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Breaking the sound barrier by Goodman, Amy, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The art of war and deception -- Resistance to war cannot be jailed -- Clinton to antiwar voters: bring 'em on -- Carlos Arredondo exploding into action -- Hang up on war: claim your telephone tax rebate -- War and censorship at Wilton High School -- The time is right for new Pentagon papers -- The uncounted casualties of war -- Winter soldier marches again -- Body of war -- Whistle-blower points to target list in U.S. attack on hotel -- Threats, lies, and audiotape -- Invasion of the sea-smurfs -- Obama's Afghan trap -- Obama's coalition of the unwilling -- Climate change. …”
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The merciless book of metal lists by Abrams, Howie

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Champions in the classroom by Turrentine, Penny, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Sports grows up and goes to college : the birth of intercollegiate sports -- Stars and stripes : games on the corner lot -- Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em : rules of the game -- Birth of the NCAA -- Winning is everything? …”
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Golf For Dummies. by McCord, Gary

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Handbook of Mixture Analysis

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A Mickey Mouse reader

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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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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

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

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The Pocket essential Clint Eastwood / Clint Eastwood by Carlson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) Malpaso; Hang 'Em High (1968); Don Siegel; Coogan's Bluff (1968); This Gun For Hire; Where Eagles Dare (1968); Paint Your Wagon (1969); Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970); Kelly's Heroes (1970); First Cycle: Clintus & Siegelini (& John Sturges); The Beguiled (1971); Play Misty For Me (1971); Dirty Harry (1971); Joe Kidd (1972); High Plains Drifter (1973); Second Cycle: The Limits Of Genre; Breezy (1973); Magnum Force (1973); Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (1974); The Eiger Sanction (1975); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)…”
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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right : American life in columns by Smerconish, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Cable Carnival Shoutfest -- Requiem for an Era -- McCain Fails the Big Five Tests -- Their Stanley Cup Runneth Over -- My Dinner with Pervez -- Jack Kemp's Winning Game Plan -- Checking in With Smokin' Joe to Thank Him for His Dignity -- 1-800-Political-Venom -- Sorry, But for Me, the Party Is Over -- Yard Sale 101 -- The Power of Pin Money -- Farewell, My DN Friends -- Investment Giant on Living Well -- and Madoff -- A Lesson in Gumption, and Its Rewards -- Can You Imagine How Christie's Son Feels? …”
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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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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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Soul survivors : stories of wounded women warriors and the battles they fight long after they've left the war zone / Stories of wounded women warriors and the battles they fight lo... by Holmstedt, Kirsten A.

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

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

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

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Structural aspects of protein synthesis. by Liljas, Anders

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The Clint Eastwood westerns by Neibaur, James L., 1958-

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Panorama. Texas style / Tough justice :

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

Table of Contents: “…Mothers: Some Kids do 'ave 'em; 42. Portraits in Celluloid.…”
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Financial spillovers to emerging markets during the global financial crisis by Frank, Nathaniel, Hesse, Heiko

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

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Noninterpretive skills in radiology : Q & A top score prep guide for the boards by Weissman, Alan, MD, Bartel, Twyla B.

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Poker : the parody of capitalism by Bjerg, Ole, 1974-

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Swiss sensibility : the culture of architecture in Switzerland by Roos, Anna

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Naturally healthy Mexican cooking : authentic recipes for dieters, diabetics, & all food lovers by Peyton, James W.

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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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Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook. by Pavlovic, Zoran

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LSAT For dummies by Hatch, Lisa Zimmer

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

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