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As eloquent as it is alarming, Carol Ann Bassett's portrait of today's Galápagos depicts a deadly collision of economics, politics, and the environment that may destroy one of the world's last Edens……続きを見る

The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical homeーin personal computers, automobiles, appliance……続きを見る

Dublin’s Phoenix Park and its environs is a magical place. It is redolent with history, as well as containing a rich variety of wildlife. A stroll around the boundaries of the Park involves followin……続きを見る

Giraffes are generally peace loving creatures that happily browse while viewers stare at them. They are graceful and alert to any danger. This means that they are easily frightened and with their lo……続きを見る

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries. Consequ……続きを見る

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends helps investors make smart, profitable trading decisions by providing proven long- and short-term stock trend analysis. It gets right to the heart of effective tec……続きを見る

When a crocodile attacks an animal he usually drags his prey into the water to drown it. He does this by holding on to it and rolling over and over in the water until all movement ceases. This is kn……続きを見る

Bassett’s Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice. It covers all the key……続きを見る

Geotechnical instrumentation is used for installation, monitoring and assessment on any sizeable project, particularly in urban areas, and is used for recording, controlled remedial work, and safety……続きを見る

We had been warned not to feed the Elephants, but they had become so tame over the years, that we often forgot and gave in to their damands with somewhat disasterous results. 続きを見る

A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and Gen……続きを見る

This study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university’s community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology. It include……続きを見る

The transportation of multimedia over the network requires timely and errorless transmission much more strictly than other data. This had led to special protocols and to special treatment in multime……続きを見る

In the late 1800s, Indians seemed to be a people left behind by the Industrial Revolution, dismissed as “not a mechanical race.” Today Indians are among the world’s leaders in engineering and techno……続きを見る

This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this dig……続きを見る

First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential st……続きを見る

An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply infor……続きを見る

Estranea a tentazioni descrittive, mai futilmente cosmetica o gregaria, la musica nel cinema di Kubrick si pone come vigorosa forza motrice densa di risonanze e sottotesti, che offre allo spettatore……続きを見る

È il 30 gennaio quando una coppia di turisti viene ricoverata all’istituto Spallanzani di Roma e il governo blocca i voli provenienti dalla Cina. La settimana successiva, per la nave Diamond Princes……続きを見る