Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in "Dry" - those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas, eking ...
Inaugurated fifty years ago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory remains one of the nation's premier research institutions. This profusely illustrated volume, written for a non-scientific readership, chronicles the history of the laboratory from its origins to the present day.
The overall goal of this book is to increase the size of and more widely disseminate the "portfolio" of research and other works aimed at protecting and sustainably utilizing biodiversity of global significance in arid and semiarid areas in developing nations. Specifically, the book focuses on best practices and lessons learnt for science, for ...
We're all part Yin and part Yang, but Suki's Yang is trying to get out! Witness the Siamese Burn, an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. And it works! Suki is down to her last unwanted identity, but now she's losing time and the machine is changing into something that's going to turn her world inside out. And that ...
Take a peek at the twisted origin of Violet Grimm, courtesy of Moko the Goblin Clown and his Toxic Pool of Illumination, in this sadistic conclusion to the goth cult-phenomenon! Still reeling from Dolores' betrayal, Violet now faces more trouble in the form of a bizarre allergy to the psychic fallout. Rising from Moko's toxic waters only to ...
For the past 20 years, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has been at the forefront of efforts to promote science and science-based developments in the developing world. This history of TWAS, the first of its kind, seeks to examine the forces that led to the creation of TWAS and that have sustained its growth and development ever since. ...
Meet Violet Grimm, arcane sex symbol extraordinaire. Exiled to the Banewoods for practicing the most dangerous form of Molotov magic, this seductive former starlet continues to entertain by releasing underground videos of her terrifying exploits. But Violet's quickly learning that fame's not all it's cracked up to be! The only way to fend off ...
B-Movie scream queen Violet Grimm launches her second season of black magic home movies with an "Iron Chef" - style culinary experiment - one that goes horribly awry. When she accidentally creates the sentient goop called Black Treacle, Violet finds herself hunted by creepy creatures and insane clowns. Worse yet, she falls under the Treacle's ...
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