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Hall-Effect Sensors: Theory and Application - Hardcover

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by Edward Ramsden (Author)Without sensors most electronic applications would not exist--sensors perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world. Hall effect sensors, based on a magnetic phenomena, are one of the most commonly used sensing technologies today. In the 1970s it became possible to build Hall effect sensors on integrated circuits with onboard signal processing circuitry, vastly reducing the cost and enabling widespread practical use. One of the first major...

High-Security Mechanical Locks - Hardcover

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by Graham Pulford (Author) High-Security Mechanical Locks comprehensively surveys and explains the highly technical area of high security locks in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. Well over 100 different locks are presented, organized into 6 basic types. Each chapter introduces the necessary concepts in a historical perspective and further categorizes the locks. This is followed by detailed 'how it works' descriptions with many pictures, diagrams and references. The descriptions ...

EMS Supervisor: Principles and Practice - Paperback

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by Orlando Dominguez (Author)Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are thoroughly trained and educated in patient care. They put their knowledge and skills into action at a moment's notice to treat patients' illnesses and injuries and to save lives. But what happens when EMS practitioners advance to leadership positions and take on responsibilities beyond patient care? EMS Supervisor: Principles and Practice provides the new or aspiring EMS officer guidance in confronting common challeng...

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by Peterson's (Author)Peterson's Master the ASVAB 23rd Edition provides comprehensive review and proven strategies that will help you get the ASVAB scores you need to jump-start your military career. Whichever branch of military service you choose, taking the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is the first step on your career path. Newly updated, this comprehensive guide provides extensive review and practice tests, top-notch study tips and strategies, along with updated inform...

Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages - Paperback

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by David Deming (Author) Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technological innovations during the Middle Ages; Islamic science; the Crusades; Go...

The Television World of Pushing Daisies: Critical Essays on the Bryan Fuller Series - Paperback

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by Alissa Burger (Editor) Pushing Daisies was a unique network television show. This collection of 10 essays addresses the quirky, off-beat elements that made the show a popular success, as well as fodder for scholarly inquiry. Divided into three main sections, the essays address the themes of difference, the placement of the series within a larger philosophical context, and the role of gender on the show. A consideration of Pushing Daisies' unique style and aesthetics is a consistent source ...

The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors - Paperback

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by Fred Olen Ray (Author) Since cinema's earliest beginnings, there has been friction between producers and directors. Shady accounting practices, which favored the distributors at the expense of the filmmakers, were all too common, causing many filmmakers to form independent companies to make and distribute their own product. This book examines six such low-budget exploitation companies--Associated Distributors Productions, Filmgroup, Hemisphere Pictures, American General Pictures, Independe...

Counterinsurgency: What the United States Learned in Vietnam, Chose to Forget and Needs to Know Today - Paperback

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by David Donovan (Author)It has long been predicted that counterinsurgency will be the predominant style of American warfare in the 21st century: Thus far, the prediction has proven true. Written for those who study counterinsurgency from a policy perspective as well as for those who do counterinsurgency in the field, this book demonstrates that the U.S. has had difficulty meeting the challenges of this special form of warfare because it has not properly processed important lessons from the p...

Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina - Paperback

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by Kristina Horton (Author) Union organizer and balladeer Ella May became a martyr for workers nationwide when she was murdered on her way to a union meeting in Gastonia, North Carolina, at age 28. A mother of nine and bookkeeper for the communist-led National Textile Workers Union, May worked to organize fellow mill workers in Gaston County. Her efforts to organize black workers--along with her brash, outspoken manner--incensed the local community and she was shot by an anti-union vigilante ...

The History of Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Development in the United States: A Tradition of Excellence - Hardcover

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by James St Peter (Author)In this history of aircraft gas turbine engine development in the United States, technologi-cal advancements will be traced through the evolution of specific engines. Each engine examined represents an important advance in this critical technology. Although every model of aircraft gas turbine ever developed represents some technological change, in the opinion of the author, the engines presented here demonstrate clear and significant advances over previous technologi...

Study Guide for the Certification of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professionals (Gdtp) - Paperback

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by Robert H. Nickolaisen (Author)This study guide has been written to assist individuals to prepare for certification as a Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional (GDTP) through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The objectives of the study guide are to: Introduce the purpose, history, and application process for obtaining Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional Certification in accordance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) admin...

Industrial Energy Systems: Analysis, Optimization and Control - Hardcover

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by Richard E. Putman (Author)Responding to concerns about global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, and the political instability that threatens the US supply, this book enables management, system analysts, and performance engineers to develop and apply an operating strategy for the on-line optimization and control of energy systems in industrial plants. It provides proven techniques for analysis that can guide equipment selection and flowsheet adjustments to reduce plant energy consumption ...

Pipeline Geo-Environmental Design and Geohazard Management - Hardcover

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by Moness Rizkalla (Author)This book will serve as a valuable reference to widely applicable and critically important geoenvironmental topics for pipeline engineers worldwide. The topics covered are: route selection, open cut and elevated driver crossings, horizontal directional drilling, buoyancy control and geohazard management. Authored by a team of recognized specialists in their respective fields and with practical examples from experiences around the world, this book will provide genera...

A Practical Guide to Avoiding Steam Purity Problems in the Industrial Plant - Paperback

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by Asme Reserch Committee (Editor)This document was prepared to assist industrial plant operating personnel in avoiding steam purity related problems, and it includes the following descriptive sections: Steam Purity, Problems Caused by Poor Steam Purity, Methods of Detecting Steam Purity Problems, Investigating a Steam Purity Problem, Operating Guidelines to Avoid Steam Purity Problems and Steam Sampling and Analysis. Number of Pages: 39 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: July 0...

Power Boilers: A Guide to Section I of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code - Hardcover

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by John R. MacKay (Author), James T. Pillow (Author), Martin D. Bernstein (Contribution by)Founding Authors: Martin D. Bernstein and Lloyd W. Yoder A completely revised and updated edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the construction rules for power boilers-their intent, application, and interpretation. This unique guide provides expert advice and useful information for design engineers, project managers, architect engineers, manufacturing engineers, boiler operators, insurance ...

Primer on Engineering Standards - Paperback

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by Maan Jawad (Author), Owen R. Greulich (Author)Standards play a very important part in the engineering world. They supplement the design process by guiding the designer or user to ensure consistent products with safe and reliable operation. Understanding and complying with pertinent standards helps to ensure a successful design, fabrication, and operation of a product. This book introduces the concept of standards and their impact and value. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the gener...

Asme International Steam Tables for Industrial Use - Paperback

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by Technology Committee Asme Research and (Prepared by)Industrial steam tables exist to provide a standard set of properties of water and steam for manufacturers, customers, and other parties. Three desirable qualities for a set of industrial steam tables are accuracy, self-consistency, and stability. The properties must be reasonably accurate and self-consistent to support quality design of equipment. A formulation must remain the standard for many years, because the change from one standard...

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by R. E. Snodgrass (Author), Roger A. Morse (Foreword by)First published in 1956, this classic work on the anatomy of honey bee by R. (Robert) E. Snodgrass is acclaimed as much for the author's remarkably detailed line drawings of the various body parts and organs of his subject as for his authoritative knowledge of entomology and the engaging prose style with which he conveys it. This book should be in the library of every student of the honey bee and bee behavior--beekeepers (both amateur a...

Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale - Paperback

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by Tom Wilber (Author)For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and legal events leading up to an unprecedented ban of fracking in New York state, and the outcome of the federal EPA's investigation of water pollution just across the state border in Dimock, Pennsylvania. The industry, with powerful polit...

Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas - Paperback

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by Hannah Appel (Editor), Arthur Mason (Editor), Michael Watts (Editor)"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."--Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, ou...

The Book: The Life Story of a Technology - Paperback

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by Nicole Howard (Author)The printed book is one of life's most frequently encountered technologies. Historian Nicole Howard provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution of this technology, tracing its development across many centuries and cultures.No other technology in human history, declares Howard, has had the impact of this invention. By examining the book as a technology, Howard reveals how profoundly information and media have shaped history and how vital the technology of the book...

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 - Paperback

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by Mark R. Wilson (Author)This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. This task of equi...

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by Jonathan M. Samet (Editor), John D. Spengler (Editor)During the last two decades, outdoor air pollution has decreased in the United States and in many other industrial nations. But many hazardous pollutants have been found in offices, cars, homes, and hospitals. Outbreaks of illness related to the noninjdustrial work environment have been reported with increasing frequency. And "sick-building," or "tight-building," syndrome has been recognized as a new and serious threat to public health.I...

Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989 - Hardcover

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by Jay Gallentine (Author), Bobak Ferdowsi (Foreword by)Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of ...

Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 - Hardcover

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by Rick Houston (Author), Jerry Ross (Foreword by)Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the Space Shu...

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability - Paperback

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by C. Clare Hinrichs (Editor), Thomas A. Lyson (Editor)Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and identity. Remaking the North American Food System examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption as a way to overcome some of the negative implications of industrial and globalizing trends in the food and agricultural system. Wr...

Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon - Hardcover

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by Colin Burgess (Author), Kate Doolan (Author), Eugene a. Cernan (Foreword by)Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book enriches the saga o...

Horse Soldier, 1851-1880, Volume 2: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars - Paperback

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by Randy Steffen (Author)This is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of the period from 1776 to 1850. In this volume he addresses himself to the eventful, bloody tragic mid-nineteenth century. Here he describes the dress and equipment of the horse soldier of the early frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the wars with the Indians. The uniforms, insignia, decorations, arms, and horse gear...

Windfall: Wind Energy in America Today - Paperback

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by Robert W. Righter (Author)Currently the world's fastest-growing source of energy, wind generation offers hope for a partial solution to our energy problems by converting nature's energy into electricity without exposing our planet and its inhabitants to the dangers of heat, pollution, toxicity, or depletion of irreplaceable natural resources. Windfall tells the story of wind energy's extraordinary growth in the past decade and examines the arguments both for and against its use. Historian ...

Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam - Hardcover

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by Jeremy P. Maxwell (Author)African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the field, is the subject of Brotherhood in Combat, the first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the integration of the American military during the Korean and Vietna...

A British Profession of Arms: The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army - Hardcover

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by Ian Beckett (Author)"You offer yourself to be slain," General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. "This is the essence of being a soldier." For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions-and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds ...

Aldrovandi on Chickens: The Ornothology of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1600) Volume II Book XIV - Paperback

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by L. R. Lind (Author), Ulisse Aldrovandi (Author), L. R. Lind (Translator)Aldrovandi on Chickens The Renaissance man of science, unlike the physicist of today, conceived the value of his work to lie in its applicability to all phases of human activity. Aldrovandi on Chickens, the first English translation of any work by the Italian naturalist, Ulisse Aldrovandi, exemplifies the spirit and the letter of Renaissance science-the former, in the extensive classical references; the latter, through...