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Cryptids: The Fascinating World of Unknown Creatures (A Deep Dive Into the Cryptids, Folklore, and Hidden Stories From Coast) - Paperback

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by James Bell (Author)This book takes you into the mysterious woods of Oregon, where the line between the real and the supernatural is fuzzy. Find the elusive Sasquatch, who is said to live in the thick forests, meet the mysterious Colossal Claude in the deep seas, and learn the scary stories of the roams the high deserts. This book tells about strange creatures that people have seen and heard, and it also talks about their cultural importance. Each part paints a vivid picture of the supernat...

Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark - Hardcover

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by Leigh Ann Henion (Author)From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the...

Integrative Facial Cupping: Lymphatic drainage and face-lifting protocols - Paperback

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by Carlos Paulo (Author)FACIAL CUPPING BOOKPractice with facial cupping set glass or silicone set. natural beauty book by dk with facial cups for cupping therapy for rejuvenation.Facial cupping protocols, natural beauty book with cups, 70 pages, 6" x 9 ", white paper / interior color / facial cupping for beginners / Easy four different programs for beauticians , family, Spa or for all.This book is practical and accessible, explanatory diagrams with natural beauty products set. It is a simple...

Pompeii: A History of the City and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius - Paperback

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by Historycaps (Editor), Fergus Mason (Author)Pompeii was one of most advanced cities of its time; it had a complex water system, gymnasium, and an amphitheater. Despite it's advancements, there was one thing it wasn't ready for: Mount Vesuvius-the volcano that led to its ultimate doom.The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of the worst disasters in all of European history. In a near instant, over 15,000 people were dead and a city was completely destroyed.This book looks at the rise, f...

Agate Hunting on the Oregon Coast: A Guide to the 40 Best Agate Hunting Sites - Paperback

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by M. J. Grover (Author)Find agates on your next trip to the Oregon Coast Agate Hunting on the Oregon Coast takes an in-depth look at the 40 best beaches that you can hunt for agates, jaspers, fossils, petrified wood, and other natural treasures. This complete guide covers the entire coastline from north to south, and it holds nothing back. A beginner who has never visited Oregon will get as much from this book as an experienced beachcomber. Secret spots, safety guides, tips and tricks, dozen...

National Geographic the Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals - Hardcover

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by Joel Sartore (Author)The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals--especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an empha...

Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis: One Woman's Discovery of the Transformation of Butterflies and Insects - Hardcover

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by Maria Sibylla Merian (Author), Emily Gillis (Editor)Discover the trailblazing work of artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths. Maria Sibylla Merian is one of the greatest artist-naturalists of the seventeenth century. Her work documenting the life cycle and transformation of insects yielded a wealth of groundbreaking discoveries, captured vividly in beautiful illustrations. Originally published in 1705, Metamo...

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers - Paperback

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by Swami Panchadasi (Author)Clairvoyance and Occult Powers is a classic occult science text by Swami Panchadasi. Including clairvoyance, clairaudience, premonition and impressions, clairvoyant psychometry clairvoyant crystal-gazing, distant clairvoyance, past clairvoyance, future clairvoyance, second-sight, prevision, clairvoyant development, astral-body traveling, astral-plane phenomena, psychic influence--personal and distant, psychic attraction, psychic healing, telepathy, mind-reading, th...

Ores of The Leadville Mining District - Paperback

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by Kerby Jackson (Introduction by), Us Department of Interior (Author)Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "Guide to Ores of Leadville District, Colorado". Unavailable since 1926, this publication was originally compiled by the United States Department of Interior. This volume also includes important insights into the ores and mineralization of the Leadville Mining District in Colorado. Topics include historic ore prospecting meth...

Krause's Essential Human Histology for Medical Students - Paperback

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by Krause J. William (Author)The format of Essential Human Histology departs considerably from that of the usual presentations on human tissue/organ biology. This presentation was not designed as a formal reference textbook but as a tool solely for students and is designed for rapid student learning as well as rapid review in preparation for USMLE examinations. Essential Human Histology focuses the beginning student's attention on the most important aspects of this discipline which are presen...

The History of Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Biographical Approach - Paperback

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by H. Thomas Milhorn (Author)The history of astronomy and astrophysics ranges from antiquity to the landing of spacecraft on the Moon, Mars, Venus, and even an asteroid. Since early times, human beings have sought to understand what they see in the sky. The invention of the telescope opened new avenues of observation and research. Speculation about life on the Moon and other planets became a hot topic, and theories about the evolution of the universe were developed. New investigative tools, s...

Alaska's Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North - Paperback

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by Eleanor G. Viereck (Author), Dominique Collett (Illustrator), Patsy Turner Egan (Contribution by)"Whenever I open it, I find another marvelous tidbit, like Viereck's description of uses for soft, acidic plant sphagnum, or peat moss, the plant often found chinking the walls of log cabins..." - Fairbanks News-MinerThis guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, is a great way to acquaint people with Alaskan wild plants that can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergen...

A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia - Paperback

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by U. S. Department of Agriculture (Author), Arnold Krochmal (Author), Et Al (Author)Illustrated descriptions of 126 medicinal plants of the Appalachian region, with information for collectors about where the plant grows, parts used, reputed and recognized usages, flowering period, and common names. Plant collecting and preparation methods are also described. Glossary of pharmaceutical and botanical terms. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: Mar...

Katahdin Hair Sheep - Raising a Profitable Breed of Sheep - Paperback

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by John Davidson (Author), Mendon Cottage Books (Editor), Darla Noble (Author)Katahdin Hair Sheep - Raising a Profitable Breed of Sheep Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: What are Katahdin Hair Sheep Chapter 2: The Katahdin Advantage Chapter 3: Selecting Katahdin Sheep for your Flock Chapter 4: Reaping the Benefits of the Katahdin Breed Closing Remarks Author Bio Introduction More than a few people would use words like 'dumb' and 'stupid' to describe sheep. Not me. I use words like 'tr...

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author)In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of the Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work attempts to moves "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favor of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of kn...

The Practical Beekeeper Volume I Beginning Beekeeping Naturally - Paperback

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by Michael Bush (Author)This book is about how to keep bees in a natural and practical system where they do not require treatments for pests and diseases and only minimal interventions. It is also about simple practical beekeeping. It is about reducing your work. It is not a main-stream beekeeping book. Many of the concepts are contrary to "conventional" beekeeping. The techniques presented here are streamlined through decades of experimentation, adjustments and simplification. The content wa...

NASA Graphics Standards Manual Remastered Edition - Hardcover

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by Tony Darnell (Illustrator), Tony Darnell (Editor)The NASA Graphics Standards Manual: Remastered Edition is a modern spin on the original NASA Graphics Standards Manual published in 1976 and puts it into a new and clean format. Using high-resolution scans of the original book, over two-hundred man-hours were spent in recreating and remastering the original drawings with very fine details. This book is not in the same format as the original, as the original manual was in a binder. However, m...

The Ritual Year in Ancient Egypt: Lunar & Solar Calendars and Liturgy - Paperback

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by Mogg Morgan (Author)The very oldest Egyptian ritual calendar was lunar. The evidence for this is very complex and in the words of Professor Leo Depuydt, "does not exactly jump out at you " This ancient lunar calendar continued a veiled existence alongside the dominant solar or civil year. Many details are lost so the project of this book is to bring together what has survived. Revealed here is a very ancient pantheon of gods, including Set, Min, & Hathor, one for each month of the luna...

Physics Olympiad - Basic to Advanced Exercises - Paperback

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by The Committee of Japan Physics Ol Japan (Author)Front JacketThis book contains some of the problems and solutions in the past domestic theoretical and experimental competitions in Japan for the International Physics Olympiad. Through the exercises, we aim at introducing the appeal and interest of modern physics to high-school students. In particular, the problems for the second-round of competition are like long journey of physics, beginning with fundamental physics of junior-high-school l...

Solar Power: The Beginner's guide for solar electricity systems, for off-grid solar systems and for your home energy independence - Paperback

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by Turgon Annárë (Author)Ever wanted to save on electricity bills and without being dependent on energy? Want to protect your family from regular power outages and the negligence of local utilities?Your desire may be to get your energy bill lowered or be independent of the payment all together. Then Solar energy is the answer to all your expensive energy consumption.Solar power is the most abundant of all renewable resources available. It is essentially a source of achieving safe energy for h...

Einstein's Violin: The Love Affair Between Science, Music, and History's Most Creative Thinkers - Hardcover

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by Douglas Wadle (Author)Music brings great joy to many of us. But its other benefits often go underappreciated. Numerous studies and historical anecdotes highlight how powerfully music alters the human mind. Two characteristics drive most of music's cognitive benefits: It builds a faster highway between the right and left sides of the brain, enabling greater cooperation between the logical and the creative. It also creates a vast mesh of connectivity within the brain, like a microcosm of the...

Wildflowers of Zion National Park - Paperback

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by Steve W. Chadde (Author)Wildflowers of Zion National Park is a non-technical, full-color introduction to over 100 of the more common wildflowers found in Zion, as well as in nearby Bryce Canyon National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument. In addition, common ferns are described as are six of the region's most common cacti. Each plant is illustrated with one or more color photographs, and a brief description of the plant's features, habitat, and cultural uses is provided. Number of Pag...

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Hardcover

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by Merlin Sheldrake (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. "Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world."--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE B...

The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonkian Art

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Report copyright infringementby Speck Frank Gouldsmith (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

Integrating Planning with Nature: Building climate resilience across the urban-to-rural gradient (Illustrated by a case study in San José and Coyote V

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Report copyright infringementby Micaela Bazo (Author)Climate change and development pressures are creating an urgent need to build more resilience into the ecosystems we live in and rely upon. To create such resilience, planners need to couple rural and urban areas, because they are generally part of the same landscape system in which decisions made in one area affect outcomes in another. Silicon Valley exemplifies this situation, where land-use planning in Coyote Valley, higher in the waters...

Culture and Cosmos Vol 21 1 and 2: Marriage of Astronomy and Culture: Theory and Method in the Study of Cultural Astronomy

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Report copyright infringementby Liz Henty (Editor), Bernadette Brady (Editor), Darrelyn Gunzburg (Editor)This volume of Culture and Cosmos draws together a selection of papers delivered at the 24th annual conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). Titled 'The Marriage of Astronomy and Culture: Theory and Method in the Study of Cultural Astronomy', the meeting occurred between the 12th and the 16th September 2016 and was held at The Bath Literary and Scientific Institu...

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by Jamie Goode (Author)Viticulture faces a turning point. We are beginning to realise that the way wine grapes are being grown is not truly sustainable. And in the face of climate chaos, the careful matching of variety to place is experiencing instability. But viticulture is not unique in this regard. Agriculture in general is facing a challenge of sustainability. The great strides in producing more food in the 20th century resulted in ways of farming that, while they greatly increased yield,...

Urban Mobility: How the Iphone, Covid, and Climate Changed Everything

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Report copyright infringementby Shauna Brail (Editor), Betsy Donald (Editor)Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to respond meaningfully to the climate crisis.Featuring contributions from leading Canadian and American scholars and researchers, this edited collection traverses disciplines inclu...

Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day - Paperback

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by Brian Blomerth (Author), Dennis McKenna (Foreword by)Illustrator, musician and self-described "comic stripper" Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known a...

Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem - Paperback

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by Dwight E. Neuenschwander (Author)One of the most important--and beautiful--mathematical solutions ever devised, Noether's theorem touches on every aspect of physics."In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."--Albert EinsteinThe year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled into Göttingen University when Albert Ein...

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age - Paperback

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by Annalee Newitz (Author)In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor...

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us - Paperback

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by Steve Brusatte (Author)New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ("A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington Post) and "one of the stars of modern paleontology" (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us.National Bestseller - Top 10 Nonfiction of 2022: Kirkus - Best Science Books of 2022: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty t...