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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Hume (Author)The Microzymas is a scientific book written by Douglas Hume that explores the concept of microzymas, which are tiny living organisms that are found in all living matter. The book delves into the history of microzymas and their discovery by Antoine Bechamp, a French scientist who believed that they were the building blocks of life. Hume also discusses the controversy surrounding Bechamp's theory and the eventual acceptance of the germ theory...

Mushrooms of Cascadia, Second Edition: An Illustrated Key to the Fungi of the Pacific Northwest - Paperback

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by Michael Beug (Author)An illustrated key to identifying the mushrooms of the Cascadian bioregion, stretching from coastal Alaska to central California and Idaho, featuring nearly 1,100 full-color photographs and more than 3,000 species. In this unique and comprehensive field guide, mycologist Dr. Michael Beug helps mushroom hunters of all levels navigate an often bewildering array of species by clearly identifying features that separate one cluster from another. By answering simple question...

Introduction to Artificial Life [With Cross-Platform]

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Adami (Author)Developed from a lab-orientated multidisciplinary course, this book and CD-ROM package brings together the theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the results of initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm. It assumes prior knowledge of statistical physics, thermodynamics and basic biology and a familiarity with computer archi...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region - Paperback

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by Burton V. Barnes (Author), Warren H. Wagner (Author)Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North American region.In this new and updated edition, several new species have been added to the lineup, as well as sections on tree ecology and fall color. Written and illustrated in a style that appeals at once to academic botanists and armchair ...

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America - Paperback

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by David Allen Sibley (Author)COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: From renowned birder, illustrator, and New York Times best selling author David Sibley, the most authoritative guide to the birds of the West, in a portable format that is perfect for the field. Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 715 bird species, plus regional populations, found west of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 5,046 in total--with descriptive captions pointing o...

Earth and Space: Photographs from the Archives of NASA - Hardcover

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by Nirmala Nataraj (Author), Nasa (Photographer), Bill Nye (Preface by)Take a tour of the universe with this awe-inspiring collection of photographs from the archives of NASA, featuring spectacular views of Earth from above, our solar system, and deep space. Featuring a preface by everyone's favorite "Science Guy" Bill Nye, Earth and Space is an unparalleled journey through the cosmos, offering up-close views of our remarkable cosmos. More than 100 astonishing images of Earth from above (fi...

Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel: Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and Presentation

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Gardener (Author)This is a book about the scientific process and how it is applied to data in ecology. We will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyse data and finally how to present the results. The book uses Microsoft Excel and the powerful Open Source R program. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 1 x 9.7 x 6.8 IN Publication Date: January 09, 2017

3D Scientific Visualization with Blender

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Report copyright infringementby Brian R. Kent (Author)This is the first book written on using Blender (an open-source visualization suite widely used in the entertainment and gaming industries) for scientific visualization. It is a practical and interesting introduction to Blender for understanding key parts of 3D rendering that pertain to the sciences via step-by-step guided tutorials. Any time you see an awesome science animation in the news, you will now know how to develop exciting visual...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Bud Lawson (Author)Systems are everywhere and affect us daily in our private and professional lives. We all use the word "system" to describe something that is essential but often abstract, complex and even mysterious. However, learning to utilize system concepts as first class objects as well as methodologies for systems thinking and systems engineering provides a basis for removing the mystery and moving towards mastery even for complex systems. This j...

The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah: Artificial Intelligence and the End Times:

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Reynolds (Author)The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah is an insightful perspective on the impact of the technological revolution on humanity. This work tackles the multifaceted world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms, and eugenics. Most significantly, The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah critically examines the implications technology will have on racial disparities in health, economics, jobs, and other critical segments of global societ...

Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur L. Norberg (Author), Judy E. O'Neill (Author)Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Computer ScienceOver the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving co...

Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard: Federal Information Processing Standards 205

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Report copyright infringementby U S Dept of Commerce (Author), Nist (Author), Zimmerman (Annotations by)In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and the looming specter of quantum computing, safeguarding sensitive information is more critical than ever. This FIPS publication, NIST FIPS 205, stands as a critical bulwark in the face of these challenges. It introduces the **Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA)**, a cutting-edge digital signature scheme meticulously desi...

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by Linus Pauling (Author)"An excellent text, highly recommended." -- ChoiceWhen it was first published, this first-year chemistry text revolutionized the teaching of chemistry by presenting it in terms of unifying principles instead of as a body of unrelated facts. Those principles included modern theories of atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics. In addition, Dr. Pauling attempted to correlate the theories with descriptive chemistry, the...

The Quickest Revolution: An Insider's Guide to Sweeping Technological Change, and Its Largest Threats

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Report copyright infringementby Jacopo Pantaleoni (Author)Written by a leading expert who has played a key role in developing cutting-edge technologies, this book delves into the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy.Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, through recent conquests in AI and computer graphics, the profound effects of this revolution threaten to upend much of the previous world order...

The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal - Hardcover

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by Larry W. Swanson (Author), Eric Newman (Author), Alfonso Araque (Author)"Among the world's greatest scientific illustrations. . . . They posit the thing between your ears as an immense cosmic universe, or at least one of the most intricate of all of nature's creations. That the images are also undeniable as art only adds to the complexity." --New York Times At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal's (1852-1934) contributions to n...

Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition - Paperback

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by Wendell Berry (Author)"[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today." --The Washington Post "I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamatio...

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race

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Report copyright infringementby Christian Davenport (Author)Musk versus Bezos.China versus the United States.The government versus the private sector.Welcome to the rivalries and alliances defining the New Space Age.At stake? Billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books. Moon landings and space walks once captivated the public's attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has felt moribund. Now, that's finally about to change. A fleet of powerful n...

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Report copyright infringementby Kiv Books (Author)What is it about dragons that almost every country in the world has their own version of this mythical creature? Why is it that countries that are on opposite sides of the world have dragons that have relatively the same features? Is this evidence that these mythical beasts did not just exist in the imagination of people from centuries past?All these questions and more will be answered in this book. If you have always been fascinated with drag...

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - Paperback

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by James Gleick (Author)From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of A...

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - Paperback

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by Michio Kaku (Author)The national bestselling author of The God Equation takes us on a thrilling journey to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own."A wonderful tour, with an expert guide." --Brian Greene, New York Times bestselling author of The Elegant Universe Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our univers...

The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book - Paperback

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by Charles Liu (Author)Quantum physics helps explain many mysteries of the universe. It underpins everything, but it need not be quantum difficult with this informative, accessible, easy-to-follow guide to the fundamentals and concepts of quantum physics and our quantum universe! Quantum physics is all around us. It's in electrical lights, lasers, and the color of the sky. Without it, the sun wouldn't shine. It even explains how human eyes work. With its role in photosynthesis, it literally ...

Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Christophersen (Author)Discover and define a new relationship between humanity and nature In Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce, Tim Christophersen, delivers a clarion call for a new kind of global ecological literacy. You'll discover how we can reset our relationship with nature, conceiving of ourselves as an integral part of it, rather than apart from it. The book ex...

Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Goodale (Author)Bolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry. Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the perspectives of a wide array of people and institutions, including workers at the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat; the state lithium comp...

Driving Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Investments for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises through the Finance Sector

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report presents a comprehensive review of the investment landscape in energy efficiency and climate-smart infrastructure (CSI) technologies in India. The report examines market dynamics for small and medium-sized enterprises in energy-intensive sectors, commercial buildings, and electric mobility. It maps the supplier environment and identifies barriers to investments and recommends viable investment opportunities for private...

Baby Loves Photosynthesis on St. Patrick's Day! - Board Book

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by Ruth Spiro (Author), Irene Chan (Illustrator)Author BiographyRuth Spiro is an award-winning children's book author and freelance writer whose articles, essays, and stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Her debut picture book, Lester Fizz, Bubble-Gum Artist (Dutton), won awards from Writer's Digest and Willamette Writers and was a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year. Irene Chan enjoys making beautiful things. She is an art director, designer, artist, amateur...

100 Things to See in the Night Sky, Expanded Edition: Your Illustrated Guide to the Planets, Satellites, Constellations, and More - Hardcover

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by Dean Regas (Author)Discover the amazing wonders of the night sky with this expanded edition to 100 Things to See in the Night Sky, perfect for every amateur stargazer and armchair astronomer Keep your feet on the ground and experience the night sky to the fullest by exploring planets, satellites, and constellations with this all-inclusive reference guide to space. 100 Things to See in the Night Sky, Expanded Edition is full of information on the many amazing things you can see with a tel...

Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks - Hardcover

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by Caitlin Rivers (Author)"[An] ambitious and... successful attempt to reset our relationship with the field of public health. With a judicious blend of candor, hopefulness and pragmatism, [Rivers] calls out its mistakes, reminds us of its historic accomplishments and emphasizes the need for the discipline to adjust its strategies if its full promise is to be realized."--Wall Street Journal "A master class in how we can pinpoint and prevent health crises before they spiral out of control."--S...

Is Earth Really Solid?: The Evidence Re-Examined

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Milatovic (Author)Geologist Oliver Milatovic takes a critical look at whether our Earth is actually a solid as claimed by most geologists, or is in fact partially hollow. He examines the creation of the Earth, other planets and our Moon. This far-reaching book takes on such topics as: The scientific method; Scientific laws, principles and effects; Common mistakes in applying the scientific method; Science as intellectual or logical endeavor; Science as a...

Design Science in the New Paradigm Age (Volume II of III)

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Report copyright infringementby Herb G. Bennett (Author)"DESIGN SCIENCE in The New Paradigm Age" is a compendium in three volumes, with a series of workbooks and other tools to be used by creatives who can transform their "MINDSETS" and stimulate the renaissance of the new WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE, and INFORMATION (DATA, etc.) we are going to rebuild the world and our lives with. This is a MOVEMENT globally.[NT that t] It will inspire(s) lifestyles, careers, and professions. The core p...

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Report copyright infringementby L. Edwards Johndro (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Numb...

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown - Hardcover

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by Andreas Malm (Author), Wim Carton (Author)A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat-not now, but a few decades down the road. We're being told that we can return to liveable temperatures by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking incoming sunli...

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Paperback

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by Michael Shermer (Author) The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using...