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How to Convert a School Bus or Van into a Tiny Home or Recreational Vehicle

by Will Sutherland ...

School buses that have been converted into mobile living spaces — known as skoolies — are a natural extension of the tiny house craze. Buses are not only easier and safer to drive than an RV, they provide a jump-start on the conversion process with frame, roof, and floor already in place. Experienced builder Will Sutherland, whose creative school bus conversions have been featured in Road and ... Read more

$12.99 USD

School buses that have been converted into mobile living spaces — known as skoolies — are a natural extension of the tiny house craze. Buses are not only easier and safer to drive than an RV, they provide a jump-start on the conversion process with frame, roof, and floor already in place. Experienced builder Will Sutherland, whose creative school bus conversions have been featured in Road and
... Read more
Postphenomenology and Imaging

How to Read Technology

by Samantha J. Fried, Robert Rosenberger, Bas de Boer, Anette Forss, Cathrine Hasse, Stacey O. Irwin, Lisa Messeri, David Ribes, Will Sutherland0, Janet Vertesi1, Katie Warfield2, Don Ihde3, Robert P. Crease4, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis5 ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its ... Read more

$109.99 USD

How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its
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Climate Change and Global Health

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

by Dr Kerryn Higgs, Ågot Aakra, Khaled Abass, Robyn Alders, Kofi Amegah, Janetrix Hellen Amuguni, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Katherine Barraclough, Barbara Berner0, Alex Blum1, Justin Borevitz2, Menno Bouma3, Devin C. Bowles4, Mark Braidwood5, Anne Lise Brantsæter6, Cyril Caminade7, Katrina Charles8, Fiona Charlson9, Moumita Sett Chatterjee0, Matthew Chersich1, Rebecca Colvin2, Namukolo Covic3, Christopher B Daniels4, Richard Dennis5, Cybele Dey6, Hubert Dirven7, Yuming Guo8, Tari Haahtela9, Ivan C Hanigan0, Andrew Harmer1, Budi Haryanto2, Susanne Hyllestad3, Christine Instanes4, Ruth Irwin5, Ollie Jay6, Solveig Jore7, Ke Ju8, Tord Kjellstrom9, Marit Låg0, Jason KW Lee1, Shanshan Li2, Irakli Loladze3, Rosemary A. McFarlane4, Martin McKee5, Helle Margrete Meltzer6, Glen Mola7, Andy Morse8, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem9, Dr Nicholas H. Ogden0, Johan Øvrevik1, Rebecca Patrick2, Rezanur Rahaman3, Delia Randolph4, Shilpa Rao5, Arja Rautio6, Mary Robinson7, Tilman Ruff8, Subhashis Sahu9, Jonathan Samet0, Photini Sinnis1, Julie P Smith2, Jessica Stanhope3, Will Steffen4, Peter Stoett5, Stewart Sutherland6, Cathrine Thomsen7, Collin Tukuitonga8, May van Schalkwyk9, Gro Dehli Villanger0, Sue Wareham1, Philip Weinstein2, Bo Wen3, Robert White4, Kirsty Wild5, Kate Wingett6, Alistair Woodward7, Caradee Y. Wright8, Yao Wu9, Pei Yu0 ...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, ... Read more

$161.99 USD

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international,
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The Guerrilla Hunters

Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

by Adam Domby, Andrew Fialka, Scott Thompson, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Joseph Beilein, Earl J. Hess, Laura J. Davis, Andrew F. Lang, Matthew M. Stith, Aaron Astor, Brian Steel Wills, Stephen Rockenbach, Daniel E. Sutherland, Matthew Christopher Hulbert ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy
... Read more
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Eye for Genius, An: James Brand Pinker and Henry James

by Kerry Sutherland ...

Narrated by Will Brunson ...

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3 hours 21 min

A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature.Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along ... Read more

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A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature.Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along
... Read more

Grand Transitions

How the Modern World Was Made

by Vaclav Smil ...

From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which
... Read more

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The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

by Thomas R. Flagel ...

Series series History Buff's Guides
Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and
... Read more
Cool It

by Bjorn Lomborg ...

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches
... Read more
For Cause and Comrades

Why Men Fought in the Civil War

by James M. McPherson ...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death,
... Read more

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For Cause And Comrades : Why Men Fought In The Civil War

by James M. McPherson ...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

$14.99 USD

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death,
... Read more
The Skeptical Environmentalist

Measuring the Real State of the World

by Bjørn Lomborg ...

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

$45.99 USD

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research
... Read more
Southern Storm

Sherman's March to the Sea

by Noah Andre Trudeau ...

A gripping, definitive, New York Times –bestselling account of Sherman's legendary and destructive march through Georgia."Mr. Trudeau's narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one of history's more quotable military leaders. . . . Mr. Trudeau accomplishes what he set out to do: march through the experience in all its detail." — The Wall Street Journal... ... Read more

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A gripping, definitive, New York Times –bestselling account of Sherman's legendary and destructive march through Georgia."Mr. Trudeau's narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one of history's more quotable military leaders. . . . Mr. Trudeau accomplishes what he set out to do: march through the experience in all its detail." — The Wall Street Journal...
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