Triumph over containment : American film in the 1950s by Kolker, Robert Phillip

Table of Contents: “…On containment, screen size, the lightness and the dark -- "It was like going down to the bottom of the world" : John Garfield and Enterprise -- "I'm a stranger here myself" : Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino -- "Love, hate, action, violence, and death... …”


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Sacred sites : the secret history of southern California by Suntree, Susan

Table of Contents: “…The origins of southern California : western science. Light, space, matter -- Galaxy, planet, moon, rain -- Wandering North America, life, death -- Reptiles, flowers, mammals, rivers -- Southern California coming : mountains in motion -- Southern California ice age : bountiful homeland -- The origins of southern California : Indigenous myths and songs. …”
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Novels for students. Volume 44 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels

Table of Contents: “…The american / by Henry James -- The antelope wife / by Louise Erdrich -- The book thief / by Markus Zusak -- A canticle for Leibowitz / by Walter M. Miller Jr. -- Clear light of day / by Anita Desai -- The hundred secret senses / by Amy Tan -- Johnny got his gun / by Dalton Trumbo -- The leopard / by Giuseppe di Lampedusa -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- Ragtime -- The salt eaters / by Toni Cade Bambara -- The third life of grange copeland / by Alice Walker -- The way of all flesh / by Samuel Butler -- Zorro / by Isabel Allende.…”
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Valentines by Kooser, Ted

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Author's Note; Illustrator's Note; Pocket Poem; A Perfect Heart; Chocolate Checkers; A Heart of Gold; Home Storage Barns; Barn Owl; Song of the Ironing Board; In a Light Late-Winter Wind; The Celery Heart; For you, friend, ; In the Alley; Tracks; The Bluet; If you feel Sorry; A Map of the World; Inventory; Skater; Screech Owl; Splitting an Order; A New Potato; Oh, Mariachi Me; This Paper Boat; The Hog-nosed Snake.…”
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Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine by Ankiewicz, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…From the contents Introduction: Three Sources and Three Component Parts of the Concept of Dissipative Solitons -- Solitons in Viscous Flows -- Cavity Solitons in Semiconductor Devices -- Compounds of Fiber-Optic Solitons -- Three-Wave Dissapative Brillouin Solitons -- Discrete Breathers with Dissipation -- Collective Focussing and Modulational Instability of Light and Cold Atoms -- On Vegetation Clustering, Localized Bare Soil Spots and Fairy Circles -- Propagation of Travelling Pulses in Cortical Networks -- Wave Phenomena in Neuronal Networks -- Spiral Waves and Dissapative Solitons in Weakly Excitable Media.…”
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Architectural colour in the professional palette by McLachlan, Fiona, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…: Erich Wiesner and Otto Steidle -- Place, space, colour, and light : Steven Holl -- Edges and surfaces : Gigon/Guyer -- Memories, associations, and the brightness of yellow : AHMM -- Synergies and discords : Sauerbruch Hutton -- Transformational, instrumental colour : UN Studio -- Navigation, communication, and language -- Playing space : laws, rules, and prescription.…”
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Way below the angels : the pretty clearly troubled but not even close to tragic confessions of a real live mormon missionary by Harline, Craig

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: De Brouckère Square -- Visions -- Super model -- The really big hand of Jesus -- Stoned -- In the clouds -- The Great Church Council of Nowhere -- To the lions -- Five-sense gray -- An anthropology of butt-kicking -- Your own pathetic self -- Snow White -- Stoned again -- Big ol' Jed had a light on -- Kyrie flippin' eleison -- Deliverance -- Volo assistantari -- A three-meal kind of guy -- Just one more last cigarette -- In no time -- Out with a thud -- Epilogue: The Chapel of the Madeleine -- Thanksgiving.…”
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Beyond smart cities : how cities network, learn and innovate by Campbell, Tim, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- A gamut of learning types -- Light on a shadow economy : city learning in 53 cities -- Informal learners : Turin, Portland and Charlotte -- Technical learning : Curitiba and city think tanks -- Corporate styles : Bilbao, Seattle and others -- Clouds of trust in style -- Taking stock : why some cities learn and others do not -- Turning the learning world upside down : pathways forward in policy and research.…”
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Synchronized chronology : rethinking Middle East antiquity : a simple correction to Egyptian chronology resolves the major problems in biblical and Greek archaeology by Henry, Roger, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- The foundations of conventional chronology -- The exodus and the end of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt -- The conquest and the time of the judges -- The 18th dynasty and the United Kingdom -- The wars of Egypt and Israel -- Israel and Damascus at war -- Jerusalem in the time of Akhnaton -- The end of the Bronze Age -- New light on the Greek dark ages -- The rise of Assyria -- Samaria as a benchmark for archaeology -- The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt -- Who were the Hittites? …”
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Advances in Computational Intelligence and Communication Selected Papers from the 2nd EAI International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communications (CICom 2021)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Perception Enhancement of a Vehicle in a Bad Weather Environment -- Adaptive Backstepping-RBF Control of Lower Limb Exoskeleton -- Advances in Coyote Optimization Algorithm -- Efficient Big Data Architecture Based on Micro Service -- K Semantics for Security Policy Enforcement on Android Applications with Practical Cases -- On the Performance of MIMO Vehicular Visible Light Communications -- An Evaluation Framework for Blockchain-based Public Key Infrastructures -- Intelligent Target Cell Selection Algorithm for Low Latency 5G Networks -- Conclusion.…”
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Manufacturing excellence : renewal and rebirth by McKay, Kenneth N., 1953-, Wiers, Vincent C. S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Setting examples -- See the light -- Teaching the basics -- The new incentive scheme -- Breaking the eggs to get an omelet -- Promotions and shutdowns -- Another contract -- Back at the factory -- Some last thoughts -- Teamwork -- Waste and reclamation -- Mentoring -- Cast, in alphabetical order -- Index.…”
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Caravaggio by Witting, Felix, 1873-, Patrizi, M. L. (Mariano Luigi), 1866-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; HIS FATE; The Early Years andDeparture for Rome; Milan; Venice; Departure for Rome; The First Roman Worksand the Church of SanLuigi dei Francesi; The First Roman Works; The Paintings of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi; Condemned to Exile; Naples; Malta; The Face as the Reflection of the Soul; THE BIRTH OF A STYLE; The Painter of Pleasuresand Taboos; Caravaggio or theAesthetic Revolution; CARAVAGGIO IN ADIFFERENT LIGHT; The Life of Caravaggio by Giovanni Pietro Bellori; Notizia by Mancini; The Curriculum Vitae of aCriminal Painter.…”
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Party funding and campaign financing in international perspective

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Part I: 'Light Touch' Regulation and its Discontents; Part II: 'Big Bang' Regulation of a Private Funding Regime; Part III: From State Regulation to State Funding; Part IV: Regulation and Judicial Review; Part V: Regulation and Judicial Review: Divergent Paths; Part VI: Starting from Scratch; Index.…”
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Chance : a tale in two parts by Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""PART I-THE DAMSEL""; ""Chapter One: YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE""; ""Chapter Two: THE FYNES AND THE GIRL-FRIEND""; ""Chapter Three: THRIFT-AND THE CHILD""; ""Chapter Four: THE GOVERNESS""; ""Chapter Five: THE TEA-PARTY""; ""Chapter Six: FLORA""; ""Chapter Seven: ON THE PAVEMENT""; ""PART II-THE KNIGHT""; ""Chapter One: THE FERNDALE""; ""Chapter Two: YOUNG POWELL SEES AND HEARS""; ""Chapter Three: DEVOTED SERVANTS-AND THE LIGHT OF A FLARE""; ""Chapter Four: ANTHONY AND FLORA""; ""Chapter Five: THE GREAT DE BARRAL""…”
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Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics by Evans, James

Table of Contents: “…- Bose-Einstein Condensation: Identity Crisis for Indistinguishable Particles -- Quantum Fluctuations of Light: A Modern Perspective on Wave/Particle Duality -- Quantum Entanglement as a Resource for Communication -- The Three Cases of Doctor von Neumann.…”
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Contactless VLSI Measurement and Testing Techniques by Sayil, Selahattin

Table of Contents: “…Probing Techniques Based on Light Emission from Chip -- 9. All Silicon Optical Technology for Contactless Testing of Integrated Circuits -- 10. …”
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Solutions manual for Guide to energy management, seventh edition by Pawlik, Klaus-Dieter E.

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Energy Management -- Chapter 2 The Energy Audit Process: An Overview -- Chapter 3 Understanding Energy Bill -- Chapter 4 Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Costing -- Chapter 5 Lighting -- Chapter 6 Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning -- Chapter 7 Combustion Processes and the Use of Industrial Wastes -- Chapter 8 Steam Generation and Distribution -- Chapter 9 Control Systems and Computers -- Chapter 10 Maintenance -- Chapter 11 Insulation -- Chapter 12 Process Energy Management…”
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Future Research Directions in Computational Intelligence Selected Papers from the 3rd EAI International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Perception Enhancement of a Vehicle in a Bad Weather Environment -- Adaptive Backstepping-RBF Control of Lower Limb Exoskeleton -- Advances in Coyote Optimization Algorithm -- Efficient Big Data Architecture Based on Micro Service -- K Semantics for Security Policy Enforcement on Android Applications with Practical Cases -- On the Performance of MIMO Vehicular Visible Light Communications -- An Evaluation Framework for Blockchain-based Public Key Infrastructures -- Intelligent Target Cell Selection Algorithm for Low Latency 5G Networks -- Conclusion.…”
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Words to our now : imagination and dissent by Glave, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…An Allegory, in Part; These Blocks, Not Square (Five Movements); The Death and Light of Brian Williamson; Regarding Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie, So Long Swept Aside: Why?…”
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Smart building systems for architects, owners, and builders by Sinopoli, Jim

Table of Contents: “…-- The foundations of a smart building -- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems -- Lighting control systems -- Electric power management systems -- Access control systems -- Video surveillance systems -- Video, IPTV, and digital signage systems -- Fire alarm and mass notification systems -- Voice networks and distributed antenna systems -- Data networks -- Facility management systems -- Design, construction, and renovations -- The economics of smart buildings -- Audio visual systems -- Network integration -- Energy and sustainability -- Case studies.…”
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