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Examines the possible societal impacts of wind energy projects and explains the potential issues faced when siting, constructing, and operating a wind energy project. This book begins with a history of wind power and the social impacts of both electricity and wind power from a historical perspective, a discussion of basic electrical terms, and a primer on the conversion of power in the wind to electricity. Much of the second half of the book ...

This collection of essays on cognitive technology examines the interaction between the human mind and the tools people create to enhance it, studying which technologies assist cognition the most and what features are most effective.

The ancient Greeks had it right: "Know thyself." The editors at Silver Dolphin agree and believe that one of the keys to knowing thyself is knowing how the body works. "Build the Human Body" will teach you about the body's building blocks, help you build its framework, and show you how to map the body organs. Have fun while learning, and see the human body like you never have before through colorful illustrations, fascinating facts, and finall...

Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, prisoner of war camps were being planned and developed in the United States. The U.S. Army was faced with the difficult assignment of finding locations for such camps, constructing the buildings, staffing the sites, and establishing military policies that followed the strictures of the Geneva Convention. Many of the POW camps were located in Texas, some the result of active campaigning by citizens...

Brings together the research and statistics in a graphic form that gives shape and meaning to these numbers. This title shows a new California in the making, as it maps the economic, social, and political trends of a state struggling to maintain its leadership and to continue to offer its citizens the promise of prosperity.

Ein obsessiver Serienkiller (Kevin Spacey) sucht für jede der sieben Todsünden ein passendes Opfer, um der Öffentlichkeit den moralischen Verfall der Gesellschaft vor Augen zu führen. Eine Serie von Morden beginnt, die durch entsprechende, abartige Inszenierungen auf die jeweils bestrafte Sünde verweist. Das ungleiche Cop-Team William Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) und David Mills (Brad Pitt) kommt dem Serienkiller schließlich über seine Büchereik...

Environmental disaster, war poverty and debt are worldwide problems. The author presents a well researched case that society must get to grips with the forces and conflicting interests that determine our economic and environmental futures.

Make changes that stick! Do you want to change yourself but don't know how? Using the four-step method in this book you will change faster and with less effort. Learn how your beliefs form your reality and how to change them to become your best version of yourself. Discover how to stop being a victim, modify or eliminate habits with ease, unlock your beliefs and design your reality.

The human body is the most complex machine in the universe. This book uses amazing photography, digital montages, and well-written text to describe how our bodies work. It includes a list of related websites to visit for independent research.

While studies of restoration and ecological succession have been published independently, there is much overlap between these approaches that has not been adequately explored. Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory. This innovative book recognizes the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ec...

This important on proficiency testing and is essential reading for practising analytical chemists and all with an interest in the quality of analytical data.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Reformatted in a fun and fresh package, this favorite Q&A, title for the 10+ crowd tells readers everything they ever wanted to know about their bodies. Inside "Human Body Q&A, , " children will discover everything about bodies from head to toe, in a compelling and fantastically illustrated question-and-answer formatted compendium. Full color.

Stan und Ollie geraten in Fänge des Militärs. Alle Versuche, richtige Soldaten aus ihnen zu machen, sind jedoch vergeblich und so werden die beiden nach Frankreich in die Schützengräben abkommandiert. Dort freunden sie sich mit dem Rekruten Eddie an, der allerdings in den Kriegswirren sehr bald umkommt. Aus Freundschaft zu Eddie wollen sich Stan und Ollie um dessen kleine Tochter kümmern und sie zu ihren Großeltern bringen. Unglücklicherweise ...

The traditional concept of a neuroendocrine mechanism for regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion is based in large part on the work of Roger Guillemin. The work of Dr. Guillemin, who was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, supported the view that quantita­ tive change in GH secretion was the net result of pituitary stimulation and inhibition by the hypothalamic neurohormones, GH releasing hormone (GHRH), and somatosta...

Build a 3-foot skeleton and slot in the organs in the accompanying card model. A fun way to learn about the workings of the human body. Ages: 7+

A factually based, uncompromising, unprecedented, well-documented indictment of the U.S. theft of Ohio in the era from 1783 to 1795, as viewed from four separate perspectives in their own words: the U.S. government, eastern woodland Indians, frontier settlers, and British officials Canada - that is, from the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784 at Rome, New York, to the Treaty of Greeneville in 1795 at Greenville, Ohio. [Note: The town dropped the E...

This book is a compendium of proceedings from the Symposium on Growth Hormone II: Basic and Clinical Aspects. The intent of the sym­ posium was to review current aspects of the rapidly expanding science of growth hormone (GH) neuroendocrinology, especially those develop­ ments that occurred since our last meeting in 1985. The meeting was timely since there have been many new and exciting developments in basic research on the GH axis, and sever...

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Excerpt from The Flora of Oxfordshire, and Its Contiguous Counties, (Comprising the Flowering Plants Only): Arranged in Easy and Familiar Language, According to the Linnæan and Natural Systems, Preceded by an Introduction to Botany, With Illustrative PlantesThe design of the present work is to furnish the Bota nical Student, in the plainest language, with sufficient elementary instruction, to ascertain the name of any wild, ¿owering plant, he ...