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In the bestselling tradition of The Map that Changed the World and Longitude comes the tale of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and crea
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Published on behalf of the Biological Stain CommissionFor 75 years Conn's Biological Stains has been a standard reference for all those who used dyes and colorants in the biological and medical scienc
These books, with of a total of 40 chapters, are a comprehensive and complete introductory text on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanomaterials. They are aimed at graduate studen
This is a reprint of a 2002 book. Britain's Crystal Palace was built for the Universal Exhibition of the Work of All Nations (known to the British as the Great Exhibition) of 1851, and has since then
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This invaluable and classic 19th century guidebook, the seond year's edition of the work, was originally published in 1869. It includes illustrations, ads, tables, statistics, and maps essential for i
The book covers the basic analytic methods used in transportation economies and policy analysis; focuses on the automobile, as both the mainstay of American transportation and the source of some of i
Project sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years. The increased awareness stems from a growing concern with social development issues such as poverty reduction, project susta
Today Lie group theoretical approach to differential equations has been extended to new situations and has become applicable to the majority of equations that frequently occur in applied sciences. New
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After years of labor unrest, America in 1915 was teetering on the brink of an industrial "civil war," thought economist John R. Commons. Commons, then a member of the United States Commission on Indus
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