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  • Grey Wolf of Superior
    John Kearns
    Serving a twenty-six-year career in the US Coast Guard, you see things develop that you know can become volatile. Being conventional, or routine, we always conduct business as usual. That’s when our enemies can start being unconventional.In World War II, German naval forces brought many nations to their knees doing just that. 'The Grey Wolf' refers to a submarine. Their destruc...
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  • Worlds
    John Kearns
    'Worlds' depicts four generations of the Logan family from Ireland in 1870 to New York City in 1998. In a mosaic of episodes arranged by theme, 'Worlds' portrays a family through poetic shards of narrative. ***Through the lens of the Seven Deadly Sins/Lively Virtues, 'Worlds' examines these representatives of four generations of Logans. ***1) Seamus Logan: a broken-hearted l...
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  • Grey Wolf of Superior
    John Kearns
    All over town, people could hear the explosive roar as smoke shot upward from the old abandoned warehouse.All eyes now looking toward the deafening roar and a long bright flame and smoke trail of the slow climbing rocket gaining speed.Fearful shouts of its a nuclear missile launch, in ten minutes Russian missiles will be reaching us.That started a panic, and everyone started ru...
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  • Always Picked Last
    Kevin John Kearns
    What started out as typical “boys will be boys” teasing and horseplay turned into a living nightmare for Kevin Kearns who learned that his once safe neighborhood turned into a war zone of bullies. Small for his age, and not as physically adept at playing sports, Kevin was soon the kid who was always picked last for games. After losing his father at a young age, Kevin felt adri...
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  • Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic
    Rajmund Przybylak / John Kearns
    It has been known at least since the end of the century that the polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the Earth’s climates. It is also known today that they are the most sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious obstacle to the study of climatic and...
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    207,40 €

  • Translator and Interpreter Training
    John Kearns
    As a research area, education in the fields of translation and interpreting has received growing attention in recent years, with the increasing professionalization of the language-mediation sector demanding ever more highly trained employees with broader repertoires. This trend is evidenced in the present collection, which addresses issues in pedagogy in a variety of translatio...
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    96,83 €

  • Dreams and Dull Realities
    John Kearns
    A unified collection of stories, 'Dreams and Dull Realities' plays variations on the theme of imagination’s colliding with concrete reality. The collection’s lyrical, comical, touching, and absurd stories portray seven male and five female Irish-American and Latino protagonists whose vibrant interior lives contrast sharply with their dreary exterior lives. Beginning with the pr...
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    20,59 €

  • The World
    John Kearns
    'Why didn’t they know? ... He could see the darkness of their souls, the void that drove them to huddle together at all times ... He saw the souls, too, of all the other swim clubs that he had joined or visited over the years, clubs filled with equal measures of hypocrisy, deceit, and meanness, each one seeming to its members, as primitive societies did to theirs, to be all tha...
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    10,33 €

  • Principles of Deductive Logic
    John T. Kearns / John TKearns
    Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate translation into logical languages of ordinary English sentences. Evaluation of these translations promotes a more effective use of ordinary language.The Principles of Deducti...
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    53,28 €