Core Samples from the World
Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780811218870
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780811218870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1329688570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. The world's oldest subway built in 1844 by the Long Island Rail Road. Sealed in 1861, with a circa 1830's steam locomotive left buried behind a wall. Said to contain the lost diary pages of John Wiles Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, exposing an over 150 year old conspiracy. Plan for the reuse of the Tunnel as an historic attraction, possibly featuring streaming full immersion 3-D holographic video, more.
Author: Francis F. Pitard
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2019-01-10
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 1351105922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A step-by-step guide for anyone challenged by the many subtleties of sampling particulate materials. The only comprehensive document merging the famous works of P. Gy, I. Visman, and C.O. Ingamells into a single theory in a logical way - the most advanced book on sampling that can be used by all sampling practitioners around the world.
Author: David Biello
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1476743916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An environmental journalist examines the world humanity has created through climate change and chronicles the scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people who are working toward saving the planet.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Manguin Sylvie
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 2742009639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the present time, malaria is responsible for a million deaths a year, with 500 million reported cases of the disease and 2.5 billion people at risk of contracting it. The distribution and severity of the disease vary with the causative agents, vectors and environment. Of the 4 possible parasites, only P. falciparum causes fatal forms; the three others have debilitating effects related to frequent disease recurrence and reviviscence. More than 50 species of anophele are involved in the obligatory transmission of the parasite from man to man. Climate, environment and biogeography condition the distribution of anophele species and modulate the intensity of transmission. This is what is known as the biodiversity of malaria. At the present time, more than 90% of P. falciparum malaria deaths occur in tropical Africa where only 10% of the world's population lives. A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. This continent is home to the most effective vectors and the climate favours transmission. Severe cases also arise in the forested areas of South East Asia, New Guinea and the Amazon region. Throughout the rest of the tropical and subtropical world, the disease caused by P. vivax and/or P. malariae is less serious.
Author: Cynthia Stokes Brown
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
Published: 2016-12-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1614728577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The newest way to think about the universe becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World: From the Big Bang to You by Cynthia Stokes Brown. Her clear introduction to big history, divided into eight thresholds of time, is the perfect starting point for any reader intrigued by this rich blend of history and science. Big History, Small World is also the first book about big history specifically designed to be used in high school courses and with the free curriculum available from the Big History Project cofounded by Bill Gates and David Christian. Big History, Small World is organized into twelve chapters. In the first chapter, Brown discusses the scientific method. In the last chapter she discusses the different ways people interpret big history and find meaning in it. The other ten chapters are based on eight major turning points, or thresholds, in the cosmic story. One threshold, the emergence of life, gets two chapters, while a discussion of the future fills chapter eleven. This book is not formatted as a traditional textbook, although it can easily be used as one. Each chapter has questions on the frontier of knowledge, as well as suggestions of how the content applies directly to the reader, to answer the perennial question: “Why do I have to learn this?” There are illustrations, charts, diagrams, a glossary and timeline, and short biographies of scientists and historians who have been influential in developing big history. Cynthia Stokes Brown has taught world history in high-school and trained high-school teachers at Dominican University of California, where she piloted big history courses and helped initiate the big history program now required for all freshmen. She is the author of the general-interest book on big history, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New York: New Press, 2nd ed. 2012) and also wrote a university-level textbook with David Christian and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014). She is a founding member of the International Big History Association and associate editor of its publication, Origins.