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For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.
Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San... | | Emerging Natural Hydrocolloids: Rheology and Functions
The first guide devoted to the functions, structures, and applications of natural hydrocolloids
In today’s health-conscious climate, the demand for natural food products is growing all the time. Natural hydrocolloids, therefore, have never been more popular. With their thickening, stabilizing, gelling, fat... |
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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution?and Why America Might Miss It
The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we’ll be able to send and receive through fiber optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will ... | | Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of... | | Human-Centered Software Engineering: 7th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2018, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 3–5, 2018, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11262))
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2018, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in September 2018.
The 11 full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 5 poster and demo papers were carefully ... |
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Youth in Saudi Arabia
This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life... | | The Last Job:
“[Bilefsky] is a brisk, enthusiastic storyteller.… [A] meticulously researched procedural.” ?Laura Lippman, New York Times
Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six aging English thieves couldn’t resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist.... | | The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, The Atlantic
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on... |
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