Science / Tech
Science / Tech
Advances in Air Quality Research in Africa: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Air Quality in Africa (Icaq'africa 2022) (2024)
This book presents the recent findings on air quality in Africa from the virtual event of the first International Conference on Air Quality in Africa (ICAQ 2022), providing a comprehensive overview on many subjects of air pollution that affect African...
$260.00
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016)
This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation...
$143.00
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa (2016)
This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation...
$143.00
Across Africa, Etc. [With a Map and Plates.] Vol. I
Title: Across Africa, etc. [With a map and plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all...
$48.00
Across Africa, Etc. [With a Map and Plates.]
Title: Across Africa, etc. [With a map and plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all...
$46.00
Across Africa; 2
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$35.00
About Trees, Shrubs And Climbing Plants For South Africa: Concise Hints On The Making Of Farm Plantations, Shrubberies, Etc.
""About Trees, Shrubs and Climbing Plants for South Africa"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by George Carter that provides concise hints on the cultivation of various plants in South Africa. The book covers a wide range of topics related to...
$30.00
A. S. Hitchcock, Labrador-Newfoundland, Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$24.00
A contribuicao das pragas de insectos de armazenagem para a inseguranca alimentar em Africa
Mais de metade dos africanos vive da agricultura, que é também a atividade mais importante e a chave do seu desenvolvimento económico. Paradoxalmente, os países tropicais africanos, incluindo a Etiópia, encontram-se entre os líderes mundiais em matéria de insegurança alimentar....
$52.00
A cidade e o saneamento em Africa na gestao das inundacoes: o caso de Abidjan
Os efeitos das alterações climáticas são numerosos em todo o mundo, com perdas de vidas e danos materiais. Em África e, em particular, na Costa do Marfim, os últimos anos têm revelado um aumento das catástrofes causadas por chuvas intensas....
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4 Fragestellungen zur Evolution der Hominiden: Australopithecus / Out of Africa vs. Multi Origin / Homo habilis / Homo antecessor
Essay aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Biologie - Humanbiologie, Note: 2, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bereits als es noch überhaupt keine fossilen Funde in Afrika gab, postulierte Charles Darwin, dass die Wiege des modernen Homo sapiens dort liegen...
$31.00
3) Cars - From Actions to Autos: Africa Version
With this book, we see the science inside the billion cars that are in use on Earth. With science people: pour, pound and push to make car parts. More science is used to put together the parts to make the...
$17.00
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-By-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January– December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia,...
$19.00
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1)
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game―adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford―is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.In order to develop...
$18.99
Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame
For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that...
$58.00
Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon: Issues in Natural Resource Management
The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference...
$58.00
Will Post for Profit: How Brands and Influencers Are Cashing In on Social Media
How to earn a profit on social media.Since the rise of social media, Influencer Marketing has emerged as one of the most powerful alternatives to traditional marketing channels that have become too expensive and ineffective for the majority of businesses...
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Trusting Technology: Mastering Technology for Non-Tech Leaders
Trusting Technology is about adapting to new ways of life and work. Technology merely provides the platform.When we talk about the challenges of technology, we’re really talking about the challenges of improvement—the ways we change and the lessons we learn on...
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Hardcover)
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Hardcover)
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out...
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How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities
A guide to successful community moderation exploring everything from the trenches of Reddit to your neighborhood Facebook page.Don’t read the comments. Old advice, yet more relevant than ever. The tools we once hailed for their power to connect people and...
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The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday
Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a...
$26.00
$22.00
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
THE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIME What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York...
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A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist
The funny, moving, and surprising story of how Thomas Haines—who grew up in the famed Graham School orphanage—became a prominent scientist, social activist, New York City landlord, educator, and founder of the City University of New York Medical School.A Curious...
$18.00
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
A New York Times Notable Book A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics “Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography...
$28.00
$23.00
Posters for a Green New Deal: 50 Removable Posters to Inspire Change
"The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades––and as theses powerful posters make clear, it’s grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that...
$24.95
Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Extinction and Evolution recounts the research of paleontologist Niles Eldredge, whose discoveries overturned Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as a slow and inevitable process. In his 1859 treatise On the Origin of Species, Darwin posited that evolutionary changes happen very slowly over...
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Seeing Colour: A Journey Through Goethe's World of Colour
A thought-provoking read for color enthusiasts and experts alike, and an accessible route to a new way of seeing color. Features a Foreword by renowned physicist Arthur Zajonc. Color is everywhere. From blue skies to red sunsets, from the first...
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Great Maps The world's masterpieces explored and explained
The world's finest maps explored and explained.From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, "Great Maps" provides a fascinating overview of cartography through...
$30.00
Everyday Mathematics Made Easy: A Quick Review of What You Forgot You Knew, VOL 2
This easy-to-understand handbook teaches essential math concepts using real-life examples so you can confidently apply math skills in everyday situations such as personal finance, cooking, home repair, and shopping.For many of us, math can conjure memories of frustration and embarrassment, yet math...
$19.99