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2016
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It is the year 2298.Humanity stands at the threshold. A new era dawns as the barrier that has restricted man to his solar system has finally been breached.The Mission: To explore neighboring solar systems, to locate a Terran-like planet within the inhabitable zone of one or more of those systems. Twelve vessels, designated Terras One - Twelve, are entrusted with this task.The X-drive: a technological triumph that allows true interstellar travel, whose revolutionary ...
2019
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Have you ever turned your face to heaven, as the questions in your heart arose to your lips: Why am I here, you ask? What is the purpose of my existence? Have you given up on an answer or feel there is no one left to respond?Don't lose heart. Don't despair. You have not been forgotten, nor have you been forsaken. Life reaches out to you every moment, singing a song that only the heart can hear. Listen closely to Mother Stella's song, a song that springs from the deepest love.
Environmental Management
Problems and Solutions
2017
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There is a growing need to support undergraduate educators in the development of environmental management educational materials. Recognizing this need, the National Science Foundation funded a College Faculty Workshop on Environmental Management, that was conducted at Utah State University in July and August 1996. The principle objectives of the seminar were (1) to provide a meaningful course which would generate new ideas and innovative educational approaches in the emerging field of envi...
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5 hours 25 min
2024
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In the antarctic wilds ... Polaris Janess ... was born, of a mother he never knew, and grew to manhood's years knowing one human face only, that of his father. When that father died, the young man set his face to the north, to find the world of men ... Journeying through the silent wastes with his dog team [he] found Rose Emer, an American heiress, who had strayed from an exploring party, and who waited death in the icy wilderness … Polaris and the girl came upon the kingdom of Sardanes - ...
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- Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
2024
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The physiologic use conditions medical devices are subjected to during implant and long-term in vivo use are critical to ensuring device reliability, efficacy, and safety. This book highlights advanced analyses for measuring the physiologic use conditions of medical devices, introducing important challenges facing engineers. The chapters include:A working definition for the physiologic in vivo use conditions used to further improve medical device performance in patients....
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2012
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From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats ha...
Making the Modern World
Materials and Dematerialization
2013
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How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization.Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling m...
Introduction to Environmental Management
For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management
2020
EN
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This book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators. This book aims to provide an introduction to the main areas of concern and how the challenges can be addressed.This new edition takes account of recent changes in international guidance...
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- An Alex Benedict Novel
2004
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The acclaimed classic novel and fan favorite—the far-future story of one man's quest to discover the truth behind a galactic war hero.
2011
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Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction, but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role. This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane Lindskjold, New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn, and more—including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, when a mob of spa...
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- Year's Best Science Fiction
2016
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In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the fie...
The Commonwealth Saga 2-Book Bundle
Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained
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- The Commonwealth Saga
2014
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Earning comparisons to such sci-fi/fantasy greats as Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, and George R. R. Martin, Peter F. Hamilton is a one-of-a-kind voice in space opera. His interstellar adventures are hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, and philosophically stimulating. Now Hamilton’s centuries-spanning Commonwealth Saga—the linked novels Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained—is available in one epic eBook bundle.Contains a thrilling preview of Peter F. Hamilt...











