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Process Heat Transfer: Principles, Applications and Rules of Thumb - Hardcover

$216.00

by Robert W. Serth (Author), Thomas Lestina (Author)Process Heat Transfer is a reference on the design and implementation of industrial heat exchangers. It provides the background needed to understand and master the commercial software packages used by professional engineers in the design and analysis of heat exchangers. This book focuses on types of heat exchangers most widely used by industry: shell-and-tube exchangers (including condensers, reboilers and vaporizers), air-cooled heat exchan...

Juran's Quality Essentials: For Leaders - Hardcover

$54.68

by Joseph Defeo (Author)Publisher'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.A practical, concise guide to improving business performance by properly applying quality management methods"Dr. Juran's wisdom on quality and management is timeless. The tenets of modern quality that were forged by Dr. Juran in the second half of the 20th century are made contemporar...

$328.86

by Thomas Hyde (Author), Wei Sun (Author), Christopher Hyde (Author)Publisher'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.Complete coverage of design and life assessment methods for high-temperature componentsApplied Creep Mechanics fully discusses the time-dependent deformation which occurs in a metal when subjected to stress at an elevated temperature. This b...

Lean Retail and Wholesale: Use Lean to Survive (and Thrive!) in the New Global Economy with Its Higher Operating Expenses, Increase Competition, and D - Hardcover

$84.24

by Paul Myerson (Author)Publisher'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.Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale"Lean Retail & Wholesale is a highly insightful and succinct guide to lean application and a valuable resource for any retailer or wholesaler seeking a competitive edge." --APICS Magazine, January/February 2015...

Transparency for Sustainability in the Food Chain: Challenges and Research Needs Effost Critical Reviews #2 - Paperback

$71.91

by G. Schiefer (Author), Gerhard Schiefer (Author), Jivka Deiters (Author)Transparency for Sustainability in the Food Chain lays out the key issues and challenges in food safety, food quality, chain integrity, the link with consumers, and the technological base of tracking and tracing systems. This succinct volume brings readers up to speed on the state of the art in these areas, and the research trends in specific domains. Transparency in the food sector, especially to consumers, is one of t...

Aircraft Materials and Analysis - Paperback

$118.26

by Tariq Siddiqui (Author)Publisher'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.Complete coverage of aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenanceAircraft Materials and Analysis addresses aircraft design, mechanical and structural factors in aviation, flight loads, structural integrity, stresses, properties of materials, compression, bending, and aircraft fat...

The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations: Tools, Techniques, and Rules of Thumb - Hardcover

$216.00

by Joe P. Degeare (Author)Unpredictable, unwanted, and costly, oil and gas well fishing is not a typical practice for drilling, workover and completion projects, but roughly one in every five wells experience this intervention. To stay on top, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition will keep fishing tool product managers, drilling managers and all other well intervention specialists keyed in to all the latest tools, techniques and rules of thumb critical to conventional and c...

Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking - Hardcover

$44.28

by Percy W. Blandford (Author) Number of Pages: 370 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 27, 1988

3D Printing with Autodesk 123d, Tinkercad, and Makerbot - Paperback

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by Lydia Cline (Author)Publisher'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.Master the art of 3D printing with step-by-step tutorials and DIY projectsAre you ready to join the new industrial revolution? 3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot reveals how to turn your ideas into physical products that you can use or sell You'll learn how tooper...

Product Development: A Structured Approach to Consumer Product Development, Design, and Manufacture - Hardcover

$161.91

by Anil Mital (Author), Anoop Desai (Author), Anand Subramanian (Author)Product development teams are composed of an integrated group of professionals working from the nascent stage of new product planning through design creation and design review and then on to manufacturing planning and cost accounting. An increasingly large number of graduate and professional training programs are aimed at meeting that need by creating a better understanding of how to integrate and accelerate the entire pr...

Analog Circuit Design Volume Three: Design Note Collection - Hardcover

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by Bob Dobkin (Author), John Hamburger (Author)Design Note Collection, the third book in the Analog Circuit Design series, is a comprehensive volume of applied circuit design solutions, providing elegant and practical design techniques. Design Notes in this volume are focused circuit explanations, easily applied in your own designs. This book includes an extensive power management section, covering switching regulator design, linear regulator design, microprocessor power design, battery man...

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla - Paperback

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by David Kilcullen (Author)When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end. This is a book about future conflicts and future cities, and about the challenges and opp...

Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood - Hardcover

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by J. E. Smyth (Author)Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender e...

Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics IV - Hardcover

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by M. J. Baines (Editor), K. W. Morton (Editor)This volume brings together leading mathematicians and engineers to review recent advances in mathematical and computational fluid techniques for modelling fluid flows. Four key topics are treated in detail: implicit methods in CFD, mesh generation and error analysis, numerical boundary conditions, and multigrid and alternative methods for hyperbolic systems. This up-to-date survey will appeal to students and researchers alike. Number of Pages: 6...

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by R. A. Young (Editor)A powerful and relatively new method for extracting detailed crystal structural information from X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data, the Rietveld method attracts a great deal of interest from researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and crystallography. Now available in paperback, this book comprises chapters from international researchers on all aspects of this important technique. It will be of great interest to all researchers in the fields, as we...

Conservation Drones: Mapping and Monitoring Biodiversity - Paperback

$102.60

by Serge A. Wich (Author), Lian Pin Koh (Author)Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for surveying, mapping, and monitoring ...

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by Robert D. Guenther (Author)This textbook reduces the complexity of the coverage of optics to allow a student with only elementary calculus to learn the principles of optics and the modern Fourier theory of diffraction and imaging. Students majoring in sciences or engineering and taking a standard physics course on optics will find this text useful. Examples of a variety of applications dependent on optics allow the student to connect this course to their particular field of interest. Topic...

Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Hardcover

$133.38

by George Lucas (Author)What 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 war theory," international relations, and international law. The ethical foundations that define the "Profession of Arms" have developed over millennia from the shared moral values, ...

Information: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Luciano Floridi (Author)We live in a society that is awash with information, but few of us really understand what information is. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosophy of information and on information ethics, Luciano Floridi, offers an illuminating exploration of information as it relates to both philosophy and science. He discusses the roots of the concept of information in mathematics and science, and considers the role of information ...

The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media - Paperback

$80.35

by Jose Van Dijck (Author)Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author José van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects...

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog: Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

$61.20

by Harry Collins (Author)Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected, the previous five years have been an especially exciting period in the field. Here sociologist Harry Collins offers readers an unpreced...

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago - Paperback

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by Carl Smith (Author)A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Bos...

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame - Paperback

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by Mark Monmonier (Author)Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit-which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Califo...

The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910 - Paperback

$61.20

by Chris Otter (Author)During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the...

Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age - Paperback

$72.00

by T. V. Paul (Editor)As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence-especially as it applies to nuclear weapons-in an increasingly heterogeneous global and political setting. Moving beyond the precepts of traditional deterrence theory, this groundbreaking volume offers insights for the use o...

Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism - Paperback

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by Barak Mendelsohn (Author)Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadi ideology is distinctive in its ambition to abandon the principle of state sovereignty, overthrow the modern state system, and replace it with an extremely radical interpretation of an Islamic world order. These characteristics reflect a radical break from traditional objectives promoted by terrorist groups. In Combating Jihadism Barak Mendelsohn argues that the distinctiveness of the al-Qaeda threat led the intern...

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover

$178.20

by Susan Schulten (Author)In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profil...

The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods - Paperback

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by Sun Zi (Author), Victor Mair (Translator)Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations, and while numerous editions of the work exist, Victor Mair's translation is the first to...

Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food - Paperback

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by Hervé This (Author), Malcolm Debevoise (Translator)Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, maple syrup or sugar; tyrosine, an odorless ...

Genius Inventions: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Technological Breakthroughs - Hardcover

$29.95

by Jack Challoner (Author)Go back in time to share the excitement of the greatest technological breakthroughs in history--and meet the inspired inventors who made them happen.The light bulb. Antiseptic surgery. The Internet. These inventions changed the world as we know it. Published in association with the Science Museum of London, this fascinating volume gives unprecedented insight into the minds and lives of those who shaped the way we live today. Biographies of 28 people and their inventi...

Instrumental Realism: The Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology - Paperback

$39.60

by Don Ihde (Author)"Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments. . . . Ihde's book breaks new ground and . . . makes an important debate accessible." --Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutual...

The Radiance of France, new edition - Paperback

$72.00

by Gabrielle Hecht (Author), Michel Callon (Foreword by)How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France asks how it ha...