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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile environments that are numbingly cold or stiflingly hot, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.
Author
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This book discusses various aspects of a thermal power plant, providing a new dimension to the subject, with focus on operating practices and troubleshooting, as well as technology and design. It presents practical content on coal-, gas-, oil-, peat- and biomass-fueled thermal power plants, with chapters on steam power plant systems, start up and shut down, and interlock and protection. It focuses exclusively on thermal power, addressing some new...
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (approximately 2 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Plant parts and their uses: Roots, stems, leaves, fruit, and seeds -- plants have all the parts they need! Learn about each part of a plant and its purpose.
Plant lifecycles: With the help of a friendly scarecrow, students identify the basic needs of plants. They learn how seeds grow into plants and that the plant goes through changes called a lifecycle.
How plants grow: Students will investigate and understand that in order for seeds to germinate...
84) Poop fountain!
Author
Series
Qwikpick papers volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics and natural habitats of several varieties of plants, as well as their poisonous, medical, and magical properties.
Series
Woodhead Publishing in energy volume no 32
Publisher
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Combined cycle power plants are promising and flexible approaches to conventional, fossil-fuel and biomass-fired energy production. This title provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the design, engineering and operational issues of a range of advanced combined cycle power plants.
94) Hip houseplants
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
CRC Press
Language
English
Description
"This new edition adds a chapter on distributed wind power generation, and the rest of the material will be updated throughout. Also, it adds practical uses for wind power, such as municipal street lighting, industrial refrigeration, telecommunications, etc. It will also examine the history of wind energy, and provide ample reasons to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It will cover the characteristics of wind, such as shear, power potential,...
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