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The Future Is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Lim (Author), Yun Shu (Author)The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent, and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal, and spiritual crises, fungi are being engineered to grow meat alternatives, create new sources of medicin...

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

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Report copyright infringementby Vaclav Smil (Author)"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes From the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technolo...

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Chittka (Author)A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can r...

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Report copyright infringementby David Arora (Author)A delightful, informative, and indispensable companion to mushroom hunting, featuring information on more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, from a renowned naturalist and mycologist Nothing is more elusive and mysterious than the wild mushroom. In Mushrooms Demystified, mushroom authority David Arora celebrates the gathering and study of wild mushrooms with engaging style, wit, and simple terminology. With descriptions, photographs, and keys ...

Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby David DeGrazia (Author)This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we ...

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Frankopan (Author)A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development--and demise--of civilizations across time Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on u...

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Report copyright infringementby Leada Malek (Author)Relaja tu cuerpo reduciendo la tensión en los músculos y elimina la rigidez en las articulaciones con más de 100 estiramientos. El teletrabajo y el sobreuso de pantallas se ha convertido poco a poco en la nueva normalidad y corremos el riesgo de ser cada vez más sedentarios y perder la funcionalidad muscular. Buscas una solución fácil y eficiente para evitarlo? Con esta guía de estiramientos podrás llevar a cabo una serie de ejercicios vari...

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Report copyright infringementby Vinson Chard (Author)More tales from Vinson Chard about his time working in Industry. He continues with accounts about working for another toxic waste company in 'Special Operations.'There are stories of a dismembered body, one of his colleagues being arrested as a terrorist in suburbia, exploding eyeballs, a sadistic stripper, a haunted hotel in Hertfordshire and working for Porton Down.He also works for a small cosmetics company run by an eccentric owner who ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack D. Hidary (Author)This book integrates the foundations of quantum computing with a hands-on coding approach to this emerging field; it is the first to bring these elements together in an updated manner. This work is suitable for both academic coursework and corporate technical training.The second edition includes extensive updates and revisions, both to textual content and to the code. Sections have been added on quantum machine learning, quantum error cor...

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Tekiela (Author)Get the New Edition of Kentucky's Best-Selling Bird Guide Learn to identify birds in Kentucky, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 118 species of Kentucky birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don't know what ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Paull (Author), Odilo Duarte (Author)Volume 2 of this revised edition of Tropical Fruits examines the more specialist tropical fruits such as guava, durian, mangosteen, passion fruits and palm fruits. With growing interest in the cultivation, production, study, sales and marketability of these specialist fruits, this is a timely and informative book. Topics like botany, soil and climate requirements, cultivar development, world production and harvesti...

A Complete Guide to MCQ (Science).: CBSE Class 10 examination.

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Report copyright infringementby Sajal Kumar Ghosh Amie (Author)This book has been written in accordance with the latest syllabus prescribed by the central board of secondary education, Delhi for secondary education (C.B.S.E) examination. The present book will help you to self-understand the subject in a better way. Unique features of this book 1.Written in very simple, easy to understand student friendly language. 2.The answer is written in a comprehensive style in most cases with well-illust...

Unification of Electromagnetism and Gravity: A New Relativity Theory

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Report copyright infringementby Selwyn E. Wright (Author)In a Unification of Electromagnetism and Gravity, author Selwyn Wright describes his New Relativity (NR) theory in a simple physical way, in order to help the lay person to understand. At the same time he seeks to update aspects of modern physics in a rigorous manner. NR removes confusion in Einstein's relativity, simplifies our understanding of the universe and challenges relativity as a more logical and comprehensive theory. Motional ...

Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Sytematic Series of School Geographies: Arranged With Special Reference to Thewants and Capac

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah S. Cornell (Author)This high school geography book by Sarah S. Cornell is part of a systematic series and is arranged with special attention to students in senior classes of public and private schools. The book is filled with numerous engravings to provide a holistic and engaging learning experience. Ideal for students and teachers alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilizatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Elnstein (Author), Leopold Infeld (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, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Rwg Publishing (Author)"Chemistry 101: Elements, Compounds, and Reactions" by RWG Publishing is an essential guide for anyone interested in the fascinating world of chemistry. This comprehensive volume delves into the physical and chemical properties of all 112 known elements, exploring their uses and significance in our daily lives. Beyond just elements, the book provides an extensive study of the compounds formed by these elements, including a discussion on s...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Thonger (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 importan...

Mrs. Gaugain's Crochet D'Oyley Book: [No. I-III]

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Report copyright infringementby (Jane) Gaugain (Created by)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 importa...

Rocks & Minerals of Washington and Oregon: A Field Guide to the Evergreen and Beaver States

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Report copyright infringementby Dan R. Lynch (Author), Bob Lynch (Author)Get this must-have guide for Washington and Oregon, featuring full-color photographs and information to help you identify rocks and minerals. Identify and collect rocks and minerals with the perfect guide to the Pacific Northwest! With this famous field guide by Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch, field identification is simple and informative. The book features comprehensive entries for 124 rocks and minerals, from common rocks...

Acs General Chemistry Study Guide: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the American Chemical Society General Chemistry Exam [Includes Detailed A

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Report copyright infringementby Tpb Publishing (Editor)Test Prep Books' ACS General Chemistry Study Guide: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the American Chemical Society General Chemistry Exam [Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the ACS General Chemistry exam. This comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Find out what's inside this guide! Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to ...

Writing in the Life Sciences: A Critical Thinking Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Greene (Author)Practicing scientists know that the quality of their livelihood is strongly connected to the quality of their writing, and critical thinking is the most necessary and valuable tool for effectively generating and communicating scientific information. Writing in the Life Sciences is an innovative, process-based text that gives beginning writers the tools to write about science skillfully by taking a critical thinking approach. Laurence Gre...

Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything

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Report copyright infringementby David D. Nolte (Author)Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells...

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Report copyright infringementby John Finney (Author)Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Short Introduction John Finney introduces the science of water, and explores how the structure of water molecules gives rise to its physical and chemical properties. Considering water in all three of its states as ice and steam as well as liquid, Finney explains the great importance of an understand...

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Report copyright infringementby Thor Hanson (Author)One of America's great nature writers presents a natural and cultural history of bees: the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round."Vividly zinging." ―New York Times Book Review Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125...

Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum

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Report copyright infringementby Leonard Susskind (Author), Art Friedman (Author)The third volume in the bestselling physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory. "This is physics the way it's really done, in all its glory, nothing swept under the rug."―Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's class...

Roadside Geology of Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.

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Report copyright infringementby John Means (Author), Matthew Moran (Illustrator), Suzannah Moran (Illustrator)The mid-Atlantic area of Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. is known many things, such as being the First State (Delaware), home to our nation's capital or the birthplace of our national anthem (Maryland), but it is also the home of some incredible geologic features. From the Chesapeake Bay to Assateague Island National Seashore to Catoctin Mountain Park, readers will learn abou...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Darwin (Author)Excerpt: ...(Fam. 180). Cannabis sativa (?). Cannabineae (Fam. 195). Brassica oleracea (Cruciferae).-It was shown in the first chapter that the cotyledons of the common cabbage rise in the evening and stand vertically up at night with their petioles in contact. But as the two cotyledons are of unequal height, they frequently interfere a little with each other's movements, the shorter one often not standing quite vertically. They awake ear...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathalie Deruelle (Author), Jean-Philippe Uzan (Author), Patricia de Forcrand-Millard (Author)This comprehensive textbook on relativity integrates Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity into a single book that emphasizes the deep underlying principles common to them all, yet explains how they are applied in different ways in these three contexts. Newton's ideas about how to represent space and time, his laws of dynamics, and his theory of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henri Poincaré (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 292 ...

50 New STEM Labs - Science Experiments for Kids

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Frinkle (Author)Get the new and updated version of the third STEM challenges book that has sold thousands of copies around the world!In this new version, you will find all those great challenges, but tons of updates like: *Suggested Materials Lists for each project! *Improved wording and directions! *More teachers' options suggestions! *Graded Assignments Suggestions instead of simple rubrics! *Reproducible journaling and data collection pages! *New art...

Science for Beginners; a First Book in General Science for Intermediate Schools and Junior High Schools

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Report copyright infringementby Delos Falls (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 important en...

Chemistry for High Schools: Consisting of a Series of Concise Definitions, Short Notes and Chemical Problems: Also, the Elements of Chemical Analy

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Report copyright infringementby A. P. (Archibald Patterson) Knight (Created by)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 ...