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Volume 1 contains fact-based answers to questions from actual nail professionals. Based on Face to Face with Doug Schoon, Episodes 1-50. Doug Schoon, currently residing in Dana Point, CA, is an internationally-recognized scientist with a Masters Degree in Chemistry from UC-Irvine, as well as an author and educator with over 30 years' experience in the cosmetic beauty and personal care industry. He is a leading industry authority, known for his technical and regulatory...

The thrilling stories of the three pioneering English naturalists’ explorations and discoveries in the world’s richest ecosystemOne hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia—the world’s largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem—was then an almost-undiscovered environment to Western explorers and scientists.In ...

Unfortunately, the extent of our physics knowledge still does not allow us to see clearly the crucial importance of this science. A wide range of physics notions such as the theory of motion, strength, force, and mechanics in general are still vague for beginners. Those “who do not know movement, do not understand nature” Aristotle once said. Although several pages of the author’s book “Physics for Entertainment” (2 volumes) are dedicated to mechanics’ problems, it very useful that he devo...

Maintaining complete, comprehensive, detailing records of every process or deliverable items is fundamentally essential to the efficient control of the work, to the achievement of all Company and Project objectives and to the management of the potential risks and opportunities that could be encountered during the prosecution of the work. Any company is taking a great risk if the Inspector, Supervisor or Leadsmen is unable to recognize that one of the greatest problems about the daily field...

First published in 1928, this is a classic guide to a the Three-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, a type of steam-powered engine used in trains. The first example of such an engine was built for the old Midland Railway in January, 1902. With detailed explanations and simple diagrams, this volume provides a complete overview of the engine and its inner workings. Highly recommended for vintage locomotive enthusiasts. Contents include: “Air Valves”, “Action in the Cylinders”, “Arithmetic”, “Bye-P...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Toughest Animals In the World: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Toughest Animals In the World: Top 100 etc. did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and mayb...

On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach.Plum Island takes readers to the core of the earth to see how Plum Island’s sands were first formed in the metamorphic forge of the earth’s interior. It will then follow these minerals as they erode off the sides of New Hampshir...

Newnes Engineering and Physical Science Pocket Book is an easy reference of engineering formulas, definitions, and general information. Part One deals with the definitions and formulas used in general engineering science, such as those concerning SI units, density, scalar and vector quantities, and standard quantity symbols and their units. Part Two pertains to electrical engineering science and includes basic d.c. circuit theory, d.c. circuit analysis, electromagnetism, and electrical mea...

Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity.

It is said that sound does not exist without the listener, as it lacks the one to interpret the purely mechanical sound waves as harmonic euphony. (slightly augmented saying)  Building a new bridge between the rigid, formal world of syntax in machine-based, algorithmic data processing and the highly complex semantics of human understanding and communication in natural language is most probably the greatest challenge we face in our information age and knowledge society. Bu...

This book is dedicated to an understanding of our Origins, the universe, the Big Bang, time and space, our planet Earth, life and civilization. In easy readable essay format it explores the science, myth and legend of Origins.Starting with the Big Bang origins of the universe it examines space, time and the existence and nature of mass, exploring the weird and wonderful world of Einstein’s space-time. Is time constant? How and why did everything come into existence? The existence o...