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Panorama. Texas style / Tough justice :

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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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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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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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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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Structural aspects of protein synthesis. by Liljas, Anders

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

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

Handbook of Mixture Analysis

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Making a meal of it : writing about film by McFarlane, Brian, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Taking the Plunge: The Water Diviner; 19. Sunset Song; Book Reviews; 20. Ealing Studios; 21. Days of their Lives; 22. …”
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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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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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Making a Meal of It : Writing about Film. by McFarlane, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Taking the Plunge: The Water Diviner; 19. Sunset Song; Book Reviews; 20. Ealing Studios; 21. Days of Their Lives; 22. …”
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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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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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The hero factor : how great leaders transform organizations and create winning cultures by Hayzlett, Jeffrey W., Eber, Jim

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 13: Inclusive Cultures: Hero or Status Quo?; You Can Ask Google Anything, But What If You Question Google?…”
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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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The nucleon-nucleon interaction and the nuclear many-body problem : selected papers of Gerald E. Brown and T.T.S. Kuo

Table of Contents: “…Convergence of effective Hamiltonian expansion and partial summations of folded diagrams / E.M. Krenciglowa and T.T.S. Kuo. The nuclear reaction matrix / E.M. …”
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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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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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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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Out of Uniform, Second Edition : Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition. by Wolfe, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Filters, Part One (Employerâ#x80;#x99;s); 7. When Can You Start?; 8. Travel: Are Your Bags Packed?…”
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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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