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(0)Michael Bell
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Do you want to know what love is? Great. This short, to-the-point, and insightful little book will help. Some say that love is just a strong affection for someone. Others say that it's just a mental decision that you make towards someone. Well, both assessments are very much in the ballpark. And if you are serious about finding out just what love is you'll definitely want to continue this journey of Love Has Everything To Do With It. By the time you...
2) Seller Mistakes: What You Were Never Told About Selling Your Home and Why It Should Matter to You
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Seller Mistakes-What you were Never Told about Selling your Home and Why it should Matter to you, is a powerful book that reveals what the real estate industry doesn't want you to know when you are selling your home. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners try, but fail, to sell their home. Why? Simply, it's almost always because of big mistakes that their agent made.
This is a completely different kind of real estate book. It will agitate most agents...
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Earth's Furies volume 1
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English
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Iceland, Indonesia, South America, the Reunion Island... The threat of volcanic eruptions never ceases to hound those who have chosen to live at the feet of volcanos on continents the world over. This threat requires humans to continually come up with new ways to both foresee the danger to come and to tame the violence of volcanoes; a violence that is indispensable to life on Earth. What do these volcanoes reveal about the way the Earth works? This...
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Earth's Furies volume 3
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English
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Devastating forest fires rage across California, and enormous fires reach the doors of major European cities... But these gargantuan fires are often impossible to stop without rainfall. With every new dry season, these fires devour the world's forests and increasingly threaten human lives and homes. We need to solve the mysteries of mega fires in order to better prepare for their onslaught and to rebuild smarter after their devastation. This documentary...
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Earth's Furies volume 2
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English
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With teams of experts tracking them all over the world, earthquakes are one of the most heavily-monitored natural phenomenon. Despite this, in places such as Haiti, Nepal and Italy, they continue to be devastating and deadly. But what causes this destructive force of nature? Could it be prevented, and how can we minimise the destruction? This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these...
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Earth's Furies volume 6
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English
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Mudslides produced fatal catastrophes in Sierra Leone, Switzerland and Colombia in 2017 alone. Scientists blame their rising severity on global warming combined with heavy rainfall.
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Earth's Furies volume 6
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English
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With new scientific knowledge, we know how electrical charges inside clouds are created, and new technology can monitor lightning moving through the sky. However, it can hit anything, anywhere, at any time...and it cannot be stopped. Nowhere is unaffected by this devastating and frightening natural phenomenon.
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Earth's Furies volume 4
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English
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Following the catastrophes of recent years, scientists try to fully understand these deadly waves to limit their impact.
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Earth's Furies volume 4
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English
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The USA is affected by 1,200 tornadoes every year and this phenomenon is growing all over the world. With wind speeds inside their vortex reaching up to 500 km per hour and travelling at the speed of a high-speed train, tornadoes are capable of destroying everything in their path. But how do they start? How can we predict them and minimise their destruction? Is global warming responsible for their increasing frequency?
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Earth's Furies volume 3
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English
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From the prairies of Canada to Northern China, unpredictable blizzards produce lethal conditions in already harsh climates.
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Earth's Furies volume 2
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English
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Over the past 20 years, floods have caused more than 150,000 deaths globally. Global warming has made flooding one of the foremost challenges of the 21st century, leaving huge swathes of coastal areas vulnerable to devastation.
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Earth's Furies volume 5
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English
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Every year we lose 12 million hectares due to desertification, causing millions of people to abandon their homes.
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Earth's Furies volume 1
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English
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Cyclones are the most powerful natural disasters on Earth. Many coastal regions live under the constant threat of these incredibly powerful surges of energy. Why are they becoming more common, widespread and powerful than ever before? This series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth's anger.
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Earth's Furies volume 5
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English
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Avalanches can reach speeds of 30 km an hour, exerting a force ten times stronger than cyclones. They have the power to crush buildings, bring down walls and blow up houses. But now, thanks to new scientific developments we can understand more about the mechanisms of avalanches. How can they be predicted and their impact limited?
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Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also a faculty associate in religious studies, environmental studies, and agroecology. His many books include the award-winning Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village and, Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability.
How we came to seek...
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Bulletin volume 110
Publisher
State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Dept. of Environmental Protection
Pub. Date
1985
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English
17) Ollie and Emma
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English
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Have some lighthearted fun with Ollie and Emma, two university students from different cultures who meet accidentally at the school library, and sparks fly! Emma discovers her inner Native American warrior when Ollie's old girlfriend enters the scene.
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In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in the quiet town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Suspicion quickly fell on Dean's wife, an invalid in the early stages of dementia. Her friends, outraged at the accusations, pointed instead to a former tenant of Dean's, whom many suspected of being a German spy. Others believed that Dean's best friend, a politically...