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  • Unnatural Selection

    The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People

    Edited by Peter Healey, Steve Rayner ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: evolution engineered by us. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science offer the possibility to enhance human performance, lengthen life-span and reshape our inherited physical, cognitive and emotional identities. But ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Financial Stability and Central Banks

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Richard Brearley, Juliette Healey, Peter J N Sinclair, Charles Goodhart, David T. Llewellyn, Chang Shu ...
    Series series CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR'S SYMPOSIUM
    An overview of present day thought on the very topical subject of financial stability and central banking. The papers, written by leading researchers, provide a highly informed account of contemporary policy issues and explore the legal, regulatory, managerial and economic issues that affect central banks. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Research System in Transition

    Edited by Susan E. Cozzens, Peter Healey, Arie Rip, John Ziman ...
    Series Book 57 - NATO Science Series D
    On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Quote... Unquote

    Highlights from the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 panel show

    by Nigel Rees ...
    Narrated by Nigel Rees, David Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Terry Wogan, Glenda Jackson, Peter Ustinov, Denis Healey ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 52 min

    This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying Shakespearean dialogue, attributing witty last words and putting names to famous one-liners, panellists go on ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Stress Test

    Reflections on Financial Crises

    by Timothy F. Geithner ...
    **New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.**As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, from boom to bust ... Read more

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  • Salt Tectonics

    Principles and Practice

    by Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec ...
    Salt tectonics is the study of how and why salt structures evolve and the three-dimensional forms that result. A fascinating branch of geology in itself, salt tectonics is also vitally important to the petroleum industry. Covering the entire scale from the microscopic to the continental, this textbook is an unrivalled consolidation of all topics related to salt tectonics: evaporite deposition and ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology

    by Gerardo Alguacil, Jens Havskov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work provides an up-to-date overview of modern instruments used in earthquake seismology as well as a description of theoretical and practical aspects of seismic instrumentation. The main topics are:• Choosing and installing equipment for seismic stations• Designing and setting up seismic networks and arrays• Maintaining and calibrating seismic instrumentsIt also provides detailed ... Read more

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  • The Road to Ruin

    The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

    by James Rickards ...
    The bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors in The Road to Ruin, now a National Bestseller.A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are unmistakable. This time, the elites have an audacious plan to protect themselves from the fallout: hoarding ... Read more

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  • The Magnetotelluric Method

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Alan D. Chave, Alan G. Jones ...
    The magnetotelluric method is a technique for imaging the electrical conductivity and structure of the Earth, from the near surface down to the 410 km transition zone and beyond. This book forms the first comprehensive overview of magnetotellurics, from the salient physics and its mathematical representation to practical implementation in the field, data processing, modeling and geological ... Read more

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  • International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013)

    Proceedings, Antalya, Turkey, 9-12 October 2013

    Edited by Mehmet Ozer, Ahmet Yavuz Oral, Zehra Banu Bahsi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013) was held on 9-12 October, 2013.This three-day congress focused on the latest developments of sustainable energy technologies, materials for sustainable energy applications and environmental & economic perspectives of energy.These proceedings include 63 peer reviewed technical papers, submitted from leading ... Read more

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  • The Eight pillars of prosperity

    by James Allen ...
    It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realization of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can ... Read more

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