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Mahan on Naval Strategy: Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Thayer Mahan (Author), John B. Hattendorf (Introduction by)Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the greatest naval theorists of all time. An original contributor to the study of strategic thinking, Alfred Thayer Mahan presented concepts and theories in The Influence of Seapower and his other writings that provide guidance in developing strategies to deal with the maritime cha...

A Prayer Book for the Armed Services: 2008 Edition

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Report copyright infringementby The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Soci (Author)A spiritual companion for members of the U.S. armed services.The updated edition of this classic pastoral staple for members of the United States military, published in partnership with the Presiding Bishop's Bishop Suffragan for the Chaplaincies. With its compact size (4" x 5.5") and durable soft binding, the book is designed to fit into side pockets and knapsacks-especially convenient for personnel in or near c...

Neither Star Wars Nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space

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Report copyright infringementby Michael E. O'Hanlon (Author)Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be weaponized? This incisive and insightful book argues that it should not. Since the cold war, space has come to harbor many tools of the tactical warfighter. Satellites have long been used to provide strategic communication, early warning of missile launch, and arms control verification. The U.S. armed forces increasingly use space assets to locate and strike targets o...

The John S. Fray Company 1911 Catalogue No. 26

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Report copyright infringementby Antique Tools & Trades in Connecticut (Author)The John S. Fray & Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut built an early reputation and brace building success upon the initial patent of Nelson Spofford who s first patent was for a type of split chuck, often termed a clamshell chuck. John Fray apparently began manufacturing Spofford braces in partnership with a gentleman named Horace Pigg. Early braces are marked, Fray & Pigg Manrs / Bridgeport, Conn and S...

The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit

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Report copyright infringementby Helena Attlee (Author) The Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops such as bergamot (and its place in the perfume and cosmetics industries) and the vital role played by Calabria's unique Diamante citrons in the Jewish celebration of Sukkoth, author Helena At...

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

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Report copyright infringementby Michio Kaku (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement--quantum computing--which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. - "Expertly describes and rectifies common misconceptions about quantu...

Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination, International Edition in Standard Color

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Lofthouse (Author), Merlla McLaughlin (Editor)Grow resilient, locally adapted food-no chemicals, no coddling, no stress.Tired of babying plants that refuse to thrive? In Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination, author and adaptation gardener Joseph Lofthouse reveals a revolutionary approach to growing food that thrives under real-world conditions-without expensive inputs or rigid control.Joseph's methods empower...

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Larson (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "irresistible" (The Washington Post) true story of love, murder, and the last moments of the "great hush" before wireless radio connected the world, from the renowned author of The Devil in the White City and The Demon of Unrest "Gripping . . . an edge-of-the-seat read."--People In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi...

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Kimble (Author)An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities--and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward "Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama."--Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, ...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Carr (Author)Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media. Number of Pages: 320 ...

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Rothman (Author)Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life. Also available in Julia Rothman's Anatomy series: Nature Anatomy, Nature Anatomy N...

Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

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Report copyright infringementby Gabe Brown (Author)"A regenerative no-till pioneer."--NBC News"Dirt to Soil is the [regenerative farming] movements' holy text."--The ObserverGabe Brown (from the award-winning docs "Kiss the Ground" and "Common Ground") shares 20 years of experience on regenerative agriculture principles from his North Dakota family farm Gabe Brown began working on his family farm in North Dakota without intending to revolutionize agriculture. However, after a series of weathe...

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Report copyright infringementby Rex Miller (Author), Mark R. Miller (Author)This book is designed for use as both a text and study guide for those students taking the licensing test in plumbing. Because of the large number of residential dwellings under construction and planned for the near future, this is a growing area. Well trained and knowledgeable plumbers are urgently needed in most of the individual United States and Canada. The field of plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters is predi...

CNC Trade Secrets: A Guide to CNC Machine Shop Practices

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Report copyright infringementby James Harvey (Author)CNC Trade Secrets is from the author of the bestselling and universally praisedMachine Shop Trade Secrets. This new manual does for CNC machining what the first book did for conventional machining.With this guide to proven CNC machine shop practices, you will be producing machine parts faster, with fewer errors, and with less labor. You'll discover that you don't have to know "everything there is to know" to make parts on CNC machines - jus...

Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions: Full-Length Tests Based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book [2nd Edition]

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Bowling (Editor)***Your #1 Practice Test Resource***Mometrix Test Preparation's Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions [NEC 2023] are the simplest way to prepare for your Journeyman Electrician Exam based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book. Practice is an important part of preparing for a test and improving your chance of success.Mometrix practice questions are designed to prepare you for the real test. You could know everything ...

The Art and Science of Foodpairing: 10,000 Flavour Matches That Will Transform the Way You Eat

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Coucquyt (Author), Bernard Lahousse (Author), Johan Langenbick (Author) 10,000 flavor matches that will transform the way you eat. What is foodpairing? It is not the familiar and mundane matching of wine and food or even food and food, but it is certainly all about creating the most delicious culinary results possible. When humans taste a food, they are processing its taste 80 percent through the nose -- via the food's aromatic molecules -- and only 20 ...

Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here - Paperback

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by Martin Fiore (Author)For decades, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders at all levels, fr...

Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here - Hardcover

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by Martin Fiore (Author)For years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders at all levels, from...

Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race - Paperback

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by Peter Fiekowsky (Author), Carole Douglis (With)People around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and otherwise reduce their carbon footprints.But what if these steps are woefully inadequate to ensure the future health-or even the survival-of the human race? What if the most popular goal being pursued by today's climate activists-net zero carbon em...

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Scharre (Author)The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems--from Israel's Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter--and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. "A smart primer ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul T. Anastas (Author), John C. Warner (Author)This book provides the first introductory treatment of the design, development, and evaluation processes central to Green Chemistry. As s comprehensive textbook, it takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of approaches. Topics include alternative feedstocks, environmentally benign syntheses, the design of safer chemical products, new reaction conditions, alternative solvents and catalyst d...

The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology - Paperback

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by Mark Zachary Taylor (Author)Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nati...

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia DeJohn Anderson (Author)When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash be...

Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine And Maximum Spans For Joists And Rafters (1921) - Paperback

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by National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc (Author)Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine And Maximum Spans For Joists And Rafters is a book published in 1921 by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the use of built-up Southern Yellow Pine timbers in construction, including information on the maximum spans for joists and rafters. The book is aimed at architects, builders, and engineers who are involved in the design and construction ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edna Walker Chandler (Author), Jack Merryweather (Illustrator)Cowboy Sam and Dandy is a children's book written by Edna Walker Chandler. The story follows the adventures of a cowboy named Sam and his trusty horse, Dandy. Sam and Dandy are inseparable, and they work together to round up cattle and explore the vast open plains of the Wild West. The book is filled with colorful illustrations that bring the characters and the setting to life. It is a fun and engagi...

Re-Design Of The Transmission System Of The Edison Electric Company Of Southern California (1908)

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Kellogg Brainard (Author)""Re-Design Of The Transmission System Of The Edison Electric Company Of Southern California"" is a technical book written by Frank Kellogg Brainard in 1908. The book provides a detailed description of the redesign of the transmission system of the Edison Electric Company of Southern California. Brainard, who was an electrical engineer and a consultant for the company, discusses the challenges faced by the company's transmission s...

A Plan Of Mr. Pope's Garden: As It Was Left At His Death: With A Plan And Perspective View Of The Grotto (1745)

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Report copyright infringementby John Serle (Author)""A Plan of Mr. Pope's Garden: As It Was Left at His Death: With a Plan and Perspective View of the Grotto"" is a book written by John Serle and published in 1745. It describes the garden of Alexander Pope, a famous poet and landscape designer of the 18th century. The book includes a detailed plan of the garden as it was at the time of Pope's death, including the layout of the various features such as the grotto, the temple, and the groves. T...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Henry Maiden (Author)The Dorrigo Forest Reserve is a book written by Joseph Henry Maiden in 1894. It is a comprehensive guide to the flora and fauna of the Dorrigo Forest Reserve, which is located in New South Wales, Australia. The book provides detailed descriptions of the various plant and animal species found in the reserve, including their characteristics, habitats, and uses. It also contains information on the history of the reserve, its management,...

The Province Of New Brunswick: Its Soil, Climate, Resources, Institutions, Free Grant Lands, Etc. (1872)

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Report copyright infringementby Providence of New Brunswick (Author)""The Province of New Brunswick: Its Soil, Climate, Resources, Institutions, Free Grant Lands, Etc."" is a book written by the Providence of New Brunswick in 1872. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the province of New Brunswick, covering topics such as the soil, climate, resources, institutions, and free grant lands available in the area. The author provides detailed descriptions of the province's natural resource...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffries Wyman (Author)""Notes On The Cells Of The Bee"" is a scientific book written by Jeffries Wyman in 1866. The book is a detailed study of the anatomy and physiology of the honeybee's cells. The author explores the intricate structure of the bee's cells, including their size, shape, and arrangement. He also examines the different types of cells found in a bee colony, such as brood cells, honeycomb cells, and pollen cells. The book includes numerous illust...

An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle

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Report copyright infringementby Roy D. Bridges (Author)Astronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to rocketing into space at forty-two, he quietly, diligently, and relentlessly made his dream a reality. Fueled by ambition and hard work, fed by the support of family, and formed by the wisdom and character of their example, he made his way from ...

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Verganti (Author)Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical shift in perspective that introduces a bold new way of competing. Design-driven innovations do not come from the market; they create new mark...