Technology & Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby John a. Knoelk (Author)Building one's own house is a dream that several potential homeowners have at some point, but many may be hesitant in achieving this dream due to uncertainty in building skills and knowledge. What is needed is a comprehensive reference guide for designing and building the home and/or room you want to enjoy and share with others. Professional remodeler John Knoelk provides his building expertise in his new book, Quitting is not an option; ...

Tropical Nursery Manual: A Guide to Starting and Operating a Nursery for Native and Traditional Plants

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Report copyright infringementby Kim M. Wilkinson (Editor), Thomas D. Landis (Editor), Diane L. Haase (Editor)Tropical Nursery Manual, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Agriculture Handbook 732, was first published in 2014.This handbook was written for anyone endeavoring to start and operate a nursery for native and traditional plants in the tropics. Because the tropics cover a vast area of the world, however, the scope of the handbook is geared toward readers in the U.S. affiliat...

The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Hamm (Author)When the world reemerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems likely that it will have transformed irrevocably. Can societies already reeling from climate change, income inequality, and structural racism change for the better? Does the shock of the pandemic offer an opportunity to pivot to a more sustainable way of life? Early in the crisis, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some...

Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Mi Gyung Kim (Author)In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to i...

Petroleum in California: a Concise and Reliable History of the Oil Industry of the State

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel V. Redpath (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 importan...

A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products

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Report copyright infringementby William Dooley (Author)Shoemakers and shoes have one thing in common, they've both existed for a very long time. Leather shoes are said to date as far back as 5,500 years ago, while rubber shoes have existed since the 18th century. Today, there more shoes made out of leather and rubber than any other material and the traditional shoemaker has evolved into million-dollar companies, churning out exquisite shoes and raking in amazing profits every year.In the mids...

Advanced Techniques for Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging

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Report copyright infringementby Yuri A´ Lvarez-Lo´pez (Guest Editor), Mar´ıa Garc´ıa-Fern´andez (Guest Editor)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has become one of the key technologies in subsurface sensing and, in general, in non-destructive testing (NDT), since it is able to detect both metallic and nonmetallic targets. GPR for NDT has been successfully introduced in a wide range of sectors, such as mining and geology, glaciology, civil engineering and civil works, archaeology, and security and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Backer (Author), G. S. Tesoro (Author), T. Y. Toong (Author)A report on fabric and garment flammability research; a reference for fiber and textile technologists.This report on fabric and garment flammability represents a synthesis and overview of research conducted by four independent labs, sponsored jointly by the Government Industry Research Committee on Flammable Fabrics and by the Office of Flammable Fabrics of the National Bureau of Standards. It ...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig B. Smith (Author), Zawi Hawass (Foreword by), Mark Lehner (Afterword by)Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved specific design and engineering problems, or even improvised on the job? The answers...

First Phone: A Child's Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Pearlman (Author)A fun and informative illustrated kids' guide to safely and productively navigating the digital landscape. Cellphones have become a fact of life, with children as young as eight (yes, eight!) getting their very own "devices." Such boundless access means our kids are in nearly constant contact with technology that was designed specifically for adults. And they're doing so without any type of road map. Enter First Phone the essential bo...

On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Henderson (Author)The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resour...

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Report copyright infringementby William Aspray (Editor), Paul E. Ceruzzi (Editor)The effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom in e-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and-mortar businesses to file-sharing and community building.When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In th...

The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale

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Report copyright infringementby Oran R. Young (Author)Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to remedy this problem, Oran Young takes the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan as cutting-edge research concerns and develops them into a common structure for conducting rese...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen S. Weiss (Editor)This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art.Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking the ap...

Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas

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Report copyright infringementby Norbert Wiener (Author), Steve Joshua Heims (Foreword by)Internationally honored for brilliant achievements throughout his career, author of Cybernetics, ExProdigy, and the essay God and Golem, Inc., which won the National Book Award in 1964, Norbert Wiener was no ordinary mathematician. With the ability to understand how things worked or might work at a very deep level, he linked his own mathematics to engineering and provided basic ideas for the design of all...

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Report copyright infringementby Werner Troesken (Author)The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk.In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial. Th...

Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Michael George Safonov (Author)This book on stability theory and robustness will interest researchers and advanced graduate students in the area of feedback control engineering, circuits, and systems. It will also appeal to mathematicians who are involved in applications of functional analysis to engineering problems. The book provides a methodology for the rigorous treatment of such inherently feedback aspects of dynamical system design as robustness and sensi...

Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

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Report copyright infringementby Merritt Roe Smith (Editor), Leo Marx (Editor)These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical questionthat has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine itspolitical, social, economic, and cultural forms?These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, s...

The First Computers: History and Architectures

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Report copyright infringementby Raul Rojas (Editor), Ulf Hashagen (Editor)This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures bey...

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Report copyright infringementby Milton C. Shaw (Author)Toward developing a rational basis for the metal cutting process.From the introduction: The economic importance of the cutting process may be appreciated by the single observation that nearly every device in use in our complex society has one or more machined surfaces or holes. There are several reasons for developing a rational approach to the cutting problem: 1. To improve cutting techniques--even minor improvements are of major importa...

Structures Technology for Large Radio and Radar Telescope Systems

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Report copyright infringementby James W. Mar (Editor), Harold Liebowitz (Editor)The national interest in large radio and radar telescope systems spans the entire engineering and scientific community, and there is every indication that the country will embark upon the construction of still more of these systems in the near future. Radio and radar astronomers now require very large mechanical devices. The system specifications lead to structural criteria which are unique and outside the immedia...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. Misa (Editor), Philip Brey (Editor), Andrew Feenberg (Editor)If asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and even that technology is the truly distinctive feature of modernity. Until recently, however, there has been surprisingly little overlap between technology studies and modernity theory. The goal of this ambitious book is to lay the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field by clo...

Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film

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Report copyright infringementby Shilo T. McClean (Author)How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about the weakness of the story than the strengt...

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Report copyright infringementby David E. Nye (Author)American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely.Technolo...

Magnetic Circuits and Transformers: A First Course for Power and Communication Engineers

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Report copyright infringementby Mit Department of Electrical Engineering (Author)When originally published in the early 1940s, this series was hailed in the New York Times because it emphasizes method of thought, and not mere acquisition of facts. This volume extends the circuit theory begun in the first volume into the field of magnetic circuits, and covers both heavy-current power and light-current control, measurement, and communication applications of magnetic materials and transformers. ...

e-topia: Urban Life, Jim-But Not As We Know It

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Report copyright infringementby William J. Mitchell (Author)How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchel...

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Kanigel (Author)The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert."Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man--the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably enough, as Taylorism. "In the past the man has been first. In the future the System will be first," he predicted boldly, and accurately. Taylor bequeathed to us, writes Robert Kanigel in t...

Markets for Power: An Analysis of Electric Utility Deregulation

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Report copyright infringementby Paul L. Joskow (Author), Richard Schmalensee (Author)This timely study evaluates four generic proposals for allowing free market forces to replace government regulation in the electric power industry and concludes that none of the deregulation alternatives considered represents a panacea for the performance failures associated with things as they are now. It proposes a balanced program of regulatory reform and deregulation that promises to improve industry perf...

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Gitelman (Author)In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's first phonographs and the Pentagon's first distributed digital network, the ...

People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance

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Report copyright infringementby Clark C. Gibson (Editor), Margaret A. McKean (Editor), Elinor Ostrom (Editor)Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships for rural communities by destroying critical stocks of fuel, fodder, food, and building materials. It can also have profound regional and global consequences by contributing to biodiversity loss, erosion, floods, lowered water tables, and climate change. People...

Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Geiser (Author), Barry Commoner (Foreword by)The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurring and manufactured materials. But too often we create hazards for the ecosystem and human health as we mine, process, distribute, use, and dispose of these materials. Until recently, most research has focused on the waste end of material cycles. This book argues that the safest and least costly point at which to avoid environmen...

Building Construction Before Mechanization

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Report copyright infringementby John Fitchen (Author)How were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift blocks to great heights by muscle power alone? In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction. This is the first general survey of the practices and role of the builder (as opposed to the designer) in constructing...