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Report copyright infringementby Bijay Banthia (Author)About the BookLife sometimes takes such an unusual turn that it is neither possible to forecast, nor explain. Towards Eternity is an almost-true story with a little fiction of a super-rich person relinquishing everything, including his family. He is dragged into some ghostly and unimaginable circumstances, and fights hard for years and years. Fraud and manipulations by his own do not have any end. Suddenly, he sees light in giving up every...

The Gases of the Atmosphere: The History of Their Discovery - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby William Ramsay (Author)The book "" The Gases of the Atmosphere: The History of Their Discovery, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...

Breaking Frame: Technology, Art, and Design in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Wosk (Author)BREAKING FRAME, first published by Rutgers University Press, is a groundbreaking view of how artists and designers dealt with the tremors of technology as new industries and mechanical inventions dramatically transformed human life. Artists captured the explosive impact of the Industrial Revolution and new transportation machines in their images of factories spewing smoke, trains crashing, and comic views of people-turned-automatons as they h...

Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium - Hardcover

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by Walter S. Judd (Author), Graham A. Judd (Author)Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying Tolkien's works. And in laying out this continent, Tolkien paid special attention to its plant life; in total, over 160 plants are explicitly mentioned and d...

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by Robert S. Ball (Author)The author says "It has been my object in these pages of astronomer biography to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known."This edition features all the original illustrations, carefully restored for modern printing methods to real...

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History - Paperback

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by Penny Le Couteur (Author), Jay Burreson (Author)Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering and spurred advances in medicine and law; they determined what we now eat, drink, and wear. A change as small as the position of an atom can lead ...

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...

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell - Paperback

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by Sy Montgomery (Author), Matt Patterson (Illustrator)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK and BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * INDIE BESTSELLER * A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE'S BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST NONFICTION OF THE YEAR PICK * A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS * INCLUDES GORGEOUS ARTWORK * "Montgomery's heart-tugging conversations with teammates and her commitment to helping an octogenarian n...

Vedic Meteorology: Vedic Science of Weather Modification - Paperback

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by Ravi Prakash Arya (Author)The present work deals with the Vedic Science of Weather Modification. It lays down the theory and principles of Vedic operation for inducing rain and anti-rain. It also briefs up the readers with methods of rainmaking attempted in India from time to time right from the Vedic period down to the present day. It also highlights the methods of the weather forecast (from short range to long range) applied by the ancient Indians. This is the second revised, updated and...

Micro-Community-Based Participatory Research Health Science Projects, to Problem-solve and Build Leadership skills in Children at risk of ACES in extr - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert A. Branch Frcp (Author), Michelle L. Steimer LLC Ncc Lpc (Author)The Orenda approach: We describe the foundational base and health and education process to interface science and health learning for vulnerable adolescents, who live in extreme urban poverty in the US, 'the forgotten children', to manage emotional and social barriers at this critical stage of their lives. These children live in neighborhoods concentrated with dysfunctional families many wit...

Roadside Geology of West Virginia - Paperback

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by Joseph G. Lebold (Author), Christopher Wilkinson (Author), Maria Af Rolen (Photographer)Within West Virginia's irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era. Continents colliding along the eastern coast of North America built huge mountains that shed sediment into a shallow inland sea to the west. Thick wedges of sandstone, shale, and limestone piled up, all folded by later collis...

American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Raby (Author)Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research...

Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy W. Lorek (Author)In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describ...

Of Gods and Evolution: An Alternate Theory - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn W. Grilley (Author)About the BookThe history of the creation of the Earth has always been a mystery. The theories of evolution and of God are, of course, the most common, but what if there is a third?In Of Gods and Evolution, author Mr. Lynn W. Grilley gives scientific evidence from numerous sources that back up his theory of a third possibility. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Decemb...

Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas D. Rogers (Author)Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program, created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil's capacity grew and ...

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in t - Paperback

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by Colin Beavan (Author)Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year--while still living in New York City--to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment. In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and th...

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

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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 new, cutting-edge vision of biology that revises our understanding of w...

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary - Paperback

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by Caspar Henderson (Author)From medieval bestiaries to Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, we've long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer's song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology--they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs about human beings and the natural order. Today, we no longer fear sea monsters or banshees. But from the infamous honey badger to the giant squid, animals continue to capt...

Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War - Paperback

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by Timmon Wallis (Author)To survive the climate crisis, we need money, brainpower and infrastructure for the most effective climate solutions. Those resources are currently being squandered by the nuclear weapons industry. We'll also need the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters to stop pointing nuclear missiles at each other and start building unprecedented global cooperation. Can we "feed two birds with one scone" by converting assets from nuclear weapons of mass extinction to evidence-b...

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Paperback Revised and Updated for 2020 NY Times Best Seller Medicine and Science - Paperback

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by Sydnee McElroy (Author), Teylor Smirl (Illustrator), Justin McElroy (Author)New for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day medicine and pandemics. Newly revised and updated for 2020, this new Paperback edition of the bestselling Sawbones Book gives you a fascinating, horrifying, funny and memorable tour through centuries of medical experiment...

How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos - Paperback

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by David Pogue (Author)A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it's too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have ev...

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance - Paperback

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by Dan Egan (Author)Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people. In this major work of explanatory science and environmental journalism, Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Egan investigates the past, present, and future of what has been called "the oil of our time."The story of phosphorus spans the globe and ...

Etología Felina: Guía Básica Sobre El Comportamiento del Gato - Paperback

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by Rosana Álvarez Bueno (Author)En este libro, podemos comprender que una mascota es m s que un animal de compa a, la autora, Rosana lvarez, veterinaria especialista en etolog a cl nica, nos ense a que un gato es un ser que tiene su especial lenguaje para comunicarse, tambi n para manifestar sus necesidades, o reclamar determinadas situaciones. Tanto veterinarios, como propietarios de mascotas, se relacionan de forma habitual con los gatos, en unos casos cuando son llevados a la cl nica par...

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by Sy Montgomery (Author), Warren K. Carlyle (Author)Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature's most intelligent and complex animals. This new book--written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus, along with Warren Carlyle, founder of Octonation, and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography--brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures. The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic television special...

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Paperback

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by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Author)Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. Bringing together more than forty of Tyson's favorite essays, Death by Black Hole explores a myriad of cosmic topics, from what it would be like to be inside a black hole to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies right. One of America's be...

Darwin: Portrait of a Genius - Paperback

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by Paul Johnson (Author)A "riveting" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the most influential and controversial scientists in Western history Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate. With his publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin forever changed our concept of the world. While Johnson praises Darwin's extraordinary skills as a natural scientist and his monumenta...

Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well - Hardcover

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by Albert Borgmann (Author)This book argues for a unified worldview of moral cosmology that will allow us to be truly at home in the universe, a view that was disrupted by the European Enlightenment. The author contends that a basic understanding of quantum physics and relative theory offers the widest possible background for the renewal of a moral cosmology.Author BiographyAlbert Borgmann was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Montana. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.44...

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by Carron Brown (Author), Wesley Robins (Illustrator)Explore the planet up close, and you will find great surprises! From lava bubbling in a volcano, to creatures living beneath the ocean, the hidden wonders of Earth are revealed when you shine a light behind the pages. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.39 x 10.31 x 10.24 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2017 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Secrets of Our Earth ...

Electrical Engineering: First Course - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ernst Julius Berg (Author), Walter Lyman Upson (Author)This textbook provides an introduction to electrical engineering, including the fundamentals of electrical circuits, electromagnetism, electric machines, and power generation and distribution. It is intended for use in introductory courses in electrical engineering at the college or university level.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of c...

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Report copyright infringementby Townsend Wolcott (Author), Arthur Edwin Kennelly (Created by), Richard Varley (Author)This classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles of electromagnetism, including the behavior of magnetic fields, the properties of conductors and insulators, and the development of electromagnetic theory. Ideal for students and professionals in electrical engineering, physics, and related fields, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested...

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Report copyright infringementby Perry Medsger Oliver (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 imp...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Benedict Davenport (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 ...