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Marine Aquarium Keeping

By: Stephen Spotte

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The science and common sense behind creating an inexpensive,flourishing marine aquarium Marine Aquarium Keeping is the firstcomplete, step-by-step handbook to bring scientific perspective andinsight to the practical basics of assembling and successfullymaintaining a conventional marine aquarium. While minimizinggadgetry and underscoring a simple, commonsense regimen of looking,seeing, and understanding, author and marine biologist StephenSpotte offers logical, chapter-by-chapter guidance to every facetof the hobby--from choosing equipment and setting up an aquarium,to selecting healthy animals and maintaining a flourishingunderwater environment. Inside, readers will discover: * How to make a new aquarium suitable for sustaining life * How to select healthy animals from species demonstrating goodcaptive survival * The step-by-step basics of routine maintenance * How to easily meet the nutritional requirements of marineanimals * The key to disease prevention * The use of seawater and artificial seawaters * The living subgravel filter * Aquarium decorations as shelter spaces and as aestheticfeatures * The marine aquarium as a living community An extensive health and disease section offers detailed,easy-to-follow treatment regimens, several unique to this volume,for a variety of common diseases. Current controversies and popularmyths surrounding aquarium keeping, such as the benefits ofsupplemental light and the superiority of plastic filtrants, arealso examined. A wealth of black-and-white and color photographsthat strikingly depict marine animals in their natural habitatbring key facets of the text to life. Indispensable to the amateuraquarist who appreciates both the beauty and science of thisfascinating pastime, this newest edition of the popular classic isthe complete guide to successful, inexpensive marine aquariumkeeping.

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210

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John Wiley & Sons

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047159489X

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9780471594895

Calvin Didn't Know

By: Stephen E. Randall

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Calvin Didn't Know

By: Stephen E. Randall

Randall addresses African-American history in a very engaging, non-combative, fun manner in this presentation of interesting facts about day-to-day inventions created by African Americans.

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Better Day Publishing, LLC

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0976718936

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9780976718932

Thirty-Eight

The Hurricane that Transformed New England

By: Stephen Long

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Thirty-Eight

The Hurricane that Transformed New England

By: Stephen Long

The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.

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272

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Yale University Press

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030022088X

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9780300220889

Whites and Reds

A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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Whites and Reds

A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

By: Stephen V. Bittner

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century, embraced by Peter the Great, and then magnified many times over by the annexation of the indigenous wine economies and cultures of Georgia, Crimea, and Moldova in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, viniculture and winemaking became an important indicator of Russia's place at the European table. While the Russian Revolution in 1917 left many of the empire's vineyards and wineries in ruins, it did not alter the political and cultural meanings attached to wine. Stalin himself embraced champagne as part of the good life of socialism, and the Soviet Union became a winemaking superpower in its own right, trailing only Spain, Italy, and France in the volume of its production. Whites and Reds illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances, technologies, business practices, international networks, and, of course, the growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries. Because wine was domesticated by virtue of imperialism, its history reveals many of the instabilities and peculiarities of the Russian and Soviet empires. Over two centuries, the production and consumption patterns of peripheral territories near the Black Sea and in the Caucasus became a hallmark of Russian and Soviet civilizational identity and cultural refinement. Wine in Russia was always more than something to drink.

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256

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Oxford University Press

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019108767X

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9780191087677

Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life

By: Stephen Gray

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Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life

By: Stephen Gray

Born in London in 1879 and raised in the Cape of Good Hope, Beatrice Hastings was one of those talented marginal figures who are major witnesses to their times, but whose testimony has been sadly neglected. After an early marriage and almost immediate widowhood, she had a false start as a showgirl in New York before taking London by storm as the literary editor of, and leading contributor to, the progressive The New Age. With HG Wells, Bernard Shaw, GK Chesterton and Arnold Bennett she kept up well publicised differences of opinion. She also launched the careers of Ezra Pound and Katherine Mansfield. During the First World War she became the journal's Paris correspondent, gaining acclaim for her unique weekly insider reports. In her French years she lived with Amedeo Modigliani, who painted several famous portraits of her, setting a style in looks for the modern woman. Her friends included Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and with Jean Cocteau she shared the love of Raymond Radiguet, the boy genius less than half her age. She claimed that, by the age of forty, she had had forty male lovers, among them The New Age editor AR Orage and leading modernist Wyndham Lewis. Forthright and controversial Hastings made many enemies, but throughout her life she wrote prolifically and eloquently, leaving a fascinating record of the world she lived in. She died by her own hand in 1943. In this absorbing biography Stephen Gray traces her entire career, separating the legend of Beatrice Hastings - the notoriously free woman portrayed in several works - from the bare facts.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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0143529242

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9780143529248

Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance

By: P. Stephen Hardy,Sheila Jackson Hardy

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Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance

By: P. Stephen Hardy,Sheila Jackson Hardy

Real-life stories of struggle, achievement, victory, and sometimes loss that are an ideal companion for history, social science, language and geography studies. The Extroardinary People series is the perfect starter for students who want to know more about the people who shaped their world, focusing on the unique histories of people from every culture, and every walk of life.

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292

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516271709

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9780516271705

Marching with David

Foundations of a COSMIC TRUTH

By: Stephen Barrell

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Marching with David

Foundations of a COSMIC TRUTH

By: Stephen Barrell

This Book Contains, One Twisted Yarn, and a strange order of calibrated events. Political, Spiritual Bio-Fiction; a red, white and blue love story based and rupturing in foundations of a malignant global system. Friends and business partners, Arnott from England and Krystiyan from Ukraine, leave England together on an excursion to Europe, to Thailand, to dark antiquity and beyond. A Book of Four Parts; this is a simple story made complex by the language of god this is a story of consciousness, coexistence and love.

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403

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Author House

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1524683035

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9781524683030

Solving the Reemployment Puzzle

From Research to Policy

By: Stephen A. Wandner

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Solving the Reemployment Puzzle

From Research to Policy

By: Stephen A. Wandner

This book is about the interrelationships between research, policy, and programs that have dealt with the problems faced by experienced, Unemployed workers over the past 25 years. Much of its focus is on a series of social sci ence experiments that were conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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530

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W.E. Upjohn Institute

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0880993642

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9780880993647

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

By: Theodore P. Beauchaine,Stephen P. Hinshaw

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Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

By: Theodore P. Beauchaine,Stephen P. Hinshaw

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Second Edition is the only comprehensive text on childhood and adolescent disorders that addresses genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors within a developmental perspective. The new edition includes more on epigenetics, classification, culture and context and emphasizes how, when, and why disorders emerge among young people and in what ways symptom profiles change at different stages of development.

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750

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118416368

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9781118416365

X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Stephen P. Cramer

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X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Stephen P. Cramer

Synchrotron radiation has been a revolutionary and invaluable research tool for a wide range of scientists, including chemists, biologists, physicists, materials scientists, geophysicists. It has also found multidisciplinary applications with problems ranging from archeology through cultural heritage to paleontology. The subject of this book is x-ray spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation, and the target audience is both current and potential users of synchrotron facilities. The first half of the book introduces readers to the fundamentals of storage ring operations, the qualities of the synchrotron radiation produced, the x-ray optics required to transport this radiation, and the detectors used for measurements. The second half of the book describes the important spectroscopic techniques that use synchrotron x-rays, including chapters on x-ray absorption, x-ray fluorescence, resonant and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, nuclear spectroscopies, and x-ray photoemission. A final chapter surveys the exciting developments of free electron laser sources, which promise a second revolution in x-ray science. Thanks to the detailed descriptions in the book, prospective users will be able to quickly begin working with these techniques. Experienced users will find useful summaries, key equations, and exhaustive references to key papers in the field, as well as outlines of the historical developments in the field. Along with plentiful illustrations, this work includes access to supplemental Mathematica notebooks, which can be used for some of the more complex calculations and as a teaching aid. This book should appeal to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scientists alike.

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Springer Nature

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3030285510

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9783030285517

Fire in America

A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

By: Stephen J. Pyne

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Fire in America

A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

By: Stephen J. Pyne

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

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University of Washington Press

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0295805218

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Book's by Stephen E. Randall

Marine Aquarium Keeping

Marine Aquarium Keeping

Calvin Didn't Know

Calvin Didn't Know

Thirty-Eight

Thirty-Eight

Whites and Reds

Whites and Reds

Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life

Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life

Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance

Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance

Marching with David

Marching with David

Solving the Reemployment Puzzle

Solving the Reemployment Puzzle

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

Fire in America

Fire in America

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