The Slugs Of Tackett S Mill

Author : Kerry Young
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781643501895

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The Slugs of Tackett's Mill by Kerry Young Pdf

It may prove to be of some interest to Americans across the country to gain some insight into the complexities of living near the nation’s capital. Every day, over three hundred thousand people commute from the suburbs of Washington, DC, to their jobs in the District or in Northern Virginia. The resulting traffic congestion is typical of any large city. The commuting methodology is not. To alleviate traffic, high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes are designated (HOV-3 for a total of three in the car, the driver picks up two slugs) to encourage commuters to leave their cars, ride with someone else, and gain the advantage of a less heavily traveled road. This is a diary of one of these slug pickup sites. This microcosm of society shows the mind-set of the worker bees in our nation’s capital as they arrive at work. The game is played out with regularity. The players become familiar, yet nameless characters. They are the slugs of Tackett’s Mill.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : NYPL:33433068527880

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Region Focus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Air travel
ISBN : UOM:39015047799385

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Transportation Research Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elżbieta Kalisińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030001216

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Mammals and Birds as Bioindicators of Trace Element Contaminations in Terrestrial Environments by Elżbieta Kalisińska Pdf

The population explosion that began in the 1960s has been accompanied by a decrease in the quality of the natural environment, e.g. pollution of the air, water and soil with essential and toxic trace elements. Numerous poisonings of people and animals with highly toxic anthropogenic Hg and Cd in the 20th century prompted the creation of the abiotic environment, mainly in developed countries. However, the system is insufficient for long-term exposure to low concentrations of various substances that are mainly ingested through food and water. This problem could be addressed by the monitoring of sentinels – organisms that accumulate trace elements and as such reflect the rate and degree of environmental pollution. Usually these are long-lived vertebrates – herbivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous birds and mammals, especially game species. This book describes the responses of the sentinels most commonly used in ecotoxicological studies to 17 trace elements.

Author : Edwin A. Tucker,George Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Forest management
ISBN : UIUC:30112020141260

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Men who Matched the Mountains by Edwin A. Tucker,George Fitzpatrick Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : UOM:39015075578172

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Bicycling for Everyone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Se-Kwon Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319071459

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Handbook of Anticancer Drugs from Marine Origin by Se-Kwon Kim Pdf

This timely desk reference focuses on marine-derived bioactive substances which have biological, medical and industrial applications. The medicinal value of these marine natural products are assessed and discussed. Their function as a new and important resource in novel, anticancer drug discovery research is also presented in international contributions from several research groups. For example, the potential role of Spongistatin, Apratoxin A, Eribulin mesylate, phlorotannins, fucoidan, as anticancer agents is explained. The mechanism of action of bioactive compounds present in marine algae, bacteria, fungus, sponges, seaweeds and other marine animals and plants are illustrated via several mechanisms. In addition, this handbook lists various compounds that are active candidates in chemoprevention and their target actions. The handbook also places into context the demand for anticancer nutraceuticals and their use as potential anti-cancer pharmaceuticals and medicines. This study of advanced and future types of natural compounds from marine sources is written to facilitate the understanding of Biotechnology and its application to marine natural product drug discovery research.

Author : Kerry Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608196845

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Pao by Kerry Young Pdf

As a young boy, Pao comes to Jamaica in the wake of the Chinese civil war and rises to become the Godfather of Kingston's bustling Chinatown. Pao needs to take care of some dirty business, but he is no Don Corleone. The rackets he runs are small time and the protection he provides necessary, given the minority status of the Chinese in Jamaica. Pao, in fact, is a sensitive guy in a wise guy role that doesn't quite fit. Often mystified by all that he must take care of, Pao invariably turns to Sun Tsu's Art of War. The juxtaposition of the weighty, aphoristic words of the ancient Chinese sage, and the tricky criminal and romantic predicaments Pao must negotiate goes far toward explaining the novel's great charm. A tale of post-colonial Jamaica from a unique and politically potent perspective, Pao moves from the last days of British rule through periods of unrest at social and economic inequality, though tides of change that will bring Rastafarianism and the Back to Africa Movement. Jamaica is transforming: And what is the place of a Chinese man in this new order? Pao is an utterly beguiling, unforgettable novel of race, class and creed, love and ambition, and a country in the throes of tumultuous change.

Author : Kerry Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620400760

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Gloria by Kerry Young Pdf

Finalist in Fiction for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more. It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she has made for herself and the one that might be. Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power.

Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Verso
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 1859843034

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Lockdown America by Christian Parenti Pdf

Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Author : Kerry Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408844342

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Show Me A Mountain by Kerry Young Pdf

_______________ 'Kerry Young is a stand-alone talent in the new emerging generation of writers from the Caribbean region. Her stories are gritty and also funny and very real' - Monique Roffey _______________ A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of Pao Fay Wong is caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune from nothing; her African heritage mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road. But her father's Chinatown haunts are out of bounds and the airy rooms of their home are filled with her mother's uncontrollable rages – rages against which Fay rebels as she grows into a headstrong woman. As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, Fay's eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when her mother decides that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that will lead to sacrifice and betrayal.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Patents
ISBN : CUB:P108132608007

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : PURD:32754075912166

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Manzanar National Historic Site, California by Harlan D. Unrau Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015049177515

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Research & Technology Transporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230601680

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Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn by E. Kennedy Pdf

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.