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Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial

By: David Futer,Efstratia Kalfagianni,Jessica Purcell

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Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial

By: David Futer,Efstratia Kalfagianni,Jessica Purcell

This monograph derives direct and concrete relations between colored Jones polynomials and the topology of incompressible spanning surfaces in knot and link complements. Under mild diagrammatic hypotheses, we prove that the growth of the degree of the colored Jones polynomials is a boundary slope of an essential surface in the knot complement. We show that certain coefficients of the polynomial measure how far this surface is from being a fiber for the knot; in particular, the surface is a fiber if and only if a particular coefficient vanishes. We also relate hyperbolic volume to colored Jones polynomials. Our method is to generalize the checkerboard decompositions of alternating knots. Under mild diagrammatic hypotheses, we show that these surfaces are essential, and obtain an ideal polyhedral decomposition of their complement. We use normal surface theory to relate the pieces of the JSJ decomposition of the complement to the combinatorics of certain surface spines (state graphs). Since state graphs have previously appeared in the study of Jones polynomials, our method bridges the gap between quantum and geometric knot invariants.

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179

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Springer

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3642333028

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9783642333026

The War with Spain in 1898

By: David F. Trask

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The War with Spain in 1898

By: David F. Trask

“Remember the Maine!” The war cry spread throughout the United States after the American battleship was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Americans, already sympathetic with Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain, demanded action. Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. David F. Trask’s War with Spain in 1898 is a cogent political and military history of that “splendid little war.” It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and the misconceptions surrounding the war.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803294298

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9780803294295

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

Romanized

By: David C. Gross

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English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

Romanized

By: David C. Gross

This Yiddish-English dictionary includes over 4,000 Romanized word-to-word entries; an appendix of idiomatic expressions & proverbs; and an appendix of common words used in the English language.

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164

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Hippocrene Books

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0781804396

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9780781804394

I Freed Myself

African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

By: David Williams

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I Freed Myself

African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

By: David Williams

This book examines the many ways in which African Americans made the Civil War about ending slavery. Abraham Lincoln's primary goal was to save the Union rather than to absolve the institution of slavery, yet slaves who escaped to Union lines refused to fight for the Union while remaining enslaved, ultimately forcing Lincoln to disband the institution.

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277

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Cambridge University Press

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1107016495

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9781107016491

Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering

By: David Mills,Mark G. Jones,Vijay K. Agarwal

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Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering

By: David Mills,Mark G. Jones,Vijay K. Agarwal

Pneumatic conveying systems offer enormous advantages: flexibility in plant layout, automatic operation, easy control and monitoring, and the ability to handle diverse materials, especially dangerous, toxic, or explosive materials. The Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering provides the most complete, comprehensive reference on all types and s

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705

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CRC Press

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113553909X

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9781135539092

Canada’s Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100

By: David J. Bercuson

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Canada’s Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100

By: David J. Bercuson

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was founded in 1924 as a sort of federal air service, carrying out civilian-type operations for Ottawa. In the Second World War, the RCAF grew to more than 200,000 personnel in overseas squadrons and performed virtually every type of mission, including bombing and hunting submarines. Over the decades since, the RCAF has tried valiantly to carry out its mission of defending Canada, even when starved of funds by the federal government. Today, it is once again on the verge of becoming a modern, well-equipped air force. In Canada’s Air Force, historian David J. Bercuson shares the history of the first one hundred years of the Royal Canadian Air Force, from its inception in 1924 to its centennial in 2024. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, unpublished histories, archival sources, interview transcripts, and standard reference works such as The Bomber Command War Diaries, Bercuson traces the history of the RCAF as not only a fighting force but also a human institution. Canada’s Air Force analyses the first century of the RCAF through the clear-eyed perspective of a Canadian historian who has closely scrutinized one hundred years of the RCAF’s story.

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233

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University of Toronto Press

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1487509383

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9781487509385

Freshwater Passages

The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

By: David Chapin

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Freshwater Passages

The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

By: David Chapin

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal’s North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond’s life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. Pond’s encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defined his reputation. Whereas previous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond than hitherto has been available.

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392

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803253478

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9780803253476

Essentials of Public Health Communication

By: Parvanta,Claudia Parvanta,David E. Nelson,Sarah A. Parvanta,Richard N. Harner

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Essentials of Public Health Communication

By: Parvanta,Claudia Parvanta,David E. Nelson,Sarah A. Parvanta,Richard N. Harner

Essentials of Public Health Communication presumes no prior knowledge of the health communication or informatics fields, making it accessible to students from a broad range of disciplines. Concepts are presented in clear, jargon-free language, with terms defined throughout --Book Jacket.

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442

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449618634

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9781449618636

Billerica

By: David A. D'Apice

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Billerica

By: David A. D'Apice

From its pre-Colonial origins to the hustle and bustle of today, Billerica has remained a thriving village with something for everyone. Surrounded by lakes, rivers, and footpaths that became the building blocks of the state's road system, Billerica's history reflects the growth trends of a young nation--a history steeped in courage, independence, prosperity, and celebration. Originally the Shawshin Wilderness, the fledgling settlement took the name Billerica and was incorporated as a town in 1655. The territory initially included lands that would become parts of Bedford, Tewksbury, Wilmington, and Carlisle. For the next three centuries, farmers, weavers, merchants, millers, and craftsmen sought out Billerica for its agricultural opportunity, potential waterpower, recreational attractions, and strategic travel routes.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738573345

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9780738573342

Piedmont Farmer

The Journals of David Golightly Harris, 1855-1870

By: David Golightly Harris

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Piedmont Farmer

The Journals of David Golightly Harris, 1855-1870

By: David Golightly Harris

A daily record of a 15-year span in the life of a Piedmont South Carolina farm family that had seven children, owned ten slaves, and cultivated a hundred acres. When Harris joins the Confederate army in March 1862, the task of journalizing falls to his wife Emily, who records her struggles to keep farm and family intact. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and portraits. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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624

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870499947

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9780870499944

Kanji Handbook

(JLPT All Levels) This Japanese Character Dictionary and Kanji Textbook Uses an Innovative and Effective System

By: Vee David

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Kanji Handbook

(JLPT All Levels) This Japanese Character Dictionary and Kanji Textbook Uses an Innovative and Effective System

By: Vee David

This massive text is the ultimate authoritative book on learning Japanese Kanji. The Kanji Handbook presents an ingenious and tested method to learn the 1,945 kanji characters taught in all Japanese language schools. Through the use of "KanjiHybrids"--a concept invented by the author--learners of Kanji and taught to link the characters mentally with English words to form one integral and indivisible unit. This innovative mnemonic device has been proven to train the learner to retain each kanji in the memory much better than simple repetition of the kanji alone--as well as enabling users to differentiate similar-looking kanji characters. Specific learning strategies also enable users to progress quickly from the beginner to advanced level kanji, with stroke orders shown clearly for each kanji character. Eight different indexes-including the highly useful Flip-it Index--form the last part of this unique handbook. Contains the complete list of all 1,945 kanji characters taught in Japanese schools. Presents a new KanjiHybrids system linking kanji characters with English words to aid memorization. Innovative learning strategies guide learners at all levels from beginner to advanced.

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1202

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462910637

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9781462910632

Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy

By: David J. Matthews,Mary E. Gerritsen

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Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy

By: David J. Matthews,Mary E. Gerritsen

An expert guide to targeting protein kinases in cancer therapy Research has shown that protein kinases can instigate the formation and spread of cancer when they transmit faulty signals inside cells. Because of this fact, pharmaceutical scientists have targeted kinases for intensive study, and have been working to develop medicinal roadblocks to sever their malignant means of communication. Complete with full-color presentations, Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy defines the structural features of protein kinases and examines their cellular functions. Combining kinase biology with chemistry and pharmacology applications, this book enlists emerging data to drive the discovery of new cancer-fighting drugs. Valuable information includes: Comprehensive overviews of the major kinase families involved in oncology, integrating protein structure and function, and providing important tools to assist pharmaceutical researchers to understand and work in this dynamic area of cancer drug research Focus on small molecule inhibitors as well as other therapeutic modalities Discussion of kinase inhibitors that have entered clinical trials for the treatment of cancer, with an emphasis on molecules that have progressed to late stage clinical trials and, in a few cases, to market Providing a platform for further study, this important work reviews both the successes and challenges of kinase inhibitor therapy, and provides insight into future directions in the war against cancer.

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719

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118210778

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9781118210772

Worship and Congregational Singing

By: David Neu

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Worship and Congregational Singing

By: David Neu

This book constitutes the author's effort to provide a biblical foundation for answers to questions regarding congregational singing. The present work is broader in scope than the author's smaller book, Volumes of Praise for a Vanishing God, and unlike the earlier volume, contains full documentation and end-notes, many of which pursue topics of interest that are mentioned only briefly in the text proper. Each chapter of this book ends with a brief list of questions to spur further study and discussion. It is hoped that this book may be useful as a text for a seminary course on congregational singing, a course that the author believes to be great need for the church of the twenty-first century. Special attention is given to the issues raised in the "music wars" of the past fifty years.

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578

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Lulu.com

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136501018X

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9781365010187

Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy

Clinical and Molecular Pharmacogenetics

By: David A. Price Evans

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Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy

Clinical and Molecular Pharmacogenetics

By: David A. Price Evans

This is the first comprehensive work of reference to survey in depth the wide-ranging variability in the response of individuals to drugs.

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686

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Cambridge University Press

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052141296X

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9780521412964

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

By: David E. E. Sloane

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

By: David E. E. Sloane

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.

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309

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Routledge

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1351181548

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9781351181549

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Advanced Warfighter

By: David Knight,Fletcher Black

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Advanced Warfighter

By: David Knight,Fletcher Black

First into any conflict, last to retreat *Advanced team tactics for urban combat *Tips and tactics for all multiplayer classes and game modes *Detailed multiplayer maps *Complete maps and campaign walkthroughs

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Prima Games

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076155193X

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9780761551935

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Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial

Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial

The War with Spain in 1898

The War with Spain in 1898

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

I Freed Myself

I Freed Myself

Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering

Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering

Canada’s Air Force

Canada’s Air Force

Freshwater Passages

Freshwater Passages

Essentials of Public Health Communication

Essentials of Public Health Communication

Billerica

Billerica

Piedmont Farmer

Piedmont Farmer

Kanji Handbook

Kanji Handbook

Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy

Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy

Worship and Congregational Singing

Worship and Congregational Singing

Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy

Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

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