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Baby Loves Electrical Engineering on Christmas! - Board Book

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by Ruth Spiro (Author), Irene Chan (Illustrator)Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. Baby discovers the science behind Christmas lights Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book explores electricity, circuits, and electrical safety. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two as well.Author BiographyRuth Spiro is ...

Ultimate Guide: Decks, Updated 6th Edition: Plan, Design, Build - Paperback

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by Editors of Creative Homeowner (Author)Featuring 30 complete deck plans created by master deck builders, this easy-to-read guide will walk you through the entire process of designing, building, and repairing a deck. With step-by-step instructions for accomplishing all the included deck designs, coordinating photography, material lists, expert advice, and newly updated code-compliant information, build the deck of your dreams whether you do it yourself or hire a contractor. New edition inclu...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Paperback

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by Nicholas Carr (Author)Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: Mar...

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life - Paperback

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by Julia Rothman (Author)Learn the difference between a farrow and a barrow, and what distinguishes a weanling from a yearling. Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life. Also avail...

Project Rainbow and the Philadelphia Experiment: Morris K. Jessup and US Navy Teleportation - Paperback

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by David Hatcher Childress (Author)David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, brings us the amazing story of the so-called Philadelphia Experiment and the many curious events that happened in its aftermath. The Philadelphia Experiment was an event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment called Project Rainbow ...

Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture - Paperback

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by Gabe Brown (Author)"A regenerative no-till pioneer."--NBC News "We need to reintegrate livestock and crops on our farms and ranches, and Gabe Brown shows us how to do it well."--Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation "Dirt to Soil is the [regenerative farming] movements's holy text."--The Observer Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disas...

The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It - Hardcover

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by Michel Bruneau (Author)Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization's future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats--be they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary collapse, and nuclear holocaust--can be predicted by observing how we cu...

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by Alexis de Tocqueville (Author), Bruce Frohnen (Editor)This classic analysis of America's unique political character is quoted heavily by politicians and perennially pops up on history professors' reading lists. The enduring appeal of Democracy in America lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of Amer...

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Paperback

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by Dave Grossman (Author)The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed." In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. In Korea, about 50 percent. In Vietnam, the figure rose to more than 90 percent. The good news is that most soldiers are loath...

The Art and Science of Natural Dyes: Principles, Experiments, and Results - Spiral

$60.00

by Joy Boutrup (Author), Catharine Ellis (Author), Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada (Foreword by)This comprehensive guide will help dyers to become more accomplished at their craft through an increased understanding of the process. Photos of more than 450 samples demonstrate the results of actual dye tests, and detailed information covers every aspect of natural dyeing including theory, fibers, mordants, dyes, printing, organic indigo vats, finishing, and the evaluation of dye fastness. Special techniq...

The Silver Magnet: Fifty Years in a Mexican Silver Mine - Hardcover

$93.58

by Grant Shepherd (Author) Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 31, 1899

The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000 - Paperback

$88.18

by William H. McNeill (Author), David Winfield (Author)In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another--to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of dril...

The Silver Magnet: Fifty Years in a Mexican Silver Mine - Paperback

$62.98

by Grant Shepherd (Author) Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 07, 2008

Plumbing Licensing Study Guide - Paperback

$101.18

by Rex Miller (Author), Mark R. Miller (Author)This book is designed for use as both a text and study guide for those students taking the licensing test in plumbing. Because of the large number of residential dwellings under construction and planned for the near future, this is a growing area. Well trained and knowledgeable plumbers are urgently needed in most of the individual United States and Canada. The field of plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters is predicted to grow about 12% each y...

CNC Trade Secrets: A Guide to CNC Machine Shop Practices - Paperback

$80.93

by James Harvey (Author)CNC Trade Secrets is from the author of the bestselling and universally praisedMachine Shop Trade Secrets. This new manual does for CNC machining what the first book did for conventional machining.With this guide to proven CNC machine shop practices, you will be producing machine parts faster, with fewer errors, and with less labor. You'll discover that you don't have to know "everything there is to know" to make parts on CNC machines - just as, for example, you don't ...

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm - Paperback

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by Lewis Dartnell (Author)How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and...

Build a Drone: A Step-By-Step Guide to Designing, Constructing, and Flying Your Very Own Drone - Paperback

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by Barry Davies (Author)Whether you plan on using drones for recreation or a more serious purpose (from search and rescue through farming to scanning construction work on a high-rise apartment buildings), Build a Drone will make sure that you not only understand how to construct a drone, but the proper and safe ways to maintain and handle them. Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded. People are talking about drones, b...

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Hardcover

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by Marty Cagan (Author)Learn to design, build, and scale products consumers can't get enough of How do today's most successful tech companies―Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla―design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than most tech companies. In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to str...

Electrician Apprentice Secrets Study Guide - 5 Full-Length Practice Exams, 150+ Online Video Tutorials, Prep for the IBEW Aptitude Test 2024-2025: [In - Paperback

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by Matthew Bowling (Editor)Mometrix Test Preparation's Electrician Apprentice Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Electrician Apprentice Aptitude Test. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: Mometrix Test Preparation is not affiliated with or endorsed by any official testing organization. All organizational and test names are trademarks of their respective owners.The Mom...

Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions: Full-Length Tests Based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book [2nd Edition] - Paperback

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by Matthew Bowling (Editor)***Your #1 Practice Test Resource***Mometrix Test Preparation's Journeyman Electrician Exam Prep Practice Questions [NEC 2023] are the simplest way to prepare for your Journeyman Electrician Exam based on the NEC 2023 National Electrical Code Book. Practice is an important part of preparing for a test and improving your chance of success.Mometrix practice questions are designed to prepare you for the real test. You could know everything that is going to be covered o...

The Art and Science of Foodpairing: 10,000 Flavour Matches That Will Transform the Way You Eat - Hardcover

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by Peter Coucquyt (Author), Bernard Lahousse (Author), Johan Langenbick (Author) 10,000 flavor matches that will transform the way you eat. What is foodpairing? It is not the familiar and mundane matching of wine and food or even food and food, but it is certainly all about creating the most delicious culinary results possible. When humans taste a food, they are processing its taste 80 percent through the nose -- via the food's aromatic molecules -- and only 20 percent on the tongue. We can...

Introduction to Medical Imaging: Physics, Engineering and Clinical Applications - Hardcover

$149.94

by Nadine Barrie Smith (Author), Andrew Webb (Author)Covering the basics of X-rays, CT, PET, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and MRI, this textbook provides senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a broad introduction to medical imaging. Over 130 end-of-chapter exercises are included, in addition to solved example problems, which enable students to master the theory as well as providing them with the tools needed to solve more difficult problems. The basic theory, instrumentat...

Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here - Paperback

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by Martin Fiore (Author)For decades, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders at all levels, fr...

Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here - Hardcover

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by Martin Fiore (Author)For years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders at all levels, from...

The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth - Paperback

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by Robin Hanson (Author)Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. ...

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - Paperback

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by John Drury Clark (Author), Isaac Asimov (Foreword by)A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This sear...

An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism - Hardcover

$196.65

by Edward J. Gillin (Author)During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The British Magnetic Survey was celebrated at the time as the most exten...

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by Richard H. Graham (Author)The ultimate SR-71 book which profiles the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all 50 models in the SR-71 program.At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound--so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had to wear full-pressur...

Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race - Paperback

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by Peter Fiekowsky (Author), Carole Douglis (With)People around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and otherwise reduce their carbon footprints.But what if these steps are woefully inadequate to ensure the future health-or even the survival-of the human race? What if the most popular goal being pursued by today's climate activists-net zero carbon em...

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War - Paperback

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by Paul Scharre (Author)The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems--from Israel's Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter--and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. "A smart primer to what's to come in warfare"...

Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice - Paperback

$70.18

by Paul T. Anastas (Author), John C. Warner (Author)This book provides the first introductory treatment of the design, development, and evaluation processes central to Green Chemistry. As s comprehensive textbook, it takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of approaches. Topics include alternative feedstocks, environmentally benign syntheses, the design of safer chemical products, new reaction conditions, alternative solvents and catalyst development, and the use of bi...

The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology - Paperback

$87.21

by Mark Zachary Taylor (Author)Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nati...