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Simon Han

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar“A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America“Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes, and delights.” —Bryan Washington, author of Memorial**From the outs...

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Simon Han

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James Chen

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar“A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America“Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes, and delights.” —Bryan Washington, author of Memorial**From the outs...

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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

This book takes stock of the position of motorsport in the 21st century and considers how it will continue to influence sport business, politics, and society in the future.Presenting a set of thematic essays and multi-disciplinary case studies, the book demonstrates that motorsport continues to play a significant role in relationships between the automotive industry, nationalism, industrialisation, and capitalism as well as motorsports’ position as a feature of contemporary popular...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2016, held in Bari, Italy, in October 2016, co-located with the 19th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2016. The 24 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. In addition the book contains 5 abstracts of invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections named: error bounds, sample compression...

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Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

This volume is designed to feature the pharmacology of new psychoactive substances, legislative aspects, information exchange including epidemiology, and clinical, forensic, and analytical toxicology in order to facilitate the understanding of this complex and rapidly developing phenomenon.

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Desk References

As the prevalence of allergic diseases and asthma has increased in recent years, scientists have intensified research efforts to understand the pathogenesis of these sometimes debilitating conditions. Indeed, researchers have provided key insights-and new concepts-that have changed therapeutic strategies. Moreover, allergic inflammation has served

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Dennis A. Ahlburg, Dakota Camacho, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Glenn Banks, John Barker, Simon Batterbury, Aletta Biersack, Hans Juergen Boehmer, Gilianne Brodie, Bruce Burns, Professor John Connell, Ron Crocombe, Ojeya Cruz Banks, George Curry, Tim Denham, Brian Diettrich, Ron Duncan, Tony Falkland, Colin Filer, Navi Fong, Gerard J. Fryer, Patricia Fryer, Stephen Galvin, Philomena Gangaiya, David Welchman Gegeo, Paul Geraghty, Lorenz Gonschor, Tiaki Kerei, Nicholas Halter, Matthew Hayward, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Jara Hulkenberg, Thomas Ibanez, Uwe Kaufmann, David M. Kennedy, Gunnar Keppel, Gina Koczberski, Matthias Kowasch, Roselyn Kumar, Lamont Lindstrom, Maebh Long, Rick Lumpkin, Harley I. Manner, Hamish A. McGowan, Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer, Bradley Moore, Clare Morrison, R. John Morrison, Apisalome Movono, Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Stephen G. Nelson, Patrick D. Nunn, Kalei Nu‘uhiwa, Patrick Pikacha, Emma Ngakuravaru Powell, Kirstie Petrou, Tia Reihana-Morunga, Will Rollason, Richard Scaglion, Andrew P. Sturman, Henryk Szadziewski, Lynne D. Talley, John Taylor, Randolph R. Thaman, Frank R. Thomas, Nunia Thomas-Moko, Jaap Timmer, Alexander Trupp, Caroline Vercoe, Camellia Webb-Gannon, Eberhard Weber, Terence Wesley-Smith, Vehia Wheeler, Ian White, Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu

The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this “sea of islands,” they established thriving communities where they lived for thousands of years. Today, although island ecosystems and cultures are facing great change, Pacific Island peoples remain resilient.This new edition of a popular text r...

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Daisy Johnson

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Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anna Koval

**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times“It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review“Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —TimeFrom a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of o...

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Kate Milliken

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Rebecca Lowman

Named a most anticipated novel by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Parade, The Millions, and Electric Lit • A Reader’s Digest Quarantine Book Club Pick • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rugged and ravishing” (Oprah Daily) debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the accident that changes everything.It’s 1993, and Rory Ramos works as a ran...

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Elise Juska

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Megan Tusing

A New York Times Editors' Choice • A People Best Book“Masterful storytelling and memorable characters. . . . Elise Juska's best book yet.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods**“I loved this story about the importance of long friendships. . . . A perfectly crafted page-turner.”—Mary Beth Keane, New York Ti...

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews“The best book about America I’ve read la...

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Sue Miller

A New York Times Notable Book • NPR Best Book of the Year • People magazine Top Ten Books of the Year • BookPage Best Book of the Year • Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year“A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grie...