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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

PublicAffairs, 2019

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.

The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves....

The Physical Geography of Brazil: Environment, Vegetation and Landscape (Geography of the Physical Environment)

Springer, 2019

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment. It describes the main environmental aspects of Brazil in relation to geology, climate, geomorphology, vegetation, fauna, water resources and environmental issues.

The book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical geography of the...

A Field Guide to Cape Cod: Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island, and Eastern Long Island

Yale University Press, 2018

A richly illustrated full?color guide to the unique plants, wildlife, and environments of Cape Cod and the other nearby “Outer Lands” that face the Atlantic Ocean

This essential guidebook presents the most abundantly illustrated and fascinating account of the natural history of Cape Cod,...

The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

Knopf, 2019

“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his...

Greater Kenyir Landscapes: Social Development and Environmental Sustainability: From Ridge to Reef

Springer, 2018

This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management. The focus area extends over geographical zones ranging from mountainous area of Mount Gagau in the Taman Negara National Park, down to the coastal islands of Bidong, Redang and Perhentian on the...

IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 4: Dams, Tunnels, Groundwater Resources, Climate Change

Springer, 2018

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61^st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018, is Engineering Geology for a...

Correspondents: A Novel

Grove Press, 2019

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”?Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

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Soils of the Laurentian Great Lakes, USA and Canada

Springer, 2020

This book introduces the reader to the Great Lakes and considers their soil-forming factors and processes, taxonomic structure of the soils, soil geography and pedodiversity, while also addressing the importance and protection of soils in the Great Lakes Coastal Zone. The Great Lakes are an important part of the USA and Canada. Home...

TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies

For Dummies, 2003

Use this cool tool to perform dozens of tasks!

Do simple and complex calculations, analyze loans, even send files to your PC

Nothing can crunch numbers like your TI-83 Plus, and this handy guide makes the crunching easy! In no time you’ll be punching those buttons to convert decimals to fractions, find factorials, compare...

Coastal Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans (Marine Science)

CRC Press, 2005

In 1996, after more than a decade of researching the effects of over-population and the consequent pollution of the greater metropolitan New York City area, Carl Sindermann published his observations and conclusions in Ocean Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans, a mostly technical document that emphasized the pathological effects...

Geophysical Approach to Marine Coastal Ecology: The Case of Iriomote Island, Japan (Springer Oceanography)

Springer, 2019

This book presents recent results of collaborative studies in geophysics and ecology, focusing on the relationship between the physical environment and the distribution of the marine coastal ecosystems. The study area, the Sakiyamawan–Amitoriwan nature conservation area in Iriomote Island of Japan, is the only oceanic nature...

Ecology of Marine Sediments (Oxford Biology)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Marine sediments provide the largest habitat on planet earth, yet knowledge of the structure and function of their flora and fauna continues to be poorly described in current textbooks. This concise, readable introduction to benthic ecology builds upon the strengths of the previous edition but has been thoroughly revised throughout to incorporate...

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