Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, Paperback - Rob Wallace

Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): GalenTranslator: M. FredeNumber of pages: 148Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 228 x 149 x 8Cover t...

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Learn all about the scientists that have shaped our worldPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Rob ColsonNumber of pages: 32Collection: ST...

Reducere. Ellie Jane Olsen is going to be a big sister. She diligently helps her family prepare for their new baby, she helps daddy build the crib, she helps...

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Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny prize 2010 - The Clumsies are back in their third and most hilarious book yet! Full of the surreal invention a...

Big Data is a big topic, based on simple principles. Guided by leading expert in the field, David Stephenson, you will be amazed at how you can tra...

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have...

Contributor(s): Author: Gavin BascomKeeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text b...

Now in paperback, Rob Bell's Sunday Times Bestselling Love Wins is the world's most talked-about modern Christian book. Creating controversy and di...

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Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are enduring symbols of natural majesty and power...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment hav...

Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little commercial success, the influence of their three original albums - #1 Recor...

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 256 x 215 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. Explains that bugs live nearly everywhere on Earth and give tips on how to become a young bug spotter. This book is divided into key groups of bugs...

Nothing beats spending time in nature! Whatever the time of year there are always lots of things to do and discover. 'Big Ideas for the Big Outdoor...

Reducere. The philosophy of science movement is in disarray. The collapse of logical empiricism, and the rise of historicism and social construtivism have le...

Reducere. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the ...

Contributor(s): Author: Alex GorelikEnterprises are experimenting with using Hadoop to build Big Data Lakes, but many projects are stalling or fail...

Reducere. Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year--a grand, expensive, and oc...

This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelist...

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Reducere. A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.Why are we drawn to the ocea...

Reducere. Ask better questions, and you will get better results. Top business coach Mark Moses has identified four critical questions every business leader s...

The essays in this volume pose critical questions and suggest constructive possibilities regarding the extent to which trinitarian and pluralist di...

Answers to 20 of the most mindbending and perplexing mathematical questions.

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Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.Author(s): Poerksen Bernhard PoerksenTranslator: Koeck Wolfram Karl KoeckNumber of pages: 228Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new edition of Yiquan and the Nature of Energy has been completely revised and updated. In it, Sifu Fong Ha, a master of the intern...

Reducere. A. C. Graham's Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking was originally published in Singapore in 1986 by the Institute of East Asian Philoso...

Reducere. BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny...

Reducere. ""Harrell's work combines pop culture, innocence, friendship, and some of the seamier side of the circus background that only adults can appreciate...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Francis de VericourtNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 126 x 20Cover type: Paperback...

Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good...

Reducere. Bill Nye The Science Guy knows how cool science can be. After all, everything in the universe involves science. And you already think scientificall...

Dispositionalism - the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of nature - is one of the main competing theories within the me...

Reducere. A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all...

Using playing cards, a newspaper, the back of an envelope, a Sudoku, some pennies, and of course a pair of socks, Rob Eastaway shows how maths can ...

Publisher: Little, Brown and CompanyAuthor(s): Malcolm GladwellNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 107 x 172 x 20Cover type: Pape...

Sometimes the people who give the most advice to others are the last people you should be listening to. That's the sort of advice you might get fro...

If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanis...

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