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The roaring 20 : the first cross-country air race for women
Celebrates the courage and drive of a collection of aviators who took part in the first cross-country air race for women in 1929 from California to Ohio, featuring famed-flyers Opal Kunz and Florence Pancho Barnes.
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Born to fly : the first women's air race across America
\"National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin tells the story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced phase transformation properties of VO.sub.2 powder by Ti doping
Vanadium dioxide (VO.sub.2) exhibits remarkable properties during its metal-insulator transition, making it a compelling material for smart windows applications as a thermochromic material. In this study, Ti-doped VO.sub.2(M) (Ti-VO.sub.2(M)) powders were synthesized using the hydrothermal method by mixing VOC.sub.2O.sub.4·5H.sub.2O/Ti(SO.sub.4).sub.2 at 50 and 60 °C, respectively. To comparatively analyze the crystalline microscopic morphology and phase transition properties of the synthesized Ti-doped VO.sub.2(M) powders, several characterization techniques were employed, including XRD, XPS, SEM/TEM, EDS, and DSC. The experimental results suggests that low mixing temperature is beneficial for the stable and homogeneous growth of VO.sub.2(M) grains when in the absence of Ti doping. On the other hand, high mixing temperatures are beneficial for the stable and homogeneous growth of VO.sub.2(M) grains when Ti(SO.sub.4).sub.2 is introduced, resulting in enhanced phase transition stability of Ti-VO.sub.2(M).
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Ultra vanities : minaudiلeres, nلecessaires and compacts
Exquisite jeweled minaudieres, necessaires, and compacts from the l8th to the 21st centuries are photographed and displayed here in great detail and set within the social and fashion contexts of their creation. Original archive photographs showcase the social leaders, stage and cinema stars, and fashion leaders who carried these exquisite little accessories as indispensable adjuncts to their glamorous lives. These triumphs of the jewelers art were designed to rest glittering on cocktail bars and grand dining tables. They were tiny but also extremely useful as is revealed in detailed photos of their highly engineered interiors. These little boxes were capable of carrying everything a woman might need during the course of an evening which might start at the Ritz and end at Bricktops Jazz Club -- everything from a lipstick, to a powder compact, to a comb, even a cigarette and lighter, hence their generic name of necessaire.
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Wolves of Eden : a novel
\"Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat with Red Cloud's coalition of Indian tribes in the heart of Montana's Powder River Valley. Thomas finds love amidst the daily carnage--which leads to a moment of violence that will change the brothers' lives forever. Meanwhile, following a double murder in an illicit brothel, Lieutenant Martin Molloy sets off to track down the killers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Synthesis of Submicron-Sized TiBsub.2 Powders by Reaction of TiC, Bsub.4C, and Ca in Molten CaClsub.2
Submicron-sized TiB[sub.2] powders (300 nm–1 μm) were prepared by the reaction of TiC, B[sub.4]C, and Ca assisted by molten CaCl[sub.2]. The optimal reaction procedure (1200 °C and 25 wt.% CaCl[sub.2] + 25 wt.% Ca) was obtained by exploring the effects of the boronization reaction temperature and the addition of an amount of CaCl[sub.2]. It was found that the introduction of CaCl[sub.2] not only promoted the reaction but also effectively inhibited the volatilization of excess Ca. Furthermore, SEM images of the products showed that the morphology and particle size of TiB[sub.2] were inherited from the carbothermal reduction product TiC, which was dominated by the “template/growth” mechanism. The process of the boronization reaction was that B atoms migrated from B[sub.4]C and replaced the C atoms in the lattice of TiC.
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A vanity affair : l'art du nâecessaire
\"This is the ultimate illustrated guide to the most exquisite vanity cases from the nineteenth century onward; an unmissable opportunity for lovers of jewelry and fashion. This elegant and richly illustrated volume, featuring a slipcase and gilded page edges, showcases a rare private collection of vanity cases and includes an exquisite array of luxury accessories from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. These vanity cases, carefully designed and mostly handmade, became covetable accessories with the advent of beauty products. The vanity case, the ultimate jeweled fashion accessory, was designed and made mostly in Paris by skilled designers and craftsmen who understood that the fashionable modern woman needed a practical solution for carrying lipstick, powder compact, cigarettes, lighter, theater tickets, keys, and other small paraphernalia. Tiny, made of precious metals, including platinum and gold, with inlays of lacquer, gemstones, mother-of-pearl, jade, or enamel, these reticules took hundreds of hours of patient craftsmanship to complete\"--Publisher's description.
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Synthesis Strategy Toward Minimizing Adventitious Oxygen Contents in the Mechanochemically Made Semiconductor Kesterite Cusub.2ZnSnSsub.4 Nanopowders
A multipronged approach to the refined mechanochemical synthesis of the semiconductor kesterite Cu[sub.2]ZnSnS[sub.4] with minimal quantities of adventitious oxygen as well as to optimizing handling procedures from that angle is described. Three precursor systems are used to provide a pool of freshly made cubic prekesterite nanopowders with no semiconductor properties and the thermally annealed at 500 °C tetragonal kesterite nanopowders of the semiconductor. Based on the previously reported high propensity of such nanopowders to long-term deteriorating oxidation in ambient air, suitable modifications of all crucial synthesis steps are implemented, which are directed toward excluding or limiting the materials’ exposure to air. The nanopowders are comprehensively characterized by powder XRD, FT-IR/Raman/UV-Vis spectroscopies, solid-state [sup.65]Cu/[sup.119]Sn MAS NMR, TGA/DTA-QMS analysis, SEM, BET/BJH specific surface area, and helium density determinations, and, significantly, are directly analyzed for oxygen and hydrogen contents. The important finding is that following the anaerobic procedures and realistically minimizing the materials’ exposure to air in certain manipulation steps results in the preparation of better oxidation-resistant nanopowders with a dramatic relative decrease in their oxygen content than previously reported. The adherence to the strict synthesis conditions that limit contact of the no-oxygen-containing kesterite nanopowders with ambient air is emphasized.
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