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The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964

Peter Sloman

... became centred on the Mont Pèlerin Society from 1947 onwards, and has become increasingly cohesive and ambitious as its political influence has grown. 49 Ben Jackson and Angus Burgin have shown that early neoliberalism was a broad ...
Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan

Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan

David Dalton

Drawing upon Dylan's friends and fellow eyewitnesses--including Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Stampfel , Larry "Ratso" Sloman, Eric Andersen, Nat Hentoff, Andrew Oldham, Nat Finkelstein, and others--this book will provide a new ...
BMW Z3 and Z4: The Complete Story

BMW Z3 and Z4: The Complete Story

James Taylor

... MORGAN THREEWHEELER Peter Miller PEUGEOT 205 Adam Sloman PORSCHE 924/928/944/968 Glen Smale PORSCHE BOXSTER AND CAYMAN Johnny Tipler PORSCHE CARRERA – THE AIRCOOLED ERA Johnny Tipler RELIANT ...
Gainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations

Gainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations

Susan Sloman

all, I would like to thank Alexander Sturgis, Amina Wright and Howard Batho for giving me the opportunity to work with them. The lenders have been prepared to go without their pictures for a considerable period oftime, and, of course, without  ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana

Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana

Larry "Ratso" Sloman

Indicative of the thinly veiled racism surrounding the issue was a letter to Anslinger from Floyd Baskette, a friend of the Commissioner's, who was City Editor of the Alamosa, Colorado, Daily Courier. On September 4, 1936, Baskette wrote the ...
Distributed systems and computer networks

Distributed systems and computer networks

Morris Sloman

Computer Systems Organization -- Computer-Communication Networks.
Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks: International ...

Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks: International ...

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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Morris Sloman Emil C. Lupu Imperial College, Department of ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1874

Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1874

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Hugh Percy Dunn. Lawrence Francis Mahony. Herbert Sloman. Hubert Foveaux Weiss. William Pope Mears. Alexander Stewart Brown. Percy Herbert Edmund Frcund. Edwin Harrison. Alfred Alpin. Arthur Franks Wilson. Maurice Henry Smith.
Domain-Specific Development of Event Condition Action Policies:

Domain-Specific Development of Event Condition Action Policies:

Raphael Romeikat

Morris Sloman and Emil Lupu. Engineering Policy-Based Ubiquitous Systems. Computer, 53(7):1113–1127, September 2010. Sye Loong Keoh, Kevin Twidle, Nathaniel Pryce, Alberto E. SchaefferFilho, Emil Lupu, Naranker Dulay, Morris ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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w l- I k - 'Take-r. 4. u ' Peter Strauss Ranch Guest House 59936 B Peter Strauss Ranch Main House 59926 B Peter Strauss Ranch Storage Shed 59937 B Peter Strauss Ranch Stone and Concrete Terracing 59927 B Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Mobile Data Management: 4th International Conference, MDM ...

Mobile Data Management: 4th International Conference, MDM ...

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4th International Conference, MDM 2003, Melbourne, Australia, January 21-24, 2003, Proceedings Ming-Syan Chen, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Morris Sloman, Arkady Zaslavsky. Conference Chair: Program Co-chairs: Industry Co-chairs: Industry ...
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Steven Pinker

Dowty, 1979/1991; Katz, 1987; Spellman, 1997; Spellman & Mandel, 1999; Walsh & Sloman, 2005; Wolff, 2002; Wolff & Song, 2003. 115. Dowty ... Unpublished experiment by Barbara Spellman; see also Mandel, 2003. 120. Gopnik et al., 2004 ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

South Asia: An Environmental History

Christopher V. Hill

... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

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Boettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...

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