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The Solar System

By: Thérèse Encrenaz,Jean-Pierre Bibring,M. Blanc,Maria-Antonietta Barucci,Francoise Roques,Philippe Zarka

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The Solar System

By: Thérèse Encrenaz,Jean-Pierre Bibring,M. Blanc,Maria-Antonietta Barucci,Francoise Roques,Philippe Zarka

In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662104032

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9783662104033

The Hollow Needle

By: Maurice Marie Le Blanc

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The Hollow Needle

By: Maurice Marie Le Blanc

Hidup memang tidak pernah membosankan untuk Arsene Lupin. Setelah usai dengan kesedihan akibat kematian kekasih tercintanya, Sonia Kirchnoff, sang Monsieur Pencuri kembali beraksi. Kali ini ia mengincar harta karun peninggalan Raja Prancis. Harta karun itu berisi mas kawin Ratu Prancis, mutiara, rubi, safir, dan berlian yang tak ternilai harganya. Tapi, Lupin tidak akan mendapatkannya dengan mudah. Ia harus berhadapan bukan hanya satu tetapi dua lawan tangguh, Holmlock Shears dan murid sekolah yang genius, Isidore Beautrelet. -Bukune-

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Bukune

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6022200393

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9786022200390

The Solar System

By: Thérèse Encrenaz,Jean-Pierre Bibring,M. Blanc

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The Solar System

By: Thérèse Encrenaz,Jean-Pierre Bibring,M. Blanc

Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1990, planetology has seen a number of fascinating discoveries that have increased our knowledge of the Solar System. These have come from both ground- and space-based observa tional programmes. Although some space probe missions have ended in fail ure, even they have added to our store of information about the planetary environment. The Galileo probe, despite being crippled by its incompletely deployed main antenna, has already achieved some spectacular results. For the first time we have obtained pictures of asteriods, with the images that Galileo returned of Gaspra, Ida, and the latter's satellite, Dactyl. The main objective, the drop ping of an instrumented capsule into Jupiter's atomosphere, and prolonged in-situ investigation of the planet, will take place at the end of 1995. Saturn's turn will come early in the next century with the Cassini mission (to be launched in 1997), which will study the planet for an extended period and attempt to land the Huygens probe on the surface of Titan. NASA's Magellan mission proved to be a great success, with its highly detailed radar mapping of the surface, and atmospheric studies. The exploration of Mars was less fortunate with the failure of both spaceprobes of the Soviet Phobos mission, as well as NASA's Mars Observer probe. Despite this set back, plans are in hand for future, collaborative exploration of the planet, using both surface stations (possibly active rovers), surface penetrators and balloon probes, as well as orbiters.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662031647

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Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

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Routledge

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1000159264

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Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes

By: Maurice le Blanc,Sheba Blake

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Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes

By: Maurice le Blanc,Sheba Blake

Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes is a collection of two adventures of Arsène Lupin, written by Maurice Leblanc. These adventures feature a match of wits between Lupin and Herlock Sholmes, a transparent reference to Sherlock Holmes, the hero of Conan Doyle's detective stories. It follows the appearance of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, in which Sherlock Holmes also makes an appearance in "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late". The collection was translated twice into English, as Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes in the U.S. (1910, by George Morehead), and as Arsène Lupin versus Holmlock Shears in the UK (1910, by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, printed as The Blonde Lady in the U.S.). The first story, "The Blonde Lady", opens with the purchase of an antique desk by a mathematics professor. The desk is subsequently stolen, as it turns out, by Arsène Lupin.

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Sheba Blake Publishing

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1387277243

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Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth Edition

By: Ilene B. Anderson,Neal L. Benowitz,Paul D. Blanc,Susan Y. Kim-Katz,Justin C. Lewis,Alan H. B. Wu

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Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth Edition

By: Ilene B. Anderson,Neal L. Benowitz,Paul D. Blanc,Susan Y. Kim-Katz,Justin C. Lewis,Alan H. B. Wu

When every moment counts, count on Poisoning & Drug Overdose A Doody's Core Title for 2023! Speed is crucial when dealing with toxicologic and drug-related emergencies. Finding answers quickly is easier than ever with this streamlined eighth edition of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. This instant-answer guide provides the critical information needed to diagnose and manage drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures. Updated with newly released drugs and new information on existing drugs, the guide covers initial emergency management, including treatment of coma, seizures and hypotension; physical and laboratory diagnosis; and methods of decontamination and enhanced elimination of poisons. Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth Edition is divided into four sections: Section I. Provides a stepwise approach to the evaluation and treatment of coma, seizures, shock, and other complications of poisoning and the proper use of gastric decontamination and dialysis procedures. Section II. Lists specific poisons and drugs, as well as the pathophysiology, toxic dose and level, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and specific treatment associated with each substance. Section III. Covers descriptions of therapeutic drugs and antidotes, including pharmacology indications, adverse effects, drug interactions, and recommended dosage. Section IV. Describes the approach to hazardous materials incidents; the evaluation of occupational exposures; and the toxic effects, physical properties, and workplace limits for over 500 common industrial chemicals. Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth Edition is enhanced by numerous tables and charts, as well as a user-friendly index. This trusted resource has consistently been relied upon by front line professionals responding to drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1264259093

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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

By: Paul Le Blanc

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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

By: Paul Le Blanc

“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program

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Haymarket Books

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1608466698

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9781608466696

Akira

By: Michelle Le Blanc,Colin Odell

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Akira

By: Michelle Le Blanc,Colin Odell

Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influence on science fiction cinema.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838714251

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Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

By: Paul Le Blanc

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Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

By: Paul Le Blanc

For generations, historians of the right, left, and center have all debated the best way to understand V. I. Lenin’s role in shaping the Bolshevik party in the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. At their worst, these studies locate his influence in the forcefulness of his personality. At their best, they show how Lenin moved other Bolsheviks through patient argument and political debate. Yet remarkably few have attempted to document the ways his ideas changed, or how they were in turn shaped by the party he played such a central role in building. In this thorough, concise, and accessible introduction to Lenin’s theory and practice of revolutionary politics, Paul Le Blanc gives a vibrant sense of the historical context of the socialist movement (in Russia and abroad) from which Lenin’s ideas about revolutionary organization spring. What emerges from Le Blanc’s partisan yet measured account is an image of a collaborative, ever adaptive, and dynamically engaged network of revolutionary activists who formed the core of the Bolshevik party.

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Haymarket Books

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1608466779

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Numerical Algebra

By: John Todd

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Numerical Algebra

By: John Todd

Basic Numerical Mathematics, Volume II: Numerical Algebra focuses on numerical algebra, with emphasis on the ideas of "controlled computational experiments" and "bad examples". The existence of an orthogonal matrix which diagonalizes a real symmetric matrix is highlighted, and partitioned or block matrices are discussed, along with induced norms and inversion problems. Comprised of 12 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the manipulation of vectors and matrices, followed by an analysis of induced norms. The reader is then introduced to the direct solution of the inversion problem, first in the context of theoretical arithmetic (that is, when round-off is disregarded) and second in the context of practical computation. Various methods of handling the characteristic value problems are also considered, together with several iterative methods for the solution of a system of linear equations. Two applications are described: the solution of a two-point boundary value problem and the solution of least squares curve fitting. The book concludes with an account of the singular value decomposition and pseudo-inverses. This monograph will be of interest to mathematicians and students of mathematics.

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Elsevier

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1483269418

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Leon Trotsky

By: Paul Le Blanc

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Leon Trotsky

By: Paul Le Blanc

There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and yet to many others he was a revolutionary of high esteem, who battled an outdated, oppressive dynasty and helped to usher in a new political era, and whose name became a political moniker: trotskyist. Whether colored by disdain or admiration, one thing is certain: Trotsky was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. In Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc delves deep into Trotsky’s life and relationships to reveal and make sense of his complex character and decisive actions. Interweaving dramatic historical events with examinations of Trotsky’s multi-faceted personality, he offers incisive views of the key facets of Trotsky’s life: his involvement with Soviet bureaucracy, the Spanish Civil War, and the rise of Hitler in the years before World War II. Illuminating Trotsky’s personal and political struggles and achievements, this balanced portrait will be invaluable to history students or anyone interested in the extraordinary lives that made up the twentieth century.

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Reaktion Books

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1780234716

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9781780234717

Red State Revolt

The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

By: Eric Blanc

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Red State Revolt

The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

By: Eric Blanc

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of “the white working class,” a strike wave—the first in over four decades—rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity. Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in regions with Republican electorates, weak unions, and bans on public sector strikes. By mobilizing to take their destinies into their own hands, red state school workers posed a clear alternative to politics as usual. And with similar actions now gaining steam in Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, and Virginia, there is no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived. Red State Revolt is a compelling analysis of the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its main strategic lessons for educators, labor organizer, and radicals across the country. A former high school teacher and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself into the rank-and-file leaderships of the walkouts, where he was given access to internal organizing meetings and secret Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists. The result is one of the richest portraits of the labor movement to date, a story populated with the voices of school workers who are winning the fight for the soul of public education—and redrawing the political map of the country at large.

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Verso Books

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1788735749

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9781788735742

A Freedom Budget for All Americans

Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today

By: Paul Le Blanc,Michael D. Yates

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A Freedom Budget for All Americans

Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today

By: Paul Le Blanc,Michael D. Yates

While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions. The document that best captured this vision was the Freedom Budget for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, To Achieve Freedom from Want published by the A. Philip Randolph Institute and endorsed by a virtual ‘who’s who’ of U.S. left liberalism and radicalism. Now, two of today’s leading socialist thinkers return to the Freedom Budget and its program for economic justice. Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates explain the origins of the Freedom Budget, how it sought to achieve “freedom from want” for all people, and how it might be reimagined for our current moment. Combining historical perspective with clear-sighted economic proposals, the authors make a concrete case for reviving the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement and building the society of economic security and democratic control envisioned by the movement’s leaders—a struggle that continues to this day.

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NYU Press

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1583673601

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9781583673607

How Everyday Products Make People Sick

Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

By: Paul D. Blanc

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How Everyday Products Make People Sick

Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

By: Paul D. Blanc

Hidden health dangers lurk in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an out-door deck. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrutpt industry but, rather, of how run-of-the mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards.

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Univ of California Press

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0520248821

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9780520248823

David Lynch

By: Colin Odell,Michelle Le Blanc

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David Lynch

By: Colin Odell,Michelle Le Blanc

Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal; an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. Examining Lynch's entire body of work—from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery Inland Empire—this book considers the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost, redemption gained at a terrible price, and where there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie, and damn fine coffee.

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Oldacastle Books

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1842433822

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9781842433829

Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies

By: Alexis Le Pichon,Elisabeth Blanc,Alain Hauchecorne

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Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies

By: Alexis Le Pichon,Elisabeth Blanc,Alain Hauchecorne

The use of infrasound to monitor the atmosphere has, like infrasound itself, gone largely unheard of through the years. But it has many applications, and it is about time that a book is being devoted to this fascinating subject. Our own involvement with infrasound occurred as graduate students of Prof. William Donn, who had established an infrasound array at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) of Columbia University. It was a natural outgrowth of another major activity at Lamont, using seismic waves to explore the Earth’s interior. Both the atmosphere and the solid Earth feature velocity (seismic or acoustic) gradients in the vertical which act to refract the respective waves. The refraction in turn allows one to calculate the respective background structure in these mediums, indirectly exploring locations that are hard to observe otherwise. Monitoring these signals also allows one to discover various phenomena, both natural and man-made (some of which have military applications).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402095082

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9781402095085

Huai-nan Tzu

Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought

By: Charles Le Blanc

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Huai-nan Tzu

Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought

By: Charles Le Blanc

Huai-nan Tzu (139BC) was viewed, for its great diversity of subject-matter, ideas and style, by traditional Chinese scholars as a composite work of the Eclectic School. It is the author's contention, however, that one overriding concern pervades the work: the attempt to define the essential conditions for a Taoist political utopianism. The present study emphasizes Chapter Six of Huai-nan Tzu in expounding the theory of kan-ying STIMULUS-RESPONSE; RESONANCE, which postulates that all things in the universe are interrelated and influence each other according to pre-set patterns. Only in the True Man, who is 'one with Tao' and 'attuned to the cosmos', does kan-ying attain its ultimate realization, 'the Great Peace' and 'the Great Merging'. 'After all,' concludes the author, ' it is in Huai-nan Tzu that we find the statement

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622091792

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9789622091795

How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded

Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

By: Paul D. Blanc

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How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded

Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

By: Paul D. Blanc

This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day—a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.

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Univ of California Press

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052094531X

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9780520945319

The Crossword Murder

By: Nero Blanc

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The Crossword Murder

By: Nero Blanc

Solving puzzles can be murder when a PI and a crossword editor join forces to catch a killer in the first novel of Nero Blanc’s fiendishly clever crossword mystery series Playboy Thompson C. Briephs has just been found strangled in his bed. The police believe the Newcastle Herald crossword editor, a scion of a blue-blooded New England family, died from kinky sex gone wrong. But cop-turned–private investigator Rosco Polycrates thinks there’s a six-letter word for what happened. Enlisting the help of Annabelle Graham, the crossword editor for a rival paper, Rosco unearths a crazy quilt of suspects who had it in for the victim—and one of them was blackmailing him. Belle is certain the answers lie in Briephs’s twisty puzzlers. Now she and Rosco will have to employ some dazzling wordplay of their own to stop a cunning killer from crossing paths with another victim. Readers will delight in solving the crime, along with six crossword puzzles, which can be downloaded as PDFs, with answers in the back of the book. The Crossword Murder is a book to be savored by mystery lovers and crossword-puzzle enthusiasts alike. The Crossword Murder is the 1st book in the Crossword Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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149767168X

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9781497671683

Jackie Chan

By: Michelle Le Blanc,Colin Odell

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Jackie Chan

By: Michelle Le Blanc,Colin Odell

An introduction to the career of the martial arts and all round action hero who started his career in Hong Kong but who is now known all over the world.

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1903047102

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Bungalow

By: Julien Blanc-Gras

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Bungalow

By: Julien Blanc-Gras

« C’est le moment de fuir la ville qui flingue les nerfs, les écrans qui dévorent le cerveau, le travail qui blesse. Je mise sur ce périple pour réparer la Femme, édifier l’Enfant et lutter contre l’encroûtement qui guette les hommes de mon âge. C’est simple. On va partir et quand on reviendra, on sera plus heureux. » L’époque grince et l’ambiance est morose à Paris. Le narrateur a des fourmis dans les jambes. Sa compagne, cadre surmenée, frôle le burn-out. Il faut réagir. Changer d’air, pour trouver un nouveau souffle. Alors ils s’embarquent, avec leur fils de neuf ans, dans une aventure à l’autre bout de la planète. C’est l’histoire d’une fugue en Asie, qui mène le trio de la Thaïlande à la Corée, en passant par le Cambodge, le Vietnam, le Laos et le Japon. Un roman de voyage familial en quête de sens qui devient, au fil des étapes, une quête des origines. D’une plume alerte et complice, joyeuse et sincère, Bungalow explore l’intimité d’une famille à la découverte du vaste monde, un monde réenchanté par le regard ingénu de l’enfant. Roman de transmission, virée consolatrice, méditation ambulante sur l’aliénation contemporaine, le couple à l’épreuve du temps, l’éducation et nos héritages enfouis, Bungalow est une épopée vers un Eldorado toujours envisageable : le bonheur. On connaît Julien Blanc-Gras pour ses récits de voyage décalés (Touriste, Envoyé un peu spécial) et ses autofictions sur la paternité (In utero, Comme à la guerre). Avec Bungalow, il concilie ses deux veines d’écriture, entre profondeur et légèreté, avec l’humour toujours en embuscade.

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2234092752

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The Vertical Garden

From Nature to the City

By: Patrick Blanc

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The Vertical Garden

From Nature to the City

By: Patrick Blanc

The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393732592

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9780393732597

Fake Silk

The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

By: Paul David Blanc

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Fake Silk

The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

By: Paul David Blanc

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of "fake silk," or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. Paul Blanc uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Viscose, an innovative and lucrative product first introduced in the early twentieth century, quickly became a multinational corporate enterprise. Blanc investigates industry practices from the beginning through two highly profitable world wars, the midcentury export of hazardous manufacturing to developing countries, and the current "greenwashing" of viscose as an eco-friendly product. Deeply researched and boldly presented, this book brings to light an industrial hazard whose egregious history ranks with those of asbestos, lead, and mercury.

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Yale University Press

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0300204663

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9780300204667

Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin

By: Maurice Leblanc

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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin

By: Maurice Leblanc

Large Format for easy reading. More adventures of Arsene Lupin the Gentleman Burglar of Paris.

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1406500011

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Gloom to Boom

How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value

By: Andrea Bonime-Blanc

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Gloom to Boom

How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value

By: Andrea Bonime-Blanc

Leaders – whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector – take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level. Expanding upon the well-known "ESG" risks, this book explains the key nonfinancial (environmental, social, governance and technological or ESGT) risks. For many leaders (including board members), taking risk without knowledge or preparation can lead to organizational crisis, scandal and value destruction. For those who are prepared, resilience follows and so does the ability to transform ESGT risk into opportunity and value for stakeholders. In this book, global governance, risk, ethics and cyber strategist, author and board member, Andrea Bonime-Blanc, shows practitioners at all levels how to effectively identify and manage their top ESGT risks to avoid crises and transform risk into sustainable long-term resilience and value. Gloom to Boom is a book for everyone – from the highest levels of leadership in an organization (the board, CEO and C-suite), to other senior leaders (the chief risk officer, CFO, general counsel, head of CSR and sustainability, CISO, CHRO), and midlevel leaders, students and folks simply interested in current affairs and the role and impact of strategic risk and opportunity on their lives.

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1000709523

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Communal Dialects in Baghdad

By: Haim Blanc

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Communal Dialects in Baghdad

By: Haim Blanc

Haim Blanc’s Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957–1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad. Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers.

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BRILL

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9004689885

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9789004689886

Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

By: Blaise Ducos,Lara Yeager-Crasselt,Olivia Savatier Sjöholm,Jan Blanc

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Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

By: Blaise Ducos,Lara Yeager-Crasselt,Olivia Savatier Sjöholm,Jan Blanc

Accompanying the exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi, the catalogue Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age provides an image-rich overview of the artworks exhibited, complimented by four essays. The first situates The Leiden Collection within the context of the Dutch Golden Age. The second and third describe the major role that the Netherlands played on a global scale in the in the 17th century, the specificities of the Dutch Golden Age as well as the work of Rembrandt and his contemporaries, rooted in the society of that time and place. The fourth essay sheds light on the particular role that drawing played in the creative process of Dutch artists.

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Art Book Magazine Distribution

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2821601131

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9782821601130

African Elephant Status Report 2002

An Update from the African Elephant Database

By: J. J. Blanc

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African Elephant Status Report 2002

An Update from the African Elephant Database

By: J. J. Blanc

The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This Status Report, derived from data contained in the African Elephant Database, is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides continent-wide information that is vital for conservation. It will help wildlife management authorities to harmonize their policy and management decisions across regions, as well as the continent, to reduce conflict and relax the pressure on habitats.

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2831707072

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