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This long-awaited sequel to Handgun Stopping Power gives the very latest results of hundreds of actual shootings involving every major handgun caliber, including the hot new .40 S&W. Also covers exotic ammo street results, the controversial Strasbourg Tests on live goats, the Fuller Index for predicting stopping power and much more..
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This book presents vintage, often whimsical, and one-of-a-kind wooden figurine carvings by ANRI, the world-renowned company founded in 1912 in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. Among the more than 2,500 carvings featured are bottle stoppers, bottle openers and corkscrews, bar sets, calendars, letter openers, bookends, humidors, ashtrays, lighters, cigarette boxes, pipe rests, salt and pepper sets, pepper mills, napkin rings, timers, toothpick holders, brushes, salt and serving spoons, spoon and key racks, door knockers, and figurines, including monks and characters from novels by Charles Dickens. Collectors with a wide range of interests will be delighted with the amazing number of woodcarvings shown. This book will amuse and inspire todays woodcarvers and collectors, novices and experienced devotees alike..
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The phenomenal success of Bill Gates and his Microsoft Corporation hinges, above all, on an ability to look to the future. Not content with holding a bulging share of the market for software applications, nor with dominating the crucial operating systems business by virtue of its DOS and Windows programs, Microsoft is always looking to the future. And the future for Microsoft now goes by the name of Windows NT. A software innovation of the first order, NT could redefine the standards for computing throughout the world, into the next century. NT endows inexpensive personal computers with the capabilities of giant mainframes -- yet without sacrificing the inherent flexibility and appeal of PCs.

Showstopper! is the inside story of this stunning breakthrough in computer technology. Stripping away myth after myth, this unprecedented tale lays bare the messy, wrenching reality of winning innovations. To date, America has dominated the global software industry through creating cutting-edge code and by depending on both the ingenuity of a few visionaries and the coordination of huge, costly teams of programmers and testers. Gates -- a managerial genius as well as a technical visionary -- promotes an atmosphere of controlled chaos at Microsoft, and the story of Windows NT perfectly reflects this ethos. The brain-child of David Cutler, a legendary programmer recruited by Gates in 1988, NT took five years and $150 million to complete. For much of that time, the massive program demanded the obsessive attention of more than 200 testers, writers and technicians.

Focusing on Cutler's mercurial ability to inspire and lash his team, Showstopper! brilliantly portrays the human drama of this mammoth undertaking exposing the pressures, disappointments and ultimate triumph that emerge from a cauldron of constant deadlines, competition with peers and a perpetual war against the inevitable and ubiquitous bugs in the program -- among them the potentially lethal "showstopper."

Gripping vivid and accessible, Showstopper! reveals the outsize personalities that stand behind great advances: the mavericks, the organizers, the fixers, the motivators. Even as they wrestle with forces that threaten to tear them apart, Cutler and his team feverishly hunt for computing's Holy Grail..
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"Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys makes you realize why college football is part of America's DNA. These games are the type that cause heartache, tears, and joy . . . all-in-one!" - Beano Cook, ESPN "If college football is the greatest sport - and it is - then Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys is one of the greatest books on the subject." - Tampa Tribune. Do you remember where you were when your favorite college team kicked the last-second game-winning field goal, made the impossible goal-line stand, caught the unthinkable touchdown pass?

Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys chronicles over three decades of astounding, improbable, heart-wrenching, college football finishes in 116 vividly detailed chapters. From east coast to west coast, Division I-A to Division III, all your favorite schools are covered. Each game comes alive as author Ted Mandell sets the scene, recounts the drama of the decisive play, and captures all the post-play emotion and impact.

But it's not enough to just read about the games. Listen to the two-disc audio CD set included with the book! It's packed with the actual broadcasts of the most spine-tingling endings exactly as they were relayed by the great radio voices of college football from around the country. You're right there with the crowd at the thrilling moment of victory or the wrenching pain of defeat.

Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys was a great-selling clothbound work when it was first published in 2000. Now in high-quality paperback for the first time, Mandell has updated the book, adding sixteen new chapters, and a bundle of breathtaking new recordings to the original, plus an index. And one of the best additions is the new Top Ten Heart Stoppers selections, showing the poll results from scores of the most esteemed football journalists around the country. Ten seconds left. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Here we go with the kickoff, the ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of bounds... David Gordon to win it for Boston College... Flutie takes the snap, scrambles away from one hit... Dropping back McNabb, the heat is on, this is the last play of the game... The snap back to Scott Frost... Time has run out, Stewart throws it for the end zone... Oh, the band is out on the field!... A miracle catch!... Oh my God, Carter scored!... Van Tiffin has kicked a 52-yard field goal and the state of Alabama is crimson!... It's an Iowa touchdown, it's an Iowa touchdown! I can't believe it!... There's a mob scene on the field... Listen to this crowd! Pandemonium!... Colorado has won the game! Can you believe it?!... He did it, he did it, Flutie did it!... Holy cow, Matt Davison!... The Bears have won! The Bears have won! Excuse me for my voice, but I have never, never seen anything like it!.
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Arsene Lupin may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning roberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping Can the world's greatest thief get his act together, save his arrested men from the guillotine, and recover his lost honor? A thrilling adventure from the author of Arsene Lupin, Arsene Lupin vs. Herloch Sholmes, and The Hollow Needle!.
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12 x 12 calendar.
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The education of gifted and talented children is attracting increased interest and attention in schools, LEAs and within government A widely accepted critical aspect of talent development has until now remained under-represented, namely that the principal factors underpinning all learning are social and emotional ones. This text addresses the complex relationship between intellectual, social and emotional development that is necessary for high achievement and personal fulfilment. The contributors aim to provide relevant practical guidelines for secure and confident learning that will support teachers, parents and others wishing to help translate potential into performance..
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