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The Cute and the Cool

Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

By: Gary Cross

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The Cute and the Cool

Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

By: Gary Cross

The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays such as Christmas and Halloween became blockbuster affairs, vehicles to fuel the bedazzled and wondrous innocence of the adorable child. All this, Gary Cross illustrates, reflected the preoccupations of a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also served to liberate adults from their rational and often tedious worlds of work and responsibility. But trouble soon entered paradise. The "cute" turned into "cool" as children, following their parental example, embraced the gift of fantasy and unrestrained desire to rebel against the saccharine excesses of wondrous innocence in deliberate pursuit of the anti-cute. Movies, comic books, and video games beckoned to children with the allures of an often violent, sexualized, and increasingly harsh worldview. Unwitting and resistant accomplices to this commercial transformation of childhood, adults sought-over and over again, in repeated and predictable cycles-to rein in these threats in a largely futile jeremiad to preserve the old order. Thus, the cute child-deliberately manufactured and cultivated--has ironically fostered a profoundly troubled ambivalence toward youth and child rearing today. Expertly weaving his way through the cultural artifacts, commercial currents, and parenting anxieties of the previous century, Gary Cross offers a vibrant and entirely fresh portrait of the forces that have defined American childhood.

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Oxford University Press

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0190288868

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9780190288860

Consumed Nostalgia

Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By: Gary Cross

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Consumed Nostalgia

Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By: Gary Cross

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age of fast capitalism. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia whose members remain loyal to the toys, television, and music of their youth. They return to the theme parks and pastimes of their upbringing, hoping to reclaim that feeling of childhood wonder or teenage freedom. Consumed nostalgia took definite shape in the 1970s, spurred by an increase in the turnover of consumer goods, the commercialization of childhood, and the skillful marketing of nostalgia. Gary Cross immerses readers in this fascinating and often delightful history, unpacking the cultural dynamics that turn pop tunes into oldies and childhood toys into valuable commodities. He compares the limited appeal of heritage sites such as Colonial Williamsburg to the perpetually attractive power of a Disney theme park and reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change. Today nostalgia can be owned, collected, and easily accessed, making it less elusive and often more fun than in the past, but its commercialization has sometimes limited memory and complicated the positive goals of recollection. By unmasking the fascinating, idiosyncratic character of modern nostalgia, Cross helps us better understand the rituals of recall in an age of fast capitalism.

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Columbia University Press

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0231539606

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9780231539609

An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

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An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

The victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition. This work offers a history of how market forces came to dominate American life.

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Columbia University Press

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0231113129

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9780231113120

Kids' Stuff

Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood

By: Gary Cross

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Kids' Stuff

Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood

By: Gary Cross

To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies(R) and Ninja Turtles(R), Tinkertoys(R) and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a revealing look into the meaning of American toys through this century. Early in the 1900s toys reflected parents' ideas about children and their futures. Erector sets introduced boys to a realm of business and technology, while baby dolls anticipated motherhood and building blocks honed the fine motor skills of the youngest children. Kids' Stuff chronicles the transformation that occurred as the interests and intentions of parents, children, and the toy industry gradually diverged--starting in the 1930s when toymakers, marketing playthings inspired by popular favorites like Shirley Temple and Buck Rogers, began to appeal directly to the young. TV advertising, blockbuster films like Star Wars(R), and Saturday morning cartoons exploited their youthful audience in new and audacious ways. Meanwhile, powerful social and economic forces were transforming the nature of play in American society. Cross offers a richly textured account of a culture in which erector sets and baby dolls are no longer alone in preparing children for the future, and in which the toys that now crowd the racks are as perplexing for parents as they are beguiling for little boys and girls. Whether we want our children to be high achievers in a competitive world or playful and free from the worries of adult life, the toy store confronts us with many choices. What does the endless array of action figures and fashion dolls mean? Are children--or parents--the dupes of the film, television, and toy industries, with their latest fads and fantasies? What does this say about our time, and what does it bode for our future? Tapping a vein of rich cultural history, Kids' Stuff exposes the serious business behind a century of playthings.

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Harvard University Press

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0674030079

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9780674030077

Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval

8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval

8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. The revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are 115 contributions in total and an introduction. The seven distrinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, are designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), cross-language retrieval in image collections (Image CLEF), cross-language speech retrieval (CL-SR), multilingual Web retrieval (WebCLEF), cross-language geographical retrieval (GeoCLEF), and CLEF in other evaluations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540857591

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9783540857594

Life of General Grant

By: Nelson Cross

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Life of General Grant

By: Nelson Cross

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382800799

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9783382800796

Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation

Workshop of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation

Workshop of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the international Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop organized by the CLEF activity of the European DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries. The 25 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully selected based on two rounds of reviewing. All current aspects of cross-language information retrieval are addressed, ranging from foundational issues and systems evaluation to applications in a variety of fields.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540424466

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9783540424468

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. The book presents 111 revised papers together with an introduction. Topical sections include multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual Web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354045697X

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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems

4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems

4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, held in Trondheim, Norway in August 2003. The 61 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on mainly cross-language experiments, mono lingual experiments, domain-specific document retrieval, interactive cross-language retrieval, cross-language question answering, cross-language image retrieval, and cross-language spoken document retrieval.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540240179

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9783540240174

Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems

Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001. Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop

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Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems

Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001. Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, held in Darmstadt, Germany in September 2001. The 35 revised full papers presented together with two introductory survey articles and a comprehensive appendix were carefully improved during the round of reviewing and selections. The papers are organized in topical sections on systems evaluation experiments, mainly cross-language, monolingual experiments, interactive issues, and evaluation issues and results.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540440429

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9783540440420

Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Alicante, Spain, September 2006. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and GeoCLEF.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540749985

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9783540749981

The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus

Who was the Man? What was the Message?

By: John R. Cross

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The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus

Who was the Man? What was the Message?

By: John R. Cross

Here is a book that explains the greatest of Bible themes clearly and logically.

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GoodSeed International

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1927429056

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9781927429051

Mary Robinson and the Genesis of Romanticism

Literary Dialogues and Debts, 1784–1821

By: Ashley Cross

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Mary Robinson and the Genesis of Romanticism

Literary Dialogues and Debts, 1784–1821

By: Ashley Cross

Originally coming to prominence as an actress and scandalous celebrity, Mary Robinson created an identity for herself as a poet and novelist of the Romantic school. Cross argues that Robinson’s dialogues shaped the nature of Romantic verse and went on to influence second-generation Romantics such as Christina Rossetti and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315466120

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9781315466125

Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child

Animation, Play, and Creative Life

By: Karen Cross

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Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child

Animation, Play, and Creative Life

By: Karen Cross

Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation. The author takes the reader on a journey through the complex interweaving of the animation industry with inner world processes, beginning with the early history of film. Karen Cross explores digital meditations through an in-depth analysis of the Pixar Studios and the making of the Toy Story franchise. The book shows how the Toy Story functions as an outlet for exploring fears and anxieties relating to new technologies and industrial processes and the value of taking a psycho-cultural approach to recent controversies surrounding the film industry, particularly its cultural and sexual politics. The book is key reading for film and animation scholars as well as those who are interested in applications of psychoanalysis to popular culture and children's media.

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Taylor & Francis

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100082537X

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9781000825374

Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images

5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images

5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, held in Bath, UK in September 2004. The 80 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on ad hoc text retrieval tracks (mainly cross-language experiments and monolingual experiments), domain-specific document retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language spoken document retrieval, and on issues in CLIR and in evaluation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540274200

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9783540274209

Nature Sparks

Connecting Children's Learning to the Natural World

By: Aerial Cross

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Nature Sparks

Connecting Children's Learning to the Natural World

By: Aerial Cross

Support children's connections with nature through classroom activities.

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Redleaf Press

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1605540412

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9781605540412

Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2002. Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2002. Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2002. Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2002. Revised Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of a workshop by the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Campaign, CLEF 2002, held in Rome, Italy in September 2002. The 43 revised full papers presented together with an introduction and run data in an appendix were carefully reviewed and revised upon presentation at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on systems evaluation experiments, cross language and more, monolingual experiments, mainly domain-specific information retrieval, interactive issues, cross-language spoken document retrieval, and cross-language evaluation issues and initiatives.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540408304

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9783540408307

Operation Blowpipe

By: JP Cross

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Operation Blowpipe

By: JP Cross

Jason Rance, an officer in a wartime Gurkha battalion, involved in the deaths or capture of four Malaya-born members of the Indian National Army, returns to Malaya in 1948 in a new Gurkha battalion where he is operationally engaged in fighting the Communist guerillas. The parents of the four dead men find out how Rance was involved with their sons' deaths and plan revenge. Meanwhile, a member of the Chinese Communist party visiting the Malayan Communists decides not to return to China and Rance attempts to extract him from across the Thai border in a fashion that nearly sees him court-martialled. Rance must collaborate with the Temiar, an indegenous people living deep in the Malayan jungle, and only the skill of a Gurkha saves him from being killed by four poisoned blowpipe darts.

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Monsoon Books

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1915310075

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9781915310071

Emission Control from Industrial Boilers

By: John T. Quigley,Frank L. Cross Jr.,Howard D. Hesketh

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Emission Control from Industrial Boilers

By: John T. Quigley,Frank L. Cross Jr.,Howard D. Hesketh

From the Preface The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 significantly affect commercial and industrial combustion devices such as boilers, incinerators, and other burners. Under the new emission regulations already promulgated and those being developed, compliance will require improved equipment, more detailed operator training, new permits

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CRC Press

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1498710824

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9781498710824

Forged in Fire

By: Juliette Cross

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Forged in Fire

By: Juliette Cross

Genevieve Drake has never been the helpless kind of girl, has never needed to be rescued. That is, not until her twentieth birthday when some dude nearly chokes her to death in an alley and a hot stranger splits the guy in half, rips a monster from inside, and incinerates it into ash. The hot guy? Jude Delacroix—Dominus Daemonum, Master of Demons. Now her guardian, whether she likes it or not. But she’s seriously beginning to like it. The dude choking her? One of many demons from the underworld trying to abduct or kill Genevieve. As the prime target of the demon prince, Danté, she has no problem accepting Jude’s protection. Why Genevieve? She’s a Vessel, one born to serve the Light but can be corrupted and used as a weapon for darkness. She had no idea this world even existed. Now, she just wants to survive it. Each book in The Vessel Trilogy is best enjoyed in order. Series Order: Book #1: Forged in Fire Book #2: Sealed in Sin Book #3: Bound in Black

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Entangled: Select Otherworld

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1640632174

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9781640632172

Make Space for Life

Hundreds of Ideas and Practical Solutions to Declutter Your Home and Stay Uncluttered

By: Peter Cross,Angella Gilbert

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Make Space for Life

Hundreds of Ideas and Practical Solutions to Declutter Your Home and Stay Uncluttered

By: Peter Cross,Angella Gilbert

Make Space for Life is far more than a how-to book on decluttering your home. It provides a journey that not only shows you how to rearrange your chattels and homes, getting maximum use of whatever you have, but also gives you amusing and thought-provoking insights into why so many of our homes become cluttered, chaotic, and uncomfortable. The book combines the skills and expertise of declutter expert Angella Gilbert and author and editor Peter Cross. Between them they have written a witty and readable book bursting with practical, pragmatic, and inexpensive suggestions that could turn a shambolic dwelling place into an organized and welcoming retreat.

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BalboaPress

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1452511217

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9781452511214

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