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  Seeing the Light - Optics in...

  Joan G. Thomas

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  The clearest and most complete non-mathematical study of light available—with updated material and a new chapter on digital photography.   Finally, a book on the physics of light that doesn’t require advanced mathematics to understand. Seeing the Light is the most accessible and comprehensive study of optics and light on the market. With a focus on conceptual study, Seeing the Light leaves the heavy-duty mathematics behind, instead using practical analogies and simple empirical experiments to teach the material. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson, making it easy to learn about specific optical concepts without having to read the whole book over. Inside you’ll find clear and easy-to-understand explanations of topics including:  Processes of vision and the eye  Atmospherical optical phenomena  Color perception and illusions  Color in nature and in art  Digital photography  Holography  And more  Diagrams, photos, and illustrations help bring difficult concepts to life, and optional sections at the ends of chapters explore the more advanced aspects of each topic. A truly one-of-a-kind book for physics students and teachers, this updated edition of Seeing the Light is not to be missed.

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  Hydroponics - Learn How to...

  Lou Rose

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  Are you tired of buying unfresh fruit, herbs and vegetables at the supermarket, knowing that they could be treated with pesticides and toxic chemicals? Did you notice that these foods no longer taste the way they used to? Well, this will no longer be a problem, if you follow the guidelines in this book! Discover now how to build your own hydroponic system! 
  Climate change is increasingly affecting our life and especially the food we consume daily. In fact, it is more and more difficult to find fresh fruit, herbs and seasonal vegetables in the supermarket. 
  Well, the good news is that a solution exists! Its name is Hydroponic Gardening System: a system that will allow you to grow organic food all year long, without thinking about the weather and temperature outside.  
  In this audiobook you’ll discover How to Easily Get Started with Your Own Greenhouse Garden Through a Guided DIY Hydroponic System! Growing Organic Foods has Never Been Easier! 
  In particular, I will explain you:Everything you need to know about hydroponics, how it really works and why it's important for sustainable agriculture.The best and easier methods of hydroponic gardening you can get started with, and how to choose one suitable for your needs and gardening skill level.Step-by-step how to set up and assemble your first hydroponic garden also if you are inexperienced.And much, much more! 
  Even though you've never done an hour of gardening in your life before and would like to get started, this audiobook has everything you need to know to grow your plants at home in the easiest way possible!Help this world become greener! Pick up your own audiobook today!

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  Grizzly Confidential - An...

  Kevin Grange

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  In?Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos.  
  His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins; from the Bear Center at Washington State University—where scientists believe the secrets of hibernation might help treat diabetes, heart disease, and obesity in humans—to the dark underbelly of for-profit wildlife parks, illegal animal trade and black markets hawking bear bile. 
  Along the way, he meets fascinating biologists and activists and discovers that everything he knew about grizzlies was wrong. Ultimately, his odyssey leads him to find answers on a remote corner of the Alaskan Peninsula where, for the last fifty years, humans have coexisted peacefully alongside the largest gathering of brown bears on the planet.?? ?? 
  Grizzly Confidential is about bears but also the inspiring people who look after them. This is a fast-paced, gripping story that educates, entertains, and gives a sneak peek into the secret life of a well-known species. Part science, part travelogue, and a passionate plea for bear conservation, Grizzly Confidential is a lively account for anyone who loves the outdoors and learning about the natural world.? 
   

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  Yearbook of Astronomy 2022

  Brian Jones

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  The “excellent resource” used by both amateur and professional astronomers for sixty years, filled with references and enlightening articles (Booklist).   Since this invaluable annual publication first appeared in 1962, stargazers and sky-watchers have enjoyed its comprehensive, jargon-free monthly sky notes and its authoritative set of sky charts that enable backyard astronomers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year’s eclipses, comets, meteor showers, and minor planets, as well as detailing the phases of the moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year.   It also includes a variety of entertaining and informative articles. In the 2022 edition, you’ll find coverage of a wide range of topics including:    A History of the Amateur Astronomical Society: 1962 to 2022  Expanding Cosmic Horizons  Frank Drake and His Equation  Remote Telescopes  Skies Over Ancient America, and more    After six decades, The Yearbook of Astronomy continues to be essential reading for anyone fascinated by the magic and mysteries of our universe.

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  Food Politics - What Everyone...

  Robert Paarlberg

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  This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape.The third edition of Food Politics has been updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health challenges. New material covers the rise of China in world food markets and global food politics, the unabated and increasing risks to farming from climate change, the impact COVID-19 had on incomes and hunger, the equally shocking impact from the war in Ukraine on food prices and trade, and surprising scientific and technical breakthroughs such as the genome editing of crops (CRISPR) and the marketing of cell-cultured (animal-free) meats. Each chapter has been updated with new data on population growth, hunger and food security, trade conflicts, humanitarian aid, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, holistic grazing, animal welfare, genetically engineered food, and more.Discussing the politics and policies that continue to shape our contemporary food system, Robert Paarlberg challenges myths and critiques more than a few of today's fashionable beliefs about farming and food. A must-listen for those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed, but also challenged.

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  How To Lie With Statistics

  Darrell Huff

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  Now available in audio for the first time! Darrell Huff's celebrated classic "How to Lie With Statistics" is a straight-forward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. Originally published in 1954, it remains as relevant and necessary as ever in our digital world where information is king—and as easy to distort and manipulate as it is to access.     A pre-cursor to modern popular science books like Steven D. Levitt's "Freakonomics" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers", Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to inform. Critically acclaimed by media outlets like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and recommended by Bill Gates as a perfect beach read, "How to Lie With Statistics" stands as the go-to book for understanding the use of statistics by teachers and leaders everywhere. "A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity…. Every time you pick it up, what happens? Bang goes another illusion!" — The New York Times"In one short take after another, Huff picks apart the ways in which marketers use statistics, charts, graphics and other ways of presenting numbers to baffle and trick the public. The chapter “How to Talk Back to a Statistic” is a brilliant step-by-step guide to figuring out how someone is trying to deceive you with data." — Wall Street Journal"A great introduction to the use of statistics, and a great refresher for anyone who's already well versed in it." — Bill Gates"Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic…This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining, highly readable manner."— Management Review"Illustrator and author pool their considerable talents to provide light lively reading and cartoon far which will entertain, really inform, and take the wind out of many an overblown statistical sail." — Library Journal"A pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic." — Atlantic

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