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Product Description: While cracking a code might seem like something few of us would encounter in our daily lives, it is actually far more prevalent than we may realize. Anyone who has had personal information taken because of a hacked email account can understand the need for cryptography and the importance of encryptionessentially the need to code information to keep it safe...read more
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9781622750344 | Britannica Educational Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $32.90 | About this edition: While cracking a code might seem like something few of us would encounter in our daily lives, it is actually far more prevalent than we may realize.
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9781622750351 | Britannica Educational Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $32.90
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9781615308804 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2012, cover price $38.75
Product Description: The allure of far-off lands, the promise of untapped resources, and a hunger for building global empires prompted Renaissance explorers to journey into the unknown. Battling harsh seafaring conditions, disease, and any number of unknown threats to their health and safety, the individuals profiled in this volume shaped the world map, setting the stage for future voyagers along the way...read more
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9781615308798 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2012, cover price $38.75 | About this edition: The allure of far-off lands, the promise of untapped resources, and a hunger for building global empires prompted Renaissance explorers to journey into the unknown.
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9781615308897 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2012, cover price $155.00
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9781615306602 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
Product Description: The rapid development of computer technology since the mid-20th century would not have even been imaginable without the brainpower of individuals dedicated to innovation and turning the seemingly impossible into reality. As far back as the eighteenth century, inventors began setting the stage for future minds to advance hardware and software that would change our world forever...read more
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9781615306619 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: The rapid development of computer technology since the mid-20th century would not have even been imaginable without the brainpower of individuals dedicated to innovation and turning the seemingly impossible into reality.
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9781615306817 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $38.75
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9781615308064 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $176.25
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9781615306978 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
Product Description: Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky. New combat strategies emerged with these changing technologies and dramatically impacted such events as the First World War...read more
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9781615306770 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky.
Product Description: Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the world’s bodies of water. While ship design has become increasingly sophisticated with time, everything including the luxury liners, warships, and sailboats of today owe much to the watercraft that facilitated travel, trade, and war among ancient cultures...read more
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9781615306701 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $38.75 | About this edition: Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the world’s bodies of water.
Product Description: At one time, the ability to travel was limited by the capacity of ones own two feet and the geographic barriers that divided one place from another. Ingenuity has led to increasingly sophisticated modes of transportation that have allowed humans to transcend physical and theoretical boundaries, via land, sea, and air...read more
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9781615308071 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: At one time, the ability to travel was limited by the capacity of ones own two feet and the geographic barriers that divided one place from another.
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9781615306671 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $38.75
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9781615306633, titled "The Science of War: Strategies, Tactics, and Logistics" | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
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9781615306930 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
Product Description: With their potential to wreak massive or total devastation, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons have dramatically escalated the stakes of war. As stockpiles of such weapons continue to grow around the world, especially in the years since the Second World War, countries have recognized the need to check their powers...read more
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9781615306879 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: With their potential to wreak massive or total devastation, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons have dramatically escalated the stakes of war.
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9781615308057 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $141.00
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9781615306787 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
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9781615306350, titled "Energy: Past, Present, and Future: Past, Present, and Future" | Britannica Educational Pub, August 15, 2011, cover price $70.50
Product Description: With growing populations across the world consuming Earths limited oil and natural gas reserves, the environmental and economic toll of energy dependence becomes an increasingly global concern. The development of renewable forms of energysolar, wind, water, and geothermal, to name a fewoffers alternatives to fossil fuels...read more
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9781615304882 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 15, 2011, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: With growing populations across the world consuming Earths limited oil and natural gas reserves, the environmental and economic toll of energy dependence becomes an increasingly global concern.
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9781615304912 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 15, 2011, cover price $35.25
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9781615301560 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 15, 2010, cover price $135.00
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9780762750535 | 7 edition (Globe Pequot Pr, June 1, 2010), cover price $14.95 | also contains Off the Beaten Path Rhode Island: A guide to Unique Places
9780762744282 | 6 edition (Globe Pequot Pr, July 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: With this guide to Rhode Island, locals and visitors alike can explore the little-known gems of the state: Visit the oldest Masonic Temple in New England; take the Rooftop and Behind-the-Scenes Tour at the Elms Mansion in Newport; orattend the Quahog Festival in Wickford.
Product Description: Describes the origins, development, and impact of inventions in communications, transportation, energy, engineering, medicine, warfare, measurement, agriculture, and industry from cuneiform to fullerenes.Title: The Britannica Guide to Inventions That Changed the Modern WorldAuthor: Curley, Robert (EDT)Publisher: Rosen Pub GroupPublication Date: 2009/12/20Number of Pages: 386Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200903753...read more
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9781615300204 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 20, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Describes the origins, development, and impact of inventions in communications, transportation, energy, engineering, medicine, warfare, measurement, agriculture, and industry from cuneiform to fullerenes.
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