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World by Land

A fascinating trip around the world by car

By: Roy Rudnick,Michelle Francine Weiss

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World by Land

A fascinating trip around the world by car

By: Roy Rudnick,Michelle Francine Weiss

The book "World by Land - A fascinating trip around the world by car", tells the story about a journey of a Brazilian couple (Roy and Michelle) who made a round-the-world trip by car crossing 5 continents, 60 countries, and 160,733km in 1,033 days. This narrative describes in detail subjects related to the trip, such as making the decision, changes in their lives, planning the trip, cultural differences encountered, curious passages and moments, a description of how it was living in 4 square meters of space, the couple's relationship (24 hours a day for almost three years), dealing with bureaucracies, friendships made, mechanical problems, a woman's life in the Islamic world, communication challenges, and other highly unique stories of great interest. The stories follow the itinerary and are transmitted in a simple, light and engaging way to read. It is a book that reads and feels like a conversation among friends, between the reader and the travelers!

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Mundo Por Terra

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1939614716

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9781939614711

Dispatches Volume One

What Men Don't Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

By: Roy Blount

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Dispatches Volume One

What Men Don't Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

By: Roy Blount

Laugh-out-loud observations from “America’s foremost humorist” (Chicago Tribune). What Men Don’t Tell Women: Well, that’s just for starters. Roy Blount Jr. realized that nearly all of his writing involved things people don’t tell people: what Southerners don’t tell Northerners, what the sick don’t want to hear from the well, what no one would ever tell their mother, and what authors rarely admit to their readers. That all changes in this “honest . . . funny” collection of confessional essays about sex, friendship, marriage, male bonding, female patience, and Elvis (The Boston Globe). One Fell Soup: A deliciously funny stew of reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, assorted grumblings, and verse about the absurdities of American life, death, fears, and ambition. Included in these fifty-nine easy pieces: the truth (as Blount sees it) about nudism, cricket-fighting, bowling, macaroni and cheese, black holes and black socks, nuclear holocausts, the CIA, domesticated fowl, pork bellies, God, and more. The whole shebang from “one of the most clever (see sly, witty, cunning, nimble) wordsmiths cavorting in the English language” (Carl Hiaasen). Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard: Flesh-eating piranha! Synchronized swimming! Rubber chickens! Edith Wharton! Crossword puzzles! All and then some in this giddy compendium of essays, celebrity profiles, silly games, and side trips. Parts sports journalism, literary criticism, travel writing, and aborted novel, tossed with a few poems and a neo-Biblical one-act play, this is an uproarious—and sometimes heartening—anthology of adventures from “one writer who never fails to please” (The Village Voice).

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Open Road Media

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1504056035

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9781504056038

Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

By: Roy Blount

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Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

By: Roy Blount

DIVDIVAn eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writing/divDIV I’ll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: “What in the world is that?” And then, after a while, “Yet it seems to fit together some way.”/divDIV In this laugh-a-minute assortment of essays, travel writing, poems, and even the occasional crossword puzzle, Roy Blount Jr. covers sixty-four different subjects, all unified by his trademark humor. “Tan” is a personal essay about Blount’s lifelong battle with—sometimes for and sometimes against—that elusive summer glow. “Wild Fish Ripped My Flesh” chronicles his misadventures navigating the Amazon River. And “Lit Demystified Quickly” is a tongue-in-cheek poem about larger-than-life literary figures such as James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Walt Whitman./divDIV Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard is a classic compendium of the wisecracks and wisdom for which Blount is renowned./divDIV/div/div

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Open Road Media

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1480457752

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9781480457751

Marine Geochemistry

By: Roy Chester,Tim D. Jickells

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Marine Geochemistry

By: Roy Chester,Tim D. Jickells

Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as ‘a standard text for years to come.’ This third edition of Marine Geochemistry has been written at a time when the role of the oceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly apparent. Following the successful format adopted previously, this new edition treats the oceans as a unified entity, and addresses the question ‘how do the oceans work as a chemical system?’ To address this question, the text has been updated to cover recent advances in our understanding of topics such as the carbon chemistry of the oceans, nutrient cycling and its effect on marine chemistry, the acidification of sea water, and the role of the oceans in climate change. In addition, the importance of shelf seas in oceanic cycles has been re-evaluated in the light of new research. Marine Geochemistry offers both undergraduate and graduate students and research workers an integrated approach to one of the most important reservoirs in the Earth System. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/chester/marinegeochemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118349091

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9781118349090

Relativistic Cosmology

By: George F. R. Ellis,Roy Maartens,Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

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Relativistic Cosmology

By: George F. R. Ellis,Roy Maartens,Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

Cosmology has been transformed by dramatic progress in high-precision observations and theoretical modelling. This book surveys key developments and open issues for graduate students and researchers. Using a relativistic geometric approach, it focuses on the general concepts and relations that underpin the standard model of the Universe. Part I covers foundations of relativistic cosmology whilst Part II develops the dynamical and observational relations for all models of the Universe based on general relativity. Part III focuses on the standard model of cosmology, including inflation, dark matter, dark energy, perturbation theory, the cosmic microwave background, structure formation and gravitational lensing. It also examines modified gravity and inhomogeneity as possible alternatives to dark energy. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous models are described in Part IV, and Part V reviews deeper issues, such as quantum cosmology, the start of the universe and the multiverse proposal. Colour versions of some figures are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521381154.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139642952

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9781139642958

Soft Computing Techniques for Engineering Optimization

By: Kaushik Kumar,Supriyo Roy,J. Paulo Davim

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Soft Computing Techniques for Engineering Optimization

By: Kaushik Kumar,Supriyo Roy,J. Paulo Davim

This book covers the issues related to optimization of engineering and management problems using soft computing techniques with an industrial outlook. It covers a broad area related to real life complex decision making problems using a heuristics approach. It also explores a wide perspective and future directions in industrial engineering research on a global platform/scenario. The book highlights the concept of optimization, presents various soft computing techniques, offers sample problems, and discusses related software programs complete with illustrations. Features Explains the concept of optimization and relevance to soft computing techniques towards optimal solution in engineering and management Presents various soft computing techniques Offers problems and their optimization using various soft computing techniques Discusses related software programs, with illustrations Provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to handle relevant software for obtaining the optimal solution to various engineering problems

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CRC Press

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0429620748

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9780429620744

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

Based on a True Story

By: Jennifer Rozines Roy,Ali Fadhil

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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

Based on a True Story

By: Jennifer Rozines Roy,Ali Fadhil

For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054478507X

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9780544785076

Varieties of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups

By: Alexander Lubotzky,Andy R. Magid,Andy Roy Magid

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Varieties of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups

By: Alexander Lubotzky,Andy R. Magid,Andy Roy Magid

The n-dimensional representations, over an algebraically closed characteristic zero field k, of a finitely generated group are parameterized by an affine algebraic variety over k. The tangent spaces of this variety are subspaces of spaces of one-cocycles and thus the geometry of the variety is locally related to the cohomology of the group. The cohomology is also related to the prounipotent radical of the proalgebraic hull of the group. This paper exploits these two relations to compute dimensions of representation varieties, especially for nilpotent groups and their generalizations. It also presents the foundations of the theory of representation varieties in an expository, self-contained manner.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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082182337X

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9780821823378

American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

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American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

Artistic vanguards plot new aesthetic movements, print controversial magazines, hold provocative art shows, and stage experimental theatrical and musical performances. These revolutionaries have often helped create America's countercultural movements, from the early romantics and bohemians to the beatniks and hippies. This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists' lifestyles have influenced, and at times transformed, American culture since the mid-nineteenth century. The work will introduce readers to these artists and rebels, making a careful distinction between the worlds of the high modern artist (salons and galleries) and the bohemian.

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McFarland

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078643709X

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9780786437092

Energy Economics

Markets, History and Policy

By: Roy L. Nersesian

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Energy Economics

Markets, History and Policy

By: Roy L. Nersesian

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up. Energy Economics covers the role of each fossil and renewable energy source in today’s world, providing the information and tools that will enable students to understand the finite nature of fossil fuels and the alternative solutions that are available. This textbook provides detailed examinations of key energy sources – both fossil fuels and renewables including oil, coal, solar, and wind power – and summarises how the current economics of energy evolved. Subsequent chapters explore issues around policy, technology and the possible future for each type of energy. In addition to this, readers are introduced to controversial topics including fracking and global warming in dedicated chapters on climate change and sustainability. Each chapter concludes with a series of tasks, providing example problems and projects in order to further explore the proposed issues. An accompanying companion website contains extensive additional material on the history of the major types of fuel as well as technical material relating to oil exploration, the development of solar power and historical environmental legislation. This textbook is an essential text for those who study energy economics, resource economics or energy policy.

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Routledge

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1317511875

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9781317511878

History of Oral History

Foundations and Methodology

By: Leslie Roy Ballard

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History of Oral History

Foundations and Methodology

By: Leslie Roy Ballard

Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field. The eminent contributors discuss the history and methodologies of a field that once was the domain of history scholars who were responding to trends within the academy, but which has increasingly become democratized and widely used outside the realm of historical research. This handbook will be both a traveling guide and essential touchstone for anyone fascinated by this dynamic and expanding discipline.

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Rowman Altamira

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075911384X

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9780759113848

Mundo por terra

Uma fascinante volta ao mundo de carro

By: Roy Rudnick,Michelle Francine Weiss

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Mundo por terra

Uma fascinante volta ao mundo de carro

By: Roy Rudnick,Michelle Francine Weiss

O livro Mundo por Terra – Uma fascinante volta ao mundo de carro, é um relato da viagem de um casal (Roy e Michelle) que fez uma volta ao mundo de carro, cruzando 5 continentes, 60 países, 160.733km, em 1.033 dias. Esta narrativa descreve com detalhes todos os assuntos relacionados a viagem, como a tomada da decisão, a grande mudança de vida, o planejamento, a viagem em si, as diferenças culturais dos povos, as passagens inéditas, a descrição de como foi viver em 4 metros quadrados, o relacionamento do casal (24 horas por dia durante quase 3 anos), como lidavam com as burocracias, as amizades, problemas mecânicos, o convívio feminino no mundo islâmico, a comunicação, enfim, todos assuntos de grande interesse e extremamente diferenciados. As histórias seguem o itinerário realizado e são traduzidas de uma forma simples, leve e gostosa de se ler. Mais parece uma conversa de amigos, entre o leitor e os viajantes!

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Mundo Por Terra

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8591288033

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9788591288038

Connecting

A Culture-sensitive Approach to Interpersonal Communication Competency

By: Roy M. Berko,Lawrence B. Rosenfeld,Larry A. Samovar

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Connecting

A Culture-sensitive Approach to Interpersonal Communication Competency

By: Roy M. Berko,Lawrence B. Rosenfeld,Larry A. Samovar

Using a competency-based approach, this text provides a complete overview of the research and theories of interpersonal communication. This integrated approach stresses the development of communication competencies, including skills, understanding of the theory and research that contextualize the skills and make them relevant to learning, and the motivation to put the skills into practice. The inclusion of intercultural and gender material throughout the text makes CONNECTING relevant to the students' daily communication.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0155032275

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9780155032279

World by Land

A fascinating trip around the world by car

By: Roy Rudnick,Michelle Francine Weiss

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A fascinating trip around the world by car

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

Two hundred photographs, many in full color, highlight an account of the life and career of the greatest of Hollywood's singing cowboys, told in Roy Rogers's own words, including stories of Dale Evans and his horse, Trigger. 15,000 first printing.

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Collins Pub San Francisco

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0002553341

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Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

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Marine Geochemistry

Marine Geochemistry

Relativistic Cosmology

Relativistic Cosmology

Soft Computing Techniques for Engineering Optimization

Soft Computing Techniques for Engineering Optimization

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

Varieties of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups

Varieties of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups

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History of Oral History

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