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Design of Caspase Inhibitors as Potential Clinical Agents

Edited by Tom O'Brien, Steven D. Linton ...

Presents the Therapeutic Potential for Caspase Inhibitors: Present and FutureCaspases represent one of the most specific protease families described to date. These extremely important enzymes are crucial to the destruction of aberrant cells - the body's self-protection mechanism for warding off the growth of abnormal cells, many of which can promot ... Read more

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Presents the Therapeutic Potential for Caspase Inhibitors: Present and FutureCaspases represent one of the most specific protease families described to date. These extremely important enzymes are crucial to the destruction of aberrant cells - the body's self-protection mechanism for warding off the growth of abnormal cells, many of which can promot
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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

by E Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

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8 hours 26 min

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example, when Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly," we automatically think in terms of sexual modesty. But most women in that culture would never wear ... Read more

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What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example, when Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly," we automatically think in terms of sexual modesty. But most women in that culture would never wear
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You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

by Kevin O'Brien ...

Narrated by Tom Zingarelli ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

Andrea Boyle moved to Seattle to give her seventeen-year-old nephew, Spencer, a fresh start after the death of his parents. Andrea has found her own new beginning with Luke, a successful playwright and father of a teenage son, Damon. The boys appear to have little in common, but in truth they share a private torment . . .When a tragedy befalls Damon, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that ... Read more

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Andrea Boyle moved to Seattle to give her seventeen-year-old nephew, Spencer, a fresh start after the death of his parents. Andrea has found her own new beginning with Luke, a successful playwright and father of a teenage son, Damon. The boys appear to have little in common, but in truth they share a private torment . . .When a tragedy befalls Damon, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that
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The Myths of Standardized Tests

Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do

by Phillip Harris, Bruce M. Smith, Joan Harris, Larry Barber, Gerald W. Bracey, Tom O'Brien, Ken Jones, Gail Marshall, Susan Ohanian, Stanley Pogrow, W James Popham ...

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so. ... Read more

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Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so.
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Dear Dead Husband

by Carla Young ...

Narrated by Stacey O'Brien, Tom Garland ...

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10 hours 9 min

A razor-sharp, darkly funny novel about love, loss and finding your way back…Eliza never expected to marry until she met Joseph.He made everything better, never minded about her habit of saying the wrong thing or her chronic nervous sweatiness. Their life together was perfect—well, okay, not perfect, but pretty damn good.Until he died. On their wedding anniversary.With the second anniversary of ... Read more

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A razor-sharp, darkly funny novel about love, loss and finding your way back…Eliza never expected to marry until she met Joseph.He made everything better, never minded about her habit of saying the wrong thing or her chronic nervous sweatiness. Their life together was perfect—well, okay, not perfect, but pretty damn good.Until he died. On their wedding anniversary.With the second anniversary of
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

by Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney ...

Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy.Proposing a more people-oriented approach to ... Read more

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Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy.Proposing a more people-oriented approach to
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Them Days 9.2

Enjoy stories about Christmas and grandmothers from Labrador's past

by Harvey Mesher, Bessie Flynn, Ellen McDonald, Eliza Belbin, Pat O'Brien, Judy McGrath, Joanne Martin, Ellen Lyall, Flora Baikie, John Edmunds, Alice Perrault, Clara Voisey, Margaret Davis, Doris Saunders, J Garth Taylor, Peter Sarsfield, Siegfriend Hettasch, George Blake, Tom O'Brien, Edward O'Dell, Bertha Fowler, James Lindstead, Mike Normore Jr., Arthur Rich, Wilfred Shiwak, Isaac Rich, Tommy Davis, Greta Davis, Harold Brown, Emily Davis, Josh Davis, Jimmy Burdett, Jim Baikie, Mae Baikie, Frank Davis, John Montague, Ellis Moores, Alex Turnbull, Wilson Mitchell, Nigel Markham ...

Narrated by Bridget Chaulk, Ida Suarak, Domenica Brown, George Way, Jaime Brown, Robin Goodfellow Baikie, Margaret Beyere ...

Unabridged

1 hour 53 min

Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories. ... Read more

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Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories.
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Ancient Oracle For Modern Times

by Paul O'Brien ...

Narrated by Michael Toms ...

Unabridged

54 min

You may know that the I Ching, or Book of Changes is one of the world's oldest texts, written four to five thousand years ago and used by emperors and sages of advanced civilizations. What you may not know is that this ancient divination system uses an intricate, numerically based concept of changing dual states that assisted in the development of binary mathematics in the 18th century and the ... Read more

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You may know that the I Ching, or Book of Changes is one of the world's oldest texts, written four to five thousand years ago and used by emperors and sages of advanced civilizations. What you may not know is that this ancient divination system uses an intricate, numerically based concept of changing dual states that assisted in the development of binary mathematics in the 18th century and the
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Working in the Context of Austerity

Challenges and Struggles

by Jill Rubery, Steve Davies, Helen Blakely, Patrick Gunnigle, Tom Turner, Mike O'Brien, Caroline Murphy, Jonathan Lavelle, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lorraine Ryan, Juliette Macmahon, Alina Baluch, Pauric O’Rourke, Jennifer Zelnick, Mimi Abramovitz, Doug Young, Dora Scholarios, Eva Jendro, Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss, Geraldina Polanco, Pat Armstrong, Philip James, Niels Van Doorn, Wayne Lewchuk ...

Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Read more

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Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary
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Not From Around Here

What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

by Brandon J. O'Brien ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Brandon O’Brien writes about his life growing up in rural America, young adulthood in the suburbs, and midlife in Manhattan. Through personal stories, humor, and reflection he looks at how the place we grow up shapes our lives, beliefs, and faith. ... Read more

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Brandon O’Brien writes about his life growing up in rural America, young adulthood in the suburbs, and midlife in Manhattan. Through personal stories, humor, and reflection he looks at how the place we grow up shapes our lives, beliefs, and faith.
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Doctor Who: The Third Alien Worlds Collection

1st, 4th, 6th, 7th Doctor Novelisations

by Ian Marter, David Fisher, Eric Saward, Stephen Wyatt, Graeme Curry ...

Narrated by Maureen O'Brien, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Rula Lenska ...

Unabridged

21 hours 51 min

Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets.In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido.In Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an unusual visitor prisoner on the planet Chloris.In The Twin Dilemma, a newly regenerated Doctor tries to become a ... Read more

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Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets.In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido.In Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an unusual visitor prisoner on the planet Chloris.In The Twin Dilemma, a newly regenerated Doctor tries to become a
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No One Needs to Know

by Kevin O'Brien ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

16 hours 25 min

In July 1970, actress Elaina Styles was slain in her rented Seattle mansion along with her husband and their son's nanny. When the baby's remains were found buried in a shallow grave close to a hippie commune, police moved in—only to find all its members already dead in a grisly mass suicide.Now, decades later, a film about the murders is shooting at the mansion. On-set caterer Laurie Trotter ... Read more

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In July 1970, actress Elaina Styles was slain in her rented Seattle mansion along with her husband and their son's nanny. When the baby's remains were found buried in a shallow grave close to a hippie commune, police moved in—only to find all its members already dead in a grisly mass suicide.Now, decades later, a film about the murders is shooting at the mansion. On-set caterer Laurie Trotter
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