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  An Explorer's Notebook - Essays...

  Tim Flannery

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  An invaluable collection of think pieces from a climate change expert and the author of the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers.   Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn’t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past twenty-five years, An Explorer’s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming.   In over thirty pieces, Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about matters as wide-ranging as love, insects, population, water, and the stresses we put on the environment. He shows us how we can better predict our future by understanding the profound history of life on Earth. And he chronicles the seismic shift in the world’s attitude toward climate change. An Explorer’s Notebook is classic Flannery—wide-ranging, eye-opening science, conveyed with richly detailed storytelling.   “Tim Flannery is in the league of all-time great explorers like Dr. David Livingstone.” —Sir David Attenborough

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  Ant Architecture - The Wonder...

  Walter R. Tschinkel

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  Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet.Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster, molten metal, or wax and painstakingly excavates the cast. He guides you through living ant nests chamber by chamber, revealing how nests are created and how colonies function. How does nest architecture vary across species? Do ants have "architectural plans"? How do nests affect our environment? As he delves into these and other questions, Tschinkel provides a one-of-a-kind natural history of the planet's most successful creatures and a compelling firsthand account of a life of scientific discovery.Offering a unique look at how simple methods can lead to pioneering science, Ant Architecture addresses the unsolved mysteries of underground ant nests while charting new directions for tomorrow's research, and reflects on the role of beauty in nature and the joys of shoestring science.

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  Imperial Mud - The Fight for the...

  James Boyce

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  **WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020**
  
  **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021**
  'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazine
  
  FROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE BATTLE FOR THE FENS.
  
  Between the English Civil Wars and the mid-Victorian period, the proud indigenous population of the Fens of eastern England fought to preserve their homeland against an expanding empire. After centuries of resistance, their culture and community were destroyed, along with their wetland home - England's last lowland wilderness. But this was no simple triumph of technology over nature - it was the consequence of a newly centralised and militarised state, which enriched the few while impoverishing the many.
  
  In this colourful and evocative history, James Boyce brings to life not only colonial masters such as Oliver Cromwell and the Dukes of Bedford but also the defiant 'Fennish' them- selves and their dangerous and often bloody resistance to the enclosing landowners. We learn of the eels so plentiful they became a kind of medieval currency; the games of 'Fen football' that were often a cover for sabotage of the drainage works; and the destruction of a bountiful ecosystem that had sustained the Fennish for thousands of years and which meant that they did not have to submit in order to survive.
  
  Masterfully argued and imbued with a keen sense of place, Imperial Mud reimagines not just the history of the Fens, but the history and identity of the English people.

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  Quantum Physics for Beginners -...

  Dean Sommers

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  Are you fascinated by the laws of nature, Quantum Physics and its basic concepts that seem meaningless?This book serves as a guide that explains, in a simple way, some key ideas pertaining to quantum mechanics. It further discusses the works of Leonard Susskind, a physicist, and Art Friedman, a data engineer, who devised quantum theory.Quantum mechanics is a field that attempts to understand the behavior of sub-atomic objects using mathematical notions.The book explains uncertainty and time dependence by further elaborating on the principles of quantum states. It also describes the entanglement of particle and wave states, thereby offering interested readers the possibility of understanding physics at a slower tempo.This book discusses the following topics:- What is Quantum Physics- Father of quantum entanglement- Young’s double slit experiment- Illustrated examples- Illustrated theories- Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle- Einstein’s theory of relativity- EPR paradox in physics- Quantum theory and its evolution- Quantum computing[GIFT: in the beginning you'll find a link to download the book for FREE in PDF format to see the illustrations and take it with you everywhere]This guide on quantum theory has been written to simplify quantum physics to non-physicists. Despite being a particularly complex subject, readers are sure to benefit immensely from understanding scientific subjects and concepts that are as intriguing as quantic mechanics.If you want to learn more about this fascinating field,click the "Buy" button now to venture into the world of Quantum Physics!

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  Youtube Marketing - Youtube...

  Marcus Baumann

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  Youtube Marketing For Beginners, Learn How To Use Adwords Step By Step, Generate Authority And Grow Your Audience By Branding Yourself

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  Sniper & Counter Sniper Tactics...

  Defense U.S. Department of

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  Learn how to fight as a sniper and to defend yourself against the enemy sniper - Find out the sniper & counter sniper tactics formulated and used by the U.S. Army. Let professionals teach you how to choose suitable countersniping equipment, select sniper position, observation techniques and how to plan a mission. This e-book will help you improve your riffle marksmanship and field techniques, how to notice typical countersniper situations and react in a split second. 
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  Sniper Training:     
  Equipment
  Marksmanship
  Field Techniques
  Mission Preparation
  Operations
  Communications
  Tracking/Countertracking
  Sniper Sustainment Training
  Sniper Weapons of the World
  M21 Sniper Weapon System
  Counter Sniper Guide:
  Ammunition
  Rifles
  Sights
  Noise and Muzzle Flash 
  General Notes
  Trajectory of 222 Cartridge 
  Description of Epoxy Impregnation of Stock
  Firing Positions 
  Typical Countersniper Situations 
  Suitable Countersniping Equipment

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