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Covers what you need to know about starting, maximizing, and harvesting the best vegetables you can possibly produce. With each chapter addressing a different vegetable, this title helps you learn tips and tricks about varietal selection, nutritional merits, how to begin, special hints for growing, and to deal with particular pests and diseases.

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A new space race has broken out in Asia. In the past two years, spacecraft have been launched to the Moon by China, Japan, India and the US. South Korea has suddenly announced lunar plans. The situation is like a repeat of the Cold War space race, but this time, the US could lose.

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The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle was the first rifled firearm issued to every soldier in the British Army, and gave the infantry a revolutionary increase in firepower. This title looks at the design, the history, the mechanics, and the use of this one of the most important firearms of the 19th century.

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The safety bicycle, with front-wheel steering and pedal-driven rear wheel, has existed since the experiments of Kirkpatrick Macmillan in 1839, but his ideas were forgotten when the front-wheel driven boneshakers and penny farthings reigned supreme. In the 1870s, experimental safeties appeared, culminating in Henry Lawson's Bicyclette of 1879.

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"Published to coincide with the launch of NASA's Perseverance rover mission this summer, the definitive account of our quest to find life on the Red Planet."--Publisher.

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"Personal and simple, earthy and warm-recipes and stories from the Steger Wilderness Center in Minnesota's north woods"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In 2018, the first genetically-modified children were born.

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An explosive expose on the world's most influential agricultural corporation.

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The United States military s official guide to first...

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A reference and instruction guide to the mechanics of working the land. The "Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics "combines three classic farming texts for the first time, compiling knowledge from the best sources of its time into a comprehensive reference book that should belong in any modern-day farming household.

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The village pump was once the focal point of rural life, providing the only water supply to communities and offering a place in town squares and village greens for people to come together. This book focuses on the history of the village pump, exploring the different designs that existed and shedding light on the communities that relied upon them.

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Sticks (wattle) and clay or earth (daub) has been used to fill gaps in wooden framework buildings. This book explains the technique and mysteries surrounding this building method.

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This book is a collection of essays focused on the Gordian knot of our time, the closely coupled
problems of energy poverty for billions of humans, and global warming for all humans. The
central thesis of the book in that nuclear power is not only the only solution, it is a highly
desirable solution, cheaper, safer, less intrusive on nature than all the alternatives.

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Focuses on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. This book helps you discover how musical instruments really work, how pitch is perceived, and how sound can be amplified with no external power source.

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Published to mark 150 years of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.

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Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life. This book correlates Italian and European modernism with early wireless technology. It presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless.

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Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life. This book correlates Italian and European modernism with early wireless technology. It presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless.