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Reproducing Class

Henry Rutz

Reproducing Class

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in Istanbul, the authors of this study address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes that have come about through recent economic growth in global markets and the global diffusion of...

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Henry Rutz

Pacific Reef and Shore

Rick M. Harbo

Pacific Reef and Shore

Still compact and the perfect size for travelling, Pacific Reef and Shore has been updated with new species, up-to-date scientific information and many brilliant photographs of the more than 300 common plants and animals found in the intertidal zone off the coast of North America—from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to Point Conception, California. Each entry includes a description summary with information on size and habitat, and a photo for species verification, giving readers an overview of...

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Rick M. Harbo

Pacific Seaweeds

Louis Druehl

Pacific Seaweeds

This updated and expanded guide thoroughly documents every aspect of seaweed life, from species identification and seaweed biology to the essentialand often surprisingroles seaweed plays in the marine ecosystem and our everyday lives. Seaweeds are used in everything from cosmetics to sustainable biofuels, and some species, like kelp, contribute to the remediation of coastal ecosystems.Featuring an attractive new full-color design, the expanded Pacific Seaweeds includes...

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Louis Druehl

Ohne Flugzeug um die Welt - Klimabe...

Ксюша Ангел

Ohne Flugzeug um die Welt - Klimabewusst unterwegs und glücklich (Ungekürzt)

Klimafreundliche Weltreise – geht das? "Giulia, ich heirate! Willst du meine Trauzeugin sein?" Natürlich will sie – doch wie soll sie zur Hochzeit ihrer besten Freundin nach Sydney kommen, wo sie sich doch entschieden hat, nie mehr zu fliegen? Anstatt Umweltideale und Freundschaft gegeneinander auszuspielen, machen Giulia und ihr Freund Lorenz aus dem Weg einen Versuch in klimafreundlichem Reisen: Per Bus, Bahn, zu Fuß und mit dem Schiff überwinden sie nicht nur riesige Strecken, sondern...

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Ксюша Ангел

A Hunter's Confession

David Carpenter O.

A Hunter's Confession

A Hunter's Confession tells the story of hunting in David Carpenter's life, including the reasons he once loved it and the reasons he no longer pursues it. When he was a boy, Carpenter and his father and brother would head out along the side roads and into the prairie marshlands searching for duck, grouse, and partridge. As a young man, he began skulking around the bushes with his hunting buddies and trudging through groves of larch, alpine fir, and willow in search of elk. Later,...

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David Carpenter O.

Deer Hunting in Paris

Paula Young Lee

Deer Hunting in Paris

What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan...

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Paula Young Lee

Challenges in Green Analytical Chem...

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Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistry

Analytical techniques are employed every day in both, industry and academia. The concept of green analytical chemistry involves making analytical chemistry safer for operators, more sustainable for the environment and more economical. Improvements in the availability of renewable feedstocks, miniaturization, automated technology, and chemical recycling, make this a vibrant field of research.This new edition of Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistry presents an overview of the latest tools and...

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Wired for Intimacy - How Pornograph...

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Wired for Intimacy - How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain (Unabridged)

Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women, and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability groups are often of limited help. In this book, neuroscientist and researcher William Struthers explains how pornography affects the male brain and what we can do about it. Because we are...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Killer Whale Who Changed the Wo...

Mark Leiren-Young

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World

The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale  a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save themKiller whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll  as the whale became known  was an instant celebrity, drawing 20,000 visitors on...

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Mark Leiren-Young

The Inner Life of Animals

Peter Wohlleben

The Inner Life of Animals

The second book in The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees , Peter Wohlleben. The third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature , is coming in Spring 2019. "Like The Hidden Life of Trees , Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do–and that their lives are, to them, as...

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Peter Wohlleben

The Physiology of Vegetable Crops

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The Physiology of Vegetable Crops

Completely updated and revised, this bestselling book continues to explain the growth and developmental processes involved in the formation of vegetables. Since the publication of the successful first edition significant discoveries, particularly in the area of molecular biology, have deepened and broadened our knowledge and understanding of these processes. This new edition brings the topic up-to-date and is presented over two sections: the first provides general knowledge on germination,...

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Just Cool It!

David Suzuki

Just Cool It!

Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there’s no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming and by employing a wide range of solutionsfrom shifting to clean energy to planting trees to reforming agricultural practiceswe can get the world back on track.Just Cool It is...

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David Suzuki

Heart

Johannes Hinrich von Borstel

Heart

In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of the heart, Johannes Hinrich von Borstel offers a perfect mix of medical fact and amusing anecdote. A doctor, prospective cardiologist, and former paramedicas well as a successful science-slammervon Borstel relates his own experiences to provide a personal insight into the human side of heart medicine, while clearly explaining the science behind cardiac disease and healthcare for the heart. His many tips on how to...

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Johannes Hinrich von Borstel

Best Places to Bird in British Colu...

Richard Cannings

Best Places to Bird in British Columbia

In this unique guidebook that will appeal to novice and experienced birders alike, the authors of acclaimed Birdfinding in British Columbia explore their 30 favorite birding sites in the diverse landscape of Canada’s westernmost province. More detailed and more personal than the Cannings’ previous books, and illustrated with more than 30 color photographs of birds and locales, and 28 maps, Best Places to Bird in British Columbia introduces some sites that will be familiar...

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Richard Cannings

Adventures in Memory

Хильде Эстбю

Adventures in Memory

A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory. What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? With playfulness and intelligence, Adventures in Memory answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties. The authors—two Norwegian sisters, one a neuropsychologist and the other an acclaimed writer—skillfully interweave history, research, and exceptional personal stories,...

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Хильде Эстбю

The Diabetes Code

Dr. Jason Fung

The Diabetes Code

“Dr. Jason Fung has done it again. In easy to follow, simple steps and rules, Dr. Fung gives you the tools to rid yourself of diabetes forever. Get this book!”— Dr. Steven R. Gundry , author of The Plant Paradox The must-have guide to reversing and preventing type 2 diabetes through intermittent fasting and a low-carb, high-fat diet—from Dr. Jason Fung, internationally best selling author of The Obesity Code . Today, most doctors, dietitians, and even...

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Dr. Jason Fung

Peaceful Places Portland

Paul Gerald

Peaceful Places Portland

Everybody knows about Portland's food scene, its outdoor recreation, its bike lanes, beer pubs, and coffee shops. Whether you call it Stumptown or Bridgetown–or even PDX–Portland has been mocked as the city «where young people go to retire.» But seemingly every weekend there's a festival, organized bike ride, political march, or something else clamoring for participation. In short, Portland is a happening town.But sometimes folks just want to chill out, to go where there isn't...

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Paul Gerald

The Brain

David Eagleman

The Brain

'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected...

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David Eagleman

The Horse Agility Handbook

Vanessa Bee

The Horse Agility Handbook

The amazing thing about horses is there's one out there suited for just about every human. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes, and we've trained them to excel at any number of riding sports that appeal to human personalities across the board. But until now, there hasn't been an internationally recognized, competitive horse sport dedicated to those horse lovers who most enjoy working their horse from the ground. With Horse Agility, that's all changing. Over the past...

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Vanessa Bee

Birth on the Threshold

Cecilia Van Hollen

Birth on the Threshold

Even childbirth is affected by globalization—and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of «modern birth.» Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu,...

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Cecilia Van Hollen

Adventures among Ants

Mark W. Moffett

Adventures among Ants

Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, «the Indiana Jones of entomology,» takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a...

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Mark W. Moffett

Between One and One Another

Michael Jackson

Between One and One Another

Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples’ lives and that of turning inward to one’s self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, Jackson shows how the historical complexities and particularities found in human interactions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives....

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Michael Jackson

Birds of the Sierra Nevada

Ted Beedy

Birds of the Sierra Nevada

This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where they occur within the region. Each species account features original illustrations by Keith Hansen. In addition to characterizing individual species, Birds of the...

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Ted Beedy

The Huston Smith Reader

Huston Smith

The Huston Smith Reader

For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world’s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith’s writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career, Smith’s tireless enthusiasm for religious ideas has offered readers both in and outside the academy a fresh understanding of what religion is and what makes it meaningful....

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Huston Smith

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