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Linguistic variables towards a unified theory of linguistic variation / by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich

Table of Contents: “…Orientation -- pt. 2. Setting the stage -- pt. 3. A theory of language varieties -- pt. 4. …”
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Studies in political humour in between political critique and public entertainment /

Table of Contents: “…Being Berlusconi: Sabina Guzzanti's impersonation of the Italian Prime Minister between stage and screen / Clare Watters -- Mocking fascism: popular culture and political satire as counter-hegemony / Efharis Mascha -- Public debates and political humour. …”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Offermann -- Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer incidence, stage, survival, and mortality in the U.S. / Jiemin Ma, Rebecca Siegel, and Ahmedin Jemal -- Disparities in cancer risk factors and cancer screening in the U.S. / Vilma Cokkinides ... …”
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Practical moviemaking a handbook for the real world / by Wallenstein, Joseph B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Producers -- Anticipation and communication -- The people with whom you work -- Identifying a potential project -- Critical assumptions -- Breaking down the script -- Creating the production board -- Scheduling -- Locations -- Budgeting -- Casting -- Dealing with actors -- Acquiring a crew -- Set protocol -- Elements of production -- Good money vs. bad money -- Practical locations vs. stage work -- Production insurance -- The myth of cinematic immunity -- Post-production -- Marketing -- Epilogue.…”
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Designing healthy communities by Jackson, Richard, 1945-

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Advanced propulsion systems and technologies, today to 2020

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Advanced solid rocket motors -- Advanced cryogenic engines -- Advanced LOX-HC engines for boosters and upper stages -- LOX-hydrocarbon engines in Russia -- Green propellants -- Green propellants in Russia -- Miniaturized propulsion -- Solar thermal propulsion for upper stages -- Electric-propulsion systems -- Superconductivity -- The case for nuclear propulsion : the Rubbia's engine -- VASIMR prefeasibility analysis -- Laser propulsion systems -- Mass accelerators : Maglev and Railguns -- Solar sails : propellantless propulsion for near- and medium-term deep-space missions -- In situ resource utilization.…”
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Combustion instabilities in liquid rocket engines testing and development practices in Russia / by Dranovsky, Mark L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Terms and definitions -- Mechanisms of transition from noise to high-frequency oscillations or to noise at a new level -- Uncertainty in conversion of propellant to combustion products -- Studies of operating process stability at various stages of combustor development -- Quantitative characteristics for estimating stability of LRE combustion chambers for gas generators -- Acoustic study of combustion chamber stability characteristics -- Determination of stability of oscillations from natural disturbances -- Evaluation of LRE process stability by use of artificial pressure disturbances -- Model firing tests for selection of injector head elements -- Estimation of operating process stability from pressure oscillation decrements -- Test results for pulsing liquid-liquid chambers -- Stability of gas-liquid combustion chambers -- Gas-liquid combustion-chamber tests for stability to hard excitation -- Injector head for RD-170 engine combustion chamber -- Stability characteristics of engines with adjustable injectors -- Control of stability in production of the proton engine.…”
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Advances in collaborative civil aeronautical multidisciplinary design optimization

Table of Contents: “…Guenov -- MDO at predesign stage / Marin D. Guenov ... [et al.] -- Helicopter predesign strategy : design-to-mass or design-to-cost? …”
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The theatre of naturalism disappearing act / by Beitchman, Philip, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ushering in the spectacle -- The mirror stage : Thérèse Raquin (Zola) -- The return of the repressed : Ghosts (Ibsen) -- The nature of the beast : The power of darkness (Tolstoy) -- The dialectic of the master and the slave : Miss Julie (Strindberg) -- The war between the classes : The weavers (Hauptmann) -- In the country of the blind : The lower depths (Gorky) -- A living like any other : Mrs. …”
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Repetition, difference, and knowledge in the work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze by Gendron, Sarah, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The unthinkable : a history and evolution of repetition in Western thought -- A critical reader : repetition, difference, and genre -- "The text which is not one" : the multiplicity of writing and the singularity of translation -- "The ether of metaphysics" : repetition and presence on stage and page.…”
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Vernacular eloquence what speech can bring to writing / by Elbow, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Speaking onto the page : a role for the tongue in the early stages of writing -- pt. 3. Reading aloud to revise : a role for the tongue during late stages of writing -- pt. 4. …”
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Theater of state Parliament and political culture in early Stuart England / by Kyle, Chris R.

Table of Contents: “…Fittest speech : rhetoric and debate -- Audience reactions : the noise of politics -- Swift pens : recording Parliament -- Procreative pens : disseminating news from Parliament -- Open doors : pressure groups and lobbying -- Shifting stages : the emergence of Parliamentary print culture.…”
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Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey the other side of tolerance / by Brink-Danan, Marcy

Table of Contents: “…Tolerance, difference, and citizenship -- Cosmopolitan signs: names as foreign and local -- The limits of cosmopolitanism -- Performing difference: Turkish Jews on the national stage -- Intimate negotiations: Turkish Jews between stages -- The one who writes difference: inside secrecy.…”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf -- Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha -- Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Part 3. Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit -- From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar -- Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. …”
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Competitive strategy options and games / by Chevalier-Roignant, Benoît, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Strategy, games, and options -- The strategy challenge -- Strategic management and competitive advantage -- Market structure games : static approaches -- Market structure games : dynamic approaches -- Uncertainty, flexibility, and real options -- Option games : discrete-time analysis -- An integrated approach to strategy : option games -- Option to invest -- Innovation investment in two-stage games -- Option games : continuous-time models -- Investment and expansion options : monopoly -- Oligopoly : simultaneous investment -- Leadership and early-mover advantage -- Preemption vs. cooperation in a duopoly -- Extensions and other applications.…”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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Minutes to midnight history and the Anthropocene era from 1763 / by Dukes, Paul, 1934-

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Turkmenistan strategies of power, dilemmas of development / by Peyrouse, Sébastien

Table of Contents: “…-- Finding its place on the international stage.…”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

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Fraud smart by Pickett, K. H. Spencer

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