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Lunar Outpost: The Challenges of Establishing Human Settlements on the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
by Erik Seedhouse  Publisher Comments Lunar Outpost provides a detailed account of the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements and training needed to return humans to the Moon within the next decade. It focuses on the means by which a lunar outpost will be...
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Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
by Jay Barbree Publisher Comments Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled...
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Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction: Icsi and Taboos
by Carl Djerassi Publisher Comments Carl Djerassi is one of “the fathers of the Pill”—he was awarded the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive—and has had a prolific additional career as a writer of fiction, plays, and...
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Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
by John Bellamy Foster Publisher Comments A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to understanding the forces of irrationalism that seek to undermine the natural and social...
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The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies
by Patrick Buckley Publisher Comments 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...
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GIS Tutorial for Spatial Analysis (Tutorial)
by David Allen Synopsis The first intermediate workbook in the GIS Tutorial series, GIS Tutorial for Spatial Analysis complements Andy Mitchell's ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volumes 1 and 2. Offering hands-on exercises that parallel the varied forms of spatial analysis in...
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Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
by John Bellamy Foster Publisher Comments A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to understanding the forces of irrationalism that seek to undermine the natural and social...
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The Fundamentals of Product Design
by Richard Morris Publisher Comments Understand the process of product design, from start to finish * Detailed overview, perfect introduction for students * More than 200 color images plus easy-to-understand flow charts What is product design? It’s materials, manufacturing, ideas, CAD,...
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Dams (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
by Christine Macy Publisher Comments A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam...
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The Diamond & the Star: An Exploration of Their Symbolic Meaning in an Insecure Age
by John Warden Publisher Comments Describing the use of symbols in philosophy and religion, this book connects the Taoist symbol of the self—the diamond body—to the tetrahedron, as well as to the four valences of the carbon molecule, the basis of all...
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The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World
by Michael J. Benton Publisher Comments What we know and what we predict about the nature of life and the future of life on Earth. Every day we read about or experience massive changes in the environment and the natural world. But what do we really know about the functioning of Earth and of...
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Battleground: Science and Technology [Two Volumes]
by Sal Restivo Publisher Comments The modern world is filled with debate and controversy, and science and technology - the most characteristic features of the modern world - are not immune. Science and technology are implicated in many if not all of the issues, troubles, and problems...
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Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat
by Richard W. Hartel Synopsis Food Bites is an easy-to-read, often humorous book on the scientific basis of the foods we eat, and answers those pesky, niggling questions such as: Is the quality of beer really affected by the type of water used? and Processed foods: good or bad...
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Rocket Science (Apogee Books Space)
by Alfred Zaehringer Publisher Comments The story of rocket science told from the perspective of one of the most important scientists in the field, this book begins with a short history of the birth of rocketry and explains the physics behind using rockets to fly in space. It includes a...
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Methods in Molecular Biology #420: Drosophila: Methods and Protocols
by Christian Dahmann Publisher Comments With its long-standing tradition as a model organism, many techniques using Drosophila melanogaster have been established and continue to be developed, while the recent invention of techniques allowing the knock-down of genes by RNA interference and gene...
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The Draft Lottery (We the People: Vietnam War Era)
by Natalie M. Rosinsky Synopsis - Maps - Timeline - Historic Sites - Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index - Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com - National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the...
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The Easy Answer Science: 2009 Day-To-Day Calendar
by Accord Publishing Publisher Comments Why are robin's eggs blue? This calendar provides easy answers to hard-to-answer science and technology questions, covering a variety of topics from animals to weather. * Can a singer really shatter glass? * When will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall...
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Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
by Michael Belfiore Synopsis On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's VirginGalactic will begin...
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Plumbing 201, 5th Edition
by Educational Foundation Phcc Publisher Comments With practical, hands-on knowledge of the real-world issues that face plumbing professionals, Plumbing 201, 5E presents the second installment in our four-part plumbing training series. This resource was developed in partnership with the Plumbing/Heating/...
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Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady. David Rooney
by David Rooney Publisher Comments In a world that witnessed the emergence of automatic timeballs, telegraph time signals, the speaking clock, and the BBC’s “six pips,” one family provided the hours and minutes to paying customers across London for more than 100 years...
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