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  • Equine Health - As seen through the eye Equine Health - As seen through the eye
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    Equine Health - As seen through the eye

    It has taken over 16 years of research by the author, Mercedes Colburn, ND, PhD, and consultation with the highly respected Veterinarian, Dr. Dena Eckerdt, to create this remarkable map of the eye of the horse... a map, which can identify the intricate...
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  • Ruler and the Round Ruler and the Round
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    Ruler and the Round

    An intriguing look at the ""impossible"" geometric constructions (those that defy completion with just a ruler and a compass), this book covers angle trisection and circle division. 1970 edition.
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  • The Leisure Commons The Leisure Commons
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    The Leisure Commons

    This book investigates Web 2.0 cyberleisure space by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It bridges the urban with the digital commons, revealing fresh insights...
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  • Innovating Science Teacher Education Innovating Science Teacher Education
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    Innovating Science Teacher Education

    This book presents an overview of the history and philosophy of science, explores its methodological and educational implications, and develops innovative teaching strategies, based on actual classroom practice, that emphasize 'science-in-the-making'.
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  • A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals) A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals)
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    A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals)

    A History of Astronomy, first published in 1907, offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of the nineteenth century. It includes biographical...
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  • Success and Creativity in Scientific Research Success and Creativity in Scientific Research
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    Success and Creativity in Scientific Research

    Long-term success in scientific research requires skills that go well beyond technical prowess. Success and Creativity in Scientific Research: Amaze Your Friends and Surprise Yourself is based on a popular series of lectures the author has given to PhD...
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  • Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
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    Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice

    Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by...
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  • A Powerful Particulars View of Causation A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
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    A Powerful Particulars View of Causation

    This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science...
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  • Cultura del Buen Trato Cultura del Buen Trato
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    Cultura del Buen Trato

    Esta obra contiene las bases para continuar enfatizando en las acciones que debemos seguir el personal de la salud, cuidadores y padres de familia, en la tolerancia y estrategias de la cultura del buen trato, aprender a identificar y manejar de manera...
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  • #stuzzicamenti... xké? v.1.2 IT #stuzzicamenti... xké? v.1.2 IT
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    #stuzzicamenti... xké? v.1.2 IT

    E' un libro rivolto soprattutto a chi è affascinato dagli argomenti scientifici, fantascientifici, di attualità o sempre attuali. Il suo contenuto istiga e induce a ragionare innanzitutto, lasciando trapelare di tanto in tanto dell'ironia che alla fine...
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  • Your Teeth Can Explode (And Other Disorder Facts) Your Teeth Can Explode (And Other Disorder Facts)
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    Your Teeth Can Explode (And Other Disorder Facts)

    Leprosy and halitosis don't exist.Anemia is not caused by a lack of iron.Your teeth can explode.Men can develop breasts.You can die from being too happy.Making puns and being a perfectionist are recognized disorders.Tooth decay is contagious.There is a...
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  • The Generative "Source-Mind" The Generative "Source-Mind"
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    The Generative "Source-Mind"

    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive...
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  • Immaculate Conception of Data Immaculate Conception of Data
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    Immaculate Conception of Data

    Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form of big tech alongside firms like Google and Facebook.The...
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  • Telecom Tensions Telecom Tensions
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    Telecom Tensions

    Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko...
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  • How do Brains Work? How do Brains Work?
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    How do Brains Work?

    "I'll bet it will tum out that brains use both mechanisms, in different centers. " Much of my waking life and that of many of my friends is spent racking our brains over how brains work. This book claims that good science is...
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  • Girolamo Cardano Girolamo Cardano
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    Girolamo Cardano

    HIS STUDY OF GIROLAMO CARDANO is the T work of an amateur in the field of the history of science and the history of ideas. As a mathematical physi­ cist I lack the depth of training in philological-historical disciplines...
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  • Hypersonics Hypersonics
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    Hypersonics

    Tbe task of defining the aerothermodynamic environment for a vehicle flying through the air at hypersonic speeds offers diverse challenges to the designer. He must integrate a wide variety of scientific and technical ...
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  • Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes
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    Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes

    This volume records the papers presented in Warsaw on the meeting of the International Society of Arterial Chemoreception (LS. A. C. ) organized as a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI International Congress of the Union of...
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  • Oxidation of Metals Oxidation of Metals
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    Oxidation of Metals

    During the translation, the author had the opportunity to re­ view several chapters, taking into consideration the more recent literature. As far as possible all new theoretical concepts and experi­ mental data published before...
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  • Comadem 89 International Comadem 89 International
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    Comadem 89 International

    RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the...
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  • Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology
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    Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology

    This series was organized to provide a forum for review papers in the area of corrosion. The aim of these reviews is to bring certain areas of corrosion science and technology into a sharp focus. The volumes of this series are...
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  • Contemporary Brain Research in China Contemporary Brain Research in China
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    Contemporary Brain Research in China

    The great majority of papers on brain research that have been published in Mainland China in recent years have appeared in the Chinese language (only a small fraction of the work has appeared in English in the journal Scientia...
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  • Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors
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    Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors

    This meeting on "Miniaturization of High Energy Physics Detectors" had two principal aims: on the one hand to offer a Danoramic view, as comprehensive as possible, of this new field whose increasing interest can be understood...
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  • World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations
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    World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations

    This edition of well over 50,000 entries not only updates its predecessor but considerably increases the coverage of Latin America and Eastern Europe. I have been aided in this work by two colleagues at Glasgow University...
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  • Recent Advances in Aquaculture Recent Advances in Aquaculture
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    Recent Advances in Aquaculture

    It is a tribute to the vigour of research and development in aquaculture that we are able, in a relatively short time, to provide readers with a second volume in this series, which has such a diversity of high calibre research...
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  • Cortical Circuits Cortical Circuits
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    Cortical Circuits

    This elegant book presents current evidence on the organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The focus on synapses and their function provides the basis for understanding how this critical part of the brain could work. Dr...
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  • Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences
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    Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences

    wcrd than surface because-unless the sclid is suspended in a vacuum-it is in ccntact with a gas, a liquid, cr ancther sclid, and it is the interface between the sclid and the cther body which is the fccus cf interest in surface...
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  • Physics in Collision Physics in Collision
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    Physics in Collision

    The field of particle physics is developing very rapidly. During this past year, physicists added a new instrument to their arsenal for the study of quark-quark, quark-lepton, and lepton­ lepton interactions. This machine, the...
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  • The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
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    The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

    This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000...
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  • Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships
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    Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships

    As President of International MacGregor I am deeply indebted to the authors of this excellent book for the very considerable amount of work and scholarship it contains. It is the first authoritative work on cargo access...
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  • Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences
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    Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences

    This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971...
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  • Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system
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    Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system

    Great advances have been made in the area of sensory physiology during the last few decades, and these developments seem to be asking for a comprehensive review that is manageable in size and cohesive in content. This volume...
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  • The Biology of Computer Life The Biology of Computer Life
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    The Biology of Computer Life

    The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a ...
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  • Advances in Fine Particles Processing Advances in Fine Particles Processing
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    Advances in Fine Particles Processing

    Processing of fine particles has presented numerous challenges to scientists and engineers for many years. Considerable progress has al ready been made in meeting these challenges across various fields of applications around...
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  • Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through
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    Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through

    he very name application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, con­ T notes an ability to provide a dense package for a highly complex design targeted at a focused, often complex solution. The ability to create customized...
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  • Blood Cells as a Tissue Blood Cells as a Tissue
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    Blood Cells as a Tissue

    This volume is a collection of the presentations given at the sixth international research conference, Blood Cells as a Tissue, at The Lankenau Hospital, October 30 and 31, 1969. The conference was supported in part by the...
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  • Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch
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    Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch

    Die Dudenredaktion hat sich mit diesem Bedeutungsworterbuch die Aufgabe gestellt, ein handliches und in sich geschlossenes Nachschlage­ werk fUr SchUler zu schaffen. Es ging darum, die Worter des deutschen Grundwortschatzes...
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  • The Tourmaline Group The Tourmaline Group
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    The Tourmaline Group

    Tourmaline group minerals have graced the cabinets of mineral collectors and museums for untold generations. Their colors and color patterns, along with their diverse shapes and associations, have assured their role as exqui­...
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