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The White Guard by Upton, Andrew

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The Tricycle Solution - Teachable moments for parents and preschoolers.

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Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition by Baechler, Oscar

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Mobile Game Design Essentials. by Claudio Scolastici, Dr

Table of Contents: “…Mobile Game Design -- The basic game design process -- The dos and don'ts of game design -- Dos -- Don'ts -- Designing mobile games -- Hardware limitations -- Screen size -- Game controls -- Audio output -- File size -- Processing power -- Mobile design constraints -- Play time -- Game depth -- Mobile environment -- Smartphones -- Single player versus multiplayer -- The mobile market -- Mobile gamers -- Business models -- Premium -- Freemium -- Ad supported -- Hybrid -- Choosing the right business model -- What makes games fun -- The four keys to fun -- the game mechanics that drive play -- Hard fun -- emotions from meaningful challenges, strategies, and puzzles.…”
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Project Management in Construction, Seventh Edition by Levy, Sidney M.

Table of Contents: “…Successful Project Completion Demands a Successful Start -- Starting Off on the Right Foot -- Controlling the Project Start -- Review of the Contract with the Owner -- Review of the Project Specifications -- Specific items to look for when reviewing the specifications -- Record Drawings -- Inspections and Test Reports (Other Than Those Required by Local Officials) -- Operations and Maintenance Manuals -- Commissioning and TAB -- TAB?…”
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Six Pathways to Healthy Child Development and Academic Success : the Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action. by Comer, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I -- Child Development = Education -- Chapter 1 -- The School is Preventive and Promotive -- Children are Immersed in Their Social Networks -- Children from Poorly Functioning Families are Likely to Enter School without Adequate Preparation -- Healthy Development Prepares Children to Meet Life's Tasks -- The School is a Continuous Presence in the Life of Children and Adolescents -- Chapter 2 -- Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program -- SDP and the Comer Process -- Six Developmental Pathways -- An Operating System -- This Field Guide -- Responsibilities of the School Community -- Chapter 3 -- Schools in Society -- A tough Brooklyn Neighborhood -- Our Child Study Team Has a Systematic Process -- Being on a Team Helps Us to Cope -- Interventions That Work -- The Alarm Clock Program -- Support for Social and Emotional Development -- Ongoing Support after Crisis Intervention -- The in-House Suspension Program and Acts of Kindness -- Action-Oriented Self-Assessment -- We are on the Right Track -- Chapter 4 -- Child Development is the Foundation of Education -- Meeting the Needs of Every Child -- The Six Developmental Pathways -- Physical Pathway -- Cognitive Pathway -- Psychological Pathway -- Language Pathway -- Social Pathway -- Ethical Pathway -- Rationale for the Pathways Framework -- Using the Pathways Framework to Address Student Issues -- Training Activity 4.1: Using the Pathways to Identify Student Issues and Behaviors at your school -- Additional Examples of Using the Pathways Framework -- Training Activity 4.2: Using the Pathways for Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Management -- Writing Lesson Plans Using the Pathways Framework -- Training Activity 4.3: Aligning your Lesson Plans with the Pathways.…”
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Learning Web design : a beginner's guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web graphics by Niederst Robbins, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…We're finished -- Test yourself -- Element review: Images -- Table markup: -- How to use tables -- Minimal table structure -- Table headers -- Spanning cells -- Table accessibility -- Row and column groups -- Wrapping up tables -- Test yourself -- Element review: Tables -- Forms: -- How forms work -- The form element -- Variables and content -- The great form control roundup -- Form accessibility features -- Form layout and design -- Test yourself -- Embedded media: Window-in-a-window (iframe) -- Multipurpose embedder (object) -- Video and audio -- Canvas -- Test yourself -- Element review: embedded media -- Part 3: CSS For Presentation: -- introducing cascading style sheets: -- The benefits of CSS -- How style sheets work -- The big concepts -- CSS units of measurement -- Developer tools right in your browser -- Moving forward with CSS --Test yourself -- Formatting text: -- Basic font properties -- Advancing typography with CSS3 -- Changing text color -- A few more selector types -- Text line adjustments -- Underlines and other "decorations" -- Changing capitalization -- Spaced out -- Text shadow -- Changing list bullets and numbers -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Font and text properties -- Colors and backgrounds: -- Specifying color values -- Foreground color -- Background color -- Clipping the background -- Playing with opacity -- Pseudo-class selectors -- Pseudo-element selectors -- Attribute selectors -- Background images -- The shorthand background property -- Like a rainbow (gradients) -- Finally, external style sheets -- Wrapping it up -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Color and background properties -- Thinking inside the box: -- The element box -- Specifying box dimensions -- Padding -- Borders -- Margins -- Assigning display types -- Box drop shadows -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Basic box properties -- Floating and positioning: -- Normal flow -- Floating -- Fancy text wrap with CSS shapes -- Positioning basics -- Relative positioning -- Absolute positioning -- Fixed positioning -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Floating and positioning properties -- CSS layout with flexbox and grid: -- Flexible boxes with CSS flexbox -- CSS grid layout --Test yourself -- CSS review: layout properties -- Responsive web design: -- Why RWD? …”
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The handbook of water and wastewater microbiology

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning

Table of Contents: “…Tourist and Sport Reform Dress, Friluftsliv, and Women’s Right to Vote: Norway 1880s-1913; Kirsti Pederson Gurholt -- Chapter 9. …”
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The global economy in turbulent times by Lin, See Yan

Table of Contents: “…-- The Third Plenum Reforms Are Well Received, but the New Deal Flashes Danger Signals -- China: Multiple Policy Dilemmas -- China: Rebalancing Growth with Reform and Moving Up to the Next Level -- India: The Outlook Dims -- "A Passage to India": The Outlook Remains Dire -- Corporate Governance and Management -- On Corporate Governance and Doing It Right -- The CG Blueprint 2011: "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" -- Creative Destruction: "Kodak Moment" No More -- The F & N Saga -- On Global Gaming, Aussie, the SGX--ASX Merger.…”
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Let's get IoT-fied! : 30 IoT projects for all levels by Juluru, Anudeep, Vasudevan, Shriram K., Murugesh, T. S.

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Geotechnical engineering calculations and rules of thumb by Rajapakse, Ruwan

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SAP Hardware Solutions : Servers, Storage, and Networks for MySAP. Com. by Missbach, Michael, Hoffmann, Uwe M.

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Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo (M. Savary) : illustrative of the history of the Emperor Napoleon. Volume II, parts I and II by Savary, Anne-Jean-Marie-René, duc de Rovigo, 1774-1833

Table of Contents: “…. -- The Russian army crosses to the right bank of the river-The Emperor scarcely credits this imprudence-Our columns debouch-Skilful movement of General Dupont-The action becomes general-Battle of Friedland-The Russians are defeated. -- CHAPTER VII. -- News of the taking of Königsberg received by the Emperor-The author is appointed governor of that place-Resources of every kind-Great number of wounded returning to their corps-System and management of the, hospitals- The Russians ask an armistice-Interview at Tilsit. -- CHAPTER VIII.…”
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Mobile magic : the saatchi and saatchi guide to mobile marketing and design by Eslinger, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Section 2: Understanding the EssentialsChapter 4: The Four Keys to Mobile Marketing Success; Mobile; Intimate; Social; Transactional; The Three Ps; Chapter 5: The Sweet Spot: Search and Social; Search; Just What I Was Looking For; Get Your Site Right; Searching for the Answers; Social; Joining, Having and Starting Conversations; More Isn't Always Merrier; The Sweet Spot; Dashboard Tools for Monitoring and Distribution: The Non-Mobile Part of Mobile; Chapter 6: Marketer, Know Thyself (And Thy Audience)!…”
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Learning Angular for .NET Developers. by Rajesh Gunasundaram

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