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War Gardening And Home Storage Of Vegetables

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Report copyright infringementby National War Garden Commission (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 th...

Catalogue of the Verity Plow Co., Ltd.: Walking Plows, Riding Plows & Garden Horse Hoes & Scufflers, Suited to all Territories, and Sold all Over the

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Report copyright infringementby Verity Plow Company (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 ...

The new Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone

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Report copyright infringementby Lacinio Giano (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 ...

Fatigue Study, the Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste: A First Step in Motion Stud

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Moller Gilbr Bunker Gilbreth (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 ...

Energy and the Rise and Fall of Political Economy: 2nd Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard C. Beaudreau (Author)The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America. Yet political economy, the science of wealth born of the First Industrial Revolution, is devoid of energy, focusing instead on machinery or capital. According to basic mechanics, tools per se are not productive, as they are not source of energy. This book uses ba...

Evil Genius in the Garden of Eden: How Toxins Make Us Sick and Corporations Profit From Our Illness

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Report copyright infringementby Vic Shayne (Author), Ed Jr. Begley (Foreword by)Did you know that large corporations control the media so we never hear about toxic spills, rising cancer rates, food toxins and how fluoride in our water poisons people each day? Did you know the mighty Mississippi is one of the most polluted waterways in the world? Our planet was once the Garden of Eden. Now it has been spoiled by Evil Geniuses who are getting rich while our loved ones are getting cancer. Evil G...

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Report copyright infringementby Justus Liebig (Author)The Letters contained in this little Volume embrace some of the most important points of the science of Chemistry, in their application to Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce. Some of them treat of subjects which have already been, or will hereafter be, more fully discussed in my larger works. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: June 30, 2015 ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Alfred Wanklyn (Author)A comprehensive examination of the properties and uses of arsenic. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in chemistry and the history of science.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...

The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More Important Scientific Papers, and a Critical Inquiry Into the Claims of All the A

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Report copyright infringementby George Wilson (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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Alexander Robertson (Author), Antonio Pigafetta (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...

Gray's Anatomy: With Original Illustrations by Henry Carter

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Gray (Author), Henry Carter (Illustrator), George Davidson (Introduction by)This deluxe gift edition of Gray's Anatomy is presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and original illustrations by Henry Carter. Gray's Anatomy is widely considered to be the 'Bible' of the human body. First published in 1858, this book has been continually reprinted and remains an international bestseller. Including accessible and instructive information on the mus...

Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics

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Report copyright infringementby John McMillan (Author)This is the first book in bioethics that explains how it is that you actually go about doing good bioethics. Bioethics has made a mistake about its methods, and this has led not only to too much theorizing, but also fragmentation within bioethics. The unhelpful disputes between those who think bioethics needs to be more philosophical, more sociological, more clinical, or more empirical, continue. While each of these claims will have some p...

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Galicki (Author), Darrel Schmitz (Author)It's a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it's buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of its bulging remains are visible in the Jackson area. Mississippi emerged along the edge of a massive tear that formed as tectonics tried to rip the continent asunder. The full rift was never realized, but like a crack in a foundatio...

The Collected Writings of Mark Rozen Pettinelli

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Rozen Pettinelli (Author)entire writings of Mark Pettinelli, this work is important because it outlines information about thoughts and feelings and how they work in the mind, which is important for humans to function. That seems obvious because a thought or a feeling is necessary for the mind to function (or think and feel). It also covers information about cognitive science in an easy to understand language. Cognitive psychology and cognitive science are ...

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Report copyright infringementby J. R. Waggoner (Author)MEDICAL METAMORPHOSIS describes the three step cure for America's health care crisis. It is a common sense explanation of health care's failure and a no nonsense plan for a commitment to medical humanism, control of medical costs, and high quality medical Number of Pages: 360 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 15, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Campbell (Author)This book is an illustrated companion to my textbook of acupuncture, Acupuncture in Practice, which I use on the courses in modern medical acupuncture which I teach for health professional. The book will be useful for health professionals who practise modern western acupuncture. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.21 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2010

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature - Paperback

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by Janine M. Benyus (Author)Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environm...

Wyrdology (The Guide): a Sacred Science for the Human and Soul

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Report copyright infringementby The Wyrd Priestess (Author)The Wyrd Priestess weaves together her Doctorates, her spiritual path, and her lived adventures into the birth of "Wyrdology"- a brand-new sacred science for our times.This Core Textbook is your gateway into "Wyrdology" a living web where Science and the Sacred entwine. Here, you'll step into a realm where: Neuroscience becomes mythology.Medical Humanities breathe as story.Experimental & Jungian Psychology awaken as archetypal mir...

Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Stefano Mancuso (Author), Alessandra Viola (Author), Joan Benham (Translator)Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet discoverie...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Ruse (Author)Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit. Ever since, w...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Decourten (Author), Norma Biggar (Author)Driving through Nevada, you may be miles from nowhere, but you are never far from an interesting rock, the shoreline of an ice age lake, or an active or historic mine. The Silver State has some of the most diverse geology in the United States, and much of it lies in plain sight thanks to the arid climate of the Great Basin. Geologic forces continue to shape Nevada, stretching it apart and bringing magma near the su...

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Report copyright infringementby Maxwell V. L. Barclay (Author), Patrice Bouchard (Author)A richly illustrated guide to the astonishing variety of beetles around the world Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on Earth: almost 400,000 species have been formally described so far, and it is likely that this number merely scratches the surface. In Beetles of the World, Maxwell Barclay and Patrice Bouchard--two of the world's f...

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Report copyright infringementby George Lakoff (Author), Mark Johnson (Author)The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we ...

The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can't Be Computed

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Report copyright infringementby Christof Koch (Author)A thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted--the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perce...

American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer

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Report copyright infringementby Kai Bird (Author), Martin J. Sherwin (Author)THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his coun...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Darwin (Author)These pages include the final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a revolutionary idea at the time. Fiercely debated on its release, Darwin's famous work was revised several times over the following decade, partly t...

Gray's Anatomy: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Frs Gray (Author), Henry Vandyke Carter (Illustrator), R. Shane Tubbs (Introduction by)This leather-bound version of the original 1858 first edition of Gray's Anatomy is ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine. In 1858, Dr. Henry Gray published the first edition of what has become known as "the doctor's Bible," with assistance from his colleague at St. George's Hospital in London, the anatomist and medical illustrator Henry Vandyke C...

A Cloud a Day: (Cloud Appreciation Society Book, Uplifting Positive Gift, Cloud Art Book, Daydreamers Book)

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Author)Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating cloud formations from his extraordinarily popular Cloud Appreciation Society collection. Inspirational quotes and informative cloud facts accompany provoca...

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Report copyright infringementby Josh L. Davis (Author)Beautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature. From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mushrooms with over 23,000 mating types, sex in the natural world is wonderfully diverse. Josh L. Davis considers how, for many different organisms--animals, plants, and fungi included--sexual reproduction and sex determination rely on a surpris...

Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

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Report copyright infringementby Steven R. Gundry MD (Author)In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R.Gundry, MD offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home--us!--revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease. We may believe that we are the masters of our fates, but in reality, we are at the ...

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Carroll (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His recon...

Lake Superior Rocks & Minerals Field Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Dan R. Lynch (Author), Bob Lynch (Author)This must-have guide for Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario features full-color photographs and information to help readers identify rocks and minerals. Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals of the Lake Superior region! With the new edition of this famous guide by Bob Lynch and Dan R. Lynch, field identification is simple and informative. This book features comprehensive entries for 75 rocks and minerals, ...