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Following his highly praised and bestselling book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley has written a brilliant and profound book about the roots of human behavior. Nature via Nurture explores the complex and endlessly intriguing question of what makes us who we are.In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100, 000 genes, as originally postulated, but only 30, 000. This startling revisio...

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Another world is colliding with this one, " said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."Why?" said Tiffany."There's no one to stop them.There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, "There's me."Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnaped brothe...

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Tracer Stone's dad is missing, and neither the Sheriff or his grandma believe him when he tells them he knows his dad is still alive! With the help of his best friend Kap, and Risten, the annoying girl from down the street, eleven year old Tracer takes off on his motorcycle across the top of the Allegheny mountains to search for his father. Along the way he meets a strange hermit named Caster who hunts for food with a dog and an owl. Only with...

Monolithic materials are concerned with all the formats of monolithic materials and provides an integrated view of this novel format of separation media. This book presents contributions concerned with both flow and mass transfer in these materials. It also provides information about the sources of the materials, their properties and applications.

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A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon, of the Gunpowder Plot, the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen, Arcadian landscapes, murderous, toxic slums, and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities.This was the ...

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The untold story of how war transformed the city of Halifax.Stephen Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War, a city transformed by the influx of military and civilian personnel serving the war effort. Poorly governed and corrupt, the city erupted at the end of the war in Europe in the infamous V-E Day riots of May 1945.Halifax was the only Canadian city directly caught up in the drama, danger, death, and disaster of our la...

An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers guidance on living with a terminal illness. Based on research funded by the Soros Foundation and extensive interviews with dying people. A profound and practical book about living with a terminal illness over a long period of time. It offers guidance, solace, and helpful strategies for people who are terminally ill, their families and caregivers.Facing death results in more fear and ...

This book has been fully updated to reflect the latest developments in the field of radio communications. This book introduces the basic concepts and mechanisms of radiowave propagation engineering in both the troposphere and ionosphere, and includes greater emphasis on the needs of digital technologies and new kinds of radio systems.