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 The Hoover Dam (Building America: Then and Now)
The time was the early 1930s, the president was Herbert
Hoover, and the situation in the United States looked bleak.
The stock market had crashed in 1929, and most Americans were
hurt by the Great Depression, which left a majority of them jobless,
homeless, and penniless. But in the West, a beacon of hope
was in the... | | Endocrine System (Your Body: How It Works)
As a critical part of human physiology, the endocrine system controls the chemical messengers that help our body function. Learn about how the endocrine system works with this great book.
The human body is an incredibly complex and amazing structure. At best, it is a source of strength, beauty, and wonder. We can compare the... | | Special Functions
I have attempted to 'write this book in such a way that it can be read not only by professional mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and chemists, but also by \yell-trained graduate students in those and closely allied fields. Even the research worker in special functions may notice, however, some results or techniques with which he is... |
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ESP, Psychokinesis, and Psychics
Many people have experienced psi, whether as a sense of having been in a place before (deja vu), hearing a voice in their head that gave them guidance, or following their intuition. For some, these events can be attributed to coincidence, but for psychics, such episodes occur more frequently and intensely, often manifesting in dreams,... | | Atoms, Molecules, and Compounds (Essential Chemistry)
"Atoms, Molecules, and Compounds" goes behind the scenes of day-to-day chemistry to explore the atoms that govern chemical processes. In clear language, this exciting book shows how the interactions between simple substances such as salt and water are crucial to life on Earth and how those interactions are predestined by the atoms... | | |
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The Internet has had and will continue to have a profound effect
on society. It is hard to imagine life without such technologies as
computers, cell phones, gaming devices, and so on. The Internet,
World Wide Web, and their associated technologies have altered
our social and personal experience of the world. In no other time in... | | The Earth and the Moon (The Solar System)
The planets Mercury,Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—all visible to the naked eye—were known to ancient peoples. In fact, the Romans gave these planets their names as they are known today. Mercury was named after their god Mercury, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, because the planet seems especially fast moving when viewed... |
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Health Science Experiments (Experiments for Future Scientists)
From choosing healthy food to taking care of one's teeth, and from exploring the ways infection is spread to studying nerves, the health science field is a broad category of study. This book presents activities about health science issues to encourage students to make lifelong, healthy choices. ... | | Digital Games: Computers at Play (The Digital World)
In 2006, about 67 percent of Americans played video games using a computer or game console such as PlayStation, Xbox, or Wii. Video games have come a long way since they were developed in the 1970s. In the past, game programs used a computer-like gadget that could be connected to the television. The players would look at the image on the... | | Digital Communications: From E-Mail to the Cyber Community (The Digital World)
Between September 2006 and May 2007, the online networking site Facebook doubled its number of visitors to 26 million. Today, it has more than 300 million active users worldwide. Though Facebook is just one tool people use to connect with each other, the myriad of other Web sites such as MySpace and the estimated 2 billion cellphones in use... |
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