Technology & Engineering
Discover a wide selection of technology and engineering books, including top-rated mechanical and software engineering textbooks,
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Skateboards, 1Go behind the scenes and learn how craftsman Jake Eshelman makes one-of-a-kind skateboards by hand with this nonfiction book that's full of photographs and illustrations about his process. Jake Eshelman of Side Project Skateboards in Houston, Texas, grew up with a love of skateboarding....
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Billy Sure Kid EntrepreneurMeet Billy Sure, twelve-year-old inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc., and discover all of his wild and wacky inventions in this start to a hilarious middle grade series! Everyone is talking about Billy Sure, the twelve-year-old CEO of Sure Things, Inc. and genius...
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ApplesApples Apples Apples Crunchy and tasty, sweet and tart, in colorful shades of red, yellow, and green -- sometimes all three -- everyone loves apples In this lively and vibrant book, young readers will learn how apples grow, from the planting of a tree,...
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers CivilizationVeteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a "fascinating and delightful...globetrotting tour" (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization--the chicken.In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler "opens a window on...
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Environmental Justice in New Mexico: Counting CoupIn New Mexico and across America, communities of color bear the brunt of contamination from generations of expansion, mining, nuclear testing and illegal dumping. The nation's largest uranium waste spill occurred in 1979 at Church Rock, and radioactivity in the Rio Puerco remains at...
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Physics for Computer Science Students: With Emphasis on Atomic and Semiconductor PhysicsIntended for students of computer science and electrical engineering, this text is directed toward teaching the fundamental physics of how a computer works, while at the same time providing a broad and effective one-year introduction to classical and modern physics. The presentation includes many...
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The Maker's Manual: A Practical Guide to the New Industrial RevolutionThe Maker's Manual is a practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution. It features dozens of color images, techniques to transform your ideas into physical projects, and must-have skills like electronics prototyping, 3d printing, and programming. This book's...
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Make: High-Power Rockets: Construction and Certification for Thousands of Feet and BeyondMake: High-Power Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with an overview of mid-...
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster FutureThis brilliant and provocative (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any...
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The FOA Reference Guide to Premises Cabling: Study Guide To FOA CertificationUpdated - 2018. Premises cabling has evolved from being all "Cat 5" for enterprise LANs to copper, fiber and wireless networks to support LANs, data centers, security and building management systems - practically anything that communicates in a building or campus environment. This book...
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Make: Getting Started with Sensors: Measure the World with Electronics, Arduino, and Raspberry PiTo build electronic projects that can sense the physical world, you need to build circuits based around sensors: electronic components that react to physical phenomena by sending an electrical signal. Even with only basic electronic components, you can build useful and educational sensor projects.But...
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Escape from MemorySome things are not best forgotten. A redesigned edition of a science fiction thriller that Booklist calls "an exciting, fantastical adventure story." When Kira lets her friends hypnotize her at a slumber party, she unearths a memory that just doesn't make sense: She recalls...
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Zochy's Adventures with Zinc OxideZochy loves to explore and learn new things, and today she's learning all about zinc oxide! Join her as she finds out how interesting and cool chemistry can be. Zinc oxide is everywhere, from the breakfast table to the farm, and Zochy can't wait...
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Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the WorldA contest to find a better way to create clean drinking water turns into a mystery when one of the scientists goes missing. Luckily, Jack and his genius siblings are on the case in this New York Times bestselling series from Bill Nye and...
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Understandable Electronic Devices: Key Concepts and Circuit DesignAn electronic device is a physical component of an electronic circuit or system, which is used to affect electrons and their associated fields in accordance with the function of that system. Such systems have a very broad range of applications, the main ones being,...
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How to make Beeswax Candles: Revised and Enlarged with Candle Customs and Judging Beeswax CandlesThis is a collection of articles, originally published in The British Bee Journal. This 20 page A4 reprint is full of information gained by Clara over many years when she was a particularly successful competitor at The National Honey Show. An excellent text that...
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Korean Food and Foodways: The Root of Health Functional FoodChapter 1: Diet of Northeast Asian Paleolithic Peoples.- Chapter 2: The Nutritional Anthropological Contribution of Primitive.- Pottery Culture.- Chapter 3: Rice and Soybean Cultivation.- Chapter 4: Food science and Dongyi Tribes.- Chapter 5: Food science and Rice Cakes and Korean Sweets.- Chapter 6: Characteristics...
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A Black Journey in TechMy objective is to encourage anyone one, but more specifically the next generation of technologist particularly Black people by sharing my story.There is an underrepresentation of Blacks in technology also referred to as the digital divide. However, the truth of the matter is that...
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Underground MathematicsThomas Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe. Mining and metallurgy were of great significance to the rulers of early modern Europe, required for the silver bullion that fuelled warfare and...
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Island Farming: History and Landscape of Agriculture in the San Juan IslandsA free-ranging pig that caused a international war; a year's crop of ginseng that paid off the mortgage; and a breachy cow that led to bloody murder. Farming in the San Juan Islands has always presented challenges and opportunities. From Coast Salish camas cultivation...
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