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Mike's Civil PE Exam Guide: Morning Session

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Hansen (Author)Designed to help you pass the Civil PE exam the first time! This morning session guide provides you with 40 realistic morning session exam problems with detailed solutions. Learn the study methods that have helped hundreds of EIT's pass the test the first time through. Visit www.peexamguides.com for a free sample problem.Author BiographyMike Hansen, PE is a 27-year-old Civil Engineer in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area who has passed th...

Trizics: Teach yourself TRIZ, how to invent, innovate and solve

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Report copyright infringementby Gordon Cameron (Author)TRIZ first emerged from the former Soviet Union in the 1990's. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ is a set of tools for directing creative thinking based upon the study of patents. Breakthrough thinking is not left to creative inspiration. Instead, new and innovative ideas that solve simple to highly complex technical problems or create new inventions can be systematically derived. TRIZICS is an orga...

Fundamentos de Telecomunicaciones y Redes

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Report copyright infringementby Arturo Serrano Santoyo (Author), Evelio Martinez Martinez (Author)El Libro Fundamentos de Telecomunicaciones y Redes presenta en forma sucinta y estructurada los conceptos básicos de operación de los sistemas modernos de telecomunicaciones tomando en cuenta su transición de lo analógico a lo digital y enfatizando sobre los parámetros clave que definen el desempeño de las principales tecnologías de transporte de información. El libro destaca el papel fundamental...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael B. Druxman (Author)From Broadwayto Hollywood MICHAEL B. DRUXMAN Combining as it does the elements of drama, comedy, music, dance, photography, and design, the film musical is a unique and favored genre, with, it would seem, almost unlimited possibilities for artistic expression and satisfying entertainment. This potential has, at times, been realized with particular success. Some of the best-loved films in motion-picture history have been musicals. And...

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Débora Lanzeni (Editor), Karen Waltorp (Editor), Sarah Pink (Editor)This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future ...

Nuclear Silk Road: Koreanization of Nuclear Power Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Byung-Koo (Author)The news out of Abu Dhabi on Dec. 27, 2009 was the direct motivation to write this book. South Korean consortium has just won the largest single nuclear power plant construction project in recent years to deliver four state-of-the-art Generation III pressurized water reactors to the United Arab Emirates. This book will bring to life the agonizing process of pursuing peaceful nuclear energy in South Korea during the last half-century for th...

The SmartPhone Wallet: Understanding the Disruption Ahead

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Report copyright infringementby David W. Schropfer (Author)-- Do you use a mobile phone? -- Do you use credit cards or debit cards? If so, you need to know that a revolution has started that will impact you sooner than you think, and this book will tell you - the consumer - what you need to know now. The reality is that a torrent of advertising and promotional marketing is heading your way to try to convince you to use new services on your SmartPhone at retail stores. Perhaps you have already...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Bearly (Author)How to Build Effective Wire Antennas was written to fill the gap between building an antenna from a pattern which includes all the dimensions and those very dry fully technical books which tell you how to design an antenna from scratch with all the details but doesn't tell you how. There is sufficient technical detail, where required, for you to be able to design your own wire antenna for any frequency you like and have it work as designed...

Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket: 15 Projects with the Low-Cost AVR ATtiny85 Board - Paperback

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by Anne Barela (Author)Arduino's ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you're still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project that has an Arduino inside. This is where Adafruit's Trinket comes in. Arduino-compatible, one-third the price, and low-power, the Trinket lets you make inexpensive and powerful programmable electronic projects. Written by...

Introductory Tensorial Algorithms in Structural Mechanics

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Report copyright infringementby Faysal Alkhalil Ph. D. (Author)This book is designed for use as a textbook for courses in: Computer and Numerical Programming, Tensor Analysis, Continuum Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Vibrations and Stochastic Processes; such might be offered in Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics and Analysis, Earthquake Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Aeronautics Engineering and Astronautics Engineering. It is also intended to be used as a reference for engineers and a...

Software Test Plans: A How To Guide for Project Staff

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Report copyright infringementby David Tuffley (Author)I N T R O D U C T I O N Systematic and comprehensive testing is known to be a major factor contributing to Information Systems Quality. Adequate testing is however often not performed, leading to a higher number of software defects which impact the real and perceived quality of the software, as well as leading to time and expense being spent on rework and higher maintenance costs. How to Write Software Test Documentation is a plain-English...

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference - Paperback

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by Maria Pierri (Author), Adam Elgar (Translator)Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult.Maria Pierri follows Freud's early interest in "thought-transmission," now known as telepathy. Freud's private investigations led to discussions with other leading figures like Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi, with whom he held a "dialogue of the unconsciouses." Freud's and Ferenczi's work assessed how fortune ...

The Arts of VLSI Circuit Design - Hardcover

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by Hongjiang Song (Author) Number of Pages: 468 Dimensions: 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 02, 2011

Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Jackson (Author), David Shaw (Author)The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising. It provides a unique insight into best practice across the fashion industry.Author BiographyTIM JACKSON is Principal Lecturer at the London College of Fashion specialising in luxury brand management, fashion buying and marketing. Tim had previously worked in fashion retail management and buying for a number of UK brands including Burto...

Content Strategy: A How-To Guide - Paperback

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by Guiseppe Getto (Author), Jack T. Labriola (Author), Sheryl Ruszkiewicz (Author)This comprehensive text provides a how-to guide for content strategy, enabling students and professionals to understand and master the skills needed to develop and manage technical content in a range of professional contexts. The landscape of technical communication has been revolutionized by emerging technologies such as content management systems, open-source information architecture, and application programmi...

This & That about the Ercoupe: This is a rewrite and much improved 2011 color edition of

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Report copyright infringementby Paul R. Prentice (Author)The adventure of ownership, flying, and DIY maintainence of the classic Ercoupe aircraft. It addresses the FAA regulations and appropriate proceedures that allow you to do much of your own maintenance. Discriptive color photographs and sketches aid in understanding the mechanical and preflight requirements for safe and affordable operations and ownership. The book is a study for the DIY who wants to do as much of the maintenance as the ...

The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History

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Report copyright infringementby Ian M. Miller (Editor), Bradley Camp Davis (Editor), Brian Lander (Editor) Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualiti...

The Gold Mines of Blackhawk Canyon: San Bernardino - Big Bear

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Del Mar (Author)Walter Del Mar's memories of the Blackhawk mines go beyond just historical events - they encompass the personal experiences of him and his family as they lived and grew up amidst the beauty and excitement of Blackhawk Canyon. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: November 20, 2015

AutoCAD 2012 with AutoLISP: An introductory guide

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Report copyright infringementby Basudeb Bhatta (Author)This book has been designed as a teaching tool and a self-study guide to learn AutoCAD and AutoLISP. Contents have been presented in a pedagogical format by delivering the fundamental concepts first, then moving toward the more advanced and specialized features of AutoCAD. The book covers 2D and 3D drawing in addition to AutoLISP. This book will be a unique choice for the engineers, planners, architects, and others who need to learn AutoC...

Life Force Mars: Creating a New Home for Mankind

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Report copyright infringementby Bert Tucker (Author)Tim, Joan, Rob and Mary worked for NASA. Using robotics and with JPL support they made site discovery, developed and then traveled to Mars in Ares rockets. They move into an incomplete habitat on Mars that was built with native resources. They then proceed to expand it into a home. They use marscrete thermite-fused building blocks to line excavated tunnels and domed rooms inside of a meteor impact crater similar to Meteor Crater east of Flag...

The Angel on My Shoulder: My Life with an American Pit Bull Terrier

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Report copyright infringementby Jolene Mercadante (Author)"Jolene writes with great heart and passion about a dog breed disenfranchised not because of what they are, but because of what we imagine them to be. I love stories that support the underdog, and Jolene's tale of her beloved pit bull terrier is exactly that. It is also a delight to read, and a worthy story to ponder. And you will fall in love with Rumer, I'll promise you that." -Susan Knilans McElroy, author of Animals As Teachers an...

Swarm Traps and Bait Hives: The easy way to get bees for free.

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Report copyright infringementby McCartney M. Taylor (Author)The definitive guide to catching free bees using swarm traps and bait hives. A comprehensive how-to for beekeepers. Based on the fact that bees will occupy a cavity of about 40 liters, a swarm trap is made to create the ideal space for a wild swarm to occupy. Thereby the bees come to the beekeeper so that the beekeeper doesn't have to go hunt swarms. Some Chapters: 1 - Why Trap Swarms? 2 - Trees 3 - Biology of Swarming 4 - Swarm Name...

Granville Taylor Woods: The First Black American Who Was Granted Forty-Nine Patents

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Sr. Walker (Author) Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 22, 2011

The Saga of the Tin Goose: The Story of the Ford Tri-Motor 3rd Edition 2012

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Report copyright infringementby David A. Weiss (Author)It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing almost everything we have in air travel today-from stewardesses to concrete runways in airports. All major airlines star...

Pocket Injection Mold Engineering Standards, 2nd EDITION

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Report copyright infringementby Jay W. Carender (Author)This book includes many reference tables and graphics supplying valuable information for injection mold design and engineering.The book includes mold specification sheets and mold design/engineering for gates, cooling, sprues & runners, runner sizing, ejection, pullbacks & KOs, SPI KO patterns, clamp slots, venting, hydraulic cylinders, slides, alignment, O-rings, SHCSs, support plate & pillars, hot runner considerations, etc...

Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The Complex History of a Simple Reactor Technology, with Emphasis on Its Scien

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Report copyright infringementby Yoon Il Chang (Author), Charles E. Till (Author)The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) is a fast reactor system developed at Argonne National Laboratory in the decade 1984 to 1994. The IFR project developed the technology for a complete system; the reactor, the entire fuel cycle and the waste management technologies were all included in the development program. The reactor concept had important features and characteristics that were completely new and fuel cycle and w...

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Report copyright infringementby E. J. Stephens (Author), Marc Wanamaker (Author)The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown's early creations came from micro-studios stretched along Sunset Boulevard in an area disparagingly known as Poverty Row. Here, the first wave of West Coast moviemakers migrated to the tiny village of Hollywood, where alcohol was illegal, actors were unwelcome, and cattle were herded down the unpav...

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Report copyright infringementby John F. Hogan (Author)Contaminated drinking water killed thousands of Chicago's original citizens, so the city took the unprecedented step of digging a tunnel two miles long and 30 feet below lake bottom. Since the facilities on shore included an unsightly 138-foot vertical pipe, famed architect William Boyington concealed it with a limestone, castle-like tower that soon became a celebrated landmark. Through the first 150 years of its existence, Chicago's iconi...

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Louise Hill (Author)The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregon's high points. When aircraft and cameras became more cost-effective and efficient methods of fire detection, many old lookouts were abandoned or removed. Of the many hundreds of lo...

Managing Variation for Injection Molding, 3rd Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Jay W. Carender (Author)This book is written for green and black belt level personnel in the manufacturing industry. Most examples are directed toward injection molding of thermoplastic parts. This 3rd Edition includes several error corrections from original 2003 edition, more direction and discussion, and pages from the Basic Statistics and SPC book never published previously. Topics include: understand and quantify variation, understand sources of variation, ...

Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning

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Report copyright infringementby Todd Conklin (Author)Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A provocative examination of human performance and safety management, the book delivers a thought-provoking discourse about how we work, and defines a new approach to operational learning.This is not a book about traditional safety. This is a book about ...

Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, 1971-2010

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Lane (Author), Gail Chapline (Author), Kamlesh Lula (Author)The Space Shuttle is an engineering marvel perhaps only exceeded by the station itself. The shuttle was based on the technology of the 1960s and early 1970s. It had to overcome significant challenges to make it reusable. Perhaps the greatest challenges were the main engines and the Thermal Protection System. The program has seen terrible tragedy in its 3 decades of operation, yet it has also seen...