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Modern English war poetry by Kendall, Tim, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Auden's journeys to war -- Sky-conscious : poetry of the Blitz -- The vision of Keith Douglas -- Self-elegy : Keith Douglas and Sidney Keyes -- Fighting back over the same ground : Ted Hughes and war -- Geoffrey Hill's debts -- The few to profit : poets against war.…”
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The hamster revolution how to manage your email before it manages you / by Song, Mike, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…-- Harold's progress check -- Chaos in info-land -- Strategy 4 - file and find info fast with COTA -- A blue sky wrap up.…”
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Dean/Wolf Architects constructive continuum / by Dean, Kathryn, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robert McCarter -- Metropolitan montage: Virtual light loft ; Residence of sinuous substance ; Implied rotation townhouse ; Inverted warehouse townhouse ; Operable boundary ; Skyscraper nature ; Soho skyline loft ; Urban interface loft -- Extended thresholds loft ; Display/event gallery -- Landform logic: Contracted dwelling ; Inside/outside studio ; Spiral house ; Earth sky knot -- Constructive addendum -- Project credits.…”
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The hamster revolution how to manage your email before it manages you / by Song, Mike, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…-- Harold's progress check -- Chaos in info-land -- Strategy 4 - file and find info fast with COTA -- A blue sky wrap up.…”
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Dean/Wolf Architects constructive continuum / by Dean, Kathryn, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robert McCarter -- Metropolitan montage: Virtual light loft ; Residence of sinuous substance ; Implied rotation townhouse ; Inverted warehouse townhouse ; Operable boundary ; Skyscraper nature ; Soho skyline loft ; Urban interface loft -- Extended thresholds loft ; Display/event gallery -- Landform logic: Contracted dwelling ; Inside/outside studio ; Spiral house ; Earth sky knot -- Constructive addendum -- Project credits.…”
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Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / by Sobol, Valeria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : From the Island of Bornholm to Taman' : The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny -- A Gothic Prelude : Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm" -- In search of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation -- Ukraine : Russia's Uncanny Double -- On Mimicry and Ukrainians : Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel'sky's The Convent Graduate -- 'Tis Eighty Years Since : Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine.…”
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Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / by Sobol, Valeria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : From the Island of Bornholm to Taman' : The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny -- A Gothic Prelude : Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm" -- In search of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation -- Ukraine : Russia's Uncanny Double -- On Mimicry and Ukrainians : Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel'sky's The Convent Graduate -- 'Tis Eighty Years Since : Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine.…”
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Panoptic dreams streetscape video surveillance in Canada / by Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Monitoring programs in French Canada ; Sudbury's Lion's Eye in the Sky ; Kelowna and the constitutional debate about public-area video surveillance ; London's downtown camera project -- The spread of streetscape monitoring programs. …”
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The handbook of solitude : psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone /

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Panoptic dreams streetscape video surveillance in Canada / by Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Monitoring programs in French Canada ; Sudbury's Lion's Eye in the Sky ; Kelowna and the constitutional debate about public-area video surveillance ; London's downtown camera project -- The spread of streetscape monitoring programs. …”
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The handbook of solitude : psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone /

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Postscripts retrospections on time and place / by Root, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont) -- To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia) -- The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) -- The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) -- Here is New York (New York, New York) -- Anasazi (the Four Corners) -- Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) -- Shore lines (the Great Lakes) -- Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan) -- Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio) -- Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).…”
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Postscripts retrospections on time and place / by Root, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont) -- To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia) -- The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) -- The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) -- Here is New York (New York, New York) -- Anasazi (the Four Corners) -- Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) -- Shore lines (the Great Lakes) -- Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan) -- Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio) -- Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).…”
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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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Africa's infrastructure a time for transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Africa's infrastructure : a time for transformation -- The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic -- Meeting Africa's infrastructure needs -- Closing Africa's funding gap -- Dealing with poverty and inequality -- Building sound institutions -- Facilitating urbanization -- Deepening regional integration -- Information and communication technologies : a boost for growth -- Power : catching up -- Transport : more than the sum of its parts -- Roads : broadening the agenda -- Railways : looking for traffic -- Ports and shipping : landlords needed -- Airports and air transport : the sky's the limit -- Water resources : a common interest -- Irrigation : tapping potential -- Water supply : hitting the target? …”
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Africa's infrastructure a time for transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Africa's infrastructure : a time for transformation -- The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic -- Meeting Africa's infrastructure needs -- Closing Africa's funding gap -- Dealing with poverty and inequality -- Building sound institutions -- Facilitating urbanization -- Deepening regional integration -- Information and communication technologies : a boost for growth -- Power : catching up -- Transport : more than the sum of its parts -- Roads : broadening the agenda -- Railways : looking for traffic -- Ports and shipping : landlords needed -- Airports and air transport : the sky's the limit -- Water resources : a common interest -- Irrigation : tapping potential -- Water supply : hitting the target? …”
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Tiananmen moon inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / by Cunningham, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…I: New moon -- In search of the real China -- The new May fourth spirit -- Ten thousand bicycles -- II: Waxing moon -- Hunger strike -- Laying claim to the square -- Looking for Gorbachev -- Working-class heroes -- Rising tide of rebellion -- Everyone an emperor -- Breaking the fast -- III: Waning moon -- Martial law -- Provincial vagabonds -- Egg on the face of Mao -- Tiananmen headquarters -- Radical camp -- Last will and testament -- Clandestine interview -- Going underground -- Midnight rendezvous -- IV: No moon -- Troops are coming -- Of tanks and men -- Eve of destruction -- The sky is crying.…”
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End-to-end lean management a guide to complete supply chain improvement / by Trent, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Going with the flow -- Lean is the pits -- What goes around comes around -- Why push when you can pull -- Why push when you can pull: the lessons learned -- Lean takes to the skies -- Beam me up, Scotty -- Lean is electrifying -- You're choking me.…”
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The greening of Asia : the business case for solving Asia's environmental emergency / by Clifford, Mark, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: green shoots under soot-stained skies -- Introduction: energy: sun, wind and the end of coal -- The sun kings -- Blowin' in the wind -- Introduction: our human world: cities, buildings, wheels -- Cities in a garden -- Buildings for a greener Asia -- Asia on the move: cars and trains -- Introduction: nature : forests, farms and water -- "Water is more important than oil" -- The tropical challenge : saving Asia's lungs -- Epilogue: "adhere and prosper" : from black coal to green power -- Conclusion -- Appendix: companies to watch -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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