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William Boyd Dawkins was a controversial Victorian geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist who has divided opinion as either a hero or villain. For some, he was a pioneer of Darwinian science as a member of the Lubbock-Evans network, while for others he was little more than a reckless vandal who destroyed irreplaceable evidence and left precious little for future generations to assess.
In this volume, Professor Mark White provides an unbiased...
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Mark White was the bubonic plague epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when his wife left him and took the kids to the East Coast. He moved to New York City to be near them and got a job as the hospital epidemiologist at Booth Memorial Medical Center (now the New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital).
Soon he and his nurse epidemiologists faced cases of Acquired Immune Syndrome and a hospital-wide anti-freeze poisoning in...
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Antitrust or competition law is widely considered an essential part of the legal and political structures of most liberal democracies and an integral foundation of a market economy. In this book, Mark D. White disputes this understanding, drawing on concepts from economics, philosophy, and law to argue that the pre-eminent status accorded to the regulation of competition should be reconsidered by any government that claims to support basic property...
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Everyday low-level magic is commonplace, the only thing forbidden is technology. The ruins of the old world serve as a constant reminder of why humanity must never venture down that path again. Rowan Webb is recruited into the secretive Ministry responsible for ensuring technological advancement is suppressed – The Mufflers, who turn out to be a surprisingly friendly and eccentric bunch. Venturing out into the community with a familiar called Pythia,...
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Juno is an ordered authoritarian society that desperately needs reform. A man known only as Tamboli knows how to divide it, but can it be put together again afterwards?
Jemma is determined to discover the truth behind their closed, secretive world. Progressing through society, she becomes convinced that the ruling Director caste has too much power.
Unfortunately only an undercover resistance movement – led by a faceless man called Tamboli –...
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The alien ships appearing across Earth come seeking help, not conquest. The Peria have crossed from an alternative reality, part of a Duality caused by the Schism. The Duality is collapsing. Unless all races work together, everyone could die. Mason Ross discovers he's one of the select few whose consciousness can cross realities – just what the Peria seek. As his marriage collapses on both Earths, helping the Peria sounds like the fresh start Mason...
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We all know the Mighty Thor: Prince of Asgard, son of Odin the All-Father, and God of Thunder. He has long been one of the few worthy to wield the mystic hammer Mjolnir... until, one day, he is not. Soon, a new Thor emerges, a woman who commands the thunder and the hammer in ways all her own. She is none other than Jane Foster, who shares a long history with the Odinson, and as she learns to be her own version of the Mighty Thor, the Odinson can only...
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The sequel to The Muffler's Ministry and The Muffler's Mission. Cronos has been defeated again, but the latent threat remains. The Oracle – AKA The Muffler – is working on a plan for long-term safety but is reluctant to reveal the details.Rowan and Tia have more pressing concerns. Tia's ever-growing magical ability threatens to kill her unless it stops. Rowan's Dad is missing, spreading unfamiliars across the land, causing chaos in his quest to...
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For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White's own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence...
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It was perhaps inevitable that a struggling colony like Juventas would forget much of its early history, let alone things from old Earth centuries before. None of which explained why the planet was so weird. Just as a critical election looms, Jess Kimber quits her role running the colony's premier development, including the voting infrastructure, looking for a fresh challenge after a messy divorce. Her former colleague, Ravi Antic, sets off as part...
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After centuries apart, the worlds of Earth and Juno – both shaped by a man called Tamboli – are set on a collision course by an alien force known as the Safirans. On Earth, the Stream is no more, converted into a virtual afterlife by the Church of Saint Raj. Katinka Farkas has to flee for her life when an unknown agency subverts the Ritual of Ascension. On Juno, the Congregation of Indra undermines the current presidency as the election nears....