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How to Booby-Trap Your Home or Bunker to Keep the Weirdos Out - Paperback

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by Billy-Bob Thompson (Author)Discover the ultimate guide to protecting your home or bunker from intruders with "How to Booby-Trap Your Home or Bunker to Keep the Weirdos Out" by Billy-Bob Thompson. From assessing defense needs to creating DIY traps and incorporating advanced technology, this comprehensive handbook covers everything you need to know to ensure your safety. But remember to consider the legal and ethical considerations along the way. Get ready to defend your fortress! Number of ...

Prepper's Guide to Ham Radio: Bands, Antennas, and Off-Grid Power Setup - Guidance for Preppers Planning Self-Reliant Emergency Communications Durin - Paperback

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by Steve Collins (Author)Keep Communicating When Disaster Strikes - Are You Prepared? What if cell towers failed during a catastrophic storm? How would you coordinate aid in a widespread blackout? Can ham radio contact globally provide lifesaving information? I witnessed firsthand the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Zelda - communities cut off, families separated, rescue efforts stalled without communications. Yet my neighbor's ham radio relayed situation reports managing relief convoys wh...

Emergency Preparedness and Off-Grid Communication Bible for Preppers: [10 Books in 1] The Ultimate Survival Guide When the Grid Goes Down - Paperback

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by Justin P. Brenner (Author) Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.28 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 19, 2024

BaoFeng Radio Bible: The Complete Prepper's Guide to Emergency Communication & Off-Grid Operations Master Handheld Radios, Discover Advance - Paperback

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by Denny Burton (Author)Harness the power of BaoFeng radios with this ultimate prepper's guide for emergency communication!When the phone lines go down, do you have a plan for reaching your loved ones? Are you worried that a disaster will cut you off from the people you care about most? Or are you looking for an all-in-one guide to help you stay in touch with your friends & family in a catastrophe? When disaster strikes, your phone won't keep you alive. If the cell towers are down and the...

Ultrafast Lasers and Optics for Experimentalists (Second Edition) - Hardcover

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by James D. Pickering (Author)This book is an accessible introduction to the world of ultrafast lasers and optics, explaining key principles and practical use cases. Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.56 x 10 x 7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 15, 2025

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by Angus Lockyer (Author)From the second half of the nineteenth century, Japan has been a particularly enthusiastic user of exhibitions. Large-scale international exhibitions, including Osaka 2025, form only the tip of an iceberg comprising over 1,300 industrial, regional, and local exhibitions held in Japan over the past 150 years. In this unique history, Angus Lockyer explores how and why these events have been used as catalysts of development and arenas for fostering modern industry, empir...

Plants for Beekeeping In Canada and the Northern USA: A Directory of Nectar and Pollen Sources Found in Canada and the Northern USA - Paperback

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by Jane Carver Ramsay (Author) Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2025

Wildcat Women: Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry - Paperback

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by Carla Williams (Author)Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living conditions, performi...

The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill Practice; Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Joint Textbook Committee of the Paper (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

Tradition Meets Transformation: Leadership Strategies to Revitalize Manufacturing - Hardcover

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by Laurie Harbour (Author), Scott Walton (Author)In a world of evolving competition, economic challenges, and technological advancements, the success of North American manufacturing hinges on one critical element: leadership. In Tradition Meets Transformation, authors Laurie Harbour and Scott Walton emphasize the pivotal role of leadership in driving transformation and generational improvement within the industry.Using extensive research and their combined years of experience in the industry,...

Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Theodore John Kaczynski (Author)Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth. In Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporar...

ASVAB Study Guide 2023-2024 - 3 Full-Length Practice Tests, ASVAB Prep Book Secrets with Step-By-Step Video Tutorials: [7th Edition] - Paperback

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by Matthew Bowling (Editor)Mometrix Test Preparation's ASVAB Study Guide 2023-2024 - ASVAB Prep Book Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: Mometrix Test Preparation is not affiliated with or endorsed by any official testing organization. All organizational and test names are trademarks of their respecti...

Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions: Full-Length Tests Based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book [2nd Edition] - Paperback

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by Matthew Bowling (Editor)***Your #1 Practice Test Resource***Mometrix Test Preparation's Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions [NEC 2023] are the simplest way to prepare for your Journeyman Electrician Exam based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book. Practice is an important part of preparing for a test and improving your chance of success.Mometrix practice questions are designed to prepare you for the real test. You could know everything that is going to be covered o...

The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence - Paperback

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by Stephen Kurczy (Author)In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet."Captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life." --The NationWith a new afterword to the paperback editionDeep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once ...

Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre - Paperback

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by Brett L. Markham (Author)Go back to basics--compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more--with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold). Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre--and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farm...

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by Martin Peterson (Author)An essential all-in-one introduction, Ethics for Engineers provides in-depth coverage of major ethical theories, professional codes of ethics, and case studies in a single volume. Incorporating numerous practical examples and about 100 review questions, it helps students better understand and address ethical issues that they may face in their future careers. Topics covered include whistle-blowing, the problem of many hands, gifts, bribes, conflicts of interest, engi...

Chst Exam Secrets Study Guide: Chst Test Review for the Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam - Hardcover

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by Chst Exam Secrets Test Prep (Editor)Mometrix Test Preparation's CHST Exam Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: Practice test questions with detailed answer explanations Tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance A complete review of all CHST test sections Prog...

Hammer's Blueprint Reading Basics - Paperback

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by Charles Gillis (Author), Warren Hammer (Author)Blueprints, or "prints," show what is needed to make parts. They include details such as size, shape, and acceptable variations. They also tell you the material, finish, special assembly and processing instructions, and inspection requirements. Blueprints come from engineering departments and provide all the necessary information to all those involved in making the part. They turn ideas into products, and help communicate between customers, sa...

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening - Paperback

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by Jesse Frost (Author)Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening--for healthier, more productive soil! From the host of the popular The No-Till Market Garden Podcast--heard around the world with nearly one million downloads! Discovering how to meet the soil's needs is the key task for every market gardener. In this comprehensive guide, Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky...

GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 - Paperback

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by Wilpen L. Gorr (Author), Kristen S. Kurland (Author)This classic ArcGIS(R) exercise book has been revised and streamlined to help you learn the latest ArcGIS Pro tools and workflows.GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 is the book of choice for classrooms and self-learners seeking to develop their expertise with Esri's premier desktop geographic information system (GIS) technology--no prior experience is necessary.This fifth edition, revised for ArcGIS Pro 3.1, features new datasets, exercises,...

The Panama Canal: Pictorial View of the World's Greatest Engineering Feat - Paperback

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by Thomas Herbert Russell (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture - Hardcover

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by David Lambert (Author)The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in...

Radical Next: Reclaiming Your Humanity in a Post-Human World - Hardcover

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by Sam Rad (Author)As humans merge ever more deeply with technologies that seem to be advancing impossibly fast, we have entered a new era--the Age of Acceleration--that will call our very humanity into question. Are you ready for what comes next? With transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, extended realities, and quantum computing increasingly blurring the boundaries between human and machine, organic and synthetic, reality and virtuality, we find ourselves at a crossroads...

Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data - Hardcover

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by Rogayeh Tabrizi (Author)Implement AI and big data at your organization using principles from behavioral economics In Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data, behavioral economist Dr. Rogayeh Tabrizi delivers an intuitive roadmap to help organizations disentangle the complexity of their data to create tangible and lasting value. The book explains how to balance the multiple disciplines that power AI and behavioral economics using a combination of the right questions and insightful...

Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit - Hardcover

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by Marc Feldman (Author), Hugh Taylor (Author), Eric Felt (Foreword by)Comprehensive exploration of humanity's potential for criminal activities in outer space Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit is a forward-thinking resource that considers, analyzes, and provides solutions to the influence of the ignoble side of humanity in the realm of outer space, where potential for crime, corruption, piracy, and war increases as the exploitation of space as a commercial resource conti...

Kick the Hay Habit: A Practical Guide to Year-Around Grazing - Paperback

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by Jim Gerrish (Author)With today's management systems, the cost of making hay far exceeds its value to grazing businesses. Studies have shown that winter feed costs are the largest single factor limiting the profitability for most livestock operations. In virtually every area of the USA, year-around grazing--without hay--is possible, yet many graziers continue making hay. Kick the Hay Habit: A Practical Guide To Year-Around Grazing by Jim Gerrish will show you how much it really costs to pro...

Wild Clay: Creating Ceramics and Glazes from Natural and Found Resources - Hardcover

$40.00

by Matt Levy (Author), Takuro Shibata (Author), Hitomi Shibata (Author)The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings. Testing an...

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead - Paperback

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by Laszlo Bock (Author)From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work -- and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that transformed ho...

Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire - Paperback

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by David Dekok (Author)How a modern-day mine disaster turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town.Back JacketCentralia, Pennsylvania, lived and died by anthracite coal. The town's population peaked at 2,761 in 1890, but by 1981 had dwindled to just over 1,000--not unusual for a Pennsylvania mining town. But today Centralia has no more than a dozen inhabitants, and they are expected to be gone before long. The reason: an underground fire that has burned since 1962 in the labyrinth of aba...

The Water-Smart Garden: Techniques and Strategies for Conserving, Capturing, and Efficiently Using Water in Today's Climate... and Tomorrow's - Paperback

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by Noelle Johnson (Author)Have you ever faced water-use restrictions and worried about how you can still grow a beautiful, productive landscape? Let The Water-Smart Garden show you how! As freshwater shortages increasingly strike regions around the globe, it's more important than ever to employ water-conserving practices in the garden. Whether your landscape is filled with shrubs and perennials or fruits and vegetables, in The Water-Smart Garden, you'll learn dozens of techniques to limit wa...

The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor - Paperback

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by Gerald H. Pollack (Author)Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water's structure underlie most energetic transitions of form and motion on earth. Number of Pages: 357 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.9 x 8.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 01, 2013

Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action: Investigating Human-Machine Encounters Outside the Laboratory - Paperback

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by Florian Muhle (Editor), Indra Bock (Editor)So far, human-machine encounters have primarily been tested and monitored in controlled laboratory settings. However, the first robots that are used in care, service and education are already being sold commercially. The contributors grapple with methodological challenges in investigating communicative AI systems in (inter-)action. They investigate how these studies can be composed and what kinds of insights such research can provide. With this, t...