Nahin, Paul J.

Contents: ch. 1. Puzzles of imaginary numbers -- ch. 2. First try at understanding the geometry of (the square root of minus one) -- ch. 3. Puzzles start to clear -- ch. 4. Using complex numbers -- ch. 5. More uses of complex numbers -- ch. 6. Wizard mathematics -- ch. 7. Nineteenth century, cauchy, and the beginning of complex function theory.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1998

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Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.

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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Kahan, Paul

Summary: The Publican, often named one of Chicago's most popular restaurants, conjures a colonial American beer hall with its massive communal tables, high-backed chairs, deep beer list, and Kahan's hallmark style of crave-worthy heartland cooking that transcends the expected and is eminently cookable. Cheers to The Publican is Paul Kahan's and Executive Chef Cosmo Goss's toast to the food they love to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press 2017

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Summary: FBI Agent Jack Crawford is led to believe that his partner Tom Wynne and family are killed by the infamous and elusive assassin, Rogue. Jack becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad's and Shiro the Yakuza boss. When...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

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Radin, Paul

Summary: "Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, Maori, Banda, the Buin of Melanesia, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Zuni, and Ewe. Radin examines the conditioning of thought and religion practiced among the members of each society and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NYRB Classics 2017

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Summary: Baron Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his monster and building a mate for it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 1999

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Sabin, Paul

Summary: "The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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Summary: Follows Captain Barney Miller of New York's 12th Precinct and his unlikely band of police detectives, including grumpy old man Phil Fish, Puerto Rican stand-up comedian Chano Amenguale, and gullible Stanley "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, as they combat crime.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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Summary: Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. Blue River: Based on the novel by Ethan Canin, depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving two teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010

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Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Summary: "How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2013

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Brothers Crunch

Contents: The snark -- Smoke screen -- Shovel man -- Me & you -- Rotilla! -- Divided we fall -- End of th night

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Publisher / Publication Date: Halohorn Productions

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Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Summary: The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009

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Nabhan, Gary Paul.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002

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Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: The wedding bells are ringing, but will Castle and Beckett really tie the knot? On the biggest day of his life, Castle is nowhere to be found, and it's not because he has cold feet. Now, in a season of brilliant twists and turns, Castle and Beckett take on New York City's most fascinating cases while they try to solve the mystery of their own relationship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Contents: Introduction -- Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- . The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2004

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