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All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Black (Author)Book of the Year, Saltire Literary Awards A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, Kathy Reichs, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of ide...

After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Keil (Editor), Fulong Wu (Editor)After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe,...

Sparking Academic Joy: Writing Retreats for Scholars

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Report copyright infringementby Angelique M. Davis (Author), Rose Ernst (Author)Have you always dreamed of a writing retreat?Do you need more joy in your scholarly life?This is the book for you. With a combined 35 years of experience in the academy, Angelique M. Davis and Rose Ernst guide you through the process of selecting and planning a writing retreat tailored to your needs. What are you waiting for? It's time to plan your next writing retreat! Number of Pages: 150 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandes Paul (Author), Chelsea M. Feeney Hit the road and discover the incredible geologic story of Texas--right from your car window. With Roadside Geology of Texas, Third Edition as your travel companion, you'll learn how the state's stunning landscapes were created, from the rugged peaks of the Guadalupe Mountains to the limestone ledges of the Edwards Plateau and the shifting sands of the Gulf Coast. With more than 1 billion years of geologic history on dis...

Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750

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Report copyright infringementby Lorraine Daston (Author), Katharine Park (Author)Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions -- these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard W. Ojakangas (Author)You may have heard that Minnesota's ten thousand lakes are the hoofprints of Paul Bunyan's big blue ox, Babe. "Don't you believe it!" writes author Dick Ojakangas. Though the lakes, which formed at the end of the most recent ice age, may be Minnesota's most famous features, the glaciated countryside disguises a much longer history of volcanoes and plate collisions--not surprising when you learn that Minnesota was at the active edge ...

A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Degrasse Tyson (Author), Michael A. Strauss (Author), J. Richard Gott (Author)A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take readers on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mute (Producer)Featuring articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater and Peter Suchin, and a special section on climate change and capital with texts by Will Barnes, James Woudhuysen, Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young, Kate Rich, George Caffentzis, Anthony Iles, Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: May 03, 2007

Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Jacobs (Author), Cookie Lopez (Designed by)Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here, and Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report, by Sarah Jacobs, use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome. The Report is an ebook which contains links to over 240 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of The sequence and...

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

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Report copyright infringementby 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 A Kir...

Indiana Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Hoosier State

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Report copyright infringementby Indiana Geological and Water Survey (Author), Polly Root Sturgeon (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A Story of oceans, uplift, and ice, Indiana's geological history is reflected in the vistas and landscapes you will see as you travel through the state. From the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan, one of the world's largest displays of lakeshore dunes, to the historic little town of New Harmony, where American geology had its beginnings, this book is your guide to 50 of th...

Sea Change: Reason, Revolution, and Creativity

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Deihl (Author)While much has been written about the 19th century as a watershed period of curiosity, discovery, and reform, specific comparisons among the fine arts and mathematics have rarely been investigated. Sea Change brings to light connections and individual contributions that eventually led to new paradigms of abstraction, later identified as indicators of modernism. For instance, the mathematician Carl Gauss anticipated the aesthetic herald of "a...

Science in the Arctic Ocean Basin: a Report

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Report copyright infringementby National Research Council (U S ) Com (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, tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Blomerth (Author), Dennis McKenna (Foreword by)Illustrator, musician and self-described "comic stripper" Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental d...

Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky

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Report copyright infringementby Govert Schilling (Author), Wil Tirion (Cartographer)Perfect for stargazers and armchair astronomers of all ages, CONSTELLATIONS is a beautifully illustrated, fascinatingguide to all 88 constellations, including an illustrated star map for each.In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented visual tour of all 88 constellations in our night sky. Much more than just a stargazer's guide, CONSTELLATIONS is complete hi...

Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Van Noort (Author), Gavin Broad (Author)A richly illustrated guide to wasps around the world Wasps have been around since before the dinosaurs and are one of the world's largest insect groups. More than 150,000 species have been identified, and while the black-and-yellow insect with a cinched waist may be the most familiar, most wasps are tiny parasitoids that use other insects for food. Wasps of the World provides a breathtaking look at the diverse chara...

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Greene (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes "an astonishing ride" through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist w...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Aurelius (Author), Donald Robertson (Introduction by), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Editor)A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the Western world at the time. Marcus was one of the leaders of Stoicism, a ph...

Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Wagner (Author)This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexica...

The Dyslexic Advantage (Revised and Updated): Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

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Report copyright infringementby Brock L. Eide (Author), Fernette F. Eide (Author)An updated edition of Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide's popular dyslexia book with a wealth of new material and improved dyslexic-friendly font. What if we viewed dyslexia as a learning and processing style rather than as a learning disorder? Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide use their impressive backgrounds in neurology and education to debunk the standard deficit-based approach to dyslexia. People typically define "d...

The Inter-dimensional Mechanics of Consciousness: Understand and Embrace the Beauty of Who & What We Are

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Report copyright infringementby Candace Stuart-Findlay (Author)What if your identity, struggles, and even your deepest fears were part of a grand design for your transformation?In The Inter-dimensional Mechanics of Consciousness, Candace Stuart-Findlay offers a groundbreaking synthesis of quantum biology, metaphysics, and spiritual wisdom to illuminate the unseen architecture of reality and the true nature of the self. This transformative guide redefines consciousness-not as a byproduct of th...

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Olson (Author)For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense eruption took the top off of the mountain and laid waste to hundreds of square miles of verdant forests in southwestern Washington State. The eruption was one of the largest in human...

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author)"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." --Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of anim...

Sustainability Learning for Action and Community Engagement

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Mead Wyman (Editor), Joshua Korenblat (Editor)This open access volume is a call to action and a toolbox for educators, administrators, community engagement specialists, and workforce developers who want to make their course content, institutional commitments, and outreach projects relevant to twenty-first century learners. The book demonstrates the impact a higher education institution, its faculty, and community partners can have through education and ac...

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Graydon (Author)Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, h...

Resilient Communities Across Geographies

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg (Editor), Steven J. Steinberg (Editor), Este Geraghty (Foreword by)What makes a community resilient? How do we ensure its sustainable future? Resilience--the unique ability to positively adapt to changing physical and social environments--is essential for populations of all sizes and locales in today's world of unexpected changes and increasing instances of environmental change. Communities around the globe possess unique combinations o...

Emerging Technologies: Value Creation for Sustainable Development

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Report copyright infringementby Sinan Küfeoğlu (Author)Chapter1. Innovation, Value Creation, and Impact Assessment.- Chapter2. Emerging Technologies.- Chapter3. SDG-1 No Poverty.- Chapter4. SDG-2 Zero Hunger.- Chapter5. SDG-3 Good Health and Well-Being.- Chapter6. SDG-4 Quality Education.- Chapter7. SDG-5 Gender Equality.- Chapter8. SDG-6 Clean Water and Sanitation.- Chapter9. SDG-7 Affordable and Clean Energy.- Chapter10. SDG-8 Decent Work and Economic Growth.- Chapter11. SDG-9 Industry, In...

Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education: Indigenous Science, Deconstruction, and the Multicultural Science Education Debate

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Higgins (Author)This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education--its concepts, categories, policies, and practices--contribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability respond. Herein, he undertakes an unsettling homework to address the ways in which settler...

Sociology of Interdisciplinarity: The Dynamics of Energy Research

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Report copyright infringementby Antti Silvast (Author), Chris Foulds (Author)This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in interdisciplinary research, which has been advocated as the zenith of research practice for many years, quite often in direct response to questions that cannot be answered (or even preliminarily inve...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion: Agroecology and Endogenous Development

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Report copyright infringementby Yoshiaki Nishikawa (Editor), Michel Pimbert (Editor)This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional vs modern, subsistence vs commercial, or local vs global. While reflecting on the expanding oligopoly in the current seed system, the authors argue that such classifications limit our ability to critically ...

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Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity

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Report copyright infringementby María S. Rivera Maulucci (Editor), Stephanie Pfirman (Editor), Hilary S. Callahan (Editor)This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is ...