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In the Beginning--: A Scientist Shows why the Creationists ...

In the Beginning--: A Scientist Shows why the Creationists ...

Christopher McGowan

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In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are ...

In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are ...

Christopher McGowan

The creationists are eager to inflict their particular brand of 'science' upon our children, writes Chris McGowan, and this is where responsible scientists must draw the line.
Homesteader

Homesteader

David McGowan

David McGowan. Along with the crows and ravens, they cleaned up the land; but we had to guard those animals still living. Though they might still breathe, the cattle and horses were weak, and easy prey for a well fed scavenger. Harry and I  ...
Dinosaur Discovery: Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist

Dinosaur Discovery: Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist

Chris McGowan

What do dinosaurs look like from the inside out? Take a journey with renowned paleontologist Chris McGowan as he examines species from Allosaurus to T. rex!
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Todd McGowan

But Todd McGowan argues that capitalism does not thrive because of what it withholds from some and gives to others with power.
Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons

Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons

Christopher McGowan

McGowan attempts to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, making fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals, and drawing on science and engineering concepts to explain the ...
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy

Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy

Todd McGowan

After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results ...
Information Security and Privacy: Third Australasian ...

Information Security and Privacy: Third Australasian ...

Colin Boyd

The Program Committee invited four distinguished speakers: Doug McGowan, Per Kaijser, Winfried Miiller, and William Caelli. Doug McGowan from Hewlett Packard Company presented a paper entitled "Cryptography in an international ...
The Impossible David Lynch

The Impossible David Lynch

Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre.
Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

David McGowan

In Programmed to Kill, acclaimed and always controversial author David McGowan takes a fresh look at the lives of many of America's most notorious accused murderers, focusing on the largely hidden patterns that suggest that there may be ...
Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Todd McGowan

In this first single-author scholarly examination of Spike Lee's oeuvre, Todd McGowan shows how Lee's films, from She's Gotta Have It through Red Hook Summer, address crucial social issues such as racism, paranoia, and economic exploitation ...
Feminine "No!", The: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

Feminine "No!", The: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

Todd McGowan

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon Todd McGowan. Agency. and. the. Traumatic. Encounter. Politics. after. Poststructuralism. The trauma of “The Yellow Wall—paper,” The Awakening, The Marrow of Tradition, and Their Eyes Were Watching ...
Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea

David Livingstone

22 Jack Boulware, “The Rock and Roll Treehouse,” www.jackboulware.com, ( April 20, 2006). [http://www.jackboulware.com/writing/journalism/the-rock-and-roll -treehouse] 23 McGowan, “Inside The LC,” Part V. 24 McGowan, “Inside The LC,”  ...
Derailing democracy: the America the media don't want you to see

Derailing democracy: the America the media don't want you to see

David McGowan

That's how the mainstream media want you to see it. But in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See, David McGowan has compiled an index of disturbing facts that point to ominous trends.
Abacus

Abacus

Christopher McGowan

Time travel - historical science fiction for young adults
A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics

A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics

Christopher McGowan

This book, first published in 1999, takes a hands-on approach to the functional morphology of vertebrates.
The Trophy Child

The Trophy Child

Paula Daly

I am always enthralled by her books and this is her best yet' Jill Mansell 'The UK's answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing' Claire McGowan 'Sheer perfection.
The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular ...

The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular ...

Chris McGowan

"Revised and updated edition of the 1991 publication (see item #bi 98010688#).
Partners

Partners

David McGowan

Clement views Brash as a tenderfoot and can not understand how anyone who knows so little could live so long. These two loners are joined by others and they all become partners.
3 Minute Summary of Pitch Perfect by Bill McGowan:

3 Minute Summary of Pitch Perfect by Bill McGowan:

thimblesofplenty

We wanted to keep up with the latest business books but found that time was a factor. So we divided out the work and each of us took a book and summarised it for the others.
Al Gore (Large Print 16pt)

Al Gore (Large Print 16pt)

Joseph McGowan

From the early days of his political career to his time as U.S. vice president, Al Gore has always been concerned with the environment.
Entertainment in the cyber zone

Entertainment in the cyber zone

Chris McGowan

Written with a light touch--and packed with fascinating peeks behind-the-scenes--this book explains multimedia, CD-ROM, and virtual reality in a lively and entertaining way.
Providence

Providence

Louis H. McGowan

This volume offers a glimpse at what Providence citizens found important, funny, and poignant during the early 20th century, when postcards were a popular medium of communication.
Developing Judgment about Practicing Law

Developing Judgment about Practicing Law

David McGowan

The second edition retains its focus on developing judgment.
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Cicle Of Fossilists ...

The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Cicle Of Fossilists ...

Christopher Mcgowan

A sweeping narrative history, The Dragon Seekers shows how these remarkable characters forever changed our interpretation of the world and its inhabitants.
The Divine Authenticity of Scripture: Retrieving an ...

The Divine Authenticity of Scripture: Retrieving an ...

A. T. B. McGowan

The strength of the position advocated by Plantinga and Wolterstorff is that there are certain truths about which there ought to be no dispute and on which all reasonable people are agreed. ... See e.g. Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse ...
T-Rex to Go: Build Your Own from Chicken Bones

T-Rex to Go: Build Your Own from Chicken Bones

Christopher McGowan

Discusses dinosaur evolution and paleontological procedures while offering instructions and diagrams for building a model T-Rex from the bones of four small chickens.
Delta Shotgun

Delta Shotgun

David McGowan

An Army Aviator's personal story of a year in Vietnam flying low and flying slow over the canals and rice paddies of the always dangerous Mekong Delta.

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