Introducing Autodesk 3ds Max 2011. by Derakhshani, Dariush

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; About the Contributors; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Basic Concepts; Chapter 2: Your First 3ds Max Project; Chapter 3: The 3ds Max Interface; Chapter 4: Modeling in 3ds Max: Part I; Chapter 5: Modeling in 3ds Max: Part II; Chapter 6: Character Poly Modeling; Chapter 7: Materials and Mapping; Chapter 8: Introduction to Animation; Chapter 9: Character Studio and IK Animation; Chapter 10: 3ds Max Lighting; Chapter 11: 3ds Max Rendering; Chapter 12: Particles and Dynamics; Index; Color Gallery.…”
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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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Unexplained Mysteries

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Unexplained Mysteries (1:20) -- Periodic Hard Rain (2:46) -- Nemesis Theory (2:35) -- Looking for Nemesis (2:37) -- Time Travel (2:37) -- Fueled by Einstein's Theories (2:00) -- Model of Light Twisting Time and Space (2:22) -- Limits to Time Travel (1:41) -- Overcoming Paradoxes of Time (2:47) -- What Happened to Antimatter? …”
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Nanos, Nanos, Everywhere Applications of Nanotechnology

Table of Contents: “…World of Nanoscale (2:24) -- Nanoparticles and Art Restoration (5:23) -- Nanoparticles and Textiles (3:15) -- Nanoparticles and Materials Coating (2:11) -- Nanoparticles and Monitoring Systems (2:16) -- Nanoparticles and Composite Materials (4:05) -- Nanotechnology and Energy for Cars (2:52) -- Nanotechnology and Electronics (2:08) -- Limits of Silicon (2:15) -- Molecular Technology (2:24) -- Electronics in Imitation of Nature (2:12) -- Molecular Electronics (3:24) -- How to Light Up a Pickle: Organic LED (2:55) -- Nanotechnology and Social Relevance (1:54) -- Sun Power/Solar Cells (2:32) -- New Generation of Solar Cells (3:55) -- Nano-Revolution (2:56)…”
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In Search of History. Secret Brotherhood of Freemasons

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Freemasons (1:04) -- Prevalence of Masonic Symbols (1:49) -- Liberty, Fraternity, Equality (2:15) -- Military and Political Masons (3:03) -- Masons: Guardians of Democracy (2:29) -- Masonic Membership: From Darkness to Light (2:39) -- Origins of Freemasonry (2:19) -- America's Democracy and Masonic Ideals (7:48) -- Freemasons: Power and Secrecy (0:59) -- Freemasonry: Kidnap and Murder (6:49) -- Masons Subvert Justice (3:42) -- National Anti-Masonic Movement (2:47) -- Third Political Party (5:01) -- New Image for Freemasons (1:09) -- Masons Today (0:39) -- Credits: In Search of History: Secret Brotherhood of Freemasons (1:01)…”
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Sleepiness : When Your Brain Has a Mind of Its Own

Table of Contents: “…Drowsiness (2:11) -- Mechanisms of Drowsiness (3:25) -- Brain and Sleep (3:09) -- Sleep (2:39) -- Circadian Rhythm (3:02) -- Light and the Brain (3:04) -- Sleep Problems (3:49) -- Narcolepsy (2:43) -- Mice and Sleep Studies (4:36) -- Human Factor (3:14) -- Fatigue Risk (4:48) -- Other Factors Involved in Drowsiness (3:07) -- Mind Wandering (2:15) -- Monotony and the Brain (1:50) -- Humans Like Machines (1:26) -- Truck Driving in the Electronic Age (2:24) -- How to Stay Awake and Alert (2:54) -- Credits: Sleepiness: When Your Brain Has a Mind of Its Own (0:44)…”
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Black then : Blacks and Montreal, 1780-1880's by Mackey, Frank

Table of Contents: “…the truth about Rose -- Toujours L'Amour -- mister whisky himself -- if you say so -- Charlotte, she got the ball rolling -- one amazing Amazon -- charity didn't do it -- the world turned upside down -- the king of France -- just Julia -- Isaac the impossible -- cold case -- home at last -- a whole new light -- trim the Gardner -- Agent of the Liberator -- the Valentines' Day -- messing with dragons -- things you've got to wonder about -- Gabriel, be an angel and blow that horn -- bad news Lewis -- taking care of Roert -- Philomene's third birthday -- Jericho! …”
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Liffey Green Danube Blue : the Musical Life and Loves of Laszlo Gede. by Mac Máighistir Gede, Eibhlín

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Part 1; Europe in Turmoil; Chapter 1; Last Request; Chapter 2; Early Years; Chapter 3; War and Resistance; Chapter 4; Communism and Incarceration; Chapter 5; Escape and Stateless; Chapter 6; South Africa; Plate Section 1; Part 2; László and Eibhlín; Chapter 7; Ireland; Chapter 8; Parting of the Ways; Chapter 9; Separation by Grille; Chapter 10; Two Gold Rings; Plate Section 2; Chapter 11; Devotion and Duty; Part 3; Live and Let Live; Chapter 12; Life in Luxembourg; Chapter 13; A Great Light Goes Out; Epilogue; Plate Section 3.…”
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Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations by Cartelli, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Enslaving the Moor: Othello, Oroonoko, and the recuperation of intractability~Like Othello~: Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration and postcolonial self-fashioning; Conclusion; Decolonizing Shakespeare: My Son's Story, Children of Light, and late imperial romance; Notes; Works cited; Index.…”
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Limnology : lake and river ecosystems by Wetzel, Robert G.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Water as a substance -- Rivers and lakes-their distribution, origins, and forms -- Water economy -- Light in inland waters -- Fate of heat -- Water movements -- Structure and productivity of aquatic ecosystems -- Oxygen -- Salinity of inland waters -- Inorganic carbon complex -- Nitrogen cycle -- Phosphorus cycle -- Iron, sulfur, and silica cycles -- Planktonic communities: algae and cyanobacteria -- Planktonic communities: zooplankton and their interactions with fish -- Bacterioplankton -- Land-water interfaces larger plants -- Land-water interfaces: attached microorganisms, littoral algae, and zooplankton -- Shallow lakes and ponds -- Benthic animals and fish communities -- Detritus: organic carbon cycling and ecosystem metabolism -- Past productivity: paleoliminology -- Ontogeny of inland aquatic ecosystems --Inland waters: understanding is essential for the future.…”


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Protein-Lipid Interactions New Approaches and Emerging Concepts by Mateo, C. Reyes

Table of Contents: “….-7 Peptide-Lipid Interaction: Shedding Light into the Mode of Action and Cell Specificity of Antimicrobial Peptides -- 8 Structural and Functional Modulation of Ion Channels by Specific Lipids: from Model Systems to Cell Membranes.…”
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Soul of the man : Bobby "Blue" Bland by Farley, Charles, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Memphis Monday morning: 1945-1948 -- Loan me a helping hand: 1949-1952 -- Little boy blue: 1930-1945 -- Army blues: 1952-1954 -- Ain't it a good thing: 1955-1957 -- Dreamer: 1958-1960 -- Turn on your love light: 1961-1962 -- Stormy Monday blues: 1963-1964 -- Honky Tonk: 1965-1968 -- Touch of the blues: 1969-1972 -- Lead me on: 1973-1976 -- Getting' used to the blues: 1977-1984 -- Members only: 1985-1990 -- Walkin' & talkin' & singin' the blues: 1991-1992 -- Years of tears to go: 1993-1999 -- Funny how time slips away: 2000-2007 -- Farther up the road: 2008-.…”
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Planet earth seven ways to help save the world

Table of Contents: “…Climate Change and the World's Oceans (3:26) -- Climate Change and Water Issues in Africa (1:32) -- Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction (4:34) -- Protect the Planet: Water Conservation (0:47) -- Australian Rain Forest Bird Mimics Chainsaws (1:01) -- Deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest (2:29) -- Protect the Planet: Paper Towels and Plastic Bags (1:52) -- Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming (4:17) -- Cleaning Carbon Dioxide from the Air (3:19) -- Protect the Planet: Turn Out the Lights (2:51) -- Power from Alternative Energy Sources (5:43) -- Environmental Issues in China (5:08) -- Personal Responsibility for the Earth (1:49)…”
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Model Checking Software 29th International Symposium, SPIN 2023, Paris, France, April 26–27, 2023, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Binary Decision Diagrams -- Efficient Implementation of LIMDDs for Quantum Circuit Simulation -- ParaGnosis: A Tool for Parallel Knowledge Compilation -- Concurrency -- Model Checking Futexes -- Sound Concurrent Traces for Online Monitoring -- Testing -- Efficient Trace Generation for Rare-Event Analysis in Chemical Reaction Networks -- Accelerating black box testing with light-weight learning -- Synthesis -- WikiCoder: Learning to Write Knowledge-Powered Code -- Provable Correct and Adaptive Simplex Architecture for Bounded-Liveness Properties -- Explicit-state Model Checking -- Elimination of Detached Regions in Dependency Graph Verification -- Potency-Based Heuristic Search with Randomness for Explicit Model Checking -- GPUexplore 3.0: GPU Accelerated State Space Exploration for Concurrent Systems with Data.…”
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The archaeology of caves in Ireland by Dowd, Marion

Table of Contents: “…People in caves, caves in people -- Excursions into places of fearful darkness : 300 years investigating caves -- Caves and cave archaeology in Ireland -- Gathering the dead : the Mesolithic (8000-3900 BC) -- Thresholds to transformation : the Neolithic (3900-2400 BC) -- Journeying deeper into darkness : the Bronze Age (2400-600 BC) -- Eyes full of darkness : the Iron Age (600 BC-AD 400) -- Out of the darkness, into the light : the early Medieval period (AD 400-1169) -- Silent spaces or speaking volumes? …”
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Smile of the Buddha : Eastern philosophy and Western art from Monet to today by Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…John Cage, 1912-1992 -- Nam June Paik, 1932- -- Yoko Ono, 1933- -- Laurie Anderson, 1947- -- Light and insight. Agnes Martin, 1912-2004 -- Robert Irwin, 1928- -- Vija Celmins, 1938- -- Richard Tuttle, 1941-…”


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Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in Industry Practical Examples by Kaya, Durmuş, Çanka Kılıç, Fatma, Öztürk, Hasan Hüseyin

Table of Contents: “…I: Energy -- II: Energy Management -- III: Energy Audit -- IV: Energy Efficiency -- V: Energy Performance Certificate -- VI: Energy Efficiency Service Sector -- VII: Measuring Techniques and Measuring Instruments -- VIII: Fuels and Combustion -- IX: Energy Efficiency in Boilers -- X: Energy Efficiency in Furnaces -- XI: Energy Efficiency in Pumps -- XII: Energy Efficiency in Electric Motors -- XIII: Energy Efficiency in Pressurized Air Systems -- XIV: Energy Efficiency in Fans -- XV: Energy Saving with Variable Speed Driver Applications -- XVI: Energy Savings with Heat Insulation -- XVII: Waste Heat Recovery -- XVIII: Energy Efficiency in Water Heating-Distributing-Pressurizing Systems -- XIX: Energy Efficiency in Lighting -- XX: Energy Savings in Housing.…”
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Radical lace & subversive knitting by McFadden, David Revere

Table of Contents: “…/ David Revere McFadden -- Corporeal Constructions / Liz Collins ; Freddie Robins ; Erna van Sambeek ; Yoshiki Hishinuma ; Barbara Zucker ; Ruth Marshall -- Matters of scale / Annet Couwenberg ; Janet Echelman ; Dave Cole ; Althea Merback -- Light Constructions / Henk Wolvers ; Niels van Eijk ; Bennett Battaile -- Interconnections / Sabrina Gschwandtner ; Cat Mazza ; Françoise Dupre ; Shane Waltener -- Creative Deconstructions / Cal Lane ; Piper Shepard ; Elana Herzog ; Eugene van Veldhoven -- The Beauty of Complexity / Hildur Bjarnadottir ; Carson Fox ; Hilal Sami Hilal ; Edward Mayer ; Sheila Pepe ; Anne Wilson -- Index of Artists and Exhibited Works.…”


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Mathematical Studies in Nonlinear Wave Propagation. by Clemence, Dominic P.

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""List of Participants""; ""An Introduction to Wave Equations""; ""On the Zakharov-Shabat Eigenvalue Problem""; ""Solitons and Inverse Scattering Transform""; ""A Tail-Matching Method for the Linear Stability of Multi-Vector-Soliton Bound States""; ""Trapping Light with Grating Defects""; ""Thermo-Elastic-Plastic Transition""; ""Regularized Quasi-Newton Method with Continuous Inversion of F'+εI for Monotone Ill-Posed Operator Equations""; ""Transition Layers for a Singularly Perturbed Neutral Delay Differential Equation""…”
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Thomas Ewing Jr. : frontier lawyer and Civil War general by Smith, Ronald D., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…CHIEF JUSTICE AND A MAN NAMED LINCOLN; Part Two: They'd as Soon Fight the Devil as to Fight Kansas Men; 5 A WORLD WAS WATCHING; 6 EWING'S LIGHT ARTILLERY; 7 EXTERMINATE THEM, ROOT AND BRANCH; 8 THE VISIBLE INTERPOSITION OF GOD; 9 THERMOPYLAE OF THE WEST; Part Three: The Politics of Money; 10 DR. …”
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