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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding and Preventing Falls
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Understanding and Preventing Falls


Stephen Z. Fadem


Despite the fact that elderly persons have a 33-35% chance of falling and becoming injured, most are ill-prepared. According to the World Health Organization, falls cause over 50% of accidental injuries and 39% of fatal injuries in the elderly. They are the fifth...

Parution : 2023-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Humanizing the Digital Economy
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Humanizing the Digital Economy


Victor Glass


The Coding Revolution—a combination of the Digital Revolution and genetic engineering—has had a destructive effect on society. It has created a platform for extreme views that is loosening our economic, cultural, and political moorings. This book provides a systematic...

Parution : 2023-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Superfluid
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Superfluid


J. G. Weisend Ii


Unless you are a specialist or watch a lot of obscure YouTube videos you have probably never heard of He II or superfluid helium. This substance, a unique liquid form of the element helium, is produced and used in multi-ton quantities to enable much of modern science....

Parution : 2023-09-27
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Télécharger le livre :  English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style
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English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style


Adrian Wallwork


This guide draws on English-related errors from around 6000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts written by PhD students, and over 2000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers.  This new edition has chapters on...

Parution : 2023-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Imago Cosmi
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Imago Cosmi


Daniele L. R. Marini


This book takes the reader on an exploration of the Cosmos, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to China; it unveils the fascinating development of astronomy and mathematics. After an overview of the origins of these subjects, highlighting the contributions of Greek astronomers,...

Parution : 2023-09-07
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Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  The Craft of Scientific Films
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The Craft of Scientific Films


Michael Alley , Lauren Murphy


This book, the first of its kind, helps scientists and engineers of all stages and disciplines share their work in a new way—with movies. Today, much of scientific communication is embedded in papers and presentations, but these documents don’t often extend outside of a...

Parution : 2023-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures
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Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures


Bryan E. Penprase


Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries. Developed with a humanistic approach, this book blends historical sources,...

Parution : 2023-07-24
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Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  America's First Eclipse Chasers
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America's First Eclipse Chasers


Thomas Hockey


In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds.In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the...

Parution : 2023-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Preventive Dermatology in Infectious Diseases
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Preventive Dermatology in Infectious Diseases


Robert A. Norman


The physician’s responsibility continues to increase daily while providing health care in the 21st century; not only in keeping up with the increase of information, but also having to pay more attention to patient compliance. In addition, patients are educated, and...

Parution : 2023-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Flight Not Improbable
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Flight Not Improbable


Simine Short


This book is a must-read for all those interested in the evolution of airplanes.Its protagonist, Octave Chanute, is best known for his scientific and collaborative approach to the engineering problems related to the development of flight and for the support he gave to...

Parution : 2023-05-21
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Collection : Springer Biographies
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Télécharger le livre :  Mind, Make-Believe and Medicine
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Mind, Make-Believe and Medicine


Richard Rasker


This book delves into the world of alternative medicine and related phenomena in several different ways, both from a scientific perspective and the perspective of supporters and practitioners of those phenomena.An attempt is made to explain not only what those...

Parution : 2023-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Sky and Earth
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Sky and Earth


Giuseppe Mussardo , Gaspare Polizzi


700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds. If Polo was the “ordinary genius” of the...

Parution : 2023-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  A Deep Sky Astrophotography Primer
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A Deep Sky Astrophotography Primer


Michael O'brien


This instructional guide has one aim: to teach inexperienced astrophotographers how to take high quality images. Often, basic information about astrophotography is lacking, or is dealt with too briefly in books on the subject.This book is a distillation of the author’s...

Parution : 2023-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Viruses in all Dimensions
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Viruses in all Dimensions


Rafael Ball


Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows...

Parution : 2023-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Fusion's Promise
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Fusion's Promise


Alfred B. Bortz , Matthew Moynihan


For over 60 years, scientists and engineers have been trying to crack a seemingly intractable problem: how to build practical devices that exploit nuclear fusion. Access to electricity has facilitated a standard of living that was previously unimaginable, but as the...

Parution : 2023-03-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trials of Gaia
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The Trials of Gaia


Andrew Yoram Glikson


This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory. It looks at past and current climate changes and their consequences, including detailed accounts of the global warming. The connection between...

Parution : 2023-03-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Responding to the Climate Threat
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Responding to the Climate Threat


Henry Jacoby , Richard Richels , Benjamin Santer , Gary Yohe


This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about climate policy. Fighting climate change is the ultimate societal challenge, and the difficulty is not just in the wrenching adjustments required to cut greenhouse emissions...

Parution : 2023-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Surface/Volume
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Surface/Volume


Alan E. Rubin


This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios. Because surface area increases as the square of length, but volume (and mass) increase as the cube, large...

Parution : 2023-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Trauma as the Origin of Chronic Inflammation
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Early Trauma as the Origin of Chronic Inflammation


Rainer H. Straub


The aim of the book is to sensitize physicians and researchers to the important long-term health effects of early, persistent, and severe trauma.The author, an internist, rheumatologist, and basic researcher in psychoneuroimmunology, shows connections between adverse...

Parution : 2023-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
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The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet


Justin B. Hollander


Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt—particularly, a rich knowledge...

Parution : 2023-02-01
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