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Smoke Encrypted Whispers. by Watson, Samuel Wagan

Table of Contents: “…Floodlight sonatasabandoned factories; scenes from a getaway car; night racing; 3a.m. escape; pre-flight; 95 cents a litre; deo optimo maximo; gasoline; literary festival bump-out; itinerant blue; products of mexico; gas tank sonnets; sunday; the last bullfighter; back road; sultry gridlock musings; brunswick st blues; ambulance chaser; talking to the airplanes; three-legged dogs; fire; the night house; jaded olympic moments; without regret; future primitive; the night train from newcastle; sortie; the finder's fee; skeletons in the trunk; the thousand-yard stare; king; last exit to brisbane.…”
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Water for Hartford : the Story of the Hartford Water Works and the Metropolitan District Commission. by Murphy, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Map of Hartford, 1836; Map of the Trout Brook System; Map of the Complete MDC System; Chapter 1 The Muddling Years; Chapter 2 The Breakthrough; Chapter 3 Building A Water Company; Chapter 4 The River Water Deteriorates; Chapter 5 The Dam Collapse of 1867; Chapter 6 The Drought of the 1870s; Chapter 7 Completion of the Trout Brook System; Chapter 8 The Nepaug Dam & Reservoir; Chapter 9 Graduation To Regional Supplier; Chapter 10 The East Branch Valley; Chapter 11 The Barkhamsted Reservoir.…”
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Abraham Lincoln And Jefferson Davis. by Trench, L-Cmdr Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABSTRACT; CHAPTER ONE -- INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO -- BACKGROUNDS; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Conclusions; CHAPTER THREE -- DAVIS: MILITARY STRATEGY AND COMMAND STRUCTURE; First Bull Run; Forts Henry And Donelson; Peninsula Campaign; Second Bull Run; 1863: East Versus West; 1864 And 1865: Resist Manfully; Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR -- LINCOLN: MILITARY STRATEGY AND COMMAND STRUCTURE; First Bull Run; Reorganization And The Tennessee River Campaign; The Peninsula Campaign; Second Bull Run And Antietam; Vicksburg And Gettysburg; The Final Campaigns; Conclusions.…”
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100 greatest film scores / One hunderd greatest film scores by Lawson, Matt, MacDonald, Laurence E.

Table of Contents: “…The adventures of Robin Hood -- Alexander Nevsky -- Around the world in 80 days -- Avalon -- Back to the future -- Batman -- A beautiful mind -- Becket -- Ben-Hur -- The best years of our lives -- The big country -- Blade runner -- Born free -- Braveheart -- Breakfast at Tiffany's -- The bride of Frankenstein -- The bridge on the river Kwai -- Casablanca -- Chariots of fire -- Chinatown -- Cinema paradiso -- Citizen Kane -- City lights -- Close encounters of the third kind -- Conan the Barbarian -- Dances with wolves -- The day the Earth stood still -- Doctor Zhivago -- East of Eden -- Edward Scissorhands -- Empire of the Sun -- E.T. -- the extra-terrestrial -- Fargo -- Forrest Gump -- The ghost and Mrs. …”
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Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition -- Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western -- The classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll -- Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in the delicate delinquent -- "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in the cool world -- Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 a space odyssey -- Taking back The night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film -- Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film -- Man's favorite sport? …”
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Gayelle.

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Natural state.

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Dams : impacts, stability and design

Table of Contents: “…Mark Nelson, Gregory Reed -- Bankfull Hydraulic geometry adjustments caused by check dams for ephemeral channels (south-east Spain, western Mediterranean) / C. Conesa-Garcia, R. …”
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Management in transitional economies : from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China

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The Dictionary of Physical Geography by Thomas, David S. G.

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Salero

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The stress-strength model and its generalizations : theory and applications by Kotz, Samuel

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Dinosaurs under the aurora by Gangloff, Roland A.

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Wise Children / Angela Carter's by Rice, Emma

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This great struggle : America's Civil War by Woodworth, Steven E.

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Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Material Engineering and Environment Science : Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 2014 International Conference on Material Eng...

Table of Contents: “…Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Material Engineering and Environment Science; Preface and Organizing Committee; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Environmental Science and Ecology; Study of Absorption of Heavy Metals (Pb, Cu) in Phragmites australis in Lingang New City; River Ecosystem Health Assessment and Implications for Post-Project Environmental Appraisal in China; Impact of Long Transport on Taiwan's Ozone Air Quality from East Asia; Water Quality Monitoring Based on Mobile Measurable System…”
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Inventing Custer : the making of an American legend by Caudill, Edward

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More food from small spaces : growing denser, deeper, higher, longer gardens by Park, Margaret, 1954-

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Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history

Table of Contents: “…/ Stephen Ellis -- Revisiting resistance in Italian-occupied Ethiopia: the patriots' movement (1936-1941) and the redefinition of post-war Ethiopia / Aregawi Berhe -- Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: the Kat River settlement, 1829-1856 / Robert Ross -- African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: a nineteenth century colonial paradox / Ineke van Kessel -- Absence of evidence is no proof: slave resistance under German colonial rule in East Africa / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- The Kawousan war reconsidered / Kimba Idrissa -- Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): narrative and meaning / Klaas van Walraven -- The vagaries of violence and power in post-colonial Mozambique / Gerhard Seibert -- Herero genocide in the twentieth-century / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 'Namibia, land of the brave': selective memories on war and violence within nation building / Henning Melber -- Dervishes, moryaan, and freedom fighters: cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000 / Jon Abbink.…”
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You're sending me where? : dispatches from summer camp by Dregni, Eric, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Coffee EmergencyThe End of Camp?; The Last Day of Camp; Acknowledgments; Author bio.…”
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Korda : Britain's Movie Mogul. by Drazin, Charles

Table of Contents: “…The Puszta; 2. Sandor of the River; 3. Westward Bound; 4. The Gilded Cage; 5. …”
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The road to martyrs' square : a journey into the world of the suicide bomber by Oliver, A. M.

Table of Contents: “…Saint Yasin -- Welcome to planet X -- Look with your ears, my friend -- Lunch with Hasan -- A complete darkness -- The disciple (Hahaha) -- A minor jihad -- The gharqad tree -- The evil incident -- The brotherhood -- Splits in the brain -- The miracle sheikh -- The mechanical waving hand of a keffiyah-clad manikin -- Soldier in Chinese hat, planning escape -- The sweet girl -- The antidote -- A babe in the womb -- The crazy girl -- The dark room -- Walls, maze, prison -- An entire cosmology -- A question of style -- It doesn't matter when or how I am killed -- Martyr on a black horse -- Terror in their hearts -- We are worth nothing without a machine-gun -- Children, but they are men and heroes -- Al-Aqsa massacre video -- Blood, blood, blood -- A collaborator breaker accused of something close to collaboration -- A daring shock of jet-black hair coyly peeking out beneath her veil -- Monkeys and pigs and servants of evil -- The mad dogs of language -- A notice of the end of the world -- A death on the path of God -- The green line -- The fixer -- Ghosts with guns -- The last words of Hamza Abu-Surur -- The smile of the martyr -- A still blue river -- The killing of Haim Nachmani -- The last words of Salah 'Uthman -- A happy man -- The last words of Muhammad al-Hindi -- Intimate of heart -- Al-Hindi and Abu-Surur meet -- Circle and vow, the trainer's soliloquy -- A tourist in the dunya -- A khanjar, floating -- A second appearance -- Any number compared to infinity -- The paradise hotel -- The gun dance -- A few hours later; or, the trail of a dagger.…”
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Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands : the Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815. by Owsley, Frank Lawrence, Jr

Table of Contents: “…Burnt Com and Fort Mims; 4. The Alabama River Campaigns; 5. The Georgia Campaign: Autosse and Calabee Creek; 6. …”
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All I Ever Wanted to Be Was A Cowboy. by Bill Roberts

Table of Contents: “…Lykes and the Job That Almost Happened; A Trip to Fort Basinger; Two Weeks at The River Ranch; Cow Truck in the Canal and a Dose of Adrenaline; Back to The River Ranch; The MacDonald Bull; Brahma Heifers at Lady Lake; Cow Dogs; Buck Fever; Cow Horses; Two Weeks at Rattlesnake Island; Wild Hogs; Old General; Buster and the Alligator.…”
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The landing by Sinnett, Mark, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…""Checking up on Gould""""The new forest""; ""Brain""; ""East""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""A new record""; ""Gold rush""; ""With open mind""; ""A new plot""; ""Tracking in mud""; ""Prison break""; ""Doubting Thomas""; ""We rattle north""…”
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Romancing the roads : a driving diva's firsthand guide, west of the mississippi. by Davis, Gerry Hempel

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The writer's craft : Hopwood lectures, 1965-81 / Hopwood lectures, 1965-81

Table of Contents: “…/ Walker Percy (1977) -- Literary technique in the last quarter of the twentieth century / Tom Wolfe (1978) -- Making up stories / Joan Didion (1979) -- The myth of the artist / Al Alvarez (1980) -- The American writer: the American theater / Arthur Miller (1981).…”

A bitter revolution : China's struggle with the modern world by Mitter, Rana, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- China's Road to Nationalism -- Internationalism, Cosmopolitism, and Nationalism -- Looking East in Europe -- Not Just West and East: Thinking Beyond Europe -- Japan's Promise, Japan's Menace -- Party Politics -- The Communists -- The Nationalists -- Nationalists and Communists, United and Divided -- The Question of Woman -- Conclusion: Goodbye May Fourth? …”
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Asia and Europe : essays and speeches by Koh, Tommy T. B. (Tommy Thong Bee), 1937-

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Naming Edmonton : From Ada to Zoie. by Edmonton, City of

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; How to Use This Book; Abbreviations; Edmonton's Official Place Names; From Trails and River Lots to Modern Edmonton; A Timeline of the City of Edmonton; City of Edmonton Reference Maps; A: A.J. …”
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Border wars : the Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky

Table of Contents: “…Battles, skirmishes, and soldiers -- The militia spirit: Lexington and Clarksville militias and the making of Civil War armies / Aaron Astor -- Descent into anarchy: the evolution of irregular warfare in the lower Green River country of Kentucky / Scott A. Tarnowieckyi -- The 1861 campaign to liberate East Tennessee / Michael Toomey -- Guerrilla warfare and federal occupation in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky, 1862-1864 / Patricia A. …”
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Toward The Flame. by Allen, Hervey

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER XVI -- OVER THE BRIDGECHAPTER XVII -- OVER THE RIVER AGAIN; CHAPTER XVIII -- LAST HOURS IN FISMETTE; Addenda; COMPANY IS WIPED OUT; PERSHING IRRITATED.…”
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Sound of the ax : aphorisms and poems by William Stafford

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Editors' Preface -- Aphorisms -- Climbing along the River -- Aphorisms -- The Sparkle Depends on Flaws in the Diamond -- Aphorisms -- Keepsakes -- Aphorisms -- Note -- Aphorisms -- Sayings of the Blind -- Aphorisms -- Sayings from the Northern Ice -- Aphorisms -- Butterflies in the Radiator Grill -- Aphorisms -- Written on the Stub of the First Paycheck -- Aphorisms -- Song Now -- Aphorisms -- Wild Horse Lore -- Aphorisms -- .38 -- Aphorisms -- The Gospel Is Whatever Happens -- Aphorisms -- So Long -- Aphorisms -- Salvaged Parts -- Aphorisms -- Artist, Come Home -- Aphorisms -- Things the Wind Says -- Aphorisms -- Optimism -- Aphorisms -- Buddha's Thoughts -- Aphorisms -- Put These in Your Pipe -- Aphorisms -- Consolations -- Aphorisms -- The Dream of Now -- Aphorisms -- Influential Writers -- Aphorisms -- Mein Kampf -- Aphorisms -- [A Well-Oiled Gate] -- Aphorisms -- Things I Learned Last Week -- Aphorisms -- Tuned In Late One Night -- Aphorisms -- Acknowledgments.…”
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Water for the Future : the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel, and Jordan. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…APPENDIX C Effects of Water Use on Biodiversity in the Study AreaAPPENDIX D Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Rivers -- APPENDIX E Bibliography -- APPENDIX F List of Meeting Places and Dates -- APPENDIX G Committee on Sustainable Water Supplies for the Middle East Biographical Sketches…”
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Aluminum ore : the political economy of the global bauxite industry

Table of Contents: “…-- 6 “Greece Has Been Endowed by Nature with This Precious Materialâ€? -- 7 The Volta River Project and Decolonization, 1945-57 -- 8 Canada and the Nationalization of Alcanâ€?…”
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Geomorphology of desert environments

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Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies. by Reduction, Committee on Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage

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Jindabyne

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Chinese New Year.

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Pennsylvania Tunnel excavation

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