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  • Fear of Fear

    A Survey of Terrorist Operations and Controls in Open Societies

    by John B. Wolf ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Terrorism, continuing unabated in the contemporary world, is having a serious impact on the lives of people and nations. Once, only govern ments and ruling classes possessed the power to coerce large segments of the world's peoples. Today, a handful of thugs, covered and concealed by a collection of terrorist organizations, are disturbing people every where by perpetrating dramatic criminal acts ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Antiterrorist Initiatives

    by John B. Wolf ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Traditionally, terrorist bands operating in rural or urban areas use vio lence to cast themselves as a legitimate political force. Necklacing, plac ing an oil-soaked tire around the neck of an informer and then igniting it, and knee-capping, positioning a handgun behind the kneecap of a "tout" (a police informer) and then squeezing the trigger, are among the enforcement methods used by clandestine ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Woodworking: The Ultimate Guide to Woodworking for Beginners and Mastering the Essentials of Woodworking Projects

    by Robin T. Wolf ...
    Narrated by John Hays ...

    Unabridged

    26 min

    Do you want to start creating beautiful objects with wood?Is the idea of working with wood something that has always appealed to you?Do you have everything you need to get started?There is something about the smell of wood that makes us want to be around it and create things from it. For thousands of years our relationship has been one that has existed on many different levels, using it for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History and Philosophy of Materialism

    Edited by Charles T. Wolfe, John Symons ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    Materialism - the view that facts are dependent upon or reducible to physical processes - is one of the most long-standing and controversial of all philosophical theories. Originating in antiquity, its proponents include Epicurus, Hobbes, Diderot, Darwin and Marx, whilst its impact on modern physics and consciousness debates reverberates strongly today. It is also an important yet generally ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Science of Synthesis: Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions Vol. 2

    Carbon-Heteroatom Cross Coupling and C-C Cross Coupling of Acidic C-H Nucleophiles

    Edited by John Wolfe ...
    In Science of Synthesis: Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions, expert authors present and discuss the best and most reliable methods currently available for the formation of new carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds using these reactions, highlighted with representative experimental procedures. Together, the three volumes of Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions provide an extensive ... Read more

    $269.09 USD

  • Cities and Fascination

    Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

    Edited by Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr, John Urry ...
    Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being the fascination which is aroused by attractions and state-managed events. The complex ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Declining by Degrees

    Higher Education at Risk

    Edited by Richard H. Hersh, John Merrow ...
    What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation?Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives.When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Synthesis of Heterocycles via Metal-Catalyzed Reactions that Generate One or More Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds

    Edited by John P. Wolfe ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Synthesis of Saturated Heterocycles via Metal-Catalyzed Alkene Carboamination or Carboalkoxylation Reactions, by John P. Wolfe Synthesis of Saturated Heterocycles via Metal-Catalyzed Alkene Diamination, Aminoalkoxylation, or Dialkoxylation Reactions, by Sherry R. Chemler Synthesis of Heterocycles via Metal-Catalyzed Wacker-Type Oxidative Cyclization Reactions of Alkoxy- or Amino-Alkenes, by Wanbin ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

    by John U. Wolff ...
    The Cebuano language, also referred by most of its speakers as Bisaya or Binisaya (English: Visayan), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people, mostly in Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region, western parts of Eastern Visayas and major parts of Mindanao, most of whom belong to the Visayan ethnic group. It is the most widely spoken of the languages ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Code for Tomorrow, A

    by John J. Gobbell ...
    Narrated by Michael Wolfe ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Todd Ingram

    Unabridged

    14 hours 52 min

    “The sea action is exciting and thoroughly convincing.” —Kirkus ReviewsTodd Ingram is back in the fight.After narrowly escaping the Japanese-held Philippines, he is promoted to the destroyer USS Howell.His new assignment puts him in the middle of two epic naval engagements: the Battle of Cape Esperance and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. But his fight against the Imperial Japanese Navy is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cats in Question

    The Smithsonian Answer Book

    by John Seidensticker, Susan Lumpkin ...
    Series series Smithsonian's In Question Series
    What are cats? How do cats hunt? Do wild cats like catnip? Do cats dream? Cats in Question, a new book in Smithsonian's highly successful “In Question” series, offers authoritative and engaging answers to the thousands of questions about cats that Smithsonian scientists receive annually. All of the world’s cats are here, from fearsome predators such as lions and tigers, to mysterious hunters such ... Read more

    $18.99 USD