Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Class Book by Mandall, Abertine D.

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Russian empire : space, people, power, 1700-1930 / edited by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev

Table of Contents: “…Siberia and the Russian Far East in the imperial geography of power / Anatolyi Remnev -- Imperial political culture and modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century / Sviatoslav Kaspe -- Federalisms and pan-movements : re-imagining empire / Mark von Hagen.…”

The end of the Asian century war, stagnation, and the risks to the world's most dynamic region by Auslin, Michael R.

A theory of militant democracy the ethics of combatting political extremism by Kirshner, Alexander S.

Revolutions without borders : the call to liberty in the Atlantic world by Polasky, Janet L.

Martin Luther Catholic dissident by Stanford, Peter 1961-

Great game east India, China, and the struggle for Asia's most volatile frontier by Lintner, Bertil

Kurdistan in the shadow of history by Meiselas, Susan, Bruinessen, Martin van

SONS OF THE WAVES : THE COMMON SEAMAN IN THE HEROIC AGE OF SAIL, 1740-1840 / by Taylor, Stephen, 1948-

Wellington waterloo and the fortunes of peace, 1814-1852 by Muir, Rory 1962-

In Nelson's wake the navy and the Napoleonic wars by Davey, James

Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax by Persico, Joseph E.

Table of Contents: “…-- "Little short of murder" -- The fate of Private Gunther -- "This fateful morning came an end to all wars" -- Greater losses than on D-Day -- "Only the dead have seen the end of war."…”

Our divided political heart the battle for the American idea in an age of discontent by Dionne, E. J.

Wellington by Muir, Rory 1962-

Essentials of oceanography by Garrison, Tom 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- 6.3.Water Has Unusual Thermal Characteristics -- Heat and Temperature Are Not the Same Thing -- Not All Substances Have the Same Heat Capacity -- Water's Temperature Affects Its Density -- Water Becomes Less Dense When It Freezes -- Water Removes Heat from Surfaces As It Evaporates -- 6.4.Surface Water Moderates Global Temperature -- Movement of Water Vapor from Tropics to Poles Also Moderates Earth's Temperature -- Global Warming Is Influencing Ocean-Surface Temperature -- 6.5.Water Is a Powerful Solvent -- Salinity Is a Measure of Seawater's Total Dissolved Organic Solids -- The Components of Ocean Salinity Came From, and Have Been Modified by, Earth's Crust -- The Ratio of Dissolved Solids in the Ocean Is Constant -- Salinity Is Calculated by Seawater's Conductivity -- The Ocean Is in Chemical Equilibrium -- The Ocean's Mixing Time Is Short -- 6.6.Gases Dissolve in Seawater -- Nitrogen -- Oxygen -- Carbon Dioxide -- 6.7.Acid-Base Balance -- 6.8.The Ocean Is Stratified by Density -- The Ocean Is Stratified into Three Density Zones by Temperature and Salinity -- Water Masses Have Characteristic Temperature, Salinity, and Density -- 6.9.Light Does Not Travel Far through the Ocean -- The Photic Zone Is the Sunlit Surface of the Ocean -- Water Transmits Blue Light More Efficiently Than Red -- Insight from a National Geographic Explorer 6.1 -- 6.10.Sound Travels Much Farther Than Light in the Ocean -- Refraction Can Bend the Paths of Light and Sound through Water -- Refraction Causes SOFAR Layers and Shadow Zones -- Sonar Systems Use Sound to Detect Underwater Objects -- Questions from Students -- Chapter in Perspective -- Terms and Concepts to Remember -- Study Questions -- Global Environment Watch -- 7.Atmospheric Circulation -- 7.1.The Atmosphere and Ocean Interact with Each Other -- 7.2.The Atmosphere Is Composed Mainly of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Water Vapor -- 7.3.The Atmosphere Moves in Response to Uneven Solar Heating and Earth's Rotation -- The Solar Heating of Earth Varies with Latitude -- The Solar Heating of Earth Also Varies with the Seasons -- Earth's Uneven Solar Heating Results in Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation -- 7.4.The Coriolis Effect Deflects the Path of Moving Objects -- The Coriolis…”

Re-mapping the Americas trends in region-making by Knight, W. Andy, Castro Rea, Julián, Ghany, Hamid A.

The global economy in turbulent times by Lin, See Yan

Table of Contents: “…-- TW3 2011: Annus Horribilis -- G-20 Summit, Los Cabos 2012 GJAP: More of the Same -- APEC, Vladivostok 2012: A New Perspective -- TW3 2012: A Tough Year with a Bleak Outlook -- 2013: Breadth of Global Slowdown Disconcerting -- TW3 2013: Tension and Risks; a Peek at 2014 -- Spring 2014 Stock Take: Complex Risks Ahead -- Trouble with the Global Economy -- The Paradox of Thrift -- Deflation Is Not an Option -- Reality Check on Economic Models -- Commodity and Asset Prices Are Up; Can Inflation Be Far Behind? -- A New Hazard: Double-Dip Deflation -- The "New Normal" -- Muddling Through the Inflation -- It's a Dangerous World out There -- "Risk-Off" Episodes -- Now's Not the Time for Austerity -- The World Economy: Growing Pains and Bubbly Worries -- What's Up Is Down -- The United States: Jobless Recovery -- Jackson Hole "Gunfight" Shoots Blanks -- The United States Is No Longer AAA -- "Occupy Wall Street" Goes Global -- Lessons from Marx to Market -- Sachs and Krugman on the Global Crisis -- Life after Keynes with the Double-Dip -- Growth Dims after the "Cliff" -- An Inconvenient Truth: QE Withdrawal Syndrome -- An Unnecessary Disaster Spawns Market Fears -- US Growth Deficit: Too Loose, Too Long -- The European Union and Eurozone: More Austerity -- Dark Clouds over Europe and the United States -- ECB and Fed Clear Way to Act -- Eurozone Growth Can't Move beyond First Gear but Needs to Keep Deflation at Bay -- PIIGS Can't Fly: The Trouble with Greece -- Greece Is Bankrupt -- Greek Bailout Mark II: It's a Default -- Greece and Eurozone: Austerity Fatigue -- Greece: More Aid Needed to Save the Austerity-Fatigued -- New Euro Deal: Not the Whole Bazooka -- European Union: Favoring Growth Against More Austerity -- European Union: A Summer of Discontent -- European Union: Draghi's Bumblebee -- Cyprus's Bailout Turns Bail-In -- Japan: Dead On but Not Deadened -- Japan in Deep Hibernation -- 3-11: The Tohoku Disasters One Year On -- Japan Picks Up the Pieces -- Abenomics: Japan Comes Alive Again -- Abenomics Hitting Speed Bumps -- The International Financial System -- So, the Gold Bug Still Bugs You -- Man's Addiction to Gold -- In Search of Gold at Bretton Woods: Lust for Gold Not Paying Off -- What's Wrong with the International Monetary System? …”

Mechanical engineers' handbook

Table of Contents: “…Fisher -- Concurrent Engineering Revisited: How Far Have We Come / K. J. Cleetus -- Concurrent Engineering Technologies / V. …”