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Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Volume 1: Water Quality, Sediments, Sediment Contaminants, Oil and Gas Seeps, Coastal Habitats, Off...

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Dickens's London : Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity / by Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Arrivals (and Returns): London, Whitechapel, Blackheath, Blackfriars, Windsor Terrace, City Road, The Strand, Drury Lane, Fleet Street, Buckingham Street, the Adelphi, Custom House [Lower Thames Street], the Monument, Fish-Street Hill, Saint Paul's Cathedral -- B. Banking and Breakfast: Gray's Inn Square, Temple Bar, Strand Lane -- C. …”
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West of 98 : living and writing the new American West /

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Star struck / Peter Fish -- Dias de los muertos / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The San Francisco psyche / Harold Gilliam -- Three poems / Jane Hirshfield -- Maria Evangeliste / Greg Sarris -- Headed / Kris Saknussemm -- The sense of no place / Page Stegner.…”
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West of 98 : living and writing the new American West /

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Star struck / Peter Fish -- Dias de los muertos / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The San Francisco psyche / Harold Gilliam -- Three poems / Jane Hirshfield -- Maria Evangeliste / Greg Sarris -- Headed / Kris Saknussemm -- The sense of no place / Page Stegner.…”
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Unpopular Culture /

Table of Contents: “…; Martin Lüthe & Sascha Pöhlmann; Why We Talk the Talk We Talk; On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction-Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks; Martin Butler; Big Fish; On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway1; Dominika Ferens; How (Not) to Make People Like You; The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace; James Dorson; Dissenting Commodities; Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.…”
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast : Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley / by Oliver, Jeff, 1973-

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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast : Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley / by Oliver, Jeff, 1973-

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Unpopular Culture /

Table of Contents: “…; Martin Lüthe & Sascha Pöhlmann; Why We Talk the Talk We Talk; On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction-Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks; Martin Butler; Big Fish; On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway1; Dominika Ferens; How (Not) to Make People Like You; The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace; James Dorson; Dissenting Commodities; Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.…”
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Table of Contents: “…Radiocesium contamination of marine fish muscle and its effective elimination (S. Watabe, H. …”
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Table of Contents: “…Radiocesium contamination of marine fish muscle and its effective elimination (S. Watabe, H. …”
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The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 11 The Health Transition: A challenge to indigenous peoples in the Arctic -- Chapter 12 Uncertainties in Arctic socio-economic scenarios -- Chapter 13 Importance of consideration of climate change at managing fish stocks: A case of northern Russian fisheries.- Chapter 14 Preservation of territories and traditional activities of the northern indigenous peoples in the period of the Arctic industrial development -- Chapter 15 The Arctic journey – design experiments in the north -- Chapter 16 The Bicycle and the Arctic. …”
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The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 11 The Health Transition: A challenge to indigenous peoples in the Arctic -- Chapter 12 Uncertainties in Arctic socio-economic scenarios -- Chapter 13 Importance of consideration of climate change at managing fish stocks: A case of northern Russian fisheries.- Chapter 14 Preservation of territories and traditional activities of the northern indigenous peoples in the period of the Arctic industrial development -- Chapter 15 The Arctic journey – design experiments in the north -- Chapter 16 The Bicycle and the Arctic. …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…A young woman from rural Tennessee connects to her Appalachian upbringing in the 1980s while participating in theatrical village weddings in central Turkey -- A fine kettle of fish / Trici Venola. Love and chaos are one in the same in Istanbul for a dramatic Kurd and a midlife Los Angeleno -- Tying the knot, Ottoman princess-style / Anastasia M. …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…A young woman from rural Tennessee connects to her Appalachian upbringing in the 1980s while participating in theatrical village weddings in central Turkey -- A fine kettle of fish / Trici Venola. Love and chaos are one in the same in Istanbul for a dramatic Kurd and a midlife Los Angeleno -- Tying the knot, Ottoman princess-style / Anastasia M. …”
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Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Crabtree -- The bone is the beast : animal amulets and ornaments in power and magic / Alice Choyke -- Skeletal manipulations of dogs at the Bronze Age site of Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary / Maria Vretemark and Sabine Sten -- Bovid skulls in southeastern European Neolithic dwellings : the case of the subterranean circular room at Promachon-Topolniča in the Strymon Valley, Greece / Katerina Trantalidou -- Symbolism of sharks for fishing-gatherer groups from the Sao Paulo coast, Brazil / Manoel M.B. …”
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Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Crabtree -- The bone is the beast : animal amulets and ornaments in power and magic / Alice Choyke -- Skeletal manipulations of dogs at the Bronze Age site of Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary / Maria Vretemark and Sabine Sten -- Bovid skulls in southeastern European Neolithic dwellings : the case of the subterranean circular room at Promachon-Topolniča in the Strymon Valley, Greece / Katerina Trantalidou -- Symbolism of sharks for fishing-gatherer groups from the Sao Paulo coast, Brazil / Manoel M.B. …”
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Visual diagnosis in emergency and critical care medicine

Table of Contents: “…Pain out of proportion to examination -- Pleuritic chest pain in a young adult male -- Eye pain following a bar fight -- Forearm fracture after falling -- An elderly woman with groin pain -- Painful facial rash -- Confusion, anemia, and abdominal pain in a toddler -- Cardiotoxic effects following caustic ingestion -- Rash and joint pain in a child -- X-ray findings after laparoscopy -- Injector injury to the hand -- Chest pain in a middle-aged male patient with ST segment elevation -- Deformed globe following trauma -- Adult male with atraumatic lower back pain and leg weakness -- Fever and rash in child -- Yellow eyes and skin -- Fishing in the stomach -- Agitation in a botanist -- Skin target lesions -- Adult male with a sudden, severe headache -- Get them undressed! …”
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Visual diagnosis in emergency and critical care medicine

Table of Contents: “…Pain out of proportion to examination -- Pleuritic chest pain in a young adult male -- Eye pain following a bar fight -- Forearm fracture after falling -- An elderly woman with groin pain -- Painful facial rash -- Confusion, anemia, and abdominal pain in a toddler -- Cardiotoxic effects following caustic ingestion -- Rash and joint pain in a child -- X-ray findings after laparoscopy -- Injector injury to the hand -- Chest pain in a middle-aged male patient with ST segment elevation -- Deformed globe following trauma -- Adult male with atraumatic lower back pain and leg weakness -- Fever and rash in child -- Yellow eyes and skin -- Fishing in the stomach -- Agitation in a botanist -- Skin target lesions -- Adult male with a sudden, severe headache -- Get them undressed! …”
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Fatigue of materials and structures application to design and damage /

Table of Contents: “…Superposition" method -- 3.4.5.Superposition method: applicable examples -- 3.4.6.Numerical application exercise -- 3.5.Performing some "damage tolerance" calculations -- 3.5.1.Complementarity of fatigue and damage tolerance -- 3.5.2.Safety coefficients to understand curve a = f(N) -- 3.5.3.Acquisition of the material parameters -- 3.5.4.Negative parameter: corrosion -- "corrosion fatigue" -- 3.6.Application to the residual strength of thin sheets -- 3.6.1.Planar panels: Feddersen diagram -- 3.6.2.Case of stiffened panels -- 3.7.Propagation of cracks subjected to random loading in the aeronautic industry -- 3.7.1.Modeling of the interactions of loading cycles -- 3.7.2.Comparison of predictions with experimental results -- 3.7.3.Rainflow treatment of random loadings -- 3.8.Conclusion -- 3.8.1.Organization of the evolution of "damage tolerance" -- 3.8.2.Structural maintenance program -- 3.8.3.Inspection of structures being used -- 3.9.Damage tolerance within the gigacyclic domain -- 3.9.1.Observations on crack propagation -- 3.9.2.Propagation of a fish-eye with regards to damage tolerance -- 3.9.3.Example of a turbine disk subjected to vibration -- 3.10.Bibliography -- ch. 4 Defect Influence on the Fatigue Behavior of Metallic Materials / Gilles Baudry -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Some facts -- 4.2.1.Failure observation -- 4.2.2.Endurance limit level -- 4.2.3.Influence of the rolling reduction ratio and the effect of rolling direction -- 4.2.4.Low cycle fatigue: SN curves -- 4.2.5.Wohler curve: existence of an endurance limit -- 4.2.6.Summary -- 4.3.Approaches -- 4.3.1.First models -- 4.3.2.Kitagawa diagram -- 4.3.3.Murakami model -- 4.4.A few examples -- 4.4.1.Medium-loaded components: example of as-forged parts: connecting rods -- effect of the forging skin -- 4.4.2.High-loaded components: relative importance of cleanliness and surface state -- example of the valve spring -- 4.4.3.High-loaded components: Bearings-Endurance cleanliness relationship -- 4.5.Prospects -- 4.5.1.Estimation of lifetimes and their dispersions -- 4.5.2.Fiber orientation -- 4.5.3.Prestressing -- 4.5.4.Corrosion -- 4.5.5.Complex loadings: spectra/over-loadings/multiaxial loadings -- 4.5.6.Gigacycle fatigue -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 4.7.Bibliography -- ch. 5 Fretting Fatigue: Modeling and Applications / Trevor Lindley -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Experimental methods -- 5.2.1.Fatigue specimens and contact pads -- 5.2.2.Fatigue S-N data with and without fretting -- 5.2.3.Frictional force measurement -- 5.2.4.Metallography and fractography -- 5.2.5.Mechanisms in fretting fatigue -- 5.3.Fretting fatigue analysis -- 5.3.1.The S-N approach -- 5.3.2.Fretting modeling -- 5.3.3.Two-body contact -- 5.3.4.Fatigue crack initiation -- 5.3.5.Analysis of cracks: the fracture mechanics approach -- 5.3.6.Propagation -- 5.4.Applications under fretting conditions -- 5.4.1.Metallic material: partial slip regime -- 5.4.2.Epoxy polymers: development of cracks under a total slip regime -- 5.5.Palliatives to combat fretting fatigue -- 5.6.Conclusions -- 5.7.Bibliography -- ch. 6 Contact Fatigue / Ky Dang Van -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Classification of the main types of contact damage -- 6.2.1.Background -- 6.2.2.Damage induced by rolling contacts with or without sliding effect -- 6.2.3.Fretting -- 6.3.A few results on contact mechanics -- 6.3.1.Hertz solution -- 6.3.2.Case of contact with friction under total sliding conditions -- 6.3.3.Case of contact with partial sliding -- 6.3.4.Elastic contact between two solids of different elastic modules -- 6.3.5.3D elastic contact -- 6.4.Elastic limit -- 6.5.Elastoplastic contact -- 6.5.1.Stationary methods -- 6.5.2.Direct cyclic method -- 6.6.Application to modeling of a few contact fatigue issues -- 6.6.1.General methodology -- 6.6.2.Initiation of fatigue cracks in rails -- 6.6.3.Propagation of initiated cracks -- 6.6.4.Application to fretting fatigue -- 6.7.Conclusion -- 6.8.Bibliography -- ch. 7 Thermal Fatigue / Luc Remy -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Characterization tests -- 7.2.1.Cyclic mechanical behavior -- 7.2.2.Damage -- 7.3.Constitutive and damage models at variable temperatures -- 7.3.1.Constitutive laws -- 7.3.2.Damage process modeling based on fatigue conditions -- 7.3.3.Modeling the damage process in complex cases: towards considering interactions with creep and oxidation phenomena -- 7.4.Applications -- 7.4.1.Exhaust manifolds in automotive industry -- 7.4.2.Cylinder heads made from aluminum alloys in the automotive industry -- 7.4.3.Brake disks in the rail and automotive industries -- 7.4.4.Nuclear industry pipes -- 7.4.5.Simple structures simulating turbine blades -- 7.5.Conclusion -- 7.6.Bibliography.…”
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Fatigue of materials and structures application to design and damage /

Table of Contents: “…Superposition" method -- 3.4.5.Superposition method: applicable examples -- 3.4.6.Numerical application exercise -- 3.5.Performing some "damage tolerance" calculations -- 3.5.1.Complementarity of fatigue and damage tolerance -- 3.5.2.Safety coefficients to understand curve a = f(N) -- 3.5.3.Acquisition of the material parameters -- 3.5.4.Negative parameter: corrosion -- "corrosion fatigue" -- 3.6.Application to the residual strength of thin sheets -- 3.6.1.Planar panels: Feddersen diagram -- 3.6.2.Case of stiffened panels -- 3.7.Propagation of cracks subjected to random loading in the aeronautic industry -- 3.7.1.Modeling of the interactions of loading cycles -- 3.7.2.Comparison of predictions with experimental results -- 3.7.3.Rainflow treatment of random loadings -- 3.8.Conclusion -- 3.8.1.Organization of the evolution of "damage tolerance" -- 3.8.2.Structural maintenance program -- 3.8.3.Inspection of structures being used -- 3.9.Damage tolerance within the gigacyclic domain -- 3.9.1.Observations on crack propagation -- 3.9.2.Propagation of a fish-eye with regards to damage tolerance -- 3.9.3.Example of a turbine disk subjected to vibration -- 3.10.Bibliography -- ch. 4 Defect Influence on the Fatigue Behavior of Metallic Materials / Gilles Baudry -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Some facts -- 4.2.1.Failure observation -- 4.2.2.Endurance limit level -- 4.2.3.Influence of the rolling reduction ratio and the effect of rolling direction -- 4.2.4.Low cycle fatigue: SN curves -- 4.2.5.Wohler curve: existence of an endurance limit -- 4.2.6.Summary -- 4.3.Approaches -- 4.3.1.First models -- 4.3.2.Kitagawa diagram -- 4.3.3.Murakami model -- 4.4.A few examples -- 4.4.1.Medium-loaded components: example of as-forged parts: connecting rods -- effect of the forging skin -- 4.4.2.High-loaded components: relative importance of cleanliness and surface state -- example of the valve spring -- 4.4.3.High-loaded components: Bearings-Endurance cleanliness relationship -- 4.5.Prospects -- 4.5.1.Estimation of lifetimes and their dispersions -- 4.5.2.Fiber orientation -- 4.5.3.Prestressing -- 4.5.4.Corrosion -- 4.5.5.Complex loadings: spectra/over-loadings/multiaxial loadings -- 4.5.6.Gigacycle fatigue -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 4.7.Bibliography -- ch. 5 Fretting Fatigue: Modeling and Applications / Trevor Lindley -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Experimental methods -- 5.2.1.Fatigue specimens and contact pads -- 5.2.2.Fatigue S-N data with and without fretting -- 5.2.3.Frictional force measurement -- 5.2.4.Metallography and fractography -- 5.2.5.Mechanisms in fretting fatigue -- 5.3.Fretting fatigue analysis -- 5.3.1.The S-N approach -- 5.3.2.Fretting modeling -- 5.3.3.Two-body contact -- 5.3.4.Fatigue crack initiation -- 5.3.5.Analysis of cracks: the fracture mechanics approach -- 5.3.6.Propagation -- 5.4.Applications under fretting conditions -- 5.4.1.Metallic material: partial slip regime -- 5.4.2.Epoxy polymers: development of cracks under a total slip regime -- 5.5.Palliatives to combat fretting fatigue -- 5.6.Conclusions -- 5.7.Bibliography -- ch. 6 Contact Fatigue / Ky Dang Van -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Classification of the main types of contact damage -- 6.2.1.Background -- 6.2.2.Damage induced by rolling contacts with or without sliding effect -- 6.2.3.Fretting -- 6.3.A few results on contact mechanics -- 6.3.1.Hertz solution -- 6.3.2.Case of contact with friction under total sliding conditions -- 6.3.3.Case of contact with partial sliding -- 6.3.4.Elastic contact between two solids of different elastic modules -- 6.3.5.3D elastic contact -- 6.4.Elastic limit -- 6.5.Elastoplastic contact -- 6.5.1.Stationary methods -- 6.5.2.Direct cyclic method -- 6.6.Application to modeling of a few contact fatigue issues -- 6.6.1.General methodology -- 6.6.2.Initiation of fatigue cracks in rails -- 6.6.3.Propagation of initiated cracks -- 6.6.4.Application to fretting fatigue -- 6.7.Conclusion -- 6.8.Bibliography -- ch. 7 Thermal Fatigue / Luc Remy -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Characterization tests -- 7.2.1.Cyclic mechanical behavior -- 7.2.2.Damage -- 7.3.Constitutive and damage models at variable temperatures -- 7.3.1.Constitutive laws -- 7.3.2.Damage process modeling based on fatigue conditions -- 7.3.3.Modeling the damage process in complex cases: towards considering interactions with creep and oxidation phenomena -- 7.4.Applications -- 7.4.1.Exhaust manifolds in automotive industry -- 7.4.2.Cylinder heads made from aluminum alloys in the automotive industry -- 7.4.3.Brake disks in the rail and automotive industries -- 7.4.4.Nuclear industry pipes -- 7.4.5.Simple structures simulating turbine blades -- 7.5.Conclusion -- 7.6.Bibliography.…”
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