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The Edge of Reality: Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon

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Report copyright infringementby J. Allen Hynek (Author), Jacques Vallee (Author), Paul Hynek (Foreword by)In this invaluable work, we gain insight into the thinking of Hynek and Vallee's research and investigations into UFOs, including Project Blue Book, the Pascagoula case, and the Betty and Barney Hill experienceFrom the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the very edge of what we conside...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Nehme (Author)Welcome to "HVAC Balancing Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide." This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of HVAC balancing and equip readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to achieve optimal performance and efficiency in HVAC systems.Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play a crucial role in providing comfort and maintaining indoor air quality in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. ...

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...

Full Steam Ahead: Purdue Mechanical Engineering Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Report copyright infringementby John Norberg (Editor)Mechanical Engineering was the first school of engineering to be established at Purdue University in 1882. From just 120 students, the School has grown over the last 130 years to serve over 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students annually. Originally located in Mechanics Hall, a one-story red brick building, Mechanical Engineering now has extensive facilities that include two major satellite research laboratories, Ray W. Herrick Laborator...

The Military Academy of Malaysia Compared with West Point: Learning Environments and New Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Jowati Juhary (Author)This dissertation compares the learning environment of elite military academies in the U.S. and Malaysia, namely the United States Military Academy, New York (West Point) and the Military Academy of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (MAM). The dissertation began as an investigation of the place of e-learning and simulation technologies in educating future military officers. It was assumed that as modern technologies for war and defence have changed, ...

Experiments in Achieving Water and Food Self-Sufficiency in the Middle East: The Consequences of Contrasting Endowments, Ideologies, and Investment Po

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Report copyright infringementby Elie Elhadj (Author)The book aims to quantify and analyze how two water scarce but ideologically different Middle Eastern political economies, Saudi Arabia and Syria, addressed water sector investment between 1980 and 2000. The study examines how narrow-coalitions of decision-makers obsessed by impossible-to-achieve food self-sufficiency goals, lacking environmental consideration and safe political processes contributed to massively waste scarce resources and u...

In Search of Monster Fish: Angling for a More Sustainable Planet - Hardcover

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by Mark Spitzer (Author)In Search of Monster Fish is an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk tarpon, and blood-curdling sharks in locales as exotic as the Amazon, Catalonia, the Dominican Republic, Senegal, and even in our own backyards. But this eco-odyssey isn't just about meeting and releasing some of the most grotesque lunkers in t...

Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: The Dawn of the Space Age - Paperback

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by Walter Sierra (Author)Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science is a series of four closely related books that provide an amplyillustrated, overarching perspective to a broad, nontechnical audience of the entire panorama surrounding the development of rockets, missiles, and space vehicles as we know them today and what the exciting future holds. The books are sequential and form an integrated whole: Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.89 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: December 19, 2016

Plastics Injection Molding: Scientific Molding, Recommendations, and Best Practices

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Report copyright infringementby José R. Lerma Valero (Author)Plastics Injection Molding: Scientific Molding, Recommendations, and Best Practices is a user-friendly reference book and training tool, with all the essentials to understand injection molding of plastics. It is a practical guide to refining and controlling the process, increasing robustness and consistency, increasing productivity and profitability, and reducing costs. This book contains structured information on process definition...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Rauwendaal (Author)The book provides a practical understanding of basic information on extrusion in a way useful to readers without an engineering degree as well as to those new to the field. It is primarily written for extruder operators, supervisors, technical service personnel, and process engineers. Designed for on-the-job use, it guides the reader step by step through material issues, machinery, processing, and troubleshooting. This revised and exten...

Farmall Cub Encyclopedia: The Essential Guide to Models, History, Implements, and Repair - Paperback

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by Kenneth Updike (Author), Rachel Gingell (Author)America's favorite small farm tractor is retrieved from the shed and shined up for duty in this essential guide by tractor repair expert Rachel Gingell and long-time writer Kenneth Updike. The Farmall Cub Encyclopedia is a comprehensive manual for any self-starter, at-home historian, or backyard farmer. Providing step-by-step instruction for maintenance and repair from oil changes to charging system snags, as well as user tips and a buyer's c...

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Kobie (Author)We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world - be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle - is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible...

Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys, 3rd Edition: Breeds, Care, Marketing

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Report copyright infringementby Don Schrider (Author)Turkeys are an excellent source of succulent meat, rich eggs, and nutrient-dense manure, and raising them is a rewarding and profitable activity for many farmers. With helpful tips on acquiring organic certification, processing both meat and eggs, and marketing your products, you'll have all the information you need to successfully raise your own healthy and productive turkeys.Back JacketNot only are turkeys an excellent source of succulent...

Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products - Hardcover

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by Martina Lauchengco (Author)Most tech companies get marketing wrong because they don't know how to do product marketing right. The next in the bestselling SVPG series, LOVED shows what leaders like Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, and Salesforce do well and how to apply it to transform product marketing at your company. The best products can still lose in the marketplace. Why? They are beaten by products with stronger product marketing. Good product marketing is the difference between "also-ran" ...

Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Swan (Author)Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction--these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to--and understand the sources of--the plight of honeybees.Through a lyrical combination of creative nonfiction and visual imagery, Where Honeybees Th...

The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Siegel (Author)In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it. "Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning, the key mechanism in AI. A forward-looking, practical book and a must-read for anyone in the information economy."--Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing; bestselling author of The Four "An antidote to today's relentless AI hype--why s...

Physics of Spin-Orbit-Coupled Oxides - Hardcover

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by Gang Cao (Author), Lance DeLong (Author)This book is aimed at graduate students, post docs and senior researchers with preliminary expertise in materials physics or chemistry, and with an interest in the physical and chemical properties of 4d- and 5d transition metal oxides, especially ruthenates and iridates. The 4d- and 5d-transition metal oxides are among the most current and interesting quantum materials. This book reviews recent experimental and theoretical evidence that the physical ...

The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

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Report copyright infringementby 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 w...

No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force - Hardcover

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by Max Smeets (Author)Over the past decade, numerous states have declared cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, sought to develop a military cyber strategy and establish a cyber command. These developments have led to much policy talk and concern about the future of warfare as well as the digital vulnerability of society. No Shortcuts provides a level-headed view of where we are in the militarization of cyberspace. In this book, Max Smeets bridges the divide between technology and policy to ...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England - Paperback

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by Claire Preston (Author)How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between them, scientists, na...

A Tale of Two Infinities: Gravitational Waves and the Quantum Origin of the Universe's Biggest Mysteries - Paperback

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by Gianfranco Bertone (Author)'An incredible tour of our universe's greatest mysteries' Professor Dan Hooper This cutting-edge book investigates the extraordinary potential of multimessenger astronomy to revolutionise our understanding of the universe The spectacular advances of modern astronomy have opened our horizon on an unexpected cosmos: a dark, mysterious universe, populated by enigmatic entities we know very little about, like black holes, or nothing at all, like dark matter and dark ...

Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education - Paperback

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by S. Alex Ruthmann (Editor), Roger Mantie (Editor)Few aspects of daily existence are untouched by technology. Learning and teaching music are no exceptions and arguably have been impacted as much or more than other areas of life. Digital technologies have come to affect music learning and teaching in profound ways, influencing how we create, listen, share, consume, interact, and conceptualize musical practices and the musical experience. For a discipline as entrenched in tradition as music e...

Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South

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Report copyright infringementby Casey Cater (Author)Regenerating Dixie is the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention. Instead, it was a multifaceted process that influenced, and was influenced by, environmental alterations, political machinations, business practices, and social matters. Although it generally hewed to national and global ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Hinton (Author) Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Buried Dreams: The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age - Hardcover

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by Andrew R. Black (Author)The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewa...

Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep, 5th Edition: Breeding, Care, Facilities

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Simmons (Author), Carol Ekarius (Author)This bestselling guide is the perfect reference for caring for your flock of sheep. The fifth edition of Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep is now updated with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, including a gallery of the best breed choices for both meat and fiber. With their small size and gentle dispositions, sheep are one of the easier livestock species to raise and offer varied marketing opportun...

The Illustrated Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking

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Report copyright infringementby Krish Ashok (Author)Masala Lab returns as an irresistible collector's edition, adorned with ingenious additions, illustrations, infographics and charts: it's the collector's edition you know your kitchen-laboratory needs. Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas, or why she measured using the knuckle of her index finger? Why does a counter-intuitive pinch of salt make your kheer more intensely flavorful...

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America - Paperback

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by Margaret O'Mara (Author)One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal ...

Electro-hydraulic Servo Valves - Paperback

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by Joji Parambath (Author)The book explores the technology used in state-of-the-art servo valves. The book also describes the construction of electro-hydraulic servo valve systems, the details of various types of control elements, and the characteristics of servo valve systems. A fluid power professional should possess exceptional knowledge about servo valves for his/her continuing professional development and career advancement. A faculty or a student in an engineering institution must acqui...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward H. Crussell (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 impor...

Building Stones and Clay-Products: A Handbook for Architects

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Report copyright infringementby Heinrich Ries (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 ...

Report Of The Secretary Of The Treasury, On The Subject Of Public Roads And Canals: Made In Pursuance Of A Resolution Of Senate, Of March 2d, 1807

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Report copyright infringementby United States Dept of the Treasury (Created by), Albert Gallatin (Author), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (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 copyrig...