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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】My Straight Jacket【電子書籍】[ Mark Meade ]

＜p＞The compelling story of a gay dad, confined, living a straight life for 39 years. Discover how he endures living the heterosexual life, as a closeted gay man. Follow his journey from a child to a man as he learns to deal with and accept his true sexuality. Experience the joys and troubles of coming out to his children, family, and friends. Gather the insight as he takes a look inside himself＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【楽天ブックスならいつでも送料無料】Birds in a Book (Uplifting Editions): Jacket Comes Off. Branches Pop Up. Display Like a Bouquet! POP UP-BIRDS IN A BK (UPLIFTIN （Uplifting Editions） [ Lesley Earle ]

POP UPーBIRDS IN A BK (UPLIFTIN Uplifting Editions Lesley Earle Rachel Grant ABRAMS2019 Hardcover English ISBN：9781419733932 洋書 Computers & Science（コンピューター＆科学） Nature

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Environmental Load Factors and System Strength Evaluation of Offshore Jacket Platforms【電子書籍】[ Zafarullah Nizamani ]

＜p＞This book presents a study for the determination of environmental load factors for Jacket Platforms in Malaysia and a methodology to determine the life extension of aging platforms. The simplified methods described here could be used for determining not only structural reliability but also safety factors. Its content is particularly interesting to design and maintenance engineers who are working in offshore or onshore industry.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans - Sy Montgomery (Chelsea Green) 【紙書籍】 9781603580595

タイトル: Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans著者: Sy Montgomery出版社: Chelsea Green出版日: 2009年01月16日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。From the author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, a book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth where tigers routinely eat people--swimming silently behind small boats at night to drag away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike in other parts of Asia where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in the Sundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and the spirit of a mystic, Montgomery reveals the delicate balance of Sundarbans life, explores the mix of worship and fear that offers tigers unique protection there, and unlocks some surprising answers about why people at risk of becoming prey might consider their predator a god.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention - Daniel L Everett (Liveright) 【紙書籍】 9781631496264

タイトル: How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention著者: Daniel L Everett出版社: Liveright出版日: 2019年12月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind's most incredible creation. Deemed a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" by Tom Wolfe (Harper's), Daniel L. Everett posits that the near- 7,000 languages that exist today are not only the product of one million years of evolution but also have allowed us to become Earth's apex predator. Tracing 60,000 generations, Everett debunks long- held theories across a spectrum of disciplines to affi rm the idea that we are not born with an instinct for language. Woven with anecdotes of his nearly forty years of fi eldwork amongst Amazonian hunter- gatherers, this is a "completely enthralling" (Spectator) exploration of our humanity and a landmark study of what makes us human. "[An] ambitious text. . . . Everett's amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes . . ., will help the neophyte along."-- New York Times Book Review

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Discipline of Organizing - Robert J Glushko (The MIT Press) 【紙書籍】 9780262518505

タイトル: Discipline of Organizing著者: Robert J Glushko出版社: The MIT Press出版日: 2013年05月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things--books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers--and digital things--Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content of all media types without thinking "I'm organizing now" or "I'm retrieving now."This book offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR), bridging the disciplinary chasms between Library and Information Science and Computer Science, each of which views and teaches IO and IR as separate topics and in substantially different ways. It introduces the unifying concept of an Organizing System--an intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they support--and then explains the key concepts and challenges in the design and deployment of Organizing Systems in many domains, including libraries, museums, business information systems, personal information management, and social computing.Intended for classroom use or as a professional reference, the book covers the activities common to all organizing systems: identifying resources to be organized; organizing resources by describing and classifying them; designing resource-based interactions; and maintaining resources and organization over time. The book is extensively annotated with disciplinary-specific notes to ground it with relevant concepts and references of library science, computing, cognitive science, law, and business.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why - David Allen Sibley (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9780307957894

タイトル: What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why著者: David Allen Sibley出版社: Knopf出版日: 2020年04月14日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing--and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." --NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds--blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees--it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults--including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes--it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing - Matthew G Kirschenbaum (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780674417076

タイトル: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing著者: Matthew G Kirschenbaum出版社: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press出版日: 2016年05月02日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg's print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of years of archival research and numerous interviews conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary history of word processing. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how the interests and ideals of creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the first adopters? What kind of anxieties did they share? Was word processing perceived as just a better typewriter or something more? How did it change our understanding of writing? Track Changes balances the stories of individual writers with a consideration of how the seemingly ineffable act of writing is always grounded in particular instruments and media, from quills to keyboards. Along the way, we discover the candidates for the first novel written on a word processor, explore the surprisingly varied reasons why writers of both popular and serious literature adopted the technology, trace the spread of new metaphors and ideas from word processing in fiction and poetry, and consider the fate of literary scholarship and memory in an era when the final remnants of authorship may consist of folders on a hard drive or documents in the cloud.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Prentice Hall Chemistry Student Edition 2008c - Pearson (Pearson / Prentice Hall) 【紙書籍】 0132512106

タイトル: Prentice Hall Chemistry Student Edition 2008c著者: Pearson出版社: Pearson / Prentice Hall出版日: 2006年10月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。By the time teens are in high school, they have already spent years wrestling with a heavy backpack. It's time to solve this problem--and Pearson can help. Explore Pearson@home science products for home use.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment - Gary Taubes (Random House) 【紙書籍】 9780394545035

タイトル: Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment著者: Gary Taubes出版社: Random House出版日: 1987年01月12日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind - Richard M Restak (Riverhead Books) 【紙書籍】 9781594487774

タイトル: Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind著者: Richard M Restak出版社: Riverhead Books出版日: 2010年12月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard Restak, a respected neuroscientist, discovered new research that proved puzzles could actually help the brain improve itself, he wondered: Could puzzles help arrest mental deterioration? And do different types of puzzles enhance different parts of the brain? As Restak was investigating the benefits of puzzles, Scott Kim, a world-renowned puzzle developer, also became fascinated by the potential for puzzles to keep the brain nimble. Now these two experts at the top of their fields have collaborated on an engaging and informative book that gives readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain. For example, readers will find out: ?How to solve puzzles for maximum brain improvement. ?The benefits of trial and error on your brain. ?The different kinds of memory you use to solve puzzles. ?The pitfalls that interfere with memory and how to avoid them. Kim's puzzles and Restak's illuminating prose combine to make "The Playful Brain" a lively book of popular science that will sharpen anyone's thinking and memory skills.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - Sherry Turkle (Basic Books) 【紙書籍】 9780465010219

タイトル: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other著者: Sherry Turkle出版社: Basic Books出版日: 2011年01月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Steam Locomotives - Keith Moseley (Orchard Books) 【紙書籍】 9780531058442

タイトル: Steam Locomotives著者: Keith Moseley出版社: Orchard Books出版日: 1989年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm - Thomas Hughes (Penguin Classics) 【紙書籍】 051488024958

タイトル: American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm著者: Thomas Hughes出版社: Penguin Classics出版日: 1989年04月28日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books) 【紙書籍】 9781250076229

タイトル: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End著者: Atul Gawande出版社: Metropolitan Books出版日: 2017年09月05日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here he examines its ultimate limitations and failures--in his own practices as well as others'--as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life--all the way to the very end.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Maple Sugar Book, Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a Way of Living in the Twentieth Century - Helen Nearing (Galahad Books) 【紙書籍】 0883652358

タイトル: Maple Sugar Book, Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a Way of Living in the Twentieth Century著者: Helen Nearing出版社: Galahad Books出版日: 1970年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Survival of the Bark Canoe - John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 【紙書籍】 0374516936

タイトル: Survival of the Bark Canoe著者: John McPhee出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux出版日: 1982年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Invisible Pyramid - Loren Eiseley (Charles Scribner's Sons) 【紙書籍】 0684127326

タイトル: Invisible Pyramid著者: Loren Eiseley出版社: Charles Scribner's Sons出版日: 1972年06月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Firmament of Time - Loren Eiseley (Macmillan Pub Co) 【紙書籍】 0689700687

タイトル: Firmament of Time著者: Loren Eiseley出版社: Macmillan Pub Co出版日: 1972年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Cannabis Cancer Connection: How to use cannabis and hemp to kill cancer cells - Angela Bacca (Flower Valley Press) 【紙書籍】 9798989016303

タイトル: Cannabis Cancer Connection: How to use cannabis and hemp to kill cancer cells著者: Angela Bacca出版社: Flower Valley Press出版日: 2023年10月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Dr. Joe Goldstrich provides patients, doctors, healthcare professionals, and researchers with everything they need to know about the cannabis-cancer connection, including best practices and protocols, through a comprehensive review of the scientific research and the lessons learned from his patients' anecdotal success and failure stories. In addition to cannabis, current information on psychology, diet, exercise, and off-label drugs as powerful complementary therapeutic tools for increasing the odds of beating cancer are also included. Over 400 references support the science behind cannabis' ability to act as a cancer-killing medicine. The research is presented in easy-to-understand language enhanced by case histories and insights from personal experience. This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between traditional cancer care and what patients are learning about and doing at home without the guidance of medical professionals. The goal is to inform patients and their doctors about the potential of cannabis to fight cancer and achieve the best possible outcomes. The reader will learn how preclinical research can be translated into clinically useful strategies. Where human research is available, it is also presented. Combining cannabis with traditional chemotherapy is discussed as an alternative strategy, as this may also improve the odds. "All the current evidence points to a future where cannabis-derived treatments can be an effective adjunctive, and in some situations, first-line strategy for killing cancer... This book also recognizes that patients with cancer are not willing or able to wait for a decade of forthcoming research - they need a compendium of today's most relevant information, distilled by a medical expert with real-world experience and translated into a guide accessible to both clinicians and lay people. Fortunately, you hold such a book in your hand." -Dustin Sulak, DO"Rare is the ability to speak to both doctors and patients, but Dr. Joe threads the needle. This book is a must-read for every medical cannabis provider." - Barry Gordon, MD

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Spiritual Doorway in the Brain: A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience - Kevin Nelson (Dutton) 【紙書籍】 9780525951889

タイトル: Spiritual Doorway in the Brain: A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience著者: Kevin Nelson出版社: Dutton出版日: 2010年12月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The world's leading neurologist on out-of-body and near-death experiences shows that spirituality is as much a part of our basic biological makeup as our sex drive or survival instinct. If Buddha had been in an MRI machine and not under the Bodhi tree when he attained enlightenment, what would we have seen on the monitor? Dr. Kevin Nelson offers an answer to that question that is beyond what any scientist has previously encountered on the borderlands of consciousness. In his cutting-edge research, Nelson has discovered that spiritual experiences take place in one of the most primitive areas of the brain. In this eloquent, inspired, and reverent book, he relates the moving stories of patients and research subjects, brain scan analysis, evolutionary biology, and beautiful examples of transcendence from literature to reveal the machinery in our heads that enables us to perceive miracles-whether you are an atheist, Buddhist, or the most devout Catholic. The patients and people Nelson discuss have had an extremely diverse set of spiritual experiences, from arguing with the devil sitting at the foot of their hospital bed to seeing the universe synchronize around the bouncing of the ball in a pinball machine. However, the bizarre experiences don't make the people seem like freaks; they seem strangely very much like us, in surprising ways. Ultimately Nelson makes clear that spiritual experiences are not the exception in human life, but rather an inescapable and precious part of every one of us.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle - J D Hunley (University Press of Florida) 【紙書籍】 9780813031781

タイトル: U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle著者: J D Hunley出版社: University Press of Florida出版日: 2008年05月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。For nearly fifty years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. J. D. Hunley's two-volume work traces the evolution of this technology, from Robert Goddard's research in the 1920s through the development of the Titan missiles and launch vehicles in the 1960s to the refinement of the space shuttle in the 1980s. With the first book devoted primarily to military hardware and the second to launch vehicle hardware, Hunley offers a sweeping overview of these impressive engineering innovations as well as insights into the dynamic personalities responsible for them. Together, the two volumes offer a unique, invaluable history of rocketry that should appeal to a wide range of scholars and space buffs.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity - Harald Fritzsch (University of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 9780226265575

タイトル: Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity著者: Harald Fritzsch出版社: University of Chicago Press出版日: 1994年10月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Imagine a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist - and imagine what we might learn from their conversation. Such an opportunity is precisely what Harald Fritzsch offers in An Equation That Changed the World. Following the style of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, and addressed to readers without specialized knowledge in physics and higher mathematics, this book lets us listen in on an imaginary meeting of the scientists who created classical physics and modern relativity. As Newton and Einstein propound their different views of space and time, and as the fictional professor Adrian Haller brings to the table recent developments in modern physics, we are introduced to the theory of relativity. We learn its source, its workings, and the way it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. Harald Fritzsch, writes a reviewer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "seems to be an atypical case of a scientist who has a real interest in making the results of science known to nonscientists." His masterly work reveals the intellectual process of scientific discovery that leads from puzzlement to questions to answers and resolution, and, in turn, to new questions and consequences. Decoding Einstein's famous equation, E=mc[superscript 2], Fritzsch illuminates the concepts of space and time in classical mechanics and special relativity. He provides lucid accounts of an extraordinary range of phenomena - from subatomic particles to fusion energy to antimatter - and probes fundamental questions of cosmology. With minimal use of technical terminology or mathematical formulas, Fritzsch not only explains relativity but compels us to see its relevancefor the human race and the survival of our planet.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books) 【紙書籍】 9780805091748

タイトル: Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right著者: Atul Gawande出版社: Metropolitan Books出版日: 2009年12月22日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies--neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama: Righteous Rage in the American Grain - Robert L Dressler (Cornell University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780801481390

タイトル: Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama: Righteous Rage in the American Grain著者: Robert L Dressler出版社: Cornell University Press出版日: 1994年01月13日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The first field guide to the orchids of Costa Rica and Panama, this book is lavishly illustrated with 240 stunning color photographs and 229 line drawings. It contains keys to all the orchid genera in the region and most of the orchid species. To make it possible for nonbotanists to identify at least the genus of the orchids, Robert L. Dressler emphasizes features that can be readily seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. Written in a friendly and accessible style, this guide begins with succinct descriptions of the geography, climate, and vegetation of Costa Rica and Panama, and includes appropriate comments on the peoples and cultures of the area. A discussion of orchid structure and ecology follows. The identification keys are preceded by instructions for use, and a general key directs the user to the appropriate chapter, where condensed descriptions and additional keys narrow the choices for the plant's identity. Dressler avoids complex terminology where possible and supplies a glossary of technical terms that will be helpful to those unfamiliar with botanical vocabulary. A short appendix describes how to prepare orchids for study and summarizes laws that affect plant collectors, and another lists the authors of species names used in the guide.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected - Clifford A Pickover (Palgrave Macmillan) 【紙書籍】 9780312103538

タイトル: Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected著者: Clifford A Pickover出版社: Palgrave Macmillan出版日: 1994年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe - John R Gribbin (Yale University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780300083460

タイトル: Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe著者: John R Gribbin出版社: Yale University Press出版日: 2000年08月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。How old is the universe? This engrossing book recounts how scientists have achieved the definitive answer to one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. Research astronomer John Gribbin tells the story of the struggle to determine the age of the universe and offers an insider's view of the thrilling breakthrough of the 1990s, when Hubble Space Telescope data revealed that the universe is between 13 and 16 billion years old -- older by at least one billion years than the oldest stars.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean - Lisa-Ann Gershwin (University of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 9780226020105

タイトル: Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean著者: Lisa-Ann Gershwin出版社: University of Chicago Press出版日: 2013年05月07日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life--growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly numerous jellyfish. As foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin describes in Stung!, the jellyfish population bloom is highly indicative of the tragic state of the world's ocean waters, while also revealing the incredible tenacity of these remarkable creatures. Recent documentaries about swarms of giant jellyfish invading Japanese fishing grounds and summertime headlines about armadas of stinging jellyfish in the Mediterranean and Chesapeake are only the beginning--jellyfish are truly taking over the oceans. Despite their often dazzling appearance, jellyfish are simple creatures with simple needs: namely, fewer predators and competitors, warmer waters to encourage rapid growth, and more places for their larvae to settle and grow. In general, oceans that are less favorable to fish are more favorable to jellyfish, and these are the very conditions that we are creating through mechanized trawling, habitat degradation, coastal construction, pollution, and climate change. Despite their role as harbingers of marine destruction, jellyfish are truly enthralling creatures in their own right, and in Stung!, Gershwin tells stories of jellyfish both attractive and deadly while illuminating many interesting and unusual facts about their behaviors and environmental adaptations. She takes readers back to the Proterozoic era, when jellyfish were the top predator in the marine ecosystem--at a time when there were no fish, no mammals, and no turtles; and she explores the role jellies have as middlemen of destruction, moving swiftly into vulnerable ecosystems. The story of the jellyfish, as Gershwin makes clear, is also the story of the world's oceans, and Stung! provides a unique and urgent look at their inseparable histories--and future.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) - Jeffrey Kluger (Grand Central Publishing) 【紙書籍】 9781401303013

タイトル: Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)著者: Jeffrey Kluger出版社: Grand Central Publishing出版日: 2008年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's? How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease? Why do bad teams win so many games? Complexity, as any scientist will tell you, is a slippery idea. Things that seem complicated can be astoundingly simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. A houseplant may be more intricate than a manufacturing plant. A colony of garden ants may be more complicated than a community of people. A sentence may be richer than a book, a couplet more complicated than a song. These and other paradoxes are driving a whole new science--simplexity -- that is redefining how we look at the world and using that new view to improve our lives in fields as diverse as economics, biology, cosmology, chemistry, psychology, politics, child development, the arts, and more. Seen through the lens of this surprising new science, the world becomes a delicate place filled with predictable patterns--patterns we often fail to see as we're time and again fooled by our instincts, by our fear, by the size of things, and even by their beauty. In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz; why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. As simplexity moves from the research lab into popular consciousness it will challenge our models for modern living. Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving theory into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art -- your world.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees - Norman Gary (CompanionHouse Books) 【紙書籍】 9781933958941

タイトル: Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees著者: Norman Gary出版社: CompanionHouse Books出版日: 2010年12月21日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Bee keeping isn't just for the professional farmer--bees can be kept in any situation from the simple backyard patio and garden to large expanses of farm land. This comprehensive and attractive beekeeping guide, from Hobby Farm Press, the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, Beekeeping takes readers from finding their bees, housing them, collecting honey and using their produce for pleasure and possible profit. This colorful book, including entertaining chapters on the history of bees and beekeeping, serves as an extensive introduction to help novice beekeepers fully understand this exciting hobby!