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  • Subway

    The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System

    This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most advanced in the world and a source of enormous civic pride. Today, it is an essential function to the lives of New Yorkers and a ... Read more

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  • Fifty Years in Politics and the Law

    by John Morris ...
    The autobiography of Lord Morris of Aberavon, born to farming stock in Aberystwyth, and who went on to enjoy an illustrious career, assuming one of the highest positions in the land as Attorney General. Trained as a barrister, he went on to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of Transport, Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, Secretary of State for ... Read more

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  • The New Personality Self-Portrait

    Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

    The New Personality Self -portrait is the only guide to personality types based on the American Psychiatric Association's just-published official diagnostic system -- the DSM -IV -- and written by one of today's leading personality researchers. A long-time backlist bestseller in its previous edition, it has now been completely updated to include all the fascinating new information about how we ... Read more

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  • Music and Politics in Thirties Britain

    Raise the Standard High

    by John Morris ...
    Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain's enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at the little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in 1934, a pivotal year in terms of political and cultural developments.Music and ... Read more

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  • Clean Water Policy and State Choice

    Promise and Performance in the Water Quality Act

    The Water Quality Act of 1987 ushered in a new era of clean water policy to the US. The Act stands today as the longest-lived example of national water quality policy. It included a then-revolutionary funding model for wastewater infrastructure - the Clean Water State Revolving Fund - which gave states much greater authority to allocate clean water infrastructure resources. Significant differences ... Read more

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  • Suffering

    If God Exists, Why Doesn't He Stop It?

    by John Morris ...
    If God exists, does he care about his evolving, suffering world? Most answers are unsatisfactory. Morris's book is different: short but not superficial, strong in its science and philosophy, and realistic as a carer of a handicapped teenage grandson, still unable to walk and talk. Like Stephen Hawking and Einstein, John Morris also tries to explore the mind of God. Violence began with the Big Bang ... Read more

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  • Catharine de Bora: Social and Domestic Scenes in the Home of Luther

    Unveiling the Life of a Reformation Era Woman

    John G. Morris'Äôs "Catharine de Bora: Social and Domestic Scenes in the Home of Luther" offers a vivid and meticulously researched portrait of the life of Catharine von Bora, Martin Luther's wife, illuminating her indispensable role within the Reformation context. Employing a rich narrative style interspersed with historical insights, Morris recreates the domestic environment of the Luthers, ... Read more

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  • The Historic Church

    An Orthodox View of Christian History

    The Historic Church is a survey of Christian history written for Orthodox Christians by an Eastern Orthodox scholar. Although one can find many excellent studies of Christian history in the United States, none of them considers the development of Christianity from an Eastern Orthodox point of view. The work begins by laying a foundation for the study of Christian history by discussing the beliefs ... Read more

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  • Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness

    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness examines the uniqueness of southern politics and their policy choices.While decades of scholarship on the politics of the American South have focused on partisanship and electoral outcomes as the primary elements of interest in southern politics, few works have focused on the more practical outcomes of these political processes, specifically, comparing ... Read more

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  • Traveller From Tokyo

    by John Morris ...
    Written in the author's typically charming and self-effacing style, this book offers readers a fascinating insight into Japan and Japanese life at the eve of its fateful entry into the Second World War. The author tells of his struggle to teach English in a Japanese university, as well as his daily encounters with Japanese institutions and customs. Never dry or pedantic, the work is a balanced and ... Read more

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  • The Clydach Murders

    A Miscarriage of Justice

    by John Morris ...
    Is Dai Morris a brutal murderer or the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? Author and former solicitor John Morris investigates the Clydach murders, which occurred in 1999, for which Dai Morris was convicted in 2006. In a case which shocked the country Mandy Power, her bed-ridden mother and her two young daughters were battered to death. The crime sparked a huge investigation yet the ... Read more

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  • Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

    by John Morris ...
    The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 continue to exert a macabre hold on our imagination. Among the first serial murders, their brutality and bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of detection have a terrible fascination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and could have overstepped the boundary of what marks humankind? How could they not have been caught by the ... Read more

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