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    The Presidential Papers

    John Kessel

    Mixing satire, farce, and dystopia, the stories in John Kessel's The Presidential Papers deconstruct the character and politics of five imagined presidents, some of whom bear striking resemblance to individuals…

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    Northern New Spain, New Mexico Historical Review Essays (Hardcover)`

    John L Kessell

    Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly…

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    Northern New Spain (Softcover)

    John L Kessell

    Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly…

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    The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel

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    "The Dark Ride collects John Kessel's best short fiction, beginning with 1981's "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" and ending with 2021's "The Dark Ride." The stories range from flash…

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    The Moon and the Other

    John Kessel

    John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed…

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    The Moon and the Other

    John Kessel

    John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed…

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    Pride and Prometheus

    John Kessel

    Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful. –Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely…

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    The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories

    John Kessel

    A literary collection of astonishing stories from an award-winning science-fiction writer and satirist.

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    Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691 1767

    John L. Kessell

    Drawing upon archival materials in Mexico, Spain, and the United States - including accounts by the missionaries themselves and the surviving pages of the Guevavi record books - Kessell brings…

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    Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers: Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767 1856

    John L. Kessell

    The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell’s windows on the Arizona-Sonora frontier in this colourful documentary history. His fascinating view…

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    East Orange by Christmas (Hardcover)

    John L Kessell

    Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the…

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    East Orange by Christmas (Softcover)

    John L Kessell

    This tenderhearted story, based on the love letters the author’s father wrote to the woman who became his wife in 1933, including numerous excerpts, is told by their son for…

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    Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

    John L. Kessell

    Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits. This long-overdue…

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    The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776

    John L Kessell

    In New MexicoNstill a borderland possession of Spain in 1776Nan unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering picture of the colony. A…

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    Presidents, the Presidency, and the Political Environment

    John H. Kessel

    Introduces the institutional development of the presidency and its organizational structure. This book provides an extended discussion of the institutional presidency, examining the working relationships of the White House with…

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    Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    John L. Kessell

    A distinguished historian paints an evenhanded picture of uneasy coexistence

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    Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    John L. Kessell

    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an…

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    Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Fremont

    John L. Kessell

    Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) is remembered today as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His Plano Geographico of the…

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    Nebula Awards Showcase 2012

    Collects the year’s Nebula Award-nominated and winning stories and poems, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. This title includes the winners…

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    Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

    Drawing on the traditions of the pioneering cyberpunk manifesto, Mirrorshades , this book delves into the gritty world of technological change.

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    Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains

    Herbert Eugene Bolton

    Herbert Eugene Bolton’s classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish…

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    Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka

    The editors bring together a collection of fiction by authors influenced and inspired by Franz Kafka and his work, accompanied by the authors’ perspectives on Kafka’s writing, influence and legacy.

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    Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer

    Herbert Eugene Bolton

    This re-issued biography recounts [Kino’s] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find…

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    Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles

    Bram de Jager,Thijs van Keulen,John Kessels

    Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles. Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students interested in…

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    Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles

    Bram de Jager,Thijs van Keulen,John Kessels

    Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles. Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students interested in…

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    Lead Poisoning: The Complete Guide

    Irene Kessel,John O'Connor

    Important. Urgent. Practical. Very, very useful.-Jonathan Kozol.

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    Getting the Lead Out: The Complete Resource on How to Prevent and Cope with Lead Poisoning

    Irene Kessel,John T. O'Connor

    Between one and a half to two million children under the age of six–one out of eleven American preschoolers–have elevated levels of lead in their blood, a condition that can…

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    Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology

    A selection of fiction and nonfiction traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality.

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