Technology & Engineering
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Public-Sector Project ManagemeAuthor: WirickPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.59h x 6.35w x 0.71dISBN: 9780470487310Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 110About the AuthorDAVID W. WIRICK, PMP, CMA, is a Visiting Scholar, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State...
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Psychology of Everyday ThingsEven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this fascinating, ingenious--even liberating--book, lies not in ourselves, but...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Technologies, Policies, Economics, and Implementation StrategiesThis book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as "Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)," which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 emissions. It addresses how CCS should work, as well as where, why,...
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Intelligence in War: The Value--And Limitations--Of What the Military Can Learn about the EnemyA masterly look at the value and limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war from the premier military historian of our time, John Keegan. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph...
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You Will Never Be Forgotten: StoriesIn this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter's birth defect. A content...
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Space Taxi: B.U.R.P. Strikes BackBook five in the intergalactic science-based chapter book series from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer Archie Morningstar fights crime across the universe alongside his dad and Pockets the talking cat. In Archie's fifth adventure, Pockets is in a panic:...
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Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the PlanetWhat do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of...
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Frederick the Great on the Art of WarFrederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him; and established Prussia as a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two centuries of European history. He was...
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Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and CultureThe classic history of copper working and use throughout AfricaA finalist for the 1985 Herskovits PrizeFirst Paperback EditionAuthor: Eugenia W. HerbertPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 01/01/2003Pages: 438Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.10w x 0.99dISBN: 9780299096045About the AuthorEugenia W. Herbert is the E. Nevius...
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Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of AlaskaAs Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant...
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How Smart Machines ThinkEverything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs. The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human...
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Video Games Around the WorldThirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and...
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Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media InfrastructuresThe contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with...
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Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to KnowWhat significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just...
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What Technology WantsFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable-- a sweeping vision of technology as a living force that can expand our individual potential In this provocative book, one of today's most respected thinkers turns the conversation about technology on its head...
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Engineering Mechanics: Statics & DynamicsFor introductory mechanics courses found in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aeronautical engineering, and engineering mechanics departments. Better enables students to learn challenging material through effective, efficient examples and explanations.Author: Anthony M. Bedford, Wallace FowlerPublisher: PearsonPublished: 07/18/2007Pages: 652Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.43lbsSize: 10.32h x 8.36w x...
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Advanced Mechanics of MaterialsTreats topics by extending concepts and procedures a step or two beyond elementary mechanics of materials and emphasizes the physical view -- mathematical complexity is not used where it is not needed. KEY TOPICS: Includes new coverage of symmetry considerations, rectangular plates in bending,...
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Mathematical ModelingThe new edition of Mathematical Modeling, the survey text of choice for mathematical modeling courses, adds ample instructor support and online delivery for solutions manuals and software ancillaries. From genetic engineering to hurricane prediction, mathematical models guide much of the decision making in our...
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right DesignSketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood--by both designers and the people with whom they need to work-- in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is on...
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The Tab Guide to DIY Welding: Hands-On Projects for Hobbyists, Handymen, and ArtistsPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.GET STARTED WITH METAL INERT GAS (MIG) WELDING A practical guide with step-by-step instructions and hands-on projects for...
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