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MIT Press Enriching the Earth Fritz Haber Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production The MIT Press
Book SynopsisDr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia.In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its role in crop production, and traditional means of supplying the nutrient. He then looks at various attempts to expand natural nitrogen flows through mineral and synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is a detailed narrative of the discovery of ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber—a discovery scientists had sought for over one hundred years—and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and the chemical company BASF. Smil also exami
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Penguin Random House LLC The Soundscape of Modernity Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America 19001933 The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC Making Parents The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
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Penguin Random House LLC Retooling A Historian Confronts Technological Change MIT Press
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ABC-CLIO The Real Stuff
Book SynopsisThe authors consider the various criteria applied in selecting astronauts from among military test pilots, scientists, and mission specialists, and demonstrate the scientific and social concerns which led to the policy changes that brought scientific specalists, women, and minorities into the space program.
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ABC-CLIO The Swedish Farmers Movement and Government Agricultural Policy
Book SynopsisAn examination of the influence and organization of the Swedish farmers' movement in the 20th century. It focuses on the ways in which the movement has represented its members in light of the social, political and economic changes that have affected its position within the Swedish economy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Every Nation's Heartland Swedish Agricultural Politics: Acceptance of Exceptionalism Swedish Farmers' Organizations Exceptionalism Questioned Agricultural Corporatism Adjusting Farmers to Change Farmers, Interest Organizations, and the State Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO Space the Dormant Frontier
Book SynopsisRather than examining only the civil or military side of the US space program, as have many books in the past, Space, the Dormant Frontier takes a unique look at the space program as a whole.Table of ContentsRepackaging the Dream Policy Overview: If You Don't Care Where You're Going, Any Road Will Take You There The Situation Space as a Government Domain History As Inertia The Economics of Space, Breaking the Dependency Cycle The Opportunity Semidesperate Times Seeking New Opportunities The Method Convergence, Merging the Space Technology Bases Change the Paradigm, Incorporate Politics and Emphasize Economics A Parallel Development Plan Selected Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Medieval Architecture Medieval Learning Builders Masters in the Age of Romanesque Gothic Paper
Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on changes in architecture and learning at three moments in time. The authors trace the professional contexts and activities of builders from the creation of the Romanesque to the Gothic and in the process establish a new criteria for defining each.Table of ContentsIntroduction - art history as intellectual history. Part 1 The 11th century: beginnings; masters; builders. Part 2 Four crucial decades: transformations - Abelard and Saint-Denis. Part 3 The later 12th century: an age of experiment; learning and the schools in the late 12th century; the first half-century of Gothic.
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Yale University Press Every Farm a Factory
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Yale University Press Notes from the Ground
Book SynopsisIntegrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
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Yale University Press Into the Black
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Yale University Press The Woman Who Discovered Printing
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Springer Chemical Resistance of Polymers in Aggressive Media
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Springer Statistical Mechanics of Magnetically Ordered Systems
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Springer Fundamentals of Magnetohydrodynamics
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Springer Modern Electrochemistry An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Area 002
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Springer Autoxidation in Food and Biological Systems
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Springer An Introduction to Biological Control
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Springer RiskBenefit Analysis in Water Resources Planning and Management
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Springer Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics
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Springer Macromolecules Volume 2 Synthesis Materials and Technology 002
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Springer Physicochemical Aspects of Polymer Surfaces 002
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Springer Chemistry and Technology of WaterSoluble Polymers
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Springer Fuel Economy in Road Vehicles Powered by Spark Ignition Engines
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Springer Hydrothermal Processes at Seafloor Spreading Centers
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Springer Flexible Assembly Systems Assembly by Robots and Computerized Integrated Systems
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Springer Polyimides
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Springer Polyimides Synthesis Characterization and Applications Volume 2
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Springer Hydrometallurgical Process Fundamentals
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Springer Appropriate Waste Management for Developing Countries
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Springer Postnatal Growth Neurobiology
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Springer Chemistry of Coal Conversion
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Springer Membranes and Membrane Processes
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Springer Cell Fusion
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Springer Principles of Analytical Electron Microscopy
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Springer Applied Operations Research
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Springer Automotive Engine Alternatives
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Springer Electrochemical Sensors in Immunological Analysis
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Springer Human Lactation 3 The Effects of Human Milk on the Recipient Infant
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Springer Advances in Polyolefins The Worlds Most Widely Used Polymers
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Springer HF Communications A Systems Approach
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Springer Optical Particle Sizing Theory and Practice
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Springer Digital Filtering in One and Two Dimensions Design and Applications
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Springer Electroporation and Electrofusion in Cell Biology
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Springer Nearshore Sediment Transport
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Springer The New Biology Law Ethics and Biotechnology
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