Backpacking with the saints : wilderness hiking as spiritual practice

Table of Contents: “…The allure of the wild: backpacking as spiritual practice -- The risk-taking character of wilderness reading -- Venturing out: the Irish wilderniss and Columbia of Iona -- Disillusionment: Laramie Peak and Thérèse of Lisieux -- Desire: Rockpile Mountsin wilderness and Thomas Traherne -- Solitude: Bell Mountain wilderness and Søren Kierkegaard -- Traveling light: Gunstock Hollow and Dag Hammarskjold -- Mindfulness: Moonshine Hollow and Thich Nhat Hanh -- Fear: the maze in Canyonlands and John of the Cross -- Failure: Mt. …”
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Now and Rome : Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space. by Willis, Ika

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Empire After Earth; Chapter 1: Aratrum (Plough): Hannah Arendt and the Agricultural Archive; Interlude 1: Fast Car; Chapter 2: Fulmen (Lightning): Paul Virilio's Politics at the Speed of Light; Interlude 2: Romulus and Remus; Chapter 3: Hostis (Enemy): Carl Schmitt and the War of the Words; Interlude 3: Templum; Chapter 4: Fas (Speakability): Jacques Derrida's Writing of Space; Interlude 4: Terminology; Chapter 5: Now: The Angel, the Boat and the Storm in Walter Benjamin; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages Discussed; General Index; A; B; C.…”
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Quantitative methods in soil mineralogy : proceedings of a symposium sponsored by Division S-9 of the Soil Science Society of America : the symposium was held in San Antonio, Texas...

Table of Contents: “…Nondestructive Techniques for Bulk Elemental Analysis -- Structural Formulae of Layer Silicates -- Light Microscopic Techniques in Quantitative Soil Mineralogy -- Transmission Electron Microscope Analysis of Soil Materials -- Analysis of Soil Surfaces by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy -- Preconcentration Techniques in Soil Mineralogical Analyses -- Quantitative X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Soils -- Analysis of Minerals in Oxide-Rich Soils by X-Ray Diffraction -- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Clay Minerals in Soils -- Quantitative Thermal Analysis of Soil Materials -- Differential X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Soil Minerals -- Quantification of Allophane and Imogolite -- Subject Index -- Dissolution and Elemental Analysis of Minerals Soils and Environmental Samples -- Quantitative Oxidation-State Analysis of Soils -- Front Matter…”
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They came for sandalwood : a study of the sandalwood trade in the South-West Pacific 1830-1865 by Shineberg, Dorothy

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Acknowledgments; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; 1: Tea, Iron and Sandalwood; 2: The Beginnings of the Trade; 3: The Isle of Pines 1841-1843; 4: The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides 1842; 5: The Merchant Venturers 1843-1852; 6: The Job, the Ships and the People of the Trading Voyages; 7: James Paddon; 8: Robert Towns; 9: Trade, the Light and the Flag; 10: Buying Gold 1853-1865; 11: Sandalwood Profits; 12: The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics; 13: 'A Matter of Policy'; 14: Violence and Fraud on the Melanesian Frontier; 15: Migrant Labour.…”
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Mordecai Richler : leaving St. Urbain by Kramer, Reinhold, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Geyt, yidelech, in der vayter velt -- Light has gone out in Israel -- bas les Juifs! -- Shabbes Goy -- Losers' finishing school -- Bohemia among the fishermen: Ibiza -- Mr. …”
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Artificial Intelligence for Safety and Reliability Engineering Methods, Applications, and Challenges

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Safety and Reliability Engineering -- Artificial Intelligence for Safety and Reliability Engineering in Industry 5.0 Methods, Applications and Challenges -- System Reliability Inference for Common Cause Failure Model in Contexts of Missing Information -- Predictive maintenance enabled by a Light Weight Federated Learning in Smart Manufacturing: Remaining Useful Lifetime Prediction -- Explainable Trustworthy and Transparent Artificial Intelligence for Reliability Engineering and Safety Applications -- Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Predictive Maintenance -- Reliability and Risk Assessment with Explainable Artificial Intelligence -- An Anomaly Detection Framework for Safety and Reliability Engineering -- Wearable Technology for Workplace Safety with Embedded Artificial Intelligence -- Safety and Reliability of Artificial Intelligence systems -- Physics-informed machine learning for reliability and systems safety applications.…”
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Introduction to 3D graphics & animation using Maya by Watkins, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Texturing polygons and UV manipulation -- 9. Lighting and rendering -- 10. Organic modeling -- 11. …”


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Biophysics. by Chatwal, Gurdeep R.

Table of Contents: “…COVER; Contents; Chapter 1 : Introduction to Biophysics; Chapter 2 : Laws of Physics and Chemistry; Chapter 3 : Bioenergetics; Chapter 4 : Carbohydrates; Chapter 5 : Proteins; Chapter 6 : Nucleic Acids; Chapter 7: Lipids and Biological Membranes; Chapter 8 : Light Microscopy; Chapter 9 : Electron Microscopy; Chapter 10 : Radioactivity; Chapter 11 : Separation Techniques; Chapter 12 : Physico-Chemical Techniques to Study Biomolecules; Chapter 13 : Spectroscopy; Chapter 14 : Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Chapter 15 : X-Ray Crystallography; Chapter 16 : Model Building.…”
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Harm's way : poems by Leigh, Eric, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Homesong; Skilled Trades; My Mother Reads Tobacco Road; Last of the Midnight Lullabies; Juleps; Bystander Effect; Life in the Rearview Mirror; On the Day the Last Drag Queen Leaves Town; The Controlled Burn of Carolina Dirt; Country Letter; On the Line; Oh, Loretta; The Last Remains of the Country Heart; Gun Country; The Dark-Light of Spring; Bel Canto for Beginners; Hymn; Catching a Stranger's Eye during the Changing of the Guard; Origami Heart; Loving the Haberdasher; Letter, January; At The Rhinestone Bullet; At This Late Hour; Understory; Earthquake Weather; Notes on Drowning; Assisted Living; For Those Who Cannot Make the Journey; Color Theory; Results; Harm's Way; Watching the Virus Attack a Cell; Sickness & Health.…”
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Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing by Miranda, Eduardo Reck

Table of Contents: “…Brain-Computer Music Interfacing -- Electroencephalogram-Based Brain-Computer Interface -- Contemporary Approaches to BCMI Using P300 Event Related Potentials -- Prospective View on Sound Synthesis BCI Control in Light of Two Paradigms of Cognitive Neuroscience -- Machine Learning to Identify Neural Correlates of Music and Emotions -- Emotional Responses During Music Listening -- A Tutorial on EEG Signal Processing Techniques for Mental State Recognition in Brain-Computer Interfaces -- An Introduction to EEG Source Analysis with an Illustration of a Study on Error-Related Potentials -- Feature Extraction and Classification of EEG Signals -- On Mapping EEG Information into Music -- Retroaction Between Music and Physiology -- Creative Music Neurotechnology with Symphony of Minds Listening -- Passive Brain-Computer Interfaces.…”
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Plastic reality : special effects, technology, and the emergence of 1970s blockbuster aesthetics by Turnock, Julie A.

Table of Contents: “…Optical animation : special effects compositing up to 1977 -- Before industrial light and magic : the independent Hollywood special effects business, 1968-1975 -- The expanded blockbuster : the auteurist aesthetics of 1970s special effects-driven filmmaking -- "The buck stops at opticals" : special effects technology on Star wars and Close encounters of the third kind - More plastic reality : the design and conception of Star wars and West Coast experimental filmmaking -- "More philosopical grey matter" : the production and aesthetic of Close encounters of the third kind -- Optical special effects into the 1980s : a well-oiled machine -- "Not-too-realistic" and intensified realistic approaches in the 1980s : traditional stop motion and showscan -- Conclusion: World-building and the legacy of 1970s special effects in contemporary cinema.…”
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Eldorado : Canada's national uranium company by Bothwell, Robert

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue -- 1 The Canadian Shield -- 2 Northern Lights -- Interlude: The Powers of the Atom -- 3 From Radium to Uranium -- 4 Private into Public -- Interlude: War into Cold War -- 5 The Shadow of War -- 6 Mines and Money -- Interlude: Searching for Security -- 7 Stoking a Boom: The Search for a Just Price -- 8 Beaverlodge and the Boom -- 9 Beaverlodge and the Boom: II -- 10 Getting There Is Half the Fun -- Interlude: Atoms for Peace -- 11 The Politics of Peace -- 12 Too Little, Too Soon -- NOTES -- INDEX…”
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The truth never stands in the way of a good story by Brunvand, Jan Harold

Table of Contents: “…: The story behibd the Missouri legends -- Bedtime for Bozo: The legend of the clown who cussed kids -- "Lights Out!": a faxlore phenomenon -- A blast heard 'round the world -- The folklorists' search for the ghost in search of help for a dying person -- "The missing day in time" -- Some oddities of military legendry -- Some news from the miscellaneous legend files -- The heroic hacker: legends of the computer age / Eric Brunvand -- Conclusion: The future of Urban Legends.…”


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The physics and chemistry of inorganic clathrates

Table of Contents: “…Slack -- Preface -- 1 The Early Development of Inorganic Clathrates -- 2 Solid State Chemistry of Clathrate Phases: Crystal Structure, Chemical Bonding and Preparation Routes -- 3 Synthetic Approaches to Intermetallic Clathrates -- 4 Semiconductor Clathrates: in situ Studies of Their High Pressure, Variable Temperature and Synthesis Behavior -- 5 Chemistry and Physics of Inversed (Cationic) Clathrates and tin Anionic Clathrates -- 6 Inorganic clathrates for thermoelectric applications -- 7 High Pressure Synthesis of Superconducting Silicon Clathrate and Related Compounds -- 8 Light Element Group 13-14 Clathrate Phases -- 9 Structural and Physical Properties of Rare-Earth Clathrates -- 10 Mechanical Properties of Intermetallic Clathrates -- Index.…”
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Drawing School : a comprehensive drawing course. by Dowdalls, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Process & Procedure; Getting Started; Gesture & Contour Line Drawing; Learning to ""See; Materials; How We See & Interpret; Proportion & Size Relationships; Drawing Circles in Perspective; Ellipses: Foreshortened Circles; Perspective & the Picture Plane; Part I: Perspective; Part II: The Picture Plane & the XY Grid; Composition; Elements of Composition; Principles of Composition; Graphite Tonal Application; Value & Light Logic; How to Construct a Grid; Ink Line & Tone Application; Ink; Charcoal; Cast Drawing.…”
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Slavery in the city : architecture and landscapes of urban slavery in North America

Table of Contents: “…Chappell -- "Appropriated to the use of the colored people" : urban slave housing in the north / John Michael Vlach -- Close quarters : master and slave space in eighteenth-century Annapolis / Clifton Ellis -- Understanding antebellum Charleston's backlots through light, sound, and action / Gina Haney -- Urban sites of slavery in antebellum Texas / Kenneth Hafertepe -- Slavery in Knoxville, Tennessee : in, but not entirely of, the south / Charles H. …”
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Negotiating Arab-Israeli peace : patterns, problems, possibilities by Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: historical patterns -- Hot wars and a cold peace: the Camp David peace process, 1977-1979 -- Mission impossible: the 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement -- Premature peacemaking: the 1987 Hussein-Peres Agreement (The London Document) -- Setting the peace table: the Madrid Conference and Washington talks, 1991-1993 -- Out of the shadows and into the light: the Jordanian-Israeli peace process, 1993-1994 -- Judgment of Solomon: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, 1993-1996 -- Conclusion: peace in the making -- Epilogue: the beginning of the Netanyahu-Arafat era: June 1996-January 1997 -- App. 1. …”
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The (Well) Informed Piano : Artistry and Knowledge. by Henriques, Miguel G.

Table of Contents: “…THE (WELL) INFORMED PIANO; Table of Contents; Preface; Operative Thoughts; Units and Wholeness; Issues on Music Interpretation's Ethics; The Approach to a Musical Piece; The Performance Project; A Performance Study Syllabus; Form, Aesthetic and Style; Repertoires; Pianistic Technical Learnings; Questioning; Sound and Concept: A Complicity; Study of Components; The Mind; Piano Practice Work; Daily Routine; Diversified Finger Exercises; Rapid Passages; Rhythm; Sound Quality; Other Specific Practice Work; Piano Actions Heavy and Light; The Consciousness of Love; The Spheres in The Loser.…”
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Witnessing the American Century Via Berlin, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and the Straits of Florida by Brady, Allen Colby, Capt., 1929-, Quarles, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…A flash of orange light -- Heartbreak Hotel -- The code -- Little Vegas -- My friend Fred and our pet spider -- To China in the springtime -- An exotic world -- War -- Academy man -- Boring holes in the sky -- Operation Hardtack -- Old, bold pilots -- Bahia de Cochinos -- Greek games -- Brinkmanship -- Good morning, Vietnam -- The Third Geneva Convention -- Uncle Ho -- The Cuban program -- Your blue suit -- Escape -- The Bob and Ed show -- Independence and happiness, but not freedom -- Living with prosperity -- Son Tay Raid -- Release -- Homecoming -- Matwing One -- A new life, a new Navy -- Retirement -- Mariel Boatlift -- So much for retirement -- Reunion -- "Where do we get such men?" …”
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Banking Systems in the Crisis : the Faces of Liberal Capitalism. by Konzelmann, Suzanne J.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 The 'not so global' crisis; 2 The return of 'financialized' liberal capitalism; 3 The United States: 'with freedom and liberty for all'; 4 The United Kingdom: Thatcherism -- 'a heavy hand and a light touch'; 5 Ireland: crisis in the Irish banking system; 6 New Zealand: staying in the black; 7 Canada: 'bank bashing' is a popular sport; 8 Australia: economic liberalization and financialization -- an introduction; 9 Australia versus the US and UK: the kangaroo economy.…”
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