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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence - Paperback

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by Carl Sagan (Author)"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight."--The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. "How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and eleg...

The Ocean Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Oceans

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Immerse yourself in this beautiful, absorbing guide to the marine world. Earth owes its identity as the blue planet to the vast oceans of water that cover almost 70 percent of its surface. Home to an abundance of marine life and vital in regulating Earth's climate, the oceans are also the scene of daring exploits of exploration, intense rivalries between trading empires, and global warfare. Combining arresting photography; rich illustrations; and en...

Food Waste Management: Solving the Wicked Problem

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Report copyright infringementby Elina Närvänen (Editor), Nina Mesiranta (Editor), Malla Mattila (Editor)This book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society. Providing an in-depth, research-based overview of the multifaceted problem, it considers environmental, economic, social and ethical factors. Perspectives included in the book address households, consumers, and organizations, and their role in reducing food waste. Rather than f...

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Cox (Author)A rallying cry to save the Earth with an "anthropause"--a term that can apply to any broad rollback of economic activity that gives nature room to recover and flourish. "An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be." --Naomi Klein In the spring of 2020, people worldwide found themselves confined at home in response to pandemi...

Water Resources Planning: Fundamentals for an Integrated Framework

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew A. Dzurik (Author), Tara Shenoy Kulkarni (Author), Bonnie Kranzer Boland (Author)This definitive text offers a comprehensive survey of the fundamental components of water resources planning and management. Utilizing an integrated water resources management (IWRM) framework, the authors demonstrate how this approach resolves resource management problems to address interconnected social, economic, and environmental needs.Author BiographyAndrew A. Dzurik ?i...

Big Crunch: Invisible Apocalyptic Machines: From Big Bang to Big Crunch - Paperback

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by Ahmet Yazici (Author)The Hour is near.The countdown to the apocalypse has begun.It's like a ticking time bomb with ten seconds to go off. That's why we experience the truth that time speeds up when the apocalypse approaches.From time to time, different fields of the scientific world make statements such as, "A thousand years later, our earth will be in this situation; 10 million years later, the sun will be like this; this country will be in this situation, etc." What if I told you that th...

National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World, 5th Edition: Authoritative and Complete, with More Than 200 Maps and Illustrations - Paperback

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by National Geographic (Author)With more than 250 maps, graphics, and illustrations, the National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World offers an authoritative and engaging portrayal of the world and all that is in it. Expert, up-to-date maps of the world, every continent, and the United States include physical and political details and boundaries, key data for each continent, plus flags and facts for every country, enhanced with representative photographs portraying themes and regions. Addit...

Group Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Ken J. Barnes (Author)Based on the author's well-established courses, Group Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond explores the use of symmetries through descriptions of the techniques of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The text develops the models, theoretical framework, and mathematical tools to understand these symmetries.After linking symmetries with conservation laws, the book works through the mathematics of angular momentum and extends...

Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica - Paperback

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by Margaret Gargiullo (Author), Barbara Magnuson (Photographer), Larry Kimball (Photographer)At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must-have reference guide for beginner and expert naturalists alike. It provides a thorough survey of more than 850 plant spe...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth R. Ricker (Author)Become body literate with Brain: An Owner's Guide, the next book in The Body Literacy Library, an enlightening series that democratizes health for a new generation of readers. Brain: An Owner's Guide is an informative and practical guide to all aspects of brain health, from maximizing your mental well-being today to protecting your brain against future serious health issues. Leading neuroscientist Eli Ricker explains how the brain wo...

The Lives of Snakes: A Natural History of the World's Snakes

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Mattison (Author)A richly illustrated introduction to the marvelous world of snakes Descended from prehistoric lizards, snakes have been slithering across the earth for more than a hundred million years. There are some 4,100 species known to exist, and many are venomous, but many more are not. Snakes experience the world in unique ways, smelling the air with their tongues and relying on signs of movement for orientation. They are ectothermic, needing exte...

Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

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Report copyright infringementby J. Tong (Author)This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.Author BiographyJingrong Tong is Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK, and author of Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism, Po...

The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy: A Climate for Expertise?

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Report copyright infringementby J. Dreger (Author)This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics.Author BiographyJonas Dreger is a policy advisor on environmental policy. He gained his MA from the College o...

Peak Load and Capacity Pricing: Theory and Practice in Electricity

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Report copyright infringementby C. Harris (Author)Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.Author BiographyChris Harris is Honorary Fellow in Energy Policy at Exeter University, UK, following a period as Visiting Professor in Sustainable Power Distribution at Bath University, UK. He is Head of Regulation at RWE npower, with p...

How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology - Hardcover

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by Philip Ball (Author)"Bold and intriguing."--Wall Street Journal - "Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) - "Offers plenty of food for thought."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Ball's marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . . . I could not put it down."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what...

Technological Change in Agriculture: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity

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Report copyright infringementby D. Hogg (Author)Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context.Author BiographyDOMINIC HOGG is currently Senior Consultant with ECOTEC Research and Consulting where he works exclusively on environment policy issues. He was awarded a MacArthur Studentship from the University o...

Taming Hal: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001

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Report copyright infringementby A. Degani (Author)This book is an exploration of interaction between humans, computers and automated machines and why they frequently go awry, sometimes with disastrous consequences. The book lays out a clear foundation for evaluating interactions between users and machines, showing the reader how to describe, analyze and quickly identify potential design problems. The insights and methodologies provided allow the reader to understand the root human-interaction...

Modern Credit Risk Management: Theory and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Panayiota Koulafetis (Author)This book is a practical guide to the latest risk management tools and techniques applied in the market to assess and manage credit risks at bank, sovereign, corporate and structured finance level. It strongly advocates the importance of sound credit risk management and how this can be achieved with prudent origination, credit risk policies, approval process, setting of meaningful limits and underwriting criteria.The book discusses ...

Employment and Re-Industrialisation in Post Soeharto Indonesia

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Report copyright infringementby Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin (Author), Anis Chowdhury (Author)This book studies the challenges for Indonesia, once a miracle economy, as it faces premature deindustrialisation, rising inequality and domestic and external factors impacting its export-oriented industrialization. Since the fall of Soeharto, Indonesia has undergone a far-reaching systemic transition from centralised and autocratic governance to a highly decentralised and democratic system. Complicate...

Taxation for Environmental Protection: A Multinational Legal Study

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Report copyright infringementby Asbjorn Eriksson (Author), Robert Hertzog (Author), John Tiley (Author)This book brings together the work of scholars from England, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States to examine the ways in which industrialized nations have used and are developing tax laws to help alleviate environmental problems. For each country, the contributors offer a thorough review of existing and proposed initiatives and an in-depth evaluation of their effectiveness. They al...

American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel E. Bender (Author)At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources--eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen--to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in ...

Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine: Corporate Food and Medicine

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Cox (Author)Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world. Scientist Stan Cox expertly draws out the strong link between Western big business and environmental destruction. This is a shocking account of the huge damage that drug manufacturers and larg...

Observer's Sky Atlas: The 500 Best Deep-Sky Objects with Charts and Images - Hardcover

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by Erich Karkoschka (Author) Now expanded and in full color, and useful to 2060! This tremendous new edition of a classic book (previously published only in black-and-white) contains star charts and pictures, for all those who observe the night sky with unaided eyes, binoculars or telescopes It is equally useful for beginners and experienced old hands at astronomy A legend among hobby astronomers, this entirely revised and updated edition has new celestial maps in full color, up-to-date dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Ansel 1902-1984 Adams (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 impo...

At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies - Paperback

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by Dougald Hine (Author)"Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis."--Brian Eno, musician "Maybe it's time to stop talking about climate change?" For two decades, the writer and social thinker Dougald Hine has been among the most influential voices in the environmental debate. Then one day, he heard these words come out of his mouth--and realized that he would have to explain himself. At ...

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Hardcover

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by Robert Kolker (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." --Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be ...

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Report copyright infringementby F. Sherwood Taylor (Author)""Alchemists, Founders of Modern Chemistry"" by F. Sherwood Taylor is a comprehensive book that delves into the history of alchemy and its impact on the development of modern chemistry. The book explores the lives and works of some of the most important alchemists throughout history, including Paracelsus, Jabir ibn Hayyan, and Isaac Newton. It also discusses the various theories and practices of alchemy, such as transmutation, the phi...

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Report copyright infringementby Ra Mayne (Author)""Six Lessons in Crystal Gazing"" by Ra Mayne is a comprehensive guidebook that provides step-by-step instructions on how to master the art of crystal gazing. The book is designed for both beginners and experienced practitioners who want to enhance their skills and knowledge in this ancient divination technique.The book is divided into six lessons, each of which covers a specific aspect of crystal gazing. The first lesson introduces the reader ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Edward Waite (Author), Eliphas Levi (Author)""The Science of Hermes"" is a book written by Arthur Edward Waite that explores the teachings and philosophy of the ancient Egyptian god Hermes Trismegistus. The book delves into the principles of Hermeticism, an esoteric tradition that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all things and the power of the mind to shape reality. Waite draws on a variety of sources, including ancient texts, alchemical treatises, ...

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life - Paperback

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by Joseph LeDoux (Author)What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. One of the pri...

Florapedia: A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore - Hardcover

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by Amy Jean Porter (Illustrator), Carol Gracie (Author)A delightful illustrated treasury of botanical facts and fancy Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries--on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators--this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparabl...

Amazon Animals (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3): 100 Fun Facts about Snakes, Sloths, Spiders, and More - Paperback

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by Rose Davidson (Author)Journey to the Amazon--the world's largest rainforest and home to more animal species than any place on Earth--and discover the creatures that live there. This Level 3 Reader introduces the amazing creatures that make their home in the world's largest rainforest, from pink dolphins swimming in the Amazon River to colorful butterflies and toucans flying in the treetops. Meet a sloth sleeping 20 hours a day in the canopy. Join a jaguar stalking its prey. There's always ...