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  • Torn
    Richard Snodgrass
    At the beginning of World War I, John Lincoln Lyle, the son of a prominent family in his hometown of Furnass, PA, fell from a troop ship in New York Harbor; though it was thought he drowned, he actually survived but suffered hideous injuries to his face when struck by a ship’s propeller. As a result he must wear a mask in public, both for the protection of his wounds and to spa...
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    10,04 €

  • Redding Up
    Richard Snodgrass
    In the working class dialect of Western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh, the phrase redd up means to put in order, to tidy or make neat, such as after dinner we helped redd up the table. In the stories of Redding Up, the final volume of the critically acclaimed Books of Furnass, we see characters from other books of the series about the fictitious mill town of Furnass seeking cl...
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    11,91 €

  • All That Will Remain
    Richard Snodgrass
    It’s 1914, and the Lyle family, like the United States itself, is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle, all too aware that he is no engineering genius like his father who founded the company, has made the Keystone Steam Works internationally known through his abilities in marketing and adapting his father’s ideas. Now he must decide whether to devote the company’s resources to a lucra...
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    8,27 €

  • Furrow and Slice
    Richard Snodgrass
    Beyond the valley’s hills that define the mill town of Furnass is another world. A world of rolling hills and fields of wheat and oats and corn. A world of isolated farmhouses keeping company only with their barns and outbuildings. A world of open vistas and skies that go for miles even on a gray day. A world where the land if left untended goes quickly back to forest where the...
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    11,21 €

  • A Book of Days
    Richard B Snodgrass
    A BOOK OF DAYS is the story of a book, The Journal of Thomas Keating-the days when it was written, and the subsequent days when it changed the lives of those who touched it. We first see the book as a plaything for two children on a Western Pennsylvania iron plantation in the early 1800s, who use the ancient language of the book in their games of sexual awakening. We see the bo...
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    9,07 €

  • The Pattern Maker
    Richard Bruce Snodgrass
    Paul Slater, whether he know it or not, lives by the book. Once a Green Beret sniper in Southeast Asia, he has done his best to fit into everyday life back home. He married his childhood sweetheart, lives in the house in Furnass where he grew up, works as a pattern maker at his hometown steel mill. But reports of the collapse of the Vietnam War triggers his feelings of futility...
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    9,79 €

  • Holding On
    Richard Bruce Snodgrass
    A boy encounters unfamiliar areas in his hometown; witnesses older boys in a sexual encounter; gets caught up in a neighborhood gang crabapple fight—and discovers how attractive and exciting these dangers can be. A trio of young mill workers watches one of their high school friends play in a Super Bowl game and have to confront the comparisons with what they’ve made of their ow...
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    7,55 €

  • Across the River
    Richard Bruce Snodgrass
    In the summer of 1863, Judson Walker, a captain of Morgan’s Raiders, and Jonathan Reid, a young engineer, come to Furnass to appropriate two of Colin Lyles’ steam-powered road engines. The purpose is to outfit the engines with iron plate and the newly developed Gatlin Guns, and, with Morgan, deliver the war engines to General Lee’s army in Central Pennsylvania. Amid Walker’s gr...
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    10,46 €

  • Some Rise
    Richard B Snodgrass
    The return of Harry Todd Sutcliff after 20 years to the Western Pennsylvania mill town of Furnass rekindles the competition with his younger brother Dickie who took over the family’s prosperous real estate firm. Dickie Sutcliff finds himself dealing with a possible take-over of the business by his brother, as well as the problems of developing the former site of Buchanan Steel ...
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    15,66 €

  • The Building
    Richard Snodgrass
    The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town. It is the story of a head-strong superintendent who pours concrete when he’s told not to . . . of a rebar foreman whose insecurities make him dangerous to everyone around him . . . the...
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    19,59 €

  • The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language
    Richard T. Snodgrass
    Temporal databases have been an active research topic for at least fifteen years. During this time, several dozen temporal query languages have been proposed. Many within the temporal database research community perceived that the time had come to consolidate approaches to temporal data models and calculus­ based query languages, to achieve a consensu...
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    402,47 €

  • Interpretation in Architecture
    Adrian Snodgrass / Richard Coyne
    To design architecture is to interpret it. This book explores the nature of this relationship, drawing insights from a number of perspectives to illuminate the intellectual and scholarly basis of studio design practice. ...
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    140,42 €