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Concession Street Secrets

By: Ralph F. Smith

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The year 1868 and it is a tough time to be intersex—and in love. Eliza Malkins, a printer at the Kingston British Whig newspaper, is secretly in love with reporter Alex O’Shea. Although they are best friends with a shared passion for many things, including the mystery novel Alex is writing, Eliza would never dare to voice her feelings for fear of being rejected due to her unique anatomical makeup. Their relationship takes an unexpected turn when, while on assignment in Ottawa, Alex encounters a vulnerable young woman who has escaped from confinement in her own house. The further he is drawn into the mysterious young woman’s world, the more compelled he feels to protect her from the dark forces that seem to be draining her life right before his eyes. Before he can enact his plan to rescue her, however, he finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery that seems like it came right out of one of the novels he enjoys, with one significant twist: he’s the primary suspect. Desperate to help her friend, Eliza sheds her identity as a woman and takes on the persona of Timothy Fairlight, detective. Her investigative skills are put to the ultimate test as she seeks to save her beloved from the hangman’s noose. Not only that, for the first time in her life, her identity as intersex becomes an asset rather than a liability.

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Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise

By: Ralph J. Roske

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Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise

By: Ralph J. Roske

“PROLOGUE THE SEARCH FOR GOOD WATER On November 7, 1829, a New Mexican trader named Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party on the first leg of what became a historic deviation from the Great Spanish Trail route to Los Angeles. That deviation resulted in the discovery of Las Vegas. By Christmas Day, Armijo’s caravan had crossed southern Utah and moved into the northwest corner of Arizona. The caravan camped near what is now Littlefield — a sleepy hamlet about 100 miles northeast of present Las Vegas. Armijo dispatched a reconnaissance party to look for a possible shortcut west, and to look for water. A member of the party was a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera. He decided to break away from the main party and head due west alone over unexplored desert.” Excerpt From: Ralph J. Roske. “Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise.” iBooks.

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Grand Lake Media. LLC

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0932986366

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Ballots and Blood

By: Ralph Reed

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Ballots and Blood

By: Ralph Reed

Noted conservative Ralph Reed's third novel finds an inextricable link between a family-friendly U.S. senator's murder in a dominatrix dungeon, foreign relations, and the American midterm election.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433669250

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2 Corinthians, Volume 40

Second Edition

By: Ralph P. Martin

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2 Corinthians, Volume 40

Second Edition

By: Ralph P. Martin

Pastors and students will appreciate this new edition with its up-to-date bibliography and discussion of pertinent issues. In this full revision and update of the book of Second Corinthians, Dr. Ralph P. Martin addresses the scholarly questions about the text of the epistle and the significance of Paul’s thought for Christian living and ministry. In a penetrating analysis of Paul’s responses to the various crises within the Corinthian congregation, Dr. Martin gives insight into the particular problems of Christianity as expressed in the hedonistic, cosmopolitan setting of Corinth. He shows how Paul’s attempt to clearly distinguish the gospel from Hellenistic Judaism and Hellenistic Jewish Christian ideology results in a moving statement of the Christian message. Rather than the “theology of glory” prevalent in Corinth, Paul articulates his theology of the Cross as a “theology of weakness,” of servanthood and ministry. What was at stake at Corinth, says Dr. Martin, was “nothing less than the essence of the kerygma as in expressed in the way of the cross. . . for proclamation and daily living.” New sections on the Collection and Rhetoric have been added, and the issues of Composition and Social Setting of the letter have been included, along with topics such as the Spirit, the Opponents, Paul's Theology, and the Resurrection in this epistle. The Word Biblical Commentary series offers the best in critical scholarship firmly committed to the authority of Scripture as divine revelation. It is perfect for scholars, students of the Bible, ministers, and anyone who wants a theological understanding of Scripture.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310586291

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 2

George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Gail Marshall,Corinna Russell

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 2

George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Gail Marshall,Corinna Russell

Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.

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Taylor & Francis

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Gunman's Pass

By: Ralph Cotton

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Gunman's Pass

By: Ralph Cotton

A keen judge of horseflesh takes a wild ride in this suspenseful new Western by USA Today bestselling author Ralph Cotton Two deputies fresh from a hard-won gunfight with the gang of notorious outlaw Dolan Coyle stroll into a saloon in the dusty little town of Broken Hat, inquiring after one Will Summers. The men are looking to swap out their exhausted horses, and they could use extra men, too. Just on the outskirts of town, Axel Coyle waits with the remnants of his brother’s crew, ready to shoot down the men who captured their leader. The deputies offer Summers a paid position in the posse escorting Dolan into federal custody. If they only knew how well acquainted the horse trader once was with the killer chained up out front, they might second-guess their proposal. Dolan had chosen a reckless trail for himself, like Summers and many others had done in their early years. Summers could not say exactly what had directed him off that trail before it managed to settle into his blood, but he’s grateful. He just doesn’t know if that resolution will hold now that his past has landed on him out of a clear blue sky… More than four million Ralph Cotton books in print!

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Summers' Horses

By: Ralph Cotton

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Summers' Horses

By: Ralph Cotton

In this intense Ralph Cotton western, bandits steal a man’s livelihood and ignite his need for vengeance. Known for the role he played in taking down the notorious Peltry gang, Will Summers is a horse trader with a reputation that will intimidate even the most lawless of men. But when the cold-blooded Bendigo brothers stumble on a chance opportunity to make off with Summers’ newly acquired horses, they act quickly and ruthlessly, leaving him unconscious and his companion Layla Brooks battered and blind. Summers has a history of tracking down wild animals, and the Bendigo brothers are no different. He’s ready to give them his own special brand and let them live long enough to feel the burn....

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1101516720

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

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0307797023

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On Global Learning

Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance

By: Jason Ralph

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On Global Learning

Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance

By: Jason Ralph

Offers a new theory of global learning to assess international society's capacities to deal with security, climate and health challenges.

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Cambridge University Press

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100938578X

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Genesis of the Big Bang

By: Ralph A. Alpher,Robert Herman

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Genesis of the Big Bang

By: Ralph A. Alpher,Robert Herman

The authors of this volume have been intimately connected with the conception of the Big Bang model since 1947. Following the late George Gamow's ideas in 1942 and more particularly in 1946 that the early universe was an appropriate site for the synthesis of the elements, they became deeply involved in the question of cosmic nucleosynthesis and particularly the synthesis of the light elements. In the course of this work they developed a general relativistic model of the expanding universe with physics folded in, which led in a progressive, logical sequence to our prediction of the existence of a present cosmic background radiation some seventeen years before the observation of such radiation was reported by Penzias and Wilson. In addition, they carried out with James W. Follin, Jr., a detailed study of the physics of what was then considered to be the very early universe, starting a few seconds after the Big Bang, which still provides a methodology for studies of light element nucleosynthesis. Because of their involvement, they bring a personal perspective to the subject. They present a picture of what is now believed to be the state of knowledge about the evolution of the expanding universe and delineate the story of the development of the Big Bang model as they have seen and lived it from their own unique vantage point.

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Oxford University Press

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0190283211

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Polymeric Thermosetting Compounds

Innovative Aspects of Their Formulation Technology

By: Ralph D. Hermansen

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Polymeric Thermosetting Compounds

Innovative Aspects of Their Formulation Technology

By: Ralph D. Hermansen

Engineering design teams sometimes have need of a material that may not exist because the combination of required properties is difficult to achieve. One solution is to develop a new material having the required set of properties needed in the application. During the author's 40-year career he has successfully worked on many such problems. The uniquely useful and valuable book, Polymeric Thermosetting Compounds: Innovative Aspects of Their Formulation Technology, presents twenty of those design problems and the solutions, which resulted in patents and spin-off applications. Author Ralph Hermansen, with years of experience of hands-on experience, is an expert in formulating epoxies, polyurethanes, and other polymers into compounds that have unique properties, and here he shares his knowledge and experience of attaining novel solutions to very challenging problems. He covers polymeric compounds such as coatings, adhesives, encapsulants, transparent plastics, and others. Chapters describe the design problem and define which key properties are sought in the new material. The author shares his thinking about how to approach the formulating problem and describes the experimental procedures used to eventually solve the problem. Patent information is shared as well. Once a new family of polymeric compounds is developed, that technology can be used to attack new unsolved materials problems, or "spin-offs," and real-life examples are provided to help readers see new applications of the technologies described in the earlier chapters. The book will be of interest to a diverse group of people. Industry professionals already in the business of selling specialty compounds may be able to add new products to their catalogs with little research cost or time by using the information in the book. Formulators, trying to develop a new compound to challenging requirements, may gain insight into how to make a breakthrough. The information in the book will be very valuable to companies needing these novel solutions. And younger people wondering what a career in materials science would be like get a first-hand commentary from someone who has done it.

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CRC Press

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131534226X

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Where Have the Old Words Got Me?

Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems

By: Ralph Maud

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Where Have the Old Words Got Me?

Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems

By: Ralph Maud

Although Dylan Thomas is the one of the most well-known poets of the twentieth century, much of his poetry is considered obscure and difficult, and readers and critics tend to concentrate on those poems that can be most easily understood. Not since the early sixties has there been an attempt to explicate the full corpus of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems. In Where Have the Old Words Got Me? Ralph Maud tackles Thomas's entire work, giving special attention to more difficult and obscure poems. He makes valuable use of Thomas's letters as edited by Paul Ferris in his authoritative Collected Letters volume, bringing the whole man and his work into view.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773570489

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Ralph Compton Vengeance Rider

By: Joseph A. West,Ralph Compton

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Ralph Compton Vengeance Rider

By: Joseph A. West,Ralph Compton

Saddle up with legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday in this Ralph Compton western. Buck Fletcher plans to race his horse for a $10,000 prize—money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed, and his daughter’s last hope with it. Though it’s been ten years since Buck slapped leather and traded lead with the badmen of the frontier, he’s quick to fasten on his gun belt again for the chase. The thieves are led by Port Austin, a man who fears no retribution for the lives he takes—not with a ruthless band of brothers guarding his back. But Buck is not alone either. Doc Holliday, a legend of loyalty and ferocity, rides beside him, eager to help on a mission of vengeance—and a quest to save a little girl’s life.... More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books in Print!

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0698185056

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Saving the Corporate Board

Why Boards Fail and How to Fix Them

By: Ralph D. Ward

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Saving the Corporate Board

Why Boards Fail and How to Fix Them

By: Ralph D. Ward

Ward reveals ten specific failings that are built into our boardroom model and provides real-world fixes to get boards back on track. Ward mixes tart, insightful analogies (what do boards have in common with volunteer fire departments, the U.S. electoral college . . . and Howard Hughes?) with proven nuts-and-bolts advice for putting any board back on track. Order your copy today!

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471453722

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9780471453727

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

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Modern Library

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0593730070

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The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Ralph Morris Goldman

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The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Ralph Morris Goldman

This study traces the history of the national committee chairmenships of the two major political parties in America. It emphasizes the national conventions and presidential campaigns, examining candidate and ideological factionalism.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873326369

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W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman

Photographs of a Bygone Time

By: Ralph E. Lentz II

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W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman

Photographs of a Bygone Time

By: Ralph E. Lentz II

W.R. Trivett (1884-1966), a farmer born in Watauga County, North Carolina, was also a self-taught professional photographer who left behind an invaluable collection of more than 400 glass plate negatives taken between 1907 and the late 1940s in the Beech Mountain community of neighboring Avery County. Along with the photographs (105 are reproduced herein), a collection of Trivett's personal papers survive, revealing very enlightening information about his life in the mountains. This work--the fourth in McFarland's continuing series of Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies--carefully examines Trivett's life and photographs, comparing his work to that of contemporary outside photographers who often produced stereotypical images of mountain people. Through Trivett's images we can, by contrast, see the everyday reality for most people in rural Appalachia.

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0786409274

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Master Players in a Fixed Game

An Extra-Literary History of Twentieth Century African-American Authors

By: Ralph D. Story

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Master Players in a Fixed Game

An Extra-Literary History of Twentieth Century African-American Authors

By: Ralph D. Story

The literary expression of Afro-Americans has been scrutinized and criticized in exhaustive detail, yet historically perceived by many American and English literary scholars are qualitatively and quantitatively underdeveloped. This was the view held by many literary scholars until the late 1960s when Afro-American literary scholars and black students argued forcefully and convincingly in favor of the plays, short stories, poetry and novels written by Afro-Americans. Despite such noteworthy efforts, however, few scholars have investigated the uneven and sporadic appearance of publications, or the absence of publications, by black writers in any comprehensive fashion. Thus, the dissertation examines the various extra-literary problems faced by Afro-American writers which have contributed to either many--or few--of their works emerging in print in any era.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581121229

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Guns of Wolf Valley

By: Ralph Cotton

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Guns of Wolf Valley

By: Ralph Cotton

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

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1101650982

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A Killing in Gold

By: Ralph Cotton

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A Killing in Gold

By: Ralph Cotton

An all-new Western adventure featuring Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack, from bestselling author Ralph Cotton. Back on the trail of the infamous Arizona Cowboy Gang, Ranger Burrack rides with Cherokee lawman Dan'l Thorn into Mexico, where the Cowboys have stolen $200,000 in gold by blowing up the safe of a bank in Ciudad Esplanade. The lawmen are there to locate and arrest a pair of twin outlaws by the name of Smith who are hiding out in Mexico, but they get sidetracked hunting for the stolen loot. They figure it should be easy; trouble is they aren’t the only ones on the gold’s trail. A competing gang has stolen the loot from the Cowboys, a beautiful lady detective will stop at nothing to earn the reward for recovering the booty, and the Smith brothers have their own connection to the missing gold—and they’re rumored to be cannibals! Along with their sidekick, on-again off-again Cowboy Roman Lee Ellison, Sam and Dan’l traverse the high desert dodging bullets and hoping to survive long enough to find the gold that has already cost so many lives.... More than four million Ralph Cotton books in print!

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0593437756

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Mathematics of Surfaces XIII

13th IMA International Conference York, UK, September 7-9, 2009 Proceedings

By: Edwin R. Hancock,Ralph R. Martin,Malcolm A. Sabin

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Mathematics of Surfaces XIII

13th IMA International Conference York, UK, September 7-9, 2009 Proceedings

By: Edwin R. Hancock,Ralph R. Martin,Malcolm A. Sabin

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IMA International Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces held in York, UK in September 2009. The papers in the present volume include seven invited papers, as well as 16 submitted papers. The topics covered include subdivision schemes and their continuity, polar patchworks, compressive algorithms for PDEs, surface invariant functions, swept volume parameterization, Willmore flow, computational conformal geometry, heat kernel embeddings, and self-organizing maps on manifolds, mesh and manifold construction, editing, flattening, morphing and interrogation, dissection of planar shapes, symmetry processing, morphable models, computation of isophotes, point membership classification and vertex blends. Surface types considered encompass polygon meshes as well as parametric and implicit surfaces.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642035957

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Space Systems Failures

Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes

By: David M. Harland,Ralph Lorenz

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Space Systems Failures

Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes

By: David M. Harland,Ralph Lorenz

The very first book on space systems failures written from an engineering perspective. Focuses on the causes of the failures and discusses how the engineering knowledge base has been enhanced by the lessons learned. Discusses non-fatal anomalies which do not affect the ultimate success of a mission, but which are failures nevertheless. Describes engineering aspects of the spacecraft, making this a valuable complementary reference work to conventional engineering texts.

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038727961X

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The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

V. 1. 1813-1835 -- v. 2. 1836-1841 -- v. 3. 1842-1847 -- v. 4. 1848-1855 -- v. 5. 1856-1867 -- v. 6. 1868-1881 -- v. 7. 1807-1844 -- v. 8. 1845-1859. -- v. 9. 1860-1869. -- v. 10. 1870-1881, and an index of proper names for volumes seven to ten.

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023110183X

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