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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Milner (Author)Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits, measure neutrinos, grow our food, and regulate global finance. It is as ubiquitous and essential as another Cold War technology, the Internet. In Pinpoint, Greg Milner takes us on a fascinatin...

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Carr (Author)With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is "Carr's best hits for those who missed the last decade of his stream of thoughtful commentary about our love affair with technology and its effect on our relat...

The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Creighton (Author)The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the world and also terrifying animals on display. But the thrill-seeking spectators little suspected that an assassin walked the fairgrounds, waiting for President William McKinley to ...

What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen

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Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Wolke (Author), Marlene Parrish (With)Have you ever wondered why onions make us cry? Do you believe bananas contain more calories as they ripen and get sweeter? This sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Robert L. Wolke's investigations into the science behind our foods. In response to ongoing questions from readers of his nationally syndicated Washington Post column, "Food 101," Wolke debunks misconceptions with reliable, c...

Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Johns (Author)When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley's country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England. Situated on ships and offshore forts like Shivering Sands, these stations blasted away at the high-minded BBC's broadcast monopoly with the new beats of the Stones and DJs like Screaming Lord Sutch. For free-market ideologues l...

Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

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Report copyright infringementby Richard A. Muller (Author)The near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more than any other factor. But the "energy question" is more confusing, contentious, and complicated than ever before. We ne...

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Genoways (Author)The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to...

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Report copyright infringementby Zhores a. Medvedev (Author)The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community...

Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

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Report copyright infringementby Lester R. Brown (Author), Emily Adams (With), Janet Larsen (With)As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The Great Transition details the accelerating pace of this global energy revolution....

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Degrasse Tyson (Author), Avis Lang (Editor)America's space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries' space programs.With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson--one of our foremost th...

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Brynjolfsson (Author), Andrew McAfee (Author)In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies--with hardware, software, and networks at their core--will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human. In ...

The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Carr (Author)In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us. Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people's ha...

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Report copyright infringementby James Locke (Author)This is the essential book for anyone who is considering building or buying a new house or remodeling an old one--an insider's guide to construction, written by a professional contractor. Many readers will remember Jim Locke as the contractor in Tracy Kidder's bestselling book HOUSE, in which he epitomized the values of the true craftsman. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.84 x 8.97 x 6 IN Illustrated:...

A Field Guide to Trains of North America

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald L. Foster (Author)This book describes and illustrates all the rolling stock commonly used by any American railroad, including the 150 different types of locomotive. The renowned Peterson Identification System pinpoints the key field marks that distinguish one railroad car from another. The guide also lists the 840 different American railroads.Back JacketExtending the principles of the famed Peterson Identification System to the man-made world, A Field Gu...

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Hubbell (Author)A New York Times Notable Book, Sue Hubbell's A Book of Bees is "a melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual" (Kirkus Reviews).Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harves...

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Hubbell (Author)When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age. Number of Pages: 240 ...

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Report copyright infringementby D. Kunii (Author), Octave Levenspiel (Author), Howard Brenner (Editor)Fluidization Engineering, Second Edition, expands on its original scope to encompass these new areas and introduces reactor models specifically for these contacting regimes. Completely revised and updated, it is essentially a new book. Its aim is to distill from the thousands of studies those particular developments that are pertinent for the engineer concerned with predictive methods, for th...

Solid State Chemistry: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Selected Oxides and Sulfides

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Wold (Author), Kirby Dwight (Author)The subject matterofsolid state chemistry lies within the spheres ofboth physical and inorganic chemistry. In addition, there is a large overlap with solid state physics and materials engineering. However, solid state chemistry has still to be recognized by the general body ofchemists as a legitimate subfield ofchemistry. The discipline is not even well defined as to content and has many facets that make writing a textb...

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Report copyright infringementby R. D. Rawlings and J. M. Alexander (Author), Leaver (Author) Number of Pages: 608 Dimensions: 1.27 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Neural Networks for Vision, Speech and Natural Language

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Linggard (Author), R. Linggard (Editor), D. J. Myers (Editor)Introduction; Vision; Neural Networks for Vision: an introduction; Image feature location in multiresolution images using a hierarchy of multilayer perceptrons; Training multilayer perceptrons for facial feature location: a case study; The detection of eyes in facial images using radial basis functions; Training and testing of neural net window operators on spatiotemporal images; A neural netwo...

Essential Environmental Science: Methods and Techniques

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Watts (Editor)Essential Environmental Science brings together within a single volume the vast range of techniques, methods and basic tools necessary for the study of the environment. Environmental science has a massive area of operation, utilising the tools from a plethora of traditional sciences and social sciences. This practical manual draws on contributions from leading experts in each field, to present both general and specific environmental methods ...

High Speed Semiconductor Devices: Circuit Aspects and Fundamental Behaviour

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Report copyright infringementby Brigitte Beneking (Author)This book focuses on circuit theory when using high speed semiconductor devices. It gives a comprehensive introduction suitable for advanced students of electrical engineering and physics. The book is practically orientated, covering not just the physical limits but also technical feasibility. Extensive exercises with solutions are used to give practical insight and to extend the treatment of the text.Back JacketThe rapid increase in t...

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Report copyright infringementby O. Molerus (Author), K. E. Wirth (Author)A prestigious form of research grant in Germany is the Sonderforschungsbereich, which provides continuous funding over a period of up to 15 years, but only as long as the work is yielding worthwhile results. We acknowledge financial support of our work at Erlangen by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Sonder- forschungsbereich 222. Thanks to this support, the experimental results from six Dr. -Ing. dissertations ...

Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine

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Report copyright infringementby Alison Adam (Author)Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribu...

An Introduction to Building Procurement Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Masterman (Author)This clear, well-researched guide will be invaluable to students and practising construction professionals alike as they work with a range of building procurement systems to choose the system most suited to their needs.Author BiographyLately Property Director responsible for the management of the property portfolio and development activities of the Welsh Development Agency, in North Wales, with more than forty years experience of managing...

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Report copyright infringementby Raymond Williams (Author)Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient. Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting th...

Earth Building: Methods and Materials, Repair and Conservation

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Keefe (Author)Buildings with load-bearing earth walls were once widespread throughout Britain and many thousands still survive, including some dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Earth is the ultimate form of 'green' building construction, creating no environmental pollutions and consuming virtually no energy. Subsoil can be dug from or near the site to construct buildings that will meet modern needs and conform to the latest building r...

Engineers: A History of Engineering and Structural Design

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Wells (Author)This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential disasters to show approaches to the modern...

Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Janssen (Author)This book provides a thorough introduction to the subject of fracture mechanics, covering the basic concepts of both the linear elastic and elastic-plastic regimes. The development of failure assessment based on elastic-plastic fracture mechanics is comprehensively examined.A number of chapters are devoted to the fracture mechanics characterisation of crack growth, and special attention is paid to the important topic of the initiation an...

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Report copyright infringementby C. a. J. Appelo (Author), Dieke Postma (Author)Building on the success of its 1993 predecessor, this second edition of Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution has been thoroughly re-written, updated and extended to provide a complete and authoritative account of modern hydrogeochemistry.Offering a quantitative approach to the study of groundwater quality and the interaction of water, minerals, gases, pollutants and microbes, this book shows how physical and che...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert C. Allen (Editor), Annette Hill (Editor)The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, broadcasting and watching TV, such as ca...

Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics and the Design of Work, Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Pheasant (Author), Christine M. Haslegrave (Author)This third edition maintains the same content and structure as previous editions, but updates the material and references to account for recent developments in the field, including new research findings and anthropometric surveys.Author BiographyPheasant, Stephen; Haslegrave, Christine M. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.98 x 9.64 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes ...