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  • A History Of Irish Forestry

    by Eoin Neeson ...
    This comprehensive study, with a foreword by Lord Killanin, looks at Irish forestry from the migration of the first wood species some 10,000 years ago to the present day. Part One, The Historical Background, examines the primeval forest and early settlers, woodlands, land title and tenure under the Celts, codified with Brehon law; Norman forest law imposed in the early medieval period; the Tudor ... Read more

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  • A History Of Irish Forestry

    by Eoin Neeson ...
    This comprehensive study, with a foreword by Lord Killanin, looks at Irish forestry from the migration of the first wood species some 10,000 years ago to the present day. Part One, The Historical Background, examines the primeval forest and early settlers, woodlands, land title and tenure under the Celts, codified with Brehon law; Norman forest law imposed in the early medieval period; the Tudor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Day the Universe Changed

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  • Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions

    A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries and Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World

    by Terry Breverton ...
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  • The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources addresses the conservation, management and sustainable use of forest tree and other woody plant genetic resources of actual and potential value for human well-being in the broad range of management systems. This report complements two other FAO flagship publications in the field of forestry, the annual State of the World's Forests and the periodic ... Read more

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  • Autos And Progress : The Brazilian Search For Modernity

    by Joel Wolfe ...
    Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the ... Read more

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  • Numerical Ecology with R

    by Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet, Pierre Legendre ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical overviews, the authors accompany the users through the exploration of the methods by means of applied and extensively commented examples. Users are invited to use this book as a teaching companion at the computer. The ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Typewriter

    A History

    by Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Read more

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  • Toxic Archipelago

    A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
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  • Imperial Unknowns

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