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Excerpt from New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics at Cornell UniversityIn comparison with the skep method of bee-keeping followed by our forefathers, the perfection and simplicity attained in the construction of the present-day movable comb hives and appliances mark a revolution in apiculture. When skeps are used, the bee-keeper is compelled to carry out the inhuman practice of killing the bees to obtain their honey, and t...

By about 2050 the human population of the Earth will reach ten billion. This will present fundamental problems: how to feed ten billion? How to provide ten billion with water? How to keep ten billion warm in the cold and cool in the heat? And how to do all this without irreparably harming our planet?To explore these challenges, Charles C. Mann goes back to the 1950s and 60s and brings to life two individuals who established the distinct school...

Se nel 1492 qualcuno avesse rivelato ai sovrani di Spagna Ferdinando e Isabella anche solo la metà delle conseguenze che avrebbero avuto i viaggi di Cristoforo Colombo da loro finanziati, molto probabilmente sarebbe stato incarcerato come un volgare truffatore. Nessuno potè fare nulla, invece, contro la forza dirompente della realtà. Già a partire dal 1493, infatti, gli equilibri e gli assetti del pianeta furono letteralmente rivoluzionati: du...

A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only....

This textbook provides a comprehensive review of gynecological imaging in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Experts from the disciplines of pediatric radiology, gynecology, surgery, and endocrinology have come together to produce a textbook that, while written primarily from the perspective of the radiologist, will be of interest to all professionals involved in the management of these patients. The normal development of the female reproduc...

Excerpt from Tristan1924. La mort à Venise. Traduit par Félix Bertaux. La Revue de Genève, n° 51, septembre, p. 270-294, n° 52, octobre, p. 394-410.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

Excerpt from The Sheep and the GoatsShe looked in the cool, Shaded drawing-room for a figure which had been wont, of late, to take large possession of that pleasant place, seizing upon its easiest chair, lopping over either end Of its sofa, squatting, with the grace inseparable from its long, limber proportions, on the floor, if that position happened to commend itself. Now the room was empty.SO was the wide garden, through which she searched ...

Excerpt from Tristan: Sechs NovellenGr war fchtoara getleibet, benn er befanb fich anfbem 28ege 511 ben ©riibern feiner Sieben. Trug einen rauhen, gefchmeiften Ginberhut, einen alter5blanfen ©ehroct, 23einfleiber, bie fotoohl 311 eng alß auch 511 tur5 waren, unb fd)marae, überall abgeo fchabte ©laeéhanbfrhuhe. 6ein 5alß, ein langer, biirrer Öalß mit großem Rehltobfabfel, erhob f'ich auß einem ¿lapptragen, ber außfranfte, ja, er war an ben Rant...

Excerpt from Buddenbrooks: Verfall Einer FamilieDern an Der entgegengefetgten siband, Dem Heinen ©armonium gegeniiber, auf Deffen Sbeclel ein 8lbtenbehälter lag. Qlußer Den regelmäßig an Den %änden verteilten, fieifen emfiühlen gab eß nur noch einen Heinen 9'cähtif ch am %enfier, und, Dem ®ofa gegen: über, einen 3erbrechlichen 2uruß=©elretär, bedecit mit Stivveß.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

Teachers often find that materials get between learners and learning for a variety of reasons. Because learning materials play a significant part in lessons, it is important they are fit for purpose. Mann and Copland provide principles and approaches for adapting material to suit a variety of contexts and show how teachers can work successfully with limited resources.

This book is an important tool for clinicians, outlining a framework for understanding, diagnosing, treating, and preventing these little understood disorders. This new second edition extensively updates and revises the first edition, integrating an explosion of new findings that have occurred since the earlier edition was published in 1989.

Excerpt from Astronomy, or the Perfections of God Displayed in His Works The world we inhabit is the greatest and most glorious machine with which we are acquainted. The operations of nature in the productions of every field' and forest, in the changing seasons, ln the growth and decay of every vegetable, and the adaptation of every living thing to the sphere which it occ'upies, proclaim the power and Wisdom of the great architect. The differ...

Excerpt from In Summer Shade, Vol. 1 of 3 He came forward and grasped her hand in silence, holding it, an unwilling prisoner, in his for a full minute before he spoke, gazing at the girl with a humble supplica tion, eloquent enough, in his eyes the while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical w...

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind ...

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind ...

Excerpt from Bilse und IchVzu erheben, bevor man mich zu Ende gehört, und dann hatte man die zweite balite wiederum als ein Ding für lich genommen und lie zu periönlich und zu pathetiich gefunden. Fiber der Flrtikel iii nicht in zwei baliien, er itt als ein iich iteigerndes Ganzes ge dacht, dem keine Unterbrechung frommt, bevor nicht fein leßtes Wort feine Wirkung gethan, und io ichien es mir wünichenswert, ja, vielleicht auch der (nähe wert, ...

Describes the pattern of recruitment of soldiers to the Roman legions and the settlement of legion veterans in Roman colonies during the period of the principate.

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Part review, part testament to extraordinary dedication, and part call to get involved, "Cetacean Societies highlights the achievements of behavioral ecologists inspired by the challenges of cetaceans and committed to the exploration of a new world."--from the preface by Richard Wrangham Long-lived, slow to reproduce, and often hidden beneath the water's surface, whales and dolphins (cetaceans) have remained elusive subjects for scientific stu...

A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.