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A practical, full-color guide to optical manufacturing Featuring more than 300 full-color photos and illustrations, Optical Technology describes the basics of optics and optical materials and the methods and applications of optical manufacturing and assembly. Important procedures for the production...

The autumn of 18—was as uncomfortable and triste a season as I have ever known; commerce and crops alike looked down—respectable prophets of Tory tendencies shook their heads with redoubled vigor and gloomy but intense satisfaction at the near approach of that total ruin they had so often foretold;...

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En bon père de famille soucieux du bien-être de sa progéniture, monsieur Adeline cherche une situation qui lui permettra de gagner l'argent nécessaire au mariage de sa fille. Aussi, lorsque Constant Adeline débarque à Paris, sa figure respectable en fait la victime idéale de Frédéric et Raphaëlle....

Gangs of bloodthirsty and ruthless outlaws terrorized the American Southwest before and after Mexico ceded the land now called Texas. One such pack of thirty or forty cutthroats had what they thought was a perfectly impregnable hideout until a trio of U.S. Marshals was given the mission of bringing...

Extrait : "En avant ! Le monde était ouvert devant moi, et je pouvais tourner mes pas du côté du nord ou du sud, de l'ouest ou de l'est, selon mon caprice. Je n'étais qu'un enfant, et j'étais mon maître !"

De tous les hôtels qui avoisinent le parc Monceaux, le plus important par sa masse et le plus somptueux par sa décoration est celui que le financier Gripat s’est fait construire là, aux beaux jours de sa fortune prodigieuse. On y retrouve en effet le Louvre de Napoléon III et le nouvel Opéra,...

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In Gifts From America, humorous vignettes of family members who are new to the United States are remembered. Many times, a simple narrative takes a life of its own, and as the story is retold it grows and changes. Simple events take new meaning as they are weaved into stories showing how memory and...

This book deals with the perennial tensions between ethnic groups and the modern nation-state and does so from the perspective of a leading Mexican anthropologist with deep and long experience in these matters. As such, it is both a superb introduction to the basic issues and a presentation of the...

From beauty queen…to bride? A Once Upon a Tiara story If Kenzie Swayne didn’t require a date for a string of upcoming weddings, she’d turn Ramon Torres’s offer down flat. The gorgeous entrepreneur stood her up once, unwilling to let emotion interfere with his ambition. Ramon...

Dating, and certainly not marriage, were not on Agent Harley Tomasello’s “to do” list. Thanks to combination of too much tequila and too many dares at a pub on National Decide to Get Married Day, she ends up hitched to the hottest man she’s ever met. The next day she wakes with a headache...

Seduction, Southern style! Reality show producer Amelia Marlow has a score to settle with sexy Nate Reyes-and buying him at a bachelor auction promises sweet satisfaction. After all, it's thanks to him that workaholic Amelia is on temporary leave in her sleepy Georgia hometown. The least he...