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by Gabriela Kütting (Editor), Kyle Herman (Editor)Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. This fully revised and updated new edition combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing environmental problems.Features and benefits of the book: Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics; Introduces envi...
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by Noel Castree (Editor), Trevor Barnes (Editor), Jennifer Salmond (Editor)What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate?This book addresses these questions by examining the lives and works of individual geographers, both past and present. Like all disciplines, Geography is no more nor less than the collective endeavours of researchers and teachers operating in specific contexts. The contexts both shape, and are shape...
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by Robert L. Mott (Author), Joseph A. Untener (Author)This text is an established bestseller in engineering technology programs, and the Seventh Edition of Applied Strength of Materials continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the mechanics of materials. Focusing on active learning and consistently reinforcing key concepts, the book is designed to aid students in their first course on the strength of materials.Introducing the theoretical background of the subject, with a strong visual c...
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by Andrew Knight-Hill (Author), Emma Margetson (Author)Bringing together a diverse group of world-leading professionals across post-production film sound and electroacoustic music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel and communicate via sound.Author BiographyAndrew Knight-Hill is a composer and researcher creating works that explore the interface between music and sound practice. His works have been hea...
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by Sami I. Said (Editor)"Analyzes the role of peptides in promoting or suppressing inflammation. Thoroughly examines the therapeutic potential of key peptides, analogs, agonists, and antagonists that influence cell injury and repair."
Number of Pages: 760
Dimensions: 1.3 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 23, 2019
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by David A. Fennell (Author)The book focuses on economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines it in reference to related forms of tourism, impacts, conservation, sustainability, education and interpretation, policy and governance, and ethics.Author BiographyDavid A. Fennell is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. His previous books include Sustainable Tourism: Princi...
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by Jessica Ratcliff (Author)In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Asian arts, sciences and natural history was established in the City of London, within the corporate headquarters of the East India Company. Funded with taxes from British India and run by the East India Company, this library-museum was located thousands of miles away from the taxpayers who supported it and the land from which it grew. Jessica Ratcliff documents how the growth of science at the Comp...
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by Mohamed Cherif (Author)Few of people knows about the Scientific Miracles of the Quran and Sunnah .There's so many discoveries in different fields of sciences occured in the last two centuries by the human, despite the Quran and Sunnah mentioned them for more than fourteen centuries ago.What are those discoveries and the fields belonged to them.What are the proofs that make them credible?
Number of Pages: 136
Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: August 25, 2022
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by Mohamed Cherif (Author)The story of Mayas and extraterrestrials took a serious behavior day after day with new discovering of artifacts and updated studies about this subject.Strange facts emerges with the time to confirm the ancient strong relation between the two parts.In this book you'll find: -Scientifially proven Artifacts showing relation between Ancient Aliens and Mesoamerians.-New credible artifacts from different sources describing the nature of bridge between Mayas and Aliens.-Th...
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by Amar Ayyash (Author)The definitive photographic guide to North American gulls Gull identification can be challenging for even the most seasoned birder. While these birds are common to coasts, lakes, and rivers, they exhibit remarkable plumage changes related to age, which is sometimes complicated by similarities between species and a readiness to hybridize. This book provides an invaluable identification guide to all regularly occurring gull species and subspecies throughout North America....
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by Gary D. Stormo (Author)One of the foundations of molecular biology is how the interactions of proteins with DNA control many aspects of gene expression. Since the mid-20th century discoveries of the lac repressor and operator and the competition between the cI and cro proteins for the same segment of DNA, we have learned an enormous amount about the interactions of proteins with DNA and their control of fundamental processes in the cell. Introduction to Protein-DNA Interactions: Structure,...
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by Heather Rogers (Author)"A galvanizing expos " of America's trash problem from plastic in the ocean to "wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators" (Booklist, starred review). Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific...
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by Dorrik Stow (Author)The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ago and remained there for the great majority of that time. Today the seas still provide 99% of habitable living space, the largest repository of biomass, and holds the greatest number of undiscovered species on the planet. Our oceans are v...
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by Darci J. Harland (Author)This comprehensive resource for STEM teachers and students, outlines the various stages of large-scale research projects, enabling teachers to coach their students through the research process. This handbook provides enough detail to embolden all teachers-- even those who have never designed an experiment on their own-- to support student-researchers through the entire process of conducting experiments. Early chapters-- research design, background research, hypothe...
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by Thomas J. Elpel (Author)Botany in a Day is now available in a full-color version. With more than 50,000 copies sold, this is a passport to identifying plants and their uses. Looking for a faster, easier, and engaging way to identify plants? Related plants have similar characteristics, and they often have similar uses. Rather than learning new plants one-at-a-time, it is possible to learn them by the hundreds, based on plant family patterns.Each family of related plants has unique patterns ...
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by Douglas W. Tallamy (Author)"Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!" --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new b...
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by Agustín Udías (Author), Elisa Buforn (Author)The second edition of Principles of Seismology has been extensively revised and updated to present a modern approach to observation seismology and the theory behind digital seismograms. It includes: a new chapter on Earthquakes, Earth's structure and dynamics; a considerably revised chapter on instrumentation, with new material on processing of modern digital seismograms and a list of website hosting data and seismological software; and 100 end-...
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by Claude A. Pruneau (Author)A comprehensive guide to data analysis techniques for physical scientists, providing a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as seasoned researchers. The book begins with an extensive discussion of the foundational concepts and methods of probability and statistics under both the frequentist and Bayesian interpretations of probability. It next presents basic concepts and techniques used for measurements of particle production ...
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by Milton Heifetz (Author), Wil Tirion (Illustrator)A Walk through the Southern Sky is a beautifully illustrated guide to the stars and constellations of the southern hemisphere. By following the simplified and easy-to-use starmaps, readers will be able to identify constellations with no equipment but normal sight and a clear night sky. This book provides clear instructions on how to determine star sizes and the distances between stars, allowing readers to move easily between constellations. ...
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by K. F. Riley (Author), M. P. Hobson (Author)This Student Solution Manual provides complete solutions to all the odd-numbered problems in Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences. It takes students through each problem step-by-step, so they can clearly see how the solution is reached, and understand any mistakes in their own working. Students will learn by example how to select an appropriate method, improving their problem-solving skills.
Number of Pages: 250
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by D. V. Lindley (Author), W. F. Scott (Author)The latest edition of this very successful and authoritative set of tables, first published in 1984, still benefits from clear typesetting, which makes the figures easy to read and use, but has been improved by the addition of new tables. These give Bayesian confidence limits for the binomial and Poisson distributions, and for the square of the multiple correlation coefficient, which have not been previously available. The intervals are the short...
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by Matt Kaplan (Author)Featured on NPR's Science Friday, an "ingenious" (The Wall Street Journal) and insightful guide to history's legendary and frightening monsters and the science and culture that created them. We all know "there's no such thing as monsters," but our imaginations tell us otherwise. From the mythical beasts of ancient Greece to the hormonal vampires of the Twilight saga, monsters have captivated us for millennia. Matt Kaplan, a noted science journalist and monster-myth enth...
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by David R. Montgomery (Author), Anne Biklé (Author)David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human die...
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by Govert Schilling (Author)This essential guide for every amateur astronomer explores the entire universe in one practical, easy-to-use, beginner-friendly handbook. The Astronomy Handbook, by award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling, is the indispensable, go-to guide to everything you ever wanted or need to know about space, including:
the stars and the constellations
planets
comets
eclipses
galaxies
black holes
exoplanets
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It also offers an excellent e...
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by Ellen Johnston McHenry (Author)An introduction to chemistry for ages 9 to 14. This is a full curriculum and includes both an 80-page student text and a100-page teacher's section providing patterns and instructions for a wide variety of games, crafts, activities, songs, skits and experiments. The writing style is warm and engaging and often includes whimsical humor and cartoons. The topics covered include the structure of atoms, how atoms bond (covalent, ionic, metallic), electron orbitals ...
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by Julia Finley Mosca (Author), Daniel Rieley (Illustrator)NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2019 Selection ** NSTA Best STEM Trade Books for Students K-12 2019 Selection ** 2019 Amelia Bloomer List Selection ** 2019 Mathical Honor Book
Meet Raye Montague―the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream...
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by H. Walter Lack (Author)In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works from the National Library of Vienna, including many new images. From Byzantine manuscripts right through to 19th-century masterpieces, through peonies, callas, and chrysa...
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by George Moromisato (Author)See the best that the night sky has to offer. Is there anything more amazing than the night sky? You've seen the stars and the constellations--but there's so much more to discover This guide by George Moromisato introduces you to 101 sights, from old favorites like Saturn's famous rings to awe-inspiring wonders like the Andromeda Galaxy. Learn what to look for and when and where to find it
The sights are ranked by beauty, accessibility, and importance. The guid...
