Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste

(Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as r...)

Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project. William and Rosemarie Alley provide an engaging and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding disposal of nuclear waste in the US, with reference also to other countries around the world. The book tells the full history from the beginnings after World War II up to today, bringing to life the pioneering science, the political wrangling and media drama, and the not-in-my-backyard communities fighting to put waste elsewhere. Written in down-to-earth language, by an expert with key involvement in the Yucca Mountain project, this is a timely book for public interest groups, affected communities, policymakers, environmentalists and research scientists working in related fields and anyone interested in finding out more about this important issue.

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Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

( In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to d...)

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson’s freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson’s innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers, and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA’s office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues with his suit against Harry Connick, Sr. and the New Orleans DA’s office to this day.

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Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus (Book & CD set)

( • Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegras...)

• Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. • Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. • With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! • Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. • Includes an audio instructional CD with 99 tracks!

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Bluegrass Mandolin for the Complete Ignoramus! (Book & CD set)

(Wayne's friendly and FUN approach to learning to play has...)

Wayne's friendly and FUN approach to learning to play has taught tens of thousands of total beginners to play bluegrass music. Join the club! In this, his 26th book, Wayne cuts through the clutter and confusion of learning to play with his SIMPLE approach to playing the melody. He then leads the beginner down the path of being able to IMPROVISE on the melody by adding several simple rhythms. With Wayne s help, you ll soon be jamming up a storm. Guaranteed. This book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass mandolin. (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?) You WILL learn to play and improvise on: Amazing Grace, Angel Band, Banks of the Ohio, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Cripple Creek, Cryin Holy Unto the Lord, Dig a Hole in the Meadow, Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky?, Down the Road, East Virginia, Handsome Molly, In the Pines, I ve Been All Around This World, I ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages, John Hardy, Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, Knoxville Girl, Little Maggie, Midnight on the Stormy Deep, My Home s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Paul and Silas, Shady Grove, Soldier s Joy, Roll in My Sweet Baby s Arms, Wildwood Flower, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? You Will Also Learn... How to Tune, How to Hold the Mandolin, The Best Way to Hold the Pick, How to Read Tablature, Harmony Chord Positions, Simple Rhythm Chord Positions, How to Play Harmony, Playing in the Dreaded Key of F, How to Jam, Playing Different Rhythms, How to Play Simply but RIGHT! Included Vintage Photos and lots of Friendly Advice.

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The Lady of Angels and Her City

( The Lady of the Angels and Her City recounts Wendy Wrig...)

The Lady of the Angels and Her City recounts Wendy Wright's visitations to her hometown's many Marian churches and shrines. But it is much more than a personal pilgrimage narrative. It offers important glimpses into the history of Los Angeles Catholicism, American Catholic culture, and Mary's place in Catholic theology and tradition. It peeks into the heroic labors of the religious orders that went on mission there and the waves of immigrants who have arrived on American shores. With Wright, readers will consider: Readers who know the geography of Los Angeles Catholicism will surely enjoy Wright's reflection on familiar places. But there is much here that will fascinate anyone interested in either the history of Christianity in America or devotion to Mary by those who love her today.

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Father Brown Mysteries, The - The Oracle of the Dog, The Miracle of Moon Crescent, The Green Man, and The Quick One: A Radio Dramatization (Father Brown Series)

(From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a shor...)

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. THE ORACLE OF THE DOG ― Father Brown is staying as the guest of a retired colonel when his host is found dead, stabbed with a narrow blade, but no murder weapon. THE MIRACLE OF MOON CRESCENT ― A man is found hanged from a courtyard tree, despite no one ever seeing him leave his high-rise office. THE GREEN MAN ― Father Brown is out at sea when a Naval Admiral is discovered drowned, but a chance remark throws the whole case into perspective. THE QUICK ONE ― The sleuthing priest is faced with one of his most baffling mysteries when a loud-mouthed reverend is stabbed with an oriental dagger in the bar of a quiet hotel.

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Prairie Home Cooking: 400 Recipes that Celebrate the Bountiful Harvests, Creative Cooks, and Comforting Foods of the American Heartland (America Cooks)

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Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

( In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to d...)

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and who would step up to the plate against the powerful DA's office. But who would fight for Thompson's innocence when he didn't have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for John Thompson's freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson's innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers regarding the case and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA's office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues to this day. Complete with an updated afterword describing Thompson's 2011 civil suit against Harry Connick Sr. and the New Orleans DA's office and the Supreme Court's shocking verdict.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620876086/?tag=prabook0b-20

The Bluegrass Gospel Songbook

(This handsome book has over 100 of your favorite bluegras...)

This handsome book has over 100 of your favorite bluegrass gospel songs with lyrics, music (melody line), guitar chords, 100+ vintage photos, song histories, the roots of bluegrass gospel music, painless gospel music theory, how to choose the right key, how to operate a capo, using the guitar in gospel music, harmony 101, tips on how to sing lead, baritone, tenor and bass.

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Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

( In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to d...)

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and who would step up to the plate against the powerful DA's office. But who would fight for Thompson's innocence when he didn't have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for John Thompson's freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson's innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers regarding the case and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA's office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues to this day. Complete with an updated afterword describing Thompson's 2011 civil suit against Harry Connick Sr. and the New Orleans DA's office and the Supreme Court's shocking verdict.

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Love Lies Bleeding

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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

(From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of F...)

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis’s own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause’s failure. In order to understand the Civil War and its outcome, it is essential to give Davis his due as a military leader and as the president of an aspiring Confederate nation. Davis did not make it easy on himself. His subordinates and enemies alike considered him difficult, egotistical, and cold. He was gravely ill throughout much of the war, often working from home and even from his sickbed. Nonetheless, McPherson argues, Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force: the quest for independent nationhood. Although he had not been a fire-breathing secessionist, once he committed himself to a Confederate nation he never deviated from this goal. In a sense, Davis was the last Confederate left standing in 1865. As president of the Confederacy, Davis devoted most of his waking hours to military strategy and operations, along with Commander Robert E. Lee, and delegated the economic and diplomatic functions of strategy to his subordinates. Davis was present on several battlefields with Lee and even took part in some tactical planning; indeed, their close relationship stands as one of the great military-civilian partnerships in history. Most critical appraisals of Davis emphasize his choices in and management of generals rather than his strategies, but no other chief executive in American history exercised such tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy. And while he was imprisoned for two years after the Confederacy’s surrender awaiting a trial for treason that never came, and lived for another twenty-four years, he never once recanted the cause for which he had fought and lost. McPherson gives us Jefferson Davis as the commander in chief he really was, showing persuasively that while Davis did not win the war for the South, he was scarcely responsible for losing it.

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ZEN AND THE CITY OF ANGELS

( In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I....)

In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I. who has already fought for her life and her sanity-so what's wrong with doing a little favor for a friend? The friend is Jim Gray, a trusted attorney, who needs her to find a missing dog. But this simple case leads Zen to a dead man with no face, the trail of a vanished dealmaker, and the hospital room where Gray is fighting for his life. Suddenly the suspect in a murder-and an unwitting participant in a woman's violent unraveling-Zen finds herself in a tight spot. And it may be too late when she finally uncovers the truth: that in the city of angels, she's been handpicked by some very powerful people-for a long hard fall down to hell...

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Negotiation Strategies and Tactics for Small Business: How to Lower Costs, Raise Sales, and Put More Money in Your Pocket.

(A concise guide to negotiation for the little guy. It cov...)

A concise guide to negotiation for the little guy. It covers preparation, discussion, making and receiving proposals as well as how to close an agreement. It also covers how your relationship with the other negotiator affects your strategy. Is it a single transaction or an ongoing business relationship? Leverage is explained, both how to get it and how to use it. It covers distributive (win-lose) negotiations, helping you to get the biggest share of the pie, as well as integrative (win-win) negotiations where the goal is to expand the pie. The book covers such tactics as anchoring, bracketing and setting your entry price. It includes sections on the behavior of skilled negotiators including helpful behaviors and behaviors to avoid. A whole chapter entitled "Ploys, Gambits and Dirty Tricks" lists the most common of these tactics and how to deal with them. Read this book, use it, and always get a good deal.

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Killing Time and Other Stories

(This is the second collection of stories by Joel Townsley...)

This is the second collection of stories by Joel Townsley Rogers published by Ramble House. With an introduction and afterword by Alfred Jan, it includes the pulp version of the classic THE RED RIGHT HAND.

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ZEN AND THE CITY OF ANGELS

( In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I....)

In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I. who has already fought for her life and her sanity-so what's wrong with doing a little favor for a friend? The friend is Jim Gray, a trusted attorney, who needs her to find a missing dog. But this simple case leads Zen to a dead man with no face, the trail of a vanished dealmaker, and the hospital room where Gray is fighting for his life. Suddenly the suspect in a murder-and an unwitting participant in a woman's violent unraveling-Zen finds herself in a tight spot. And it may be too late when she finally uncovers the truth: that in the city of angels, she's been handpicked by some very powerful people-for a long hard fall down to hell...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312974469/?tag=prabook0b-20

Killing Time and Other Stories

(This is the second collection of stories by Joel Townsley...)

This is the second collection of stories by Joel Townsley Rogers published by Ramble House. With an introduction and afterword by Alfred Jan, it includes the pulp version of the classic THE RED RIGHT HAND.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1605430005/?tag=prabook0b-20

Kentucky: Beauty of the Bluegrass

(Jeff has published two successful coffee table looks, "Ke...)

Jeff has published two successful coffee table looks, "Kentucky Wide" and "Kentucky Wide II". This latest book examines the same depth of the region where Jeff was raised and continues to travel extensively for all that remains untapped. These images give you a chance to ponder the calm and peace, the beauty of an autumn leaf, the quiet beauty of a creek, a river, a lake, and stop to watch a filly romping in the filed. Visit the historic Shaker Village, the largest restored Shaker community in the US. You'll see the vibrant urban cities surrounded by unparalleled natural beauty that makes one stop, catch a breath and realize that although the photos are post-card perfect they are also the reality of the Bluegrass Region.

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