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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways - Hardcover

$30.00

by Megan Kimble (Author)An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities--and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward "Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama."--Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways ...

Baby Loves Electrical Engineering on Christmas! - Board Book

$8.99

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 ...

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...

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

$19.95

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...

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 ...

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

$53.98

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

$37.78

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

$49.95

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

$167.58

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

$21.55

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

$32.35

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

$18.34

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. ...

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...

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

$21.55

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...

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America - Paperback

$23.99

by Virginia DeJohn Anderson (Author)When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestockplayed a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as...

Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine And Maximum Spans For Joists And Rafters (1921) - Paperback

$33.05

by National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc (Author)Structural Timbers: Built Up Southern Yellow Pine And Maximum Spans For Joists And Rafters is a book published in 1921 by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the use of built-up Southern Yellow Pine timbers in construction, including information on the maximum spans for joists and rafters. The book is aimed at architects, builders, and engineers who are involved in the design and construction ...

$37.37

by Edna Walker Chandler (Author), Jack Merryweather (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: September 02, 2011

Re-Design Of The Transmission System Of The Edison Electric Company Of Southern California (1908) - Paperback

$34.49

by Frank Kellogg Brainard (Author)""Re-Design Of The Transmission System Of The Edison Electric Company Of Southern California"" is a technical book written by Frank Kellogg Brainard in 1908. The book provides a detailed description of the redesign of the transmission system of the Edison Electric Company of Southern California. Brainard, who was an electrical engineer and a consultant for the company, discusses the challenges faced by the company's transmission system and the solutions he pr...

A Plan Of Mr. Pope's Garden: As It Was Left At His Death: With A Plan And Perspective View Of The Grotto (1745) - Paperback

$33.05

by John Serle (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN Pub...

The Dorrigo Forest Reserve (1894) - Paperback

$37.37

by Joseph Henry Maiden (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x 8...

The Province Of New Brunswick: Its Soil, Climate, Resources, Institutions, Free Grant Lands, Etc. (1872) - Paperback

$28.73

by Providence of New Brunswick (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 ...

Notes On The Cells Of The Bee (1866) - Paperback

$30.17

by Jeffries Wyman (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN...

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition - Paperback

$21.00

by Marc Reisner (Author)"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West's success with irrigation could be a mirage -- that it took water for granted and didn't appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it." - Farhad Manjoo, The New York Tim...

An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle - Hardcover

$59.35

by Roy D. Bridges (Author)Astronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to rocketing into space at forty-two, he quietly, diligently, and relentlessly made his dream a reality. Fueled by ambition and hard work, fed by the support of family, and formed by the wisdom and character of their example, he made his way from humble beginnings to position...

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by Magdalena Droste (Author)In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics. This best-selling reference work is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's ...

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean - Hardcover

$38.00

by Roberto Verganti (Author)Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical shift in perspective that introduces a bold new way of competing. Design-driven innovations do not come from the market; they create new markets. They don't push new tech...

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by Jameel M. Al-Khayri (Editor), Shri Mohan Jain (Editor), Dennis V. Johnson (Editor)Date palm, (Phoenix dactylifera), tree of the palm family (Arecaceae) is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, the date palm provides livelihood...