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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo - Paperback

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by Nigel Rothfels (Author)Now completely revised! A history of the modern zoo.In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth century. Building from his core business in animals, Hagenbeck eventually became even more famous for his large ethnographic exhibitions and circus ventures. When Hagenbeck opened his Animal Park nea...

The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Films, and Games - Hardcover

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by Brian Hisao Onishi (Editor), Nathan M. Bell (Editor)This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the intersection of environmental thought and Weird fiction, broadly construed to include literature, games, films, art, and television shows. The Eco-Weird has intersections with ot...

Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier - Paperback

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by Jason Cons (Author)A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta's imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh's southwest, development programs that imagine the delta as a security threat unfold on the same ground as init...

Natural Farming: A Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Pat Coleby (Author)Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilizers over decades, and explains soil chemistry in terms that every farmer can understand. It describes the exact role of each mineral and vitamin, both in the soil and in the body. And it explains how to prevent ...

Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Hardcover

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by Jennifer L. French (Editor), Jens Andermann (Contribution by), Ronald Briggs (Contribution by)Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book's eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a peri...

Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis - Paperback

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by Samantha Montano (Author)Named a Best Book of the Year by USA TODAY and NPR's Science Friday Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis--one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future. With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing, our world is increasingly vulnerable. Most people see disasters as freak, natural events that are unpredictable and unpreventable. But that simply...

Environmental Issues in Automotive Industry - Paperback

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by Paulina Golinska (Editor)Sustainability in automotive industry.- Environmental friendly practices in the automotive industry.- A declarative approach to new product development in the automotive industry.- What is influencing the sustainable attitude of the automobile industry.- Sustainability Issues for Vehicles and Fleet Vehicles Using Hybrid and Assistive Technologies.- Tools and methods for greener decision making.- Diagnostics systems as a tool to reduce and monitor gas emissions from...

The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation: Step-By-Step Techniques for Making More Houseplants . . . for Free! - Hardcover

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by Lindsay Sisti (Author)Make more houseplants (for free!) with this comprehensive bible of propagation techniques, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions covering over a dozen methods for over 80 different houseplants. Accompanied by full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations, The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation offers all the horticultural know-how you need to make new plants from existing plants. Learn how to successfully take stem, leaf, and petiole cuttings of your f...

Building Strategic Skills for Better Health: A Primer for Public Health Professionals - Paperback

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by Michael R. Fraser (Editor), Brian C. Castrucci (Editor)While academic programs prepare public health graduates for the technical challenges of practice, many professionals new to the field also need training in the cross-cutting strategic skills required for successful leadership and management of health agencies. Successful practitioners blend subject matter expertise with administrative and leadership acumen to ensure that improvements in public health reach the communities they serve. B...

Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Paperback

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Phenomena: An Infographic Guide to Almost Everything - Hardcover

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by Camille Juzeau (Author), The Shelf Company (Designed by), ?tienne Klein (Foreword by)Astronomy, botany, the climate . . . From the wonder of fireflies to the mysteries of the Big Bang, from magnificent maps of animal migrations to the anatomy of snowflakes, Phenomena's superbly rendered infographics and concise texts will help anyone with a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge grasp a broad range of scientific, historical, and cultural concepts.This highly original encyclopedia covers 1...

Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe - Hardcover

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by James Trefil (Author), Shobita Satyapal (Author)Black holes, demystified: follow along the quest to understand the history and influence of one of space science's most fascinating and confounding phenomena Led by physicist James Trefil and astrophysicist Shobita Satyapal, this book traverses the incredible history of black holes and introduces contemporary developments and theories on still unanswered questions about the enigmatic objects. From the early work of Albert Einstein and Karl Sc...

Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember - Hardcover

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by Ciara Greene (Author), Gillian Murphy (Author)An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories--and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thrive We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Memory Lane introduces readers to the cutting-edge science of human memory, revealing how our recollecti...

National Geographic Photo Ark Babies: Growing Up in the Animal World - Hardcover

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by Joel Sartore (Author)From a turtle poking out of its egg to sloth sibs cuddling, this adorable collection highlights more than 150 youngsters across the animal kingdom. It's the latest in renowned photographer Joel Sartore's National Geographic Photo Ark series. Fall in love with rambunctious cougar kittens and playful coyote pups, fluffy pandas and curious chimps, as you explore more than 120 photographs of the youngest animals in the remarkable Photo Ark. These incredible portraits captu...

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food - Hardcover

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by Vaclav Smil (Author)"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."--Bill Gates An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food--and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. As a resul...

Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey Bub (Author)What on earth do bananas have to do with quantum mechanics? From a modern perspective, quantum mechanics is about strangely counterintuitive correlations between separated systems, which can be exploited in feats like quantum teleportation, unbreakable cryptographic schemes, and computers with enormously enhanced computing power. Schro?dinger coined the term "entanglement" to describe these bizarre correlations. Bananaworld -- an imaginary island with "entangled" banana...

Cognitive Economy: The Economic Dimension of the Theory of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Nicholas Rescher (Author)Cost, expected benefits, and risks are paramount in grant agencies' decisions to fund scientific research. In Cognitive Economy, Nicholas Rescher outlines a general theory for the cost-effective use of intellectual resources, amplifying the theories of Charles Sanders Pierce, who stressed an \u201ceconomy of research.\u201d Rescher discusses the requirements of cooperation, communication, cognitive importance, cognitive economy, as well as the economic factors bear...

Qualitative Research as Emergent Inquiry: Reframing Qualitative Practice in Terms of Complex Responsive Processes - Paperback

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by Sheila Keegan (Author)Commercial qualitative research is employed in both the public and private sectors to help organizations understand their customers or clients, with the aim of providing them with better services, products or environments. Using their research knowledge, the researchers act as consultants, helping their clients to shape their strategy and decision making. The role of the commercial qualitative researcher is therefore quite different than that of most academic research...

Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB: Simplified Green Codes - Hardcover

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by Tamer Khatib (Author), Wilfried Elmenreich (Author)Modeling of PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS Using MATLAB(R) Provides simplified MATLAB(R) codes for analysis of photovoltaic systems, describes the model of the whole photovoltaic power system, and shows readers how to build these models line by line. This book presents simplified coded models for photovoltaic (PV)-based systems using MATLAB(R) to help readers understand the dynamic behavior of these systems. Through the use of MATLAB(R), the reader...

The Bible Versus The Evolution Theory - Paperback

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by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (Author)The Bible Versus The Evolution Theory is a book written by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. It is a comprehensive guide that examines the differences between the Bible and the theory of evolution. The book explores the origins of life, the development of species, and the role of God in creation. It provides evidence from both the Bible and scientific research to support the argument that the theory of evolution is inconsistent with the te...

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by Claude H. Brechner (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public...

Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its Applications - Paperback

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by Alfred Russell Wallace (Author)This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitmen...

The Twilight of the Scientific Age - Paperback

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by M. Laopez Corredoira (Author), Martin Lopez Corredoira (Author)This book gives a challenging point of view about science and its history/philosophy/sociology. Science is in decline. After centuries of great achievements, the exhaustion of new forms and fatigue have reached our culture in all of its manifestations including the pure sciences. Our society is saturated with knowledge which does not offer people any sense in their lives. There is a loss of ideals in the search for great truths...

Budding Yeast: A Laboratory Manual - Paperback

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by Charles Boone (Editor), Brenda Andrews (Editor), Stan Fields (Editor)Over the past century, studies of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have helped to unravel principles of nearly every aspect of eukaryotic cell biology--from metabolism and molecular genetics to cell division and differentiation. Thanks to its short generation time, ease of genetic manipulation, and suitability for high-throughput studies, yeast remains the focus of research in a vast number of laboratories world...

Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons - Hardcover

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by Sarah Scoles (Author)For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite that, conversations about these bombs generally often happen in past tense. In Countdown, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the nuclear age's pr...

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by Kip Thorne (Author), Christopher Nolan (Foreword by) Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science advis...

The Method of Archimedes, Recently Discovered by Heiberg: A Supplement to the Works of Archimedes - Paperback

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by Thomas Little Heath (Author)Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician ARCHIMEDES(circa 287 BC-circa 212 BC) is considered by many the greatest mathematician-and possibly the greatest scientist-of all time. He has made priceless contributions to the fields of maths, physics, and engineering, including the discovery of the principle of density and buoyancy.First published in English in 1897, this collection of supplementary writings on treating mechanical problems provides a thorough ...

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science - Hardcover

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by Erika Engelhaupt (Author)Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality. Blending humor and journalism in the tradition of Mary Roach, acclaimed science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe. From the research biologist who stung himself with every concei...

Auto-Immunity Attacks the Body: Autoimmune Disease - Paperback

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by Mary E. Miller (Author)The human body is protected in critical ways as our immune system provides protection from a broad spectrum of infections and injuries. Unfortunately, in some individuals, their immune system targets components of their own bodies, causing autoimmune disease. Many different types of autoimmune diseases exist, each presenting unique symptoms depending on the body system that is damaged. It is not clear what triggers the progression from normal immune reactivity to aut...

Introduction to Partial Differential Equations - Paperback

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by David Borthwick (Author)This modern take on partial differential equations does not require knowledge beyond vector calculus and linear algebra. The author focuses on the most important classical partial differential equations, including conservation equations and their characteristics, the wave equation, the heat equation, function spaces, and Fourier series, drawing on tools from analysis only as they arise. Within each section the author creates a narrative that answers the five questio...

Bioinspired Catechol- Based Systems: Chemistry and Applications - Paperback

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by Marco D'Ischia (Guest Editor), Daniel Ruiz-Molina (Guest Editor)Catechols are widely found in nature taking part in a variety of biological functions, ranging from the aqueous adhesion of marine organisms to the storage of transition metal ions. Catechol-based natural and biomimetic molecules have thus been the focus of intense research aimed at mimicking and translating this nature-inspired chemistry into new functional materials and systems with tailored properties. The aim of this book ...

Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes: Concepts and Mathematical Foundations - Hardcover

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by Christian Bär (Editor), Klaus Fredenhagen (Editor)After some decades of work a satisfactory theory of quantum gravity is still not available; moreover, there are indications that the original field theoretical approach may be better suited than originally expected. There, to first approximation, one is left with the problem of quantum field theory on Lorentzian manifolds. Surprisingly, this seemingly modest approach leads to far reaching conceptual and mathematical problems and to spectacu...