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The Vote Collectors The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers behind the Nation’s Greatest Electoral


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English | ISBN: 1469665565 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County’s vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year.

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Collectors, Commissioners, Curators Studies in Medieval Art Inspired by Stephen Fliegel


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English | ISBN: 1501521101 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB | 22 MB
This volume celebrates Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Leading curators in their fields offer perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage by highlighting key objects in some of the most famous collections of medieval art, among others: the British Museum, the CMA, the Getty, the Louvre, the Met, the Morgan, and the V&A.

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Solar Collectors and Systems


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by Haj, Mamdouh El;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 979-8886977745 | 172 pages | True PDF | 19.64 MB
Sustainability enhances human beings’ lives, preserves their ecosystem and conserves natural resources. One of the most important steps towards sustainability is the development of renewable energy systems. Hence, different renewable energy technologies have been introduced, developed and applied in recent decades. Among different renewable energy sources, a solar energy source is one of the most attractive options for a variety of purposes, namely power generation, heating, cooling and freshwater production. The necessity of the development and performance improvement of solar energy technologies require deep insight into their working principles, effective factors and potentials of modifications. In this book, solar collectors and systems are the focus, as well as their use in a number of different applications, from power generation to heating, cooling and desalination. Furthermore, some promising approaches for the improvement of these systems and enhancement of their reliability such as the employment of quantum dots materials and storage units are represented and discussed. This book will be useful for the scholars and engineers working on solar systems and their relevant technologies and components.

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