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Speaker Jim Wright : power, scandal, and the birth of modern politics by Flippen, J. Brooks, 1959-

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Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook. by Pavlovic, Zoran

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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels by Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-

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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials. by Alex Libby; Gaurav Gupta; Asoj Talesra

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Mastering Business for Strategic Communicators: Insights and Advice from the C-suite of Leading Brands. by Ragas, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…Part II: Communications, Business Acumen, and the C-suite2 The Communicator as Integrator -- Note -- 3 Why Business Acumen Matters More Than Ever -- The â#x80;#x9C;Ah-Haâ#x80;#x9D; Moment: Getting Grilled By MBAs -- If You Canâ#x80;#x99;t Beatâ#x80;#x99;em, Joinâ#x80;#x99;em: Time to Get an MBA -- Putting My Education to Work -- The Telescope and the Microscope -- Problem-Solving Requires Common Understanding -- Reference -- 4 From Farm to Pharm: Business and Life Lessons Learned in the Barnyard -- Lesson #1: Others Always Come First, Even If They Are Cows…”
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Meteorites and asteroids : classification, geology, and exploration

Table of Contents: “…""HEDs and Asteroid 4-Vesta """"CM Chondrites and the C-Type Asteroids ""; ""Iron Meteorites and M-Type Asteroids""; ""Aubrites and E-Types""; ""Ureilites and F-Types ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL AND CHANGES OF THE EARTHâ€?S CLIMATE ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""THE INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS FLUX OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL SUBSTANCE ON ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES ""; ""POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF ASTEROID IMPACT ON ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES ""; ""The Hallstatt Cycle and Taurid Stream ""…”
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Structural aspects of protein synthesis. by Liljas, Anders

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Brilliance by design : creating learning experiences that connect, inspire, and engage by Halsey, Vicki, 1955-

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The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of legal and ethical aspects of sex offender treatment and management / Handbook of legal and ethical aspects of sex offender treatment and management

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Forensic photography : a practitioner's guide by Marsh, Nick (Nicholas)

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Companion Website; Chapter 1: Image Processing; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The digital image; 1.3 Image acquisition; 1.4 Colour images; 1.5 The imaging chain and workflow; 1.6 White balance; 1.7 Image histogram; 1.8 Image processing terminology; 1.9 Digital image processing operations; 1.10 Classes of operations; 1.11 Noise reduction; 1.12 Sharpening filters; 1.13 History log; 1.14 Layers; 1.15 Bit depth and dynamic range; 1.16 File formats; 1.17 Image compression; 1.18 Image processing at image capture.…”
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Spectral sensing research for surface and air monitoring in chemical, biological and radiological defense and security applications

Table of Contents: “…Thériault -- A pyramid-based block of skewers for pixel purity index for endmember extraction in hyperspectral imagery / C.-I. Chang [and others] -- A compact eye-safe OPO pumped by a Nd:YAG microchip MOPA / J. …”
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Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors : Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact. by Elishakoff, Isaac

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The hero factor : how great leaders transform organizations and create winning cultures by Hayzlett, Jeffrey W., Eber, Jim

Table of Contents: “…The Future or the Past; Chapter 14: The Importance of Decisiveness and Letting People Go; Reconsidering Your People: Let 'Em Go to Combat the Status Quo; Reconsidering How You Think About Your People.…”
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Art in Science : Selections from EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. by Potter, Polyxeni

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Making a Meal of It : Writing about Film. by McFarlane, Brian

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Milestone visual documents in American history : the images, cartoons, and other visual sources that shaped America

Table of Contents: “…Palmer : "Detroit arsenal tank plant (Chrysler)" photograph -- Rube Goldberg : "Peace today" cartoon -- Photograph of Joseph McCarthy -- Photograph of the 101st Airborne Division outside Little Rock Central High School -- Thomas J. O'Halloran : "Kitchen" debate photograph of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev -- Photograph of Levittown, Pennsylvania -- Photograph of Interstate 10 under construction in California -- Fred Blackwell : Woolworths lunch counter sit-in photograph -- Hélène Roger-Viollet : drive-in restaurant photograph -- Herbert Block : "I got one of 'em" cartoon about Selma, Alabama -- Photograph of Black Panther Party demonstration -- American Indians occupy Alcatraz photograph -- United Farm Workers strike photograph -- Photograph of Vietnam War destruction -- Herbert Block : "National security blanket" cartoon -- "Remember Wounded Knee" patch -- Marty Lederhandler : photograph of gasoline rationing -- Photograph of anti-busing rally in Boston -- Warren K. …”
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Mastering Java Machine Learning. by Kamath, Dr. Uday

Table of Contents: “…Case Study -- Horse Colic Classification -- Business problem -- Machine learning mapping -- Data analysis -- Label analysis -- Features analysis -- Supervised learning experiments -- Weka experiments -- RapidMiner experiments -- Results, observations, and analysis -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques -- Issues in common with supervised learning -- Issues specific to unsupervised learning -- Feature analysis and dimensionality reduction -- Notation -- Linear methods -- Principal component analysis (PCA) -- Random projections (RP) -- Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) -- Nonlinear methods -- Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) -- Manifold learning -- Clustering -- Clustering algorithms -- k-Means -- DBSCAN -- Mean shift -- Expectation maximization (EM) or Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) -- Hierarchical clustering -- Self-organizing maps (SOM) -- Spectral clustering -- Affinity propagation -- Clustering validation and evaluation -- Internal evaluation measures -- External evaluation measures -- Outlier or anomaly detection -- Outlier algorithms -- Statistical-based -- Distance-based methods -- Density-based methods -- Clustering-based methods -- High-dimensional-based methods -- One-class SVM -- Outlier evaluation techniques -- Supervised evaluation -- Unsupervised evaluation -- Real-world case study -- Tools and software -- Business problem -- Machine learning mapping -- Data collection -- Data quality analysis -- Data sampling and transformation -- Feature analysis and dimensionality reduction -- Observations on feature analysis and dimensionality reduction -- Clustering models, results, and evaluation -- Observations and clustering analysis -- Outlier models, results, and evaluation -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Semi-Supervised and Active Learning -- Semi-supervised learning.…”
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Radio-frequency integrated-circuit engineering by Nguyen, Cam

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Bioluminescence and chemiluminesce : chemistry, biology and applications : proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, San Diego, 15-19 Oct., 2006

Table of Contents: “…Effect of microenvironmental changes on kinetic parameters ofsteady-state enzyme-induced bacterial bioluminescent reaction / Sukovataya I.E., Tyulkova N.A. and Kaykova E.V. …”
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A Mickey Mouse reader

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Residential buildings : a typology by Pfeifer, Günter, 1943-, Brauneck, Per

Table of Contents: “…The freestanding house: floor plan types : Semi-detached : Parvilla I / Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter -- House W / Bayer & Strobel Architekten -- Patchwork house / Pfeifer Roser Kuhn Architekten -- House of the present / Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten -- House C / Per Brauneck -- Vogelsang farmhouse / AmreinHerzi Architekten -- Three family house "In der Hub" / Morger & Degelo Architekten -- Hadersdorf model housing estate 3 / Hans Kollhoff Architekten -- Hadersdorf model housing estate 4 / Steidle Architekten -- Villa Overgooi / Next Architects -- KBWW house / MVRDV -- Two houses / Gigon/Guyer Architekten -- Home for architects and artists / Fuhrimann Hächler Architekten -- Student project / Christian Weyell -- Communal staircase access : Apartment houses, Susenbergstrasse / Gigon/Guyer Architekten -- Rottmannsboden house / Morger & Degelo Architekten -- Hagenbuchrain housing development / Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten ; Hegianwandweg housing / EM2N Architekten -- Lohbach residences / baumschlager & eberle -- BDZ housing development / pool Architekten -- "Malzturm" / Hürlimann Areal, Thomas Schregenberger -- Student projects / Björn Schmidt, Angèle Tersluisen, Sebastian Schaal -- Courtyard access : Java Island housing / Diener & Diener Architekten -- Werdwies housing development / Adrian Streich Architekten -- Student projects / Philippa Glaser, Johannes Lahme -- Hybrid : Esplanade housing / Steidle Architekten -- Student projects / Sebastian Schaal, Daniel Dolder -- Diploma project / Tobias Katz -- High-rise : Chassé Park apartments / Xaveer de Geyter -- Silverline tower / Claus en Kaan -- Star House 3 / Steidle Architekten -- De Rokade residential building / Arons en Gelauff Architecten -- "PopMoma" residential tower / baumschlager & eberle -- "Moma" residential tower / baumschlager & eberle -- KNSM apartment tower Wiel Arets Architects -- Kanchanjunga tower / Charles Correa Associates -- Weinerberg apartment high-rise / Delugan Meissl Architects -- Torre Cuajimalpa residential tower / Meir Lobaton and Kristjan Donaldson.…”
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Making a meal of it : writing about film by McFarlane, Brian, 1934-

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A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries, 1950-1975

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Encyclopedia of German literature

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Too much is not enough! : Charleston Conference proceedings, 2013

Table of Contents: “…Bates - Four years of unmediated demand-driven acquisitions and 5,000 e-books later: we gave 'em what they wanted / Karen S. Fischer and Chris Diaz - Is ILL enough? …”
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Python game programming by example : a pragmatic guide for developing your own games with Python / Pragmatic guide for developing your own games with Python by Rodas de Paz, Alejandro, Howse, Joseph

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EW 104 : EW against a new generation of threats / EW against a new generation of threats by Adamy, David

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Public safety networks from LTE to 5G / Public safety networks from LTE to Five G by Yarali, Abdulrahman

Table of Contents: “…4.13 The Future of FirstNet: Connecting Networks Together 75 -- 4.14 High Capacity Information Delivery 76 -- 4.15 Qualities that Facilitate Efficient High Capacity Information Handling 77 -- 4.15.1 FirstNet Has a Trustworthy Security System 77 -- 4.15.2 Concentrated Network Performance 77 -- 4.15.3 Simple and Scalable 77 -- 4.15.4 High Level of Vulnerability Safeguards 77 -- 4.16 FirstNet User Equipment 77 -- 4.17 Core Network 78 -- 4.18 Illustration: Layers of the LTE Network 78 -- 4.18.1 Transport Backhaul 79 -- 4.18.2 The Radio Access Networks 79 -- 4.18.3 Public Safety Devices 79 -- References 80 -- 5 Higher Generation of Mobile Communications and Public Safety 81 -- 5.1 Introduction 81 -- 5.2 Review of Existing Public Safety Networks 81 -- 5.2.1 What are LMR Systems? …”
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