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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvi, 910 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The fourth edition of the acknowledged leading book on solar engineering, this volume presents the basics of solar energy, then goes on to cover the technologies used to harvest this solar energy, store it, and deliver it, including photovoltaics, solar heaters, and cells. The new edition features an added chapter discussing a simulation problem, allowing students to apply the theory to real world systems. Other simulation problems are offered via...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
263 pages : map, portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Matisse portrait is looted by the Nazis from a family of art collectors in Paris, the eccentric Rosenwigs are thrust into tumult of war and separation, their fates intertwined with that of their beloved painting.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of Parisian jeweler Boivin, a jewelry designer created one of the most coveted pieces of jewelry in the world: the famous starfish pin. Created out of gold and encrusted with 71 cabochon rubies and 241 small amethysts, the starfish was distinctive because its five rays were articulated, meaning that they could curl and conform to the bustline or shoulder of the women who wore it. The House of Boivin made three of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Language
English
Description
Documents the life, career, and assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to public office in San Francisco. Milk was shot to death, along with mayor George Moscone, by city supervisor Dan White on Nov. 22, 1978; White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and was paroled in 1985. Examines Milk's life leading up to his assassination, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : color and black and white photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries, " the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Narrates the causes, progression and outcome of the first global war of the twentieth century by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
The authoritative and timely guide to ALM from Microsoft insiders and MVPs Written for software developers, this new edition shows how to use Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software modeling, testing, and deployment. The authors, including members of the ALM product team at Microsoft, put the focus on practical application of the tools on code samples, development scenarios, and automation scripting. The...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
33 DVDs (approximately 86 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
From England to the Mediterranean, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
x, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the tumultuous recent period in the art world during which pieces soared in value and resulted in multi-million-dollar sales that baffled buyers and sellers, in an account that offers insight into the behind-the-scenes politics of auctions.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm)
Language
Français
Description
"A progenitor of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the notion of what a movie can be, Varda forged a unique cinematic vocabulary that frequently blurs the boundaries between narrative and documentary, and entwines...
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