Paul Taylor
1) Shadow Land
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Ben and Shade thought they beat the Shadoweaters.They were wrong.Hiding out in an abandoned farmhouse outside of town, Ben and Shade watch in horror as Casino is overwhelmed by Shadow Eaters, smothering the very town itself in shadow. First the police, then the army fall to this growing, shapeless evil.When Shade goes missing, Ben is left to fend for himself and take on the training of their new recruits. As Ben struggles to work out what to do, the...
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Financial Services and Technology (FinTech) have collaborated for decades with mutual benefit, and it is not unreasonable to expect this co-operation to continue, especially with the development of emerging technologies.
However, both industries are facing challenges. Financial Services suffer from regulation, client, and risk pressures. Emerging technologies suffer from their inherent complexity and implementation challenges.
It is imperative that...
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A chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lines. Also, a guide to Civil War sites you can visit. Includes photos and maps. Sites include: Fort Pickens, Natural Bridge Battlefield State Historic Site, Fort Clinch State Park, Olustee Battlefield, Suwannee River State Park, Castillo de San Marcos,...
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This anthology of true crime stories written by Paul Taylor will satisfy the appetite of all true crime enthusiasts. The thirty-one chapters comprise notorious and fascinating cases and shed light on chilling criminal personalities many of whom are known around the world. Readers will recognise local names such as Martin Bryant, Ivan Milat and Mark 'Chopper' Read, and immerse themselves in international events that involved Oscar Pistorius, the infamous...
5) Shadowville
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When Ben Reilly returns to his home town of Casino life after a bad break-up, all he's hoping for is to blend into the shadows and live a nice, quiet life.But in Casino, the shadows are the last place you want to be... Shadows twist and writhe at the corners of your eyes, seeping out into the sunlight like spilt blood. They slither and creep in a parody of life, tugging at their owners' heels like hungry dogs. And like dogs, they need to feed... ...
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Have you experienced a life-changing event that began on the closet floor?
Paul Taylor did. This singular event occurred late in the afternoon on Friday, March 6, 1987. The tranquility of the morning's beauty shattered when Paul answered the phone. Shocked to hear his wife's anguished words, "Mark has Down syndrome." he collapsed to the closet floor.
So began Paul's odyssey from despair to eventual gratitude for the gift Mark is. His wife's words,...
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SARAH and ROBERT who are brother and sister were ravenous. They saw the window of a house slightly ajar.
ROBERT, who was aged 14, climbed through the window to see if he could find some food. Sarah who was just 16, protested to ROBERT not to do it but he was caught stealing.
The police were called and both were arrested. At The Old Bailey Courthouse in London, ROBERT was sentenced to be hung. SARAH was sent to Australia to serve her prison sentence....
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Me? Have a problem with idols? Youve got to be kidding! Thats just something that was practiced by people in ancient religions who werent as well educated as we are todayright? If this was your first thought, you couldnt be more wrong! The problem of idols and idolatry is not an outdated practice of extinct religions; its actually alive and flourishing today in our modern society. True, our current idols arent typically made of wood, stone, or gold....
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Detective sergeant Paul Mackenzie of the Durban Police Department arrives in London determined to solve the mystery surrounding his detective brothers death. Matthew Simon Richardson is a member of the British aristocracy who travels the world as a gun for hire, a sniper whose one motivation in life is the chase and the kill. The South African is the story of two men born on the same day, six thousand miles apart, whose lives become interwoven as...
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"No other dancer ever looked like Paul Taylor, that strapping, elastic, goofy hunk of a guy, and no one else's dance works look like his either-not the deep, dark ones or the zany ones or the uplifting ones. His vocabulary, his tone are unique and unmistakable. The same thing is true, it turns out, about his writing. His style is utterly his own, and like all real style it isn't a calculated voice but a reflection of the way his quirky mind works."...
11) "Old Slow Town"
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Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans. The virulently anti-Lincoln and anti-Black Detroit Free Press fanned the city's flames with provocative coverage of events. In "Old Slow Town": Detroit...
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Our genome has not changed in over 45,000 years, but the world has changed enormously and there are multiple mismatches with modern life. Homo sapiens evolved and thrived because we hunted down prey with the tools we made, ate a range of natural foods from the environment and led highly physical lives necessary for the proper functioning of our bodies and brains. Now, most of us spend most of our day sitting on our backsides, and more than 50% of...
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An epistolary chronicle of love and reflection from the Civil War front
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (1832—1895) remains one of the Union's most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to...
14) Shadow World
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As darkness covers the world, a light rises in the West.Ben has lost Shade.Their crew of Light Bringers, despite the arrival of some new faces, has failed.Shadows blanket the land.While Kylie, Gavin and the others have started taking the fight into the heart of the Shadow Eater's territory, Ben has determined to sit back and enjoy the ride and drink himself to death.When their last remaining safe haven is compromised and the Light Bringers find themselves...
15) When Robins Sing
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Estelle Stanforth has one burning ambition in life to become a doctor. Nothing is allowed to come between her and her quest, and both men and the war raging around her are put to the back of her mind as she relentlessly pursues her goal. Then one day she meets the man of her dreams, Duncan Metcalf, a farmers son who has two passions in life the family farm and flying. The two young lovers are untouched by the tragedies of war until Duncan decides...
16) The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War
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The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the war's viability. Frustration exploded into anger when Republican president Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September.The disgruntled voices grew louder. These anti-Lincoln...
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'The Gustav Holst Way' is the first guidebook to describe the 35-mile rambling route across the Cotswolds to celebrate the life and work of the composer Gustav Holst.
Published exactly 100 years after Holst began work on The Planets, the route visits many of the places that were important to the young Holst as his musical career took wing. Among the highlights are the house in Cheltenham where he was born (now the Holst Birthplace Museum) and several...
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Obedient Journey is far more than a true story of an exemplary human being, which in itself is worth discovering. What I learned reading this book literally changed my life. Like many people, I have read hundreds, maybe thousands of books, yet no other book's message ever impacted me in such a positive, profound way as this one did. And if it could do that for me, a 78-year-old man, far along the path of life, I know it can have an equally beneficial...
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A great deal of mystery surrounds G. I. Gurdjieff and "The Work." Today, many on the path of self-exploration find themselves drawn to the symbolism of the enneagram, and to Gurdjieff's other teachings. Gurdjieff was undeniably charismatic many famous and influential people lived in his "shadow," accepting his guidance while changing and transforming their lives. Shadows of Heaven focuses on the relationship between Gurdjieff and the poet-novelist...
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Paul W. Taylor (1923–2015) was professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals,...