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Remote Sensing For Site Characterization (Methods in Environmental Geology) Remote Sensing For Site Characterization (Methods in Environmental Geology) Friedrich Kuehn ix, 211 p. : 25 cm OL10058889W
Life after life Life after life R. A. Moody The groundbreaking, bestselling classic, now available in a special fortieth-anniversary edition that includes a new Foreword from Eben Alexander, M.D., author of Proof of Heaven, and a new Afterword… OL10279594W
Wanita, kerajinan bambu, dan masyarakat Wanita, kerajinan bambu, dan masyarakat Pingky Saptandari Wisnubroto Activities of rural woman workers in bamboo handicraft home industries and in their households, Jawa Timur Province; research. OL1033114W
Dora Dora Sigmund Freud An appealing and intelligent 18-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym "Dora" us the subject of a case history that has all of the intrigue and unexpected twists of a first-rate detective no… OL1069642W
Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci Sigmund Freud What might the world’s most notorious psychologist say about the mysterious expression of the Mona Lisa that has puzzled art critics for years? In Leonardo da Vinci Sigmund Freud psychoanalyzes the R… OL1069667W
Giants of enterprise Giants of enterprise Richard S Tedlow "Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemi… OL10727333W
No job for a woman No job for a woman Sandra Mara vi, 336 p. : 21 cm OL10995W
Sustaining change in universities Sustaining change in universities Burton R Clark What can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fast moving world of the 21st century?This is the central question addressed by Burton R. Clark in this signi… OL11129133W
Crime beat Crime beat Michael Connelly Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yello… OL111725W
Crimes of Passion Crimes of Passion Howard Engel The very term "crimes of passion" evokes deep-seated, atavistic responses in everyone's heart. These are the crimes that are born in the emotional core of women and men who are pushed to do the unthi… OL111905W
Invention by Design Invention by Design Henry Petroski This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world … OL112178W
Fatal Fatal Harold Schechter In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a prope… OL112353W
Deranged Deranged Harold Schechter On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on … OL112359W
Depraved Depraved Harold Schechter Even as a child in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Mudgett was considered a lad with a future, a boy who professed filial devotion while secretly fantasizing his parents' deaths. By age eleven he wa… OL112365W
Classic crimes Classic crimes Roughead, William Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and in Classic Crimes he combines his professional expertise as a lawyer with his i… OL1157082W
Touching the void Touching the void Joe Simpson,Joe Simpson Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. OL11616538W
The devotee The devotee Dan Bergner How do we come to be who we are sexually?How do we cope with the forces of desire?How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the a… OL11764383W
Freedom's battle Freedom's battle Gary J. Bass This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom's Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by t… OL11769682W
Murder by family Murder by family Kent Whitaker This is the tragic story of Kent Whitaker's heart-wrenching journey toward forgiveness and faith after the brutal murder of his wife and one of his sons. Straight from the headlines comes an incr… OL11825628W
Practical idealists Practical idealists Alissa S. Wilson "Can you work for a better world without taking a vow of poverty? The authors' answer is a resounding, "yes!" This book draws on interviews with over forty practical idealists, whose stories will ins… OL11885830W
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