Technology & Engineering
Discover a wide selection of technology and engineering books, including top-rated mechanical and software engineering textbooks,
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Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThis book takes a broad perspective and analyses the ways in which the British film industry has dealt with women and their creativity from 1930 to the present. The first part of the book deals comprehensively with different historical periods in British film culture,...
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the AirplaneA Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight. This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems, follows their interest from a young age in...
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Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the EnvironmentAs recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark...
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Barbed Wire: An Ecology of ModernityThe history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology--barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control...
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Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and ConstructionEarth is the oldest and most widely used building material in the world today. It's abundant, inexpensive, and energy-efficient. But if you're building with earth, simplicity of material needn't be an excuse for poor planning. Paul Graham McHenry, author of the best-selling Adobe -...
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Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our TimesDraws on renowned social thinkers to help understand why Americans flock to urban centers The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems cities face, more and more Americans are abandoning rural areas and relocating to urban centers....
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Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990sIn Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and...
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The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of CacaoYoung provides an overview of the fascinating natural and human history of one of the world's most intriguing commodities: chocolate. Cultivated for over 1,000 years in Latin America and the starting point for millions of tons of chocolate annually consumed worldwide, cacao beans have...
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Allied Armored Fighting Vehicles: 1:72 ScaleFilled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and Russia, including: - M4 Sherman medium tank (U.S.)- T1E3 Aunt Jemima mine exploder (U.S.)- M18 Hellcat tank destroyer (U.S.)- Mk VI Crusader cruiser tank (Britain)- Crocodile flamethrower (Britain)- Ram I cruiser...
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Horse Soldier, 1851-1880, Volume 2: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian WarsThis is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of the period from 1776 to 1850. In this volume he addresses himself to the eventful, bloody tragic mid-nineteenth century. Here he...
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Super Structures: The Physics of Bridges, Buildings, Dams, and Other Feats of EngineeringEver wonder how a graceful and slender bridge can support enormous loads over truly astonishing spans? Why domes and free-standing arches survive earthquakes that flatten the rest of a city?Physicist Mark Denny looks at the large structures around us--tall buildings, long bridges, and big...
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Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century RussiaToward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and the conquest of a vast Eastern empire-fundamentally...
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Nutritional Ecology of the RuminantThis monumental text-reference places in clear persepctive the importance of nutritional assessments to the ecology and biology of ruminants and other nonruminant herbivorous mammals. Now extensively revised and significantly expanded, it reflects the changes and growth in ruminant nutrition and related ecology since 1982.Among...
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Mighty TanksChildren will delight in learning about military tanks. Mighty Tanks introduces readers to the different parts that make up a tank and explains how these mighty armored vehicles move over rough terrain.Author: Paul ChallenPublisher: Crabtree Publishing CompanyPublished: 09/15/2010Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 10.02h x...
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The Complete Book of U.S. Military Pocket Knives: From the Revolutionary War to the PresentThis book is a color celebration of the pocket knives of the United States military, and features both U.S. and foreign-made models. It is a historical chronology beginning with the first folders of the early 1800s and ending with the high-tech knives of the...
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Germany's V-2 RocketGermany's V-2 looks at one of the major technological advances of the Second World War, the V-2 ballistic missile. Although dwarfed by today's giant rockets, the V-2 represented a quantum leap beyond anything previously built. During the last six months of the war in...
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Investigating MagnetismYou know that magnets hold pictures on a refrigerator. But have you ever found a magnet's north pole? Or turned an ordinary paper clip into a magnet? Now you can Explore magnetism with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of...
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DK Readers L4: Thomas Edison: The Great InventorPerfect for advanced young readers, this book tells the exciting history of the legendary Thomas Edison. Budding historians will revel in this story of the greatest inventor of the modern age. Imagine where we'd be without his brilliant creations From the first light bulb...
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The Ultimate Conspiracy - The Biomedical ParadigmWhat if 95% of Modern Medicine is scientifically and medically WRONG? The Biomedical Paradigm describes the underlying philosophy or pattern of thinking behind Modern Medicine. What if the Biomedical Paradigm is fundamentally flawed, resulting in 95% of Modern Medicine being scientifically and medically wrong?...
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Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/ RF, EMC, and High-Speed ElectronicsBased on familiar circuit theory and basic physics, this book serves as an invaluable reference for both analog and digital engineers alike. For those who work with analog RF, this book is a must-have resource. With computers and networking equipment of the 21st century...
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