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1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the 15th century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fab...

Aluminium is a versatile and easily obtainable material which can be decorated in a number of ways. This book covers various methods of colouring including painting and drawing, low-tech colouring, submersion dyes, anodising, resists, digital printing and sublimation printing. There are also sections on sealing pigment into the metal, assembly and cold connections, and a number of step-by-step projects with making images for the reader to foll...

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Independent living with smart technologies Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence: The State of the Science brings together current research and technological developments from engineering, computer science, and the rehabilitation sciences, detailing how its applications can promote continuing independence for older persons and those with disabilities. Leading experts from multiple disciplines worldwide have contributed to ...

Excerpt from Manual of Advanced Optics This small manual is an attempt to meet the needs of the more advanced students of optics. It has been written primarily for 0 the use of the author's classes in the University of Chicago, and it covers the work done by them during three months of their senior year. It is hoped, however, that it will be found useful at other universities and will serve as a stimulus to a more extensive study of this most...

Jackie Laurel und Ryan Brenner kämpfen beide mit Problemen. Während die ehemalige Country-Sängerin und alleinerziehende Mutter für das Sorgerecht ihrer Tochter kämpft und vor ihrer Vergangenheit am liebsten davonlaufen würde, bereist Ryan als Straßenmusiker das Land. Bei einem Autounfall lernen sich die beiden kennen. Der Sänger bringt Jackie nach Hause und darf zum Essen bleiben. Aus der zufälligen Bekanntschaft entwickelt sich eine vorsichti...

Jackie Laurel und Ryan Brenner kämpfen beide mit Problemen. Während die ehemalige Country-Sängerin und alleinerziehende Mutter für das Sorgerecht ihrer Tochter kämpft und vor ihrer Vergangenheit am liebsten davonlaufen würde, bereist Ryan als Straßenmusiker das Land. Bei einem Autounfall lernen sich die beiden kennen. Der Sänger bringt Jackie nach Hause und darf zum Essen bleiben. Aus der zufälligen Bekanntschaft entwickelt sich eine vorsichti...

Excerpt from The Rights and Duties of Citizens, of the United States: A Manual of Citizenship The scholars in our public schools and colleges should be instructed as to the elements that go to make up a good and useful citizen of our country, and the obligations, civil, social, and political, due to others from them. They should be instructed to yield respect and obedience to the laws, and to hold on with unflinching firmness to the Constitut...

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.

After the German occupation of 1940, Britain was forced to reassess its relationship with Norway, a country largely on the periphery of the main theatres of the Second World War. Christopher Mann examines British military policy towards Norway, concentrating on the commando raids, deception planning and naval operations.

In this riveting, accessible work of science, Charles Mann takes us on an enthralling journey of scientific exploration. We learn that the Indian development of modern corn was one of the most complex feats of genetic engineering ever performed. That the Great Plains are a third smaller today than they were in 1700 because the Indians who maintained them by burning died. And that the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact. Compelli...

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago, existed mainly in small, nomadic bands, and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purpos...

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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...

Mann offers a groundbreaking study that radically alters readers' understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

A collection of literary evidence from major and minor authorities for the whole period of Roman interest in Britain. Each author is introduced and a full topical guide given.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A companion book to Mann's groundbreaking bestseller "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, " this is a fascinating, full-color journey that presents the Americas as young readers have never seen them before. Full color.