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  Spirits of the Air - Part of the...

  Kurt Diemberger

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  Kurt Diemberger belongs to an elite mountaineering club. He is one of only two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8,000-metre peaks - Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. His Broad Peak ascent was the first eight-thousander climbed in alpine style without oxygen. He had climbed the major Alps north faces (the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses) by 1958 and was awarded the fifth Piolets d'Or lifetime achievement award. But Diemberger's adventures revolve around more than climbing, as Spirits of the Air reveals. Of course, there is plenty of mountaineering - expeditions to Makalu and Everest, America and the Hindu Kush. But there are also rickety aeroplanes which inevitably crash, anacondas to wrestle and bar-room meetings with Reinhold Messner. And there is Diemberger's filmmaking. A pioneering filmmaker, he has shot on the top of Everest and in the Arctic circle, making several mountaineering film firsts and becoming one of the best cameramen of the genre. In Spirits of the Air Diemberger describes his life and adventures after the 1986 K2 disaster, which affected him greatly, and some earlier episodes. He reflects on the contrasts between his life in Europe and the always-beckoning Himalaya, and on family, loves and friendships. Describing his experiences with a tremendous zest for life that is both endearing and compelling, Diemberger creates a very readable and very different mountaineering autobiography.

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  Healing With Love and Light

  Noah McKay

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  As a practicing physician facing his own terminal illness at the age of thirty-three, Noah McKay went to Mexico to find sunshine. There, he learned that making the decision to live was the first step toward complete recovery.

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  Introducing Genetics - A Graphic...

  Steve Jones

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  Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. 
  Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work of Mendel to the discovery of DNA, the human gene map and the treatment of inborn disease. No one can afford to be ignorant of genetics. This book is the perfect introduction.

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  Getting Gold: a practical...

  J. C. F. Johnson

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  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. Johnson
  
  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
  Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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  Mixing Races - From Scientific...

  Paul Lawrence Farber

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  “Traces both historically and sociologically the changing attitudes on race-mixing (miscegenation) in western culture . . . clear, well written and useful.” —Journal of the History of Biology 
   
  This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s. 
   
  In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion that it would produce biologically dysfunctional offspring. By the 1960s the scientific community roundly refuted this theory. Paul Lawrence Farber traces this revolutionary shift in scientific thought, explaining how developments in modern population biology, genetics, and anthropology proved that opposition to race mixing was a social prejudice with no justification in scientific knowledge. 
   
  In the 1960s, this new knowledge helped to change attitudes toward race and discrimination, especially among college students. Their embrace of social integration caused tension on campuses across the country. Students rebelled against administrative interference in their private lives, and university regulations against interracial dating became a flashpoint in the campus revolts that revolutionized American educational institutions. 
   
  Farber’s provocative study is a personal one, featuring interviews with mixed-race couples and stories from the author’s student years at the University of Pittsburgh. As such, Mixing Races offers a unique perspective on how contentious debates taking place on college campuses reflected radical shifts in race relations in the larger society. 
   
  “A fascinating look at how evolutionary science has changed alongside social beliefs.” —Midwest Book Review 
   
  “Will open the dialogue about social barriers and group identities . . . Essential.” —Choice

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  Touchpad iPrime Ver 21 Class 7

  Team Orange

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  Computer Science Textbook Designed for Joyful Learning
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - National Education Policy, 2020
  - Tech Funda: This section provides a practical information or tip to the students.
  - Clickipedia: This section provides interesting computer facts.
  - Hands-On: This section contains an activity for Home assignment.
  - QR Code: Scan the QR Code given on the first page of each chapter to start chapter animation.
  - Crack the Code: This section has puzzle or fun based activity to help understand the concepts better.
  - Project: This is an assessment to challenge the students to apply the concepts learnt.
  
  DESCRIPTION 
  Touchpad iPRIME (Ver 2.1) series based on Windows 10 and Office 2016 is comprehensively designed as per the new ICSE syllabus. Learning is done best when it’s fun-filled and activity based. To ensure that the content intrigues the students at all times and keeps them interested throughout the course of the book, we have
  included interesting key features like Student Corner, Tech Funda, Clickipedia, Comp Caution, Reboot, One Touch Learn, Let’s Do It, Crack The Code, Hands-On, Fun In Lab, Teacher’s Corner, Worksheet, Test Sheet, Project, Speech Drill, Supplement Pages and Glossary.
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  You will learn about:
  - Fundamentals of computers
  - ICT Tools
  - Number System
  - Computer Virus
  - Hardware
  - Computer Ethics
  - Excel 2016
  - DBMS
  - HTML
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR 
  Grade - 7
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. Computer—Hardware Components
  2. Number System
  3. Computer Virus
  4. Ethics and Safety Measures in Computing
  5. Spreadsheets—An Introduction
  6. More on Spreadsheets
  7. Database and DBMS—An Introduction
  8. More on Access
  9. Lists and Tables in HTML
  10. More on HTML
  11. Project 
  12. Explore More (Introduction to Flash CS6) 
  13. OGO Cyber Sample Questions 
  14. Glossary

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