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Love, dreams and desires. Heavenly bodies. Landscapes familiar and far away. Music and weather, feasts and memories, summers without end. Clouds, steamships, flights of fancy, portraits and plays of light and color. Opening an eye to many luminous moments, to seeing and serenading the universe at work and play.

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Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. What started as a forty-acre campus with four buildings, expanded over the next 170 years to become a university with four campuses: Central, Athletic, Medical and North. It has become one of the most distinguished universities in the world. Historic Photos of the University of Michigan depicts the...

Being born into a family with seven children in the forties, the odds of being rich were very slim. Rich wasn't what I wanted, it was love. Instead, I was abandoned. Then put into the foster system for awhile. That turned into a nightmare for my siblings and I. Love was still out of reach. Then my Dad rescued two brothers and I. Dad had remarried and we thought we were fi nally going to be a family. I have always thought of us as rubber bands....

Written over the last three years, these stories were put together in an anthology as a sampling of the author's varied writing styles and different voices. A kaleidoscope of villains and heroes - including a teenage dreamer, a grieving widower, a persistent ghost, a perplexed amnesiac, a reluctant Mafioso, and a mythical creature with a penchant for story telling - waits to entertain the reader. Fantasy, comedy, the supernatural, death, growi...

I Apologized Also is regarding an author whom was infected by the AIDSS Virus while researching his book on women. The character's name is Donald and Donald was a victim in this book. Donald was a womanizer who actually took his game a little too far! His struggle was a fugitive to survive solely to finish his research and publish his book, led to disillusionment and broken hearts.

Danny Summersend is determined to find out the truth about his twenty-six year old daughter's death. Estranged for years, Jillian was his only surviving family member and his gut tells him that the hit-and-run accident that killed her was no "accident." Despite cautioning from his friend, Lazaro, about his loose-cannon temperament, Danny, an ex-hit man, leaves his Texas ranch heading to Detroit to find the person driving the other car. When he...

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Living in & Trusting Christ completely was what God wanted me to do, so that He could show a dying World His Strength through my weaknesses. Having had several 'falls' in the last few years, I was becoming less able to care for myself, needing God's help to make it through the day. Laying a desperate plea in my heart to tell others of His total Care for them, if they would turn all they were & had over to Jesus, & let Him Lead them down the Ri...

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My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...." -From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it was built on shaky foundations. That instability mad...

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This volume gives intellectual space to a range of current perspectives on classroom discourse research and provides a forum for conversations about the research process. Classroom discourse researchers from different theoretical perspectives provide five separate analyses of the same instructional unit in a high school biology class, using the same set of data. Interwoven with the five research reports are several conversations among the edit...

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The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, food production and energy consumption. As the population shifted from rural areas to urban cities, the human impact on the environment increased dramatically. This book addresses various cultural, psychological and practical changes we need to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits.

Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.

Presents the theoretical foundations of the 3D hp algorithm and provides numerical results using the 3Dhp code. Focusing on the 3D theory of hp methods as well as coding issues, this book also presents the 3D version of the automatic hp-adaptivity package, and a two-grid solver for highly anisotropic hp meshes and goal-oriented Krylov iterations.

As manufacturing processes become more complex, additional types of information are needed. Typical processes now require measurements of film thickness, particle size, solids concentration, and contamination detection, there is generally more than one type of sensor for each type of measurement. Industrial Process Sensors explains the physical mechanisms on which these measurements are based and describes the interpretation of data. Based on ...

The dramatic story of Gipsy Moth IV from her epic first circumnavigation to her restoration, wreck and triumphant return. In this beautifully illustrated book, Yachting Monthly's Paul Gelder tells the remarkable story of Gipsy Moth's rise, fall and triumphant rise again. It is the definitive history of this sailing icon, illustrated throughout with never before published photographs of the boat, the restoration project and dramatic images fro...