Planets and Solar System: My Space Adventure bedtime stories for Kids 6-12 yrs: Children book : Rocket Ship kids stories; planets, outer space ... by Itolee Williams (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A rocket ship explores the galaxy with a child being an astronaut. The child engages in many explorations as the rocket takes him around the universe. This book celebrates exploration. It supports the ability to dream big and set out to achieve great adventures in life.

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Urban Beekeeping - Managing Hives in City Environments by Anthony Carter (17 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"Urban Beekeeping: Managing Hives in City Environments" offers a comprehensive journey into the heart of urban beekeeping, providing essential knowledge, practical advice, and insightful strategies for fostering healthy bee populations in the bustling city landscape. This book stands as arguably the most complete guide for anyone looking to navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of keeping bees in urban settings. From understanding legal frameworks and selecting the right equipment to innovative hive management and engaging ...

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The Elements Little Black Book: Facts, Trivia and Secrets of the Building Blocks of Everything by Bob Mayer Price verified one hour ago

The Little Black Book series is designed the enlighten and entertain. There are 118 elements. They are the building blocks of our reality. But how much do we know about them? Every element is covered. How it was discovered. What is unique about it. What it can combine with. Trivia. How do they combine to make life? Why are some deadly? What famous people have died because of an element? What are the famous fictional elements How is the periodic table organized? A fascinating and fun overview of the building blocks of our ...

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Electrical Engineering Systems (AITEES 2022) (Atlantis ... by Valentina E. Balas (Atlantis Press) Price verified one hour ago

This is an open access book. The focus of the conference is to provide a unique platform for exchange of ideas and synergy among researchers, academicians and industrial experts across the globe belonging to emerging electrical engineering domains. It also provides a premier platform for the people to present and discuss the most recent innovations and solutions in solving complex and challenging problems related to intelligent electrical engineering systems. Such a blend of various research-oriented minds will lead to productive ...

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Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union: An Interdisciplinary Analysis by Lucia Scaffardi (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book proposes an in-depth study on a vast range of issues connected to the regulation of Novel Foods in the European Union, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach and thus providing a comprehensive picture of this complex topic. Particular attention is paid not only to the current EU legislative framework, its positive innovations, unsolved problems and limits, but also to food safety issues and the potential impact of Novel Foods on sustainability and food security. In addition, the book focuses on a particular ...

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Proceedings of the International Conference of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Control Engineering (ICFPMCE 2022) (Atlantis Highlights in Engineering ... by Liang Yan (Atlantis Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

This is an open access book. Since 1985, held 22 times in different cities all over China, ICFPMCE has now been listed in annual academic activities (non-profit) of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), which has become one of the significant conferences in the field of fluid power and mechatronic control engineering. Under the theme of 'Green Intelligence, Innovative Development', ICFPMCE 2022 aims to provide a platform for the participants who have been working in the fields of Fluid mechanics, ...

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Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress Price verified 2 hours ago

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 by Roald Amundsen (8 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 by Roald Amundsen (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Roald Amundsen (64 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology (Qualitative Studies in Psychology Book 14) by John A. Mills (NYU Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Behaviorism has been the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology. However, the unquestioned and unquestioning nature of this dominance has obfuscated the complexity of behaviorism. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analysis of the structures of assumption which underlie all behaviorist psychology, and with behaviorism's role ...

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Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds by Susan Falls (NYU Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the ...

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The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis (4 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Recent Advances in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SEMA SIMAI Springer Series Book 1) by Tomás Chacón Rebollo Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, the scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and environmental mathematics, mathematical biology and medicine, reduced-order modeling and cryptography. The book also includes an introductory ...

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Lessons from Systems Thinkers: Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking Methods from the Greatest Innovative Minds (The Systems Thinker Series Book 7) by Albert Rutherford (29 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

How did the world's greatest systems thinkers handled crises, invented revolutionary ideas, and solved complex problems? How did the field of systems thinking develop? Who were the pioneers in the field? Learn about the answers in Lessons from Systems Thinkers. • Norbert Wiener's pioneering contribution on positive and negative feedback. • Warren McCulloch's research on feedback mechanisms in neurology. • The 14 points of quality management by Edward Deming. • Gregory Bateson's double bind and how it affects family ...

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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration: Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates (The Urban Book Series) by Nele Aernouts (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates ...

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Beyond Cutting Edge with Bob Lazar: From Frozen Candle to Disintegrated Circuits by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

If you have read a previous edition, then start reading with chapter 78.

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The Cosmic Journey : A Stargazer's Odyssey by Manya Baid (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In 'The Cosmic Journey,' follow Ananta, a curious and adventurous young girl, as she embarks on an extraordinary exploration of the universe. Triggered by a mysterious voice, Ananta discovers a cosmic door that transports her to distant celestial realms. From exploring our solar system to the Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-452b to the enigmatic depths of a black hole, Ananta encounters cosmic wonders and grapples with the profound mysteries of existence. Each chapter unfolds a new facet of the cosmos, blending scientific inquiry with ...

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The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces: Reading from Paper and Reading from Screens (SpringerBriefs in Education) by John T. E. Richardson (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers. It also examines recent research on the legibility of ...

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Educational Data Analytics for Teachers and School Leaders (Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching) by Sofia Mougiakou (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course (re)design for achieving more authentic teaching, learning and assessment experiences integrated into real work-oriented tasks. This open access textbook is a tutorial for developing, practicing and self-assessing core competences on educational data analytics for digital teaching and learning. It combines theoretical knowledge on core issues ...

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Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy by Eleonora Bertoni (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashing its potential to provide systematic impact to the policy cycle, as well as from improving the understanding of societal problems to the definition, assessment, evaluation, and monitoring of policies. The aim of this handbook is to fill ...

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SOCIETY AND THE MACHINE: NAVIGATING ETHICS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Ashish K Saxena (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our world, from social media to healthcare, education to governance, transforming how we live, work, and think. As we step into an era where AI doesn't just support decision-making but makes the decisions, the urgent question arises: Are we shaping AI, or is AI shaping our morality? Society and the Machine: Navigating Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence delves deep into the ethical debates surrounding AI's power, inviting you to join a critical conversation on the future of technology and ...

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Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by William Diller Matthew (47 Reviews)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

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The Mental Inertia : A Look into How Our Brains Work Similar to the Laws of Physics by Aditya Bikram Singh (14 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Ever got so tired from getting tired that you want to wish to work again but just cannot get enough courage to start? Have you ever found yourself so nervous before beginning a task that you decided to not start it at all? Did you wonder why your mind is the way it is and cannot adapt to the conditions fast like others do? The Mental Inertia tries to answer these questions in a tacky way by comparing our biological minds with the laws of physics! Yes, you heard that right. Come delve into the chapters of this short and ...

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Time Matters: 7th edition by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (1 Review)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

8th edition available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW2WLHRW Two years ago, I started this book by explaining why the ancient Universe is red (or infrared), and how spiral galaxies counter centrifugal force from breaking them. Now I finish it with an explanation of how galaxies appeared from nothing but space and time, and where antimatter is. In the preface below you will find a list of long-standing problems solved in this book. Physicists, please read chapter 61 first: there I explain physics of observations for electrons, atoms, ...

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Knowledge Sciences and Education (ICSKSE 2022) (Advances in Social Science, Education and ... by Sumarmi Sumarmi Price verified 7 hours ago

This is an open access book. Each country in Southeast Asia has experienced numerous adversities, from pandemic and disasters, to inequalities and threats to democracy. Adding to these challenges, are our common experience of colonialism where its legacies still resonate in the present. Despite these challenges, Southeast Asia continue to participate in global commitments geared towards realizing sustainable development, democracy, and countervailing the imbalance global power relation. Furthermore, Southeast Asia has been the center ...

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Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of ... by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell (88 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Miguel Saderra Masó (3 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Diseases of Tropical Tree Crops by Dominique Mariau (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This work gives details of some fifty diseases of tropical tree crops which cause very significant yield losses hence compromising or even preventing cultivation. Breeding resistant planting material is currently the most widely used control method. Research is also under way on the rational use of chemical pesticides, the adoption of appropriate crop techniques and on reducing populations of insect vectors of viral and fungal diseases, phytoplasms and Phytomonas.

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Year 2 - Number and Place Value Worksheet - Primary Leap by Primary Leap (114 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Maths activity for year 2(Ages 6 to 7) The activities are designed to meet the aims of the national curriculum for mathematics: - become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. - reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, ...

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Bird Day; How to prepare for it by Charles Almanzo Babcock (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas by Stephen Flood (Palgrave Macmillan) Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice approaches, and supporting Irish and international case studies. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing global inequalities and demonstrated the scope and scale of cascading socio-ecological impacts. The impacts of climate change on our global communities will likely dwarf the disruption brought on by the ...

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Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide (Scientific Writing for Beginners) by Mitchell P. Jones (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Definitive advice and recommendations on thesis writing can be hard to come by and even harder to understand. Look no further for step-by-step support to guide you through the thesis writing process with concrete instructions and examples. Mitchell P. Jones' Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide is a must-have for anyone about to culminate their master's or doctoral studies. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out the essential steps for compiling a highly scoped and impactful master's or Ph.D. thesis. ...

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Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science by Sue V. Rosser (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical ...

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Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (Critical Cultural Communication Book 31) by Brenton J. Malin (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we ...

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Agricultural robotics: part of the new deal? FIRA 2020 conclusions: With 27 agricultural robot information sheets by Roland Lenain (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The farming and agricultural robotics industries are inextricably linked. This connection is reinforced every year at the FIRA International Forum of Agricultural Robots, where, inevitably, there are new players and new problems, bigger goals and better solutions. This book is a journey into the state of the art of the industry in 2020, followed by 27 agricultural robot information sheets.

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Grandma's Memories by Mary D. Brine (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Letters of a Traveller Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluidized Bed by Lunbo Duan (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related problems, OC aging, and so on, are summarized and analyzed. Beyond this, new concepts like OCAC with Oxy-PFBC, OCAC coupled with staged fuel conversion, OCAC in rotatory kilns and multi-functional OCAC are proposed, so as to promote the applications of OCAC to various fields in the future. Moreover, this book also ...

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Architect of Amritpath by Viral Desai (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

True successors of Rishimuni's Our primary responsibility as humans is: to hand over the planet earth we have inherited to our next generation in a better way. We are all children of nature, nature always protects us, but we do not take care of it!Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose personal favourite subject is climate change and has himself written a book on it like Scientific Studies and the Confluence of Indian Heritage, is determined to set a new benchmark of green energy at the international level. Then, this interesting book ...

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Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse (SUNY Press Open Access) by Richard D. Besel (SUNY Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

The written works of nature's leading advocates -- from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few -- have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite ...

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Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges by Cécile Détang-Dessendre (Quae) (1 Review)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

As in other parts of the world, agriculture in Europe is not sustainable. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must foster its necessary evolution. This book draws the contours of an ambitious CAP that would facilitate the agro-ecological transition of agricultural systems in the European Union.

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Ecology of Angola: Terrestrial Biomes and Ecoregions by Brian John Huntley (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country's biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles that provide an understanding of the patterns and processes that have shaped landscapes, ecoregions, and ecosystems. Angola encompasses the greatest diversity of terrestrial biomes and is the second richest in terms of ecoregions, of any African country. Yet its biodiversity and the structure and functioning of its ...

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Black Bass Where to catch them in quantity within an hour's ride from New York by Charles Barker Bradford (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild & Vicious Horses by P. R. Kincaid (62 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rabbits by Keith R. Kelson (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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A Practical Guide on Behaviour Change Support for Self-Managing Chronic Disease by Mara Pereira Guerreiro (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book is a valuable resource for students in health and other professions and practicing professionals interested in supporting effective change in self-management behaviors in chronic disease, such as medication taking, physical activity and healthy eating. Developed under the auspices of the Train4Health project, funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union, the book contains six chapters written by international contributors from different disciplines. Chapter one introduces the competencies necessary for ...

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5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019): Proceedings of the Symposium in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ... by Jeffrey T. Freymueller (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 - 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC and was attended by 75 participants from 15 different countries. 32 oral and 20 poster contributions were presented in four different topical sessions: Terrestrial, shipboard and airborne gravimetry, Absolute gravimetry, Relative ...

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Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space: An Overview for Decision Makers and the Public by and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering (National Academies Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and understand our planet, and to predict future behavior to the extent possible, in order to effectively manage resources, successfully respond to threats from natural and human-induced environmental change, and capitalize on the opportunities - social, economic, security, and more - that such knowledge can bring. By continuously monitoring and exploring Earth, developing a deep ...

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Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science Book 27) by Carl Middleton (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational ...

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The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by H. (Horatio) Barber (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Travel with Number 10: New York, Boston, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. (The Adventures of the Numbers Book 3) by Ronit Tal Shaltiel (9 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Join Number 10 on his journey. Let your children travel with the numbers by giving them our amazing book "Travel with number 10". Number 10 will take your kid to the journey from New York to Boston to Niagra Falls to other interesting places. This amazing book not only teaches them about addition but also includes some fun facts that make it even more informative. With perfect illustrations and images, this book is surely going to make your children more creative. It helps children spend time more creatively and in a fun way. Keep ...

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Reichenbach’s Paradise: Constructing the Realm of Probabilstic Common “Causes” by Leszek Wronski (De Gruyter Open Poland) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different ...

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Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals by Henny Kindermann (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental ...

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"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight by Ruth Ann Ingraham (Purdue University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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. The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish's most active years in aviation. During that period, ...

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Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation (SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance) by Katharina Jarmai (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term "responsible research and innovation" (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a challenge. This book provides successful case studies for the implementation of responsible innovation in businesses. The importance of social ...

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A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Dara M. Wald (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them. An impassioned and spirited conflict, it also sheds light on larger questions about how we interpret science, incorporate diverse perspectives, and balance competing values in order to encourage constructive dialogue on contentious social and environmental issues. On one side ...

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Agroecology: research for the transition of agri-food systems and territories by Thierry Caquet (Quae) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 40 minutes ago

Agroecology was chosen by INRAE as one of the interdisciplinary foresight projects aimed at identifying research fronts in response to major societal challenges. Eighty researchers drew up an assessment and proposed research avenues for agroecology. This book summarizes their main conclusions.

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Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the ...

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An Introduction to Herbalism: Step into Nature's Healing - From Growing Your Own Medicine to Crafting Herbal Teas for Vibrant Well-being (Herbalism ... by The Green Glow (168 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

? Are you yearning to harness the timeless power of Mother Nature? To weave a bond that rejuvenates your body and spirit, not through modern medicine, but with the age-old wonders hidden in plants? "From ancient folks who shared tales of plants' healing magic to today's renewed love for natural wellness, this book takes you on a journey through the colorful history of herbs." Every chapter unfolds like petals, revealing profound insights into nature's pharmacy. Imagine cultivating your own green sanctuary, sipping on therapeutic ...

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The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 by Howard Irving Chapelle (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Year 8 Maths Worksheets: Mental Methods - Multiplication by Cazoom Maths (6 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Cazoom Maths Worksheets - Year 8(aged 12 to 13) Mental Methods Worksheets - Multiplying by two digits mentally • A series of 34 questions and problems for students to learn how to multiply by two digits • Our fun and engaging multiplication worksheets are designed to help students of all abilities conquer this topic • Our year 8 maths worksheets are clearly presented and engaging, displaying this essential information in an easy to follow format • These mental methods multiplication worksheets are perfect for students in ...

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Forecasting and Assessing Risk of Individual Electricity Peaks (Mathematics of Planet Earth) by Maria Jacob (6 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The overarching aim of this open access book is to present self-contained theory and algorithms for investigation and prediction of electric demand peaks. A cross-section of popular demand forecasting algorithms from statistics, machine learning and mathematics is presented, followed by extreme value theory techniques with examples. In order to achieve carbon targets, good forecasts of peaks are essential. For instance, shifting demand or charging battery depends on correct demand predictions in time. Majority of forecasting ...

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The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert M. Yerkes (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by A. E. (Adolf Erik) Nordenskiöld (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Year 6 - Multiplication - Beginner - Numberfit by Numberfit (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Numberfit's maths, movement and mindfulness multiplication workout for children aged 10-11 provides a holistic approach to education by including physical activity and mindfulness. Questions are in line with Maths Mastery and the National Curriculum for England. This worksheet is beginner level, too easy? Try the intermediate or advanced worksheets. Our worksheets and videos are designed to meet the aims of the National Curriculum for mathematics: - become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and ...

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Year 1 - Position & Direction - Advanced - Numberfit by Numberfit (1 Review)    Price verified 20 minutes ago

Numberfit's maths, movement and mindfulness position & direction workout for children aged 5-6 provides a holistic approach to education by including physical activity and mindfulness. Questions are in line with Maths Mastery and the National Curriculum for England. This worksheet is advanced level, too hard? Try the intermediate or beginner worksheets. Our worksheets and videos are designed to meet the aims of the National Curriculum for mathematics: - become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and ...

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Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Long-Term Ecosystem Changes in Riparian Forests (Ecological Research Monographs) by Hitoshi Sakio (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems with the aim of casting light on changes in the dynamics of riparian forests over time. The research, focusing on the Ooyamazawa riparian forest, one of the remaining old-growth forests in Japan, has yielded a number of interesting outcomes. First, it shows that large-scale disturbances afford various trees opportunities for regeneration and are thus the driving force for the coexistence of ...

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Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science,Mechanics, Chemistry, and ... by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Circularity Assessment: Macro to Nano: Accountability Towards Sustainability by Rashmi Anoop Patil (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book attempts to provide a perspective on the circularity assessment at different levels of the systemic hierarchy and advocates better resource management for a sustainable future. It demonstrates how relevant circularity indicators are used for quantifying the extent of circularity of each level. Illustrative case studies that discuss the process of quantitatively interpreting progress towards circularity are provided. This work caters to a broad readership inclusive of governance, basic research, engineering, and ...

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Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition ... by Henry Howland Crapo (1 Review)    Price verified 60 minutes ago

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Beyond Cutting Edge with Bob Lazar: 2nd edition by Alexandre Kassiantchouk (1 Review)    Price verified 10 minutes ago

After Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Universe expansion debunking in my book "Time Matters" from 2021, I asked myself "How hard could it be to validate Bob Lazar's story?" So, I started with the "frozen candle" episode, because it was about time dilation and because this episode, on the surface, contradicted my own experience described in chapter 12. But all (new) physics has checked out! The same result was with another episode, and another... Now I agree with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, who said about Bob ...

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Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa: Twelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science) by Brian John Huntley (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book. provides a synthesis of six projects, across ten countries, each of which have been sustained for two or more decades, and which illustrate how success can be achieved regardless of systems of governance, of a nation's wealth, or of culture. Detailed narratives are presented on the key personalities that have conceived, conducted and concluded long-term projects: personal stories of vision, failure, frustration and persistence ultimately leading to success. The case studies vary widely in their geography and ...

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