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Go figure! New directions in advertising rhetoric

Table of Contents: “…DeRosia -- Rhetrickery and rhetruth in soap operas / Barbara B. Stern -- What the symbol can't, the icon can / Val Larsen -- A model of the cognitive and emotional processing of rhetorical works in advertising / Bruce A. …”
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Architectural variability in the Southeast

Table of Contents: “…Reed -- An experimental perspective on Mississippian small pole structures / Dennis B. Blanton and Tom H. Gresham -- Typology, chronology, and technological changes of Mississippian domestic architecture in west-central Alabama / Cameron H. …”
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From Sofia to Jaffa : The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel / by Haskell, Guy H., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Part III: The Jews of Bulgaria in IsraelChapter 9: Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 10: Components of Identity; Chapter 11: Folklore and Identity; Epilogue; Appendix A: Statistics; Appendix B: List of Informants; Appendix C: Two Interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Social Scientific Works; Bulgarian Jewry; Index…”
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Genocide : New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences /

Table of Contents: “…Dark side of humans / Ton Zwaan -- Genocide, an enduring problem of our age / Uğur Ümit Üngör -- Ethnic nationalism and genocide : constructing "the other" in Romania and Serbia / Diana Oncioiu -- Demonic transitions : how ordinary people can commit extraordinary evil / Christophe Busch -- State deviancy and genocide : the state as a shelter and a prison / Kjell Anderson -- Hunting specters : paranoid purges in the Filipino communist guerrilla movement / Alex de Jong -- Smashing the enemies : the organization of violence in Democratic Kampuchea / Sandra Korstjens -- Sexual violence in the Nazi genocide : gender, law, and ideology / Franziska Karpinski & Elysia Ruvinsky -- Particularistic and integrative struggles over memory in Sarajevo / Laura Boerhout -- Ingando : re-educating the perpetrators in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide / Suzanne Hoeksema -- Unravelling atrocity : between transitional justice and history in Rwanda and Sierra Leone / Thijs B. Bouwknegt -- Epilogue / Philip Spencer.…”
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Critical tax theory an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Not Color- or gender-neutral : new tax treatment of employment discrimination damages / Karen B. Brown -- Taxing housework / Nancy C. Staudt -- The marital deduction QTIP provisions : illogical and degrading to women / Wendy C. …”
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Introduction to the explicit finite element method for nonlinear transient dynamics by Wu, Shen R., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: PART 1 Fundamentals1 Introduction1.1 Era of Simulation and Computer Aided Engineering1.2 Preliminaries2 Framework of Explicit Finite Element Method for Nonlinear Transient Dynamics2.1 Transient Structural Dynamics2.2 Variational Principles for Transient Dynamics2.3 Finite Element Equations and the Explicit Procedures2.4 Main Features of the Explicit Finite Element Method2.5 Assessment of Explicit Finite Element MethodPART 2 Element Technology3 Four-Node Shell Element (Reissner-Mindlin Plate Theory)3.1 Fundamentals of Plates and Shells3.2 Linear Theory of R-M Plate3.3 Interpolation for Four-Node R-M Plate Element3.4 Reduced Integration and Selective Reduced Integration3.5 Perturbation Hourglass Control - Belytschko-Tsay (B-T) Element3.6 Physical Hourglass Control - Belytschko-Leviathan (B-L) (QPH) Element3.7 Shear Projection Method - Bathe-Dvorkin (B-D) Element3.8 Assessment of Four-Node R-M Plate Element4 Three-Node Shell Element (Reissner-Mindlin Plate Theory)4.1 Fundamentals of a Three-Node C0 Element4.2 Decomposition Method for C0 Triangular Element with One Point Integration4.3 Discrete Kirchhoff Triangular (DKT) Element4.4 Assessment of Three-Node R-M Plate Element5 Eight-Node Solid Element5.1 Trilinear Interpolation for the Eight-Node Hexahedron Element5.2 Locking Issues of the Eight-Node Solid Element5.3 One- Point Reduced Integration and the Perturbed Hourglass Control5.4 Assumed Strain Method and Selective / Reduced Integration5.5 Assumed Deviatoric Strain5.6 An Enhanced Assumed Strain Method5.7 Taylor Expansion of Assumed Strain about the Element Center5.8 Evaluation of Eight-Node Solid Element6 Two-Node Element6.1 Truss and Rod Element6.2 Timoshenko Beam Element6.3 Spring Element6.4 Spot Weld ElementPART 3 Material Models7 Material Model of Plasticity7.1 Fundamentals of Plasticity7.2 Constitutive Equations7.3 Software Implementation7.4 Evaluation of Shell Elements with Plastic Deformation8 Continuum Mechanics Model of Ductile Damage8.1 Concept of Damage Mechanics8.2 Gurson's Model8.3 Chow's Isotropic Model of Continuum Damage Mechanics8.4 Chow's Anisotropic Model of Continuum Damage Mechanics9 Models of Nonlinear Materials9.1 Vicoelasticity9.2 Polymer and Engineering Plastics9.3 Rubber9.4 Foam9.5 Honeycomb9.6 Laminated GlazingPART 4 Contact and Constraint Conditions10 Three-Dimensional Surface Contact10.1 Examples of Contact Problems10.2 Description of Contact Conditions10.3 Variational Principle for the Dynamic Contact Problem10.4 Penalty Method and the Regularization of Variational Inequality11 Numerical Procedures for Three-Dimensional Surface Contact11.1 A Contact Algorithm with Slave Node Searching Master Segment11.2 A Contact Algorithm with Master Segment Searching Slave Node11.3 Method of Contact Territory and Defense Node11.4 Pin- Ball Contact Algorithm11.5 Edge (Line Segment) Contact11.6 Evaluation of Contact Algorithm with Penalty Method12 Kinematic Constraint Conditions12.1 Rigid Wall12.2 Rigid Body12.3 Explicit Finite Element Procedure with Constraint Conditions12.4 Application Examples with Constraint Conditions.…”
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Strategic approaches in coronary intervention /

Table of Contents: “…Adams, David E. Kandzari, and Daniel B. Mark -- Coronary bypass surgery in the era of drug-eluting stents / Bruce W. …”
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Manual of commercial methods in clinical microbiology /

Table of Contents: “…Role of the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the regulation of clinical microbiology devices / Kathleen B. Whitaker, Sally A. Hojvat, and Estelle Russek-Cohen -- Commercial blood culture systems and methods / Micheal L. …”
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Innovative Medicine Basic Research and Development /

Table of Contents: “…Linear Polyubiquitination: a Crucial Regulator of NF-kB Activation -- 5. VCP, a major ATPase in the cells, as a novel drug target for currently incurable disorders -- 6. …”
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Builders of Ohio : A Biographical History /

Table of Contents: “…Pendleton and the resurrection of the democratic party / Robert Sawrey -- B.F. Goodrich and the industrialization of Ohio / Mansel G. …”
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Builders of Ohio : A Biographical History /

Table of Contents: “…Pendleton and the resurrection of the democratic party / Robert Sawrey -- B.F. Goodrich and the industrialization of Ohio / Mansel G. …”
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Shah Abbas the ruthless king who became an Iranian legend / by Blow, David

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The New Cambridge modern history. : the rise of great Britain and Russia.

Table of Contents: “…The counter-reformation and price revolution, 1559-1610, edited by R. B. Wernham.--v. 4. The decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609-48/59, edited by J. …”

Better living through economics

Table of Contents: “…Blank -- Better living through monetary economics / John B. Taylor -- The greatest auction in history / R. …”
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Stillbirth prediction, prevention and management /

Table of Contents: “…Redline -- Etiology/causes : congenital anomalies / Michael Varner and Janice L.B. Byrne -- Management of the patient with a stillbirth : workup of the patient with a stillbirth / Robert M. …”
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Jewish thought in dialogue essays on thinkers, theologies, and moral theories / by Shatz, David

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Early Italian painting by Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896

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Bovine genomics

Table of Contents: “…Womack -- Linkage mapping / Stephanie McKay and Robert Schnabel -- The bovine X and Y chromosomes / Abel Ponce DeLeon and Wansheng Liu -- Comparative genomics and evolution / Denis Larkin -- Sequencing the bovine genome / Kim Worley, Richard Gibbs -- Bovine genome architecture / Dave Adelson -- Bovine epigenetics and epigenomics / Xiuchun Tian -- Mapping quantitative trait loci / Joel Weller -- Genome wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium in cattle / M.E. Goddard and B.J. Hayes -- Genomic selection in beef cattle / Jerry Taylor ... et al. -- Impact of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing on the identification of genes and variants underlying phenotypic variation in domestic cattle / Michel Georges.…”
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Increasing persistence research-based strategies for college student success / by Habley, Wesley R.

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Biocomplexity of plant-fungal interactions

Table of Contents: “…Simard -- Biology of mycoheterotrophic and mixotrophic plants / Hugues B. Massicotte ... [et al.] -- Fungi and leaf surfaces / Ryan W. …”
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