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Weirc Comic Incorporated (AKA WCI) is known for its odd characters such as Koltar The Mighty Immortal, The Crimson Protector, Moonchild, Captain Saltire and Claws Son of Santa. You could find out how such characters were created and about the lives of their creators...well you could if WCI actually existed. In reality William Robert Webb III has created a fictional hisory for a comic book company that never was. Here you can read about this co...

As you embark on your economic journey, this series of books will be your helpful companion. They are not meant to replace your lectures, textbooks, seminars or any other sources suggested by your lecturers. Rather, as you come to an exam or an assignment, they will help you to revise and prepare effectively. Whatever form your assessment might take, each book in the series will help you to build up the skills and knowledge you will need to ma...

First book to explain in detail how some events can cause large price moves in markets and how traders can profit from these events. Focuses on the lessons traders can learn from past market reactions to internal and external market catalysts so as to improve their future trading. Every chapter begins with a detailed example of how a particular trading catalyst impacted market prices. Examples include comments by policymakers, key economic rep...

Excerpt from Christian Salvation: Its Doctrine and Experience Ordo Salutis. - But is there any ordo salutis, or plan of salvation? In saving sinful men may not God proceed in an emergent and haphazard fashion, adjusting his saving acts to the circumstances as they occur in human history? May not the facts of the Gospel be without order, incapable of being reduced to any programme whatsoever? If so, there can be no soteriology, or systematic e...

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Discusses whether the Armed Forces of the United States should develop one agency to be responsible for all petroleum matters, or if petroleum responsibility should continue to be handled, in the case of a future war, as it was handled during World War II.

As the 2011 withdrawal of US forces from Iraq approaches, the United States faces an opportunity to diversify and reset aspects of its force posture in the Mideast, in order to best contain a belligerent Iran and shape the political forces that would expel it from the region. Concurrently, Iran has made significant progress in pursuing a strategy built upon anti-access and area-denial military threats, which will threaten the future US' abilit...

An unusually understandable survey of the forces or perception and feeling that determine the purchases we make, the roles played by fashion, fads, and status, and the psychological needs that they fulfill. The book discusses how children become consumers and how they change as they age. Research based throughout, it shows how ads use classical conditioning, harnessing psychological motivation to create image and sell products.

In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods. It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill. Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river—the premier example of historic arroyo cutting during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when large floodflows cut down through unconsoli...

On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967.

Ons feilbare denken meets Getting things done! Onderzoekers als Kahneman, Pink en Ariely hebben aangetoond dat we beter zouden kunnen denken, beslissen en omgaan met onzekerheid. Maar hoe breng je die wetenschap in de praktijk? Kun je je leven anders inrichten? Caroline Webb werkt al vijftien jaar met wetenschappelijk bewezen effectiviteitsadviezen. Zij verzamelde alle recente kennis op het gebied van psychologie, gedragseconomie en neurologi...

Excerpt from The Real Mormonism: A Candid Analysis of an Interesting but Much Misunderstood Subject in History, Life and Thought Smith's history written only by enemies or adherents Prob lematical situations-restoration of the Priesthood John the Baptist a ministering angel Smith's unadorned narrative Cow dery's repetition of the story - The apparent conviction of Smith and Cowdery - The organization of the Church - Beginnings of Mormon perse...

Excerpt from The Ministry as a Life WorkIn the progress of the years the Church of Christ has faced many serious problems, - prob ~lems that, if they had not been settled rightly, would have subverted the life of the church and prevented it from accomplishing the work for which it was established.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...

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Excerpt from The Case Against Mormonism Anti-Mormon Literature. - In almost any large public library one may discover several hundred books, large and small, dealing with the general subject of "Mormonism." A goodly percentage of such books are unfriendly criticisms of the system and its founder: almost none, even those written by scholars and men of attainment - such men usually try to be fair, and "see both sides" - even attempt to be favor...

This volume, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Sheffield in 1990, places John the Baptist within his first-century Jewish context by exploring his public roles and activities as a baptizer and a prophet as they would have been understood within the sociohistorical context of Second Temple Judaism. After surveying the relevant traditions concerning John the Baptist (in particular, Josephus, canonical Go...

Everybody likes a good song and a good story. This book traces the histories of some of the great songs you may know only as second-hand recordings and explores some unusual and creative takes on a few of pop's well-known tracks.

A lively and informative biography of one of the most charismatic musicians and influential cultural figures of the 20th century.

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