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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play it as it Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, plumbing the emptiness and ennui of a seemingly bankrupt society in spare sentences that scour and disturb. Set in the moral limbos of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the Mojave Desert, Play it as it Lays remains, more than 40 years after its original publication, a profoundly unsettling novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis, stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
| LCC: | PS3554.I33 P57 2005 |
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| FDC: | 814 |
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives.
| LCC: | RA591 .C53 2018 |
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| FDC: | 363 |
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s premier technology and framework for creating server-side web applications. ASP.NET 1.0 was a revolution in the web programming world and was so wildly popular that it was licensed on thousands of commercial web servers while it was still a beta product. ASP.NET 2.0 is the next major milestone in web development, and Visual Basic is very much a core part of the .NET Framework. This book will show you how to exploit them both to their fullest potential to build truly powerful next-generation web applications.
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This book is designed as a text for a one semester, introductory course in computer programming. No background other than high school algebra is assumed. The material presented reflects the authors’ view that good problem solving and programming habits should be introduced at a very early stage in the development of a student’s programming skills, and that they are best instilled by examples, by frequent practice, and through instructor-student interaction. Therefore we have concentrated on demonstrating problem solving and programming techniques through the use of more than 30 completely solved problems.
| LCC: | QA76.73.F25 F74 1981 |
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| FDC: | 001 |
Besides the brilliant title story, a cunningly wrought narrative of romance and murder in the haute bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg, this volume includes all five stories originally collected as The Tales of the Late P. Belkin.
| LCC: | PG3347 .A2 1994 |
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| FDC: | 891 |
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric 'rise of English' has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy. But the rise of English has very real donwsides as well.
| LCC: | PE1073.4 .S35 2022 |
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| FDC: | 306 |
Salt Dances is the dramatic story of one woman's redemptive journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing. Unmarried and pregnant at 41, architect Julia Ives returns to her home in the Pacific Northwest, determined to understand her family's troubled past before her child is born. Haunted by memories of betrayal and abandonment, she confronts the father she has not seen in 21 years.
| LCC: | PS3558.E4185 S25 1995 |
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| FDC: | 823 |
Meet Crane Cavanaugh, budding scientist. Raised in poverty in rural Iowa by depraved adults who've given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, the unsinkable Crane traces her experiences from disfiguration in the womb to well-deserved elevation in the halls of academe. When her family is forced to leave its squatters shack, Crane is separated from her sister, brother, and parents. What follows is a series of fateful encounters: some kind, some cruel - each a new world with its own dangers and limitations.
| LCC: | PS3564.E848 S25 2008 |
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| LCC: | MT385 |
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Ever since humans first began to communicate, we've had secrets to keep -- secrets of state, war, business, or the heart. From the moment the first secret message was sent, others were busy trying to decipher it. By rearranging, substituting, or transposing symbols, any message can be encoded or decoded -- if you know how. Secrets of Making and Breaking Codes is a practical field manual designed to teach you the basic mechanics of enciphering and deciphering communications. The author has used his extensive knowledge of and experience in electronic communications and languages -- as well as his decades of fascination with secret codes -- to demystify the field of cryptology. Hamilton Nickels uses plain, uncomplicated English and simple, workable systems that rely on neither advanced mathematics, nor on ethereal philosophies. This is the only hands-on guide to both the simplest cipher schemes -- that need little more than scratch paper and a pencil to crack -- as well as more sophisticated codes that use one-time code books, pocket calculators, and the most advanced computer-based systems used by the military and diplomatic corps of most governments. Letting the wrong eyes see a secret message can often make the difference between victory and defeat, success and failure, life and death. Secrets of Making and Breaking Codes will make mastering codes easier.
| LCC: | Z103 .N349 2014 |
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| FDC: | 652 |
In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime example.
| LCC: | PE1450 .W38 2019 |
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| FDC: | 428 |
This book is “one of the great books of jazz” according to the New York Times Book Review. For thirty years, beginning in the mid-twenties, Marshall Stearns listened to jazz, read about it, and talked to all the musicians who played it that he could discovery. The result is this superlative history, the first and most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this unique American musical phenomenon.
| LCC: | ML3561.J3 S8 1972 |
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| FDC: | 781 |
A valuable new approach to computer systems and program design, structured design is quickly becoming the standard industrial technique for significantly improving productivity, enhancing reliability, and lowering maintenance costs. Although structured design concepts have been available to the industry for well over a decade, this book is the first to address the subject in a comprehensive and definitive way, presenting systems and program design as a disciplined science.
| LCC: | QA76.6 .Y67 1979 |
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| FDC: | 001 |
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series brings critical topics to life in a portable, cost-effective reader. In this volume you’ll explore these questions and others: What are the foundations of sustainability? How do natural disasters and other crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to the environment, tourism, and recreation?
| LCC: | HC79.E5 W455 2019 |
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| FDC: | 428 |
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