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Power Transmission and Control in Power and Vehicle Machineries - Hardcover

$123.23

by Yunhua Li (Guest Editor), Nariman Sepehri (Guest Editor), Kazuhisa Ito (Guest Editor)The aim of this reprint is to introduce the reader to the latest technological achievements in power transmission and control. Power transmission and control include the conversion, transmission, and distribution of power and motion control; it is a key technology and design theory of vehicle machines, such as automobile and construction machinery, airplanes, and ships. The specific implementation of power...

Science and Technology Development and Policies in China, 1978-2018 - Hardcover

$188.91

by Xue Lan (Volume Editor)China's rapid development in high-tech innovation, including high-speed rail, mobile internet applications, and artificial intelligence, has attracted worldwide attention and has even become one of the reasons behind trade tensions between China and the United States. The fundamental reason for these achievements is the relentless promotion of China's science and technology innovation system over the past 40 years in the context of reform and opening up. The contribu...

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by Moreland (Author)Inside the Metal Detector is the definitive book on metal detector technology and design. But it is not just a book for those wanting to understand detector design, it also offers valuable operational insight to the detectorist who wants to know more about how targets respond and how detectors behave.After a high-level overview of detector types, the basics of magnetics and induction are explained, including simple experiments. The physics of magnetic and eddy target respo...

Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West - Paperback

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by Robert A. Trennert (Author)Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were followed by the more substantial d...

Water Wars: Pollution, Profits And Privatization - Paperback

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by Vandana Shiva (Author)Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the water-war of the 21st century: the progressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights.Author BiographyMichael Goldman is MacArthur Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the University of California at Berkeley. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2002

High Voltage Direct Current Transmission: Converters, Systems and DC Grids - Hardcover

$175.61

by Dragan Jovcic (Author), Khaled Ahmed (Author)This comprehensive reference guides the reader through all HVDC technologies, including LCC (Line Commutated Converter), 2-level VSC and VSC HVDC based on modular multilevel converters (MMC) for an in-depth understanding of converters, system level design, operating principles and modeling. Written in a tutorial style, the book also describes the key principles of design, control, protection and operation of DC transmission grids, which will be ...

The Yoga System of Health and Relief From Tension - Paperback

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by Yogi Vithaldas (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, reprod...

Clean Energy for Low-Income Communities: Technology, Deployment and Challenges - Hardcover

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by David S-K Ting (Editor), Jacqueline A. Stagner (Editor)Energy provision for low income or remote communities is a difficult challenge, with many still depending on polluting and costly fossil fuels. Transporting energy is a further problem since some communities are only accessible during brief periods of the year. Local energy generation is a key solution, but technical challenges need to be overcome. This hands-on treatise explores technologies and approaches for accelerating deployment ...

Hands-On VHDL: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Blaine C. Readler (Author)In learning, nothing substitues for experience, and there's no better experience than compiling FPGA programs and watching them work. This book guides you along increasingly more complex VHDL programs with interactive, visible results when loaded on one of the development boards. Beginning with simply lighting LEDs, the projects advance until you are creating workable games using tbe board's buttons, switches, and displays. Source code for all projects are availab...

Safety 2.1: The Safety Envelope - Paperback

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by Paul Reyneke (Author)Safety practice is undergoing a major shift in thinking but practitioners often struggle to translate its principles into tangible changes in safety practices. In Safety 2.1: The Safety Envelope, author and long-time safety practitioner Dr Paul Reyneke bridges this gap, connecting Safety II theory to the day-to-day realities of practitioners.Through the concept of the 'safety envelope', Safety 2.1 helps practitioners move from today's prescriptive solutions with their ...

Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM Overview (December 2024) - Paperback

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by Tutorial Books (Author)Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM with this easy-to-follow guide. Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM Overview gives step-by-step instructions for 19 tutorials that cover all the important CAM tools. From basic tasks like drilling and contouring to advanced techniques like turning, threading, and 3D machining, this book helps you improve your skills and work more efficiently. Key Highlights Clear Tutorials: Detailed lessons on important operations like engraving, chamferi...

Life Support Systems for Humans in Space - Paperback

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by Erik Seedhouse (Author)Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems. This textbook introduces the LSS capabilities that sustain humans who live and work in space, and it is written at a level appropriate for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.The book begins with the basics of space physiology before detailing the features that make up different kinds of life support systems. It includes concise descriptions of how atmospheric pres...

Biomedical Engineering for Global Health: Cancer, Inequity, and Technology - Hardcover

$128.23

by Nirmala Ramanujam (Author), Brian Crouch (Author)Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed around modern-day global cancer inequities. Connecting engineering principles to real-world global health scenarios, this textbook introduces major technological advances in cancer care through the lens of global health inequity, discusses how promising new technologies can address this inequity, and demonstrates how novel medical...

3D Printing: Fundamentals to Emerging Applications - Paperback

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by Ram K. Gupta (Editor)3D Printing: Fundamentals to Emerging Applications discusses the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies and their emerging applications in many important sectors such as energy, biomedicals, and sensors. Top international authors in their fields cover the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies for batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, sensors, and biomedical and other emerging applications. They also address current challenges and possible solutions in 3D-printin...

The Art of Natural Building - Second Edition - Completely Revised, Expanded and Updated: Design, Construction, Resources - Paperback

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by Joseph F. Kennedy (Editor), Michael G. Smith (Editor), Catherine Wanek (Editor) The original, complete, user-friendly introduction to natural building, now fully revised and updated The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible. While there are many books available on specific methods such as straw-bale construction, cob, or timber framing, there are few resources wh...

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by Camas Davis (Author)Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned by the decade she had spent as a lifestyle journalist, advising other people how to ...

The Amateur Plankton Researcher's Practical Guide: How to Study Plankton at Home - Hardcover

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by Albert Calbet (Author)Back JacketExplore the captivating world of plankton with this hands-on guide, perfect for students, educators, hobbyists, and citizen scientists alike. Designed to take you through every step of the process, from collecting samples in local waters to observing them under a microscope and conducting basic experiments, this guide will equip you with the tools and knowledge needed to study plankton at home. You will gain an understanding of the different groups of plank...

Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control - Hardcover

$171.00

by Matt Mahmoudi (Author)As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, where communities on the move once lived in anonymity and proximity to familial and diaspora networks, the possibility for ...

The World's Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy--And How to Keep It - Hardcover

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by Sally C. Pipes (Author)The World's Medicine Chest details how America became the world's leader in biopharmaceutical innovation and reveals how new threats to this industry will have disastrous consequences for patients and the U.S. economy.In the 1970s, Europe was the global hub for pharmaceutical innovation. European drug companies developed more than twice as many drugs in that decade as their U.S.-based counterparts. But times have changed. Today, nearly half of all new drugs come from...

Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control - Paperback

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Unknowable Minds: Philosophical Insights on AI and Autonomous Weapons - Paperback

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by Mark Bailey (Author)Imagine that in the cold heart of a secret military facility, a new form of intelligence awakens. It is a synthetic mind born from intricate algorithms and complex computations, operating in ways unfathomable to its human creators. Charged with safeguarding national security, this intelligence orchestrates strategies that defy human ethics and laws of war, leaving its creators both awed and unnerved.Unknowable Minds delves into the unsettling reality of entrusting our s...

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work - Paperback

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by Larry A. Hickman (Author)"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed." --Don IhdeA practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture.Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology--a...

Urban Engineering for Sustainability - Paperback

$162.00

by Sybil Derrible (Author)A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science. This textbook introduces urban infrastructure from an engineering perspective, with an emphasis on sustainability. Bringing together both fundamental principles and practical knowledge from civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban pl...

Marine Emergencies: For Masters and Mates - Paperback

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by David House (Author)An influential guide to maritime emergencies and the current strategies that can be employed to cope with the immediate after effects and ramifications of disaster at sea. Many mariners will at some point in their maritime careers become involved in one sort of emergency or another, while in port or at sea, whether it is a fire on board, a collision with another vessel or an engine failure threatening a lee shore. Actions to take in such incidents can be the difference ...

Introduction to Construction Management - Paperback

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by Fred Sherratt (Author), Peter Farrell (Contribution by)Introduction to Construction Management, Second Edition, is the beginner's guide to key concepts, terms, processes and practices associated with modern construction management. The new edition has been fully updated with new data, case studies and enhancements and remains the most practical and accessible book on the subject available. Significant new topics have been added including construction ethics, coverage of mental health and w...

Radar Array Design Using Optimization Theory - Hardcover

$189.00

by Guolong Cui (Editor), Junli Liang (Editor), Bin Liao (Editor)Radar array design aims at shaping a specific transmit/receive beampattern through optimizing array geometry, transmit waveform, and transmit/receive weight vectors. It is a hot topic among the scientific and industrial communities due to the advent of modern digital arrays with multiple digital transmit and receive channels, arbitrary digital waveform generators, and solid-state transmitters. The radar array beampattern is a cri...

Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years - Hardcover

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by John Bisney (Author), J. L. Pickering (Author), Robert L. Crippen (Foreword by)Rare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authorities After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA's Space Shuttle program promised frequent access to Earth orbit for medical and scientific breakthroughs; deploying, repairing, and maintaining satellites; and assembli...

Critical Connections: The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Present - Hardcover

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by Lee Riedinger (Author), Allen Ekkebus (Author), William Bugg (Author)The bombing of Pearl Harbor set off a chain of events that included the race to beat German scientists to build the atomic bomb. A tiny hamlet tucked away in the southern Appalachians proved an unlikely linchpin to win the race. The Manhattan Project required the combination of four secret sites--Clinton Laboratories, Y-12, K-25, and S-50--75,000 workers, and the nation's finest scientists to create the Secret City, Oak R...

Replay: The History of Video Games - Paperback

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by Tristan Donovan (Author)A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming's past, Replay tells the sensational story of how the creative vision of game designers gave rise to one of the world's most popular and dynamic art forms. Number of Pages: 516 Dimensions...

Introduction to Electronic Warfare Modeling and Simulation - Paperback

$170.10

by David L. Adamy (Author)This unique book covers the whole field of electronic warfare modeling and simulation at a systems level, including chapters that describe basic electronic warfare (EW) concepts. Written by a well-known expert in the field with more than 24 years of experience, the book explores EW applications and techniques and the radio frequency spectrum, with primary emphasis on HF (high frequency) to microwave. A detailed resource for entry-level engineering personnel in EW, mi...

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by James Williams (Author)Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information environme...

Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles - Hardcover

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by Mike Colias (Author)A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us.The question is no longer if electric vehicles will happen, or even when they'll happen, but how. Veteran automotive reporter Mike Colias takes you inside the transformation in this thoroughly reported profile of the hard pivot in the car business, a $2 trillion industry undergoing the biggest change in its 120-year history--a change that is already sending ripples across the entire global econ...