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CRC Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an...
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Ubiquity Press
Language
English
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This book has been prepared with the aim to present the application of these two state-of-the art technologies in agricultural sciences and food technology, and to explain the protocols for analyses of different plant, animal, microbiological and food samples as well as for different biotechnology procedures. Selected methods and protocols which are used in plant stress physiology, weed science, fruit breeding research, microbial ecology, plant virus...
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Do you feel in control of your life or enslaved by your devices? Have you risked your life texting and driving? Do you sympathize with a test group of students who endured painful shocks rather than be separated from their phones? Digital technology is wonderful, but it's making us miserable, say former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. There's a reason Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Guardian he won't let his nephew on social networks....
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This book is aimed at new mechanical design engineers -- to improve your employability and to help you "˜hit the ground running'. It also contains useful information and checklists for more experienced designers. It's a quick read, listing real-world, non-academic, practical experiences which you won't find in an engineer's technical reference book. It includes design and drafting guides, good advice for everyday design and general office life,...
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English
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"A vital guide to the frontlines of our fight against climate change and the scientific and technological innovations that will revolutionize the world. The United States' accelerated plans to combat the existential threat of climate change finally give reason to hope. In Our Livable World , research specialist and author Marc Schaus explores the incredible new green innovations in science and engineering that can allow us to avoid the worst repercussions...
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"A wealth of good ideas" for using technology in education, from increasing student engagement to managing hybrid and distance learning ( Teachers College Record ). How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Learn how to stop pouring vast sums of money into technology projects that don't have a lasting impact by closing the communication gap between IT and leadership. Too many businesses miss opportunity after opportunity to design, plan, and achieve intentional business change. Why? Because they charter projects focused on delivering software products: IT projects. But as this groundbreaking book points out, there's no such thing as an IT project --...
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The Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When Rosie Revere's Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous helium pants, it's up to Ada and friends to chase him down. As Uncle Ned floats farther and farther away, Ada starts asking lots of questions: How high can a balloon float? Is it possible for Uncle Ned to float into outer space? And what's the best plan for getting him down?"--
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Bookstorm / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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‘ Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.'It's been almost 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell said these immortal words on the first-ever phone call, to his assistant in the next room. Between 10 March 1876 and now, the world has changed beyond recognition. And telecommunications, which has played a fundamental role in this change, has itself evolved into an industry that was the sole preserve of science fiction.
When the world's first...
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Fall River Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-Thomas Edison
Like most people who change the world, Thomas Alva Edison (1847—1931) was not expected to do much with his life. The last of seven children, he was a frail, distractible child with bad hearing whose father thought he might be dim-witted. However, the endlessly curious Edison was a habitual inventor and voracious reader from an early age. A driven entrepreneur, at twelve...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Epicyclic trains, oblique rollers, trip hammers, and lazy-tongs are among the ingenious mechanisms defined and illustrated in this intriguing collection. Spanning the first century of the Industrial Revolution, this 1868 compilation features simplified, concise illustrations of the mechanisms used in hydraulics, steam engines, pneumatics, presses, horologes, and scores of other machines. The movements of each of the 507 mechanisms are depicted in...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive look at linear network analysis and synthesis. It explores state-space synthesis as well as analysis, employing modern systems theory to unite the classical concepts of network theory. The authors stress passive networks but include material on active networks. They avoid topology in dealing with analysis problems and discuss computational techniques....
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Scotland's Panamanian colony, the nuclear-powered car, a dome over all of Manhattan, the eagle-powered flying machine, the fire-extinguished hand grenade-history's heroic failures During World War II, behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner discovered that pigeons could be trained to recognize an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be translated into adjustments to the guidance fins, steering...
14) Seveneves
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English
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead -- Star Trek or Mad Max ? Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening future...
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English
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In a dazzling and exhilarating display of narrative on-the-road reporting, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing.
Running away to join the circus is a dream we're told to put away once we're no longer young. But, as Bob Greene writes, "just when in our lives we give up on capturing the freedom and bright mornings of our...
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Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Agile Transformation is the answer for organisations that need to modernise to meet the challenges imposed by Digital Transformation and the new behaviours of the increasingly dissatisfied and volatile consumer, whose desires can be met quickly and are within reach of their palm. In this new complex world of accelerated change, there is no room for organisations that still have their processes, policies and management models based on bureaucracy,...
18) Click'd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"After spending the summer at coding camp, Allie Navarro is excited to share the app she built with her friends, until it starts to cause problems between them"--
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English
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"Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Co-Winner of the 2005 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc." "Winner of the 2003 Business Book Award, Financial Times Germany/getAbstract" "Winner of the 2004 Wilmott Book Of The Year Award for General Finance" "Honorable Mention for the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, Association of American Publishers" Robert J. Shiller...
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Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The James River is the centerpiece of Richmond, but by the mid-twentieth century it had been abused and neglected. Eagles and sturgeon had nearly disappeared, water-powered industry was abandoning it and the river was a sewer. Today, the river draws visitors to its wooded shorelines, restored canal and feisty rapids. At the local level, this transformation was the result of citizen action, public-private partnerships, difficult decisions by governmental...
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