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Germany For Dummies (Dummies Travel)

For Dummies, 2007

From the Bavarian Alps to the Rhine, from Berlin to the Black Forest, Germany is packed with beer gardens, castles, art, culture, and a hopping nightlife. Take it all in with this handy guide to your perfect Teutonic adventure:

Complete coverage of the big cities and small towns, from Berlin and Munich to the spa town of...

Evolution: The Human Story

DK Adult, 2011

How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.

Investigating each...

Learn Cocoa on the Mac

Apress, 2013

The Cocoa frameworks are some of the most powerful for creating native OS X apps available today. However, for a first-time Mac developer, just firing up Xcode 4 and starting to browse the documentation can be a daunting and frustrating task. The Objective-C class reference documentation alone would fill thousands of printed pages, not to...

Swing for Jython: Graphical Jython UI and Scripts Development using Java Swing and WebSphere Application Server

Apress, 2014

This book shows you how to use Swing to add a GUI to your Jython scripts, with an emphasis on the WebSphere Application Server wsadmin utility. In fact, we're going to teach you Swing using Jython, and we're going to do it in a way that, hopefully, that makes your scripts easier for people to use, more robust, more understandable, and...

The Conifers: Genomes, Variation and Evolution

Springer, 2019

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution. The book begins with general information about conifers such as taxonomy, geography, reproduction, life history, and social and economic importance. Then topics discussed include the full genome sequence, complex traits,...

Machine Learning with PySpark: With Natural Language Processing and Recommender Systems

Apress, 2018

Build machine learning models, natural language processing applications, and recommender systems with PySpark to solve various business challenges. This book starts with the fundamentals of Spark and its evolution and then covers the entire spectrum of traditional machine learning algorithms along...

Latin America in Times of Global Environmental Change (The Latin American Studies Book Series)

Springer, 2019

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics. Written by leading experts, this book brings together Latin American research on global environmental change. They cover a range of topics such as climate change, water, forest and biodiversity conservation connected with science policies, public...

Contemporary Environmental Issues and Challenges in Era of Climate Change

Springer, 2019

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter. At the same time, extraction of natural resources beyond the Earth’s resilience capacity has had a devastating effect on ecosystems and environmental health. Furthermore, climate change is having a significant...

The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar: Tsingy, Caves, Volcanoes and Sapphires (Cave and Karst Systems of the World)

Springer, 2019

The book describes the Ankarana plateau and its cave network in Madagascar, depicting the natural environment of the Plateau as well as the natural processes which created the cave network of more than 100km with many galleries, some are very large and draped with different cave formations and underground rivers are inhabited with...

Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata

Oxford University Press, 2019

Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu's avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad...

Natural Hazards GIS-Based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were...

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers

W W Norton, 2019

The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured?and influenced?a critical moment in American history.

Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin...

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