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The War with Grandma

By: Robert Kimmel Smith,Ann Dee Ellis

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Don't miss the laugh-out-loud companion to the classic, The War with Grandpa--now a major motion picture--about a girl who must face off against her grandma or risk losing the biggest competition of summer. Meg is excited when she hears the Centennial Strawberry Days Celebration is holding a competition for kids. The winner will be crowned the official Strawberry Days Ambassador and get a pair of electric bikes! Meg knows with Dad as her partner, there's no way she can lose. But Meg's strawberry dreams turn sour when Dad can't participate and, worse, he's already invited Grandma Sally to replace him. Without even asking Meg! Grandma likes to play by her own rules and Meg realizes her chances at winning are at an all-time low. For Meg this means war! Only, Grandma is tougher than she looks and willing to give as good as she gets. As the competition begins, it becomes clear that Meg's summer will have the most epic showdown ever.

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Delacorte Press

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0593127471

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9780593127476

Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

By: Robert Kirk Headley

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Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

By: Robert Kirk Headley

Richmond County wills are extant only from 1699, but the compiler of this useful work has bridged the gap by substituting information from Order Books, 1692-1699, thereby extending the possibilities for genealogical enquiry. The entries, which consist mainly of abstracts of wills and inventories and refer to about 8,000 persons, are arranged throughout the work in chronological order.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806310219

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9780806310213

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology

By: Robert Hunt

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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology

By: Robert Hunt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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886

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382816849

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9783382816841

Writing the Colonial Adventure

Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914

By: Robert Dixon

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Writing the Colonial Adventure

Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914

By: Robert Dixon

This book explores imperial ideology through the narrative themes of popular texts.

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246

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Cambridge University Press

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0521484391

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9780521484398

Fermented Spirits

By: Robert Adams

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Fermented Spirits

By: Robert Adams

Stevie Monroe and John Beverage have been friends since childhood. They are now settled in the Gorbals, a Glasgow slum. Stevie is elated when his French wife, Camile, becomes pregnant with their one and only son. John Beverage and his wife, Caroline, already have two sons. The last thing they need is yet another mouth to feed. It’s 1902, the working classes are suffering from extreme poverty and exploitation. Men line the docks in droves on a daily basis looking for work. Even when you have a trade, as Stevie and John do, work is extremely dangerous. Drunkenness is a perennial cause of casual cruelty. Boot-legging is rife. John sets up a family distillery for some extra cash to survive, but turns more and more towards the drink himself, dishing out back-handers to his family. Stevie, meanwhile, lives his life as a shipbuilding sheet metal worker – a friend, a husband, a father, and a man with a deviance that has to be kept secret at all costs. Deviant sexual practices are abhorred, resulting in life imprisonment, suicide and murder. For homosexual men, especially those from the working classes, Britain is in the dark ages. Navigating this world leads Stevie to a life wrought with worry, confusion, murder and love.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398437166

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9781398437166

Walking Chicago

35 Tours of the Windy City's Dynamic Neighborhoods and Famous Lakeshore

By: Robert Loerzel

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Walking Chicago

35 Tours of the Windy City's Dynamic Neighborhoods and Famous Lakeshore

By: Robert Loerzel

Get to Know the Illinois City’s Most Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods Grab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer. Chicagophile Robert Loerzel leads you on 35 unique walking tours in this comprehensive guidebook. Go beyond the obvious with self-guided tours through one of the nation’s most walkable cities, which is equal parts glamour and grit. Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods represent a melting pot—from Little Italy to Greektown, Pilsen to Ukrainian Village. With this guide in hand, you’ll soak up history, political gossip, and architectural trivia. Find ethnic culture in Andersonville or high culture at the Art Institute. Listen to the blues on the South Side, or catch a ballgame on the North Side. Marvel at the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in Oak Park or at nature’s masterpiece along Lake Michigan. There are tips on the best cafes, bars, and night spots. With humorous anecdotes, surprising stories, and fun facts to share with others, this guidebook has it all. Book Features 35 self-guided tours through the Windy City More than 20 miles of stunning shoreline along Lake Michigan Fun facts and unknown stories to share with others Whether you’re looking for a walk on the beach or a slice of deep dish pizza, Walking Chicago will get you there. So find a route that appeals to you, and walk Chicago!

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Wilderness Press

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0899976980

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9780899976983

Gear Up, Mishaps Down

The Evolution of Naval Aviation Safety, 1950-2000

By: Robert F Dunn

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Gear Up, Mishaps Down

The Evolution of Naval Aviation Safety, 1950-2000

By: Robert F Dunn

Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble. The force had been drastically reduced and, despite the Korean War, growing sentiment supported by no less than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs argued that the new Air Force could do anything naval aviation might be required to do. Meanwhile, the naval aviation mishap rate soared. The very survival of naval aviation was at stake. It took fifty years to turn this around. Today, in spite of hot wars, cold wars, contingencies, and peacetime operations in support of friends and allies, the Navy and Marine Corps accident rate is at least as good as that of the Air Force, and it approaches that of commercial aviation. Gear Up, Mishaps Down explains that this accomplishment was achieved through dedicated and professional leadership, a focus on lessons learned from mishaps and near-mishaps, a willingness to learn from other enterprises, and by better leadership, training, maintenance, supply and more.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682470229

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9781682470220

Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding

Regular and EXIT-Chart-Aided Irregular Designs

By: Lajos Hanzo,Robert G. Maunder,Jin Wang,Lie-Liang Yang

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Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding

Regular and EXIT-Chart-Aided Irregular Designs

By: Lajos Hanzo,Robert G. Maunder,Jin Wang,Lie-Liang Yang

Recent developments such as the invention of powerful turbo-decoding and irregular designs, together with the increase in the number of potential applications to multimedia signal compression, have increased the importance of variable length coding (VLC). Providing insights into the very latest research, the authors examine the design of diverse near-capacity VLC codes in the context of wireless telecommunications. The book commences with an introduction to Information Theory, followed by a discussion of Regular as well as Irregular Variable Length Coding and their applications in joint source and channel coding. Near-capacity designs are created using Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart analysis. The latest techniques are discussed, outlining radical concepts such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) aided construction of diverse VLC codes. The book concludes with two chapters on VLC-based space-time transceivers as well as on frequency-hopping assisted schemes, followed by suggestions for future work on the topic. Surveys the historic evolution and development of VLCs Discusses the very latest research into VLC codes Introduces the novel concept of Irregular VLCs and their application in joint-source and channel coding

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119957311

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9781119957317

Entropy and Information Theory

By: Robert M. Gray

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Entropy and Information Theory

By: Robert M. Gray

This book is devoted to the theory of probabilistic information measures and their application to coding theorems for information sources and noisy channels. The eventual goal is a general development of Shannon's mathematical theory of communication, but much of the space is devoted to the tools and methods required to prove the Shannon coding theorems. These tools form an area common to ergodic theory and information theory and comprise several quantitative notions of the information in random variables, random processes, and dynamical systems. Examples are entropy, mutual information, conditional entropy, conditional information, and discrimination or relative entropy, along with the limiting normalized versions of these quantities such as entropy rate and information rate. Much of the book is concerned with their properties, especially the long term asymptotic behavior of sample information and expected information. This is the only up-to-date treatment of traditional information theory emphasizing ergodic theory.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475739826

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The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews,Rough Guides

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The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews,Rough Guides

The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset is the definitive, full-color guide to this alluring region, illustrated throughout with striking photographs and packed with insightful information on everything from Beau Nash to Banksy, and from state-of-the-art spas to walking in the Mendips. Clear maps help you explore cosmopolitan Bristol and historic Bath, the Georgian city par excellence, while detailed descriptions of the best accommodations, restaurants, pubs, and clubs give the inside track on exactly where to eat, drink, and be merry. From the iconic cities of Wells and Glastonbury to the dramatic landscapes of Exmoor and the Levels, Somerset is covered in unparalleled detail, along with popular destinations just across the border in Wiltshire, such as Lacock, Longleat, and the unforgettable and mysterious ancient site of Stonehenge.

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Penguin

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1405393815

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Working-Class Utopias

A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City

By: Robert M. Fogelson

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Working-Class Utopias

A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City

By: Robert M. Fogelson

One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691237956

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9780691237954

Tough-Minded Faith for Tender-Hearted People

By: Robert Schuller

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Tough-Minded Faith for Tender-Hearted People

By: Robert Schuller

366 motivational messages that make every year a leap year—A leap from self-doubt to self-fulfillment! Turn any day of the year into a turning point in your life. Dr. Robert H. Schuller, America’s foremost proponent of “positive thinking” and bestselling author of Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!, here presents a day-by-day devotional guide designed to release your inner health, energy, and power to make the impossible possible. What is tough minded faith? • Sensing success in dark times • Prioritizing your possibilities • Coming back after defeat • Adventuring into new territories • Facing the future unafraid • Trading off anxiety for peace • Standing up for your convictions • Assuring yourself of success . . . And much more! 366 steps in all move and inspire you to turn every negative into a positive, and to make every day the best day of your life. Make the turn to tough-minded faith . . . and make the leap to super-successful living. Your life will never be the same.

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Bantam

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0553247042

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9780553247046

Lives Out of Letters

Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth

By: Robert N. Hudspeth

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Lives Out of Letters

Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth

By: Robert N. Hudspeth

Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, artention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. Dedicated to Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of the Letters of Margaret Fuller and the Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, the eleven essays in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640052

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The War with Grandma

The War with Grandma

Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology

Writing the Colonial Adventure

Writing the Colonial Adventure

Fermented Spirits

Fermented Spirits

Walking Chicago

Walking Chicago

Gear Up, Mishaps Down

Gear Up, Mishaps Down

Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding

Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding

Entropy and Information Theory

Entropy and Information Theory

The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

Working-Class Utopias

Working-Class Utopias

Tough-Minded Faith for Tender-Hearted People

Tough-Minded Faith for Tender-Hearted People

Lives Out of Letters

Lives Out of Letters

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