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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South America

Macmillan Technical, 1994

This volume addresses the cultures of South America south of Panama. As the fourth-largest continent and the southernmost part of the New World land masses, South America encompasses 17,814,435 square kilometers. The continent is politically divided into twelve sovereign republics-Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana,...

Modern Soil Microbiology, Third Edition

CRC Press, 2019

The living soil is crucial to photosynthesis, biogeochemical cycles, global food production, climate change, biodiversity, and plant and animal health. In the past decade, scientists have made significant advances in soil microbiology research. While the basic principles are now better understood, knowledge has been forthcoming on...

Java 6 Platform Revealed

Apress, 2006

So you like living on the bleeding edge and want to learn about Java 6, aka Mustang.
Welcome. What you hold in your hands is a look at the newest features of the early access
version of Mustang. Working through the early access releases from Sun, I’ve painfully
struggled through the weekly drops and demonstrated the latest...

Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2009

You're probably reading this either because you have a small business, a hobby, a cause you care about deeply, a special interest, or a charitable organization that you want the whole world to know about. And what better way to publicize it than by building a website for it? But let's face it: building and maintaining a good website is expensive....

Flash Development for Android Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2011

It's taken a few years, but mobile and devices are finally hot. How hot? Like biting into a freshly ripe, raw, Habanero chili kind-a-HOT. Can you taste the virtual heat on your virtual tongue yet?

Yowza! The point I'm trying to get across is this. The broader mobile and device industry has finally gone mainstream. Why...

Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean-Energy Future

Wharton School Publishing, 2009

Praise for Crossing the Energy Divide

“This book makes coherent and rigorous arguments that increasing energy efficiency is the primary driver of economic growth today and is key to managing climate change.”

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An Anthropology of Marxism

The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the...

The Web's Awake: An Introduction to the Field of Web Science and the Concept of Web Life

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A fascinating perspective on what the Web is and what it will be

Has the World Wide Web evolved into a new life form? The author of this provocative book, Philip Tetlow, presents a very compelling argument that it indeed has.

Drawing from theories originating in the natural sciences, mathematics, and...

Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)

Springer, 2007

This is the book to tell the intermediate-level amateur astronomer what he needs to know about observatories. It draws on the author’s practical experience and that of many other experienced amateur astronomers.

It is an ideal complement to Patrick Moore’s More Small Astronomical Observatories which is a compendium of ideas for...

Silverlight 5 in Action

Manning Publications, 2012

Coding on the client is fun. I started on the Commodore 64 in seventh grade in the 1980s; later moved to DOS with dBASE, QuickBasic, and C++; and eventually began Windows programming using C++, Borland Delphi 1.0, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic 3-6, and .NET. I like the ozone smell of making my CPU work for a living. I...

Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach

Morgan Kaufmann, 2015

We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres)...

Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer

Architectural Press, 2004

Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house.

The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices...

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