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Product Description: In the past decade, few subjects at the intersection of medicine and sports have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions - especially among youth. Despite growing awareness of sports-related concussions and campaigns to educate athletes, coaches, physicians, and parents of young athletes about concussion recognition and management, confusion and controversy persist in many areas...read more
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9780309288002 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, February 28, 2014), cover price $64.00 | About this edition: In the past decade, few subjects at the intersection of medicine and sports have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions - especially among youth.
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9780309287739 | Natl Academy Pr, January 30, 2014, cover price $59.95
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9780309294270 | Natl Academy Pr, January 13, 2014, cover price $36.00
Product Description: The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Research Council in response to a request by the National Science Foundation. This report answers three questions: (1) What is the current state of high-field magnet science, engineering, and technology in the United States, and are there any conspicuous needs to be addressed? (2) What are the current science drivers and which scientific opportunities and challenges can be anticipated over the next ten years? (3) What are the principal existing and planned high magnetic field facilities outside of the United States, what roles have U...read more
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9780309286343 | Natl Academy Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Research Council in response to a request by the National Science Foundation.
Product Description: The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those consumers. The CE consists of two separate surveys: (1) a national sample of households interviewed five times at three-month intervals; and (2) a separate national sample of households that complete two consecutive one-week expenditure diaries...read more
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9780309265751 | Natl Academy Pr, April 30, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those consumers.
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9780309278249 | Natl Academy Pr, May 30, 2013, cover price $59.00
Product Description: Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation's fundamental functions, its economy, and security. Nonfuel minerals are essential for the existence and operations of products that are used by people every day and are provided by various sectors of the mining industry...read more
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9780309267441 | Natl Academy Pr, July 30, 2015, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation's fundamental functions, its economy, and security.
Product Description: For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed "hybrid warfare," which ranges from active combat to civilian support. Hybrid warfare typically occurs in environments where all modes of war are employed, such as conventional weapons, irregular tactics, terrorism, disruptive technologies, and criminality to destabilize an existing order...read more
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9780309216050 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: For the past decade, the U.
Product Description: Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and through their impact on future growth; federal and state governments support teaching and research with billions of taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher education...read more
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9780309257749 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and through their impact on future growth; federal and state governments support teaching and research with billions of taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher education.
Product Description: According to the United Nations, three out of five people will be living in cities worldwide by the year 2030. The United States continues to experience urbanization with its vast urban corridors on the east and west coasts. Although urban weather is driven by large synoptic and meso-scale features, weather events unique to the urban environment arise from the characteristics of the typical urban setting, such as large areas covered by buildings of a variety of heights; paved streets and parking areas; means to supply electricity, natural gas, water, and raw materials; and generation of waste heat and materials...read more
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9780309252171 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: According to the United Nations, three out of five people will be living in cities worldwide by the year 2030.
Product Description: The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day...read more
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9780309257206 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.
Product Description: The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against external nuclear threats, to maintain our nuclear weapons stockpile, and to manage the nuclear wastes generated in past decades, require a substantial, highly trained, and exceptionally talented workforce...read more
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9780309225342 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against external nuclear threats, to maintain our nuclear weapons stockpile, and to manage the nuclear wastes generated in past decades, require a substantial, highly trained, and exceptionally talented workforce.
Product Description: A new approach to the night sky, with superb pictorial star maps - and artworks of secret celestial alignments The Language of the Stars and Planets explores the profound meanings that humankind has attributed over the centuries to the heavenly bodies...read more
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9780309254731 | Natl Academy Pr, September 15, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A new approach to the night sky, with superb pictorial star maps - and artworks of secret celestial alignments The Language of the Stars and Planets explores the profound meanings that humankind has attributed over the centuries to the heavenly bodies.
Product Description: The "homeland" security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic consequences of security threats, but these threats may be international in origin, organization, and implementation...read more
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9780309254472 | Natl Academy Pr, June 27, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The "homeland" security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic consequences of security threats, but these threats may be international in origin, organization, and implementation.
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9780309255998 | Natl Academy Pr, May 23, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: George includes 25 step-by-step exercises designed to take the stresses out of life and maximise the quality of leisure, as well as providing techniques for awakening your sense and converting negative to positive.
Product Description: The tenth edition of this essential reference presents new knowledge about the nutritional needs of swine that consider such factors as growth rate, carcass leanness, gender, health, environment, and repartitioning agents. New sections are presented on requirements for amino acids and other nutrients...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780309059930 | 10 pap/com edition (Natl Academy Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The tenth edition of this essential reference presents new knowledge about the nutritional needs of swine that consider such factors as growth rate, carcass leanness, gender, health, environment, and repartitioning agents.
9780309037792 | 9 rev sub edition (Natl Academy Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $14.95
Product Description: In the United States, health care devices, technologies, and practices are rapidly moving into the home. The factors driving this migration include the costs of health care, the growing numbers of older adults, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and diseases and improved survival rates for people with those conditions and diseases, and a wide range of technological innovations...read more
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9780309212366 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, September 15, 2011), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the United States, health care devices, technologies, and practices are rapidly moving into the home.
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9780309159517, titled "The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?" | Natl Academy Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $36.00
Product Description: Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. During the past 40 years the National Research Services Award (NRSA) Program has played a large role in training the workforce responsible for dramatic advances in the understanding of various diseases and new insights that have led to more effective and targeted therapies...read more
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9780309159654 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, September 15, 2011), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally.
Product Description: From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology. From design to operation, a project can stretch to 20 years and more, with continuous increases in cost. Much of the delay and cost growth afflicting modern United States Air Force (USAF) programs is rooted in the incorporation of advanced technology into major systems acquisition...read more
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9780309162753, titled "Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development: Technology Development" | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $33.75 | About this edition: From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology.
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9780309157995 | Natl Academy Pr, January 1, 2011, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a wide array of models to perform such analysis, differing in the level of technological detail, treatment of technological progress, spatial and sector details, and representation of the interaction of the energy sector to the overall economy and environment...read more
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9780309162357 | Natl Academy Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $34.75 | About this edition: Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Product Description: Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently. Security is hard for users, administrators, and developers to understand, making it all too easy to use, configure, or operate systems in ways that are inadvertently insecure...read more
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9780309160902 | Natl Academy Pr, October 8, 2010, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently.
Product Description: NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is applied to spaceflight missions, but NASA identifies nearly one quarter of the SMD budget as "mission enabling...read more
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9780309148238, titled "An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions" | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities.
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9781154445770 | General Books, May 5, 2010, cover price $13.52
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