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Four Minutes

Jeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews

Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.

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Four Minutes

Jeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews

Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.

It is said that no plan survives first contact with the…

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The Lost Luggage Porter

Andrew Martin

A heart-stopping race across steam-age Britain.

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Four Minutes

Jeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews

Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.

It is said that no plan survives first contact with the…

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Religion Versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914

Andrew Porter

The only book to analyse the general relationships between Protestant missions and imperial Expansion in modern British history to 1914. A monumental book that draws extensively on the enormous range…

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Ambiguities of Empire: Essays in Honour of Andrew Porter

This volume, written by distinguished historians and former students, is a tribute to Andrew Porter - the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The essays explore…

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Ambiguities of Empire: Essays in Honour of Andrew Porter

This volume, written by distinguished historians and former students, is a tribute to Andrew Porter - the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The essays explore…

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Andrew English V. Francis Porter, Admr.

Shirley & Stone

Full Title: Andrew English v. Francis Porter, Admr.

Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official…

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European Imperialism, 1860-1914

Andrew Porter

This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, ‘imperialism’, as a process of increasing contact, influence and control. The problems…

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The Theory of Light and Matter: Stories

Andrew Porter

Features ten short stories that explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the narrators struggle to find meaning or…

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Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship

Andrew Porter

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and…

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Transatlantic Betrayal

Andrew Porter

The story of the development of the RB211 gas turbine engine and saving of Rolls-Royce by the British government.

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In Between Days

Andrew Porter,Andrew Porter

Elson is drinking to numb the pain of his broken marriage. His ex-wife lies in a stranger’s bed, lonely and waiting for dawn. Their son Richard, a young gay poet…

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The Theory of Light and Matter

Andrew Porter

These 10 short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of–or in…

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Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter explores characterization in Homer, from an oral-traditional point of view, through the resonance of words, themes, and back stories from the past and future. He analyzes Agamemnon’s character…

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Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial and Commonwealth History Since 1600

The 20th century witnessed an unprecedented growth of research and publication on the history of Britain’s empire, the Commonwealth and British expansion overseas. This volume is designed to provide a…

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In Between Days

Andrew Porter

Elson is drinking to numb the pain of his broken marriage. His ex-wife lies in a stranger’s bed, lonely and waiting for dawn. Their son Richard, a young gay poet…

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The Disappeared: Stories

Andrew Porter

A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter

A…

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Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals Of Shirley Porter

Andrew Hosken

The first biography of Dame Shirley Porter, architect of the Homes for Votes scandal.

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The Lost Luggage Porter

Andrew Martin (University of Sydney Australia)

After his adventures as an amateur sleuth, Jim Stringer is now an official railway detective, working from York Station for the North Eastern Railway Company. The local paper carries a…

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 1

Henry Porter Andrews

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 2; Series 2

Henry Porter Andrews

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Living in Spin

Andrew P. Porter

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects…

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 2; Series 2

Henry Porter Andrews

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 2

Henry Porter Andrews

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Living in Spin

Andrew P. Porter

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects…

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Basic Concepts of Biblical Religion

Andrew P Porter

Concepts taken for granted cause trouble later if they are forgotten. Biblical religion is world-affirming and historical. That means finding some positive construction for the pains of life, and finding…

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Unwelcome Good News: Providence in Human Life

Andrew P. Porter

What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not ‘simply’ that all of life is good, because its pains…

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The Accountant’s Tale

Andrew P Porter

Three problems in the life of the church: (1) For the past millennium, theologians have done a brisk trade in proofs, arguments for the so-called “existence” of God, the validity…

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The Accountant’s Tale

Andrew P Porter

Three problems in the life of the church: (1) For the past millennium, theologians have done a brisk trade in proofs, arguments for the so-called “existence” of God, the validity…

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Unanswerable Questions

Andrew P Porter

Transcendence is commonly taken to be about another world, one that transcends this one. Instead, I would say that transcendence is about unanswerable questions, and unanswerable questions arise naturally in…

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Unanswerable Questions

Andrew P Porter

Transcendence is commonly taken to be about another world, one that transcends this one. Instead, I would say that transcendence is about unanswerable questions, and unanswerable questions arise naturally in…

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 1

Henry Porter Andrews

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Elementary Monotheism

Andrew P Porter

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Unwelcome Good News: Providence in Human Life

Andrew P Porter

What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not ‘simply’ that all of life is good, because its pains…

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In the Beginning, Exodus: The Bible Then and Now

Andrew P Porter

How did the Bible come to be written? How did Israelite religion grow out of the surrounding cultures? How did Israelite religion become Christianity and rabbinic Judaism? How did scholars…

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By the Waters of Naturalism: Theology Perplexed Among the Sciences

Andrew P Porter

We are taught by our culture to think that for God to act, he has to interfere with the natural course of events in one way or another, perhaps through…

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Where Now, O Biologists, Is Your Theory?

Andrew P Porter

Intelligent Design creationism faults evolutionary biology for being “"naturalistic, ” but ID is in its own strange way just as naturalistic. Like the man who can’t find his car-keys at…

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 2

Henry Porter Andrews

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Elementary Monotheism: Exposure, Limitation, and Need (Volume I), Action and Language in Historical Religion (Volume II)

Andrew P. Porter

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The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9; Volume 1

Henry Porter Andrews

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the line of his great, great grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., with some account of the families into which they married

Henry Porter Andrews,Peter Porter Wiggins

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…

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The Ring of the Nibelung

Richard Wagner

Andrew Porter’s utterly natural, often poetic, faithfully rendered English text should be a revelation…The immediacy of instant comprehension gives the entire drama an added dimension. -The New York Times

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The Trial of Blood: Oral Accounts of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

Andrew (andy) Porter Brown

In 55 years of teaching in both high school and college, I’ve always wondered why American history is presented the way it is. History texts try to cover the big…

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Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine

Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in…

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British Imperial Policy and Decolonization, 1938-64: Volume 2: 1951-64

Andrew Porter,A. J. Stockwell

Current interest in Britain’s imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial. This book studies the approaches of those politicians, civil servants and…

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