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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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Report copyright infringementby William Kamkwamba (Author), Bryan Mealer (Author)Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and...

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

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Report copyright infringementby Simran Sethi (Author)Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological...

The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

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Report copyright infringementby Francis S. Collins (Author)"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease." --Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The Language of Life. With accessible, insightful prose, Dr. Collins describes the medical, scien...

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

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Report copyright infringementby John Brockman (Author)Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockman's latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.Back JacketHow is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what Jo...

Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

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Report copyright infringementby Kalee Thompson (Author)Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue--where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and technology combined in one of the most remarka...

Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up

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Report copyright infringementby Daphne Miller (Author)In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to a core tenet of integrative medicine: the idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers how aspects of regenerative farming--from seed choice to build...

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Report copyright infringementby William Powers (Author)"A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age." --Bob Woodward "Incisive ... Refreshing ... Compelling." --Publishers Weekly A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: Where's the rest of my life? Hamlet's BlackBerry challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect through technology, the better. It's time to strike a new balance, William ...

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Connors (Author)"Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau--and I loved it."--J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar"[Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading."--Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic...

Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

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Report copyright infringementby Nicolette Hahn Niman (Author)"Righteous Porkchop is a searing, and utterly convincing, indictment of modern meat production. The book also brims with hope and charts a practical (and even beautiful) path out of the jungle."--Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food "[A] necessary book--part memoir, part exposé...its reasoned case for healthy and humane farming practices has the sweet savor of truth."--O The Oprah Magazine A crusading...

The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Nordhaus (Author)"You'llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again." --Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of LobstersAward-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honeybee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role tha...

The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

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Report copyright infringementby Michael P. Belfiore (Author)From Smithsonian Books, The Department of Mad Scientists is the first trade book ever on DARPA--the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the maverick and controversial agency whose futuristic work has had amazing military and civilian application, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars. Michael Belfiore, author of Rocketeers, visited science research sites across the country to provide this unprecedented look at the people...

Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

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Report copyright infringementby David Barrie (Author)In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery--an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history's most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tales with the account of his own transatlantic passage as a young ...

Harvest: An Adventure Into the Heart of America's Family Farms

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Horan (Author)"Richard Horan has brought us a welcome view of America to defy the prevailing political and financial nastiness. This is a timely and important book."--Ted Morgan, author of Wilderness at Dawn"A lively visit with the dauntless men and women who operate America's family farms and help provide our miraculous annual bounty. Richard Horan writes with energy and passion."--Hannah Nordhaus, author of The Beekeeper's Lament"Horan's new book evoc...

Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream

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Report copyright infringementby Earl Swift (Author)A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy--a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his--while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.Slumped among hundreds of other decrepit hulks on a treeless, windswept moor in eastern North Carolina,...

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Report copyright infringementby Randi Zuckerberg (Author)With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook's early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part memoir, part how-to manual addresses issues ...

Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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Report copyright infringementby Ashlee Vance (Author)The New York Times Bestseller and Gift Idea for Entrepreneurs and Elon Musk FansIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, this authorized Elon Musk biography is both an illuminating look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs--a real-life Tony Stark--and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers."Elon Musk spotlights the technol...

What to Think about Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby John Brockman (Author)Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think."Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of "superintelligence" in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just a matter of science...

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Blum (Author)An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself.We are all connected now. But connected to what, exactly? In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum takes readers on a fascinating journey to find out.When former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska famously described the Internet as "a series of tubes," he seemed hopelessly, foolishly trapped in an old way of knowing the world. But he w...

The Lost Art of War: Recently Discovered Companion to the Bestselling the Art of War, the

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Report copyright infringementby Sun-Tzu (Author)In 1972, The Lost Art of War was discovered in an ancient Chinese tomb. The first complete manuscript ever found from the legendary military strategist Sun Tzu II (commonly known as Sun Bin, a lineal descendent of the great Sun Tzu), this sophisticated manual delves even deeper than The Art of War into the complex principles and practices of organizations, tactical formation, strategic maneuvering, and adaptation. Like those of his distinguished...

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car-And How It Will Reshape Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence D. Burns (Author), Christopher Shulgan (Author)An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car--an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphoneWe stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles and instead will get around in driverless electric vehicles that we summon with the touch of an app. We will...

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Report copyright infringementby McGraw Hill (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, [roman] this vital reference offers a wealth of essential information in a portable, convenient, quick-find format. Whether you're a professional, a st...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Wille (Author)p>Your passport to a successful and rewarding careerAre you looking for the latest information to open the door to the career of your dreams? The nation's largest career books series, VGM's Opportunities in . . . series gives you the inside scoop on more than 100 professions, as well as on all the essential aspects of your potential career, no matter how specialized the field. From the latest training requirements to current salary ...

Insectronics: Build Your Own Walking Robot

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Williams (Author)Step-by-step guidance on building a six-legged insect-like walking robotBack JacketBUILD THE BADDEST BUG IN TOWN!. . IT WALKS ON SIX LEGS, POSSESSES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, UTILIZES STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY, AND IS INCREDIBLY INEXPENSIVE TO BUILD!. . This complete project book delivers all the step-by-step plans you need to construct your own six-legged insect-like robot that walks and actually responds to its environment. Using inexpe...

Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics with Chemical Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Abbott (Author), Hendrick C. Van Ness (Author)Confusing Textbooks?Missed Lectures? Tough Test Questions? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds...

Amphibionics: Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Robot

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Williams (Author)* Step-by-step plans on building 4 different creatures--snake, frog, turtle, and alligator with walking and swimming ability * Tells you all you need for mechanical construction, programming, locomotion, remote control, and customization * Teaches mechanical construction, electronics, PIC programming, artificial intelligence, and software control * All are inexpensive to build with easy-to-find partsBack JacketROBOTIC EVOLUTION HAS BEGU...

Tubular Heat Exchanger: Inspection, Maintenance and Repair

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Report copyright infringementby Carl F. Andreone (Author), Stanley Yokell (Joint Author)Today's cost-conscious process and manufacturing industries require the life of tubular heat exchangers to be extended. That's why engineers and technicians will welcome this guide, packed with inspection checklists and tips for cost containment that reduce the need for new equipment.Advice on evaluating heat exchangers and on inspection strategies for both operating and out-of-service equipment will help ...

Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics for Electricity and Electronics

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Report copyright infringementby Beiser Emeritus Arthur (Author)Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problem...

Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design

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Report copyright infringementby Frank P. Bleier (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The First Comprehensive Guide To All Aspects of Modern Fan Technology Improve your engineering and technical skills with this comprehensive reference on the design, selection, maintenance, and repair of fans used in a wide range of applications and indu...

Masonry and Concrete Complete Construction

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Beall (Author)This guide aims to be a comprehensive reference to all aspects of building with masonry and concrete for residential purposes. The book covers physical characteristics of masonry and concrete materials, the basic principles of design and performance, and construction techniques.Back JacketCut costs and avoid callbacks with this indispensable guide especially for residential construction professionals. Here to help you plan and do any con...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher J. Abbe (Author)Compact enough to slip into your flight ease and comrehensive enough to ensure master, of the daily parlance of pilots, this handy reference clarifies nearly 3,000 essential acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, technical terms, and slang definitions used in aviation. Completely up to date and categorically alphabetized, this crucial resource covers everything you need to know.Back JacketPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Wade Brown (Author)The #1 guide to foundation repair This book offers the most authoritative source of information on repairing damaged foundations, with excellent advice on maintenance and preventative measures designed to avoid the need for repair. You get state-of-the-art methods in foundation repair; clear guidance on choosing the right methods for the job; up-to-date techniques for preventing, evaluating, and reversing damage from expansive soils; ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Bronson (Author), Govindasami Naadimuthu (Author)Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds o...