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science toys: educativoeducational toys: educational toys for childrenkids toys educational: jugueteshydraulic transmission is a transmission mode which uses pressurized liquid in closed system to transfer motion and powertechnology: planets
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Marshall cavendish insight science and technology partworkfull of science and technolgy facts in 7 bound volumes
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Like new - 10 kingfisher science encylopedia books covering chemistry and elements, electricity and electronics, light and energy, materials and technology, human biology, planet earth, living things, space and time, forces and movement and conservation for the envirnoment read more
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Stem (science - technology - engineering - mathematics) is an acronym that first arose in the united states
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We are ceasing to trust science in its institutional forms, formulated by an anointed class of science priests, and instead we are witnessing the emergence of what fuller calls 'protscience' - all sorts of people, from the new age movement to anti-evolutionists, claiming scientific authority as their ownoxfam shop macclesfield in this challenging and provocative book, steve fuller ranges widely over the history of science and religion - from aristotle and the atomists to dawkins and the neo-darwinists - and takes a close look at what science is, how its purpose has changed over the years, and what role religion and in more recent years atheism have played in its progressionfuller shows that these groups are no more anti-scientific than protestant sects were atheisticscience, argues fuller, is now undergoing its own version of secularizationsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The final two parts of the book look at a range of in vitro and in vivo studies of the complex interactions between biomaterials and the bodysurfaces and interfaces for biomaterials summarises the wealth of research on understanding the surface properties of biomaterials and the way they interact with human tissuepart two discusses ways of monitoring and characterising surface structure and behaviourthe laminated boards show only a few signs of shelf wear in that the corners are bumpedpart 4 surface interactions and in-vivo studies: bioactive 3d scaffolds in regenerative medicine: the role of interface interactions; intravascular drug delivery systems and devices: interactions at biointerface; surface degradation and microenvironmental outcomes; microbial biofilms and clinical implants; extracellular matrix molecules in vascular tissue engineering; biomineralisation processes; on the topographical characterisation of biomaterial surfacespart 2 measurement, monitoring and characterisation: surface spectroscopies; surface microscopies; nanoidentation; surface plasmon resonance; ellipsometry for optical surface study applications; neutron reflection; microgravimetrypart 3 surface interactions and in-vitro studies: interaction between biomaterials and cell tissues; blood flow dynamics and surface interactions; cell guidance through surface cues; controlled cell deposition techniques; biofouling in membrane separation systemsthere are some minor marks on the long edge of the page blockthe first part of the book reviews the way biomaterial surfaces formchapters cover such topics as bone and tissue regeneration, the role of interface interactions in biodegradable biomaterials, microbial biofilm formation, vascular tissue engineering and ways of modifying biomaterial surfaces to improve biocompatibilitysurfaces and interfaces for biomaterials is a standard work on how to understand and control surface processes in ensuring biomaterials are used successfully in medicinethis hardback first edition is in a good, used condition overallpart 5 appendices: surface modification of polymers to enhance biocompatibility; issues concerning the use of assays of cell adhesion to biomaterials; protein adsorption to surfaces and interfacesoxfam bookshop hexham given such problems as rejection, the interface between an implant and its human host is a critical area in biomaterialssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe volume as a whole is very slightly bowedotherwise, the text appears to be clean, bright and free from annotationtable of contents part 1 forming methods: fundamental properties of surfaces; control of polymeric biomaterial surfaces; organic thin film architectures: fabrication and properties; membranes and permeable films; stable use of biosensors at the sample interface; micro- and nanoscale surface patterning techniques for localising biomolecules and cells: the essence of nanobiotechnology
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Books include: the natural world people me and my body science and technology atlas of the world
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About the development of science and technology in wwii 394 pagesthe bestselling account of the war we never knewcover has been folded at top, pages yellowing read more
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The book has seven thematically arranged sections - earth and space, living world, human body, the way we live, science and technology, history, atlas of the worldformat size: 34 cma large format hardback edition of the illustrated encyclopaedia of the world, published by parragon and in excellent condition, with 256 lavishly illustrated full colour pageswill post or collection in person possible
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More sense of science and technologymake the operation more convenientjs1 realized automatic startupcolour:black + white
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Appreciated by bibliophiles, roret manuals allow you to recover or trace the history of science and technology throughout the 19th century, for example new technological discoveries of the moment such as the arrival of electricity, modern printing proceduresare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikieach work brings together useful knowledge on the subject with numerous illustrations and technical details, often accompanied by a volume of atlases or engraved illustrationsin nicolas-edme roret started the collection of roret manuals with the aim of offering, in a practical and easy-to-read format, quality technical information on the different arts and crafts2 volumes in 8o (15ii: atlas volume, 2 shcover and 12 folded engraved sheetsoriginal coversthese are the volumes corresponding to the art of building clockswith the publisher's signature on the back of the first page to authenticate the edition before the numerous forgery editions that circulated read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storegood specimen, with some oxidation stains, with its original covers, uncut, keeping all its beardswith the catalogue of publications of the librairie encyclopédique de roretcover 464 pp, 36 ppcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableat the end of the 19th century the collection reached more than 300 published titles
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Senston is committed to using science and technology to make better racketsit will also enhance the defense, increase the effective rangeeffective shock absorption, reduce arm pressure
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science and technology 3the natural world 4people in place and time 5atlas of the world read moreset of 6 children's booksme and my body 6earth and space 2excellent condition - never used so like new 1
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Broadcast in and designed to complement kenneth clarke's earlier bbc documentary series 'civilisation', bronowski concentrates on the growing development of human science and technology, of the ways in which humanity seeks to harness and dominate its environment, and the ways in which scientific and intellectual theory across the ages, from galileo to einstein, have broadened our horizonssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brighton in jacob bronowski was commisioned by david attenborough, then controller of bbc2, to write and present this 13-part documentary series that examines in great depth and with great erudition the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present day
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This extensive microscope set is ideal for exploring science and technology subjects with hands-on learninglearning resources geosafari micropro microscope setrequires 2 aa batteries (not included)
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The electric retractable door belongs to the small-scale production of science and technologyprinciple: the product uses screw to connect plastic parts to form a rolling shutter, which is automatically lifted and lowered by motor
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We have our own factory, senston is committed to use the science and technology to make better racketsabout senston senston engages in sports products for more than 5 yearss3 rubber colour-black/red, suitable for beginners trainers and amateurs
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This is a fabulous historical, hardback book with dustcover containing a timeline of events by year covering the following topics: world events, literature religion and philosophy, art and architecture, performing arts, science and technology, 128 pages, colour illustrations, very good conditionit provides both a time line of human achievement, plotting, scientific, cultural and technological progress, and a series of instant snapshots of the people and events that have shaped our worldribbons of time is an illustrated chart of the most significant things that have happened, year by year, sincebook measures 11" x cm x 21in good condition, bargain only £2
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This is a fabulous historical, hardback book with dustcover containing a timeline of events by year covering the following topics: world events, literature religion and philosophy, art and architecture, performing arts, science and technology, 128 pages, colour illustrations, very good conditionit provides both a time line of human achievement, plotting, scientific, cultural and technological progress, and a series of instant snapshots of the people and events that have shaped our worldribbons of time is an illustrated chart of the most significant things that have happened, year by year, sincein good condition, bargain only £1book measures 11" x cm x 21
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We have our own factory, senston is committed to use the science and technology to make better racketsabout senston senston engages in sports products for more than 5 yearsabout badminton racketthis link has two style of rackets
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This is a fabulous historical, hardback book with dustcover containing a timeline of events by year covering the following topics: world events, literature religion and philosophy, art and architecture, performing arts, science and technology, 128 pages, colour illustrations, very good conditionit provides both a time line of human achievement, plotting, scientific, cultural and technological progress, and a series of instant snapshots of the people and events that have shaped our worldribbons of time is an illustrated chart of the most significant things that have happened, year by year, sincein good condition, bargain only £1book measures 11" x cm x 21check out all the other things i have for sale
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The book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science developsoxfam books & music crouch end this volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centurywithout close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as humboldt and mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nationsthe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving - perhaps even recreating - the living world to serve human endstaking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestock
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The perfect blend of science and application, cycling science takes you inside the sport, into the training room and research lab, and onto the coursea remarkable achievement, cycling science features the following: contributions from 43 top cycling scientists and coaches from around the world the latest coaching and racing techniques, including pacing theories, and strategies for road, track, mtb, bmx, and ultra-distance events in this book, editors and cycling scientists stephen cheung, phd, and mikel zabala, phd, have assembled the latest information for serious cyclistshelp in planning training programs, including using a power meter, managing cycling data, off-the-bike training, cycling specific stretching, and mental trainingthe latest thinking on the rider-machine interface, including topics such as bike fit, aerodynamics, biomechanics, and pedaling technique  information about environmental stressors, including heat, altitude, and air pollutionoxfam shop colne road finally, the authoritative resource that serious cyclists have been waiting for has arrivedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea look at health issues such as on-bike and off-bike nutrition, common injuries, fatigue, overtraining, and recovery
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The science museum has been turning science into a thrilling learning experience for many years, and have added their special seal of approval to a limited range of toys that they believe support their mission and will engage children in all aspects of science and learningthe brush robot is a robot on the goeasy to make and fun to play with
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This book offers fresh insights in the field of cultural and film studies from a multi-focal perspectivealthough empire cinema has been examined by western scholars, such studies have located the films almost wholly within the colonizing country rather that exploring their reception among the colonizedit shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized peoplean empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in hollywood and britain during the turbulent s and ssee oxfam website for delivery information read morecombining wide-ranging scholarship based on original documents, film, stuides and historical and political analyses, the book aims to give the reader a sense of how ideologies, images and identites are constructed, promoted, contested and resisted in relation to key film representations of empireby shifting the emphasis to historical reception of imperial popular culture this book seeks to fill out a certain terrain between the current indian writing on national cinema and non-indian writing on empire cinema
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The complete works will revolutionize waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generallyonly 15% of waugh's letters have previously been publishedthe edition's general editor is alexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume personal writings sequencethe origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern readerall volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotationthis volume is part of the complete works of evelyn waugh critical edition, which brings together all waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantslong interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and bbc archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprintedalexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume personal writings sequence for the series, intercalating over letters with the complete, unexpurgated diariesfinally, in early waugh travelled for three months in remote british guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and a handful of dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the centurywaughs works are placed in their rich literary and historical context, enabling readers to appreciate for the first time the range and complexity of his thinking and artistic practice, and linking this to the work of his contemporaries in britain, america and europefiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantswaugh was 19 when his first oxford review appeared, 31 when the spectator printed his last review ofthis is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appearedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreseveral typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as waugh'sthe volume embraces university journalism; essays from waugh's years of drift after oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from to (the most active and enterprising years of waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in abyssinia and essays for the times on the condition of ethiopia and on british policy in arabiaoriginal texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controlsno other edition of a british novelist has been undertaken on this scaleoxfam bookshop victoria the complete works of evelyn waugh offers the first scholarly edition of waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings, and designsthis first volume of evelyn waugh's articles, essays, and reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by waugh between january , when he first went up to oxford, and december , when he had recently returned from british guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of a handful of dust
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science fun for kids aged 8+ yearswatch your robot walk across the floor while learning the importance of green science and recyclingbuild a cool robot out of a recycled drinks canall you need is a drinks can, single aa battery
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The physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists todayon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timebergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of timeshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosioncanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateoxfam shop kendal paperback as newjimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centurythe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicsshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham using the approach and skills he deployed to such successful effect on the relationship between mind and body in the prize-winning 'the sickening mind', likeable british popular science author paul martin here tackles the science of that most mysterious, elusive and alluring of human activities, sleeping, and draws on both cutting-edge neuroscience and classic literature to do sowe spend one third of our lives asleep, but know hardly anything about it, and can remember so little of it as we come out of itwhy?are dreams the place we go to resolve our problems, emasculate our fears and rehearse our hopes? why are we paralysed when we dream? why did sleep evolve?and is anybody getting enough sleep? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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