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High Drama

By: Brandon Terrell

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Dessa's life is changing...mostly because the life of her best friend, Kat, is changing. Kat has started dating a girl, Arwen, and she's trying to keep it on the down-low. Dessa is happy to keep the secret, but she starts hanging out with Kat's theater friends, hoping to learn more about Kat's new relationship. Everything's going great until Dessa accidentally lets Kat's secret slip. Some other students quickly make Kat a target—and Dessa takes steps to defend her friend that leave her suspended. Suddenly Dessa has to find ways to support her friend—and rebuild Kat's trust—while keeping off of school grounds.

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Millbrook Press

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1512458317

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An Infidelitous Earth

By: Brandon Smalls

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An Infidelitous Earth

By: Brandon Smalls

James McCrary is not a bad man, just a better animal. It's the reason Uwe Löwe sprang him from juvenile detention and groomed him as his hunter protege. The reason he prefers his steak "extra rare." The reason executors from New York to Berlin trust him to "cull" unruly gargoyles. It's no wonder, then, that the executor over Western Europe calls on him to track down the most dangerous pyromancer London has ever faced and recover the most potent artifact the world has ever known. But what starts as a routine hunt quickly devolves into a citywide war as James begins to see his prey as the predator he truly is.

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1680464043

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Secularity and Science

What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion

By: Elaine Howard Ecklund,David R. Johnson,Brandon Vaidyanathan,Kirstin R.W. Matthews,Steven W. Lewis,Robert A. Thomson Jr.,Di Di

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Secularity and Science

What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion

By: Elaine Howard Ecklund,David R. Johnson,Brandon Vaidyanathan,Kirstin R.W. Matthews,Steven W. Lewis,Robert A. Thomson Jr.,Di Di

Do scientists see conflict between science and faith? Which cultural factors shape the attitudes of scientists toward religion? Can scientists help show us a way to build collaboration between scientific and religious communities, if such collaborations are even possible? To answer these questions and more, the authors of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists' attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than 20,000 scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over 600 of them. From this wealth of data, the authors extract the real story of the relationship between science and religion in the lives of scientists around the world. The book makes four key claims: there are more religious scientists then we might think; religion and science overlap in scientific work; scientists - even atheist scientists - see spirituality in science; and finally, the idea that religion and science must conflict is primarily an invention of the West. Throughout, the book couples nationally representative survey data with captivating stories of individual scientists, whose experiences highlight these important themes in the data. Secularity and Science leaves inaccurate assumptions about science and religion behind, offering a new, more nuanced understanding of how science and religion interact and how they can be integrated for the common good.

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Oxford University Press

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0190926767

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9780190926762

Discover Maths 3: 8 Engaging Stories On Numbers 0 To 100, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Money, Odd And Even Numbers & Fractions

By: Brandon Oh

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Discover Maths 3: 8 Engaging Stories On Numbers 0 To 100, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Money, Odd And Even Numbers & Fractions

By: Brandon Oh

Discover Maths 3: 8 Engaging Stories on Numbers 0 to 100, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Money, Odd and Even Numbers & Fractions covers eight key mathematical concepts over eight titles. With fun stories, children can enjoy and advance their numeracy at the same time!Activity sheets and discussion pointers are included in each title to further reinforce your child's learning of mathematical concepts! Additional worksheets can also be found online.Includes these 8 titles:

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World Scientific

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9811269882

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9789811269882

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism

By: Brandon Toropov,Chadwick Hansen

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism

By: Brandon Toropov,Chadwick Hansen

You’re no idiot, of course. You know Taoism is one of the world’s oldest religions, based on simplicity and balance. However, you may not know it has important parallels with modern Western life: health, ecology, even in such pop culture icons as Luke Skywalker and the Beatles. But you don’t have to sit at the feet of a Taoist master to learn how the Taoist tradition has enlightened seekers throughout the centuries! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Taoism will show you exactly why Taoist principles appeal to people from every walk of life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • The history of the Daode Jing, the world’s shortest core religious text, and Laozi, its mysterious author. • The teachings of Zhuangzi, the often-overlooked master sage of Taoism. • An explanation of yin-yang and what it represents. • Taoism’s relationship to Zen Buddhism.

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Penguin

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1440695733

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9781440695735

Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.

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BRILL

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9004464379

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Before Evil

Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim

By: Brandon K. Gauthier

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Before Evil

Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim

By: Brandon K. Gauthier

Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders? Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searching for their place in the world, dealing with challenges many of us face—parental authority, education, romance, loss—and doing so in ways that might be uncomfortably familiar. Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating work—epic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empathetic—looking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths. We watch Lenin’s older brother executed at the hands of the Tsar’s police—an event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling with the death of his young, beautiful wife. We see Hitler’s mother mourning the loss of three young children—and determined that her first son to survive infancy would find his place in the world. The purpose isn’t to excuse or simply explain these horrible men, but rather to treat them with the empathy they themselves too often lacked. We may prefer to hold such lives at arm’s length so as to demonize them at will, but this book reminds us that these monstrous rulers were also human beings—and perhaps more relatable than we’d like.

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Tortoise Books

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1948954621

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9781948954624

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions

By: Brandon Toropov,Luke Buckles

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions

By: Brandon Toropov,Luke Buckles

Two comparative theologists offer a comprehensive look at ideas about God--inevery corner of the globe.

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1592572227

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Taekwondo

The State of the Art

By: Sung Chul Whang,Jun Chul Whang,Brandon Saltz

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Taekwondo

The State of the Art

By: Sung Chul Whang,Jun Chul Whang,Brandon Saltz

A comprehensive instructional guide to the world's most popular martial art. 16-pp. photo insert. 350 illustrations. Media attention.

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0767902149

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Religion in Ancient History

Studies in Ideas, Men and Events

By: S.G.F. Brandon

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Religion in Ancient History

Studies in Ideas, Men and Events

By: S.G.F. Brandon

Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran. It also includes essays on key ideas such as creation, death, time, the soul, and the judgement of the dead, and studies of figures like Osiris, Akhenaten, Job and Zarathustra. The book also deals extensively with religious ideas, men and events in the first three centuries A.D. and the spread of early Christianity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040036309

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9781040036303

Modeling and Control of Batch Processes

Theory and Applications

By: Prashant Mhaskar,Abhinav Garg,Brandon Corbett

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Modeling and Control of Batch Processes

Theory and Applications

By: Prashant Mhaskar,Abhinav Garg,Brandon Corbett

Modeling and Control of Batch Processes presents state-of-the-art techniques ranging from mechanistic to data-driven models. These methods are specifically tailored to handle issues pertinent to batch processes, such as nonlinear dynamics and lack of online quality measurements. In particular, the book proposes: a novel batch control design with well characterized feasibility properties; a modeling approach that unites multi-model and partial least squares techniques; a generalization of the subspace identification approach for batch processes; and applications to several detailed case studies, ranging from a complex simulation test bed to industrial data. The book’s proposed methodology employs statistical tools, such as partial least squares and subspace identification, and couples them with notions from state-space-based models to provide solutions to the quality control problem for batch processes. Practical implementation issues are discussed to help readers understand the application of the methods in greater depth. The book includes numerous comments and remarks providing insight and fundamental understanding into the modeling and control of batch processes. Modeling and Control of Batch Processes includes many detailed examples of industrial relevance that can be tailored by process control engineers or researchers to a specific application. The book is also of interest to graduate students studying control systems, as it contains new research topics and references to significant recent work. Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

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Springer

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3030041409

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American Kitsune, Vol. 7

A Fox's Revenge

By: Brandon Varnell

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American Kitsune, Vol. 7

A Fox's Revenge

By: Brandon Varnell

Not All Fun in Tropes... Kevin Swift's life is strange, unusual, and downright zany. Then again, what else should he expect when he's mated to a kitsune? Despite the oddness encompassing his life, he wouldn't change it for the world. Unfortunately, sometimes the world doesn't let people decide these things. When he, Lilian, and his friends are attacked by the Shénshèng Clan, Kevin learns that a war has broken out between clans Pnevma and Shénshèng, one that threatens the lives of himself and the people he loves. He and his mate's family are taken to the Pnevma Clan estate in Greece. Yet even the protection offered by the most powerful spirit clan in the entire world may not be enough to keep them safe.

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Kitsune Incorporated

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1951904397

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The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

By: Brandon C. Welsh,David P. Farrington

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The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

By: Brandon C. Welsh,David P. Farrington

How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategy to reduce crime. Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime; programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending; and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment, products, or systems to reduce everyday opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before the act has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative review of research on crime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology, and sociology, this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions, and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology, and public policy. Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active today-developmental, community, and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted, and should continue to strive for the of crime.

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Oxford University Press

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0199908923

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9780199908929

The Substance of Consciousness

A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism

By: Brandon Rickabaugh,J. P. Moreland

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The Substance of Consciousness

A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism

By: Brandon Rickabaugh,J. P. Moreland

A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. Multidisciplinary in scope, the book explores areas of philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the sociology of mind-body beliefs. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and rigorous non-edited work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years. Alongside developing new and updated positive arguments for substance dualism, they also discuss key metaphysical notions and distinctions that inform the examination of substance dualism and its alternatives. Readers will also find: A thorough examination of the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism Comprehensive explorations of the likely future of substance dualism in the twenty-first century, including an exhaustive list of proposed research projects for substance dualists Practical discussion of new and rigorous critiques of significant physicality alternatives, including emergentism and panpsychism. Extensive treatments of philosophy of mind debates about the roles played by staunch/faint-hearted naturalism and theism in establishing or presuming methodology, epistemic priorities, and prior metaphysical commitments Perfect for professional philosophers, The Substance of Consciousness will also earn a place in the libraries of consciousness researchers, philosophical theologians, and religious studies scholars.

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1394195486

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Theatre in Southeast Asia

By: James R. BRANDON

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Theatre in Southeast Asia

By: James R. BRANDON

An astonishing variety of theatrical performances may be seen in the eight countries of Southeast Asia-Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Brandon's lively, wide-ranging discussion points out interesting similarities and differences among the countries. Many of his photographs are included here.

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Harvard University Press

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0674028740

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9780674028746

Severing Time & Space, Volume 1

By: Brandon Varnell

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Severing Time & Space, Volume 1

By: Brandon Varnell

One young boy must rise above adversity and attain the strength needed to defy fate. In a world where a cultivator’s prowess determines their social status, Wu Jian endures relentless bullying by his own kin for being perceived as a coward. As the heir to his clan, he is expected to be strong and unyielding—even at just 8 years-old, long before he will reach the Age of Majority, when young men and women can begin to cultivate. After a brutal beating by his older half-brother, Wu Jian’s life is forever changed when his best friend has a prophetic vision: if he cannot grow stronger, he will die and she will be stolen. But with years before he can even begin to cultivate, how can he possibly defy a destiny where the fate of all he holds dear is at stake? Witness the rise of one young man as he faces adversity, forms bonds of love and friendship, and prepares for the moment when he can finally take control over his own destiny. The path to true strength is long and arduous, but Wu Jian vows to be ready when the time comes. Severing Time & Space is a slow-burn light novel series that takes a character driven approach to the xianxia genre. Perfect for fans who want all the familiarity of a cultivation novel with a few twists.

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Kitsune Incorporated

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1963779924

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9781963779929

Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition

By: Marie A. Chisholm-Burns,Terry L. Schwinghammer,Patrick M. Malone,Jill M. Kolesar,Kelly C. Lee,P. Brandon Bookstaver

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Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition

By: Marie A. Chisholm-Burns,Terry L. Schwinghammer,Patrick M. Malone,Jill M. Kolesar,Kelly C. Lee,P. Brandon Bookstaver

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The unique orientation to pharmacotherapy found in the landmark Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach distilled to a concise clinically focused full-color resource Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice, Fifth Edition uses a solid evidence-based approach to teach readers how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. This trusted text provides everything readers need to gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles of the pharmacotherapy of disease―and their practical application. In order to be as clinically relevant as possible, the disease states and treatments discussed focus on disorders most often seen in clinical practice, and laboratory values are expressed as both conventional units and SI units. Importantly, all chapters were written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians widely recognized as authorities in their fields. The Fifth Edition begins with an insightful introductory chapter, followed by chapters on geriatrics, pediatrics, and palliative care. Each of the subsequent 98 disease-based chapters cover disease epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis, nonpharmacologic therapy, followed by therapeutic recommendations for medication selection, desired outcomes, dosing, and patient monitoring. Features: • The acclaimed patient encounter cases sharpen critical thinking skills and lend clinical relevance to scientific principles • Chapter-opening structured learning objectives enable you to rapidly locate related content • Icon-identified key concepts highlight the disease, patient assessment, and treatment • A newly designed patient care process section models the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process • Up-to-date literature citations support treatment recommendations • Tables, figures, algorithms, and defined medical abbreviations reinforce comprehension throughout • Includes valuable table of common laboratory tests and reference ranges

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260019454

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9781260019452

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Lifetime and Reliability

Critical Challenges in Fuel Cells

By: Nigel Brandon

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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Lifetime and Reliability

Critical Challenges in Fuel Cells

By: Nigel Brandon

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Lifetime and Reliability: Critical Challenges in Fuel Cells presents in one volume the most recent research that aims at solving key issues for the deployment of SOFC at a commercial scale and for a wider range of applications. To achieve that, authors from different regions and backgrounds address topics such as electrolytes, contaminants, redox cycling, gas-tight seals, and electrode microstructure. Lifetime issues for particular elements of the fuel cells, like cathodes, interconnects, and fuel processors, are covered as well as new materials. They also examine the balance of SOFC plants, correlations between structure and electrochemical performance, methods for analysis of performance and degradation assessment, and computational and statistical approaches to quantify degradation. For its holistic approach, this book can be used both as an introduction to these issues and a reference resource for all involved in research and application of solid oxide fuel cells, especially those developing understanding in industrial applications of the lifetime issues. This includes researchers in academia and industrial R&D, graduate students and professionals in energy engineering, electrochemistry, and materials sciences for energy applications. It might also be of particular interest to analysts who are looking into integrating SOFCs into energy systems. - Brings together in a single volume leading research and expert thinking around the broad topic of SOFC lifetime and durability - Explores issues that affect solid oxide fuel cells elements, materials, and systems with a holistic approach - Provides a practical reference for overcoming some of the common failure mechanisms of SOFCs - Features coverage of integrating SOFCs into energy systems

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Academic Press

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0128097248

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9780128097243

WIEEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior: Volume 18

By: Brandon Varnell

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WIEEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior: Volume 18

By: Brandon Varnell

THE DANGER HAS NOT PASSED The disaster during the tournament was but a prelude to a much greater threat. Dunherr and Unglück, Fritz companions, are much more than they appear to be. A plan is initiated to bring them to task. However, their goal may have been a failure right from the start. The next volume of the best-selling cultivation harem light novel is here, and it is more packed with action and mystery than ever before!

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1951904737

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9781951904739

Text as Data

A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

By: Justin Grimmer,Margaret E. Roberts,Brandon M. Stewart

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Text as Data

A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

By: Justin Grimmer,Margaret E. Roberts,Brandon M. Stewart

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning tools are rapidly transforming the way science and business are conducted. Text as Data shows how to combine new sources of data, machine learning tools, and social science research design to develop and evaluate new insights. Text as Data is organized around the core tasks in research projects using text—representation, discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference. The authors offer a sequential, iterative, and inductive approach to research design. Each research task is presented complete with real-world applications, example methods, and a distinct style of task-focused research. Bridging many divides—computer science and social science, the qualitative and the quantitative, and industry and academia—Text as Data is an ideal resource for anyone wanting to analyze large collections of text in an era when data is abundant and computation is cheap, but the enduring challenges of social science remain. Overview of how to use text as data Research design for a world of data deluge Examples from across the social sciences and industry

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Princeton University Press

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0691207550

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9780691207551

95 South

By: Brandon Dellums

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95 South

By: Brandon Dellums

When nickel and dime errand boy, Lucky Silva is sent by his boss to retrieve three valuable vintage Mustangs, he promises his Brazilian, Miami based model girlfriend two things: no more lies and stay out of trouble. But that was before he made a little money on a drug deal and accidently killed a cop. Now, he has to convince her to leave the sexy sundrenched city she loves and lamb it with him before Miami's finest can put an end to their romance.

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Lulu.com

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1300906049

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Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

By: Bernard Brandon Scott

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Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

By: Bernard Brandon Scott

An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary conflicts in American society. Brandon Scott's sage and savvy analysis of more than fifty recent popular American movies, from Dirty Harry to Robocop 2, from Pretty Woman to Thelma and Louise, opens a unique slant on American mythology. He delves into the deepest dreams and perennial tensions in American culture: wealth and poverty, race relations, moral aloneness, the superhero and the solo redeemer, violence and war, the mythical West, relations of the sexes, and fears of the future. These portrayals in turn launch him into the chief themes and mythic elements in the New Testament. In the conversation and mutual criticism that his book engenders, Scott clarifies the values that contemporary culture and the Bible might bring to each other.

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0800627539

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