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Winner of the Best Book Award in the 2009 Garden Writers Association Media Awards Named an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009 In this intro……続きを見る

The Informed Gardener Blooms Again picks up where The Informed Gardener left off, using scientific literature to debunk a new set of common gardening myths. Once again, Linda Chalker-Scott investiga……続きを見る

Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjo……続きを見る

From the potent properties of X rays evoked in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain to the miniaturized surgical team of the classic science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, the possibility of peering into th……続きを見る

Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize HIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for the……続きを見る

The con artist: from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? And what keeps us falling for them, over and over again? In The Confidence Game, Maria Konni……続きを見る

L’année 1848 fit sur moi une impression extrêmement vive. Je n’avais jamais réfléchi jusque-là aux problèmes socialistes. Ces problèmes, sortant en qu……続きを見る

Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of pub……続きを見る

Plusieurs scandales récents (amiante, pesticides, entre autres) ont dévoilé que des " savants ", travaillant pour des industriels, étaient impliqués dans une " stratégie du doute " quant aux risques……続きを見る

Projects fail for a variety of reasons. Projects can fall apart due to lack of management and executive support, lack of client involvement, poor planning, and unrealistic expectations. Not understa……続きを見る

Contains free audio downloads Trevor Silvester is a Harley Street hypnotherapist and couples coach of over twenty years experience. In How to Click he teaches you how to build on your confidence, re……続きを見る

If you’ve ever lost your keys, missed an appointment or wasted hours because you were distracted by a frivolous text or email message, then this book is for you. The key to a less hectic, less stres……続きを見る

Why does my shampoo stop working? Are my cosmetics poisoning me? What does hypoallergenic mean? Are organic products better? Every day thousands of people turn to the scientists at the popular blog ……続きを見る

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Nautical Science, grade: 2,0, Nanyang Technological University (Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies), language: English, abstract: This comment shall g……続きを見る

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Nautical Science, grade: 1,7, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,Nanyang Technological University (-), language: English, abstract: Since Germany i……続きを見る

“I wrote this book in the hope that readers will be able to save their own lives as well as those of the ones they love when an earthquake next strikes, so that the tragedy of March 11, 2011, would ……続きを見る

Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or a job, who was writ……続きを見る

'The scientific techniques described encompass relevant examples of forgery detection and of authentication. The book deals, to name a few, with the Chagall, the Jackson Pollock and the Beltracchi a……続きを見る

This book focuses on (1) sports management, (2) sports economics and policy, and (3) sports humanities. The fact that sports humanities is a part of the sports management education program means tha……続きを見る

This book presents the incidence of sports-related injuries, the types of injuries specific to particular sports, and the importance of factors such as age and gender. Possible injury mechanisms and……続きを見る

The chapters included in this book address two major questions: what are some of the methodological and theoretical issues in sociocultural research in urban education and science education and what……続きを見る

To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth’s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not j……続きを見る

Few phenomena inspire more awe than lightning. Streaking across the sky, it daunts us with its power and amazes us with its beauty. In Lightning, Derek M. Elsom explores this natural phenomenon and ……続きを見る

In 2010 Sophie Wyndham's world was shattered when she had a stillborn son. Five months later she had a miscarriage. This is the raw account of her struggle with loss and infertility, and the changed……続きを見る

Scientists have long puzzled why only humans managed to colonize the entire globe. A recent hypothesis holds that cooperation and projectile weapons account for man’s world domination. Better yet is……続きを見る

Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost unive……続きを見る

" La vie intelligente n'est ni fortuite ni négligeable ; elle occupe dans l'Univers une place particulière insoupçonnée. " Décryptant les découvertes les plus récentes de l'astronomie et de la physi……続きを見る

Zusatzstoffe sind buchstäblich in unser aller Munde. Einschlägige Fachbücher listen über 7500 Präparate und Zusätze auf. Wozu diese ungeheure Vielfalt von Emulgatoren und Stabilisatoren, von Hydroco……続きを見る

The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that wo……続きを見る

Is conflict caused by an inherently hostile human nature? Are efforts to promote peaceful co-existence fated to fail? Is the story of human history destined to play out a clash of civilizations? The……続きを見る