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Tracers (DVD)
Johnny M. Wu, Christian Steel, Taylor Lautner, Rafi Gavron, Marie Avgeropoulos, …
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Taylor Lautner stars as a daring New York City bike messenger in
this action-packed crime drama. In desperate need of cash to clear
his mounting debts to the Chinese mafia, Cam (Lautner) has a
fateful encounter when he crashes his bike into parkour enthusiast
Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos). After teaching himself the art of the
sport, Nikki invites the athletic Cam to join her crew that uses
their free running skills to pull off heists set up by their boss
Miller (Adam Rayner). In search of bigger pay-offs, the team
continues to raise the stakes and take on increasingly risky
ventures that attract the unwanted attention of violent criminal
gangs and their dangerous enforcers.
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day
of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so
haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned
another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope
not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account,
historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in
American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle
of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: afterward, the
conflict could no longer be understood as a limited war to preserve
the Union, but was now clearly a conflict over slavery. Though the
battle was tactically inconclusive, Robert E. Lee withdrew first
from the battlefield, thus handing President Lincoln the political
ammunition necessary to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This
is the full story of Antietam, ranging from the opening shots of
the battle to the powerful reverberations—military, political,
and social—it sent through the armies and the nation. Based on
decades of research, this in-depth narrative sheds particular light
on the visceral experience of battle, an often misunderstood aspect
of the American Civil War, and the emotional aftermath for those
who survived. Hartwig provides an hour-by-hour tactical history of
the battle, beginning before dawn on September 17 and concluding
with the immediate aftermath, including General McClellan's fateful
decision not to pursue Lee's retreating forces back across the
Potomac to Virginia. With 21 unique maps illustrating the state of
the battle at intervals ranging from 20 to 120 minutes, this
long-awaited companion to Hartwig's To Antietam Creek will be
essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War.
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Alturas and Lake Garfield (Paperback)
Sherry Hielscher Maberry, Linda Smith King, Christi Voigt Adkins, Cathy Frankenburger Curtis, W Patrick Huff, …
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Advances in network connectivity, power consumption, and physical
size create new possibilities for using interactive computing
outdoors. However, moving computing outdoors can drastically change
the human outdoor experience. This impact is felt in many kinds of
outdoor activities such as citizen science, personal recreation,
search and rescue, informal education, and others. It is also felt
across outdoor settings that range from remote wilderness to
crowded cities. Understanding these effects can lead to ideas,
designs and systems that improve, rather than diminish, outdoor
experiences. This book represents the current results emerging from
recent workshops focused on HCI outdoors and held in conjunction
with CHI, GROUP, UbiComp, and MobileHCI conferences. Based on
feedback at those workshops, and outreach to other leaders in the
field, the chapters collected were crafted to highlight methods and
approaches for understanding how technologies such as handhelds,
wearables, and installed standalone devices impact individuals,
groups, and even communities. These findings frame new ways of
thinking about HCI outdoors, explore logistical issues associated
with moving computing outdoors, and probe new experiences created
by involving computing in outdoor pursuits. Also important are the
ways that social media has influenced preparation, experience, and
reflection related to outdoor experiences. HCI Outdoors: Theory,
Design, Methods and Applications is of interest to HCI researchers,
HCI practitioners, and outdoor enthusiasts who want to shape future
understanding and current practice related to technology in every
kind of outdoor experience.
One of American history's lost stories, To The Outskirts of
Habitable Creation is the fascinating account of American and
Canadian convicts exiled to an Australian penal colony. In 1837 an
armed rebellion at Toronto against the colonial administration of
British Canada spilled across the border and U.S. citizens joined
the cause. The so-called Patriot War kept the frontier in a climate
of fear and uncertainty as a series of battles in Canadian
territory continued throughout 1838, in the hope of instigating
political change. With the failure of each attempt to cross into
Canada and revive the Rebellion, combatants were taken into
custody. Trials resulted in hangings, acquittals, or pardons. One
group of ninety-two prisoners, however, was sentenced to penal
transportation for life in Australia's far distant island of Van
Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Drawing on a wide variety of letters,
diaries, and personal reminiscences, the author tells the story
through the experiences of the men and women who lived it. A minor
epic, To the Outskirts...is more than the story of the Rebellion of
1837. in England and Australia during the second quarter of the
nineteenth century.
My tribulations, I talk about during my journey are like the
stories countless others experienced during the Great Migration
period from the South to the North. What so many took for granted,
so few were able to realize. I am convinced that each of our lives
has a purpose and I say this because what I experienced was what
God had planned for me. God has placed me in the position to help
others as I have been helped by others. The people I have met
during my life's journey have served in many aspects as a catalyst
for me to work through them, to set the stage for changes. I hope
that all reading this book will appreciate the values of my
history; then understand how it relates to their history. For I am
who I am through my environmental experiences; you are who you are
from your experiences or who you will become! VISIT
http//www.bookpubco.net's Bookstore to purchase additional copies
of this book for friends and relatives.
Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations provides a
uniquely valuable view of current approaches and findings in
conflict studies. This volume showcases work informed by four
powerful research tools: rational choice theory and game theory;
simulation, experimentation, and artificial intelligence;
quantitative studies; and case studies. Each research method is
introduced and evaluated for its specific potential, including both
strengths and weaknesses. Throughout, the notable contributors
clearly explain how they choose, frame, and go about answering
questions. While expanding our knowledge of particular conflicts,
from the Crimean War to the Vietnam War to ongoing
Palestinian-Israeli instability, Multiple Paths also furthers our
understanding of how to conduct research in international
relations.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The first of its
kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the
state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature
review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of
the humanities, the nature of humanities research and the relation
between humanities and politics, amongst other issues.
** This title was originally published in 2007. The version
published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The
protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected
areas is increasingly based on ecological principles.
Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become
broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades.
However, this period has also seen unprecedented rapid global
social and ecological change, which has weakened many protection
efforts.These changes have created an awareness of opportunities
for innovative approaches to managing protected areas and of the
need to integrate social and economic concerns with ecological
elements in protected areas and parks management. A rare collection
of articles that fuses academic theory, critique of practice and
practical knowledge, Transforming Parks and Protected Areas
analyzes and critiques these theories, practices, and philosophies,
looking in-detail at the emerging issues in the design and
operation of parks and protected areas. Addressing critical
dynamics and current practices in parks and protected areas
management, the excellent volume goes well beyond simple managerial
solutions and descriptions of standard practice. With contributions
from leading academics and practitioners, this book will be of
value to all those working within ecology, natural resources,
conservation and parks management as well as students and academics
across the environmental sciences and land use management.
This study of the FINDER police information sharing system provides
evidence to support all-crimes information fusion and analysis as a
path to improved public safety and homeland security. Examining
more than 1,500 users and 1.8 million system events over a
fifteen-month period, Scott demonstrates that information sharing
produces performance and efficiency gains for law enforcement.
Scott looks at the IT user level for the highly contextual
influences on successful outcomes and relevant information system
metrics. Objective system use and user-level performance measures
are combined with user perception data to produce empirical models
establishing performance metrics. These models identify technology,
user, and environmental factors that can be employed to predict the
productive use of police data shared between disparate records
management systems.
The Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes
covers all aspects of the physical metallurgy, analytical
techniques, and processing of aluminium, including hardening,
annealing, aging, property prediction, corrosion, residual stress
and distortion, welding, casting, forging, molten metal processing,
machining, rolling, and extrusion. It also features an extensive,
chapter-length consideration of quenching.
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