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The Hellfire Conspiracy: A Novel 12 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2007
Well crafted historical mystery
Will Thomas's "The Hellfire Conspiracy" is set in Victorian London in the late 1800's and is conceived in similar fashion to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures. Story narrator young Welshman Thomas Llewelyn and his employer and mentor Cyrus Barker are private enquiry agents commisssioned by a distraught Major DeVere of the Royal Horseguards. DeVere's young daughter Gwendolyn has gone ...
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MCSA/MCSE Implementing and Managing Exchange Server 2003 Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 70-284) (Exam Cram 2)5 reviews
Orin Thomas, Will Schmied, ...
Que, 2004
Good Preparation for the Exam
This book covers, in condensed format, the material tested on the Exchange 2003 exam. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who had no experience with Exchange 2003. All books in the Cram series are for people who either have other study materials and need some sort of summary document, or for people that have extensive experience with the actual product. In my own case I had experience with ...
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The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel14 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2008
I just LOVE this series
I couldn't wait for #5 to come out & it's as enjoyable as the rest. If you read the quote from Laurell K. Hamilton regarding this series, I simply couldn't agree more. My only fault is why can't Mr Thomas start writing 2 of these each year?
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Gravity and Grace 5 reviews
Simone Weil
Bison Books, 1997
They called her the Red Virgin
Simone Weil's writings were impenetrable for me in the fifties. Now I have most of her works and I am frequently amazed at how penetrating are her ideas and thoughts, and how contrary to most thinking today. That in itself recommends her. She understands people, life, and suffering, and sees its purpose. She sees through all falseness to the goodness. Simone Weil is the most honest person I ...
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Eight Steps to Help Black Families Pay for College: A Crash Course in Financial Aid (College Admissions ...5 reviews
Thomas LaVeist PhD, Will LaVeist, ...
Princeton Review, 2003
This book is a godsend
This is just the type of book on financial aid that I was looking for. It makes the whole confusing process easy to understand. It's a quick read, intelligent and entertaining. It speaks to black folks. After reading it, I have a better understanding of how the whole thing works.
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The Complete Guide to Wing Shooting: The Ultimate Handbook to a Specialized Sport 3 reviews
Alex Brant
The Lyons Press, 2005
A primer of wing shooting fundamentals
Any hunter narrowing his focus to wing shooting simply must have THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WING SHOOTING: THE ULTIMATE HANDBOOK TO A SPECIALIZED SPORT in hand: it provides hunters with a primer beginning with the fundamentals and moving to safety, etiquette, choosing autoloaders and considering barrels, and much more. Discussions with experts cover any pros and cons of equipment choice or ...
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To Kingdom Come: A Novel 14 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2006
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
I've had more fun reading Will Thomas books in the last couple weeks than I have the whole rest of the year. Absolutely terrific. Wonderful writing, intriguing plots, and characters that are so real you'd think they actually existed somewhere, or wish they did. The only problem I have with Will Thomas is his books come out but once a year. Drat!
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Some Danger Involved: A Novel39 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2005
Sherlock with a Twist
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Victorian mystery as much as I did this one. What talent the author has to evoke the reader's feelings of being right there with the characters of the time and landscape of London's turn-of-the-century era. This first installment's plot has a Jewish theme to it and I can honestly say that I found it all very interesting. I learned a lot about Jewish ...
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The Limehouse Text: A Novel12 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2006
An excellent book in a great series
Private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket in the suit of Thomas' predecessor, Quong, who had been murdered. The ticket leads to a rare book on forbidden martial arts techniques, stolen from a Chinese monastery. Many people want this book and many die, nearly including Barker himself, as he and Thomas try to protect themselves, save the book and ...
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Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 3 (Amazing Adventures of the Escapist ... 2 reviews
Will Eisner, Eddie Campbell, ...
Dark Horse, 2006
Chabon addict
I have just loved the books he has written and so I found myself buying everything with his name on it. These are fun to look at.
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The Hard Way: Writing by the Rebels Who Changed Sports
Will Balliett, Thomas Dyja
Da Capo Press, 1999
Rebels have always been a part of sports. From Muhammad Ali's stand against the Vietnam War to All-Star Curt Flood's career-ending fight to defeat baseball's reserve clause to gay football player Dave Kopay's battle to be different in the NFL, The Hard Way collects the stories of the men and women who played the game their way. Jackie Robinson tells how he broke the barriers of racial discrimination in baseball and heralded the civil rights era. ...
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Sculptural Sphere
Will Bradley, Tom Healy, ...
Sammlung Goetz, 2004
The multi-dimensionality of our daily experiences is reduced by the television and internet media to the surface of a flat screen. Thus reality loses more and more of its spatial qualities, even as theoretical physicists develop increasingly sophisticated models to better understand the structures of time and space. As they employ an ever-growing number of dimensions in this endeavor, the mode of our sensual reception continues to become as flat ...
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Building DMZs for Enterprise Networks5 reviews
Robert J. Shimonski, Will Schmied, ...
Syngress, 2003
Never Before Seen
Wow. This is all I can say from reading this book. I cant beleive the level of information in this book. As a Network Analyst, I found that this book clearly, painlessly and in a very detailed manner helped me deploy a DMZ on my network. Athough my network is not that huge, this book really helped. This is a great book that made me look good at work when I deployed a PIX with IIS and had to ...
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Bordertown: A Chronicle of the Borderlands1 review
Mark Alan Arnold
Roc, 1986
GREAT READ!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first book in the bordertown series I read was a travliers guide. I was hooked after that. This book is a great urban fantasy. I makes me want to run away and just be young and care free.The introduction by Farrel Din is perfect, He is a character I alaways want to know more about. Little glimpes of his charater in other books is like torture. Danceland is like a slice of pie with the ...
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Early German Painting 1350-1550: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Isolde Lubbeke
Philip Wilson Publishers, 2003
German painting from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, under the influence first of Netherlandish art and next of the Italian Renaissance, attained a high point unsurpassed in later times. Nearly all the most important artists of the period are represented here, from Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder to Hans Maler. Ninety-one works are featured in total. A wide range of artistic production is covered: panels from ...
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The Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit (Practical Teaching Guides)
Brin Best, Will Thomas
Continuum, 2007
This book aims to help you become a more effective teacher through a new teaching and learning framework which centres on the key role of creativity. Inside you will learn how to use creativity to reinvigorate teaching across all subject areas, thereby inspiring learners to reach their potential. Through a highly practical and inclusive approach, the book equips you with a range of common-sense strategies and tools designed to build on your ...
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Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Transatlantic Relations) 1 review
ABC-CLIO, 2005
Tom A. Bowen
As an American of German descent, I object to this set of books. Reason being is that there are material omissions and material misrepresentations in the books. With regard to the material omissions, the books do not discuss or identify that two U.S. Presidents are of German extraction, thse two presidents being Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower. With regard to the material ...
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Creating a Dynamic Speech Dialogue - How to implement dialogue initiatives and question selection strategies ...
Thomas Will
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2007
In recent years man-machine-communication has become more important. Several speech dialogue systems have been developed in order to provide a very comfortable interaction for categorising users prior to forwarding them to a human employee. The aim is to satisfy the user without or at least with reduced human involvement. Hence, the goal of this book is to demonstrate how to create a dynamic speech dialogue with VoiceXML agents. This also ...
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