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Busy this Evening?

Yarns of a London Minicab Driver

By: Chris Bastin

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Busy this Evening?

Yarns of a London Minicab Driver

By: Chris Bastin

Inspired by the author’s own work and personal experiences, Busy This Evening? presents a humorous and often tongue-in-cheek insight into the life of a London minicab driver, through the eyes of the sincere and endearing Thomas Buckley.

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Book Guild Publishing

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1916668259

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9781916668256

America's U-Boats

Terror Trophies of World War I

By: Chris Dubbs

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America's U-Boats

Terror Trophies of World War I

By: Chris Dubbs

The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons “Hun Devil Boats,” “Sea Thugs,” and “Baby Killers.” But at the conflict’s conclusion, the U.S. Navy acquired six U-boats to study and to serve as war souvenirs. Until their destruction under armistice terms in 1921, these six U-boats served as U.S. Navy ships, manned by American crews. The ships visited eighty American cities to promote the sale of victory bonds and to recruit sailors, allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to see up close the weapon that had so captured the public’s imagination. In America’s U-Boats Chris Dubbs examines the legacy of submarine warfare in the American imagination. Combining nautical adventure, military history, and underwater archaeology, Dubbs shares the previously untold story of German submarines and their impact on American culture and reveals their legacy and Americans’ attitudes toward this new wonder weapon.

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222

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803269463

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9780803269460

The John Coltrane Reference

By: Lewis Porter,Chris DeVito,David Wild,Yasuhiro Fujioka,Wolf Schmaler

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The John Coltrane Reference

By: Lewis Porter,Chris DeVito,David Wild,Yasuhiro Fujioka,Wolf Schmaler

The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last, 1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250 album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka, The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane enthusiasts.

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Routledge

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1135097941

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9781135097943

Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide

The Ultimate Quick Guide to Mac OS X

By: Chris Seibold

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Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide

The Ultimate Quick Guide to Mac OS X

By: Chris Seibold

With the addition of features and multi-touch gestures first pioneered on the iPhone and iPad, Lion is truly different than any other Mac OS. This handy guide is packed with concise information to help you quickly get started with Lion, whether you're new to the Mac or a longtime user. Once you learn the essentials, you can use this book as a resource for problem-solving on the fly. Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide goes right to the heart of Lion, with details on system preferences, built-in applications, and utilities. You'll find configuration tips, keyboard shortcuts, guides for troubleshooting, lots of step-by-step instructions, and many other features—all in an easy-to-read format. Learn what’s new, including Lion's iOS-inspired features Get quick tips for configuring and customizing your Mac Solve problems with a quick guide to the fundamentals like the Finder and Dock Use keyboard shortcuts to work more efficiently Take advantage of Lion's built-in applications and utilities Manage user accounts and passwords

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449314066

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9781449314064

Visualization Handbook

By: Charles D. Hansen,Chris R. Johnson

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Visualization Handbook

By: Charles D. Hansen,Chris R. Johnson

The Visualization Handbook provides an overview of the field of visualization by presenting the basic concepts, providing a snapshot of current visualization software systems, and examining research topics that are advancing the field. This text is intended for a broad audience, including not only the visualization expert seeking advanced methods to solve a particular problem, but also the novice looking for general background information on visualization topics. The largest collection of state-of-the-art visualization research yet gathered in a single volume, this book includes articles by a "who's who of international scientific visualization researchers covering every aspect of the discipline, including:·Virtual environments for visualization·Basic visualization algorithms·Large-scale data visualization·Scalar data isosurface methods·Visualization software and frameworks·Scalar data volume rendering·Perceptual issues in visualization·Various application topics, including information visualization.* Edited by two of the best known people in the world on the subject; chapter authors are authoritative experts in their own fields;* Covers a wide range of topics, in 47 chapters, representing the state-of-the-art of scientific visualization.

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Elsevier

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0080481647

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9780080481647

The Social Wasps of North America

By: Chris Alice Kratzer

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The Social Wasps of North America

By: Chris Alice Kratzer

With over 400 pages and 900 full-color illustrations, The Social Wasps of North America is the world's first complete illustrated field guide to all known species of social wasps from the high arctic of Greenland and Alaska to the tropical forests of Panama and Grenada. For beginners, experts, and everyone in-between, The Social Wasps of North America provides new insights about some of the world’s least popular beneficial insects, plus tips and tricks to avoid painful stings. This book includes detailed information about the ecology, evolution, taxonomy, anatomy, nest architecture, and conservation of social wasp species. To purchase this book in softcover format, visit our website at OwlflyLLC.com/publications.

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Owlfly Publishing

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1737892715

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9781737892717

Christian County

By: Chris Gilkey,William T. Turner

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Christian County

By: Chris Gilkey,William T. Turner

In the years since Christian County was founded more than 210 years ago, the rural area--including many small communities and the county seat of Hopkinsville--has become a historic treasure of various architectural styles. Water-powered mills are representative of the first local industry. Blacksmith shops, followed by several small craft shops, preceded the largest 19th-century industry: the manufacturing of Mogul brand farm wagons. A plow factory and a butter manufacturing facility were also two of several short-lived industrial attempts to make a great financial success. Throughout the 20th century, changing social and economic growth brought the demolition of many priceless architectural examples. This title presents a close observation of many of these vanished landmarks, with old churches, public buildings, country stores, schools, and road toll gates providing a glimpse into the county's past.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738567019

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9780738567013

The Gooners Quiz Book

1,000 Questions on Arsenal Football Club

By: Chris Cowlin

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The Gooners Quiz Book

1,000 Questions on Arsenal Football Club

By: Chris Cowlin

Will you do the Gooners proud as you display an impressive knowledge of your favourite club, Arsenal, or will you instead prove yourself to be a complete goon, as trip over your own feet in search of the answers to the 1,000 cunning questions in this quiz book? Covering every aspect of the club's history from players to managers and from national to international competitions since its foundation over a century ago, and with a fitting Foreword by former Scotland and Arsenal goalkeeping legend and TV presenter, Bob Wilson, this book will challenge Gooners fans of all ages as well as providing fascinating facts and figures both to enthral and to trigger fond memories and ardent discussions. If you find yourself floundering, you can recover your dignity and find consolation in the fact that £1.00 from the sale of every book will go to the Willow Foundation, a charity founded by Bob and Megs Wilson and dedicated to arranging individually tailored ‘Special Days' for seriously ill young adults.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1907792120

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9781907792120

Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis

The Link between Labour and Climate Change

By: Chris Baldry,Jeff Hyman

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Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis

The Link between Labour and Climate Change

By: Chris Baldry,Jeff Hyman

Compared to 20 years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic activity are creating dangerous and critical changes in the planet’s climate. Until recently debates around these two issues have had little contact with each other. This book demonstrates that there are definite and complex connections between degraded jobs and a degraded environment, that neither the dominant economic model nor the rate at which we exploit the planet’s resources are sustainable and that the limits for both may be reached sooner rather than later. By bringing together insights from critical thinkers in a range of disciplines, the book discusses the requirements and characteristics for work to be at the same time economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and examines the potential for alternative routes to sustainable work in policies and actions that support both the natural environment and worker well-being. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of HRM, labour studies, employment relations, sociology, environmental studies and sustainability. It is particularly relevant for those focusing on the link between labour and climate change. It is also highly relevant to policymakers, trade unions and NGOs looking at decent work and sustainability.

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Routledge

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1000406571

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9781000406573

Mac Hacks

Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Mountain Lion

By: Chris Seibold

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Mac Hacks

Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Mountain Lion

By: Chris Seibold

OS X Mountain Lion is an incredibly powerful, but if you’re a serious Mac user who really wants to take control of this operating system, this book helps you dig below the surface. Many of the hacks in this impressive collection show you how to tweak system preferences, mount drives and devices, and generally do things with your system that Apple doesn’t expect you to do. You’ll learn how to deal with Mountain Lion’s quirks, get the most out of its related applications, and perform a few tricks with Unix. Customize Mountain Lion to suit your needs Work with OS X’s new features Boost productivity and improve security Hack the hardware OS X runs on and connects to Apply networking and multimedia hacks Learn how to run Windows on your Mac

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449325580

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9781449325589

The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Déjà Vu

By: Chris Moulin

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The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Déjà Vu

By: Chris Moulin

Déjà vu is one of the most complex and subjective of all memory phenomena. It is an infrequent and striking mental experience, where the feeling of familiarity is combined with the knowledge that this feeling is false. While until recently it was an aspect of memory largely overlooked by mainstream cognitive psychology, this book brings together the growing scientific literature on déjà vu, making the case for it as a metacognitive phenomenon. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Déjà Vu reviews clinical, experimental and neuroimaging methods, focusing on how memory disorders and neurological dysfunction relate to the experience. Examining déjà vu as a memory phenomenon, Chris Moulin explores how the experience of déjà vu in special populations, such as healthy aging or those with schizophrenia, provides new insights into understanding this phenomenon. He considers the extensive data on déjà vu in people with epilepsy, dementia and other neurological conditions, assessing neuropsychological theories of déjà vu formation. Essential reading for all students and researchers interested in memory disorders, this valuable book presents the case for déjà vu as a ‘healthy’ phenomenon only experienced by people with sufficient cognitive resources to oppose and detect the false feeling of familiarity.

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205

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Routledge

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1315524910

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9781315524917

Brave Green World

How Science Can Save Our Planet

By: Chris Forman,Claire Asher

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Brave Green World

How Science Can Save Our Planet

By: Chris Forman,Claire Asher

How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution. In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.

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MIT Press

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0262044463

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9780262044462

From the Ruins of Colonialism

History as Social Memory

By: Chris Healy

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From the Ruins of Colonialism

History as Social Memory

By: Chris Healy

This book throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. It considers key moments of historical imagination, and analyses the strange ensemble of elements that constitute Australian History. It is an innovative and stimulating investigation of historical cultures and narratives.

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CUP Archive

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0521565766

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9780521565769

What Tommy Took to War

1914–1918

By: Peter Doyle,Chris Foster

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What Tommy Took to War

1914–1918

By: Peter Doyle,Chris Foster

On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, fascinating stories that bring the ordinary Tommy's experiences back to life with poignant immediacy. With striking original photography by Chris Foster and expert text from noted historian Peter Doyle, it looks in detail at fifty objects that Tommy would have had in his kit and which would have accompanied, equipped and comforted him during his wartime ordeals: official uniform, training manual, cigarettes, good-luck charms, sweethearts' letters, foreign phrasebook and myriad others. Together, these artefacts give us a serious and informative, yet touching and even occasionally amusing, picture of the ordinary soldier's experience of the First World War.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747814783

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9780747814788

Digital innovation in citizen science to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries

By: Pattinson, N. B.,Taylor, J.,Dickens, Chris W. S.,Graham, P. M.

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Digital innovation in citizen science to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries

By: Pattinson, N. B.,Taylor, J.,Dickens, Chris W. S.,Graham, P. M.

Freshwater systems are disproportionately adversely affected by the ongoing, global environmental crisis. The effective and efficient water resource conservation and management necessary to mitigate the crisis requires monitoring data, especially on water quality. This is recognized by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, particularly indicator 6.3.2., which requires all UN member states to measure and report the ‘proportion of water bodies with good ambient water quality’. However, gathering sufficient data on water quality is reliant on data collection at spatial and temporal scales that are generally outside the capacity of institutions using conventional methods. Digital technologies, such as wireless sensor networks and remote sensing, have come to the fore as promising avenues to increase the scope of data collection and reporting. Citizen science (which goes by many names, e.g., participatory science or community-based monitoring) has also been earmarked as a powerful mechanism to improve monitoring. However, both avenues have drawbacks and limitations. The synergy between the strengths of modern technologies and citizen science presents an opportunity to use the best features of each to mitigate the shortcomings of the other. This paper briefly synthesizes recent research illustrating how smartphones, sometimes in conjunction with other sensors, present a nexus point method for citizen scientists to engage with and use sophisticated modern technology for water quality monitoring. This paper also presents a brief, non-exhaustive research synthesis of some examples of current technological upgrades or innovations regarding smartphones in citizen science water quality monitoring in developing countries and how these can assist in objective, comprehensive, and improved data collection, management and reporting. While digital innovations are being rapidly developed worldwide, there remains a paucity of scientific and socioeconomic validation of their suitability and usefulness within citizen science. This perhaps contributes to the fact that the uptake and upscaling of smartphone-assisted citizen science continues to underperform compared to its potential within water resource management and SDG reporting. Ultimately, we recommend that more rigorous scientific research efforts be dedicated to exploring the suitability of digital innovations in citizen science in the context of developing countries and SDG reporting.

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IWMI

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9290909617

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9789290909613

Busy this Evening?

Yarns of a London Minicab Driver

By: Chris Bastin

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Busy this Evening?

Yarns of a London Minicab Driver

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1916668259

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Railway Directory 2008

Statistics, People, Maps, Suppliers

By: Railway Gazette International,Chris Bushell,Chris Jackson

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Railway Directory 2008

Statistics, People, Maps, Suppliers

By: Railway Gazette International,Chris Bushell,Chris Jackson

Providing an overview of global railway networks and services, 'Railway Directory 2008' outlines current issues and provides accurate data on all of the world's major networks.

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716

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Nicholson

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0955774004

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9780955774003

Be the Message

Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

By: Kerry Shook,Chris Shook,Rick Warren

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Be the Message

Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

By: Kerry Shook,Chris Shook,Rick Warren

The authors share how, tired of just preaching the words of the Gospel, they tried to manifest the Gospel in their intentions and actions, and how this shift in focus from words to action changed their family, church, and relationship with God.

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WaterBrook

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1400073812

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9781400073818

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