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Joseph Allen and John Macomber look at everything from the air we breathe to the water we drink to how light, sound, and materials impact our performance and wellbeing and drive business profit. Found insideAt an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. Thrown into confusion by the death of the creator of the Delta Strain, and the loss of two laboratory specimens she is forced to make decisions which could affect lives. Found inside – Page iAn incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past ... Found insidePutin's biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. 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