Nicholas Ferguson (52 results)
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Published by Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearson Education company), 1978
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America's National Security Architecture: Rebuilding the Foundation
Nicholas Burns; Jonathon Price; Zoe Baird; Robert Blackwill; James Cartwright; John Dowdy; Peter Feaver; Stephen Hadley; Christopher Kirchhoff; Jane Holl Lute; Thomas Pritzker; Kirk Rieckhoff; John Sawers; Susan Schwab; Julianne Smith; James Steinberg; Douglas Stuart; Dov Zakheim; Leah Joy Zell; Niall Ferguson; Jennifer Harris; Joseph S. Nye; Aspen Strategy Group
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Temporal CannibalIn a valley where time is food, a mother must choose between the future she escaped and the daughter she cannot save.SynopsisThe year is 1850, and the air tastes like woodsmoke, anticipation, and copper. For Elara Voss, a cartographer from the year 2247, this Appalachian… frontier is not just a new home-it is a meal. Escaping a spent civilization, Elara and forty other pioneers have traveled back in time with machines bonded to their ribs-apparatuses that metabolize the "unlived years" of the native population to keep the colonists alive.They call it settlement. But as the seasons rush by and the native children stop growing, Elara knows the truth: "She is not a gardener. She is something with teeth".For eighteen years, the colony feeds. They consume over 400,000 years of human potential, leaving the valley "thinned" and ghostly. But amidst the silent destruction, Elara commits the ultimate transgression: she falls in love with a native man and bears a daughter, Sable. Born in the dead space of a consumed timeline, Sable is a "Null"-a child the machines cannot measure, a girl who generates her own warmth in a world growing cold.The ConflictWhen the Temporal Enforcement Commission (TEC) arrives to arrest the colony for "timeline poaching," the check comes due. The pioneers are ordered back to 2247. But Sable, having no temporal signature, cannot travel; if she enters the return aperture, she will simply cease to exist. If Elara stays behind to protect her, her apparatus will be deactivated, and she will unravel into nothingness.Trapped between a Director who wants to dissect Sable to unlock the secret of eternal life and a colony leader who has eaten his way to immortality, Elara must make an impossible choice. There is a hidden mode in her apparatus-an emergency function that can consume decades in seconds. To save the only thing she hasn't stolen, Elara may have to become exactly what she fears: a monster who eats the world to keep her daughter safe.Key Themes & ConceptsThe Metaphor of ConsumptionThe central conceit of this work is that colonialism is a form of literal consumption. The story deconstructs the idea of the "pioneer" by revealing the mechanical horror beneath it: the colonists survive by "eating" the futures of the indigenous time period. This is not merely metaphorical; the text describes the "chalite" buildup in the machines like plaque and the "pure consumers" who eventually stop eating solid food entirely because they prefer the taste of stolen time.The Horror of "Thinning"Unlike traditional time travel stories where changing the past creates paradoxes, here the damage is thermodynamic. The natives are not erased; they are "thinned." They lose their "temporal density," resulting in fatigue, developmental delays, and a transparency of being. The tragedy is quiet: a child who cannot run without falling because her future has been eaten, or a man who dies of "depletion" because his heart has no "next second" to beat into.The "Null" PhenomenonSable represents the antithesis of the colony. While the pioneers exist by taking, Sable exists as a "Null"-a being who occupies space without consuming time. She is described as "the space where the quiet can't go". Her existence challenges the colony's entire worldview because she proves that existence without theft is possible.The Thermodynamics of GuiltThe story operates on a brutal mathematical logic: "Time, once consumed, has been converted. The conversion is one-directional. There is no un-eating". There is no magic fix or reset button. The resolution involves learning to live in the "post-consumption" world, tending to the "hollow" stones and the scarred land, and finding a way to grow soil in a graveyard.</p Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Early Detection and Treatment of Substance Abuse Within Integrated Primary Care
Reno Conference on the Integration of Be; Nicholas A. Cummings
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The BSE Inquiry: Findings and Conclusions v. 1 (House of Commons Papers)
Lord Phillips of Worth, Nicholas Matravers, Baron Phillps, June Bridgeman, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Revised Paperback Edition, 2000. 406 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Very light foxing at page edges. Lisa Stokes (Book Design); Archie Ferguson (Cover Design); Gordon Parks (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Anmerkungen / bekritzelt / Stempel; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. The language of e-mails presents the four essential features of good writing: simplicity, tone, aim and organization. No writing can be good that does not respect all four. They say that an ounce of theory requires a ton… of practice. The theory is here explained clearly and concisely, together with just an ounce of practice. You will then be set in the right direction to gain the remainder of the ton on your own.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 38pp. Eight colour illustrations. Colour illustrated wrapper shows light smudge near top of back panel. No edgewear. Binding square and sound. DuoDecimo.
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Published by John Hopkins University Press for the North American Patristics Society, Baltimore, Maryland, 1995
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Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. v, 109-244 pp. Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1995). Softcover.
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Published by Sanctuary Inns Ltd., Jersey., 1985
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. The First Casualty. Subtitle: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience. Original concept by Nicholas Ferguson. Soft covers and in good condition.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression, first published as a series of essays in 'Intelligent Life / The Economist'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tigh…t and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 221pp. From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen with Alan Hollingshurst 'Treasure Palaces' brings together over twenty of the world's greatest writers to give their own personal tours of the museums that have awed, haunted and inspired them. Join Andrew Motion as he muses on writerly methods in the British Library, or Matthew Sweet at the hands on joy of the ABBA museum. Julian Barnes meditates on Jean Sibelius's music, as well as the composer's apple corer, while visiting his home in Helsinki. Jacqueline Wilson encounters the dolls of Le Musee de la Poupee, Tim Winton remembers his first bare foot encounter with the National Gallery of Victoria, and Aminatta Forna ponders love tokens in The Museum of Broken Relationships. From mausoleums to massive galleries, from London and New York to Kabul and Zagreb, Treasure Palaces explores some of the world's greatest and sometimes surprising museums. The result is a collection of moving, lyrical essays that speak to the enduring power of museums in our cultural life, and will leave you longing to revisit your favourite treasure palace or looking for a new one to explore. Quite a scarce book. Jacket and illustrations by Steve Panton (illustrator).
Published by The Center for Writers, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1980
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 146pp. Perfectbound illustrated wrappers. Modest edgewear, else a near fine copy. Contributions by Alvin Greenberg, Charles Simic, Guy Davenport, Noberto Luis Romero, Angela Ball, Mark Mirsky, Steve Ketterer, Lance Olsen, Robley Wilson, Galway Kinnell, Kathryn Kramer, William…Ferguson, Janice Eidus, Susan Ludvigson, Marianne Boruch, Pam Nall, Nicholas Rinaldi, Yumiko Kurahashi, and Lisa Zeidner.
