"Jane's All the World's Aircraft" sets the standard in aviation reference. It provides exhaustive technical detail on over 1,000 civil and military aircraft currently being produced or un...
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From whitetails in the Northeast to mule deer in the West, deer are all around us. Bestselling naturalist Thomas spent a year watching them in the wild, and uncovered a vast hidden trove ...
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When Columbia professor Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crisis, he didn't just think big, he thought "up" and developed the vertical farm--a fully functionin...
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In Everyday Nature, Sara Gronim shows how scientific advances were received in the early modern world, from the time Europeans settled in America until just before the American Revolution...
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A rising star in geoscience presents a vivid forecast of our planet in 40 years, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, cli...
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The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the a...
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This touching narrative chronicles how one little dog, Gracie, is transformedfrom a bedraggled animal worn out from bearing puppies at a puppy mill into aloving, healthy member of her new family.
Americans love their gadgets, and Steve Greenberg, the “Innovation Insider,†pays tribute to the country's spirit of inventiveness. Featuring more than 100 quirky innovations, Gadget N...
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Already climbing the bestseller lists, this "Library Journal" Best Book of the Year sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world. Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of ...
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A history of the fish that has led to wars, stirred revolutions, sustained economies and diets, and helped in the settlement of North America features photographs, drawings, and recipes, ...
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From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the presen...
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The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as...
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An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste, "The Big Necessity" takes aim at the taboo and reveals everything that matters about how people do--and don't--deal with their own waste.
Award-winning author Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola's inspiring and courageous crusade to stop a multinational corporation from building a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the...
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Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world.
This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human in...
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The biennial Around Alone yacht race is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. It’s a two-class solo race that starts and ends in N...
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Uranium Deposits of the World, in four volumes, comprises an unprecedented compilation of data and overviews of the key uranium regions throughout the globe. It offers not only a complete...
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The proceedings contain papers accepted for the XVIIth ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, held in Cracow, Poland, September 6-10, 2010. No matter how diversified ...
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The authors, two of the world's leading seed scientists, provide a thorough, up-to-date and easy-to-use guide to the production, storage, and use of the seeds of all the world's major foo...
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With over 170,000 entries, the Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an authoritative A to Z encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Whether you're looking for the ten highest mou...
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From the introduction of gunpowder to the reigning era of nuclear weapons, military technological advances have been at the forefront of change. These changes in weaponry have influenced ...
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Awareness of the influence of our genetic variation to dietary response (nutrigenetics) and how nutrients may affect gene expression (nutrigenomics) is prompting a revolution in the field...
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Econometric Modelling of World Shipping describes an economic model that may be used to forecast world shipping markets. A unique feature of the model is that it relates to both sector...
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2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature “… now we have easier and better a...
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The focus of this book is on conceptual and philosophical issues of perception including the classic notion of unconscious inferences in perception. The book consists of contributions fro...
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.these 37 charts are bound into one desk size format book and provide a general overview of systems of the body, structures/organs, and diseases/disorders. All of the illustrations ha...
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While the relationship between man and nature has been a constant feature of the human situation, the human impact on the environment has only recently become a topic of general interest ...
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Humans are builders—we make structures to span rivers, to connect points of land, to offer shelter. Indeed, throughout history, civilizations have created structures of such immense sca...
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Combat Fleets is internationally acknowledged as a comprehensive, authoritative, and affordable one-volume reference on the world's naval and paranaval forces.
Written by specialist and regional contributors, this invaluable book provides an integrated, up-to-date, geographical assessment of land degradation in the world's Mediterranean regions....
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IMIAs Medinfo 2010 conference in Cape Town, the first to be held in Africa, focuses on the needs of and solutions from developing countries in Africa and beyond. This book, which presents...
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