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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's cultural leaders following a luxurious arts-oriented tour of Europe, crashes shortly after takeoff in Paris. In one fell swoop, most of the city's wealthiest residents perish. Left behind were children, spouses, lovers, friends, and a city on the cusp of great change. The Civil Rights movement was at its peak, the hedonism of the 60s was at its doorstep....
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
"Forty-something workaholic Sara Graves thought her chance for an outrageous life was over... until she met and married a charming Frenchman who left her widowed three weeks later. Suddenly she is the heiress to an estate she can't afford to keep and uncovering secrets she never wanted to know. Does she have the courage to leave her home, her country, and everything she's ever known for a second chance at family... and love?"--Author's website.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime in Cuba, Ana, Miguel, Zulema, and Juan learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed. In a tumultuous moment of history, we see the lasting effects of a revolution in Havana, the countryside, Miami, and New York. Their separate narratives build, overlap, and entwine to creat one inspiring story--an adventure...
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English
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"A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness. Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Roy's impressive American debut covers multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition. Three distinct sections revolve around Amulya, who runs an herbal medicine and fragrance business; his mentally ill wife, Kananbala, who spies on the goings-on of her English neighbors from the room Amulya keeps her locked in; their sons, Kamal and Nirmal; their wives; Nirmal's daughter Bakul, whose mother died in...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in in Atlanta. An earlier, minor traffic ticket served as a pretext for keeping King locked up, and he was transfered to Reidsville, the notorious Georgia state prison where Black inmates worked on chain gangs overseen by violent white guards. An emerging and controversial civil rights leader was languishing behind bars, and the campaigns of...
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. Over the next five months, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. Her case offered scientists a previously inaccessible window into the process of early visual development.
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) in 2 containers : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Richard Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban...
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Language
English
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"Proven tools to take your team and yourself to the next level Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a practical, no-nonsense guide to elevate your leadership skills and drive your team to their maximum potential. Before you can push your team to the max, you must push yourselfelite teams require elite leaders. This invaluable guide supplies the tools you need to develop effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and...
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Series
Publisher
Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Collective Action 2.0: The Impact of Social Media on Collective Action provides a balanced look into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action through avoiding technological determinism, utopianism, and fundamentalism, which impacts the current discourse. Recent events in different authoritarian regimes, such as Iran and Egypt, have drawn global attention to a developing phenomenon in collective action: people tend to organize through...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 740 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A people's history of life in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars"--
"A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old...
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Series
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 572 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Performance problems are rarely "problems" per se. They are more often "crises" during which you're pressured for results by a manager standing outside your cubicle while your phone rings with queries from the help desk. You won't have the time for a leisurely perusal of the manuals, nor to lean back and read a book on theory. What you need in that situation is a book of solutions, and solutions are precisely what Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning...
Publisher
Wiley-Scrivener
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Machine learning with big data technologies create new opportunities to understand the various data process related to medical or environmental aspects of agriculture. Machine learning as a field is now incredibly pervasive, with applications spanning from business intelligence to homeland security from analyzing biochemical interactions to structural monitoring of aging bridges, and from emissions to astrophysics, etc. As we are entering the Industrial...
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Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This user friendly guide introduces, explains, and demystifies the NEC4 contract on a practical, work-based level. Made for architects by an architect, it explores the best approach to collaborative and contractual partnering work practices. Alongside explanations of the contracts and clauses, it presents the key areas of distinction from alternative standard form contracts and examines the integrated project management principles that bring the NEC4...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly
Language
English
Description
On numerous online forums for JavaScript and DHTML, the majority of questions begin with "How do I ...?" This new Cookbook provides the answers. After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author and scripting pioneer Danny Goodman has compiled a list of problems that frequently vex scripters of various experience levels. He has now applied state-of-the-art ECMA and W3C DOM standards and used best practices to create this extensive collection...
20) Winning innovation: how innovation excellence propels an industry icon toward sustained prosperity
Author
Publisher
Productivity Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (352 pages)
Language
English
Description
Testa Della Corsa, an Italian bicycle company, makes the best racing bikes in the world. But after decades of market dominance, competitors have brought the industry leader back to the peloton. The company⁰́₉s second-generation owner longs for retirement, but a tired product lineup is pushing down profits and the firm⁰́₉s market value will never support his ride into the sunset. The flawed but beloved owner seeks out the counsel of an old...
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