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by John M. Kimble, Elissa R. Levine, B.A. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect focuses on proper management of soils and its effects on global change, specifically, the greenhouse effect. It contains up-to-date information on a broad range of important soil management topics, emphasizing the critical role of soil for carbon storage. Sequestration...
by Robert W Hamm, Marianne E Hamm
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
This unique new book is a comprehensive review of the many current industrial applications of particle accelerators, written by experts in each of these fields. Readers will gain a broad understanding of the principles of these applications, the extent to which they are employed, and the accelerator...
General Circulation Model Development
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2000
General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades, such as the onset of EL Nino, monsoons, soil moisture saturation indices, global warming estimates, and even snowfall predictions. While GCMs have...
by Dr Roger G. Barry, Dr Eileen A. Hall-McKim
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
This concise introduction to modern climatology covers the key topics for intermediate undergraduate students on one-semester courses. The treatment of topics is non-mathematical wherever possible, instead focusing on physical processes to allow students to grasp concepts more easily. Full-color illustrations...
by Mark Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout...
The Hungry Scientist Handbook
Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Inventive, (mostly) edible DIY gadgets and projects guaranteed to captivate
The Hungry Scientist Handbook brings DIY technology into the kitchen and onto the plate. It compiles the most mouthwatering projects created by mechanical engineer Patrick Buckley and his band of intrepid techie friends,...
Jim Farley’s Story
The Roosevelt Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Frank, outspoken and revealing, here is the truth about two of the most controversial political figures in modern America: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jim Farley. These are the unvarnished facts concerning the man who put Roosevelt into the White House and built up one of the most brilliantly efficient...
Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries...
by Roy Mark
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
FIXIN' TO DIE RAG is the true story of the men of Charlie Company of the Army’s First Cavalry Division’s 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion in Vietnam and Cambodia during 1970. When three young warrant officer pilots joined Charlie Company at their Tay Ninh base near the Cambodian border, they...
M113 APC 1960–75
US, ARVN, and Australian variants in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thousands are still in use. In addition to its original role of transporting troops...
Weather in the Courtroom
Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early ’70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cases. But while the Center offered data certified...
by Irene Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The activities in this ebook have been designed to illustrate that effective recording of observations enhances one's ability to predict future outcomes, provide improved estimates of likely outcomes from experiments, and develop a sense of correlation between variables.
This ebook incorporates...
Ayahuasca
Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle. A Comprehensive and Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
**"**I highly recommended this book for anyone wishing to work with this plant in a safe and professional manner." - Noel Sweeney (5 star review)
Ayahuasca is a traditional spiritual medicine used by the indigenous people in South America. While it is largely used during shamanistic...
by Pius Alphonso
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As a Teacher, have you ever felt like this? * At times, it gets so boring teaching the same stuff over and over! *When homework papers come in, I sometimes wish I hadn't assigned them. * I feel so washed out by the end of most days - the job pressure is killing me! * I need to figure out ways to turn...