J Storrs Hall, "Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past" English | 2018 | ASIN: B07F6SD34R | 608 pages | EPUB / MOBI | 7.11 MB Back in the 60s we were all sure there would be flying cars in our future. Were the futurists and SF writers of the day just wrong? Or has something more interesting and important happened? Will we ever get flying cars? This book offers a compelling analysis of the past and a surprising view of the future.
When Babies Read: A Practical Guide to Helping Young Children with Hyperlexia, Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism By Audra Jensen 2005 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 1843108038 | PDF | 2 MB Audra Jensen's son began reading when he was only two years old. She shares her experiences - both the challenges and joys - of raising a child with autism and hyperlexia (an early and obsessive interest in the written word associated with social deficits and significant difficulty in understanding verbal language). The author stresses the importance of diagnosis of the condition for successful implementation of effective teaching strategies and encouragement of more typical childhood development. As well as useful advice, this guide provides a comprehensive reading curriculum specially designed for young, challenged children to help promote their reading ability. With practical suggestions on how to modify teaching and therapy programs to suit a child's individual learning style, this practical guide will prove invaluable for parents of children with autism and hyperlexia. What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degeneration: How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse AMD by Jeffrey Anshel OD English | ISBN: 0757004490 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2018 | 4.06 Mb Age-related macular degeneration―AMD―is the most commonly diagnosed eye disorder in people over fifty. Well over two million Americans have been told they have AMD, and that number is expected to grow substantially. While this is a frightening statistic, over the last several years, medical researchers have shown that a number of effective treatments can slow, stop, and even reverse the progress of AMD. Now, best-selling authors Dr. Jeffrey Anshel and Laura Stevens, who herself has been diagnosed with this condition, have joined forces to produce an up-to-date guide to what you need to know to combat and even prevent AMD. What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times by Ruth DeFries English | ISBN: 0231199422 | 264 pages | EPUB | December 1, 2020 | 3.02 Mb Not long ago, the future seemed predictable. Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead―or are already here. The world feels less comprehensible and more dangerous, and no one, from individuals to businesses and governments, knows how to navigate the path forward. Robert A. Beauregard, "Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0415932378 | PDF | pages: 321 | 8.6 mb [FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the foundational ambivalence Americans have toward their cities and, in turn, shaped the choices Americans made as they created and negotiated the country's changing urban landscape. [FOR GEOG/URBAN CATALOGS]Freely crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uses the words of those who witnessed the cities' distress to portray the postwar discourse on urban decline in the United States. Up-dated and substantially re-written in stronger historical terms, this new edition explores how public debates about the fate of cities drew from and contributed to the choices made by households, investors, and governments as they created and negotiated America's changing urban landscape. Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power by HarperOne English | December 10, 2019 | ISBN: 0062905147 | 240 pages | PDF | 1.42 Mb [b]Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram star and self-help pioneer behind the internet community Vibrate Higher Daily.
Vegan Nutrition for Bodybuilding Athletes: Bigger, Leaner and Stronger Than Ever by Mary Nabors English | April 7, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B086PLXY38 | 106 pages | PDF | 1.38 Mb Is there a vegan diet that can grant a high level of protein intake? Using visualisation in maths teaching by The Open University English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NDGMP9K | 35 pages | PDF | 0.34 Mb This course looks at visualisation as it relates to mathematics, focusing upon how it can be used to improve learning. It will also identify ways in which to make more use of visualisation within the classroom. Urban Drainage By David Butler, John Davies 2004 | 566 Pages | ISBN: 0415306078 | PDF | 6 MB Environmental and engineering aspects are both involved in the drainage of rainwater and wastewater from areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure, and the environmental issues involved. Each chapter contains a descriptive overview of the complex issues involved, the basic engineering principles, and analysis for each topic. Extensive examples are used to support and demonstrate the key issues explained in the text. Urban Drainage is an essential text for undergraduates and postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers in water engineering, environmental engineering, public health engineering and engineering hydrology. It is a useful reference for drainage design and operation engineers in the water industry and local authorities, and for consulting engineers. It will also be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in environmental science, technology, policy and planning, geography and health studies. University of Texas at Austin: The First One Hundred Years by Lori Duran 2020 | ISBN: 1540243524, 1467104779 | English | 130 pages | EPUB | 70 MB The University of Texas (UT) opened in 1883-38 years after Texas became a state and 7 years after the Texas Constitution called for the creation of a university of the first class. UT started off with 40 acres just north of Austin and with 221 primarily rural and local students. But since its founding, it has grown extensively and acquired worldwide prominence. Now, UT has 431 acres on its main campus and over 51,000 students enrolled from all 50 states and, at least, 124 different nations. UT is recognized as a top-rated state university, providing high-quality instruction and research. The university has also acquired architecturally interesting buildings, cherished traditions, and exciting sports programs over the years. |