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    The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments.From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the ... Read more

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    Learn how to build your own computer vision (CV) applications quickly and easily with SimpleCV, an open source framework written in Python. Through examples of real-world applications, this hands-on guide introduces you to basic CV techniques for collecting, processing, and analyzing streaming digital images. You’ll then learn how to apply these methods with SimpleCV, using sample Python code. All ... Read more

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  • The Fixed Period (Summarized Edition)

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    In The Fixed Period, Trollope imagines the future republic of Britannula, where a reforming president, John Neverbend, enacts a law mandating compulsory retirement at sixty-seven and a year of sequestration before humane death at sixty-eight. Narrated by Neverbend in an earnest, self-justifying voice, the novel blends political debate, parliamentary procedure, and domestic comedy into a coolly ... Read more

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  • Orley Farm (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Victorian legal drama of estate inheritance, a forged will, legal intricacies, and social class struggles amid complex moral dilemmas.

    Orley Farm turns on a disputed inheritance: years after Sir Joseph Mason's death, suspicion reopens a case over a codicil that secured the estate for Lady Mason's son, Lucius. Trollope follows the scandal from country drawing rooms to the assizes, tracking the canny Mr. Furnival, the ruthless Chaffanbrass, idealistic Felix Graham, and scrupulous Judge Staveley. In patient omniscient prose he ... Read more

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    The Life and Death of Richard III

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    Bloomsbury presents The Life and Death of Richard III by Anthony Cheetham, read by Jonathan Oliver and Dan Jones.With a new introduction and concluding chapter from bestselling medieval author Dan Jones.Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the source of perennial fascination. Comparatively little is known of his early life, his appearance, his ... Read more

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  • The Book of Husbandry

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    In "The Book of Husbandry," Anthony Fitzherbert presents a seminal exploration of agrarian practices during the early 16th century, blending practical advice with a literary style that reflects both the vernacular and scholarly traditions of his time. Through a meticulous examination of farming techniques, land management, and the relationship between man and nature, Fitzherbert not only instructs ... Read more

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    The Claverings examines the traffic between love, money, and reputation through Harry Clavering's wavering between his loyal fiancée, Florence Burton, and Julia Brabazon—now the widowed and rumor-haunted Lady Ongar, who once married for wealth. Shuttling from a decaying country house to London's counting rooms, Trollope offers a cool, exact social realism. An omniscient, wry narrator probes motive ... Read more

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  • The American Senator (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Satire of 19th-century politics and Victorian class; a realistic study of ambition, romance, and life in the English countryside

    The American Senator surveys an English county through the cool gaze of Senator Elias Gotobed, whose visit exposes the absurdities and evasions of rural privilege. Around Dillsborough's hunt and the houses of Bragton and Rufford, Trollope interlaces the senator's lectures on law, church, and primogeniture with Arabella Trefoil's ruthless marriage campaign and the quieter courtship of Mary Masters ... Read more

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  • Defying Displacement

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    The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the ... Read more

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    Beetle Juice

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    In a tiny village, just off the universe-spanning trail of the Amoeba, young, telepathic were-creatures are schooled in the mystery and wonder of the human body—its practicalities as well as its pleasures. Eager to discover their alternate selves, they marvel at the possibilities. But when precocious were Wetzel, an infinitely curious and adventurous teenage boy—and unicorn—is enlisted into sexual ... Read more

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