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Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a compilation of essays, non-fiction short stories and poems.
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A gift of stones
… short stories, grouped under the tit A Gift Stones. The key thematic concern is the portrayal of dysfunctional individuals contemplating loss. The author offers a definition of his understanding of dysfunctional in the introduction, and further elaborates on the concept of documentary …
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Resurrecting Stones Transforming Lives
My Polish background and upbringing have had a profound influence on the way I look at architecture. Growing up I was always fascinated by the interplay of new things that were around me, dancing with the old objects and way of life that were still present. How can these two worlds co-exist? Does …
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Dreams of Years Like Stones
<p>When a young carpenter and painter, Rudolfo Garcia, unknowingly kills a man in Baja, his hopes quickly spiral into fear, which prompts him to cross the border into the United States. Loss turns to fulfillment when he meets an aspiring young journalist in Washington, D.C., who recognizes his …
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Gall/stones paper/cuts (Original writing).
Abstract Not Available. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-06, page: 2170. Adviser: Alistair McLeod. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1996.
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Properties of some Illinois building stones
Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T22:46:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5956459.pdf: 1629227 bytes, checksum: f23e15931ea48720d664ae505f6cec24 (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1893
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Scalability of Stepping Stones and Pathways
… direct or indirect relationships. The Stepping Stones and Pathways (SSP) retrieval methodology supports retrieval of ranked chains of documents that support valid relationships between any two given concepts. SSP has many potential practical and research applications, which are in need of a tool …
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Cairn Stones: A Mosaic Memoir and Manual
These twenty essays are scraps and fractals of larger stories, windows on coming to understand the world and my place in it. Taken as a whole, the collection tells the story of a formation of open-eyed hope. Roughly, they run from 2001 to 2010, covering the same years as the terrorist attacks of …
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Cairn Stones: A Mosaic Memoir and Manual
These twenty essays are scraps and fractals of larger stories, windows on coming to understand the world and my place in it. Taken as a whole, the collection tells the story of a formation of open-eyed hope. Roughly, they run from 2001 to 2010, covering the same years as the terrorist attacks of …
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The building stones of Boston and vicinity
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1903.
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Calibration, recognition, and shape from silhouettes of stones
… systems are increasingly used for analysing stones. This thesis presents methods to estimate stone shape and to recognise individual stones from their silhouettes. Calibration of two image capture setups is investigated. First, a setup consisting of two mirrors and a camera is introduced. …
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Sticks and stones: a Blue Ridge Mountain retreat
Given a sloping wooded site in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the problem of the thesis project was to design a retreat that would fit the environment and the people that would inhabit it. It was a searching for the interdependence between the landscape and the building. Equally …
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Memorial, What do these stones mean to you?
What do these stones mean to you? At some point in man's history, there came a moment in time when he realized an inherent need to be remembered. Whether it was man's first sin and its immediate consequences of earthly mortality. Or whether it was the progress and development on an evolutionary …
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Incised Stones of the Great Basin: A Contextual Archaeology
This research examined the context of incised stones in the Great Basin. Incised stones are small tabular shaped stones, that are easily portable, and have designs incised on the surface. The Great Basin is located in western North America and encompasses a roximately California, Idaho, Nevada, and …
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C-ARM TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTION OF KIDNEY STONES
… be a painful problem due to presence of kidney stones. Kidney stone is among the common painful disorders of the urinary system. Various imaging modalities are used to diagnose patients with symptoms of renal or urinary tract disease such as plain kidney, ureter, bladder x-ray (KUB), intravenous …
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Diary of "a mass of stones": Borobudur in people's experiences
Up till the present time, scholars have been mostly dealing with either the architectural aspect of Borobudur or speculating about its functions in the past. The author argues that many scholars placed an enormous amount of emphasis on speculating what Borobudur was and what it was for. It seems …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
In this project, I argue that during the late-Victorian period a revived form of paganism developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
This dissertation is divided into ten chapters. In Chapter 2,1 provide an overview of the theoretical background of my research, outlining the key developments, figures, academic works and trends in the conceptual fields of collective/social memory and the politics of memory. Here, I also discuss …
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Sticks, stones, & stigmas: A social-cognitive account of stereotype threat mechanisms
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