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Fastest Things on Wings

Author : Terry Masear
Publisher : HMH
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780544416086

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Fastest Things on Wings by Terry Masear Pdf

A heartwarming memoir by “one of California’s hardest-working hummingbird rehabilitators . . . will leave the average bird lover agog” (The Washington Post). Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backward. When he arrived in rehab caked in road grime, he was so badly injured that he could barely perch. But Terry Masear, one of the busiest hummingbird rehabbers in the country, was determined to save this damaged bird, who seemed oddly familiar. During the four months that Masear worked with Gabriel, she took in 160 other hummingbirds, from a miniature nestling rescued by a bulldog to a fledgling trapped inside a skydiving wind tunnel at Universal CityWalk, and Pepper, a female Anna’s injured on a film set. During their time together, Pepper and Gabriel formed a special bond and, together, with Terry’s help, learned to fly again. Woven throughout Gabriel and Pepper’s stories are those of other colorful birds in a narrative filled with the science and magic surrounding these fascinating creatures. “This is a book about birds that is actually a book about love, and Masear does us a favor by risking heartbreak every day” (Los Angeles Times). “I cannot believe what a gripping read this is.” —Robin Young, host of NPR’s Here and Now “A book that will change forever the way you look at these little birds.” —Los Angeles Times “This is a charming and lively summertime read, something for the patio or balcony, glass of iced tea at hand, a hummingbird or two zipping around the azaleas.” —Dallas Morning News “I was riveted, charmed, delighted, devastated, profoundly moved, and taken to a magical place few people ever get to glimpse.” —Stacey O’Brien, author of Wesley the Owl

Fastest Things on Wings

Author : Teresa E. Masear,Terry Masear
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780544416031

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Fastest Things on Wings by Teresa E. Masear,Terry Masear Pdf

A leading hummingbird-rehabilitation therapist describes her work with dozens of remarkable varieties, including one bird that collided with a limousine before learning how to fly again.

Fastest Things on Wings

Author : Terry Masear
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Human-animal relationships
ISBN : 0544705378

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Fastest Things on Wings by Terry Masear Pdf

A Hollywood hummingbird rehabber will do nearly anything to save these tiny, fragile creatures, and readers following her adventures will learn just how astonishing and heartwarming these birds can be.

World’s Fastest Cars

Author : Hubert Walker
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382745

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World’s Fastest Cars by Hubert Walker Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest cars, highlighting record-setting cars from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

World’s Fastest Watercraft

Author : Brienna Rossiter
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382790

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World’s Fastest Watercraft by Brienna Rossiter Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest watercraft, highlighting record-setting watercraft from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

World’s Fastest Spacecraft

Author : Hubert Walker
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382776

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World’s Fastest Spacecraft by Hubert Walker Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest rockets, highlighting record-setting rockets from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

World’s Fastest Motorcycles

Author : Hubert Walker
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382752

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World’s Fastest Motorcycles by Hubert Walker Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest motorcycles, highlighting record-setting motorcycles from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

World’s Fastest Animals

Author : Brienna Rossiter
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382738

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World’s Fastest Animals by Brienna Rossiter Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest animals, highlighting record-setting animals on land, in the air, and in the sea, as well as the traits that help them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

World’s Fastest Roller Coasters

Author : Hubert Walker
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637382769

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World’s Fastest Roller Coasters by Hubert Walker Pdf

This book introduces readers to the world’s fastest roller coasters, highlighting record-setting roller coasters from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.

How Loud Can You Burp?

Author : Glenn Murphy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780330539340

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How Loud Can You Burp? by Glenn Murphy Pdf

There are no boring bits in How Loud Can You Burp?, a doodle-filled book of fun questions and answers from the author of the bestselling Why is Snot Green?. Could we use animal poo to make electricity? Why is water wet, and is anything wetter than water? What's the deadliest disease in the world? What are clouds for? What's the difference between a brain and a computer? Published in association with the Science Museum, discover loads of fascinating facts in Glenn Murphy's funny and informative book which helps us take a fresh look at the world (and universe) we live in.

Let It All Go!

Author : Dr. Mary Steele-Agee
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098079765

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Let It All Go! by Dr. Mary Steele-Agee Pdf

Carrying around weights can be emotionally, spiritually, and physically challenging! This book shares how we can "lay aside every weight" to gain strength, not only to run this race, but to stay in the race and finish well! Whether you have just now been introduced to the power of prayer or you are a seasoned prayer warrior, this book will help you target "weights" as you learn to pray about specific matters in your life that can so "easily beset you" and tend to keep you out of the race. These examples of prayers and scripture reflections are shared in hopes of you being inspired and encouraged as you stand on the promises of God! This material has been used in conferences, workshops and retreats.

Fast Algorithms for 3D-Graphics

Author : Georg Glaeser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662257982

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Fast Algorithms for 3D-Graphics by Georg Glaeser Pdf

In this book, a variety of algoritbms are described that may be of interest to everyone who writes software for 3D-graphics. It is a book that haB been written for programmers at an intermediate level as well aB for experienced software engineers who simply want to have some particular functions at their disposal, without having to think too much about details like special cases or optimization for speed. The programming language we use is C, and that has many advantages, because it makes the code both portable and efficient. Nevertheless, it should be possible to adapt the ideas to other high-level programming languages. The reader should have a reasonable knowledge of C, because sophisticated pro grams with economical storage household and fast sections cannot be written without the use of pointers. You will find that in the long run it is just aB easy to work with pointer variables as with multiple arrays . .Aß the title of the book implies, we will not deal with algorithms that are very computation-intensive such as ray tracing or the radiosity method. Furthermore, objects will always be (closed or not closed) polyhedra, which consist of a certain number of polygons.

On the Inside of a Marble

Author : Gavin Bascom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319606903

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On the Inside of a Marble by Gavin Bascom Pdf

Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang’s mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freeze-frame picture of our universe as if we had taken a three-dimensional picture with a giant camera. Within this picture, he traces forces beginning with the smallest (a single atom) to the biggest (the cosmos), keeping in mind that in this frozen moment everything further away from the observer spatially is also further away from the observer in time; that is, older. Soon a very real and very vivid image of the Big Bang appears (especially in things that are loud or hot), echoing down through time and into our everyday lives, reflected in every atom during every measurement. Then, slowly but deliberately, Bascom unfreezes this picture, ratcheting each moment from one to the next, showing us how and why quantum particles are constantly in contact with the Big Bang and why that allows the particles to pop in and out of existence from moment to moment, what a photon is, and what exactly we mean when we say that free space has energy. Whether you’re interested in the Big Bang, the weirdness of quantum mechanics, or simply enjoy thinking about the biggest, loudest, and oldest things in our universe, this book will help you question your deepest notions about time and space, while staying firmly rooted in empirical observation. Throughout the text, Bascom sidesteps traditional non-fiction modes, using colorful explanations and vivid imagery to place the reader in simultaneous contact with both the Big Bang and fundamental particles. As a result, Bascom provides the tools and language necessary to contemplate the strangeness of our universe.

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

Author : Robert Bryce
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610392068

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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper by Robert Bryce Pdf

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection. Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce shows how we have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier, lives than at any time in human history. The push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening across multiple sectors. Bryce profiles innovative individuals and companies, from long-established ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. And he zeroes in on the energy industry, proving that the future belongs to the high power density sources that can provide the enormous quantities of energy the world demands. The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.

Globalization

Author : Charles C. Lemert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315478999

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Globalization by Charles C. Lemert Pdf

"Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World" surveys the history of globalization from the earliest of ancient texts through contemporary debates and the prospects for anticipating the new worlds to come. At the end of the twentieth century, debates over the nature of globalization were unable to agree on a simple resolution, except to say that globalization is economic, political, and cultural all at once. Cultural globalization affects everyone with a smartphone, on which global youth from Los Angeles to Jakarta listen to Jay-Z and Beyonce. States are torn in several directions at once by unsettling economic, political, and cultural forces. Lemert concludes with a serious outline of the possible ways of imagining what the still-unknown global world will become next ways including optimism, caution, and skepticism."