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Frederick J. M. Kamara
Lighting the Darkness: The Story of My Conquest of Blindness and Traditional Myths and Misconceptions About Persons with Disabilities
With this book, the first volume in a series, I didn’t presume to write anything of immense importance or of any outstanding nature. The intent was merely to share some of my personal experiences as a blind child, one born in a small African village, among people who believed that blindness was a ...
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J. Paul Guyer
An Introduction to Energy Efficiency Lighting Upgrades for Buildings (Lighting Engineering)
This publication provides introductory technical guidance for electrical engineers and other professional engineers, construction managers and building managers interested in design and construction of building upgrades to improve the energy efficiency of lighting systems while maintaining or improv...
$29.00
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J. Paul Guyer
An Introduction to Lighting and NAVAIDS for Snow and Ice Air Fields (Airfield and Airport Engineering)
This publication provides introductory technical guidance for electrical engineers, civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in lighting and navigational aids for air fields in snow and ice conditions where conventional concrete construction is not feasib...
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J. Paul Guyer
An Introduction to Lighting Upgrades for Buildings (Lighting Engineering)
This publication provides introductory technical guidance for electrical engineers and other professional engineers, construction managers and building managers interested in lighting upgrades for energy efficiency and illumination improvements. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. THE IMP...
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J. Paul Guyer
An Introduction to Interior Lighting Design (Lighting Engineering)
This publication will introduce you to principles of lighting design for building interiors. The concepts and considerations of visibility, glare, uniformity and illuminance will be explained and discussed. You will learn about lighting controls and their importance in operation of lighting systems ...
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Terry Tan
Singapore Cooking: Fabulous Recipes from Asia's Food Capital
"New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Singapore's the city that never stops eating. For a gastro-tourist, somebody who travels to eat, any kind of serious eater, Singapore's probably the best place you can go…" —Anthony Bourdain Good food is an abiding passion for Singaporeans—mai...
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Irene Pritzker
The School in the Market: How Localization Is Helping Africans Start Their Own Education Revolution
The inspiring story of the creation of what is proving to be one of the world’s most innovative financing programs, which has helped thousands of underserved African communities take control of their own futures through sustainable and localized low-fee private schools. When Irene Pritzker walked ...
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Jonathan Horn
Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn “provides a captivating and enlightening look at George Washington’s post-presidential life and the politically divided country that was part of his legacy” ( New York Journal of Books ). Beginning where most biographies of ...
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Richard Moran
Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but of an effort by one nineteenth century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison launched “the age of electricity” by lighting up a portion of...
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Joan DeJean
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."-- New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities,...
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Sukhdev Sandhu
Night Haunts
";I would add Sandhu’s work to the likes of Lights Out for the Territory as offering some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London.";€”Michael Moorcock, Daily TelegraphTraditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Brit...
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Primary Research Group
Redesigning the College Library Building, 2014 Edition
This 220+ page report looks closely at the capital spending plans and building renovation/construction policies of academic libraries, predominantly in the USA and Canada. The study covers capital spending and space allocation plans with highly detailed data on recent library spending and future pla...
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Stephen B. Bright
The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts
The book John Grisham calls “a clear and poignant indictment of criminal injustice in America” Called “passionate and eye-opening” by Booklist , The Fear of Too Much Justice , by the legendary death penalty attorney Stephen B. Bright and legal scholar James Kwak, offers a heart-wrench...
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George Eckes
The Six Sigma Revolution: How General Electric and Others Turned Process Into Profits
Applying this revolutionary management strategy to drive positive change in an organization Currently exploding onto the American business scene, the Six Sigma methodology fuels improved effectiveness and efficiency in an organization; according to General Electric's Jack Welch, it's the "most impo...
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William Chapman Sharpe
New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950
As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering skyscrapers. The advent of artificial lighting revo...
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Judith Flanders
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology-railways, street-lighting, and sewers-transformed both the city and the ...
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Sasa Milivojev
LOVE AND DEATH IN DUBAI
THE METAPHYSICS OF SAND AND THE ONTOLOGY OF LOVE. The Artistic Cry of Sasa Milivojev: The Triumph of Spirit over Matter When the literary blade of Sasa Milivojev is turned toward those expanses where ancestral desert silence collides with futuristic clamour of steel, a profound ontological study...
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Jonathan Horn
Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn tells the astonishing true story of George Washington’s forgotten last years—the personalities, plotting, and private torment that unraveled America’s first post-presidency. Washington’s End begins where most biographies...
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S. Denise Hoyle MBA
The Complete Guide to Home Microgreens for Profit: Growing, Harvesting, Packaging, and Selling Microgreens for Steady Income in Any Space
Turn a Small Shelf of Greens Into a Reliable Weekly Income Stream—Right from Home. Microgreens are one of the fastest-growing trends in home-based business… and one of the easiest to start. With only a few trays, a set of LED lights, and a simple weekly workflow, you can grow premium fresh green...
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Jason Goodwin
The Snake Stone: A Novel (Investigator Yashim, 2)
Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arri...
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