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Fundamentals of Machine Elements

SI Version

By: Steven R. Schmid,Bernard J. Hamrock,Bo. O. Jacobson

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Fundamentals of Machine Elements

SI Version

By: Steven R. Schmid,Bernard J. Hamrock,Bo. O. Jacobson

New and Improved SI Edition-Uses SI Units Exclusively in the TextAdapting to the changing nature of the engineering profession, this third edition of Fundamentals of Machine Elements aggressively delves into the fundamentals and design of machine elements with an SI version. This latest edition includes a plethora of pedagogy, providing a greater u

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Monitoring Rocky Shores

By: Steven N. Murray,Richard Ambrose,Megan N. Dethier

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Monitoring Rocky Shores

By: Steven N. Murray,Richard Ambrose,Megan N. Dethier

“Intertidal ecologists have been struggling with how to adequately monitor the tremendous diversity and heterogeneity of rocky shores for decades. Finally three of the most experienced and established people in the field have done it. Monitoring Rocky Shores will serve as THE central reference guide for scientists intent on understanding the complexities of intertidal ecology.”—John Pearse, coauthor of Animals Without Backbones “The incredibly high taxic, morphological, ecological, as well as biotic diversity of rocky shores makes them ideal sites for ecological studies; however this same diversity also presents innumerable challenges. Monitoring Rocky Shores is long overdue in helping investigators tackle these innumerable challenges. This book provides a broad and important introduction to the habitat, the animals, the methods, and the analyses required constructing informed hypotheses and scenarios for life on rocky shores.”—David R. Lindberg, Museum of Paleontology, co-editor of Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca

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Univ of California Press

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0520247280

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PPI ARE 5.0 Exam Review All Six Divisions, 2nd Edition eText - 3 Months, 6 Months, 1 Year

By: David Kent Ballast,Steven E. O'Hara

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PPI ARE 5.0 Exam Review All Six Divisions, 2nd Edition eText - 3 Months, 6 Months, 1 Year

By: David Kent Ballast,Steven E. O'Hara

NCARB Approved for all Six Divisions PPI's second edition of the ARE 5.0 Exam Review by David Kent Ballast offers a comprehensive review of content areas covered in all six NCARB ARE 5.0 division exams. Building on the first edition, the content has been thoroughly reviewed and updated to the ARE 5.0 exam objectives for all six divisions Key Features: NEW! NCARB approvals on all six divisions A thorough review of all exam objectives to prepare you to pass all six divisions Over 150 example questions reinforce what you’ve learned and clarify how to apply key architectural concepts Pages tabbed in six different colors, one for each division, for easy lookup of a particular exam division Hundreds of tables and figures to facilitate referencing and problem solving Advice, tips, and exam taking strategies to prepare you for exam day Binding: Paperback Publisher: PPI, a Kaplan Company All Six ARE 5.0 Exam Divisions Covered Comprehensively Practice Management Project Management Programming & Analysis Project Planning & Design Project Development & Documentation Construction & Evaluation

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Simon and Schuster

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1591266815

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Electrotechnology Practice

By: Jeffery Hampson,Steven Hanssen

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Electrotechnology Practice

By: Jeffery Hampson,Steven Hanssen

Electrotechnology Practice is a practical text that accompanies Hampson/Hanssen’s theoretical Electrical Trade Principles. It covers essential units of competencies in the two key qualifications in the UEE Electrotechnology Training Package: - Certificate II in Electrotechnology (Career Start) - Certificate III in Electrotechnology Electrician Aligned with the latest Australian and New Zealand standards, the text references the Wiring Rules (AS/NZS 3000:2018) and follows the uniform structure and system of delivery as recommended by the nationally accredited vocational education and training authorities. More than 1000 illustrations convey to the learner various concepts and real-world aspects of electrical practices, a range of fully worked examples and review questions support student learning, while assessment-style worksheets support the volume of assessment. Electrotechnology Practice has strong coverage of the electives for Cert II and Cert III, preparing students to eligibly sit for the Capstone Assessment or the Licenced Electrician’s Assessment (LEA). as a mandatory requirement to earn an Electrician’s Licence. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform.

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Cengage AU

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0170412229

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Structural Design for the Stage

By: Alys Holden,Bronislaw Sammler,Bradley Powers,Steven Schmidt

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Structural Design for the Stage

By: Alys Holden,Bronislaw Sammler,Bradley Powers,Steven Schmidt

The follow-up to the 2000 Golden Pen Award-winning Structural Design for the Stage, this second edition provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design, allowing an intuitive understanding of "why sets stand up." It introduces the basics of statics and the study of the strength of materials as they apply to typical scenery, emphasizing conservative approaches to real world examples. This is an invaluable reference for any serious theatre technician throughout their career, from the initial study of the fundamental concepts, to the day-to-day use of the techniques and reference materials. Now in hardcover, with nearly 200 new pages of content, it has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest recommended practices of the lumber and steel industries, while also including aluminum design for the first time.

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CRC Press

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1317451104

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Design Guide to the 1997 Uniform Building Code

By: Richard T. Conrad,Steven R. Winkel

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Design Guide to the 1997 Uniform Building Code

By: Richard T. Conrad,Steven R. Winkel

The Uniform Building Code (UBC), updated every three years, is the most widely used model building code in the United States. This book is a guide to understanding and implementing the new 1997 UBC, with particular emphasis to changes that have been adopted since the 1994 UBC guidelines.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471236411

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Pale Designs

A Poisoner's Handbook

By: Steven Creech,Kevin Ruesch

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Pale Designs

A Poisoner's Handbook

By: Steven Creech,Kevin Ruesch

A book of poisons for the d20 game.

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Bastion Press, Inc.

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0971439281

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The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know

Studies in Organizational Theory and Behavior

By: Richard Ritti

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The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know

Studies in Organizational Theory and Behavior

By: Richard Ritti

Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage

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SAGE Publications

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Skullcap

By: Steven Burgauer

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Skullcap

By: Steven Burgauer

SKULLCAP . . . . indispensable tech or crippling nightmare? . . . . vital appendage or drug-like crutch? REJUVENATION . . . . gateway to eternal life or doorway to never-ending bondage? . . . . game-changing advance or shackle forged from hardened steel? SLAVE CAMP #5, DOMTAR PROVINCE, VENUS . . . . final resting place for an expendable drone or launchpad to a new horizon? ESCAPE TO FREEDOM . . . . impossible dream or the only true reality? Three planets, three lifetimes. A boy, a man, a slave. What begins with a future constricted by mind-numbing tentacles ends in a faraway dungeon walled-in by a barrier of writhing jungle. Tech that might have been a source of incalculable power becomes instead a tool that suffocates personal freedom.

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iUniverse

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1491761814

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Brake Repair: How to Diagnose, Fix, or Replace Your Car's Brakes: Step-By-Step

By: Steven Cartwright

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Brake Repair: How to Diagnose, Fix, or Replace Your Car's Brakes: Step-By-Step

By: Steven Cartwright

Save time and hundreds of dollars by learning how to repair and overhaul your car’s brakes. There are many automotive tasks that are best left to qualified and certified professionals when considering repairing your automobile. There are also many tasks that can be tackled by the weekend do-it-yourselfer with a decent level of instruction. While just about any system repair or overhaul on more modern cars has gotten more complex over time, brake diagnosis and repair is still well within reach for the home mechanic with a reasonable set of hand tools. In Brake Repair: How to Diagnose, Fix, or Replace Your Car's Brakes: Step-By-Step, ASE technician and professional instructor Steven Cartwright takes you through the entire process of servicing your car’s brakes to like-new condition. Ten informative chapters cover everything you will need to know, including chapters on brake history, an overview of function, types of brakes, power assist, troubleshooting, electronic controls such as ABS, and finally, a complete chapter showing you how to do an entire brake job in step-by-step color photos. With traditional dealership labor rates hovering around $125 per hour these days, it is easy for a standard four-wheel disc brake job to cost close to $1,000 when all is said and done. With the help of this book, you will be able to competently and confidently complete the task in similar fashion for less than half the cost, paying for this book many times over the very first time you use it. Add this valuable tool to your library today.

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CarTech Inc

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161325511X

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The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace

64 Stories

By: Steven Nightingale

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The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace

64 Stories

By: Steven Nightingale

With these short stories, deeply indebted to Sufi Tales and Jataka stories (as well as to the Brothers Grimm and American folktales), Steven Nightingale offers testimonies of revelation, mischief, miracles, and grace given him by sixty–four remarkable women who've appeared in his life over time. These delightful pieces combine humor and sensuality with surrealism and an oblique spirituality, and each becomes an opportunity of gentle instruction, invention, and entertainment. The book describes a spiritual pilgrimage, beautifully written, a unique offering from this wonderful writer.

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Catapult

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1640090061

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Physics For Dummies

By: Steven Holzner

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Physics For Dummies

By: Steven Holzner

Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm? Thanks to this book, you don’t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As you read about Newton's Laws, Kepler's Laws, Hooke's Law, Ohm's Law, and others, you’ll appreciate the For Dummies law: The easier we make it, the faster people understand it and the more they enjoy it! Whether you're taking a class, helping kids with homework, or trying to find out how the world works, this book helps you understand basic physics. It covers: Measurements, units, and significant figures Forces such as displacement, speed, and acceleration Vectors and physics notation Motion, energy, and waves (sound, light, wave-particle) Solids, liquids, and gases Thermodynamics Electromagnetism Relativity Atomic and nuclear structures Steven Holzner, Ph.D. earned his B.S. at MIT and his Ph.D. at Cornell, where he taught Physics 101 and 102 for over 10 years. He livens things up with cool physics facts, real-world examples, and simple experiments that will heighten your enthusiasm for physics and science. The book ends with some out-of-this world physics that will set your mind in motion: The possibility of wormholes in space The Big Bang How the gravitational pull of black holes is too strong for even light to escape May the Force be with you!

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John Wiley & Sons

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The Mechanical Universe

Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition

By: Steven C. Frautschi,Richard P. Olenick,Tom M. Apostol,David L. Goodstein

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The Mechanical Universe

Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition

By: Steven C. Frautschi,Richard P. Olenick,Tom M. Apostol,David L. Goodstein

This innovative physics textbook intended for science and engineering majors develops classical mechanics from a historical perspective. The presentation of the standard course material includes a discussion of the thought processes of the discoverers and a description of the methods by which they arrived at their theories. However the presentation proceeds logically rather than strictly chronologically, so new concepts are introduced at the natural moment. The book assumes a familiarity with calculus, includes a discussion of rigid body motion, and contains numerous thought-provoking problems. It is largely based in content on The Mechanical Universe: Introduction to Mechanics and Heat, a book designed in conjunction with a tele-course to be offered by PBS in the Fall of 1985. The advanced edition, however, does not coincide exactly with the video lessons, contains additional material, and develops the fundamental ideas introduced in the lower-level edition to a greater degree.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139642901

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Business Ratios and Formulas

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Steven M. Bragg

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Business Ratios and Formulas

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Steven M. Bragg

Required reading for anyone starting, running, or growing a business, Business Ratios and Formulas, Second Edition puts answers at the fingertips of business managers, with nearly 250 operational criteria and clear, easy-to-understand explanations that can be used right away. The Second Edition includes approximately fifty new ratios and formulas, as well as new chapters covering ratios and formulas for e-commerce and human resources.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118044797

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Management of Small Animal Distal Limb Injuries

By: Steven F. Swaim,Janet A. Welch,Robert L. Gillette

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Management of Small Animal Distal Limb Injuries

By: Steven F. Swaim,Janet A. Welch,Robert L. Gillette

Small Animal Distal Limb Injuries provide the small and mixed animal practitioner with a definitive but practical, step-by-step guide to the management of soft tissue, orthopedic and athletic injuries of the distal limbs in dogs and cats.Includes specific coverage of injuries that occur from the carpal/tarsal areas to the digits of dogs and cats. A

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CRC Press

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1498752047

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A More Perfect Union

By: Steven Burgauer

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A More Perfect Union

By: Steven Burgauer

In a future where asteroids are being actively mined and comets are being intentionally crashed into the Venusian atmosphere to cool the planet down for eventual colonization, a violent civil war breaks out in America over repeal of the Second Amendment. On one side is a fanatical religious right, on the other a spineless liberal administration. Caught inbetween are space-travelers returning home from a stint on Mars. Among them is one Butch Hogan, a spacejockey in the employ of Transcomet Industries. Butch works atop the highest of all steels, orbiting electromagnetic mass drivers crucial to the asteroid trade. Upon landing, he must choose up sides in the ever-widening war.

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iUniverse

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1440130191

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Copper Moon Rising

By: Steven Mace

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Copper Moon Rising

By: Steven Mace

Three boys: a runaway orphan of royal blood; a sorcerer's apprentice, and a young fisherman in a primitive world. Their lives are endangered by ruthless politics and the schemes of warlords and royalty, and the mysterious ambitions of alien masters revered as 'gods'. When their world's rulers begin to fight for power and influence in the kingdoms, it leads to tragedy and civil war...

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Lulu.com

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1326471953

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Learning Search Control Knowledge

An Explanation-Based Approach

By: Steven Minton

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Learning Search Control Knowledge

An Explanation-Based Approach

By: Steven Minton

The ability to learn from experience is a fundamental requirement for intelligence. One of the most basic characteristics of human intelligence is that people can learn from problem solving, so that they become more adept at solving problems in a given domain as they gain experience. This book investigates how computers may be programmed so that they too can learn from experience. Specifically, the aim is to take a very general, but inefficient, problem solving system and train it on a set of problems from a given domain, so that it can transform itself into a specialized, efficient problem solver for that domain. on a knowledge-intensive Recently there has been considerable progress made learning approach, explanation-based learning (EBL), that brings us closer to this possibility. As demonstrated in this book, EBL can be used to analyze a problem solving episode in order to acquire control knowledge. Control knowledge guides the problem solver's search by indicating the best alternatives to pursue at each choice point. An EBL system can produce domain specific control knowledge by explaining why the choices made during a problem solving episode were, or were not, appropriate.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461317037

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The Clone Elite

By: Steven L. Kent

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The Clone Elite

By: Steven L. Kent

2514 A.D.: An unstoppable alien force is advancing on Earth, wiping out the Unified Authority’s colonies one by one. It’s up to Wayson Harris, an outlawed model of a clone, and his men to make a last stand on the planet of New Copenhagen, where they must win the battle and the war—or lose all.

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Penguin

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0441016081

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Architecture Exam Review: Structural topics

By: Steven E. O'Hara,David Kent Ballast

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Architecture Exam Review: Structural topics

By: Steven E. O'Hara,David Kent Ballast

The Architect Registration Exam (ARE) is part of the licensing requirements for U.S. and Canadian architects. A computerized, closed-book exam, the ARE is administered year-round at a network of test centers.The topics represented on the ARE may be roughly divided into two areas: structural and nonstructural. We offer two primary study guides for the exam -- one volume devoted to each area. Each volume includes concise reviews of the exam topics, with practice problems and solutions.Volume I: Structural Topics offers a comprehensive review of ARE structural exam topics, including structural systems, building loads, wood and steel construction, soils and foundations, and lateral forces. The book provides 160 practice questions, with solutions, and test-taking strategy. The text is enhanced by illustrations, figures, and tables, along with a detailed index.

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Professional Publications Incorporated

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188857772X

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Lawrence of Arabia

A Film's Anthropology

By: Steven C. Caton

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Lawrence of Arabia

A Film's Anthropology

By: Steven C. Caton

Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia. Caton is interested in why this epic film has been so compelling for so many people for more than three decades. In seeking an answer he draws from situations in his own life, biographies of the film's key participants, and analyses of issues relating to class, gender, colonialism, and cultural differences. The result is a many-prismed book that poses important questions of ethnographic representation and the discourse of power. Caton's approach is dialectical, and his readings of the film are situated within different historical periods, from the early 1960s to the present. Among the subjects he highlights are travel and colonialism in fieldwork and filmmaking, orientalism in the representation of the Other, and the film's ambiguous handling of masculinity and homosexuality. Caton looks at his own reactions to the film at various stages in his life and offers a thought-provoking account of the film's reception by today's high school and college students. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia. Caton is interested in why this epic film has been so

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0520919890

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Baby Face Nelson

Portrait of a Public Enemy

By: Steven Nickel,William J. Helmer

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Baby Face Nelson

Portrait of a Public Enemy

By: Steven Nickel,William J. Helmer

Using new information that comes from the formerly classified files of the FBI, this book tells the full story of the remarkable criminal career of Baby Face Nelson. Illustrations.

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Cumberland House Publishing

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1581822723

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Morning Light

By: Steven McCann

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Morning Light

By: Steven McCann

Morning Light is a romance that begins in the year 1950, when Ian and Leah, two young children and neighbors in the west coast village of Belmullet, Ireland attend the grand wedding of Ian’s older sister. Their childhood romance matures into a lasting and passionate bond as they experience the festivals, teen apprenticeships and the native beauty of their coastal village. Ian learns the skills of a locksmith working in the village hardware store and Leah tends flowers with her mother in the florist section of the village market. Ian journeys off to America before his twentieth birthday, taking little money and vast ambition, energy and love for his sweetheart in Ireland. He finds a way to buy a small locksmith shop in Norwood, Bronx, to bring Leah to the New World and to start a hardware store business. Leah opens a florist shop in the building beside him. Like the Botanical Gardens nearby, their marriage is filled with seasonal change; children, work, the struggle to overcome tragedy and to nurture rich possibilities for everlasting color and beauty.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664151141

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Sticking Together

The Science of Adhesion

By: Professor Steven Abbott

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Sticking Together

The Science of Adhesion

By: Professor Steven Abbott

This popular science title covers adhesion science in an easily accessible entertaining manner. As well as outlining types of adhesion and their importance in everyday life, the book covers interesting future applications of adhesion and inspiration taken from nature. Ideal for students and the scientifically minded reader this book provides a fascinating introduction to the science of what makes things stick.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1788018044

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

The Paper Revolution

By: Steven W. May

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

The Paper Revolution

By: Steven W. May

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.

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Oxford University Press

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0198878001

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Introduction to Rigging: Aerial Fabrics

By: Steven Santos

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Introduction to Rigging: Aerial Fabrics

By: Steven Santos

Rigging aerial fabrics can be a complex topic. This book was written for aerial riggers in the circus, aerial dance, aerial yoga, and other related disciplines. It covers the selection, care, maintenance and proint-down rigging of aerial fabrics, single point slings, double point slings and other related apparatus.

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1304764036

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Natural Language Processing with Python

Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

By: Steven Bird,Ewan Klein,Edward Loper

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Natural Language Processing with Python

Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

By: Steven Bird,Ewan Klein,Edward Loper

This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. With it, you'll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text. You'll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic data structures, and you'll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content and structure of written communication. Packed with examples and exercises, Natural Language Processing with Python will help you: Extract information from unstructured text, either to guess the topic or identify "named entities" Analyze linguistic structure in text, including parsing and semantic analysis Access popular linguistic databases, including WordNet and treebanks Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse as linguistics and artificial intelligence This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python programming language and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open source library. If you're interested in developing web applications, analyzing multilingual news sources, or documenting endangered languages -- or if you're simply curious to have a programmer's perspective on how human language works -- you'll find Natural Language Processing with Python both fascinating and immensely useful.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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0596555717

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This Rebellious House

American History and the Truth of Christianity

By: Steven J. Keillor

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This Rebellious House

American History and the Truth of Christianity

By: Steven J. Keillor

Examining United States history from Columbus to Clinton, Steven J. Keillor disabuses us of the notion that our nation has ever been a genuinely "Christian" one. He focuses on various political, economic and cultural policies or events (the Civil War, westward expansion) that are now often cited to "disprove" or "debunk" Christianity.

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0830818774

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Jed and the Junkyard Rebellion

By: Steven Bohls

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Jed and the Junkyard Rebellion

By: Steven Bohls

With a turn of a key, Jed discovers he's more (and less) than he could have ever imagined. But as more questions than answers surface, Jed digs deeper into his history-and goes further into himself. Who is his father? Where is his mother? What is this place? How did these dreadnaughts get here? And . . . why is this happening to him? Strange truths, unexpected twists, and powerful revelations unfold as Jed confronts his past and contemplates his future.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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1484737903

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9781484737903

Scorpion Moon and Lost Savannas

Two Books of Poems

By: Steven Louis Meeker

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Scorpion Moon and Lost Savannas

Two Books of Poems

By: Steven Louis Meeker

Scorpion Moon and Lost Savannas, subtitled Two Books of Poems are selections of poems written by Steven Meeker between 1972 and 2000. Many of the earlier poems refl ect the experience of growing up, off and on, in rural South West Ohio. Some of the later poems perhaps represent efforts to express observation of ordinary things which are sometimes found to be somewhat more than ordinary.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465320938

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9781465320933

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