Author: Arthur Elmore Bostwick
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Author: John Paton
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385412100
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Presents facts on more than 1300 subjects from Aardvark to Zoo.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 1972

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Author: Edward Jablonski
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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This reference presents short introductory essays to major periods of American music. It also lists 1200 entries on the lives and works of musicians and composers from each period.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Author: Burton Hobson
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: David P. D. Munns
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982765
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Promising an end to global hunger and political instability, huge climate-controlled laboratories known as phytotrons spread around the world to thirty countries after the Second World War. The United States built nearly a dozen, including the first at Caltech in 1949. Made possible by computers and other novel greenhouse technologies of the early Cold War, phytotrons enabled plant scientists to experiment on the environmental causes of growth and development of living organisms. Subsequently, they turned biologists into technologists who, in their pursuit of knowledge about plants, also set out to master the machines that controlled their environment. Engineering the Environment tells the forgotten story of a research program that revealed the shape of the environment, the limits of growth and development, and the limits of human control over complex technological systems. As support and funding for basic science dwindled in the mid-1960s, phytotrons declined and ultimately disappeared—until, nearly thirty years later, the British built the Ecotron to study the impact of climate change on biological communities. By revisiting this history of phytotrons, David Munns reminds us of the vital role they can play in helping researchers unravel the complexities of natural ecosystems in the Anthropocene.