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Yersinia Pestis. A Brief Overview on its History and Biology

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandria Villa (Author)Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Biology - Diseases, Health, Nutrition, grade: 1, language: English, abstract: This essay explores the long history of Yersinia pestis, otherwise known as The Black Plague, The Black Death, or The Bubonic Plague. The essay explores the possible routs the bacterium took to end up being one of the most deadly diseases known to the history of man, also delving into topics like the bacterium's structur...

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Report copyright infringementby Florencio Jesús Cembranos Nistal (Author)La sociedad industrial actual necesita personal que pueda adaptarse rápidamente a los grandes avances científico-técnicos en todos los campos del saber. La informática y la electrónica en todas sus facetas ya no son una herramienta novedosa sino la base para nuestro trabajo. Por ello, desde ingenieros hasta el personal de montaje y mantenimiento debe estar formado en estos campos.Con este libro se pretende dar al alumno ...

Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Ethem Alpaydin (Author)A concise primer on machine learning--computer programs that learn from data and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars. No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required! Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition--as well as some we don't yet use every day, including driverless cars. It is the basis for a new approach to ...

Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Kearns (Author), Aaron Roth (Author)Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistic...

Kawasaki Z1, Z/Kz900 & Z/Kz1000: Your Step-By-Step Colour Illustrated Guide to Compete Restoration. Covers Z1, Z1a, Z1b, Z/Kz900 & Z/Kz1000 Models 197

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Rooke (Author)This manual is for all owners, would-be owners and enthusiasts of the legendary Kawasaki Z1 900, Z/KZ900 and Z1000 motorcycle built between 1972 and 1980, and covers the complete restoration of a 1976 KZ900, from the sourcing of the bike to its completion as a fully-restored machine. Every area is covered, starting with advice on different models, spares availability, and where best to source a bike to restore. Every area of the restoration ...

Cheapskate's Passive Solar Home Design for DIY Straw Bale or Green Building: Thrifty Ways to Barter and Find Cheap Used & Free Materials on a Frugal B

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Buydens (Author) Learn how to design a passive solar house on the cheap. For owner-builders, this book covers how to utilize the frugal buy-and-barter method to find used and free building materials to build your own green building or alternative construction home. Included are straw bale house examples that the author and another solar expert have built with up to 90% energy efficiency, and how to obtain that level of efficiency in your own home through...

Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures

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Report copyright infringementby Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Author)How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement--from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing--has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on lon...

Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Landry (Author)By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal" a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery"--an energy landsc...

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Report copyright infringementby Munir Hamad (Author)Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Revit 2025 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master R...

An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Second Edition: With Applications to Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Solid Mechanics

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Report copyright infringementby J. N. Reddy (Author)The second edition of An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis has the same objective as the first edition, namely, to facilitate an easy and thorough understanding of the details that are involved in the theoretical formulation, finite element model development, and solutions of nonlinear problems. The book offers an easy-to-understand treatment of the subject of nonlinear finite element analysis, which includes element developm...

Falconry - aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk: Including a step-by-step guide to building the 'weathering loft', foot care, beak care, foo

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Davie (Author)Falconry - aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk is a distillation of fifty years of falconry experience by leading falconer Michael Davie. This generously illustrated book concentrates on the daily care needed to maintain the trained hawk and falcon in good health, and includes planning for the new arrival by having suitable accommodation ready for the bird. The book provides a comprehensive construction guide to building the 'we...

A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace

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Report copyright infringementby Dick R. Couch (Author)Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population. A former SEAL who led one of the only successful POW rescue operations in Vietnam, Couch warns that the mistakes made in Vietnam forty years ago are being ...

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Husbands (Author)Since the turn of the millennium a quiet revolution has been underway. Millions of autonomous robots with some level of intelligence are now in domestic use, mainly as vacuum cleaners. Driverless cars - which are nothing less than autonomous robots - are starting to appear on our streets. There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Hae-Geon (Author)A number of thermodynamic books claiming to be original in both presentation and approach have been published. However, thermodynamics is still a confusing subject for uninitiated students and an "easy-to-forget" one for graduate engineers. In order to solve these problems, this computer aided learning package -- textbook and CD-ROM -- takes a new approach.This package is unique and beneficial in that it simulates a classroom lecture: it ac...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Rhodes (Author)Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth. Does technology improve us or diminish us? Enslave us or make us free? With this first-ever collection of the essential twentieth-century ...

Biodynamics for Beginners: Principles and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh J. Courtney (Author), Stewart Lundy (Editor), Stewart Lundy (Introduction by)"Biodynamics is distinguished by the fact that it is a return from and through a mechanized prodigal society, not a regression. It is a return in a new way, like returning to your childhood home as an adult." -- Stewart LundyThis collection of articles--compiled primarily by Hugh Courtney from the periodical Applied Biodynamics--introduces the basics of making the essential biodyn...

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Report copyright infringementby James R. Hansen (Editor)Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012. Providing context and commentary, Hansen has assembled the letters by the following themes: religion and belief; anger, disappointment, and disillusionment; quac...

In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Erisman (Author)Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women's causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and ...

Animal Control Management: A New Look at a Public Responsibility

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Aronson (Author)This book is the first of its kind to discuss in detail the actual management of local animal control programs as opposed to the care of the animals. It covers financial, personnel, legal, health, and safety issues that animal control directors and management staff need to know in providing direction and oversight of animal control programs. Chapters examine selected topics in which the author assesses strengths and weaknesses and offers...

Flying the Beam: Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941

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Report copyright infringementby Henry R. Lehrer (Author)With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through...

Cap Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Ann Ingraham (Author)Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot...

From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Salstrom (Author)Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farmin...

Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer

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Report copyright infringementby Ang Schramm (Author)Assuming you don't want your cabinets, ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture or other products made from plywood to smell like dirty diapers, a quick look at the Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer by Ang Schramm is in order. According to Schramm, South American Lapuna Sumauma wood has a high starch content that is susceptible to attack by anaerobic bacteria while sitting on the bottoms of holding ponds at the veneer plant. The by...

American Agriculture: A Brief History, Rev. Ed.

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Report copyright infringementby R. Douglas Hurt (Author)R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essen...

Goodnight Brew: A Parody for Beer People

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Report copyright infringementby Karla Oceanak (Author), Allie Ogg (Illustrator)It's closing time at the brewery. While the moon rises, the brewery crew--including three little otters (in charge of the water), a wort hog, and a hops wildebeest--introduce us to the brewing equipment, ingredients, and styles of beer. Join this fanciful crew as they close down for the evening and say goodnight to the brew kettle, barley and yeast, hops and mash, saison, porter, IPA, and much more. Befuddled about...

PowerPlay: Great Engine Wars in Commercial Aviation - GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, Safran - From the Dawn of Jet Age through the End of

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Report copyright infringementby Rajat Narang (Author)When the Wright Brothers dreamed of flying like birds; a powered, heavier-than-air flying machine, known as the Wright Flyer, powered by a 12 Hp gasoline engine made of Aluminum block; effectively enabled them to realize their dream in 1903 while also ushering in the 'Age of Flight' for humans. That rudimentary machine & engine paved the way for the development of larger piston engines & propeller powered fighters which proved to be...

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Report copyright infringementby Munir Hamad (Author)Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Revit 2024 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master R...

The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Pottinger (Editor)Chinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, even threatening the use of force. An invasion or blockade of Taiwan by Chinese forces would be catastrophic, with severe consequences for democracies worldwide. In The Boiling Moat, Matt Pottinger and a team of scholars and distinguished military and political leaders urgently outline practical steps for deterrence. The authors stress that pre...

Replayed: Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Lowood (Author), Raiford Guins (Editor), Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Foreword by)A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field of...

Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Pia del Rosso (Editor), Alessandro Sebastianelli (Editor), Silvia Liberata Ullo (Editor)Earth observation (EO) involves the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in order to monitor and assess the status and changes in natural and built environments. This technology has many applications including weather forecasting, tracking biodiversity, measuring land-use change, monitoring and responding to natural disasters, managing natural resources, moni...

Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

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Report copyright infringementby John Bird (Author)This practical Level 2 and 3, foundation degree and year 1 undergraduate textbook introduces essentials through detailed examples and laboratory experiments. Now with glass batteries, climate change and the future of electricity production. Its rich companion website includes multiple choice tests and 900 questions and solutions.Author BiographyJohn Bird, BSc (Hons), CEng, CMath, CSci, FIMA, FIET, FCollT, is the former Head of Applied Electron...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Bulliet (Author)In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is...