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Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Dowie (Author)A recent history replete with compromise and capitulation has pushed a once promising and effective political movement to the brink of irrelevance. So states Mark Dowie in this provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement. Dowie, the prolific award-winning journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and on the Ford Pinto, delivers an insightful, informative, and often damning account of the movement many hi...

Neural Control Engineering: The Emerging Intersection Between Control Theory and Neuroscience

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Report copyright infringementby Steven J. Schiff (Author)How powerful new methods in nonlinear control engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advanced medical applications. Over the past sixty years, powerful methods of model-based control engineering have been responsible for such dramatic advances in engineering systems as autolanding aircraft, autonomous vehicles, and even weather forecasting. Over those same decades, our models of the nervous sys...

The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff

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Report copyright infringementby Rich Gold (Author), John Maeda (Foreword by)Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself. We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound--composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other th...

Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe

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Report copyright infringementby Clapperton Chakanets Mavhunga (Author)An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativi...

Human Robotics: Neuromechanics and Motor Control

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Report copyright infringementby Etienne Burdet (Author), David W. Franklin (Author), Theodore E. Milner (Author)A synthesis of biomechanics and neural control that draws on recent advances in robotics to address control problems solved by the human sensorimotor system.This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach--which uses the framework of ...

Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Jack L. Kerrebrock (Author)Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines is widely used as a text in the United States and abroad, and has also become a standard reference for professionals in the aircraft engine industry. Unique in treating the engine as a complete system at increasing levels of sophistication, it covers all types of modern aircraft engines, including turbojets, turbofans, and turboprops, and also discusses hypersonic propulsion systems of the future. Per...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald C. Arkin (Author)Foreword by Michael ArbibThis introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniques central to the development of this class of systems in a clear and thorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and ...

Electron-Stream Interaction with Plasmas

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Report copyright infringementby Richard J. Briggs (Author)This study considers the instabilities that result when an electron beam is injected into a plasma. A number of different models of the system are considered, and all instabilities are classified according to whether they are convective instabilities (amplifying waves) or nonconvective (absolute) instabilities. The study also analyzes the instabilities in unbounded beam-plasma systems and in systems of finite extent transverse to the e...

Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change

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Report copyright infringementby Anique Hommels (Author)City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic and flexible spaces--never finished but always under construction--it is very difficult to change existing urban structures; they become fixed, obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels lo...

Electromagnetic Energy Transmission and Radiation

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Report copyright infringementby Richard B. Adler (Author), Lan Jen Chu (Author), Robert M. Fano (Author)This book develops a consistent macroscopic theory of electromagnetism and discusses the relation between circuit theory and filed theory. The theory is developed in successive steps from the Lorentz force, the integral form of Maxwell's equations in free space, and suitable macroscopic models of polarized and magnetized matter. It covers the electromagnetism of moving bodies and the proces...

The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of Machines

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Report copyright infringementby Franz Reuleaux (Author), Eugene S. Ferguson (Introduction by)A classic on the kinematics of machinery, this volume was written by the Father of Kinematics. Reuleaux writes with authority and precision, developing the subject from its fundamentals. 451 figures. 1876 edition.Author BiographyThe Father of Kinematics, Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905) was a mechanical engineer and lecturer at the Berlin Royal Technical Academy. Number of Pages: 640 ...

Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Sue Bix (Author)How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education. Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix...

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Report copyright infringementby Tutorial Books (Author)If you like to learn by doing, this book shows you to design and document mechanical components one-step at a time. Brief explanations followed by step-by-step instructions and a real-world example make it a good starting point to learn Creo Parametric. The author introduces the user-interface and then starts solid modeling. You will learn to draw sketches, create 3D parts, assemble them, create drawings, sheet metal parts, and design com...

Flywheels: How Cities Are Creating Their Own Futures

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Alberg (Author)Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the world's major innovation hubs in less than twenty years. As other cities try to solve the riddle of creating vibrant economies, many have looked to Seattle as a model for tech-driven urban renaissance. However, that success comes with skyrocketing housing costs, increasing homelessness, public safety concerns, persistent racia...

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert Lin (Author)The technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear operations will lead to levels of nuclear risk hardly imagined before. This book is the first to confront these risks comprehensively. With Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, Herber...

Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design

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Report copyright infringementby Matthias Gross (Author)The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research--one that defies prediction or risk assessment--is often a window to new and unexpected knowledge. In this book, Matthias Gro...

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Report copyright infringementby Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam (Guest Editor)Microgrids are a growing segment of the energy industry, representing a paradigm shift from centralized structures toward more localized, autonomous, dynamic, and bi-directional energy networks, especially in cities and communities. The ability to isolate from the larger grid makes microgrids resilient, while their capability of forming scalable energy clusters permits the delivery of services that make the grid more sustain...

A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at Mit

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Report copyright infringementby Philip N. Alexander (Author)How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university. MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston's Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America's ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers f...

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies

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Report copyright infringementby Wiebe E. Bijker (Author), Roland Bal (Author), Ruud Hendriks (Author)Assessing the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority and expertise.Today, scientific advice is asked for (and given) on questions ranging from stem-cell research to genetically modified food. And yet it often seems that the more urgently scientific advice is solicited, the more vigorously scientific authority is questioned by policy makers, ...

Music Technology Essentials: A Home Studio Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Maz (Author)Music Technology Essentials provides an overview of the vocabulary, techniques, concepts, and devices used in contemporary music production and guides readers through the essential fundamentals of music technology so that they can create their own music productions at home.This highly accessible book covers sound fundamentals and theory, as well as practical topics like hardware, software, MIDI, digital audio, synthesis, computer notation, an...

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Report copyright infringementby John East (Author), Albert E. Perry (Artist)SILICON VALLEY: Northern California's hub of technology is where the birth of the integrated circuit, or the "chip," took place. The Author, John East witnessed and participated in the process. From the creative engineering incubator at Fairchild, those innovators spread throughout the Santa Clara Valley. What followed would change the world forever while turning a sleepy farming community into the world's foremost te...

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Hans Moltrecht (Author)Everything the apprentice or on-the-job professional needs to know about the intelligent and efficient operation of machine tools is here.Features Includes over 760 illustrations and 70 tables in two volumes. Offers sections on numerical control; grinding wheels (that includes the newest abrasive materials); single point cutting tools and tool wear; basic drilling machine setups; and formulas for estimating the power required for pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Mehmet Yildiz (Author)Are you ready to transform your approach to digital content creation, marketing, and growth? Let me introduce you to a powerful yet simple tool and platform: Substack.com. My goal is to show you how to master this tool and platform with joy. Therefore, I called it Substack Master, also the name of my community on this platform.Imagine stepping into the world of online writing, overwhelmed by competition and noise, unsure how to stand out. ...

HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb, Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur A. Bell (Author), W. Larsen Angel (Author)"Tricks of the Trade" For State-of-the-Art HVAC Design on Construction Jobs of Any Size!This fully revised, industry-standard handbook presents a wealth of HVAC design information encompassing all types of facilities--from offices and hospitals to commercial spaces and computer rooms. Written in an outline format for ease of use, this practical reference offers hundreds of field-tested equations and rules of thum...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)The Mastercam 2023 for SolidWorks Black Book (Colored) is the new and updated 4th edition of our series on Mastercam for SolidWorks. With lots of additions and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as learners in creating some of the most complex NC toolpaths. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing....

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Report copyright infringementby Anon (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 04, 2010

The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Howard (Author)The Soil and Health, a classic of organic farming, is an essential introduction to organic gardening and farming."The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible." - Albert Howard.At the turn of the twentieth century, chemical fertilizers seemed to offer limitless potential in agriculture. However, when British agriculturalist Albert Howard travelled to India as Imperial Economic Botanist to the Government of India, he obs...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Beth Aubrey (Author)Turn your hobby farm into a successful businessNo experience in farming? No problem! The Profitable Hobby Farm gives you all the tools you need to launch a thriving hobby farm business. Based on the author's expert guidance and the motivating experiences of other small farmers, it shows you how to blend strategy, marketing, and money management in order to prosper.The Profitable Hobby Farm provides sound, friendly start-up advice on a ...

Fluid Analysis for Mobile Equipment: Condition Monitoring and Maintenance

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Report copyright infringementby Diego Navarro (Author), Blaine Ballentine (Author)Welcome to the wonderful, practical world of fluid analysis utilization. There are plenty of labs around the world processing millions of oil, coolant, and fuel samples every year. Most of them do very professional work, however, the data received from them usually fall into two main categories: 1). The information is incomplete for a true machine health assessment, or; 2). At the user's end, nobody is acting on...

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Report copyright infringementby Mariesa L. Crow (Author)Computational Methods for Electric Power Systems introduces computational methods that form the basis of many analytical studies in power systems. The book provides the background for a number of widely used algorithms that underlie several commercial software packages, linking concepts to power system applications. By understanding the theory behind many of the algorithms, the reader can make better use of the software and make more inf...

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Report copyright infringementby Gordon McComb (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.The bestselling guide to hobby robotics―fully updated for the latest technologies!Learn to build your own robots using the hands-on information contained in this thoroughly revised TAB guide. Written by the "godfather of hobby robotics," the book clearly ...

Dynamic Forest: Man Versus Nature in the Boreal Forest

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm F. Squires (Author), John Kennedy Naysmith (Foreword by)Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based forest management. The boreal forest is constantly changing, often dramatically. We like to picture it as a stable, balanced system. Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic. For over sixty years, forester Malcolm F. Squires has seen mature forests withi...