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How Open a Financially Successful Bakery: with Companion CD-ROM REVISED 2ND EDITION
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc; 2 edition
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This totally updated, new second edition leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan, how to buy and sell a bakery, basic cost-control systems, profitable product planning, sample floor plans diagrams, successful kitchen management,... |
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The Atlas of Life on Earth: The Earth, Its Landscape and Life Forms
Windmill Books · Chartwell Books
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The Atlas of Life on Earth offers a comprehensive, chronological survey of the Earth, its landscape and its life forms, from the beginning of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago to the present.The atlas is accessibly organized in six major parts, with 18 chapters devoted to each of the major... |
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Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine
James R Valcourt · Bloomsbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks... |
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Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers---from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
Barnaby Rogerson · Picador
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THE STORIES BEHIND OUR ICONIC NUMBERSRogerson’s Book of Numbers is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons, and cultural symbols.It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued... |
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McGraw-Hill Education 500 Questions to Know by Test Day: Math for the GRE® Test
Sandra Luna McCune · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
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500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest Score We want you to succeed on the Math section of the GRE test. That's why we've selected these 500 questions to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. These questions are similar to the ones... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Douglas W Hubbard · Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John
Pages: 410
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Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business, government... |
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Philip Ball · University Of Chicago Press
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If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical... |
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Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets
Jan Zalasiewicz · Oxford University Press
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Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth but they are very important not only in hosting life including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend but in terms of their role in the Earth system in regulating... |
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
T R Birkhead · Princeton University Press
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover |
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Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
Shawn Lawrence Otto · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 368
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"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense--we... |
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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Rob Manning · Smithsonian Books
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The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we havent found answers... |
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
Keith Veronese · Prometheus Books
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How will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would falter, and laptops fail. Tantalum is not alone.  Rhodium. Osmium. Niobium. Such refugees... |
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