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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel C. Florman (Author)Humans have always sought to change their environment--building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are also works of art to be admired. In this second edition of his popular Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Samuel Florman explores how engineers think and feel about their profession. A deeply insightful and refreshingly unique text, this...

The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby George Friedman (Author), Meredith Friedman (Author)The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder five hundred years ago. From the era of flintlocks and cannons to the day of automatic weapons and heavy artillery, the...

Out on the Deep Blue: True Stories of Daring, Persistence, and Survival from the Nation's Most Dangerous Profession

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Leyland Fields (Editor)Out on the Deep Blue is the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation. Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning on the Georges Banks, winter crabbing in the Bering Sea, sea-urchin diving off Maine, herring fishing in Alaska, shark-harpooning off Scotland and po...

NATO Enlargement During the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance

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Report copyright infringementby M. Smith (Author)Nato Enlargement During the Cold War analyzes the historical experience surrounding Nato enlargement. Features include the role and influence of external factors, the dynamics of intra-alliance debate, and a taxonomy of membership. Most important, however, is the conclusion that NATO expansion was never drawn solely by Cold War factors, giving insight into why NATO survived the end of the Cold War.Author BiographyMark Smith works at the Mountba...

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Report copyright infringementby L. Arnold (Author)This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the remarkable men who created the bomb, the four weapon trials at a remote Pacific atoll in 1957-58, and the historic consequences.Author BiographyLORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Britis...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel C. Florman (Author)Civil engineer Samuel Forman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer--to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's hypothesis that "in its moment of ascendance, engineering is faced with the trivialization of its purpose and the debasement of its practice."Author BiographySamuel C. F...

Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas

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Report copyright infringementby Spike Walker (Author)In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker's Working on the Edge re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in...

Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

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Report copyright infringementby Jacques Leslie (Author)A Discover Magazine Top Science Book of the Year A Northern California Book Award Finalist There are more than 45,000 of them in the world. They have altered the speed of the planet's rotation, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field. They influence landscapes and societies. They are dams, and in Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers an incisive, searching, and beautifully written account of the emerging crisis over da...

The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us

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Report copyright infringementby Bee Wilson (Author)Bee Wilson's study of her namesake is both a history of ideas and an exploration of the bee's impact on food and ritual. Beautifully illustrated, "The Hive" portrays a miniature universe and explores the human tendency to see ourselves in it. 60 photos.Front JacketEver since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautifu...

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Report copyright infringementby John Seabrook (Author)Flash of Genius And Other True Stories of Invention by John Seabrook, staff writer for The New Yorker, is a collection of true stories about where great ideas come from, and is the basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Greg Kinnear releasing October 2008. "John Seabrook is one of America's finest non-fiction writers....Fascinating, entertaining, beautifully written and often poignant..."--Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Wh...

Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle

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Report copyright infringementby Donald K. Slayton (Author), Michael Cassutt (Author)Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon. Deke! is Deke Slayton's' story--told in his own words and in the voices o...

Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Shere (Author)Where does the energy we use come from? It's absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly invisible. Flick a switch and the lights go on. It might as well be magic. Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy that energy is anything but magical. Producing it in fossil fuel form is a dirty, expensive--but also hugely profitable-- enterprise, ...

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

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Report copyright infringementby William Langewiesche (Author)In Fly by Wire, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully renders forty years of history in the field by examining the financial problems, the unions, and ultimately the recent advances in technology. And he finds that aviation safety is field in which machine has now surpassed ...

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment

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Report copyright infringementby David Kirby (Author)Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching f...

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Report copyright infringementby Royte (Author)Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hi...

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Cooper Ramo (Author)Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secr...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Crawley (Author), Brian Tyler (Author)HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates the HAZOP study method, highlighting a variety of proven uses and approaches. This updated edition brings additional experience with which to assist the reader in delivering optimum safety and efficiency of performance of the HAZOP team. HAZOP is the most widely-used technique in the process industries for the identification of hazards and the planni...

Building the Innovative Organization: Management Systems That Encourage Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby J. Christiansen (Author)Traditional management systems were designed to manage routine operations, not to manage innovation. The kinds of management systems we typically have in large companies throw up many roadblocks to innovation. This book compares the management systems of highly innovative companies with those of more typical companies to see how they are different. These are compared across different aspects of management including organization structure...

A Practical Guide to Scientific Writing in Chemistry: Scientific Papers, Research Grants and Book Proposals

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Terhemen Tyowua (Author)Successful completion of postgraduate studies, especially PhD, and career advancement in academia strongly depend on the ability to publish scientific papers or books and attract research grants. However, many chemical scientists find preparing scientific papers and research grant and book proposals difficult; partly because of insufficient training in writing and partly because there are few practical books to enable them to lear...

Ethical Hacking: Learn About Effective Strategies of Ethical Hacking (A Complete Beginners Guide to Successful Ethical Hacking Career)

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Report copyright infringementby John Ellis (Author)Do you feel that informatics is indispensable in today's increasingly digital world? Do you want to introduce yourself to the world of hacking? Do you want to have a head start in the job market by learning some of the most important future skills? If the answer to these questions is yes, then keep reading...Maybe you feel that Ethical Hacking will be a very valuable skill in the future, or maybe you simply think you'll have fun. If you want ...

Hydraulic Systems Volume 4: Hydraulic Fluids Conditioning

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Report copyright infringementby Medhat Khalil (Author)The book is targeting students and professionals who are looking to advance their fluid power careers. The book is colored and has the size of standard A4. The book is associated with a separate-colored workbook. The workbook contains printed power point slides, chapter reviews and assignments. This book is the fourth in a series that the author plans to publish to offer a complete and comprehensive educational curriculum for fluid power i...

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Report copyright infringementby George Halliday (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 ...

Green Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Bala Subramaniam (Author)Discover tools to perform Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and develop sustainable chemical technologies in this valuable guide for chemists, engineers and practitioners. Tackling one of the key challenges of modern industrial chemical engineering, this book introduces tools to assess the environmental footprint and economics of key chemical processes that make the ingredients of everyday products such as plastics, synthetic fibers, detergents...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Krugler (Author)Polar Bears in the Hot Tub is an inquiry that asks different questions about global warming and the predicted hazards. This book follows a different path of research to find answers to questions that no one is bothering to ask. Is climate change inevitable? Are we solving the wrong problem? Are Polar bears languishing in warmer and warmer arctic waters? Maybe not. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Vickers (Author)This book covers 27 color chapters of easy to read theory and applications from the history of telemetry, aircraft instrumentation, formats, PCM, FM, data center security, data storage, and more. The book is designed to assist the beginner in the field of telemetry, although the material is useful for the experienced telemetry person. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date...

Industrialized Building System: The Malaysian Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Maryam Qays Oleiwi (Author)Industrialized building system (IBS) was proposed in several studies as a solution to meet the intensive demands and requirements of modern buildings. The objectives of this book are to highlight the efforts of Malaysian construction sector in adopting IBS in Malaysia, the current status of using it, and to present general conclusions along with the visions and suggestions of several experts towards future developments. N...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip a. Moylan (Author)This is the story of how a small company in Oregon changed aviation. When Flight Dynamics Inc. was founded in 1977, Head-Up Display, or HUD, was a military term for the displays used on fighter aircraft. Forty years later, HUD is now standard on many commercial aircraft. How did this happen? Drawing from the author's own personal experiences, this book weaves the tale of the commercial HUD's development, challenges, successes, and event...

Introducción a la ingeniería de software, planeación y gestión de proyectos informáticos

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Trejo Medina (Author)Esta segunda edición incluye actualización de la administración de proyectos desde una perspectiva de metodología ágil, explica a un nivel profesionista o técnico los procesos de un proyecto y le da una visión de 360 al mismo, integrando conceptos básicos de la ingeniería de software, de administración tradicional y ágil de proyectos, de liderazgo, comunicación y ética. Para cualquier estudiante de informática, ingeniería o sistemas...

Dry Farming: A Guide for Farming Crops Without Irrigation in Climates with Low Rainfall and Drought

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Report copyright infringementby John Andreas Widtsoe (Author)John Andreas Widtsoe demonstrates an immense knowledge of soil and farming conditions; much of the advice in this classic manual remains useful and relevant to this day. An excellent collection of knowledge is united in this guidebook, which commences by setting out the concept and core principles of dry farming. Much of the Earth is covered by land which receives only modest rainfall each year; coupled with a lack of an underground...

Dry Farming: A Guide for Farming Crops Without Irrigation in Climates with Low Rainfall and Drought (Hardcover)

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Report copyright infringementby Cherish Erb-White (Author), Leah Saracco (Author), Alyssa Westrom (Author)Four young engineers tackle the challenge of using new materials science to better design wings to the sun. Their journey leads them to discover some amazing new materials and technologies. They visited many labs like Swindell Dressler and Harbison Walker. They learned about how interesting ceramics are. This book will help you discover ceramics and how they are used. Number ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mustafa Tokyay (Author)Supplementary cementing materials and other mineral admixtures are being used in increasing amounts in both cement and concrete. Their main technical benefits are that they enhance the workability of fresh concrete and the durability of hardened concrete. Indeed, they affect almost every property of the concrete. Their economic and ecological benefits may be just as significant, and their use can be expected to increase as concrete remain...