonetic properties of L2 speech. Specifically, he proposes that interlanguage grammars are ... Read more

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This book explores questions about the nature of an interlanguage grammar, i.e. the grammar of a bilingual. John Archibald approaches these questions within a cognitive science perspective that draws upon abstract representational structures in demonstrating that phonological knowledge underlies the surface phonetic properties of L2 speech. Specifically, he proposes that interlanguage grammars are
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Genomics

A Very Short Introduction

by John M. Archibald ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

4 hours 12 min

Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its most celebrated achievement was the Human Genome Project, a technologically challenging endeavor that took thousands of scientists around the ... Read more

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Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its most celebrated achievement was the Human Genome Project, a technologically challenging endeavor that took thousands of scientists around the
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Titanic

A Survivor's Story & the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic

by Colonel Archibald Gracie, John B. Thayer ...

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, calls Gracie "an indefatigable ... Read more

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Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, calls Gracie "an indefatigable
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Shaking the Gates of Hell

A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution

by John Archibald ...

Narrated by Cameron Scoggins ...

Unabridged

9 hours 8 min

On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News."My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News."My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald.
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Phonological Acquisition and Phonological Theory

Edited by John Archibald ...

Much of the work currently conducted within the framework of Universal Grammar and language learnability focuses on the acquisition of syntax. However, the learnability issues are just as applicable to the domain of phonology. This volume is the first to gather research that assumes a sophisticated phonological framework and considers the implications of this framework for language acquisition -- ... Read more

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Much of the work currently conducted within the framework of Universal Grammar and language learnability focuses on the acquisition of syntax. However, the learnability issues are just as applicable to the domain of phonology. This volume is the first to gather research that assumes a sophisticated phonological framework and considers the implications of this framework for language acquisition --
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Hellenistic Economies

Edited by Zofia H. Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, Graham Oliver ...

The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by juxtaposing general questions of theory and ... Read more

$84.99 USD

The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by juxtaposing general questions of theory and
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