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Hydrology

Principles and Processes

by M. Robinson, R. C. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

The book comprises nine chapters, with seven core chapters dealing in detail with the basic principles and processes of the main hydrological components of the water cycle: precipitation, interception, evaporation, soil water, groundwater, streamflow and water quality. It takes a broadly non-mathematical...
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by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013

The Medical Series: The Effectiveness of Medical Treatments Having trouble on Medical Biology? Need to find out information about the various types of medical treatments and how effective they are in curing humans?. This book contains the six different medical treatments. This is an excellent book...
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by Sabry Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015

The general directorate of the civil defense aims through this project to replace the tanks, pumps, ejectors, and extensions that are installed on the old water trucks at the civil defense in order to increase its quality and longing its lifetime through manufacturing them from non-rust materials according to the following technical conditions and specifications The Author Sabry Amin
Cover of A History of the Atomic Space Age and Its Implications for the Future
by Willis L. Shirk
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018

The Atomic Space Age has been and continues to be an engine for future wealth creation. Humanity stands on the verge of becoming an interplanetary species. We know we are made of star-stuff precisely because many of the isotopes in our bodies originated in the death throes of dying suns. With the...
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Final Frontier

The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe

by Brian Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space... Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast. In...
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The Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion

Explaining the Cycles of the Night Sky

by Dominic Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014

To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night sky. It was this motion that allowed ancient civilizations to single them out as different from fixed stars. “The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion” takes each planet and its moons (if it has...
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Universal You–And the Big Bang

How God Designed the Universe and Fine-Tuned It for Us and Evolution

by J. Howard Rock
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

To show from the Big Bang to the end of this universe observers and their souls are the reason for it all. How? By using published scientific facts, figures, and extrapolations from the bio-geo-chemo-physics fields of discoveries. Most of these discoveries are by the worlds top scientists and are...
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Female Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs

How Female Offenders Transform Their Lives

by Kimberly Collica
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

​ ​This book highlights a neglected area in the field of rehabilitation of female offenders with AIDS.  It provides data to show how women, working as HIV peer educators in prison, utilize their peer experiences as a transition point for rehabilitation both inside and outside of the penitentiary....
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Memory Detection

Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'lie-detector test' (or polygraph), are based upon the idea that lying is associated with stress. However, it is possible that people telling the truth will experience stress, whereas not all liars will. Because of this, the validity of such...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Most research on the psychological impact of computers and the Internet has focused on the negative side of technology – i.e. how the use (abuse) of interactive systems and videogames can negatively affect mental health and behavior. On the other hand, less attention has been devoted to understanding...
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by Shaun M. Fallat, Charles R. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011

Totally nonnegative matrices arise in a remarkable variety of mathematical applications. This book is a comprehensive and self-contained study of the essential theory of totally nonnegative matrices, defined by the nonnegativity of all subdeterminants. It explores methodological background, historical...
Cover of 謝玠揚的長化短說:化工博士教你一定要知道的餐桌、美容保養、居家清潔的58個化學常識
by 謝玠揚
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 1, 2017

菜餚裡有氯化鈉、飲料裡有乙醇、甜點裡有β-D-fructofuranosyl-(2→1)-α-D-glucopyranoside,看起來都好可怕,但它們其實就是鹽、酒精跟蔗糖! 很多人聽到「化工」就感到害怕,事實上,化工的相關應用已經深入你我的生活。不論是廚房裡的洗碗精、便利商店的飲料、洗髮精、沐浴乳、彩妝用品、衣服……都和化工息息相關。 科學博客(The...
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by Darrin Hodgetts, Ottilie Stolte
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue that...
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Stepfather-Stepson Communication

Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds

by Jonathan Pettigrew
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
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