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Building the Fastest Pinewood Derby Car

Speed Secrets for Crossing the Finish Line First!

By: Troy Thorne

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Building the Fastest Pinewood Derby Car

Speed Secrets for Crossing the Finish Line First!

By: Troy Thorne

There is no secret to creating a winning Pinewood Derby car; all racers need is a great design and an understanding of these tips that trick their cars out for maximum speed. In three sections, this handbook takes builders from the beginning of car construction to ultimate derby-winning modifications. The "basic car" section addresses broad building concerns such as cutting the design, attaching and lubricating the wheels, and balancing the weight. "Winning car" secrets include extending the vehicle base, polishing axles, and modifying and aligning the wheels. Finally, the championship techniques of the "ultimate car" are revealed, allowing builders to shave those last tenths of a second off their times and go home with the trophy.

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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160765086X

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Pinewood Derby Designs & Patterns

The Ultimate Guide to Creating the Coolest Car

By: Troy Thorne

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Pinewood Derby Designs & Patterns

The Ultimate Guide to Creating the Coolest Car

By: Troy Thorne

Build the coolest car in the pinewood derby! In this ultimate design guide, Troy Thorne shares his expert tips, techniques and amazing patterns so parents and scouts of any skill can build a jaw-dropping, prize-winning car that's quick out of the gate.

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1607650010

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Getting Started in Pinewood Derby

Step-By-Step Workbook to Building Your First Car

By: Troy Thorne

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Getting Started in Pinewood Derby

Step-By-Step Workbook to Building Your First Car

By: Troy Thorne

Follow Dash Derby on an adventure through the 7 easy steps to building your first Pinewood Derby race car. No woodworking skills are required for this family fun project--just patience and the desire to have a good time!

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1607650592

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9781607650591

The Hebrew Idiom of Permission

By: Troy J. Edwards

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The Hebrew Idiom of Permission

By: Troy J. Edwards

We appropriately use the Bible as our foundation for all Christian belief and practice because we rightly recognize it as God’s written Word. Why then is there such a lack of clarity on the God that this book is supposed to reveal to us within its pages? Why does He claim to be good, compassionate, and merciful while He is accused of hardening hearts, tempting people, causing sickness and accidents, etc. in so many other places? The issues arise from our failure to accurately understand and apply the “idiom of permission” to our reading and study of this holy text. In this book, Pastor Troy J. Edwards provides the scholarly evidence that the Bible uses the idiom of permission frequently, and he discusses how the application of this idiom will resolve many issues related to our understanding of God’s character.

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Troy Edwards

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9798848236514

Dynamics on Differential One-Forms

By: Troy L. Story

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Dynamics on Differential One-Forms

By: Troy L. Story

Dynamics on Differential One-Forms proposes a unifying principle for mathematical models of dynamic systems. In "Thermodynamics on One-Forms (chapter I)", the long-standing problem of deriving irreversibility in thermodynamics from reversibility in Hamiltonian mechanics, is solved. Differential geometric analysis shows thermodynamics and Hamiltonian mechanics are both irreversible on representative extended phase spaces. "Dynamics on Differential One-Forms (II)" generalizes (I) to Hamiltonian mechanics, geometric optics, thermodynamics, black holes, electromagnetic fields and string fields. Mathematical models for these systems are revealed as representations of a unifying principle; namely, description of a dynamic system with a characteristic differential one-form on an odd-dimensional differentiable manifold leads, by analysis with exterior calculus, to a set of differential equations and a tangent vector defining system transformations. Relationships between models using exterior calculus and conventional calculus imply a technical definition of dynamic equilibrium. "Global Analysis of Composite Particles (III)" uses differential topology to develop the theory of large vibration-rotation interactions for composite particles. A global classical Hamiltonian and corresponding quantum Hamiltonian operator are derived, then applied to the molecular vibration-rotation problem. "Characteristic Electromagnetic and Yang-Mills Gauge (IV)" uses differential geometry to remove some of the arbitrariness in the gauge, and shows how gauge functions for electromagnetic and Yang-Mills fields follow the same differential equation.

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iUniverse

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0595221076

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9780595221073

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning

By: Troy McConachy

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Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning

By: Troy McConachy

Many language teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning, but how this can be best achieved is not always apparent. This is particularly the case in foreign language learning contexts where teachers are working with a prescribed textbook and opportunities to use the language outside the classroom are limited. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners interpret aspects of communication in insightful ways and develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use. The book provides extensive analysis of a range of classroom interactions to demonstrate how teachers and learners can work together to construct opportunities for intercultural learning through reflection on pragmatics.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783099348

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9781783099344

Child Development

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Douglas Davies,Michael F. Troy

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Child Development

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Douglas Davies,Michael F. Troy

This book describes child development and how it can be applied to practice with children. Developmental knowledge provides a framework for understanding children in relation to the tasks and issues relevant to their age. These, in turn, are determined by physical, social, emotional, and neurodevelopmental norms that transform in meaningful ways from birth through adolescence. Only with a sound grounding in this knowledge can we determine whether a child's emotions, thoughts, or behaviors fall within normal expectations. Part I, "Contexts of Development: A Transactional Approach," introduces the idea that the child's development is the outcome of the interplay of normative developmental maturation and the context within which it occurs. Part II, "The Course of Child Development," represents the core of the book, looking at childhood through the lens of discrete expected stages"--

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Guilford Publications

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1462542999

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9781462542994

Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics

By: Troy L Story

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Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics

By: Troy L Story

Introduction to Differential Geometry with applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics is an invaluable manuscript for anyone who wants to understand and use exterior calculus and differential geometry, the modern approach to calculus and geometry. Author Troy Story makes use of over thirty years of research experience to provide a smooth transition from conventional calculus to exterior calculus and differential geometry, assuming only a knowledge of conventional calculus. Introduction to Differential Geometry with applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics includes the topics: Geometry, Exterior calculus, Homology and co-homology, Applications of differential geometry and exterior calculus to: Hamiltonian mechanics, geometric optics, irreversible thermodynamics, black hole dynamics, electromagnetism, classical string fields, and Navier-Stokes dynamics.

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iUniverse

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0595339212

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9780595339211

The Great Industrial War

Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950

By: Troy Rondinone

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The Great Industrial War

Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950

By: Troy Rondinone

The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Moving beyond the standard account of labor conflict as struggles between workers and management, Troy Rondinone asks why Americans viewed big strikes as "battles" in "irrepressible conflict" between the armies of capital and laborùa terrifying clash between workers, strikebreakers, police, and soldiers. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, Rondinone argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict. He follows the heated discourse on class war through the nineteenth century until its general dissipation in the mid-twentieth century. Incorporating labor history, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociology, The Great Industrial War explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.

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Rutgers University Press

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081354811X

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9780813548111

What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted

200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House

By: Tevi Troy

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What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted

200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House

By: Tevi Troy

Explores how U.S. presidents' cultural pursuits shaped their leadership while examining how the reading habits of early presidents have been sidelined by such technological advances as the radio, the television, and the Internet.

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Regnery Publishing

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1621570398

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9781621570394

Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Elizabeth Kella,Helena Wahlstrom

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Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Elizabeth Kella,Helena Wahlstrom

Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children’s books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.

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Manchester University Press

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1526111489

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9781526111487

The Trump Code

Exploring Time Travel, Nikola Tesla, the Trump Lineage, and America's Future

By: Troy Anderson

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The Trump Code

Exploring Time Travel, Nikola Tesla, the Trump Lineage, and America's Future

By: Troy Anderson

Could the Trump family’s connections to time travel, esoteric knowledge, and secret societies hold clues to unlocking the mysteries of our past and future? By the end of this book, you will be able to connect the uncanny parallels between the novels Lockwood penned over a century ago and the Trump family legacy. Additionally, you will be able to solve the mystery to the upcoming 2024 election season. In the annals of American presidential history, there is no more peculiar tale than the eerie similarities between former President Donald Trump and a series of novels called, The Baron Trump Collection, penned by the obscure yet seemingly prophetic hand of American lawyer and novelist Ingersoll Lockwood in the late 1800s. The Trump Code delves into the connections between the Baron Trump novels and the enigmatic Trump family legacy, asking whether this nineteenth-century novelist foresaw the future of not only Trump but America and the world. It also uncovers a web of historical events and divine providence. Drawing from biblical passages about Enoch, Elijah, the Apostle John, the Mount of Transfiguration, and a mysterious verse in Ephesians on how Christ’s followers are seated in “heavenly places,” along with theories of time travel by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and others, The Trump Code connects the pieces of this riveting puzzle, posing the question of whether “truth is stranger than fiction,” as Mark Twain famously said. As we peel back the layers of history, The Trump Code confronts questions that defy easy answers: Could this fictional novel hold clues to the upcoming 2024 presidential election, with all its division and chaos? Is there a divine hand guiding the course of human events, as suggested by the parallels in these novels between fiction and reality? Or are we witnessing the machinations of darker forces, hinted at by the curious numerology surrounding Lockwood’s name?

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Charisma Media

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1636414400

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9781636414409

The World Beneath

By: Philip Troy

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The World Beneath

By: Philip Troy

After accidentally befriending a student at his local High School, the antisocial Martin Spire must show her the most well-kept secret of all time; and deal with his own personal demons. But when an unexpected force threatens his home, Martin must make a costly choice.

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Lulu.com

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061515509X

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9780615155098

Mammals of the Southeastern United States

By: Troy L. Best,John L. Hunt

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Mammals of the Southeastern United States

By: Troy L. Best,John L. Hunt

First comprehensive account of the mammals of the entire southeastern US The southeastern United States is home to a remarkable and diverse mammalian fauna that is a significant part of the region’s rich natural heritage. Mammals of the Southeastern United States presents accounts of 137 species that currently or previously occurred in the Southeast. Although accessible and useful for the generalist, this book provides an up-to-date compilation of basic knowledge about native and nonnative mammals of the region that is suitable for students of all ages and for professional mammalogists and biologists alike. This volume profiles common species like the eastern gray squirrel, the white-tailed deer, and the Virginia opossum, but also includes among its accounts many extant species, such as the jaguar and porcupine, that once occurred in the region; native species, like the Caribbean monk seal, that are now extinct; native species that have been extirpated, or wiped out, from all or part of the region, such as the red wolf, cougar, American bison, and elk; and many introduced species, including the Mexican mouse opossum, common squirrel monkey, and capybara. Each species account includes full-color images of the animal, plates featuring at least three views of its skull, color distribution maps of its approximate geographic range in the Southeast and in North America, and an up-to-date synthesis of several aspects of its biology, including habitat, diet, predators, parasites, diseases, and behaviors. An introductory chapter on conservation summarizes the current status of mammalian populations in the region and provides insight into some of the threats mammals now encounter in the Southeast.

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University Alabama Press

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0817320520

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9780817320522

Book's by Troy Thorne

Building the Fastest Pinewood Derby Car

Building the Fastest Pinewood Derby Car

Pinewood Derby Designs & Patterns

Pinewood Derby Designs & Patterns

Getting Started in Pinewood Derby

Getting Started in Pinewood Derby

The Hebrew Idiom of Permission

The Hebrew Idiom of Permission

Dynamics on Differential One-Forms

Dynamics on Differential One-Forms

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Child Development

Child Development

Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics

Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics

The Great Industrial War

The Great Industrial War

What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted

What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted

Making home

Making home

The Trump Code

The Trump Code

The World Beneath

The World Beneath

Mammals of the Southeastern United States

Mammals of the Southeastern United States

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