Hot Mess

• Author(s): Matt Winning

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2021-11-11
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• Publisher: Headline

'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of laughs about "the climate situation" and will position you at the right point between fear and determination' - Mark Watson 'Hilarious, informative and worrying in equal measure. And that's just the bits about having a baby' - Josie Long For fans of Randall Munro's WHAT IF? Matt Parker's HUMBLE PI and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world! Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and environmental economist with a PHD in climate change policy, which means he's the sort of doctor who will rush to your side if you fall ill on a plane, but only to ...

Who Owns Whom

• Categories: Corporations

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2005
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• Publisher: Unknown

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ICREGA’14 - Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications

• Author(s): Mohammad O. Hamdan, Hassan A.N. Hejase, Hassan M. Noura, Abbas A. Fardoun

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-07-01
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• Publisher: Springer

This book collects the edited and reviewed contributions presented in the 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications” ICREGA’14, organized by the UAE University in Al-Ain. This conference aims to disseminate knowledge on methods, policies and technologies related to renewable energy and it acknowledges the leadership of the UAE which committed to a 7% renewable energy target by 2020. The demands and developments in renewable energy generations and applications are rapidly growing and are facing many challenges on different levels such as basic science, engineering system design, energy policies and sustainable developments. This edition presents new con...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Author(s): United States. Patent and Trademark Office

• Categories: Patents

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Knowledge Through Imagination

• Author(s): Amy Kind, Peter Kung

• Categories: Philosophy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016
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• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Imagination is celebrated as our vehicle for escape from the mundane here and now. It transports us to distant lands of magic and make-believe. It provides us with diversions during boring meetings or long bus rides. It enables creation of new things that the world has never seen. Yet the focus on imagination as a means of escape from the real world minimizes the fact that imagination seems also to furnish us with knowledge about it. Imagination seems an essential component in our endeavor to learn about the world in which we live--whether we're planning for the future, aiming to understand other people, or figuring out whether two puzzle pieces fit together. But how can the same mental powe...