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Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Laureate and IFDC Board Member

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This work aims to provide students and practitioners with an introduction to ethics - from Aristotle through to the present - and suggests how these accounts can help technical communicators think through the kinds of dilemmas that arise in their working lives.

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This work aims to provide students and practitioners with an introduction to ethics - from Aristotle through to the present - and suggests how these accounts can help technical communicators think through the kinds of dilemmas that arise in their working lives.

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The Fascinating Inspirations behind common inventions and creations - from Barbie to the Taj Mahal.

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A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.

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Within business and government circles, attention has recently been given to the need to strengthen the ties between federal laboratories and the private sector. Federal Lab Technology Transfer examines current technology transfer efforts between these two sectors and discusses the prospects for increased transfer to private companies.

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Some of the best-known names in North America's fire service today share their pranks and antics, as well their insight as to why humor in the firehouse--the healthy firehouse--is becoming lore instead of thriving as it once did.

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Quantitative modeling methods have become a central tool in the management of harvested fish populations. This book examines how these modeling methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they might be improved by incorporating larger ecological interactions. Fisheries Ecology and Management provides a broad introduction to the concepts and quan

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Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey. Notwithstanding their common diet, they differ widely in group size, social system, ranging patterns, and degree of territoriality Originally published in 1984. The Pr

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In addition, he reviews the major elements comprising the flight management system and the evolution and operation of these instruments, discussing why the instrument panel is configured the way it is, and how ground and space-based components of the systems have influenced the design of airplane components.

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In June 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the first major legislation regulating these industries since the 1906 Wiley law. Eliminating many serious and long-standing abuses in production, labeling, and advertising, the 1938 Act was, in the words of David L. Cowen, "a milestone in federal interest in co

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This work is a detailed survey of food safety issues today, from E-coli contamination in fruits and vegetables to food production practices that increase antibiotic resistance.

Is our food safe

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This book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. This book not only examines the social consequences of the telephone, but provides a model for future efficient assessments of new technologies.

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A compelling look at the challenges of freshwater conservation and management issues facing the United States at the start of the new millennium.

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A fascinating glimpse inside the life-and-death business of biotechnology

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The autogyro (or gyroplane), first flown by Spanish inventor and aviator Juan de la Cierva in 1923, was a combination fixed-wing- rotary aircraft that was more stable than the helicopter, yet was eclipsed by its cousin for a variety of reasons. Seeing the story of the vehicle's tenuous continuing exi

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