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"All made in America: the skyscraper and subway car. The telephone and telegraph. The safety elevator and safety pin. Plus the microprocessor, amusement park, MRI, supermarket. Pennsylvania rifle, and Tennessee Valley Authority. Not to mention the city of Chicago or jazz or that magnificent Golden Gate Bridge. What is it about America that makes it a nation of inventors, tinkerers, researchers, and adventurers--obsessive pursuers of the never-before-created?...
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"From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet. The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each morning. Yet behind these quotidian interactions is one of the most expansive machines human beings have ever...
4) Growing under cover: techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden
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"Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive....
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Garden historian Suzanne Staubach covers everything from arbors to water features, reveling in the anecdotes that accompany each element. Filled with revelations and fanciful illustrations by Julia Yellow, A Garden Miscellany promises new discoveries with each reading?a book to be returned to again and again.
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You need to hear the bad news first: the results of STEM outreach to girls haven't improved in twenty years. The good news? This book will tell you why, and how to fix it. Currently, dated narratives push girls away in fear, and blind spots result in missed opportunities to pull them in. While efforts to increase diversity in science and mathematics have succeeded, outreach has largely ignored engineering-where there is still only one woman for every...
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For the first-time pet owner and the experienced livestock farmer alike, rabbit expert Karen Patry addresses questions and concerns about housing, feeding, breeding, and caring for rabbits at every stage of their lives. From choosing productive meat and fiber breeds to preparing a proper next box and coaxing a fussy bunny to eat, you'll find proven answers and humane solutions to all your rabbit-raising quandaries.
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Igniting STEM Learning: A Guide to Designing an Authentic Primary School STEM Program is a groundbreaking resource for teachers and leaders ready to take on the challenge of bringing robust and sustainable STEM learning to their primary schools. Having kicked STEM programs into gear around Australia, experienced educator, coach and consultant Dr Adrian Bertolini distils decades of practice into a book that has the capacity to empower and transform.
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Disappointed by the public reception to 'A Treatise of Human Nature', published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the 'Treatise', Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the 'Enquiry'....
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This book is an introductory outline of NFPA 72, 2010 edition based upon the National Fire Protection Association training seminar in Fire Alarm Inspection and Testing given in December 2009. This book concentrates on Inspections as opposed to Testing and gives a foundation in the NFPA 72, 2010 edition of the National Fire Alarm Code book for Inspections as a separate job function. The purpose of this book is to clarify to other inspectors, managers,...
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The widespread use of blogging today has made understanding how to read and write these online journals an essential skill for digital literacy at any age. In these pages, the ins and outs of several kinds of blogs-including political, news, and personal ones-are explained in clear terms. Content management, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) text editing, and web hosting are just a few of the topics that are simplified to guide users towards getting...
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Energy! It's one of a building's major cost components. It's a hot topic and will continue to be so. For most facilities, the cost of energy is not going down-only up. It's essential to reduce energy costs on your building(s) whether new or existing.
Energy management is an integral part of the day-to-day operations for facility managers and property owners. Rising energy costs and increasing demand for sustainability are driving the need to reduce...
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La usabilidad, o facilidad de uso, es una característica de calidad fundamental para el éxito de un sistema interactivo, la cual corresponde a un concepto que incluye una serie de métricas métodos con el objetivo de obtener sistemas fáciles de usar y aprender. Los métodos de evaluación de usabilidad son bastante diversos y su realización depende de variables tales como: costos, disponibilidad de tiempo, recurso humano, entre otras. Varios...
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Existe en el medio hospitalario la idea arraigada de que la gestión de la tecnología biomédica es una fuente de egresos, dada su complejidad y diversidad algunos no se percatan de que su adecuada gestión contribuye al mejoramiento de la calidad y cobertura en la prestación del servicio y al mejoramiento de la relación costo beneficio. Pero sobre todo contribuye sensiblemente a la prevención de incidentes y eventos adversos asociados al uso...
18) Drenaje
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La presente publicación está orientada hacia la compresión de los principios fundamentales del drenaje agrícola, tanto superficial como subterráneo, así como mostrar algunas herramientas prácticas que han sido aplicadas con éxito en la solución de problemas que se presentan en el diseño de un sistema de drenaje. La implementación del drenaje agrícola es de suma importancia, a fin de cuidar los cultivos y la estructura del suelo. En el...
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Este libro aborda el diseño conceptual y el modelado de la cadena de abastecimiento del azúcar-etanol, apoyado en el creciente interés en los biocombustibles como fuente de energía para el sector del transporte. La metodología propuesta tuvo en cuenta no solo el abastecimiento de la caña a los ingenios, sino también el transporte de los residuos agrícolas hasta la biorefinería bajo tres estrategias diferentes: Residuos picados, residuos enfardados...
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Este libro la experiencia de los autores en la implementación del sistema de gestión energética denominado Sistema de Gestión integral de la Energía SGIE, trabajo realizado entre los años 2005 y 2014. Lo más significativo del SGIE está en que es un sistema de gestión energética que cumple con los requerimientos de la ISO 50001. Además en el texto se presenta el Modelo de Gestión Integral de la Energía MGIE, que establece la manera de...
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