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Soil Organisms: Deciphering the Life Beneath Our Feet - Paperback

$89.08

by Moonisa Aslam Dervash (Author), Abrar Yousuf (Author), Mohammad Amin Bhat (Author)Back JacketSoil biota is an important and fundamental part of terrestrial ecology. The soil organisms include all those life forms which pass significant proportion of their life within a soil profile. The range of organisms may vary from microscopic entities to a macro level organisms. These organisms are the hidden beauties which take up the task of food chain regulation, organic matter decomposition, and n...

Powering the Future: Constructing Small Modular Reactor Power Stations for Sustainable Energy - Paperback

$47.23

by Richard Skiba (Author)This book serves as an in-depth exploration of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and their transformative potential in the modern energy landscape. It is designed to provide a thorough understanding of SMRs, from their technological foundations to their practical applications in power generation. Beginning with an overview of the evolution of nuclear technology, it delves into the unique benefits that SMRs offer over traditional nuclear reactors, such as enhanced safety f...

Introduction to Microstation VBA: Microstation connect Edition - Paperback

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by Saeed Murray (Author)This book provides a comprehensive guide to automating tasks in MicroStation using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Whether you are new to programming or an experienced MicroStation user looking to enhance your workflows, this book offers a step-by-step approach to mastering VBA in the MicroStation environment.Starting with the basics of the VBA IDE, variables, and code structure, the book guides you through fundamental programming concepts before diving into Micro...

Robust Control Systems: Theory and Case Studies - Hardcover

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by Uwe Mackenroth (Author)Critical to many engineering applications, control engineering brings together diverse fields such as electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering and applied mathematics. Applications range from can be to systems as simple as a DC motor to ones as complex as a spacecraft. The author crafted this book as a self-contained introduction to control theory that emphasizes the most modern designs for high performance and robustness. It assumes no previous coursework and...

Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World - Paperback

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by Sarah R. Davies (Author)What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science's relation to democracy? This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism, science policy, and innovation. It offers a comprehensive resource for considering the place that science and technology have in contemporary societies, and the roles that t...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry - Paperback

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by Wendell Berry (Author), Norman Wirzba (Editor)"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." --The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes--an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography--these essays promote a clearly defi...

Micro-Hydro Design Manual: A Guide to Small-Scale Water Power Schemes - Paperback

$100.75

by Adam Harvey (Author)This book has grown from Intermediate Technology's field experiences with micro-hydro installations and covers operation and maintenance, commissioning, electrical power, induction generators, electronic controllers, management and energy surveys. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.91 x 11.43 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1993

Industrial Polymer Applications: Essential Chemistry and Technology - Paperback

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by William R. Ashcroft (Author)Industrial Polymer Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse properties and applications of thermoset and thermoplastic polymer technologies used routinely in the modification, protection, repair, restoration and bonding of the main classes of industrial engineering materials such as concrete, masonry, wood, metal, rubber, plastic, glass and advanced ceramics. The Author, with extensive industrial experience in the design and development of p...

Genetic Priorities for Conservation of Native Honey Bees - Hardcover

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by Dorian Pritchard (Author)Like Dorian, I started beekeeping in the 1970s. I joined BIBBA (which then stood for the British Isles Bee Breeders' Association) and became a committee member. I was privileged to be asked to compile the book The Honeybees of the British Isles from the articles and papers left by BIBBA's Director Beowulf Cooper after his untimely death in 1982.After a scientific training Beowulf had worked for many years as an entomologist for the Government's Agricultural Advisor...

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Turkeys: Varieties, Feeding, Shelter, Care - Paperback

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by Stacy Benjamin (Author)From an expert in homesteading, this accessible guide shows you how to nurture happy, healthy turkeys right in your own yard. Written by a backyard homesteader with a small flock of heritage turkeys, An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Turkeys focuses on eggs, meat, and personal enjoyment. Poultry expert Stacy Benjamin will show you how to: -Raise your own poults -Understand turkey behavior and breeding habits -Provide proper shelter and nutrition I...

Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today - Hardcover

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by William F. Owen (Author)Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen massacres fields of sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience working with the British Army and industry, Owen draws the reader back to basics based on limited budgets, limited resources and an overall reduction in cost, weight and complexity to comprehensively understand how ar...

The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age - Hardcover

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by Hal Brands (Editor), John Bew (Contribution by), Lawrence Freedman (Contribution by)The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative ...

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Hardcover

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by Adam Higginbotham (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research--a riveting history that reads like a thriller. On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragi...

AutoCAD 2025 Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques: Boost productivity with interface tips, dynamic blocks, annotations, customizations, and more - Paperback

$71.98

by Jeanne Aarhus (Author)Make AutoCAD work for you with the help of a CAD productivity expert and master techniques that would take years to learn on your own in this part-color guideKey Features: - Discover new ways to use common commands to improve your productivity in AutoCAD- Learn how to customize your AutoCAD environment to fit your workflow- Automate routine tasks to streamline your AutoCAD processes- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook Description: Learn...

Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today - Paperback

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Classic Queen Rearing Compendium - Hardcover

$84.96

by Michael D. Bush (Author), Miller Smith Doolittle (Author)A compendium of classic queen rearing books by G.M. Doolittle, C.C. Miller, Henry Alley, Jay Smith, Isaac Hopkins and Frank Pellett with an overview by Michael Bush. These are the foundation of almost all queen rearing done today, all in one binding. These men laid the groundwork and worked out the details of practical systems of queen rearing. Pellet did a lot of distilling down of the various systems, which is very valuable, Smith ...

Mines of Southwestern Nevada - Paperback

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by S. H. Ball (Author)Mines of Southwestern Nevada - This book covers the mines of the Silver Peak Range, Kawich Range and other Southern Nevada Districts such as Lida-Goldfield Valley, Pahute Mesa, Cactus Range, Reveille Range, Belted Range, Tolicha Peak, Amargosa Mtns., Gold Mountain, Death Valley and the Panamint Range. The book includes Topography, Geology, Ore Deposits, Mining Development and Maps. Book is a Reprint of the 1907 USGS Bulletin 308 entitled "A Geologic Reconnaissance in Sou...

Modern Intelligent Instruments - Theory and Application - Paperback

$159.30

by Changjian Deng (Author)This text book serves as a guide for readers learning about the technical design of intelligent instruments, that is, instruments designed to collect information about the performance of other electronic devices and systems. The book introduces the readers to the concept of intelligent instrumentation and guides them on more advanced aspects of the subject including signal detection and analysis, data processing, performance analysis and data communication. Practical...

WARFIGHTING (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1) - Paperback

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by U S Marine Corps (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2024

Honeybees and Wax: An Experimental Natural History - Paperback

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by H. Randall Hepburn (Author)"Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnisning mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light". Mindful of Swift's dictum, this compilation is offered as an exhaustive coverage of a smallish literature on the synthesis and secretion of beeswax, its elaboration into combs and the factors which bear on the execution of these processes by honeybees. To codify any aspect of the biology of...

Polymer and Ceramic Composite Materials: Emergent Properties and Applications - Paperback

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by Noureddine Ramdani (Author)This book summarizes recent advances in the fabrication methods, properties, and applications of various ceramic-filled polymer matrix composites. Surface-modification methods and chemical functionalization of the ceramic fillers are explored in detail, and the outstanding thermal and mechanical properties of polymer-ceramic composites, the modeling of some of their thermal and mechanical parameters, and their major potential applications are discussed along with...

Test It Yourself! Chemistry Experiments With Consumer Applications - Paperback

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by Lawrence F. Tuleen (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 enough to be preserved, re...

Resistive Random Access Memory (Rram) - Paperback

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by Shimeng Yu (Author)RRAM technology has made significant progress in the past decade as a competitive candidate for the next generation non-volatile memory (NVM). This lecture is a comprehensive tutorial of metal oxide-based RRAM technology from device fabrication to array architecture design. State-of-the-art RRAM device performances, characterization, and modeling techniques are summarized, and the design considerations of the RRAM integration to large-scale array with peripheral circuits...

Passive Filter Design for Five-Level Inverters - Paperback

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by Meenakshi K (Author)Passive Filter Design for Five-Level Inverters provides a comprehensive exploration of the analysis, design, and implementation of passive filter configurations specifically tailored for five-level inverters. In recent years, five-level inverters have gained significant attention due to their ability to enhance power quality and increase the efficiency of power conversion systems. However, their operation often introduces harmonic distortion, which necessitates the use ...

What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility - Paperback

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by Sarah Horton (Author), David Sloan (Author)Accessibility is a core quality of digital products, to be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. What Every Engineer Should Know about Digital Accessibility will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices.Author BiographySarah Horton (she/her) has over 20 years of experience helping organizations create "born accessible" technology. She is an author of books, articles, and papers on d...

Resilient Partnerships for U.S. Military Satellite Communication Missions: Designing a Method to Assess the Impact of Partnerships on Resilience - Paperback

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by Bonnie L. Triezenberg (Author), Krista Langeland (Author), Gary McLeod (Author)This report documents the authors' development of a methodology to define, assess, and evaluate resilience criteria over time, with a focus on the qualitative assessments of subject matter experts. The methodology is applied to a specific approach to building resilience: integrating coalition and commercial partners into the U.S. military satellite communications mission. Number of Pages: 75 Dimensions: 0.16 x 1...

Achieving Digital Transformation Through Analytics and AI - Hardcover

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by Jay Liebowitz (Editor)Due to the rapid emergence of the development and use of Analytics and AI in organizations, this book focuses on these aspects related to digital transformation. We are in the midst of the GenAI craze, with prompt engineering, large language models, and AI ethics playing key roles. According to estimates, about 329 million terabytes of data are created each day [https: //explodingtopics.com/blog/data-generated-per-day] or approximately 120 zettabytes per year. With th...

Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between - Hardcover

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by Emily Carney (Author), Bruce McCandless (Author)Star Bound is a book for anyone who wants to learn about the American space program but isn't sure where to start. First and foremost, it's a history--short, sweet, and straightforward. From rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard's primitive flight tests in 1926 through the creation of NASA, from our first steps on the moon to construction of the International Space Station and planning a trip to Mars, readers will meet the people and projects that ...

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by Neal Baer (Author)A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can--and should--they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by C...

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by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Author), Kenneth Cukier (Author)Financial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist "Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating -- and sometimes alarming -- survey of big data's growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way we think."--New York Times It seems like "big data" is in the news every day, as we read the latest examples of how powerful algorithms are teasing out the hidden connecti...

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps - Hardcover

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by Edward Brooke-Hitching (Author)Discover the mysteries within ancient maps -- Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wre...

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech - Hardcover

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by Brian Merchant (Author)"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times - A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read" The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rur...