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  Solar Water Heating - A...

  Bob Ramlow, Benjamin Nusz

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  Heating water with the sun is a practice almost as old as humankind itself.  Solar Water Heating  , now completely revised and expanded, is the definitive guide to this clean and cost-effective technology.  Beginning with a review of the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present,  Solar Water Heating  presents an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Drawing on the authors' experiences as designers and installers of these systems, the book goes on to cover:Types of solar collectors, solar water and space heating systems and solar pool heating systems, including their advantages and disadvantagesSystem components, their installation, operation, and maintenanceSystem sizing and sitingChoosing the appropriate system.This book focuses on the financial aspects of solar water or space heating systems, clearly showing that such systems generate significant savings in the long run. With many diagrams and illustrations to complement the clearly-written text, this book is designed for a wide readership ranging from the curious homeowner to the serious student or professional.

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  Infinite Reality - Avatars...

  Jim Blascovich, Jeremy Bailenson

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  “Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.” 
  —Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed 
  Can our brains recognize where ""reality"" ends and ""virtual"" begins? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, or five hundred years? An unrivaled guide to our digital future that has been cited by the Supreme Court, Infinite Reality is a mind-bending ""journey through the virtual universe"" (Wall Street Journal). Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering authorities, explore the profound potential of emerging technologies and reveal how our brains behave in digital worlds. 
   
  Along the way, Bailenson and Blascovich examine the timeless philosophical questions of the self and ""reality"" that arise through the digital experience; explain how virtual reality's latest and future forms—including immersive video games and social-networking sites—will soon be seamlessly integrated into our lives; show the many surprising practical applications of virtual reality, from education and medicine to sex and warfare; and probe further-off possibilities like ""total personality downloads"" that would allow your great-great-grandchildren to have a conversation with ""you"" a century or more after your death. 
  Equally fascinating, farsighted, and profound, Infinite Reality is an essential guide to our virtual future, where the experience of being human will be deeply transformed.

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  Cancer Healing Sleep Hypnosis -...

  Lightheart Hypnosis

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  When your mind is relaxed, it allows the body to become into a pure resonance of healing energy. Harmony heals. 
  This sleep hypnosis uses soothing background music and a calm voice to bring you into a coherent state of mind. 
  Listen to these healing affirmations before you go to sleep or while sleeping and reprogram your subconscious mind to start healing 
  your body faster. 
  Heal your mind, heal your body.

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  Métodos numéricos aplicados a...

  Héctor Jorquera González,...

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  La modelación y simulación numérica son herramientas de gran ayuda en la resolución de nuevos problemas en el ámbito de la ingenierí­a. Con un enfoque moderno, este libro será de gran ayuda para los estudiantes de las áreas de ciencias e ingenierí­a, brindándoles las herramientas necesarias para afrontar dichos problemas. En su primera parte, se presentan los distintos métodos numéricos aplicados en ingenierí­a y cómo ellos se pueden implementar usando el lenguaje Matlab. La segunda parte incluye una selección de problemas resueltos en las áreas de cinéticas quí­micas, reactores, biorreactores, transferencia de calor, mecánica de fluidos, entre otras. Dichas soluciones incluyen una detallada descripción de los programas desarrollados.

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  Radical Botany - Plants and...

  Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

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  “Succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory.” —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times 
   
  Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Winner 
   
  Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. 
   
  Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. 
   
  The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism’s manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. 
   
  A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.

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  Martian Summer - My Ninety Days...

  Andrew Kessler

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  A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this “fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor” (Publishers Weekly). The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. Its purpose was to find out how climate change could turn a warm, wet planet (read: Earth) into a cold, barren desert (read: Mars). Along the way, Phoenix discovered a giant frozen ocean trapped beneath the north pole of Mars, exotic food for aliens, and liquid water, and laid the foundation for NASA’s current exploration of Mars using the Curiosity rover. This is not science fiction. It’s fact. And for the luckiest fanboy in fandom, it was the best vacation ever. Andrew Kessler spent the summer of 2008 in NASA’s mission control with one hundred thirty of the world’s best planetary scientists and engineers as they carried out this ambitious operation. He came back with a story of human drama about modern-day pioneers battling NASA politics, temperamental robots, and the bizarre world of daily life in mission control.

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