World Changing Ideas 20 innovative ways to build a cleaner, healthier, smarter world Plus: • Ancient Greek Computer Sophisticated Technology Tracked the Heavens • Arctic Climate Threat Methane from Thawing Permafrost • Lessons from the Lost City What Undersea Vents Reveal about Life's Origins • Special Photo Essay Microscopic Life Up Close • Portrait of a Black Hole
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Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Soviet admirals, along with leading naval historian Dr. Gary Weir, reveal the successful spying missions, the technological breakthroughs, the confrontations with U.S. forces, and the undersea disasters that killed many hundreds of sailors.
Lexicography: An Introduction provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential reference works. Howard Jackson analyses a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and learners’ dictionaries, including those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource.
Added by: DISCOVERY | Karma: 1711.74 | Black Hole | 26 February 2009
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Find out which jobs Blue's friends are pretending to have, as you help Investigative Reporter Steve uncover the clues that reveal what job Blue wants to pretend to have too!
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This book develops the best traditions of the Russian scientific popular literature. Written in a clear and captivating manner by working theoretical physicists, who are, at the same time, dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, it brings to the reader the latest achievements in quantum solid-state physics, but along the way it also shows how the laws of physics reveal themselves even in seemingly trivial episodes concerning the natural phenomena around us.
