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  Renewable solutions in end-uses:...

  International Renewable

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  This report provides an overview of heat pump technologies and their applications, discusses building stock and the implications for the use of heat pumps in both new and old buildings and examines recent market developments.

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  Tesla For Beginners

  Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen

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  The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist,” Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams—or still await possible development. Tesla For Beginners examines the man behind the alternating current and wireless technologies who traveled from Serbia by steamship to arrive in the United States with only four cents in his pocket. It was in the early 1880s, at the tail end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution, that America beckoned him.Nikola Tesla—a poet of invention—left behind a vast and intriguing legacy. He was a scientist, physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and extensively published author who spent his last decades scraping for funding for celestial projects and living out his final days in penurious solitude with a pigeon.

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  The Back Pain Bible - A...

  Christopher J. Kidawski

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  ELIMINATE YOUR BACK PAIN WITHOUT DRUGS, NEEDLES, SURGERY, OR CHIROPRACTIC!  
  What would be the first thing you would do if you woke up three months from now with ZERO back pain? How would your life be different? Would you exercise more? Play with your kids? Schedule a skiing vacation? Most books offer information – this book offers transformation!  
  Do any of these statements sound like you? 
  “My back hurts first thing in the morning, then loosens up around mid day.” 
  “I can’t bend or twist without pain, and had to stop playing a sport I love.” 
  “I have a stabbing pain in the middle of my lower back.” 
  “My back hurts and there is pain going down my leg.” 
  Imagine moving freely through your day bending down, lifting odd objects, or playing a game of golf with your buddies without a care in the world!  
  Back pain is most always a symptom emanating from another area in the body. Chris teaches you how to find and treat the PROBLEM causing your back pain, rather than just treating the symptom.  
  In this book you will learn:  
  •Why you were already in trouble before you started to feel pain.  
  •How to discover the root cause of your pain, and how to get rid of it.  
  •A 4-minute exercise that will erase sciatica issues for good.  
  •How to restore the normal function to more than just the tissue of your lower back to keep your back pain away for good.  
  •How doing one simple thing will increase your results from stretching and decrease your pain by 10x.  
  •How to work through your pain safely while returning yourself to your normal sports, or activities.  
  You were born to move, let's do it!

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  The Monkey Wrench Gang

  Edward Abbey

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  Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power-taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move-and peaceful coexistence be damned!

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  Medical Ethics - A Very Short...

  Tony Hope, Michael Dunn

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  The issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine.This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important "tools" of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings. They also contemplate the increasingly important place of medical ethics in the wider social context, particularly in this age of globalization, not only in healthcare practice, but also policy, discussions in the media, pressure group and activism settings, and in legal judgments.

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  What a Fish Knows - The Inner...

  Jonathan Balcombe

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  An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior  
  There are more than thirty thousand species of fish--more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish think, feel, and behave.  
  In What a Fish Knows, the ethologist Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal what fishes can do, how they do it, and why. Introducing the latest revelations in animal behavior and biology, Balcombe upends our assumptions about fish, exposing them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed creatures but as sentient, aware, social--even Machiavellian. They conduct elaborate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoal-mates. They also plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, punish wrongdoers, curry favor, and deceive one another. Fish possess sophisticated senses that rival our own. The reef-dwelling damselfish identifies its brethren by face patterns visible only in ultraviolet light, and some species communicate among themselves in murky waters using electric signals.  
  Highlighting these breakthrough discoveries and others from his own encounters with fish, Balcombe inspires a more enlightened appraisal of marine life. An illuminating journey into the world of underwater science, What a Fish Knows will forever change your view of our aquatic cousins--your pet goldfish included.

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