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  • The Atom Goes to College

    Nuclear Engineering, Teaching Reactors, and the Atomic Age

    Series series Engineering Studies
    The little-known history of nuclear reactors in American life, and the role of public colleges in the Atomic Age.In The Atom Goes to College, David Munns explores the creation and forgotten prominence of “teaching reactors,” nuclear reactors dedicated to education during the golden age of American atomic ambitions. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a generation took the science of the atom and made it ... Read more

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  • A Single Sky

    How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy

    How radio astronomers challenged national borders, disciplinary boundaries, and the constraints of vision to create an international scientific community.For more than three thousand years, the science of astronomy depended on visible light. In just the last sixty years, radio technology has fundamentally altered how astronomers see the universe. Combining the wartime innovation of radar and the ... Read more

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  • Engineering the Environment

    Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War

    Promising an end to global hunger and political instability, huge climate-controlled laboratories known as phytotrons spread around the world to thirty countries after the Second World War. The United States built nearly a dozen, including the first at Caltech in 1949. Made possible by computers and other novel greenhouse technologies of the early Cold War, phytotrons enabled plant scientists to ... Read more

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  • Far Beyond the Moon

    A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

    Series series
    From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They’ve imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bubble travelling through space, inside of which people could live for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Far Beyond the Moon tells the dramatic ... Read more

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  • Legacies of the Manhattan Project

    Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World

    Series Book 2 - Hanford Histories
    The Hanford History Project held the “Legacies of the Manhattan Project at 75 Years” conference in March 2017. Its Richland, Washington, meeting venue was a stone’s throw from the southern-most edge of the Hanford Nuclear Site--the place where workers produced the plutonium that fueled the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.The symposium’s appeal extended well beyond ... Read more

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  • Ascorbic Acid in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Ascorbic acid (AsA), vitamin C, is one of the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants and animals. In plants AsA serves as a major redox buffer and regulates various physiological processes controlling growth, development, and stress tolerance. Recent studies on AsA homeostasis have broadened our understanding of these physiological events. At the mechanistic level, AsA has been shown to ... Read more

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  • Explainable AI for Practitioners

    Designing and Implementing Explainable ML Solutions

    Most intermediate-level machine learning books focus on how to optimize models by increasing accuracy or decreasing prediction error. But this approach often overlooks the importance of understanding why and how your ML model makes the predictions that it does.Explainability methods provide an essential toolkit for better understanding model behavior, and this practical guide brings together best ... Read more

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  • Plato's Laws

    Force and Truth in Politics

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the ... Read more

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  • Insane: The Stories Of Crazy Salvos Who Changed The World

    'Tell me the old, old story…'I can still remember listening to this age-old hymn being sung by lovely but warbling old ladies at the home league. The poet calls to others to tell them the story of faith, the one that has inspired countless millions to surrender their lives for the sake of the King and His Kingdom; the story of life and hope that has brought salvation to the world, the story of ... Read more

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  • David Niven

    The Man Behind the Balloon

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    David Niven appeared in films for over 50 years of his life, from swashbucklers such as The Prisoner of Zenda and The Guns of Navarone to the Pink Panther series. Despite his on-screen persona, Niven wasn’t always the perfect gentleman. He was insecure both privately and professionally and used people to get ahead. But he did, he said, ‘at least try to be a decent man.’ He knew he often failed, ... Read more

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  • Tackling Disability Discrimination and Disability Hate Crime

    A Multidisciplinary Guide

    Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.The guide outlines innovative projects developed to address the problem, and provides tailored guidance for professionals spanning education, health and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD