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Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste
Ole G Mouritsen · Columbia Univ Pr
Pages: 263
Format: Print book
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In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes -- sour, sweet, salty, and bitter -- that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over the past century, an additional flavor has entered the culinary lexicon: umami, a fifth... |
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Popular Mechanics Gadget Planet: 150 Gizmos & Inventions that Changed the World
Popular Mechanics · Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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These gadgets changed the world! In 2011, Popular Mechanics gathered a panel of experts—esteemed inventors, designers, tech gurus, even a moonwalking astronaut—to create a definitive list of 101 gadgets that changed the course of history. The feature was so popular that it became... |
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Public Domain, The: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More
Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking! Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can often copy other people's work and get away with it. Enter the world of the public domain, where everything is free for the taking, and the only secret... |
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Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
Adam Brock · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language"... |
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
MONA HANNA-ATTISHA · One World
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of relentless citizen resistance in the face of corrupt power Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan - in the name of austerity - shifted the source of its water supply... |
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Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers
Lisa Guerin J.D. · NOLO; Seventh edition
Format: Print book
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Make - or update - your employee handbook today! Clear employee policies help you run a productive workplace and avoid legal problems. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything managers or HR professionals need to create a reader-friendly guide, or update an existing handbook... |
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Creativity without Law: Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property
Kate Darling · NYU Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will under-invest in new work. But this premise fails to fully capture... |
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Egirls, Ecitizens
Valerie M Steeves · University of Ottawa Press
Pages: 506
Format: Print book
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eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international... |
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Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment
Nick Smith · Cambridge University Press, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 402
Format: Print book
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In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed... |
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