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| Directory: | Health / Nutrition / Nutrients / Vitamins_and_Minerals |
| Title: | Dietary Reference Intakes |
| Description: | A 2000 report on Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline Dietary Reference Intakes. A NAP publication. |
| Location: | http://newton.nap.edu/books/0309065542/html/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Public_Health_and_Safety / Community_Health |
| Title: | Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health |
| Description: | Evaluates performance monitoring as a means of evaluating health care delivery in communities. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/html/concept/#inter |
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| Directory: | Health / Reproductive_Health / Birth_Control |
| Title: | The Whole Truth About Contraception: A Guide to Safe and Effective Choices (1997) |
| Description: | Book-length report covers barrier and hormonal methods, intrauterine devices, surgical sterilization, and other approaches such as the "rhythm" method and breastfeeding as a contraceptive. Issued by National Academy Press. |
| Location: | http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/5281.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Reproductive_Health / Pregnancy_and_Birth / Nutrition |
| Title: | Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation: An Implementation Guide |
| Description: | Complete text of the book by the Subcommittee for a Clinical Applications Guide, Institute of Medicine, U.S. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1984.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Specific_Substances / Tobacco / Research |
| Title: | Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction |
| Description: | Online book runs to 700 pages and has chapters on: harm reduction, tobacco products, nicotine pharmacology, tobacco smoke and toxicology, cancer, heart disease, birth defects, and tobacco industry marketing of health claims. |
| Location: | http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072824/html/index.html |
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| Directory: | Reference / Education / K_through_12 / Educators / Teaching_Resources / Middle_School |
| Title: | Resources for Teaching Middle School Science |
| Description: | Book to help select science curriculum materials. Describes hundreds of titles, organized by discipline. Also points out software, organizations, and institutions that may be helpful. Searchable page images. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5774.html |
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| Directory: | Reference / Education / Methods_and_Theories / Learning_Theories |
| Title: | How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School |
| Description: | E-text of a 300-page 1999 National Academy of Sciences report. Recent research provides a deep understanding of complex reasoning and performance on problem-solving tasks and how skill and understanding in key subjects are acquired. |
| Location: | http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Science_and_Environment |
| Title: | Down to Earth: Geographical Information for Sustainable Development in Africa |
| Description: | Complete text of the 2002 book published by the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. Covers Agenda 21 implementation, the use of geographic data, and GIS-based decision support systems. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10455.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Science_and_Environment / Agriculture |
| Title: | Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains |
| Description: | Online book from National Academic Press. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog/2305.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / North_America / United_States / Connecticut / Society_and_Culture / Famous_Nutmeggers / Industrialists_or_Inventors / Land,_Edwin_Herbert |
| Title: | Edwin Herbert Land, May 7, 1909-March 1, 1991 |
| Description: | Essay by Victor K. McElheny on the life and work of the inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera. |
| Location: | http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/eland.html |
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