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Book Thomas Riley

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Valentino
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780615790282
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Thomas Riley written by Nick Valentino and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR THOMAS RILEY "Nick Valentino is one of the leading lights in the steampunk movement today. In an enjoyable adventure tale that takes the reader from one side of a war to another in an effort to save one life, Valentino brings magic to steampunk, in the air and on the ground. THOMAS RILEY is a promising beginning to an ambitious series." H. David Blalock, author of Angelkiller "THOMAS RILEY is one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre. Indiana Jones on an airship battling pirates, it doesn't get much better." Clive London, author of Kirkus Starred Prince Albert and the Doomsday Device FROM THE BACK COVER As a weapons designer for the West Canvian government, Thomas Riley has been providing his country with the means to fight off the Lemurians in a war that has lasted twenty years. Whether it's armaments for giant, steam-powered airships or exploding ammunition for the military's rifles, Thomas has perfected his craft. But after a dangerous alchemic procedure goes terribly wrong, Thomas must seek the help from a madman behind enemy lines. Thrust into an adventure that will test his very mettle, Thomas must fight his way through sky pirates, outsmart his arch nemesis, and save both his assistant and the duke's daughter before they are lost forever. This new edition includes the first chapter of THOMAS RILEY AND THE MAELSTROM, the stunning sequel to bestselling novel THOMAS RILEY.

Book We Break Immortals

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  • Author : Thomas Howard Riley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-12-07
  • ISBN : 9781955959018
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book We Break Immortals written by Thomas Howard Riley and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drug addict who hunts sorcerers, the most renowned swordsman no one's ever heard of, and a thieving magick-wielding woman hellbent on revenge collide during a last ditch effort to stop an insane superhuman serial killer from becoming a god.

Book He Almost Changed the World

Download or read book He Almost Changed the World written by David J. Bennett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maverick

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  • Author : Jason Riley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 9781541619685
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Maverick written by Jason Riley and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness. In the first-ever biography of Sowell, Jason Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals.

Book Recollections of Thomas R  Marshall  Vice president and Hoosier Philosopher

Download or read book Recollections of Thomas R Marshall Vice president and Hoosier Philosopher written by Thomas Riley Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forgotten Child

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  • Author : Melissa Erin Jackson
  • Publisher : Riley Thomas Mystery
  • Release : 2018-12
  • ISBN : 9781732413429
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Child written by Melissa Erin Jackson and published by Riley Thomas Mystery. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Child is the first book in a new spooky paranormal mystery series starring a reluctant medium. Join Riley as she uses the help of a lost ghost boy to try and solve a decades-old cold case. Unfortunately for her, someone very much alive lurks in the shadows, determined to stop her from discovering secrets he'd rather keep buried.

Book Tangled Vines

Download or read book Tangled Vines written by Frances Dinkelspiel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted California historian rips the oh-so-laid-back label off the California wine trade to show the violent and obsessive world underneath

Book The Flesh of Fallen Angels  A Gibson Blount Novel

Download or read book The Flesh of Fallen Angels A Gibson Blount Novel written by Roy C. Booth and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the eve of The Ripening as Gibson Blount discovers the secret history of an ancient race and the true outcome of Lucifer's fall. Now, the fallen angel, Azazel, has horrific plans for Blount's town...and the world. With the help of a local priest, a prostitute, an orphan, historical figure William Quantrill, and one of God's chief angels, Blount must dig for truth and unearth secrets woven deeply within Time itself to uncover a supernatural plot put into motion by the Church to punish the Roanoke Puritans. The War in Heaven has been lost and the flesh of fallen angels hangs in the balance. An alternative 1860's history Weird Western, The Flesh of Fallen Angels is filled with fast-paced action, intrigue, and good-versus-evil what-ifs.

Book The Sins of Father Riley

Download or read book The Sins of Father Riley written by Gary Tutty and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Father Riley hiding an affair, a murder, or both? Father Thomas Riley is a parish priest who is beloved by many. He is respected for his ability to help those who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Unfortunately, Father Riley gets too close to some of the females in his grief counseling groups. When one of the women in the group is found murdered, Father Riley becomes the chief suspect. Despite all the good things he is hearing, Detective Wilcox believes that Father Riley has not only betrayed his vow of celibacy, but in order to cover it up, has committed a murder. When Father Riley is sent to the Vatican on a special assignment, Wilcox is only further convinced of his guilt. At first, Father Riley is concerned about his vocation, as a woman threatens to tell the bishop about their affair. When she is found dead, he is more concerned about a life behind bars, or worse.

Book Island Queen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vanessa Riley
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-07-06
  • ISBN : 0063002868
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book Island Queen written by Vanessa Riley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive...by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”--The New York Times A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent. Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England. From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.

Book Development and Validation of Analytical Methods

Download or read book Development and Validation of Analytical Methods written by Christopher M. Riley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-05-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to validate an analytical or bioanalytical method is encountered by analysts in the pharmaceutical industry on an almost daily basis, because adequately validated methods are a necessity for approvable regulatory filings. What constitutes a validated method, however, is subject to analyst interpretation because there is no universally accepted industry practice for assay validation. This book is intended to serve as a guide to the analyst in terms of the issues and parameters that must be considered in the development and validation of analytical methods. In addition to the critical issues surrounding method validation, this book also deals with other related factors such as method development, data acquisition, automation, cleaning validation and regulatory considerations. The book is divided into three parts. Part One, comprising two chapters, looks at some of the basic concepts of method validation. Chapter 1 discusses the general concept of validation and its role in the process of transferring methods from laboratory to laboratory. Chapter 2 looks at some of the critical parameters included in a validation program and the various statistical treatments given to these parameters.Part Two (Chapters 3, 4 and 5) of the book focuses on the regulatory perspective of analytical validation. Chapter 3 discusses in some detail how validation is treated by various regulatory agencies around the world, including the United States, Canada, the European Community, Australia and Japan. This chapter also discusses the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) treatment of assay validation. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the issues and various perspectives of the recent United States vs. Barr Laboratories Inc. case involving the retesting of samples. Part Three (Chapters 6 - 12) covers the development and validation of various analytical components of the pharmaceutical product development process. This part of the book contains specific chapters dedicated to bulk drug substances and finished products, dissolution studies, robotics and automated workstations, biotechnology products, biological samples, analytical methods for cleaning procedures and computer systems and computer-aided validation. Each chapter goes into some detail describing the critical development and related validation considerations for each topic.This book is not intended to be a practical description of the analytical validation process, but more of a guide to the critical parameters and considerations that must be attended to in a pharmaceutical development program. Despite the existence of numerous guidelines including the recent attempts by the ICH to be implemented in 1998, the practical part of assay validation will always remain, to a certain extent, a matter of the personal preference of the analyst or company. Nevertheless, this book brings together the perspectives of several experts having extensive experience in different capacities in the pharmaceutical industry in an attempt to bring some consistency to analytical method development and validation.

Book False Black Power

Download or read book False Black Power written by Jason L. Riley and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid off in the ways that civil rights leadership has promised. Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of black elected officials, culminating in the historic presidency of Barack Obama. However, racial gaps in employment, income, homeownership, academic achievement, and other measures not only continue but in some cases have even widened. While other racial and ethnic groups in America have made economic advancement a priority, the focus on political capital for blacks has been a disadvantage, blocking them from the fiscal capital that helped power upward mobility among other groups. Riley explains why the political strategy of civil rights leaders has left so many blacks behind. The key to black economic advancement today is overcoming cultural handicaps, not attaining more political power. The book closes with thoughtful responses from key thought leaders Glenn Loury and John McWhorter.

Book Dinosaurs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas R. Holtz
  • Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780806973913
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Thomas R. Holtz and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Book Film  Faith  and Cultural Conflict

Download or read book Film Faith and Cultural Conflict written by Robin Riley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ arguably generated more resistance and conflict upon its release than any film before or since, engendering intense debate and even hatred between religious conservative protesters and liberal progressive defenders of the picture. This is the first full examination of the controversy, its participants, and their claims concerning the film's religious meaning. This debate reflects deep levels of social and cultural insecurity produced by the shifting role of religion and religious language in an increasingly secularized society, and demonstrates how a popular film about Jesus captured, inflamed, and strengthened existing animosities. Providing new insights into film's significance as an indicator of the changing relationship between secular and religious domains, the work offers a thorough and fascinating historical analysis of the various interpretations of Last Temptation and its reception.

Book The Cowkeeper s Wish

Download or read book The Cowkeeper s Wish written by Tracy Kasaboski and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Book Please Stop Helping Us

Download or read book Please Stop Helping Us written by Jason L. Riley and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income students attend. In theory these efforts are intended to help the poor—and poor minorities in particular. In practice they become massive barriers to moving forward. Please Stop Helping Us lays bare these counterproductive results. People of goodwill want to see more black socioeconomic advancement, but in too many instances the current methods and approaches aren’t working. Acknowledging this is an important first step.

Book The Monster Within Idea

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Thomas Riley
  • Publisher : Apex Publications
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780982159613
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Monster Within Idea written by R. Thomas Riley and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monsters lurk in everyone: monsters of greed, of guilt, of the pleasure found in pain, of the pain found when pleasure dies. Carefully disguised, the monsters can sit down beside you or take up residence within you at the slightest twist of fate. Will you try to stop them? Will you want to?