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Investigation of Microstructural and Corrosion Properties of Steels and Light Alloys - Hardcover

$81.00

by Claudio Gennari (Guest Editor), Luca Pezzato (Guest Editor)According to the latest NACE estimation (2013), the global cost of corrosion is equivalent to approximately 3.4% of the global GDP (2.5 trillion US dollars), not considering environmental consequences or safety issues. A reduction between 15% and 35% could be realized if prevention techniques and proper precaution are used, which means savings between 375 and 875 billion US dollars. Corrosion involves different sectors such as indu...

Otfs Modulation: Theory and Applications - Hardcover

$194.40

by Saif Khan Mohammed (Author), Ronny Hadani (Author), Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam (Author)Grasp the future of wireless communication with this groundbreaking introduction Research and development are already underway on the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication technology. The new requirements of 6G that arise from challenging new use cases render physical layer waveforms such as CDMA and OFDM inadequate. The OTFS waveform answers these new requirements, and recent research sugge...

Mastering Electronics Repair: A Practical Handbook for Beginners and Experts - Paperback

$43.20

by V. T. Sreekumar (Author)"Mastering Electronics Repair: A Practical Handbook for Beginners and Experts" is a comprehensive guide that covers everything from the basics of electronics to advanced repair techniques. Whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced repair expert looking to expand your skills, this book has something for you.The book begins with an introduction to basic electronics principles, ensuring that even beginners can follow along. It then progresses to more ad...

Supramolecular Chemistry: From Concepts to Applications - Paperback

$118.78

by Stefan Kubik (Author)This introductory textbook on supramolecular chemistry is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the 1st edition, originally published in 2020. All chapters have been brought up to date and now include "Further Reading" sections that highlight relevant developments. In addition, a new chapter on supramolecular polymers has been added. With these changes, this book provides an even more comprehensive introduction to the exciting field of supramolecular chemistry t...

Basics of Autodesk Inventor Nastran 2025: (Colored) - Hardcover

$93.60

by Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)The Basics of Autodesk Inventor Nastran 2025 is the new and updated 5th edition of our book on Autodesk Inventor Nastran. This book helps professionals as well as students in learning basics of Finite Element Analysis via Autodesk Inventor Nastran. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. This book explains the background work running behind your simulation analysis screen. The book starts with introduction to simulation and goes through all th...

HVAC Fundamentals: System Design, Operation, Selection, and Optimization - Hardcover

$243.00

by Samuel C. Sugarman (Author)This new edition has been revised and expanded with new drawings to give the reader a complete picture of HVAC and heat pump systems. Number of Pages: 514 Dimensions: 1.19 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 30, 2024

Digital Detox: Reclaim Your Life from Tech Overload - Paperback

$21.55

by Jordan Blake (Author)Break Free from the Chains of Technology and Rediscover Your LifeHave you ever felt the crushing weight of constant notifications, endless scrolling, and the relentless digital noise of our modern world? You're not alone. In Digital Detox: Reclaim Your Life from Tech Overload, you will find the transformative guide you've been searching for to restore balance and tranquility to your daily life.Discover the underlying causes of your technology addiction and understand h...

Probability Foundations for Engineers - Paperback

$100.42

by Joel A. Nachlas (Author)This textbook will continue to be the best suitable textbook written specifically for a first course on probability theory and designed for industrial engineering and operations management students. It offers theory in an accessible manner and includes numerous practical examples based on engineering applications. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 07, 2024

Plastic Pollution: Nature Based Solutions and Effective Governance - Paperback

$72.88

by Gail Krantzberg (Editor), Savitri Jetoo (Editor), Velma I. Grover (Editor)Plastics show up in every area of our lives. They are durable, cheap and light, properties that make them attractive but also problematic for the environment. The focus of this book is not just to highlight the problem of plastics, its definition, and how plastic pollution is impacting human health and environment but also to look at some best practices in both nature based solutions and in the field of law and polic...

Internet of Drones: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges - Paperback

$102.04

by Saravanan Krishnan (Editor), M. Murugappan (Editor)This book covers different aspects of Internet of Drones (IoD) including fundamentals in drone design, deployment challenges, and development of applications. It explains relevant concepts and processes in designing an efficient system, and architecture along with different applications and its implementations in different scenarios. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 19, 2024

$177.84

by Awwa (Author)The universal goal at utilities is to have every employee, every day, return home to his or her family uninjured. We believe that the first step to not being injured is knowing that you can be injured. Let's Talk Safety is designed to help you build awareness of potential work hazards and provide safety practices that help mitigate those hazards. Talking to your employees about their safety and listening to their safety concerns and experiences are the foundation to building a...

How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918 - Paperback

$68.31

by Heather P. Venable (Author)For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to ...

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking - Paperback

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by Mark Bauerlein (Author)This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and huma...

Schaum's Outline of Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition - Paperback

$28.00

by Merle C. Potter (Author), David C. Wiggert (Author)Stay on top of your fluid mechanics course--and study smarter for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam--with the thoroughly updated Schaum's Outline bestseller Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline pres...

Recent Advancement of Thermal Fluid Engineering in the Supercritical CO2 Power Cycle - Hardcover

$63.83

by Jeong Ik Lee Ik Lee (Guest Editor), David Sánchez Sánchez (Guest Editor)This Special Issue is a compilation of the recent advances in thermal fluid engineering related to supercritical CO2 power cycle development. The supercritical CO2 power cycle is considered to be one of the most promising power cycles for distributed power generation, waste heat recovery, and a topping cycle of coal, nuclear, and solar thermal heat sources. While the cycle benefits from dramatic changes in CO2 thermody...

Transferencia de calor: Termotecnia - Paperback

$40.48

by Fernando Carlos Arenas (Author)El objeto de este libro, es dar respuesta a cuáles son los fundamentos de la transmisión de calor que se aplican al funcionamiento de los mecanismos de intercambio térmico, como así también, qué precauciones hay que tomar al realizar los cálculos prácticos.La exposición de este material está ordenada de acuerdo a la creciente complejidad de los temas expuestos para facilitar así una mejor comprensión de los mismos. En este texto se estudian los fundamentos de...

Transferencia de Calor para Ingeniería - Paperback

$67.43

by Joseph Mmbga (Author), Ivan Cornejo (Author), Robert Hayes (Author)El propósito de este libro de transferencia de calor es el de servir de guía para quienes se desempeñan en el campo de la ingeniería de procesos, pero también, para quienes quieran introducirse al tema, teniendo así por público objetivo a estudiante y profesional en ejercicio. El libro proporciona una explicación concisa de los conceptos principales ligados a la transferencia de calor, además de ejemplos prácticos que ilust...

Bone-Grafting Biomaterials: Autografts, Hydroxyapatite, Calcium-Phosphates, and Biocomposites - Paperback

$122.02

by Yoshiki Oshida (Author), Takashi Miyazaki (Author)Bone augmentation is a procedure to replace and repair fractured bone in extreme circumstances. The materials used in such grafting techniques must be biocompatible and might come from natural bone sources or synthetic materials. This book defines bone augmentation and describes different bone grafting materials, techniques, and applications. Recently developed materials are also explored. Author BiographyYoshiki Oshida, MS, PhD is a Profe...

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 2023, 11th edition - Paperback

$144.00

by Federal Highway Administration (Author)The purpose of the MUTCD is to establish uniform national criteria for the use of traffic control devices that meet the needs and expectancy of road users on all streets, highways, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and site roadways open to public travel.Traffic control devices (TCDs) are very critical for the safe and efficient transportation of people and goods. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), by setting minimum standards and...

Practical Risk Handbook for Industrial Project Managers (2nd edition): A Guide to Enhance Opportunities and Manage Risks on Large, Complex Projects: A - Paperback

$57.46

by Jeremie Averous (Author)This must-have practical handbook for Large, Complex Industrial Projects originated in the trenches of actual project execution.It is not a heavy and detailed bible, but rather a practical reference for project practitioners to understand the principles and traps of Project Opportunity and Risk Management at Project and Portfolio levels. It still provides a comprehensive overview of all the issues and tools at the disposal of a project manager to manage properly opp...

Silica Optical Fiber Technology for Devices and Components: Design, Fabrication, and International Standards - Hardcover

$191.45

by Kyunghwan Oh (Author), Un-Chul Paek (Author)From basic physics to new products, Silica Optical Fiber Technology for Device and Components examines all aspects of specialty optical fibers. Moreover, the inclusion of the latest international standards governing optical fibers enables you to move from research to fabrication to commercialization. - Reviews all the latest specialty optical fiber technologies, including those developed for high capacity WDM applications; broadband fiber amplifi...

Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety - Paperback

$51.21

by Philipp Lehmann (Author)How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about climate in the colonial ...

Skill Seeker: Maker Edition: A Practical Way to Track Your Growth and Level Up Your Maker Skills - Paperback

$18.34

by Steph Piper (Author)Skill Seeker is a practical solution for tracking growth and leveling up your skills. There is an overwhelming amount of things to do, from learning a new tech skill like 3D printing to traditional handiwork like sewing. What if we could gamify these parts of life and gain experience points for learning or doing something new? Skill Seeker does just that in a choose-your-own-adventure-style goal-setting guide book. Video games are famous for skill trees: A mechanism to...

The Happy Mechanic: Making Money and Starting Your Own Business as a Self-Employed Car Mechanic - Paperback

$26.98

by Steve Sorensen (Author)Make $100 here, $500 there, fixing cars in your spare time. Today's cars are too complicated for do-it-yourself repairs, but most people are too busy to take their car to a dealership for service. Being a self-employed mobile mechanic fills that need, and provides anyone skilled in car repair with a substantial additional income. The Happy Mechanic is a step-by-step manual to achieving financial independence by fixing cars part-time.Author BiographySteve Sorensen was...

Biometric Voting System in Ghana. A Case Study - Paperback

$47.12

by Chukwuka Anowu (Author), Thompson Oyetunji (Author)Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Engineering - Computer Engineering, grade: 3.75, course: Computer Engineering, language: English, abstract: Presently in Ghana, the electoral process involves biometric registration of eligible voters and queuing up of the registered voters, to cast their votes using ballot papers and indelible ink on the day of voting. At the end of the voting exercise, the counting of the b...

Snoopy and the Spy: A Saga of Espionage, Ingenuity, and the Epic Battle to Save International Harvester - Hardcover

$24.95

by Lee Klancher (Author)The stakes had never been higher than they were on the farm fields of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The era marked one of the hardest economic environments of the twentieth century, and two of the world's toughest competitors were locked in a high-horsepower arms race to create the best piece of agricultural equipment.For John Deere, winning meant maintaining global dominance. For International Harvester, winning meant survival. For all the other ag equipment makers-...

Applied Mathematics and Modeling for Chemical Engineers Solutions Manual - Paperback

$88.11

by Richard G. Rice (Author), Duong D. Do (Author)This book is a Solutions Manual to Accompany Applied Mathematics and Modeling for Chemical Engineers. There are many examples provided as homework in the original text and the solution manual provides detailed solutions of many of these problems that are in the parent book Applied Mathematics and Modeling for Chemical Engineers.Author BiographyRichard G. Rice is the author of Solutions Manual to Accompany Applied Mathematics and Modeling for Ch...

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by Edward Everett Bugbee (Author)A Textbook of Fire Assaying by Edward Everett Bugbee is a comprehensive guide to the process of fire assaying, which is a method used to determine the purity and quality of precious metals such as gold and silver. The book covers the history of fire assaying, the equipment and materials needed for the process, and the step-by-step procedures for conducting fire assays. It also includes detailed explanations of the chemical reactions involved in fire assaying, ...

Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability - Paperback

$24.00

by Michael Kaplan (Author), Ellen Kaplan (Author)A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity's struggle against randomness Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling--reluctantly--for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man's millennia-long search for the tools...

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity - Paperback

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by Douglas Rushkoff (Author)Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn't between the unemployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent a...

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by Joan Johnson-Freese (Author)Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the issues that have contributed to the decline of America's manned space program, such as lack of political support and funding, Johnson-Freese offers not only a critique...

Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics - Paperback

$99.45

by Christopher Earls Brennen (Author)Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics deals with the fundamental physical processes of bubble dynamics and the phenomenon of cavitation. It is ideal for graduate students and research engineers and scientists, and a basic knowledge of fluid flow and heat transfer is assumed. The analytical methods presented are developed from basic principles. The book begins with a chapter on nucleation and describes both the theory and observations in flowing and non-flowing sy...