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The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death...
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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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"In Immortality, Inc., veteran science journalist Chip Walter gains exclusive access to the champions of this radical cause, delivering a book that brings together for the first time the visions of molecular biologist and Apple chairman Arthur Levinson, genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter, futurist Ray Kurzweil, rejuvenation trailblazer Aubrey de Grey, and stem cell expert Robert Hariri. Along the way, Walter weaves in fascinating conversations about...
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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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A step-by-step guide to Brain-Friendly MOVIE language courses. Use the latest development of the Birkenbihl method! Including valuable learning tips! It is the better, more accessible, and motivating learning method. The annoying vocabulary cramming was in the past. The basis for the new learning with Brain-Friendly Movies is de-coding, i.e., the Birkenbihl method. Connections between words and their meaning are created in the brain. It is essential...
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You weren't invited by the King when the world was created on Day One, at the dawn of history. Nor this idea was present, too. So why did you fall prey to it? ========================= I began to observe carefully. To look more closely at this concept of retirement. To read every story and write down notes. During this journey, one idea kept surfacing repeatedly, and this idea became flesh and blood with this ebook. You may call me a dreamer, but...
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Estrategias cualitativas de investigación en educación matemática. Recursos para la captura de información y el análisis ofrece un recurso bibliográfico para estudiantes en procesos de elaboración de trabajos de grado o tesis, investigadores noveles en el campo de la educación matemática y profesores que orientan espacios académicos de investigación.
El libro se enfoca en estrategias y recursos útiles en un diseño investigativo, al tenor...
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#1 Around us, we see a level of individual wealth that has never been seen before. Conspicuous consumption of redundant consumer goods has greatly expanded over the past generation.
#2 The symptoms of collective impoverishment are all around us. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were becoming less unequal. But since then,...
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King's explanation of Gerhart Hauptmann: Die Ratten, text analysis and interpretation with detailed table of contents and Abitur tasks.
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Este volumen reúne 23 ensayos (uno introductorio general y 22 temáticos) escritos por 30 autores que abordan desde distintas perspectivas y en diversos registros textuales (desde el ensayo libre hasta un formato próximo al artículo académico) problemas centrales de la educación peruana contemporánea con un propósito común: sugerir vías para introducir modificaciones sustantivas que permitan, por un lado, sostener las mejoras observadas en...
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#1 I was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome.
#2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to...
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In the remote regions of Australias Northern Territory Indigenous Australians experience extreme disadvantagein health, income, employment, education and access to the conditions for a good life. This book is about their plight, and how governments can deliver strategies to prevent the continuation of their disadvantage. Governments and institutions like the World Health Organisation have expressed intentions to close the gaps that are represented...
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#1 Scientists have long studied sex to understand human sexual response. However, they have done so by studying animals. It took science a long time to get its nerve up to put sexually aroused human beings under scientific scrutiny.
#2 The first to dip a toe in the potentially scalding waters of research into human sexual response was William Masters, but he was aided...
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#1 Not everything that is written contains an argument. In order to determine whether a text contains an argument, we must carefully examine the structure of the text. The first step in analyzing a text for argument is to identify the author's main purpose. Is the author introducing a new idea or refining an existing one. Is the author describing an experience or an...
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The design of this book owes much to M. David Merrill, Ph.D., who in the 70s was a professor at Brigham Young University. At the time, he was researching concepts for designing curriculum. He developed a method of designing instructional materials that used the principles of Rule Example - Practice. The term rule covered such items as a mathematical rule, a classification paradigm, a descriptive category, or other information that gives the students...
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Book Preview:Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021) explores
the possible origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-authors
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley examine both the lab leak and
natural origin theories while making clear that more
research is needed to prevent such occurrences from
happening again. They provide a transparent and
comprehensive account of the...
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