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21) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top-secret military research agency
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No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
23) Ice at the end of the world: an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future
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"Greenland: remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock, population 56,000, in the middle of the North Atlantic. Why do we care so much about it? Because locked within the the vast and frozen "white desert"--the nickname early explorers gave it--that covers eighty percent of the land are some of the most profound secrets of our planet--clues about where we've been, and where we might be headed. And now, with the ice sheet melting at an unprecedented rate,...
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King's explanation of Gerhart Hauptmann: Die Ratten, text analysis and interpretation with detailed table of contents and Abitur tasks.
In one volume, the new König Explanations offer you everything you need to prepare for a presentation, exam, high school diploma or high school diploma.
This saves you tedious research and takes less time to prepare.
All important information about the interpretation.
- from the detailed table of contents to the...
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You weren't invited by the King when the world was created on Day One, at the dawn of history. Nor this idea was present, too. So why did you fall prey to it? ========================= I began to observe carefully. To look more closely at this concept of retirement. To read every story and write down notes. During this journey, one idea kept surfacing repeatedly, and this idea became flesh and blood with this ebook. You may call me a dreamer, but...
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Este volumen reúne 23 ensayos (uno introductorio general y 22 temáticos) escritos por 30 autores que abordan desde distintas perspectivas y en diversos registros textuales (desde el ensayo libre hasta un formato próximo al artículo académico) problemas centrales de la educación peruana contemporánea con un propósito común: sugerir vías para introducir modificaciones sustantivas que permitan, por un lado, sostener las mejoras observadas en...
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For anyone interested in Northern Ireland, its history, its culture, its music.... finally here comes a book that offers a new approach into understanding the complex diversity that has shaped Northern Irish society and its people during the times of the Troubles and beyond. Like poems, songs, in their own right, should be recognized as historical documents. From Mickey McConnell's Only our Rivers Run Free and Phil Coulter The Town I loved so Well...
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#1 Around us, we see a level of individual wealth that has never been seen before. Conspicuous consumption of redundant consumer goods has greatly expanded over the past generation.
#2 The symptoms of collective impoverishment are all around us. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were becoming less unequal. But since then,...
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#1 I was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome.
#2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to...
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Este libro es fruto de un trabajo colectivo que centra su análisis en el dispositivo Aula y su relación con los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Surge, además, en el contexto de la discusión actual sobre educación en el país, en la que no se han considerado cuestiones fundamentales, como las condiciones que posibilitan el aprender y las determinaciones del sujeto que aprende. Con el propósito de explorar los diversos modos en que se puede...
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In the remote regions of Australias Northern Territory Indigenous Australians experience extreme disadvantagein health, income, employment, education and access to the conditions for a good life. This book is about their plight, and how governments can deliver strategies to prevent the continuation of their disadvantage. Governments and institutions like the World Health Organisation have expressed intentions to close the gaps that are represented...
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In interviews with brilliant and controversial medical researchers and practitioners, David Jay Brown reveals "proposed solutions for what's wrong with modern medicine, ideas about reversing the aging process and suggestions that can lead to a future in which all diseases are easily curable." Interviews with Andrew Weil, Jonathan Wright, Barry Sears, Garry Gordon, Jacob Teitelbaum, Marios Kyriazis, Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis, Durk Pearson & Sandy...
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Estrategias cualitativas de investigación en educación matemática. Recursos para la captura de información y el análisis ofrece un recurso bibliográfico para estudiantes en procesos de elaboración de trabajos de grado o tesis, investigadores noveles en el campo de la educación matemática y profesores que orientan espacios académicos de investigación.
El libro se enfoca en estrategias y recursos útiles en un diseño investigativo, al tenor...
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A step-by-step guide to Brain-Friendly MOVIE language courses. Use the latest development of the Birkenbihl method! Including valuable learning tips! It is the better, more accessible, and motivating learning method. The annoying vocabulary cramming was in the past. The basis for the new learning with Brain-Friendly Movies is de-coding, i.e., the Birkenbihl method. Connections between words and their meaning are created in the brain. It is essential...
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#1 The Netherlands was the most logical place to build an ark. With more than a quarter of the country lying below mean sea level, canals, rivers, and lakes were almost as common as trees.
#2 The Netherlands is a country that was built on land that was reclaimed from the sea. The country is known for its flatness and its windmills, which were used to pump fields dry....
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This book gathers an important research process in the field of project management, addressing a current issue for the challenges posed by highly competitive environments, such as the relationship of projects with knowledge, more specifically with external knowledge. For this purpose, it uses the dynamic absorptive capacity, a concept widely used in the scientific literature but little explored in project management. The book also presents a practical...
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King's Explanation to Thomas Mann: Death in Venice - Text analysis and interpretation with detailed table of contents and Abitur exams.
In one volume, the new König Explanations offer you everything you need to prepare for a presentation, exam, high school diploma or high school diploma.
This saves you tedious research and takes less time to prepare.
All important information about the interpretation.
- from the detailed table of contents to...
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