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Using stories to teach maths ages 4 to 7
Way, SteveAndrews UK 2012Make the teaching of Maths a more exciting and creative cross-curricular experience! This new series provides original and fun stories, sketches and poems to use as the basis for t...
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Economies of Recycling : The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations
Zed Books 2012For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the l...
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The Gaming Table
Steinmetz, AndrewAndrews UK 2012 1. painosA fascinating look at the history of gambling and gaming, stretching from the modern age right back to the ancient world.
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe : Climate Change--Is Time Running Out?
Kolbert, ElizabethBloomsbury Publishing 2012_________________ 'A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' - Observer 'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveti...
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The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Duhigg, CharlesRandom House 2012There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life. In The Power of Habit, award-winning journalist Charles Duhigg takes us into the thrilling and...
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Curiosities of the Sky
Serviss, Garrett P.Duke Classics 2012Long before figures like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson simplified astronomy for popular consumption, Garrett P. Serviss was traveling the United States with an early version o...
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The Life of the Spider
Fabre, Jean-HenriDuke Classics 2012The Life of the Spider is a volume in Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, in which he shares fifty years of careful observation. He re-acquaints us with the most everyday...
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On the Significance of Science and Art
Tolstoy, LeoDuke Classics 2012Although Tolstoy is best known as a master of literary fiction, he was also an important thinker with a voracious and wide-ranging intellect. In this extended look at the intersect...
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Discourse on the Method : Of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Descartes, RenéDuke Classics 2012One of the most influential books ever written, Descartes' Discourse on the Method delves into some of the most basic and profound philosophical problems facing humanity. Follow th...
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The New Revelation
Doyle, Sir Arthur ConanDuke Classics 2012Though best remembered as the brilliant writer responsible for bringing master detective Sherlock Holmes to life, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a well-regarded thinker with wide-rangi...
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Essays on Life, Art and Science
Butler, SamuelDuke Classics 2012Recognized as a top-notch scholar with widely ranging interests and an encyclopedic knowledge of an array of academic disciplines, Samuel Butler contributed meaningfully to late ni...
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The Willpower Instinct : How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
McGonigal, KellyPenguin Publishing Group 2011Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of sel...
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Patikkaretkiä matematiikan maisemaan
Aittokallio, TeuvoMatikkaretket 2009 1. painosKuka tahansa matematiikasta innostunut voi tehdä kirjan äärellä omia löytöretkiään. Kenties joku, jolle matematiikka on tuntunut vastenmieliseltä, vaikealta ja tylsältä, tulee koke...
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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Larson, ErikKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The De...
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Handbook of Web Surveys
Bethlehem, Jelke; Biffignandi, SilviaWiley 2011BEST PRACTICES TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENTHIGHLY EFFECTIVE WEB SURVEYSExclusively combining design and sampling issues, Handbook of Web Surveys presents a theoretical yet practical app...
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66 ways to absorb carbon and improve the earth's reflectivity : from reasonable options to mad scientist solutions
Isomäki, RistoInto 2011 [Updated ed.]The melting of Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets, Arctic sea ice and Siberian permafrost has caused a rapid shift in international climate debate. A growing number of leading sc...
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Ydinvoima Fukushiman jälkeen
Isomäki, RistoInto 2011Fukushiman onnettomuus todisti, että rannikoille rakennetut ydinvoimalat ovat varautuneet puutteellisesti tsunameja, maanjäristyksiä ja hirmumyrskyjen nostamia tulva-aaltoja vastaa...
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited d...
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Cosmos
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world in...
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Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 / Abbott Katz
KATZ, AbbottSpringer 2010Table of contents 1. Introduction to Excel Abbbott Katz 2. Getting Started and Getting Around the WorksheetAbbbott Katz 3. From Data Entry to Data Creation: Formula Basics and Beyo...