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Report copyright infringementby Jochen Boeder (Author), Bernhard Groene (Author)This book - compiled by software architects from SAP - is a must for consultants, developers, IT managers, and students working with SAP ERP, but also users who want to know the world behind their SAP user interface. Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 07, 2014

The Body Factory: From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human

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Report copyright infringementby Heloise Chochois (Author), Kendra Boileau (Artist)A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting introduces himself as Ambroise Paré, the French barber-surgeon who revolutionized the art of amputation. From this wonderfully absurd premise, the two begin an imaginary conversation th...

The Science Of God Volume 3: Day Five and Day Six - The Creatures - Revolution or Evolution - Paperback

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by R. Lindemann (Author)Have you been trying to share your views in the evolution versus creation debate but are thwarted at your every utterance? Are you reluctant to speak up and share your opinions because you're not sure what is or is not true? Sometimes we might even wonder if we should even bother pondering these things at all since no one can ever truly prove their theory to a point of it being "undeniable fact". Take heart because there are more possibilities than are offered by most ...

Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet - Paperback

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by Tim Flannery (Author)Credited with discovering more species than Darwin, praised for his "ability to take complex ideas and--seemingly effortlessly-- make them accessible" (Sydney Morning Herald), Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, head of Australia's Climate Change Commission, and a best-selling author. In his newest book, Here on Earth--an immediate best seller in Australia--he has written a captivating and dramatic narrative about the origins of life and the...

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex - Paperback

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by Rupert Darwall (Author)Rupert Darwall's Green Tyranny traces the alarming origins of the green agenda, revealing how environmental scares have been deployed by our global rivals as a political instrument to contest American power around the world. Drawing on extensive historical and policy analysis, this timely and provocative book offers a lucid history of environmental alarmism and failed policies, explaining how "scientific consensus" is manufactured and abused by politicians with dupl...

The True History of Mental Science: A Lecture on Mental Healing in the Context of Christian Spiritualism (Hardcover)

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Report copyright infringementby Julius a. Dresser (Author)This book contains Julius A. Dresser's summary of mental science and the ability to heal the sick with mental and spiritual power. As the son of Horatio Dresser - an acquaintance and adherent of Phineas Quimby, the founder of the New Thought movement - Julius felt obliged to carry on his father's legacy by explaining the beliefs he held. Citing both ancient philosophy and religion, Julius begins by saying knowledge of mental healing is...

African American Achievers in Science, Medicine, and Technology: A Resource Book for Young Learners, Parents, Teachers, and Librarians

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Report copyright infringementby Wina March'e (Author)Introduces 150 African American scientists, medical personnel, and inventors. Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 1 x 9.14 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: September 18, 2003

Calligraphy Practice paper: Gifts for space lovers; cute & elegant Lavender In space Adventures hand writing workbook with practice sheets for adu

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Report copyright infringementby Creative Line Publishing (Author)Space hand lettering workbookLarge Hand lettering workbook for beginners. practice writing with these Calligraphy sheets to improve your technique and style.Makes an excellent gift idea for birthdays, Christmas, Valentines or any special occasion.Perfectly sized at 8.5" x 11"120 pageFlexible PaperbackScroll up and click on "'add to cart'' to buy Now Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 11.02 x 8.5 I...

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...

Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence: 8th Austrian Artificial Intelligence Conference, Flai'93, Linz, Austria, June 28-30, 1993. Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Erich P. Klement (Editor), Wolfgang Slany (Editor)This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Austrian Artificial Intelligence Conference, held in Linz, Austria, in June 1993. The focus of the conference was on "Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence". The volume contains abstracts of two invited talks and full versions of 17 carefully selected papers. The invited talks were: "The role of fuzzylogic and soft computing in the conception and design of inte...

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Report copyright infringementby Krzysztof Apt (Author)Scheduling, vehicle routing and timetabling are all examples of constraint problems, and methods to solve them rely on the idea of constraint propagation and search. This book meets the need for a modern, multidisciplinary introduction to the field that covers foundations and applications. Written by Krzysztof Apt, an authority on the subject, it will be welcomed by graduate students and professionals. With the insertion of constraint tech...

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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Report copyright infringementby David Deutsch (Author)The New York Times bestseller A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledgeIn this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe--and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of civilization, ar...

Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 6th International Workshop, Wabi 2006, Zurich, Switzerland, September 11-13, 2006, Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Philipp Bücher (Editor), Bernard M. E. Moret (Editor)Here are the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2006, held in the course of the ALGO 2006 conference meetings. The book presents 36 revised full papers addressing all current issues of algorithms in bioinformatics, from mathematical tools to experimental studies of approximation algorithms and reports on significant computational analyses. For the firs...

Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 5th International Workshop, Wabi 2005, Mallorca, Spain, October 3-6, 2005, Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Casadio (Editor), Gene Myers (Editor)We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2005) which took place in Mallorca, Spain, October 3-6, 2005. The WABI 2005 workshop was part of the ?ve ALGO 2005 conf- ence meetings, which, in addition to WABI, included ESA, WAOA, IWPEC, and ATMOS. WABI 2005 was sponsored by EATCS (the European Assoc- tion for Theoretical Computer Science), the ISCB (the International...

Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, Quebec City,

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Report copyright infringementby Luc Lamontagne (Editor), Mario Marchand (Editor)This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, held in Québec City, Canada in June 2006. The book presents 47 carefully reviewed, revised full papers. These are organized in topical sections on agents, bioinformatics, constraint satisfaction and distributed search, knowledge representation and reasoning, nat...

Constraint Databases and Applications: First International Symposium, Cdb 2004, Paris, France, June 12-13, 2004, Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Bart Kuijpers (Editor), Peter Revesz (Editor)The ?rst International Symposium on the Applications of Constraint Databases (CDB2004) took place in Paris, France, on June 12-13, 2004, just before the ACM SIGMOD and PODS conferences. Since the publication of the paper "Constraint Query Languages" by Kan- lakis, Kuper and Revesz in 1990, the last decade has seen a growing interest in constraint database theory, query evaluation, and applications, re?ected in a vari...

Uncertainty and Intelligent Systems: 2nd International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge Based Systems I

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Report copyright infringementby Bernadette Bouchon (Editor), Lorenza Saitta (Editor), Ronald R. Yager (Editor)This book contains the papers presented at the 2nd IPMU Conference, held in Urbino (Italy), on July 4-7, 1988. The theme of the conference, Management of Uncertainty and Approximate Reasoning, is at the heart of many knowledge-based systems and a number of approaches have been developed for representing these types of information. The proceedings of the conference provide, on one hand...

Generation AI and the Transformation of Human Being

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Stock (Author)Many are discussing what AI and other advanced technologies may become; few have thought through what we will become.Generation AI-those born after 2022-will be the first humans to grow up in a world of immersive AI, intelligent robots, and ambiguous boundaries between the born and the made. They will differ fundamentally from us, yet their future is our future too. How do we prepare our children-and ourselves-for careers that don't yet ex...

The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Metzl (Author), Gpt-5 (Author)In a historically unprecedented collaboration, leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl partners with the AI system GPT-5 to demonstrate a breathtaking possibility: that advanced artificial intelligence, guided by human ethics and wisdom, can help shape a more humane future. At a moment of rapid AI disruption, growing concern about AI governance, and deep uncertainty about the future of technology, this groundbreak...

Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 13th Annual International Conference, Recomb 2009, Tucson, Arizona, Usa, May 18-21, 2009, Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Serafim Batzoglou (Editor)This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2009, held in Tucson, Arisona, USA in May 2009. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 166 submissions. As the top conference in computational molecular biology, RECOMB addresses all current issues in algorithmic, theoretical, and experimental bioinform...

Theory and Applications of Web 3.0 in the Media Sector

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Veglis (Guest Editor), Charalampos Dimoulas (Guest Editor)This volume is a reprint of the Special Issue "Theory and Application of Web 3.0 in the Media Sector". Launched to highlight vital multidisciplinary perspectives, the SI's contents are both theory- and application-oriented. The advancements of computational processing and storage capacities (at affordable or decreasing costs), the evolution of content compression techniques, and the constant upda...

Technology Development: Lessons from Industrial Chemistry and Process Science

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Stites (Author)Companies often struggle to turn successful research into viable commercial products, processes and systems. This book defines technology development and reveals methods to successfully evaluate, fund and commercialize a technology. Cases studies help the reader evaluate the connection between a technology and potential markets, set useful hypotheses, develop statistically valid conclusions, and apply those conclusions to business goals. Auth...

Kabala y la edad del Universo - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Aryeh Kaplan (Author)Kabala y la edad del UniversoEste es un libro basado en una conferencias dadas por el Rabino Aryeh Kaplan, que trata sobre la edad del universo seg?n la Tor? Tiene alrededor de 6000 a?os o miles de millones? El Rabino Kaplan explora varios enfoques sobre esta cuesti?n y concluye con una perspectiva basada en fuentes de la Tor? escrita y oral, lo cual proporciona una respuesta satisfactoria. Number of Pages: 28 Di...

Phy Experiment Instrument MATLAB (with Companion Media Pack)

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Report copyright infringementby Green Dan (Author)Some twenty years ago the author published a book entitled The Physics of Particle Detectors. Much has evolved since that time, not in the basic physics, but in the complexity, number and versatility of the detectors in common use in both experiments, beam-lines and accelerators. Those changes have been heavily influenced by the concurrent dramatic changes in the microelectronics industry. In parallel, the use of computer-aided teaching has al...

Thermochemical Conversion Processes for Solid Fuels and Renewable Energies: Volume II

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Report copyright infringementby Falah Alobaid (Guest Editor), Jochen Ströhle (Guest Editor)The increasing share of renewable energy sources is drawing attention to a critical challenge. The availability of wind turbines and photovoltaic solar cells is limited and difficult to predict. They usually provide a fluctuating feed-in to the grid, so energy reserves, e.g., conventional thermal power plants or energy storage systems, are necessary to establish a balance between electricity supply and ...

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

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Report copyright infringementby Jenell Johnson (Author)This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters. Jenell Johnson studies arguments on behalf of life--not just of the human or animal variety, but all life. She considers, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's fight for water, deep ecologists' Earth First! activism, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and astrophysicists' positio...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel E. Gross (Author)A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet.That is finally changing. Today, a new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making--th...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Phillips (Author)One of The New York Times Critics' Picks of the Year From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary F. Hartman (Author), Gary F. Hartman (Illustrator), Gary F. Hartman (Photographer)This book describes (through 126 photos and drawings...) steps for building exciting parent-child toy projects and science gismos, which can be made from common household throw away items. The toys are made using bottle lids, plastic bubble packaging, cardboard, paper, Tin can parts, coffee stir sticks and wood scraps. Toys include a windup spool toy, two wooden Army Tanks, a...

Scout Pinewood Derby Cars and Real Cars, for Kids: Dad, Sir Isaac Newton, and Me

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Report copyright infringementby Court E. Rossman (Author)Why read this book? You want a fast Pinewood Derby car? You want to know why you have a fast car? Then this picture book is for you. Do you think you'll grow up, or already have grown up, and will want to be a scientist or engineer, or will want to at least understand how cars work? Are you looking for ways to relate a Pinewood Derby car to real people cars, so that the whole Pinewood Derby experience helps down the line when thinking a...

Good Health & Long Life Meanderings of a Mead Maker

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Report copyright infringementby Brian P. Dennis (Author) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: April 04, 2011

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time - Hardcover

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by Annabel Streets (Author)52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walking has to offer--physical, spiritual, and emotional--backed by the latest scientific research to inspire readers to develop a fulfilling walking lifestyle. We think we know how to walk. After all, walking is one of the very first skills we learn. But many of us are stuck in our walking routines, forever walking in the same place, in the same way, for the same time, with...