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The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

By: Nick Lantz

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The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

By: Nick Lantz

Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and re-naming a family’s short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption. Lantz never lets his subjects or his readers off the hook, plunging head first into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful. Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299235831

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9780299235833

Climb High Rocks State Park

By: Paul Nick

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Climb High Rocks State Park

By: Paul Nick

Rock Climbing Guidebook to High Rocks State Park, PA

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Lulu.com

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0557721520

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9780557721528

Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

By: Nick Coady

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Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

By: Nick Coady

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576

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826102867

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9780826102867

Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

By: Nick Davis

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Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

By: Nick Davis

A dual biography of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, each a Hollywood legend"--

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385

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Knopf

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140004183X

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9781400041831

GoPro

Professional Guide to Filmmaking

By: Bradford Schmidt,Brandon Thompson,Nick Woodman

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GoPro

Professional Guide to Filmmaking

By: Bradford Schmidt,Brandon Thompson,Nick Woodman

Place of publication transcribed from publisher's website.

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313

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Pearson Education

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0321934164

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9780321934161

The Spirit of Pan Passion Amore Nature

By: Nick Arborea

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The Spirit of Pan Passion Amore Nature

By: Nick Arborea

This is the extraordinary true story of a man some know as Nick and others know as lartista, a multi-creative talent; this memoir explores the mystery behind his life. As a child growing up in Italy, Nick had his dreams: to sing, to learn English, and to one day live and work in Hollywood. When his family immigrated to Australia, his father had made other plans for him, and Nick worked as a tiler/labourer to help support his family. But his young life would change forever the day he made an award-winning clay mask. The mask awoke the ancient spirit of the pagan god Pan, master of the woods; Nicks life would never be the same. He made the decision to put the many challenges of his lifeschool bullies, patronising parents who didnt support his dreams, and no hopebehind him. He left home and worked hard, but success eluded him at every turn. He clung to the hope that he would at least find love in this new life, but that too remained just a dream. He was handsome, confident, charming, and had a lot of natural class and charisma that men envied and women admired, but even he couldnt find true love. His life began to change when he threw away the mask of Pan, which now rests at the bottom of the sea somewhere off Brighton Beach. This is the karmic journey of a mans self-discovery at midlife, from failed ambitions to spiritual enlightenment, and his unbreakable determination to never give up.

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181

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BalboaPress

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1452504229

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9781452504223

Raised by the Stars

Interviews with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors

By: Nick Thomas

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Raised by the Stars

Interviews with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors

By: Nick Thomas

This collection of interviews, all conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and, in one case, grandchild) talks about the joys and difficulties of growing up in the shadow of the Hollywood spotlight. While some were significantly influenced by their famous parents and chose a career in entertainment, others felt no attraction toward the glamour of Tinseltown fame. Among the interviewees are the offspring of such major stars as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell, as well as such prominent supporting players as Jack Elam, Gene Lockhart, Billy Barty and Jesse White. The collection also includes a list of books and/or websites published by the children of the actors featured.

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254

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McFarland

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0786488077

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9780786488070

The End of Philosophy of Religion

By: Nick Trakakis

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The End of Philosophy of Religion

By: Nick Trakakis

The End of Philosophy of Religion explores the hitherto unchartered waters of the 'meta-philosophy of religion', that is, the methods and assumptions underlying the divergent ways of writing and studying the philosophy of religion that have emerged over the last century. It is also a first-class study of the weaknesses of the analytic approach in philosophy, particularly when it is applied to religious and aesthetic experience. Nick Trakakis' main line of argument is twofold. Firstly, the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy, by virtue of its attachment to scientific norms of rationality and truth, inevitably struggles to come to terms with the mysterious and transcendent reality that is disclosed in religious practice. Secondly, and more positively, alternatives to analytic philosophy of religion are available, not only within the various schools of so-called Continental philosophy, but also in explicitly narrative and literary approaches.

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284

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A&C Black

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1441127720

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9781441127723

The Coliform Index and Waterborne Disease

Problems of microbial drinking water assessment

By: Cara Gleeson,Nick Gray

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The Coliform Index and Waterborne Disease

Problems of microbial drinking water assessment

By: Cara Gleeson,Nick Gray

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in waterborne outbreaks of disease associated with viral and protozoan agents, normally in drinking waters that were found to be microbially safe using the Coliform Index.For nearly a quarter of a century indicator organisms, in particular the coliform group, have been used to ensure the microbial

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208

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CRC Press

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0203476883

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9780203476888

Gruesome Unsolved Murders - Shocking Crimes Never Solved

true crime,

By: Nick Culver

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Gruesome Unsolved Murders - Shocking Crimes Never Solved

true crime,

By: Nick Culver

Over thirty macabre cases of bizarre and harrowing crimes which were never solved. The cases under scrutiny include: The Alphabet Murders, Jill Dando, the Hollywood murder of Christa Helm, The Frankford Slasher, The Hill Ax Murders of Ardenwald, The Lake Bodom Murders and many more famous criminal cases of murder which have never been solved by crime agencies.

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epubli

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3757539451

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9783757539450

Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections

By: David Hawking,Bodo Billerbeck,Paul Thomas,Nick Craswell

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Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections

By: David Hawking,Bodo Billerbeck,Paul Thomas,Nick Craswell

Simulated test collections may find application in situations where real datasets cannot easily be accessed due to confidentiality concerns or practical inconvenience. They can potentially support Information Retrieval (IR) experimentation, tuning, validation, performance prediction, and hardware sizing. Naturally, the accuracy and usefulness of results obtained from a simulation depend upon the fidelity and generality of the models which underpin it. The fidelity of emulation of a real corpus is likely to be limited by the requirement that confidential information in the real corpus should not be able to be extracted from the emulated version. We present a range of methods exploring trade-offs between emulation fidelity and degree of preservation of privacy. We present three different simple types of text generator which work at a micro level: Markov models, neural net models, and substitution ciphers. We also describe macro level methods where we can engineer macro properties of a corpus, giving a range of models for each of the salient properties: document length distribution, word frequency distribution (for independent and non-independent cases), word length and textual representation, and corpus growth. We present results of emulating existing corpora and for scaling up corpora by two orders of magnitude. We show that simulated collections generated with relatively simple methods are suitable for some purposes and can be generated very quickly. Indeed it may sometimes be feasible to embed a simple lightweight corpus generator into an indexer for the purpose of efficiency studies. Naturally, a corpus of artificial text cannot support IR experimentation in the absence of a set of compatible queries. We discuss and experiment with published methods for query generation and query log emulation. We present a proof-of-the-pudding study in which we observe the predictive accuracy of efficiency and effectiveness results obtained on emulated versions of TREC corpora. The study includes three open-source retrieval systems and several TREC datasets. There is a trade-off between confidentiality and prediction accuracy and there are interesting interactions between retrieval systems and datasets. Our tentative conclusion is that there are emulation methods which achieve useful prediction accuracy while providing a level of confidentiality adequate for many applications.

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186

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1681739585

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9781681739588

Haeckel's Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

By: Nick Hopwood

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Haeckel's Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

By: Nick Hopwood

Emphasizing the changes worked by circulation and copying, interpretation and debate, this book uses the case to explore how pictures succeed and fail, gain acceptance and spark controversy. It reveals how embryonic development was made a process that we can see, compare, and discuss, and how copying - usually dismissed as unoriginal

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University of Chicago Press

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022604694X

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9780226046945

The Annotated Abbott and Costello

A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films

By: Matthew Coniam,Nick Santa Maria

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The Annotated Abbott and Costello

A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films

By: Matthew Coniam,Nick Santa Maria

Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television. Oddly, their films have not received the same level of attention from critics and writers as those of other comedy teams. This book is a scene-by-scene, film-by-film guide to their movies, making a compelling case for their inclusion at the very top of comic artists. Featuring new research and some surprising revelations, the book introduces newcomers to the delights of this uproarious team and provides confirmed fans with the ultimate companion to their work. Also included is a foreword by John Landis, the celebrated director and Abbott and Costello devotee.

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McFarland

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1476682445

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9781476682440

Texas High School Football

More Than the Game

By: Joe Nick Patoski

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Texas High School Football

More Than the Game

By: Joe Nick Patoski

Texas High School Football: More Than the Game celebrates high school football and the profound role it plays in contemporary Texas culture as well as Texas's mythology. In this compelling volume by writer Joe Nick Patoski, the epic history of the sport is illustrated through an all-star cast of legendary players and coaches, cheerleaders and drill teams, marching bands and twirlers, mascots and die-hard fanatics. Filled with the visual pomp and spectacle of the autumn ritual, Texas High School Football digs beyond the stats to look deeper into the sport and explore its significance as the common denominator that connects individuals and creates community throughout the state, from tiny Six Man rural schools to 5A suburban giants. Using the uniforms, equipment, and ephemera of the game, from Drew Brees's football jersey to a vintage photograph of Don Meredith escorting his high school homecoming queen, Patoski poignantly weaves an engaging visual chronicle of the pageantry engrained in the souls of Texans in every corner of the state. A cavalcade of helmets, championship rings, spirit ribbons, and homecoming mums contribute to this powerful story of high school football in Texas, where supporting the local team is a passion and a responsibility. Iconic high school football images by photographers Geoff Winningham, Laura Wilson, Jeff Wilson, and Bill Kennedy are an extra bonus in this extravagantly illustrated high school football compendium. Texas High School Football is a true game changer—you'll never look at high school football the same way again.

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100

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Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

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0292738870

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9780292738874

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

By: Nick Lantz

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The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

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The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

Climb High Rocks State Park

Climb High Rocks State Park

Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

Competing with Idiots

Competing with Idiots

GoPro

GoPro

The Spirit of Pan Passion Amore Nature

The Spirit of Pan Passion Amore Nature

Raised by the Stars

Raised by the Stars

The End of Philosophy of Religion

The End of Philosophy of Religion

The Coliform Index and Waterborne Disease

The Coliform Index and Waterborne Disease

Gruesome Unsolved Murders - Shocking Crimes Never Solved

Gruesome Unsolved Murders - Shocking Crimes Never Solved

Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections

Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections

Haeckel's Embryos

Haeckel's Embryos

The Annotated Abbott and Costello

The Annotated Abbott and Costello

Texas High School Football

Texas High School Football

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

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