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Zeroing in on Optics: Professional Firearm Optics Training for the Modern Shooter

$93.58

Report copyright infringementby Cpl Reginald J. Wales (Author)Zeroing in on Optics has been designed specifically for today's shooters looking to improve their skills and knowledge of utilizing their firearms optical system.Whether you are a hunter, competitive shooter, or just enjoy recreational shooting, this book will assist you in choosing the best optic for you specific application.It will help you to raise your accuracy to the next level! This manual will walk you through step-by step h...

$185.20

Report copyright infringementby Aaron Hall (Editor)Irrigation engineering is a branch of civil engineering that is involved in controlling and harnessing the various natural sources of water. This branch investigates various aspects of agriculture and irrigation in detail to determine the future prospects of irrigation. Irrigation engineering analyzes the efficiency of different irrigation systems to monitor their benefits and drawbacks. The main responsibility of irrigation engineering is to...

Remote Sensing for Crop Plants: Modeling Methods and Applications

$195.30

Report copyright infringementby Callen Elliott (Editor)Remote sensing is the process of detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an area by measuring its reflected and emitted radiation at a distance from a satellite, drone or aircraft. It is used in several fields including photography, geology, and surveying. Remote sensing plays an instrumental role in the field of crop production and management. It is used extensively for forecasting crop production, assessing crop damage ...

Management Consulting in the Era of the Digital Organization

$90.14

Report copyright infringementby David Brian Szabla (Editor)The 4th Industrial Revolution is well underway. Our lives are changing at an exponential rate, resulting in a multi-faceted, deeply interconnected world. The digital revolution is integrating multiple technologies, which is leading to unprecedented paradigm shifts in the economy, management, and society. Entire systems across countries, industries, and societies are being transformed, triggering a transformation that is unlike anythin...

Farmers' Hand Book Of Explosives: Instructions In The Use Of Explosives For Clearing Land, Planting And Cultivating Trees, Drainage, Ditching, Subsoil

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Report copyright infringementby E I Du Pont de Nemours and Company Exp (Author)The Farmers' Hand Book of Explosives is a comprehensive guide to the use of explosives for various agricultural purposes. Published in 1922 by the Explosives Department of E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, this book provides detailed instructions on how to safely and effectively use explosives for clearing land, planting and cultivating trees, drainage, ditching, subsoiling, and other purposes. The book covers ...

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Report copyright infringementby C Wayne Ottinger (Author)The post-flight reports from each of the six Apollo missions regarding the success of a one-time attempt to land on the Moon confirmed in the opinion of each of the Commanders (pilots) that the LLRV was absolutely mandatory to train a human pilot to land a vehicle (the LM) of the Apollo era successfully on the lunar surface. Wayne Ottinger and his colleagues at FRC had created a marvelous flying machine called the Lunar Landing Trainin...

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Report copyright infringementby Zelda Hansen (Editor)An internal combustion engine (IC engine) refers to a type of heat engine wherein the combustion of fuel occurs with the help of an oxidizer in the combustion chamber, which is a significant part of the working fluid circuit. The expansion of the high-pressure and high-temperature gases generated through combustion puts direct force on certain components of an IC engine. Usually, the force is applied to turbine blades, pistons, a nozzle, or...

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Report copyright infringementby Shop Theory Department Henry Ford Trade (Author), Henry Ford Trade School (Author), Frederick E. Searle (Foreword by)Shop Theory: Henry Ford Trade School is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of mechanical engineering and metalworking, written by the instructors of the Henry Ford Trade School. The book covers a wide range of topics, including machine tools, materials, measurement, drafting and design, and safety procedures. It is designed to ...

Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Stuart Day (Author), C. A. Jennings (Illustrator)An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing. But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works. In Bits to Bitcoin, ...

$93.31

Report copyright infringementby Kazuki Maruta (Guest Editor), Francisco Falcone (Guest Editor)Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO), which transmits multiple data streams via multiple antenna elements, is one of the most attractive technologies in the wireless communication field. Its extension, called 'massive MIMO' or 'large-scale MIMO', in which base station has over one hundred of the antenna elements, is now seen as a promising candidate to realize 5G and beyond, as well as 6G mobile co...

Physical Hazard Control: Preventing Injuries in the Workplace

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Report copyright infringementby Frank R. Spellman (Author)People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazard--often more than one hazard in each situation--and these hazards often lead to serious injury. But it is possible to mitigate the effects of many of these hazards, or even prevent them altogether?In Physical Hazard Control: Preventing Injuries in the Workplace, author Fra...

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Report copyright infringementby Griffin Christopher (Author)This book serves as an introduction to graph theory and its applications. It is intended for a senior undergraduate course in graph theory but is also appropriate for beginning graduate students in science or engineering. The book presents a rigorous (proof-based) introduction to graph theory while also discussing applications of the results for solving real-world problems of interest. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 cove...

The Band saw; a Guide Book for Filers, Sawyers and Woodworkers

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Report copyright infringementby Simonds Manufacturing Company (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 wo...

U.S. Critical Infrastructure: Its Importance and Vulnerabilities to Cyber and Unmanned Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Terence M. Dorn (Author)This book provides an update to the capabilities of unmanned systems since my two previous books entitled Unmanned Systems: Savior or Threat and The Importance and Vulnerabilities of U.S. Critical Infrastructure to Unmanned Systems and Cyber. Our world is undergoing a revolution in how we send and receive goods, conduct surveillance and launch attacks against our enemies, and reach out and explore our terrestrial neighbors and distant ga...

Spin: How the World (and Almost Everything in It) Turns

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Gruber (Author) Everywhere, things spin--wheels turn, motors hum, tornadoes roar. This book explains the history and basic physics of spinning objects, from yo-yos, drills, propellers, and washing machines, to ballet dancers, dust devils, and bacteria. The book gives instructive, entertaining accounts of everyday sights: Does a curve ball really curve? Why do figure skaters tuck in their arms? Can you make a disposable pen fly? How does a falling cat alway...

$177.48

Report copyright infringementby Deane-Peter Baker (Author), Roger Herbert (Author), David Whetham (Author)The field of military ethics has generally been attentive to emerging trends in modern warfare. Cyber, robotics and AI, for example, have inspired an abundant and flourishing literature. One trend, however, has been largely overlooked: the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft. Drawing extensively on historical cases and first-hand experience, the authors...

$63.00

Report copyright infringementby David D. Clark (Author)Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet? The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up? In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Internet is actually put together, what requiremen...

The String and Glue of Our World: Understanding Composite Materials

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Report copyright infringementby Ned Patton (Author) This is a book about composite materials, written from the perspective of someone who has been in the industry for more than four decades and had to learn about them the hard way. Aimed at the curious citizen scientist or maker, it is written in an accessible, entertaining, and jargon-free style, introducing and explaining the how and why of composite materials. Following a history of composites, the book discusses the periodic table of ele...

Thermal Engineering of Nuclear Power Stations: Balance-Of-Plant Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Charles F. Bowman (Author), Seth N. Bowman (Author)Thermal Engineering of Nuclear Power Stations: Balance-of-Plant Systems serves as a ready reference to better analyze common engineering challenges in the areas of turbine cycle analysis, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. The scope of the book is broad and comprehensive, encompassing the mechanical aspects of the entire nuclear station balance of plant from the source of the motive steam to the discharge and/o...

Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Finkel (Author)Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy.The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shows how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming from petrostate to electrostate.Finkel considers the entire supply chai...

Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca R. Scott (Author)A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally devastating work, but as Rebecca R. Scott sh...

Dying for Work: Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America

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Report copyright infringementby David Rosner (Editor), Gerald E. Markowitz (Editor)This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald W. Mayes Pe Retired (Author)The book follows the life of the author from his early recollections of growing up on the farm through his college training and his career as a civil engineer. It explores what forces and influences led him to desire to become an engineer, specifically a civil engineer. It shows his successes and his deficiencies and how he overcame them. His experiences directly affected the way he treated others and how he turned failures in...

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel Giles (Translator), Sun Tzu (Author)The classic by Sun Tzu. The definitive guide to strategy, tactics, and success. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 04, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Anderson (Author)3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufactu...

The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law

$197.21

Report copyright infringementby Chris P. Miller (Author), Mark J. Evans (Author)Written by an individual with experience as both a chemist and a patent attorney, The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law covers everything the student or working chemist needs to know about patentability, explaining important concepts of patent law (such as novelty, non-obviousness, and freedom-to-operate) in easy-to-understand terms. Through abundant examples from case law as well as real-world situations wi...

Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas B. Craig (Author)In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940--the medium's golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from television. Craig follows the evolution of radio into a commercialized, networked, and regulated industry, and ultimately into an essential tool for winning political campaigns a...

Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Siegel (Author)In Forensic Media, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a "self-registering apparatus" for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders ("black boxes"), the science of automobile crash-testing, and v...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles C. Miller (Author)Fifty Years Among The Bees is a book written by Charles C. Miller and first published in 1915. The book is a memoir of Miller's experiences as a beekeeper for over fifty years. Miller shares his knowledge and insights about the life and behavior of bees, as well as the art and science of beekeeping. He covers topics such as the different types of bees, their roles within the hive, and the importance of honey and wax production. Miller ...

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Report copyright infringementby Warren Barnett Blumenthal (Author)The Chemical Behavior of Zirconium is a comprehensive guide to the chemical properties and behavior of zirconium, written by Warren Barnett Blumenthal. The book covers a wide range of topics related to zirconium, including its physical and chemical properties, its reactions with other elements and compounds, and its uses in various industries. The author provides detailed explanations of the various processes involved in the pr...

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Report copyright infringementby U S Marine Corps (Author)All Marines share a common warfighting belief: "Every Marine a rifleman." This simple credo reinforces the belief that all Marines are forged from a common experience, share a common set of values, and are trained as members of an expeditionary force in readiness. As such, there are no "rear area" Marines, and no one is very far from the fighting during expeditionary operations. The Marine rifleman of the next conflict will be as in pas...

Treating Sick Animals on the Farm with Information on Food, Medicine, Anaesthetics and Other Aspects of Treating Livestock

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson S. Mayo (Author)This antiquarian book contains a detailed guide to caring for and treating sick farm animals, with information on food, medicine, anesthetics, and much more besides. Complete with comprehensive descriptions, simple instructions, helpful tips, and a wealth of useful illustrations and photographs, this book constitutes an invaluable tool for the farmer or livestock veterinarian. It makes for a worthy addition to any collection of farming li...