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By: B. D. Rasmussen

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In its entire historyfrom the Roman Legions to Hitler and Stalinthe small Eastern European country of Eden-on-Danube has never been considered desirable enough to be properly pillaged and plundered by a superpower. As the country teeters on bankruptcy, the government decides its only chance for economic salvation is to create a royalty-for-a-week program and rent out their country to tourists. Guests come from all over. Jana Stanczak, a victim of the Great Recession, has just won the Mega-Zillions Lottery in Florida and now has a chance to honor a promise made to her great-grandmother. The Thakkars, born into the lowest caste in India, have built the worlds largest steel empire; now they have an opportunity to escape a soul-crushing daily existence. Rebecca Adebayo, desperate to flee sectarian violence in Nigeria, thinks there may be no better place to hide than in a country no one else knows exists. As each guest arrives in Eden-on-Danube, the country and its citizens are grateful for the tourism income. But everything changes when a native of Eden-on-Danube returns to her homeland to visit a friend, causing the countrys citizens to question their choices. In this quirky, amusing tale, daily apathy meets dynamic change as a country welcomes visitors who may have more power than they ever realized.

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1480803634

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9781480803633

Darkly Dickinson

The Untold Story of Poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

By: B. D. Watson

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Darkly Dickinson

The Untold Story of Poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

By: B. D. Watson

Some called her “Crazy Beth”, others called her the “Myth of Amherst,” and some called her simply a gifted genius. She was stunning and intelligent and was ahead of her time when it came to advocating change for society regarding women’s rights and minorities’ equality. Who is the girl behind the poetry? Why were so many of Emily Dickinson’s 1,800+ poems about death? What was the true meaning behind her cryptic poems? Who were the Master poems written to? Join B. D. Watson as she welcomes her debut novel, Darkly Dickinson: The Untold Story of Poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, revealing all the mysteries that wrap around the most loved and read literary genius of all time. Darkly Dickinson will walk you through the life of poet Emily Dickinson from her childhood abuse to her teenage years of being bullied by her teachers and classmates, and then to her college years at Mount Holyoke when she was grabbed out of her bed to be a part of sinister acts performed by the girls who taught her how to dabble in witchcraft, and finally to her adult years with her cat-and-mouse chases with men. Darkly Dickinson will take you through the heartbreaking deaths of all her loved ones including her romantic interests, and finally you will be led to Dickinson’s mental breakdown that led to her isolation from society for over 30 years. Read Darkly Dickinson and you decide for yourself, was ‘it’ fact or fiction? Were her imaginary friends demons or simply a figment of her imagination? Be prepared for an immense amount of pulled heartstrings, leaving you begging for more.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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163829061X

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Desert's Dawn

By: B. D. Phillips

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Desert's Dawn

By: B. D. Phillips

Fifteen years ago, the residents of a small Arizona town just north of the Mexican border began to be affected by the criminal acts of a small band of survivalists, encamped approximately 50 miles south of town. Led by by a former U.S. Army officer, named Tom Roberts, dishonorably discharged, near the end of the Vietnam war, this band of survivalists, silently conducted criminal acts, such as drug running, extortion, and white slavery. Although, the local sheriff knows of their criminal acts, he never managed to gain the much needed evidence to convict Roberts and his band of survivalists. For years Roberts kept just ahead of the law in his dealings, until a beautiful district attorney by the name of Jennifer Danials manages to dig up the evidence that would finally put Roberts away. One week later, her dead body was discovered floating in a nearby river. Now, ten years later, the woman''s seventeen- year old daughter, Sheila, leads a very extraordinary life. Raised alone, by her wheelchair-bound older brother, Andrew, since she was just seven, she has excelled from a distraught young girl to a black-belt in the martial arts and an almost genius academically. Meanwhile, after fifteen years Tom Roberts has honed his skills in his shadowy acts of lawlessness. Although, the people of this town suspect him of deeds ranging in murder to abductions, his involvement in any such criminal activities are nearly impossible to prove. But even a crime boss has to retire eventually. Acting on a plan to steal twenty-five million dollars, Roberts pulls out all stops, in order to purchase a retirement refuge for himself and his survivalist companions in Mexico. Sheila Danials, her friends, and family know nothing of Roberts plans as they go about their everyday lives. But every day that brings Tom Roberts closer to his retirement...brings the Danials family closer to a showdown wi

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1420873342

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9781420873344

S Programming

By: William Venables,B.D. Ripley

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S Programming

By: William Venables,B.D. Ripley

Written by the bestselling authors of "Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus", this book provides an in-depth guide to writing software in the S language under the commercial S-PLUS and the Open Source R systems. The book is geared to those with some knowledge of the S language who want to use it more effectively.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387989668

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9780387989662

A George Washington Carver Handbook

By: B. D. Mayberry

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A George Washington Carver Handbook

By: B. D. Mayberry

A George Washington Carver Handbook is a chronological account of the life and works of the famous inventor. Edited by Dr. B. D. Mayberry, this book includes a brief biography of George Washington Carver, tributes to Carver by state governments and colleges and universities, U. S. Patents, photos, and some of Carver's favorite quotes. Easy to read, this handbook is perfect for anyone wanting an overview of this great man.

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NewSouth Books

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1603060162

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9781603060165

Freshwater Higher Fungi of India

By: B D Borse,K N Borse,S Y Patil,C M Pawara,L C Nemade,V R Patil

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Freshwater Higher Fungi of India

By: B D Borse,K N Borse,S Y Patil,C M Pawara,L C Nemade,V R Patil

The Indian subcontinent has rich biological diversity in the world owing to its vast geographic area, varied topography and climate. It is classified into 10 biogeographic regions. Amongst the 34 hotspots of the world, two are located on Indian land extending into neighboring countries - the Western Ghats / Sri Lanka and the eastern Himalaya.

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Lulu.com

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1365458482

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9781365458484

The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays

By: B. D. Chattopadhyaya

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The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays

By: B. D. Chattopadhyaya

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time. This collection explores what may be called the idea of India in ancient times. Its undeclared objective is to identify key concepts which show early Indian civilization as distinct and differently oriented from other formations. The essays focus on ancient Indian texts within a variety of genres. They identify certain key termssuch as janapada, desa, var?a, dharma, bh?vain their empirical contexts to suggest that neither the ideas embedded in these terms nor the idea of Bharatavarsha as a whole are given entities, but that they evolved historically. Professor Chattopadhyaya examines these texts to unveil historical processes. Without denying comparative history, he stresses that the internal dynamics of a society are best decoded via its own texts. His approach bears very effectively on understanding ongoing interactions between Indias Great Tradition and Little Traditions. As a whole, this book is critical of the notion of overarching Indian unity in the ancient period. It punctures the retrospective thrust of hegemonic nationalism as an ideology that has obscured the diverse textures of Indian civilization. Renowned for his scholarship on the ancient Indian past, Professor Chattopadhyayas latest collection only consolidates his high international reputation.

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SUNY Press

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1438471750

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Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays

By: B. D. Pandey

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Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays

By: B. D. Pandey

Edward Albee (b. 1928) is recognized as one of the major American dramatists of our time. He is considered the most powerful and controversial writer of America after the eras of O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Critical assessments of his work as a playwright vary from passionate applause to downright denigration. He has occasioned critical responses proving himself an enigma for critics, scholars and reviewers who have failed to reach a consensus on him as a playwright. Robert Brustein, one of America’s leading theatrical observers, displayed an arbitrary mentality of astounding presumptuousness in a review of The Zoo Story printed in Seasons of Discontent (1966) and hinted at a ‘masochistic-homosexual perfume’ in it. Similarly, in approaching The American Dream and Death of Bessie Smith, he adopted a dismissive attitude and felt only the slightest obligation to discuss the plays, preferring to attack the general decadence of American theatre. Martin Esslin precipitated a host of articles in which Albee was alternately praised and denounced for his success or failure. Philip Roth assailed him for writing ‘thinly-veiled homosexual fantasies’. Richard Schechner’s violent denunciation is based on the ‘morbidity and sexual perversity’ in Albee’s first three-act play. He dismissed the playwright as a ‘plague in our midst’ and a ‘corrosive influence on our theatre’. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? invited the adverse remark as “a filthy play.” There are other critics as Gerald Weals, Brian Way, Rose A. Zimbardo, Gilbert Debusscher, Alan Schneider, Harold Clurman, Diana Trilling, Michael E. Rutenberg, Anne Paolucci, C.W.E. Bigsby, Richard E. Amacher etc., who have approached the plays of Edward Albee and expressed their views in favour of or against , them. To record all that has been said on Albee and his plays, or to give a survey of the critical material on Albee, the dramatist, is not possible in the limited space at my disposal here. Further, the present study is not intended to establish the reputation of Albee. Its direct and main drive is to analyze and expose the Absurdist themes which form the fundamentals of his significant plays.

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Bhartiya Sahitya Inc.

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1613015925

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9781613015926

Design and Development of MEMS based Guided Beam Type Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

By: Shanky Saxena,Ritu Sharma,B. D. Pant

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Design and Development of MEMS based Guided Beam Type Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

By: Shanky Saxena,Ritu Sharma,B. D. Pant

This book presents device design, layout design, FEM analysis, device fabrication, and packaging and testing of MEMS-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. It serves as a complete guide from design, FEM, and fabrication to characterization. Each chapter of this volume illustrates key insight technologies through images. The book showcases different technologies for energy harvesting and the importance of energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks. The design, simulation, and comparison of three types of structures – single beam cantilever structure, cantilever array structure, and guided beam structure have also been reported in one of the chapters. In this volume, an elaborate characterization of two-beam and four-beam fabricated devices has been carried out. This characterization includes structural, material, morphological, topological, dynamic, and electrical characterization of the device. The volume is very concise, easy to understand, and contains colored images to understand the details of each process.

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Springer Nature

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9811606064

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9789811606069

Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

By: B.D. McKersie,Y. Lesheim

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Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

By: B.D. McKersie,Y. Lesheim

Two experienced and well-known research scientists, each from a vastly different part of the world, have combined their respective expertises to provide the reader with perhaps a unique text which presents an in-depth treatment of the various stress manifestations and an overall discussion of stress in cultivated plants. Professor Bryan McKersie of Canada, who over the years has been active in research, teaching and agricultural application of scientific techniques, has dealt with and described cold, chilling, flooding, desiccation and oxidative stress phenomena: Professor Ya'acov Leshem of Israel, whose research experience and activities have centered around different facets of plant stress, has covered heat, drought, salinity and environmental pollution. Notwithstanding their different research experiences, both authors have cooperated and together have written a well-integrated and up-to-date text describing the major stress factors and problems which are limiting factors for optimal plant growth and hence of yield. The information assembled carefully in this book makes no claim to provide ready-made remedies to overcome the various stresses but in many cases suggests feasible and scientifically applicable approaches and partial solutions for stress coping, some of which are now in the process of being developed. This book is intended for research workers and students of agriculture and horticulture, for plant physiologists and is of overall interest to scientists dealing with stress physiology.

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9401730938

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Darkly Dickinson

Darkly Dickinson

Desert's Dawn

Desert's Dawn

S Programming

S Programming

A George Washington Carver Handbook

A George Washington Carver Handbook

Freshwater Higher Fungi of India

Freshwater Higher Fungi of India

The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays

The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays

Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays

Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays

Design and Development of MEMS based Guided Beam Type Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

Design and Development of MEMS based Guided Beam Type Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

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