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The Intelligent Workforce: How Humans & Machines Will Co-Create a Better Future - Hardcover

$29.99

by Tim Houlne (Author)There is a generational transformation in the workforce. But there is good news. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve work processes, thus improving work experience and creating an environment that retains skilled workers. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: September 03, 2024

Autocad(r) 3D Modeling: Exercise Workbook - Paperback

$101.18

by Steve Heather (Author)World-class AutoCAD expert Steve Heather, co-author with Cheryl Shrock of the Beginning AutoCAD Exercise Workbook, Advanced AutoCAD Exercise Workbook, and the AutoCAD Pocket Reference, has written this ground-breaking text, covering step-by-step 3D applications for all AutoCAD users. The AutoCAD(R) 3D Modeling Exercise Workbook is designed for classroom instruction and self-study alike, and is suitable for both inch and metric users. There are 8 lessons and 4 modelin...

Turning the Giant: Disrupting Your Industry with Persistent Innovation - Hardcover

$27.99

by John Berra (Author)Have you ever struggled with giants that stand in your way? Maybe you're building a business but fear the uncertainty you face. You know you need to innovate, but you're worried about the potential consequences of taking that next step. And like many leaders, you have a picture of success in your head, but you don't know how to get to where you want to go. If this is where you are, this book is for you.In Turning the Giant, John Berra shares his amazing life's journey th...

Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations - Hardcover

$196.65

by Mikael Weissmann (Editor), Niklas Nilsson (Editor)International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology, geographical scope and multiple domains of warfighting. Few would question that land forces will be important also in the foreseeable future. However, given that the battlefield is in a state ...

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by Fiell (Author), Taschen (Author)For the seasoned car collector or the awestruck newcomer, this volume is the consummate sports car anthology. Bringing together 50 of the most exquisite, desirable, and adrenaline-charging sports cars of all time, it recounts the enthralling endeavors in automotive design and engineering in pursuit of optimum dynamic performance for both road and track. This expertly curated roundup of glorious, high-speed two-seaters includes both all-out sports racers as w...

Failing Fast?: The Ten Secrets to Succeed Faster - Hardcover

$36.95

by Luv Tulsidas (Author)Imagine yourself standing at the finish line of your grandiose dream, after years of hard work and countless failures. That's how the journey to super success looks like for most people who believe in the "fail fast, fail often" principle.Now, let's envision an alternate reality where you stumbled upon a treasure trove of secrets that helped change the course of your life and allowed you to achieve your big dreams faster, without mindless hard work and painful failures...

Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures - Hardcover

$179.55

by Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Author)How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement-from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing-has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across Sa...

Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age - Paperback

$54.72

by Marc Landry (Author)By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal" a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery"--an energy landscape designed to store and pro...

Autodesk Revit 2025 Architecture - Paperback

$86.38

by Munir Hamad (Author)Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Revit 2025 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master Revit Architecture from beginn...

The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer - From Ground Covers to Trees and Everything in - Paperback

$29.99

by Christina Chung (Author)Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended--in layers. Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases, and say hello to an interplanted polyculture paradise, filled with layers of edible plants that outcompete weeds, share resources, and grow beautifully together. In The Layered Edible Garden, author and food gardenin...

An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Second Edition: With Applications to Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Solid Mechanics - Paperback

$135.09

by J. N. Reddy (Author)The second edition of An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis has the same objective as the first edition, namely, to facilitate an easy and thorough understanding of the details that are involved in the theoretical formulation, finite element model development, and solutions of nonlinear problems. The book offers an easy-to-understand treatment of the subject of nonlinear finite element analysis, which includes element development from mathematical models ...

Falconry - aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk: Including a step-by-step guide to building the 'weathering loft', foot care, beak care, foo - Paperback

$64.80

by Michael Davie (Author)Falconry - aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk is a distillation of fifty years of falconry experience by leading falconer Michael Davie. This generously illustrated book concentrates on the daily care needed to maintain the trained hawk and falcon in good health, and includes planning for the new arrival by having suitable accommodation ready for the bird. The book provides a comprehensive construction guide to building the 'weathering loft' - a dual-purpo...

A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace - Paperback

$36.67

by Dick Couch (Author)Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population. A former SEAL who led one of the only successful POW rescue operations in Vietnam, Couch warns that the mistakes made in Vietnam forty years ago are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Hardcover

$126.54

by Phil Husbands (Author)Since the turn of the millennium a quiet revolution has been underway. Millions of autonomous robots with some level of intelligence are now in domestic use, mainly as vacuum cleaners. Driverless cars - which are nothing less than autonomous robots - are starting to appear on our streets. There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a ste...

Chemical Thermodynamics for Metals and Materials (with CD-ROM for Computer-Aided Learning) - Hardcover

$89.10

by Hae-Geon Lee (Author)A number of thermodynamic books claiming to be original in both presentation and approach have been published. However, thermodynamics is still a confusing subject for uninitiated students and an "easy-to-forget" one for graduate engineers. In order to solve these problems, this computer aided learning package -- textbook and CD-ROM -- takes a new approach.This package is unique and beneficial in that it simulates a classroom lecture: it actually writes important equat...

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by Daniel R. Headrick (Author)Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing ...

Beekeeping for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started and Succeed Keeping Bees in Your Backyard - Paperback

$16.99

by Kim Flottum (Author)With this absolute beginner's guide, learn how to set up your backyard hives, select and raise bees, and harvest honey, with the added bonus of bringing pollinators to your yard and garden. You've decided to try beekeeping--so where do you start? Beekeeping for Beginners, adapted from the best-selling The Backyard Beekeeper, covers everything you need to know, from selecting the right kind of hives, and finding and bringing bees home to your yard, right up to the colle...

Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World - Paperback

$24.99

by Richard Rhodes (Author)Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth. Does technology improve us or diminish us? Enslave us or make us free? With this first-ever collection of the essential twentieth-century writings on technology, Pulit...

Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with the Nerdy Farm Wife's Easy Recipes and Techniques - Paperback

$23.99

by Jan Berry (Author)Create Fabulous Modern Soaps The Truly Natural, Eco-Friendly Way With this new comprehensive guide, herbalist Jan Berry offers everything the modern-day enthusiast needs to make incredible botanical soaps. Beginners can join in the sudsy fun with detailed tutorials and step-by-step photographs for making traditional cold-process soap and the more modern hot-process method with a slow cooker. Jan presents 50 easy, unique soap recipes with ingredients and scents inspired by...

Biodynamics for Beginners: Principles and Practice - Paperback

$29.95

by Hugh J. Courtney (Author), Stewart Lundy (Introduction by), Stewart Lundy (Editor)"Biodynamics is distinguished by the fact that it is a return from and through a mechanized prodigal society, not a regression. It is a return in a new way, like returning to your childhood home as an adult." -- Stewart LundyThis collection of articles--compiled primarily by Hugh Courtney from the periodical Applied Biodynamics--introduces the basics of making the essential biodynamic preparations. What is di...

A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong - Paperback

$45.34

by James R. Hansen (Editor)Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012. Providing context and commentary, Hansen has assembled the letters by the following themes: religion and belief; anger, disappointment, and disillusionment; quacks, conspiracy theorists, and...

In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation - Paperback

$72.88

by Fred Erisman (Author)Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women's causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Avi...

Animal Control Management: A New Look at a Public Responsibility - Paperback

$43.15

by Stephen Aronson (Author)This book is the first of its kind to discuss in detail the actual management of local animal control programs as opposed to the care of the animals. It covers financial, personnel, legal, health, and safety issues that animal control directors and management staff need to know in providing direction and oversight of animal control programs. Chapters examine selected topics in which the author assesses strengths and weaknesses and offers new insights and strategies ...

Flying the Beam: Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941 - Paperback

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by Henry R. Lehrer (Author)With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system ...

Cap Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight - Paperback

$24.95

by Ruth Ann Ingraham (Author)Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot. The mid-1920s to the mid-19...

From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880 - Paperback

$25.87

by Paul Salstrom (Author)Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the iss...

Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer - Paperback

$43.67

by Ang Schramm (Author)Assuming you don't want your cabinets, ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture or other products made from plywood to smell like dirty diapers, a quick look at the Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer by Ang Schramm is in order. According to Schramm, South American Lapuna Sumauma wood has a high starch content that is susceptible to attack by anaerobic bacteria while sitting on the bottoms of holding ponds at the veneer plant. The byproducts, butyric acid and ca...

American Agriculture: A Brief History, Rev. Ed. - Paperback

$56.63

by R. Douglas Hurt (Author)R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the co...

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here - Hardcover

$28.00

by Nicole Kobie (Author)We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world - be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle - is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these i...

Goodnight Brew: A Parody for Beer People - Hardcover

$16.95

by Karla Oceanak (Author), Allie Ogg (Illustrator)It's closing time at the brewery. While the moon rises, the brewery crew--including three little otters (in charge of the water), a wort hog, and a hops wildebeest--introduce us to the brewing equipment, ingredients, and styles of beer. Join this fanciful crew as they close down for the evening and say goodnight to the brew kettle, barley and yeast, hops and mash, saison, porter, IPA, and much more. Befuddled about beer ingredients? Puzzled ab...

PowerPlay: Great Engine Wars in Commercial Aviation - GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, Safran - From the Dawn of Jet Age through the End of - Paperback

$28.73

by Rajat Narang (Author)When the Wright Brothers dreamed of flying like birds; a powered, heavier-than-air flying machine, known as the Wright Flyer, powered by a 12 Hp gasoline engine made of Aluminum block; effectively enabled them to realize their dream in 1903 while also ushering in the 'Age of Flight' for humans. That rudimentary machine & engine paved the way for the development of larger piston engines & propeller powered fighters which proved to be instrumental during the Worl...

Autodesk(r) Revit(r) 2024 Architecture - Paperback

$79.90

by Munir Hamad (Author)Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Autodesk Revit 2024 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master Revit Architecture fr...