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The merciless book of metal lists by Abrams, Howie

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The Modoc War : a Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age. by McNally, Robert Aquinas

Table of Contents: “…Hounds and Scouts; 29. Hang 'em High; 30. Varnishing Vengeance; 31. Still Small Voices Swell; 32. …”
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Out of Uniform, Second Edition : Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition. by Wolfe, Tom

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In the zone : helping children rise to the challenge of learning by Lansdown, Mike

Table of Contents: “…The terror of error -- Four common types of mistake -- References -- 7. Hook 'em and hold 'em -- Novel organisation -- Mystery or intrigue -- Unusual location -- Visitors/experts -- References -- 8. …”
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Master Presenter : Lessons from the World's Top Experts on Becoming a More Influential Speaker, The Best of PresentationXpert. by Zielinski, David

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Generations at School : Building an Age-Friendly Learning Community. by Lovely, Suzette

Table of Contents: “…-- Oozing with Optimism -- Teamwork: Here, There, Everywhere -- Conventional Wisdom -- Under Pressure -- Achievers 'R' Us -- When Theory Meets Practice -- Nintendo Effect -- Give 'Em Time to Think -- Double Takes and Do-Overs -- Happy Campers -- Reward Rather Than Punish -- Scaffold the Interventions -- Upward Bound -- Conclusion: In Good Hands.…”
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Naturally healthy Mexican cooking : authentic recipes for dieters, diabetics, & all food lovers by Peyton, James W.

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Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF REVIEWERS -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THIS REPORT -- APPROPRIATENESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF OST DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES -- Process Element 1: Identification of High-Priority DOE-EM Site Technology Needs -- Process Element 2: Program Planning -- Process Element 3: Assessments of Technology Development Proposals and Projects…”
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials. by Alex Libby; Gaurav Gupta; Asoj Talesra

Table of Contents: “…Embedding HTML5 video contentExploring what happened; Building a practical example; Exploring what happened; Exploring the risks; Making audio responsive; Taking things further; Making text fit on screen; Sizing with em units; Using rem units as a replacement; Exploring use of viewport units; Taking things further; Summary; Chapter 4: Exploring Media Queries; Exploring some examples; Understanding media queries; Exploring the available media types; Listing the available media features; Introducing operators in our queries; Identifying common breakpoints; Creating custom breakpoints.…”
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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels by Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-

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Creative Teaching Approaches In The Lifelong Learning Sector. by Harvey, Brendon

Table of Contents: “…5 Classroom Management and CreativityIntroduce ground rules; Clear instructions; Being engaged and active offsets potential disruptiveness; Preparation and pre-thinking; Practical exercise: room layouts; 6 The Hooks of Engagement: Creative Methods to Engage Learners; Hook 'em using narrative; Hook 'em using music; Hook 'em using images; Hook 'em using moving images; 7 Encouraging Constructive Thinking and Exploration of Ideas; Active inquirers, not passive sponges; Stimulating constructive thinking: the Sticky Notes Scorecard Activity.…”
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Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France by Pierce, Daniel S.

Table of Contents: “…: the creation and early years of NASCAR -- Darlington, Bamooda shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet : NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954 -- I would have been willing to bet-- we would never have to sleep in the car again : feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958 -- High stakes poker : NASCAR, 1959-1963 -- Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag : NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967 -- The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past : the end of the beginning, 1968-1972 -- Back to Bristol.…”
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Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France by Pierce, Daniel S.

Table of Contents: “…: the creation and early years of NASCAR -- Darlington, Bamooda shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet : NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954 -- I would have been willing to bet-- we would never have to sleep in the car again : feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958 -- High stakes poker : NASCAR, 1959-1963 -- Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag : NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967 -- The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past : the end of the beginning, 1968-1972 -- Back to Bristol.…”
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A Mickey Mouse reader

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Being Nixon : a man divided by Thomas, Evan, 1951-

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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Handbook of Mixture Analysis

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Semi-solid processing of alloys and composites XIII : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13th International Conference on Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites (S2P 2...

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Housing for People of All Ages : flexible, unrestricted, senior-friendly. by Ebner, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Senior-friendly, integrated, flexible; Integrated Living; Project Summary; "Miss Sargfabrik" in Vienna; Multi-generational House in Stuttgart; Multi-generational Housing in Vienna; Apartment Building in Vienna; Renovation of a Department Store in Eschweiler; Community Centre in Stuttgart; Seniors' Residence in Zurich; Multengut Seniors' Residence near Bern; Housing Development and Aged Care Centre in Alicante; High-rise Apartment Building in Rotterdam; Senior Dwellings in Domat/Ems; Centre for Seniors in Lich; Long House on Henza Island; Seniors' Centre in Magdeburg.…”
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Brilliance by design : creating learning experiences that connect, inspire, and engage by Halsey, Vicki, 1955-

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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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Art Briles looking up : my journey from tragedy to triumph by Eatman, Nick

Table of Contents: “…"I Feel Like a Winner"; 14. A High You Can't Buy; 15. Something to Bragg About; 16. …”
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Modern devices : the simple physics of sophisticated technology by Joseph, Charles Lynn, Bernal, Santiago

Table of Contents: “…; 15.3 TRADITIONAL AND HIGH-DEFINITION TV DISPLAY FORMATS; 15.4 CATHODE RAY TUBES; 15.5 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; 15.6 PLASMA DISPLAYS; 15.7 DIGITAL MICRO-MIRROR DEVICES.…”
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Financial spillovers to emerging markets during the global financial crisis by Frank, Nathaniel, Hesse, Heiko

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Republic of Poland : selected issues.

Table of Contents: “…Global Financial Conditions and Foreign Participation in Ems Government Bond Markets; 2. International Financial Spillovers into EMs; TABLES; 1. …”
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Swiss sensibility : the culture of architecture in Switzerland by Roos, Anna

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

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Renewable Energy and Power Technology II : Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 2014 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology (REET 2014), A...

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Mastering Bootstrap 4. by Benjamin Jakobus; Jason Marah

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LSAT For dummies by Hatch, Lisa Zimmer

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Art in Science : Selections from EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. by Potter, Polyxeni

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The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents by Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-

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Modern optics and photonics : atoms and structured media

Table of Contents: “…Evers [and others] -- Relativistic high-order harmonic generation / M.C. Kohler and K.Z. …”
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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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Body area communications : channel modeling, communication systems, and EMC by Wang, Jianqing (Engineer), Wang, Qiong (Engineer)

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Computational electrodynamics : a gauge approach with applications in microelectronics by Schoenmaker, Wim, 1954-

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Hybrid offline/online methods for optimization under uncertainty by De Filippo, Allegra

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Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal Vol. 20 No. 11 2014 : Trilingual edition English/French/Arabic. by Organization, World Health

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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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Differentiation in Practice : a Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 5-9. by Tomlinson, Carol Ann

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