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Tales of the Madman Underground

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In September 1973, as the school year begins, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be ""normal,"" despite his chaotic home life and the affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.

By John Barnes

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9780606153577 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, January 6, 2011), cover price $20.85 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Directive 51: Library Edition

Product Description: It is known as National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51. Signed in 2007, it claims specific Federal powers in the event of a âcatastrophic emergencyââ¦ Heather OâGrainne is the assistant secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called âDaybreak...read more

By John Barnes

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781441858177 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 6, 2010), cover price $44.97 | About this edition: It is known as National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51.

9781441858153 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 6, 2010), cover price $99.97 | About this edition: It is known as National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51.

Tales of the Madman Underground: (An Historical Romance 1973)

Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act - and be - Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780670060818 | 1 edition (Viking Childrens Books, June 25, 2009), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio.

Paperback:

9780142417027, titled "Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973" | Reprint edition (Speak, January 6, 2011), cover price $9.99

In the Hall of the Martian King

Thirty-sixth-century secret agent Jak Jinnaka is hired by the Hive Intel conglomerate to acquire a priceless religious relic, the diary of a mysterious messiah who founded the Wager, the religion that forms the basis of all interstellar society, from the Martian ruler who possesses it. Original.

By John Barnes

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Paperback:

9780446610834 | Aspect, June 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Thirty-sixth-century secret agent Jak Jinnaka is hired by the Hive Intel conglomerate to acquire a priceless religious relic, the diary of a mysterious messiah who founded the Wager, the religion that forms the basis of all interstellar society, from the Martian ruler who possesses it.

Miscellaneous:

9780446560146 | Aspect, May 30, 2009, cover price $6.99

A Princess of the Aerie

When he receives a message that his former girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld, is in danger, secret agent Jak Jinnaka and his panth companion Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard and head across the solar system to rescue her, only to discover that the princess has discovered a taste for power and for royal guards who serve at her pleasure. Original.

By John Barnes

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9780446610827 | Aspect, January 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When he receives a message that his former girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld, is in danger, secret agent Jak Jinnaka and his panth companion Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard and head across the solar system to rescue her, only to discover that the princess has discovered a taste for power and for royal guards who serve at her pleasure.

Miscellaneous:

9780446560139 | Aspect, May 30, 2009, cover price $6.99

DS8000 Performance Monitoring and Tuning

By Brett Allison, John Barnes, Bertrand Dufrasne, Jean Iyabi and Rajesh Jeyapaul

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Paperback:

9780738432694 | Vervante, March 12, 2009, cover price $75.00

Complete Triumph of Moral Good over Evil

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9781104111403 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $55.95

Paperback:

9781104086244 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Duke of Uranium

Product Description: Jak Jinnaka plunges into a world of danger and intrigue beyond imagination as he is forced to ask: âWhereâs the party?âJak Jinnakaâs thirty-sixth-century teenage life has been nothing but funâignoring school, partying outrageously with his beautiful girlfriend, Sesh, and spending his uncle Sibâs huge fortune...read more

By John Barnes

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Paperback:

9781480457065 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, November 26, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Jak Jinnaka plunges into a world of danger and intrigue beyond imagination as he is forced to ask: âWhereâs the party?

9780446610810 | Aspect, September 1, 2002, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When vicious thugs kidnap his girlfriend, Sesh, teenager Jak Jinnaka discovers that Sesh is really a princess from a distant world and that his uncle is a spymaster who has been secretly grooming Jak as a secret agent, as he embarks on his first assignment to ransom Sesh from her captor, the Duke of Uranium, who controls all fissionable material in human space.

Miscellaneous:

9780446555227 | Aspect, December 21, 2008, cover price $9.99

Ada 2005 Rationale: The Language, the Standard Libraries

Product Description: Ada 2005 is the latest version of the International Standard for the programming language Ada. Formally, it is an Amendment of ISO/IEC 8652:1995 (E) rather than a completely new standard. The primary goals for the new version were to enhance its capabilities particularly in those areas where its reliability and predictability are of great value...read more

By John Barnes

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Paperback:

9783540797005 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc, May 1, 2008, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Ada 2005 is the latest version of the International Standard for the programming language Ada.

Dante and the Human Body

Product Description: The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars, and theologians. They are: 'The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body in the Commedia' by Simon A...read more

By John Barnes (editor) and Jennifer Petrie (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781846820908 | Four Courts Pr Ltd, December 20, 2007, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars, and theologians.

The Armies of Memory

Learning that he is being targeted in an assassination plot as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Giraut Leones, a special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, returns to his native world to recover top-secret information from an illegal underground colony. By the author of A Million Open Doors. Reprint.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780765303301 | Tor Books, March 21, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Giraut Leones, a special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, returns to his native world to recover top-secret information from an illegal underground colony.

Paperback:

9780765342249 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, April 3, 2007), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Learning that he is being targeted in an assassination plot as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Giraut Leones, a special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, returns to his native world to recover top-secret information from an illegal underground colony.

The Sky So Big and Black

Accompanying her eco-prospector father on a tour through the Martian wilderness, Terry finds herself having to guide the trip's young survivors back home after a terrible accident.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780765303035 | Forge, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Accompanying her eco-prospector father on a tour through the Martian wilderness, Terry finds herself having to guide the trip's young survivors back home after a terrible accident.

Paperback:

9780765342225 | Tor Books, October 19, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Accompanying her eco-prospector father on a tour through the Martian wilderness, Terry finds herself having to guide the trip's young survivors back home after a terrible accident, a situation that is further complicated by 'Mars-form' beings and the 'One True' collective intelligence.

Miscellaneous:

9781429970679 | 1 edition (Tor Books, April 1, 2007), cover price $6.99

Programming in Ada 2005

By John Barnes

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Paperback:

9780321340788 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, July 14, 2006), cover price $143.00

Network Time Protocol

By John Barnes, Poul-henning Kamp and David Mills

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Paperback:

9780596000752 | Oreilly & Associates Inc, January 1, 2005, cover price $29.95

Marketing Judo: Building Your Business Using Brains Not Budget

By John Barnes and Richard Richardson

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Paperback:

9780273663164 | Financial Times Management, November 30, 2002, cover price $29.50

The Merchants of Souls

In the sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass, secret agent Giraut Leones reluctantly undertakes a new mission on behalf of the Office of Special Projects to stop a program on Earth that would use recorded personalities of the dead as virtual reality playthings before the plan can destroy the entire structure of galactic human civilization. Reprint.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780312890766 | Tor Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Secret agent Giraut Leones reluctantly undertakes a new mission for the Office of Special Projects to stop a program on Earth that would use recorded personalities of the dead as virtual reality playthings before the plan can destroy the structure of galactic civilization.

Paperback:

9780812589696 | Tor Science Fiction, November 1, 2002, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In the sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass, secret agent Giraut Leones reluctantly undertakes a new mission on behalf of the Office of Special Projects to stop a program on Earth that would use recorded personalities of the dead as virtual reality playthings before the plan can destroy the entire structure of galactic human civilization.

Introduction to Networking: With Pericscopes Discovery Lab Cd

By John Barnes, Mark Buchmann, Avery Curran, Paul Hogrell and Neil Lovering

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Paperback:

9781928994824 | Pap/cdr edition (Syngress Media Inc, January 1, 2002), cover price $39.95

Candle

With most of humanity wired into the 'net,' Currie Culver is called out of retirement to hunt a 'cowboy' known as Lobo, a rogue who has dared to live a life unplugged. Reprint.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780312890773 | Tor Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: With most of humanity wired into the 'net,' Currie Culver is called out of retirement to hunt a 'cowboy,' a rogue who has dared to live a life unplugged

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9780812589689 | Tor Science Fiction, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: With most of humanity wired into the 'net,' Currie Culver is called out of retirement to hunt a 'cowboy,' a rogue who has dared to live a life unplugged.

Nature's Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe's Scientific Writings

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By John Barnes (trans), Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Mado Spiegler (trans) and Rudolf Steiner

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Hardcover:

9780880103930 | Rudolf Steiner Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $35.00

Finity

Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780312861186 | Tor Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

Paperback:

9780812571455 | 1 mass mkt edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, December 1, 1999), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

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9780613215398 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

Apostrophes and Apocalypses

Provides a compilation of outstanding science fiction short stories, most published in science fiction magazines in the late 1980s, from the acclaimed author of Mother of Storms and One for the Morning Glory. Reprint. NYT.

By John Barnes

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Hardcover:

9780312861476 | Tor Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a compilation of science fiction short stories, most published in science fiction magazines in the late 1980s

Paperback:

9780312850692 | Tor Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides a compilation of science fiction short stories, most published in science fiction magazines in the late 1980s

Earth Made of Glass

Product Description: Welcome to the Thousand Cultures--in which humanity's hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back together, via the recently invented technology of instantaneous travel. And in which Giraut and Margaret work as professional diplomats, helping to finesse the stresses and strains of so much abrupt new contact among wildly diverse cultures...read more

By John Barnes

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9780312858513 | Tor Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Diplomats Giraut and Margaret struggle to bring into the community of the Thousand Cultures a hostile planet called Briand

Paperback:

9780812551617 | Tor Science Fiction, March 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Margaret and Giraut must bring the hostile world of Briand, a planet of boiling acid oceans, whose only habitable portions are Greenland-sized subcontinents, into the community of the Thousand Cultures.

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9780613171953 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.15 | About this edition: Welcome to the Thousand Cultures--in which humanity's hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back together, via the recently invented technology of instantaneous travel.

Goethe and the Power of Rhythm: A Biographical Essay

Product Description: In fresh and spirited prose, John Barnes offers a captivating introduction to the life of Goethe as an inspiration for our times. He traces a powerful 18.6 year rhythm in Goetheâs biography, showing how his creative genius unfolded through repeated periods of crises and renewal...read more

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Paperback:

9780932776242 | Adonis Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In fresh and spirited prose, John Barnes offers a captivating introduction to the life of Goethe as an inspiration for our times.

Ada 95 Rationale: The Language, the Standard Libraries

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By John Barnes (editor)

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Paperback:

9783540631439 | Springer Verlag, November 1, 1997, cover price $77.95

Caesar's Bicycle

In order to stop the alien Closers, who have waged war on a million alternate Earths, private eye Mark Strang gathers his assortment of weaponry and confronts a mysterious closing of the Timelines. Original.

By John Barnes

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Paperback:

9780061056611, titled "Caesar's Bicycle" | Harper Prism, October 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | also contains Coriolanus | About this edition: In order to stop the alien Closers, who have waged war on a million alternate Earths, private eye Mark Strang gathers his assortment of weaponry and confronts a mysterious closing of the Timelines.

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