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101 facts about the human body that will surprise and amaze you. Did you know you shed approximately six hundred thousand skin particles every hour? That yawning cools the brain? Or that the appendi……続きを見る

Almost two centuries after British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men died amid paralyzing cold and ice in pursuit of the mythical Northwest Passage, the Arcticーin response to temperatures grea……続きを見る

Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchalle……続きを見る

There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers across the world, of which a considerable percentage of women. Despite their large numbers and important roles, women smallholders remain large……続きを見る

This is the essential new guide for project managers and leaders. Project managers are often responsible for big teams and millions (or even billions) of dollars to deliver successful outcomes on ti……続きを見る

Atoms and Angels: The Complementary Languages of Creation offers a transformative exploration of how scientific discovery and spiritual insight can coexist and enrich one another. This book invites ……続きを見る

Urban Ornithology is the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area's birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan's Central and Brooklyn……続きを見る

"Justice for Creation: Christian Environmental Justice" offers a powerful exploration of the intersection between Christian faith and environmental justice. This timely book reclaims the biblical ma……続きを見る

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical conte……続きを見る

This survey of the state of the art on research in early algebra traces the evolution of a relatively new field of research and teaching practice. With its focus on the younger student, aged from ab……続きを見る

My ebook "The Happiness Technique" both changes the way you picture the Universe and changes your life by teaching an easy, highly pleasurable meditational breathing technique. 続きを見る

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explai……続きを見る

A "beautifully written" (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy ー "a must-read for any……続きを見る

This book unravels the complex mechanisms involved in global real estate capital markets, enabling the reader to understand how they have grown and evolved, how they function, what determines market……続きを見る

QUANTUM MECHANICS From classical analytical mechanics to quantum mechanics, simulation, foundations & engineering Quantum mechanics is a fundamental and conceptually challenging area of physics. It ……続きを見る

This "up-close [and] graceful account" of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author's own encounters in the Arctic ( Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox……続きを見る

Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm; Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as ……続きを見る

This Brief focuses on Listeria monocytogenes, from isolation methods and characterization (including whole genome sequencing), to manipulation and control. Listeriosis, a foodborne disease caused by……続きを見る

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been close……続きを見る

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability ……続きを見る

French and Spanish Upper Paleolithic cave art was drawn forty thousand to eleven thousand years ago, and it was motivated by climate change. Kieran D. OHara, a geologist and professor emeritus at th……続きを見る

Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hund……続きを見る

This book offers a clearly written and highly accessible account of two different aspects of carbohydrate chemistry. Carbohydrates are an essential component of life and have many important biologic……続きを見る

The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry. This thesis takes several steps towards realising this goal by introducing geometric descripti……続きを見る

Climate Change in the Anthropocene reviews current science on anthropogenic sources and projections for climatic change. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book covers this rapidly changin……続きを見る

This book presents extensions to current commodity-flow models to analyze the economic and environmental impacts of recent structural changes, such as fragmentation of production and lengthening sup……続きを見る

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can w……続きを見る

The polar bear is one of the most recognisable animals on the planet. Yet if global warming continues at its present pace, summer sea ice could disappear entirely from the Arctic Ocean by the year 2……続きを見る

The basics of group theory and its applications to themes such as the analysis of vibrational spectra and molecular orbital theory are essential knowledge for the undergraduate student of inorganic ……続きを見る

Economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to US50 billion per year. Taken over the last three decades, these losses total over US2 tr……続きを見る