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Multithreading for Visual Effects

By: Martin Watt,Erwin Coumans,George ElKoura,Ronald Henderson,Manuel Kraemer,Jeff Lait,James Reinders

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Multithreading for Visual Effects

By: Martin Watt,Erwin Coumans,George ElKoura,Ronald Henderson,Manuel Kraemer,Jeff Lait,James Reinders

Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects Industry In Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries (such as Bullet, OpenVDB, and OpenSubdiv), one of the industry’s leading visual effects packages (Houdini), and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code. Diverse Solutions to Solve Performance Problems After an introductory chapter, each subsequent chapter presents a case study that illustrates how the authors used multithreading techniques to achieve better performance. The authors discuss the problems that occurred and explain how they solved them. The case studies encompass solutions for shaving milliseconds, solutions for optimizing longer running tasks, multithreading techniques for modern CPU architectures, and massive parallelism using GPUs. Some of the case studies include open source projects so you can try out these techniques for yourself and see how well they work.

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1482243563

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Menoetius

By: Jeff Lait

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Menoetius

By: Jeff Lait

Weistling thought the greatest challenge facing him was his next grant application. If he had known that his actions could precipitate a galaxy-spanning war that would destroy thousands of worlds, he would no doubt have paid more attention. He will find one consolation in the ensuing events: he does get the grant.

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Jeff Lait

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0980901111

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Maximizing Project Value

Defining, Managing, and Measuring for Optimal Return

By: Jeff Berman

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Maximizing Project Value

Defining, Managing, and Measuring for Optimal Return

By: Jeff Berman

The concept of focusing more on the concept of value is the hot topic right now in PMI and other project management organizations - and books on the subject have sold very well. Berman has an active speaking schedule and is a prominent expert in the field.

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Amacom Books

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0814473822

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The Invaders: Book One of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis,C.K. Gurin

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The Invaders: Book One of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis,C.K. Gurin

Richard Bryan of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana was the consummate idealist. He had a forward-looking outlook. Slavery was an anachronism. In 1856, five years before the war, he offered emancipation to all 97 on his plantation, hired a teacher, deeded land, shared profits, and encouraged entrepreneurs. The Civil War devastated the South, but the war never reached his home. When Union occupiers arrived in Mt. Lebanon a decade later, they were astounded to find Bryan's experiment fully implemented. Former slaves could not only “read, write, and cipher,” they were landowners engaged in a trade, and some were even bilingual. Bryan's objective was to facilitate the “conveyance” of his peaceful society from pre-war to post-war America. He saw no reason why he could not achieve this goal. Union occupiers envisioned a plethora of beneficial propaganda, but Bryan declined to be used by aggressive new politicians who demanded his cooperation to further their agenda. After the Confederate surrender, Richard Bryan, his family, their hired hands, the people, and a wounded Yankee deserter his young sons had stumbled upon in the woods and brought home with them, found themselves at the mercy of a corrupt Governor, political hacks, petty tyrants, and remorseless convicts in military uniform. Not just rustlers but occupying troops would frequently raid farms. Often, they’d steal entire harvests. If you resisted the men in uniform, they might hang you and burn your place down out of spite. There was no legal recourse against the government. Food became scarce, hard money even more so. “Injun Grass” as it was known to those who smoked it, grew wild on their land. It was good quality, so they’d periodically harvest it and offer little poke bags of cannabis for sale to visitors who were passing through on the stagecoach. Occasionally they’d even sell some to soldiers. Every penny counted. They tightened their belts, quietly bartered for weapons, secretly manufactured ammunition, and killed in self-defense when they were faced with no other choice. Their joint goal was survival. Some of them would make it. What transpired across the South might today be equated to legal, as well as militarized police brutality by occupying forces. The experience of all, regardless of color, who lived through this traumatic and tumultuous time in history, burned itself deeply into America’s collective psyche.

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9798885316248

Scoop

Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop

By: Jeff Miller

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Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop

By: Jeff Miller

This is the true story of a lawyer and his partner who give up their corporate lives in London to run an ice cream shop and small inn in Wisconsin's north woods. It is a tale of starting over, slowing down, and ice cream"--

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873519442

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American More! Six-Level Edition Level 3 Combo with Audio CD/CD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

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American More! Six-Level Edition Level 3 Combo with Audio CD/CD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

American MORE! Six-Level Edition is a version of a course from a highly respected author team that's bursting with features for lower secondary students. Key language for each unit is introduced in a photostory and put to use through the 'Language Focus'. There is thorough coverage of grammar via a dedicated section in each unit. The 'Learn MORE through English' pages introduce cross-curricular learning (CLIL) while the 'Learn MORE about Culture' sections explore English speaking countries. Students learn to 'Read MORE for pleasure' with the extra reading pages and the Audio CD/CD-ROM enables students to practice vocabulary, grammar, and skills. The Combo contains the Student's Book and Workbook material together, providing 50-60 class hours of material.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521280990

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American More! Six-Level Edition Level 6 Combo with Audio CD/CD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

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American More! Six-Level Edition Level 6 Combo with Audio CD/CD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

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A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

By: Jeff MacSwan

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A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

By: Jeff MacSwan

First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, focusing on ways in which a misunderstanding of code switching may lead to tacit tracking effects for language-minority children.

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Routledge

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1135679983

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Clinical Clerkships

The Answer Book

By: Jeff Wiese

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Clinical Clerkships

The Answer Book

By: Jeff Wiese

This concise, pocket-sized manual provides a guidebook for medical students entering their third and fourth, or clinical clerkship, years. During these years, a specific set of clinical skills are required as well as the ability to interact interpersonally with patients, colleagues, instructors, and mentors in varying capacities. This book provides, in a straightforward, simple manner, essential information on all the skills needed to succeed in clinical rotations. The book is written in an outline format and contains appealing elements such as mnemonics, hot keys, and numerous original illustrations.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781737540

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A Life Impossible

Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

By: Steve Gleason,Jeff Duncan

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A Life Impossible

Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

By: Steve Gleason,Jeff Duncan

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS "Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism.” —The New York Times • "Steve Gleason has changed the world." –Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner • "An extraordinary book...A Life Impossible will change the way people cope, think, and live." –Mike Lupica, co-author with James Patterson of 12 Months to Live In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game, uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function, he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel’s unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially. This unsparing portrait argues that a person's true strength does not reside solely in one’s body but also in the ability to face unfathomable adversity and still be able to love and treasure life.

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Random House

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0593863291

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9780593863299

Morocco

A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora

By: Jeff Koehler

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Morocco

A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora

By: Jeff Koehler

The acclaimed food writer and photographer explores the rich and varied cuisine of Morocco in this sumptuously illustrated cookbook. With a wide range of exotic flavors and cooking styles, Morocco includes eighty recipes with Spanish influences, rustic Berber styles, complex, palace-worthy plates, spicy tagines, and surprisingly easy to make street food. Here you will discover piquant appetizers like cumin-spiced potato fritters, classic tagine and couscous entrees, stuffed pastries like Seafood Pastilla, fragrant sweets like Honeyed Phyllo Triangles Stuffed with Almonds, and, of course, Mint Tea. Drawing on culinary traditions from across Morocco’s diverse geography—from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts to the Sahara Desert—this beautiful collection of recipes surprises and inspires the home cook. Gorgeous photographs of such iconic Moroccan scenes as the markets of Marrakech and the date-filled oasis of Zagora capture the many flavors of this sun-splashed country.

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Chronicle Books

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1452113653

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The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

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The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

Revised and updated with new recipes"--Dust jacket.

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Macmillan

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1250018285

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Democratic Society and Human Needs

By: Jeff Noonan

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Democratic Society and Human Needs

By: Jeff Noonan

In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary. For him, a democratic society is one in which human beings collectively control necessary life-resources, using them to promote the essential human value of free capability realization. His critique of globalization and liberal-capitalism vindicates radical social and economic democratization and provides an essential step towards understanding the vast discrepancies between rich and poor within and between democratic countries.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773560165

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9780773560161

Two Years in Kingston Town

A Peace Corps Memoir

By: Jeff Koob

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Two Years in Kingston Town

A Peace Corps Memoir

By: Jeff Koob

Two Years In Kingston Town is the story of a married couple--Jeff, a psychologist, and Maria, a psychiatric nurse--that decide to pull up stakes and go off for a two-year sojourn as Peace Corps Volunteers in Jamaica. It tells of their struggles to adapt, what they did in their assignments at the University Hospital of the West Indies, places they visited, and people they met. Written with insight and humor, it brings to life the vibrant, colorful city of Kingston and describes places and things in Jamaica that few visitors ever see. Filled with details about Jamaican culture and customs, it also provides an inside look at Peace Corps service--its challenges and rewards. The book also contains vivid accounts of therapy with recovering addicts, and will appeal to mental health professionals with an interest in cross-cultural therapy.

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iUniverse

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1469781875

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American More! Six-Level Edition Level 5 Combo with Audio CD/CD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

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By: Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Günter Gerngross,Christian Holzmann,Peter Lewis-Jones

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Cambridge University Press

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0521281059

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Chard and its Villages Through Time

By: Frank Huddy,Jeff Farley

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Chard and its Villages Through Time

By: Frank Huddy,Jeff Farley

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Chard and its villages have changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445627353

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9781445627359

The Tryst: Book Two of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis

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The Tryst: Book Two of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis

Like a growing storm cloud, a contingent of deserters, ex-convicts, jayhawkers and outlaws gradually assemble at Lake Bistineau, a scant 15 miles from the homestead. It begins when attempting to return from Shreveport with badly needed supplies. A brutal ambush that leaves eight dead and Richard Bryan seriously wounded takes place on the lake's north shore. His family watches anxiously as he attempts to piece together a small resistance to confront the coming assault on the homestead. Bryan is fortunate enough to learn that local "tinker," Cecil Taylor is able to both repair broker weapons and manufacture munitions. He gains surprising help from former Union Solders, Sargeant Billy McFain, Josephus Flatt (Corporate Slats) and Private, Paul Buckwalter (Bucky), as well as former Confederate Lieutenant, Guy Labeau and Sargeant Lem Brooks. He is also greatly assisted by "the people," led by Amos Bryan and his son George, and one armed, Riley Bryan, who has become a "master of the six-gun.

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How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything

More Than 550 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything From Buying Life Insurance to Selling Your Screenplay to Choosing a Thoroughbred Racehorse

By: Jeff Wuorio

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How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything

More Than 550 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything From Buying Life Insurance to Selling Your Screenplay to Choosing a Thoroughbred Racehorse

By: Jeff Wuorio

How to Buy & Sell (Just About) Everything The Ultimate Buyer's Guide for Daily Life Don't make another purchase before you buy this ultimate buyer's guide. With more than 550 how-to solutions, these pages are packed with savvy strategies for choosing and locating (and unloading and liquidating) both everyday items and once-in-a-lifetime splurges, with special emphasis on how to find bargains and broker great deals. The clear and friendly information in How To Buy & Sell (Just About) Everything makes any buying or selling decision easy, from selecting baby gear to saving for college, from hawking lemonade to selling your company. Browse these pages to discover how to: Buy a House • Sell a Car • Buy Happiness • Sell Your Old Computer • Buy Mutual Funds • Hire a Butler • Choose a Diamond Ring • Purchase a Tent • Get Breast Implants • Negotiate a Better Credit Card Rate • Buy a Hot Dog Stand • Sell Your Baseball Collection • Outfit a Nursery • Book a Cheap Safari...and much, much more Written and designed in the same easy-to-use format as its predecesors, How To Do (Just About) Everything and How to Fix (Just About) Everything, this invaluable collection includes concise instructions, helpful tips and comparison charts -- everything you need to understand product features, prevent problems and guarantee smart purchasing decisions. This is the only book you need to make the most of your money.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451603924

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The Working Parents Cookbook

More Than 200 Recipes for Great Family Meals

By: Jeff Morgan,Jodie Morgan

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The Working Parents Cookbook

More Than 200 Recipes for Great Family Meals

By: Jeff Morgan,Jodie Morgan

Late meetings, soccer practice, and not enough hours in the day -- how can a family fit a good/smart/solid/worthwhile/ hearty breakfast or relaxing dinner into this schedule, much less have it be healthy and delicious? Working parents Jeff and Jodie Morgan show how in this can't-do-without cookbook for moms and dads with busy days, hungry kids, and a desire for family health and harmony. These "kid friendly" recipes are full of fresh ingredients, and most of them can be whipped up in 30 minutes or less. All of them let the chef know what he or she is getting into with prep times and complete, easy-to-follow instructions, including plenty of time-saving shortcuts and creative suggestions for leftovers. It's a near endless supply of ideas for quick breakfasts, weekday lunches, no-fuss dinners, and everybody's favorite: dessert. Parents will find options for the inevitable last-minute school potluck or bake sale that even finicky kids (or adults) will gobble up. With tips on everything from table manners to fast alternatives to processed foods, and helpful lists of essential cooking tools and what to keep in a well-stocked pantry, The Working Parents Cookbook is the real-world answer when family time is on the menu.

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0811836851

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The Lull: Book Three of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis,C.K. Gurin

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The Lull: Book Three of Conveyance

By: Jeff Babb Willis,C.K. Gurin

Richard Bryan of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana was the consummate idealist. He had a forward-looking outlook. Slavery was an anachronism. In 1856, five years before the war, he offered emancipation to all 97 on his plantation, hired a teacher, deeded land, shared profits, and encouraged entrepreneurs. The Civil War devastated the South, but the war never reached his home. When Union occupiers arrived in Mt. Lebanon a decade later, they were astounded to find Bryan's experiment fully implemented. Former slaves could not only “read, write, and cipher,” they were landowners engaged in a trade, and some were even bilingual. Bryan's objective was to facilitate the “conveyance” of his peaceful society from pre-war to post-war America. He saw no reason why he could not achieve this goal. Union occupiers envisioned a plethora of beneficial propaganda, but Bryan declined to be used by aggressive new politicians who demanded his cooperation to further their agenda. After the Confederate surrender, Richard Bryan, his family, their hired hands, the people, and a wounded Yankee deserter his young sons had stumbled upon in the woods and brought home with them, found themselves at the mercy of a corrupt Governor, political hacks, petty tyrants, and remorseless convicts in military uniform. Not just rustlers but occupying troops would frequently raid farms. Often, they’d steal entire harvests. If you resisted the men in uniform, they might hang you and burn your place down out of spite. There was no legal recourse against the government. Food became scarce, hard money even more so. “Injun Grass” as it was known to those who smoked it, grew wild on their land. It was good quality, so they’d periodically harvest it and offer little poke bags of cannabis sativa for sale to visitors who were passing through on the stagecoach. Occasionally they’d even sell some to soldiers. Every penny counted. They tightened their belts, quietly bartered for weapons, secretly manufactured ammunition, and killed in self-defense when they were faced with no other choice. Their joint goal was survival. Some of them would make it. What transpired across the South might today be equated to legal, as well as militarized police brutality by occupying forces. The experience of all, regardless of color, who lived through this traumatic and tumultuous time in history, burned itself deeply into America’s collective psyche.

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

With this revolutionary home baking guide that makes the perfect gift for foodies and cooks, you can make your daily bread--and eat it too! This is the classic that started it all. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies. With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly. Crusty baguettes, mouth-watering pizzas, hearty sandwich loaves, and even buttery pastries can easily become part of your own personal menu, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will teach you everything you need to know, opening the eyes of any potential baker.

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Macmillan

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142990478X

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30 Days of Night: Light of Day

By: Jeff Mariotte

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30 Days of Night: Light of Day

By: Jeff Mariotte

A terrifying species of legend that exists in shadow and thrives in night, preying on and intriguing an unsuspecting modern worldÉ An amoral, clandestine government operation that uses whatever means necessary to inflict maximum damage upon one of the most frightening and demonized forces humanity has ever encounteredÉ And all of mankind is threatened by the chain of events set in motion by this unrestrained conflict, and the ripple effects of a new element to the hostilities will forever alter the rules of engagement....

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Simon and Schuster

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1439164762

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Black Cat Weekly #2

By: Jeff Cohen,Frank Lovell Nelson,Hal Charles,Hugh Walpole,Leslie Ford,David Brin,Reginald Bretnor,Robert F. Young,Randall Garrett,Robert Silverberg,Geoff St. Reynard

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Black Cat Weekly #2

By: Jeff Cohen,Frank Lovell Nelson,Hal Charles,Hugh Walpole,Leslie Ford,David Brin,Reginald Bretnor,Robert F. Young,Randall Garrett,Robert Silverberg,Geoff St. Reynard

The second issue of Black Cat Weekly presents more tales of the mysterious and fantastic—four mystery shorts, a mystery novel, four science fiction stories, and a fantasy novel, by some of the greatest writers of all time. Here are: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD GIRL! by Jeff Cohen [Barb Goffman Presents - mystery short story] THE MYSTERY OF THE TRUST BUILDER, by Frank Lovell Nelson [Serial story - 2 of 12] ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT, by Hal Charles [Solve it yourself mystery!] THE TWISTED INN, by Hugh Walpole [mystery short story] FALSE TO ANY MAN, by Leslie Ford [mystery novel] THE TELL, by David Brin [Paul Di Filippo Presents - sci-fi short story] MRS. PIGAFETTA SWIMS WELL, by Reginald Bretnor [sci-fi short story] THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER, by Robert F. Young [sci-fi short story] THE ALIEN DIES AT DAWN, by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg [sci-fi short story] THE ENCHANTED CRUSADE, by Geoff St. Reynard [fantasy novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479462586

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Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Baking Revolution Continues with 90 New, Delicious and Easy Recipes Made with Gluten-Free Flours

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

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Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Baking Revolution Continues with 90 New, Delicious and Easy Recipes Made with Gluten-Free Flours

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

The authors of the bestselling, ground-breaking, and hugely popular Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day adapt their revolutionary technique for the growing numbers of gluten-free eaters

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Macmillan

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1250018315

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Prophecy's Trail

By: Jeff Holland

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Prophecy's Trail

By: Jeff Holland

It was 1917, and the world was in the most destructive war it had ever experienced. Many believed that it was a sign that the end-times were upon them. Indeed, prophetic events were happening, but not as the world thought. Fifteen-year-old Philo Sadler didn't know a thing about prophecy. For him, religion was just a vague memory of happier days. That was about to change.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1635752264

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Buddha on the Road

By: Jeff Pearce

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Buddha on the Road

By: Jeff Pearce

Burma is known as "The Golden Land." And for Brin Harper, Burma means golden memories from a youth spent in an exotic country with his mother, an accomplished diplomat. But today Brin Harper is an NYPD homicide detective haunted by his mother's suicide, and his grief is slowly eroding his relationship with his journalist boyfriend, Richard. Now a set of vicious murders is about to dredge up secrets and bitter regrets from thousands of miles away and many years ago. The trail leads to a strange monk who doesn't behave at all like a holy man. Brin is faced with a range of suspects, including the American widower of dissident Marlar Swe, to his on-again, off-again lover, Aung, a quiet professor who has survived time in Burma's infamous Insein Prison. As the killer claims more victims, each murdered in a fashion inspired by Burmese culture, Brin must confront his own past and play a duel of wits with the monk, trying to decipher what his role is in the case. And there are more disturbing personal revelations waiting for him than just exposing a psychotic murderer...

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The New Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Revised and Updated with New Recipes

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

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The New Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Revised and Updated with New Recipes

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

From the authors of Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day comes an updated cookbook filled with new recipes for healthy bread, using the same quick and easy baking method.

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Macmillan

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1250077559

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Geniuses of Crack

By: Jeff Gomez

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Geniuses of Crack

By: Jeff Gomez

From the author of Our Noise, an engaging and touching tale about the misadventures of a Virginia-based rock band Bottlecap that’s “an intricate and richly detailed study in twentysomething generational manners and mores that’s almost encyclopedic in scope” (Bret Easton Ellis). Bottlecap, the Virginia-based group introduced in Jeff Gomez’s cult favorite Our Noise, traded in life as a small band on a struggling independent label for a lucrative contract with a big Los Angeles company. This should mean more money, more attention—more of all the stuff that comes with fame. But from the minute Mark, Steve, and Gary arrive in Los Angeles, they enter a world they don’t quite understand. Mark, as leader of the band, tries to keep things under control, but his own life and his relationship with his new girlfriend Corinne—a native Angeleno and inveterate mallrat—begin to spin out of control. Steve falls under the influence of a neighbor with bad habits while Gary scours the city’s thrift stores searching for Atari memorabilia and a love of his own. Confusion reaches its peak when the record company’s plans take an unexpected and, to the band, unacceptable turn. They must either completely sell out and surrender the band or take a stand, relegating themselves to commercial obscurity. Or is it already too late? With humor and insight, Gomez limns the lives of three young men who are geniuses at everything except what matters. Fans of Our Noise will welcome this update of Bottlecap; newcomers will find a writer with a rare talent for capturing the mood and the voice of a generation.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501140620

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9781501140624

The Karma Booth

By: Jeff Pearce

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The Karma Booth

By: Jeff Pearce

They say, "Executing a murderer won't bring your loved one back." But now it can. The Karma Booth. It will change history, ethics, religion, science, everything. What are its terrible secrets? How does it work? And how can it be stopped? Ethics consultant and ex-diplomat Timothy Cale is hired by the U.S. government to investigate this earth-shattering scientific breakthrough, and he better do it soon because the moral quagmires and complications are multiplying. Cale and his partner, London police detective Crystal Anyanike, must stop a powerful psychopath on a killing spree while searching for the elusive billionaire behind the Booth's invention, the one man with the answers to all their questions...

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Gallivant Books

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0986818011

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9780986818011

Bianca

The Silver Age

By: Jeff Pearce

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Bianca

The Silver Age

By: Jeff Pearce

Enter a world of superheroes and alchemy! It's the Age of the Paladins, the age of the so-called "Vigil-ebrities" who fight crime and protect the innocent as the world tries to recover from economic collapse. And on the streets of Bohemia, Bianca is trying to find answers to her unique chemistry. She's a succubus, forever trapped in a cycle of lust and violence that affects her very survival. But when she looks into the murder of a chemist responsible for the latest addictive gel, the trail leads to exotic cities, new allies and sinister criminal enemies, and a corporate conspiracy that threatens everyone on Earth. By the end of her journey, Bianca will join the ranks of the most famous Paladins in the world: Orson Hawkwood, the leader of Defenders Without Borders, the enigmatic Clerfayt, detective avenger of Paris, Thelonius Minh, the peculiar "shrink to the stars" and master of combat yoga, Makeda Falosade, the Bandit Queen, and the creepy, disturbingly powerful Plague Man. Enter the Silver Age and join a unique heroine on her first exciting quest!

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Gallivant Books

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0986818003

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9780986818004

Amen, L.A.

By: Cherie Bennett,Jeff Gottesfeld

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Amen, L.A.

By: Cherie Bennett,Jeff Gottesfeld

When Natalie Shelton and her family move from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, more changes than their zip code. Natalie's mom accepts a position as pastor with the Church of Beverly Hills—and Natalie's along for the ride. Before she can blink, she's living in a mansion once owned by Ricardo Montalban, going to school with hot young Hollywood stars, and partying in the park with kids who know no limits. It's an amazing new life—but if she doesn't watch out, Natalie could find herself seriously messed up. Natalie has values . . . but how long can she hold on to them?

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Ember

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0375898085

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9780375898082

Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day

100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

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Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day

100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients

By: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.,Zoë François

The authors of the groundbreaking, hugely popular Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day presents a cookbook filled with quick and easy recipes for healthy bread that's a perfect gift for beginning bakers. Their first book was called "stupendous," "genius," and "the holy grail of bread making." Now, in their much-anticipated second book, Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., and Zoë François have taken their super-fast method and adapted it for the health-conscious baker, focusing on whole grains and other healthier ingredients. The method is still quick and simple, producing professional-quality results with each warm, fragrant, hearty loaf. In just five minutes a day of active preparation time, you can create delectable, healthy treats such as 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Grain Garlic Knots with Olive Oil and Parsley, Black-and-White Braided Pumpernickel and Rye Loaf, Black Pepper Focaccia, Pumpkin Pie Brioche, Chocolate Tangerine Bars, and a variety of gluten-free breads. About a dozen of the recipes are 100% whole grain. Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day will show you that there is time enough for home-baked bread, and that it can be part of a healthy diet. Calling all bread lovers: Whether you are looking for more whole grains, watching your weight, trying to reduce your cholesterol, or just care about what goes into your body, this book is a must-have. Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François met while taking care of their toddlers at a kids' music class, and co-authored their first book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking in 2007. The book became a bestseller, with rave reviews in the New York Times, Associated Press, the Arizona Republic, and other media all over the United States, Canada, and Europe. They've demonstrated their revolutionary stored-dough method on television in San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Tampa, and Phoenix.

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Macmillan

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1429938285

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9781429938280

Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry

By: Jeff Barda

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Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry

By: Jeff Barda

Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry offers a new theoretical approach and historical perspective on the remarkable upsurge in creative poetic practices in France that have challenged traditional definitions of poetry and of the lyric. Focusing on the work of Pierre Alferi, Olivier Cadiot, Emmanuel Hocquard, Franck Leibovici, Anne Portugal and Denis Roche, this book provides an analysis of the most influential poets in French poetry of the last few decades. It contextualizes the theoretical models that inform their investigations, analyzing them alongside the history of the avant-garde and the heated theoretical debates that have taken place over whether to continue or bring an end to the lyric. Systematically addressing the various strategies employed by these poets and drawing on reception theory and cognitive studies, Jeff Barda argues that French radical poetics re-evaluates the lyric in cognitive terms beyond the personal. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first-century forms of experimental writing and the connections between literature and the arts today.

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Springer Nature

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3030152936

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9783030152932

Touring Montana and Wyoming Hot Springs

By: Jeff Birkby,Kerrie Hess

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Touring Montana and Wyoming Hot Springs

By: Jeff Birkby,Kerrie Hess

Detailed information on 55 of the best natural and accessible hot springs in Wyoming and Montana

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762719885

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9780762719884

Dexter in the Dark

By: Jeff Lindsay

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Dexter in the Dark

By: Jeff Lindsay

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds—particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. • The Killer Character That Inspired the Hit Showtime Series Dexter Dexter's Dark Passenger—mastermind of his homicidal prowess—immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he's being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he's planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancé's two kids—who might just have dark tendencies themselves. Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in fiction.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307455734

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9780307455734

Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers

By: Jeff Porter

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Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers

By: Jeff Porter

The second installment in Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint challenges the traditional solemnity that characterizes nonfiction books of grief, loss, and sorrow. “Few readers will fail to be gripped by this tragically common story about death and what comes after for those left behind . . . A haunting and thought-provoking consideration of death and ‘how utterly it rips apart our lives.'” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author’s wife and his candid account of the following year of madness and grief. As his life unravels, Porter analyzes his sadness with growing interest. He talks to Claire as if to evoke a presence, to mark a space for memory. He reports on his daily walks and shares observations of life’s sadness, while reminiscing about various moments in their life together. Like Orpheus, the author searches for a lost love, and what he finds is not the dog of doom but flashes of an intimate symmetry that brighten the darkest places of sorrow. The second title from Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint, Planet Claire takes readers on a journey of sorrow that recalls memorable works by C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed), Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking), and Julian Barnes (Levels of Life). Porter’s memoir, however, is also playful, quirky, and self-ironic in a way that challenges the genre’s traditional solemnity. Like the novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, this is an unpredictably funny account of heartbreak, as if to say there’s something about the magnitude of loss that troubles even earnestness.

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Akashic Books

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1617758698

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9781617758690

Tales From the ER and Other Places

OR Always Eat the Lamb Brains!

By: Jeff Wade MD

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Tales From the ER and Other Places

OR Always Eat the Lamb Brains!

By: Jeff Wade MD

After being an ER doctor for over twenty years, traveling all over, running international medical missions, and working at a cancer hospital, Jeff Wade has collected many stories. Some of these he has been telling for decades. In Tales from the ER and Other Places, Dr. Wade shares a lifetime of interesting, funny, educational, and sometimes disgusting stories, with medicine being at the center of most. And whether the stories are incredible and humorous or touching and sad, they offer a compelling and engaging window into the life and times of a doctor and his passions --and his patients.

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1728331684

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