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Joe Coomer's eccentric fourth novel features two unlikely loners. First is thirty-year-old Lyman, who works the night shift as a courtesy patrolman on the highway that circles Fort Worth, Texas. Lyman's off-duty existence is no less of a loop. Hardened from a childhood as an orphan and convinced that the world is an arbitrary place, he limits his daytime routine to an unending series of such practical college courses as plumbing, aeronautics a...

When the recession hits, this witty behind-the-scenes peek reveals the lifestyles of out-of-work cats. How do cats cope when there's no work for them? How do they spend their leisure time? That's the topic of this book. (They're playing a lot more pinball for one thing!) In happier times, cats could find work anywhere. From catching mice to making antique shops look homey, to starring in commercials, to sitting by the cash register giving cust...

This work on traditional quilts offers guidelines for establishing the age of antique quilts and information on the areas of the country where they were made. Techniques, tools, fabrics and dyes are described in detail, along with all the known types and patterns of quilt and how to care for them.

With its lively narrative and profuse illustrations, this volume captures thevisual riches of a remarkable era. 241 full-color illustrations.

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Nonholonomic Motion Planning grew out of the workshop that took place at the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. It consists of contributed chapters representing new developments in this area. Contributors to the book include robotics engineers, nonlinear control experts, differential geometers and applied mathematicians. Nonholonomic Motion Planning is arranged into three chapter groups: Controllability: one of the ...

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This book grew out of the Fourth conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations. The book covers all aspects of computers and the writing process, including computer-based collaborative wri...

The book centers around an analysis of the options for the agronomic development of semiarid regions with winter rains (i.e. Mediterranean regions). Data obtained in the northern Negev desert in Israel serve as a starting point. On the basis of these data crop and sheep husbandry systems were designed and integrated into agro-pastoral systems in which small-grain crops act as a buffer for feed production. These systems served as a basis for ra...

The entire world was taken by surprise when 1990 brought an end to Soviet communism in Europe and thus a genuine end to World War II. The fact that these developments surprised not only the leaders and the people of the countries concerned, but also scholars is an extraordinary challenge to the students of Soviet-type economics. In the academic world, where predictive force is one of the key indicators of a successful theory, this weak perform...

This book is the definitive handbook on the subject of crop pests. Including 288 colour photographs, the book contains information which has been edited and updated from the series of advisory leaflets issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) which have been a widely acknowledged source of valuable information for many years.

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Contributors to this second volume discuss metal and toxicant toxicity, their environmental sources and methods of action, and their regulation by courts and agencies.