When the sky began to roar by Bach, Alice

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Statesman by Plato

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Supernova! by Lampton, Christopher

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Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Samojlik, Tomasz, Fedotova, Anastasia, Daszkiewicz, Piotr, Rotherham, Ian D.

Table of Contents: “…The historical background: BPF as a royal hunting ground, access rights, types of use (haymaking, beekeeping), shifts in management in the 18th century, fall of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- 3.2. …”
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Power equipment engine technology by Abdo, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction To Power Equipment Engine Technology: -- Learning objectives -- Introduction -- Brief history of the internal combustion engine: -- Birth of the internal combustion engine -- Career opportunities in the power equipment engine industry: -- Opportunities in dealerships -- Power equipment industry education and certification: -- Equipment & Engine Training Council -- Summary -- Chapter 1: Review questions -- Chapter 2: Safety First: -- Learning objectives -- Introduction -- Safety attitude -- Fire safety: -- Fire triangle -- Four fire classes -- Using a fire extinguisher -- Hazardous chemicals: -- Right-to-know laws -- Electrical safety -- Exhaust gas safety -- Safe operation of equipment -- Good housekeeping practices -- Handling heavy objects and materials -- Using personal protective equipment: -- Protecting your eyes and face -- Protecting your lungs -- Protecting your hearing -- Proper attire -- Protecting your feet and legs -- Protecting your hands and arms -- Using tools safely: -- Using hand tools safely -- Using power tools safely -- Compressed air safety -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Review questions -- Chapter 3: Tools: -- Learning objectives -- Introduction -- Basic hand tools: -- Wrenches -- Screwdrivers -- Pliers -- Hammers -- Punches and chisels -- Clamps and vises -- Cutting tools -- Power tools: -- Drills -- Drill press -- Bench grinder -- Air tools -- Special tools: -- Pullers -- Precision measuring tools -- Test instruments -- Purchasing tools -- Storing tools -- Service information library -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Review questions -- Chapter 4: Measuring Systems, Fasteners And Thread Repair: -- Learning objectives -- Introduction -- Measurement systems: -- Conventional system -- Metric system -- Fasteners: -- Nuts and bolts of bolts and nuts -- Fastener anatomy -- Thread types -- Bolt grades -- Bolts types -- Nuts -- Washers -- Thread-locking agents and sealers -- Inspection and cleaning of threaded fasteners -- Stresses on threaded fasteners: -- Preload -- Tips for working with threaded fasteners -- Tightening and torque: -- Torque -- Torque wrenches -- Repairing and replacing broken fasteners: -- Screw extractors -- Drilling and re-tapping -- Thread inserts -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Review questions -- Chapter 5: Basic Engine Operation And Configurations: -- Learning objectives -- Basic engine operation: -- Reciprocating engines -- Four-stroke basic engine operation -- Two-stroke basic engine operation -- Engine ratings: -- Work -- Horsepower -- Torque -- Engine displacement -- Compression ratio -- Basic four-stroke engine components: -- Cylinder block/crankcase -- Crankshaft -- Seals -- Bearings -- Gaskets -- Piston -- Cylinder head -- Counter-balancer -- Starting devices -- Basic two-stroke engine components: -- Cylinder block/crankcase -- Crankshaft -- Seals and bearings -- Gaskets -- Starting devices -- Piston -- Cylinder and cylinder head -- Engine cooling: -- Air-cooled engines -- Liquid-cooled engines -- Engine configurations: -- Single cylinder engines -- Horizontally opposed twin-cylinder engines -- V-twin engines -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Review questions --…”
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ICTE 2015 : proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Transportation Engineering : September 26-27, 2015, Dalian, China

Table of Contents: “…Acceleration Length Model of an Eight-Lane Freeway with a Two-Lane Ramp Based on Driving Behavior -- Hypermap Model for Geological Environment Recognition and Railway Location Technology -- BRT Approach Capacity Calculation Method at an Intersection in an Elastic Route BRT System -- Integrated Simulation Platform of VISSIM, VC ++, and MATLAB -- Intersection Signal Priority Mode of Trams on Condition of Delays -- Performance of Left-Turning Motor Vehicles from a Minor Road Approach at Non-Signalized At-Grade Intersections -- Bicyclists' Running Red Lights at Signalized Intersections -- A Parking Space Detection Algorithm Based on Magnetic Sensors -- Detection and Compensation for Coded Odometer Errors Due to Train Wheel Slips and Slides -- Evaluation of the Information Transfer Ability of a High-Speed Railway Dispatching System Based on the Structural Entropy Theory -- Optimizing Traffic Organization in Urban Intersections : A Simulation Study -- Prediction of Market Segmentation Based on Attitudes towards Bus Trips and Risk Preference in an Urban Transit System by Bayesian Network -- Transfer Study of Public Transport Modes -- Optimal Path Choice Based on Multi-Modal Public Transport A Case Study of the Chengdu Qinghua Road Area -- Short-Time Traffic Flow Forecasting Based on the K-Nearest Neighbor Model -- Impact Analysis of a Downstream Stretching Segment on Traffic Capacity at a Signalized Intersection -- Correlation between Road Networks' Structural Characteristics and the Distribution of Traffic Volume Based on ArcGIS -- Speed Guiding-Based Multi-Objective Coordinated Control Strategy for Tram Operation at an Intersection -- A Method of Intersection Traffic Volume Statistics Using Aerial Video -- Generalized Speed-Density Models for Urban Freeways under Rainy Weather.…”
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Portraits of hope : Armenians in the contemporary world

Table of Contents: “…La Femme révoltée : Human Rights Activist and President of the Armenian PEN-Club, Anna Hakobyan (Yerevan); Rainer Hermann Chapter 15. …”
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Rough Guides Snapshot Belgium Brussels by Guides, Rough

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Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture

Table of Contents: “…. -- Vargas, Chavela -- Vasconcelos, José -- Vázquez Gómez, Francisco -- Velasco, Luis De, the Elder -- Velasco, Luis De, the Younger -- Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel -- Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic Mesoamerican -- Victoria, Guadalupe -- Victorio -- Vidaurri, Santiago -- Villa, Francisco (Pancho) -- Villagran Family -- Villaurrutia, Xavier -- Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo -- Virgin of Los Remedios -- Visual Arts: 1910-37, the Revolutionary Tradition -- Visual Arts: 1920-45, Art Outside the Revolutionary Tradition -- Visual Arts: 1945-96 -- Visual Arts: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Academic Art -- Visual Arts: Mesoamerica -- Visual Arts: Seventeenth Century -- Visual Arts: Sixteenth Century -- Wars of Independence -- Wars of Reform (Three Years War) -- Water Rights in New Spain -- Wilson, Henry Lane -- Women's Status and Occupation: 1821-1910 -- Women's Status and Occupation: 1910-96 -- Women's Status and Occupation: Indian Women in New Spain -- Women's Status and Occupation: Mesoamerica -- Women's Status and Occupation: Spanish Women in New Spain -- Yáñez, Agustín -- Zapata, Emiliano -- Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas -- Zavala, Lorenzo de -- Zedillo Ponce de León, Ernesto -- Zumárraga, Juan de.…”
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The jazz singer

Table of Contents: “….) -- Hazel Green & Company (1927, 8 min.) -- The night court (1927, 10 min.) -- The Police Quartette (1927, 7 min.) -- When East meets West (1928, 9 min.) -- Adele Rowland : stories in song (1928, 10 min.) -- The Jazzmania Quintette (1928, 10 min.) -- The Ingenues : the Band Beautiful (1928, 9 min.) -- Chips of the old block (1928, 8 min.) -- Dick Rich and his Melodious Monarchs (1928, 8 min.) -- Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors (1928, 9 min.) -- The Beau Brummels (1928, 8 min.) -- Roof Garden Revue (1929, 10 min.) -- My bag o' tricks (1929, 10 min.) -- Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts (1929, 7 min.) -- Sol Violinsky : the eccentric entertainer (1929, 8 min.) -- At the seashore (1929, 9 min.) -- Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats (1929, 7 min.) -- Baby Rose Marie, the child wonder (1929, 8 min.) -- Lambchops (1929, 8 min.) -- The happy Hottentots (1930, 11 min.).…”

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The jazz singer

Table of Contents: “….) -- Hazel Green & Company (1927, 8 min.) -- The night court (1927, 10 min.) -- The Police Quartette (1927, 7 min.) -- When East meets West (1928, 9 min.) -- Adele Rowland : stories in song (1928, 10 min.) -- The Jazzmania Quintette (1928, 10 min.) -- The Ingenues : the Band Beautiful (1928, 9 min.) -- Chips of the old block (1928, 8 min.) -- Dick Rich and his Melodious Monarchs (1928, 8 min.) -- Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors (1928, 9 min.) -- The Beau Brummels (1928, 8 min.) -- Roof Garden Revue (1929, 10 min.) -- My bag o' tricks (1929, 10 min.) -- Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts (1929, 7 min.) -- Sol Violinsky : the eccentric entertainer (1929, 8 min.) -- At the seashore (1929, 9 min.) -- Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats (1929, 7 min.) -- Baby Rose Marie, the child wonder (1929, 8 min.) -- Lambchops (1929, 8 min.) -- The happy Hottentots (1930, 11 min.).…”

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Great jobs for everyone 50+ : finding work that keeps you happy and healthy and pays the bills by Hannon, Kerry

Table of Contents: “…Bartending/Waiting TablesBlogger -- Bookkeeper -- Bridge Tutor -- Call Center Tech Representative -- Campground Worker -- Car Transporter -- Caterer -- Cruise Liners -- Dietician and Nutritionist -- Eco-Landscaper -- Event Planner -- Fitness Trainer -- Food Critic/Food Blogger -- Food Stylist -- Front Desk Clerk/Night Auditor -- Gift Wrapper -- Green Building Consultant -- Hairstylist -- Handy Jack/Handy Jill -- Holiday Decorator -- Human Resource Manager -- Librarian Assistant/Aide -- Limo Driver -- Manicurist and Pedicurist…”
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The HISOFE dictionary of midnight politics : expibasketical theories on Afrikentication and African unity by Fossungu, Peter Ateh-Afac

Table of Contents: “…Language and Communication Politics: The Left-in-Forest Nightly Meeting; The Congo-Issa Story: Learning the Hard Way Is Learning the Best Way?…”
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Processing politics : learning from television in the Internet age by Graber, Doris A. (Doris Appel), 1923-2018

Table of Contents: “…4.4 Real and Imagined Picture Contribution -- 5.1 Satisfaction with Television Programming, 1998 (1994) -- 5.2 Politically Informative Segments on Typical Nightly National Newscasts, 1997-98 -- 5.3 Hours of Politically Relevant Programming on Weekdays and Weekends -- 6.1 High Public Attentiveness to Major News Stories, 1986-2000 -- 6.2 Low Public Attentiveness to Major News Stories, 1986-2000 -- 6.3 Selective versus Routine News Attention, 1998 -- 6.4 Close Attention to Various News Topics, 2000 -- 6.5 Profile of 10:00 P.M. …”
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Air Transport and Operations : Proceedings of the Third International Air Transport and Operations Symposium 2012

Table of Contents: “…Scheduling a Hybrid Flowshop with Parallel Machines for Aircraft Assembly ProductionSurplus Value Sensitivity and Subsystem Analysis; Subliminal Control on CDA Final Descent Operations; Adaptive Automation Support for Time-Based Operations in ATC; Optimizing Nightly Schiphol Traffic Through Time Based Operations; Concept of Operations for Air Traffic Management by Managing Uncertainty Through Multiple Metering Points; The Turkish Aviation System and the Strategy of Turkish Airlines; Safety Management as an Aspect of Business Management.…”
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Freakery : cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body

Table of Contents: “…Textual uses of freaks -- "One of us": Tod Browning's Freak / Joan Hawkins -- An American tail: freaks, gender, and the incorporation of history in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love / Rachel Adams -- Freaking feminism: the life and loves of a she-devil and nights at the circus as narrative freak shows / Shirley Peterson -- Teaching freaks / Brian Rosenberg -- Relocations of the freak show -- The dime museum freak show reconfigured as talk show / Andrea Stulman Dennett -- Freaks in space: "extraterrestrialism" and "deep-space multiculturalism" / Jeffrey A. …”


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Mediating vulnerability : comparative approaches and questions of genre

Table of Contents: “…Writing in a minor key -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 The cryptographic narrative in video games: the player as detective -- Narrative cryptography -- Structure of cryptographic narrative within video games -- The function of cryptographic narrative in video games -- The case of Five Nights at Freddy's -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Gameography -- 11 Narrating pornographic images: photographic description and ekphrasis in De fotograaf by Jef Geeraerts -- Visuality in pornographic prose -- Literature and photography…”
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The Irish book in English, 1800-1891

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- Ulster-Scots literature / Frank Ferguson -- James Clarence Mangan / Jacques Chuto -- Samuel Ferguson's Hibernian nights' entertainments / Eve Patten -- The anthology and the Duanaire / Margaret Kelleher -- The Royal Irish Academy and antiquarianism / Elizabeth Tilley -- John O'Donovan's edition of The annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the four masters / Dermot McGuinne -- Margaret Cusack and Catholic-Nationalist history / Patrick Maume -- The national curriculum / John Logan -- Children's literature / Padraic Whyte -- Science / Enda Leaney -- The industrial resources of Ireland by Robert Kane / Juliana Adelman -- Ordnance survey maps and official reports / Patrick J. …”


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The school-home connection : forging positive relationships with parents by Olender, Rosemary A., Elias, Jacquelyn, Mastroleo, Rosemary D.

Table of Contents: “…; Quick, Easy, and Routine Daily Documentation Methods; Weekly or Monthly Newsletters; Specialized Daily Contacts; Conferences; DVDs/CDs; Back-to-School Nights and Open Houses; Summary; 8. Connecting Home and School; Levels of Parent Participation; Level 1: General Parental Support of School Activities; Level 2: Parental Involvement in Daily School Events; Level 3: Parental Involvement in Decision-Making Processes; Summary; 9. …”
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Violence and dystopia : mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary western dystopian narratives by Cojocaru, Daniel, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Ballard -- 4.1.1 High-Rise -- 4.1.2 Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come -- 4.2 Stewart Home -- 4.2.1 Come Before Christ and Murder Love -- 4.2.2 Defiant Pose, Red London and Blow Job -- 4.3 David Peace -- 4.3.1 The Red Riding Quartet -- 4.3.2 The Miners' Strike of 1984/85 -- 4.3.3 Battling to the End -- 4.3.4 GB84 -- 4.3.5 A Note on Hope in the Red Riding Quartet -- Chapter Five -- 5.1 Radon Daughters -- 5.2 Margaret Atwood -- 5.2.1 The Handmaid's Tale -- 5.2.2 Oryx and Crake -- 5.3 Will Self -- 5.3.1 Girardian Themes in Will Self's Fiction -- 5.3.2 The Book of Dave -- Chapter Six -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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