Technology & Engineering

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by Robert E. Hardwicke (Author)For a country accustomed to counting its resources in millions, or even billions, the unit of measure is almost too small to be of interest. But during a lunch break one day, Robert E. Hardwicke asked of his colleagues in the Petroleum Administration for War why American oil is measured by the 42-gallon barrel and no other. Why not 30, 36, or an even 50? No one present had the answer, but a dozen years later, and after extensive research, Hardwicke produced the ...

Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future - Paperback

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by Philip Warburg (Author)Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy's remarkable ascent and its promise for America's future Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America. Scan the skyline of downtown neighborhoods, check out the rooftop of the nearest Walmart, and take a close look at your local sports arena. Chances are you'll find solar panels in those ...

Weights, Money and Other Measures Used by Our Ancestors - Paperback

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by Colin R. Chapman (Author)Written for researchers who come across unfamiliar units of weights and measurements, this is the ideal companion to keep by your side when perusing wills, inventories, accounts, and old journals. How can we possibly appreciate the ancient manorial system without an understanding of oxgangs and hides? How can we come to grips with early population listings without knowing about virgates and farthingales? We now know, for instance, that a firkin of soap weighs 64 po...

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina - Hardcover

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by Shepherd W. McKinley (Author)South Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award "A finely layered and important study that fills in gaps in the industrial history of the New South and especially low-country South Carolina."--Sidney Bland, author of Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost "Skillfully blurs the old, comfortable line between Old and New South economies and paints a nuanced picture of the new labor relations i...

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by Vandana Shiva (Author), Wendell Berry (Foreword by)""Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity.""-Wendell Berry, from the foreword Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and ...

Engineering in American Society: 1850-1875 - Paperback

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by Raymond H. Merritt (Author)Technology, which has significantly changed Western man's way of life over the past century, exerted a powerful influence on American society during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. In this study Raymond H. Merritt focuses on the engineering profession, in order to describe not only the vital role that engineers played in producing a technological society but also to note the changes they helped to bring about in American education, industry, professi...

Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 - Paperback

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by Jennifer Holt (Author)Empires of Entertainment integrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media between 1980 and 1996. As film, broadcast, and cable grew from fundamentally separate industries to interconnected, synergistic components of global media conglomerates, the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration were redesigned. The parameters and boundaries of market concentration, consolidation, and government...

Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968 - Hardcover

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by Jan Hoffenaar (Editor), Dieter Krüger (Editor), David T. Zabecki (Editor)While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning of NATO and Warsaw Pact member nations from the end of World War II to the beginning of détente. Informed by materia...

Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields - Paperback

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by Barry P. Michrina (Author)In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners'...

Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues - Paperback

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by Bernard E. Rollin (Author)Animals born with bones and muscles are meant to move. In modern systems of intensive agriculture, however, many animals -- notably, swine, veal calves, and poultry -- are rigorously confined. In this book Professor Bernard E. Rollin describes problems of animal welfare in today's agriculture, discusses the research that exists for improving these systems, and proposes topics for further study. Rollin urges animal producers and agricultural scientists to begin now...

The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Bill Vitek (Editor), Wes Jackson (Editor)Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors argue that uncritical faith in scientific knowledge has created many of the problems ...

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by Spurgeon G. Roscoe (Author)From flags and pennants to Morse code and complex telecommunications, Radio History Ship to Shore is a treatise on the navigational aids vessels have used over the centuries. Author Spurgeon "Spud" G. Roscoe takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of communication systems globally, from the days of Columbus to modern times. Roscoe also mines his first-hand experience as a radio officer who sailed on a dozen ships, including a reproduction of the ill-f...

The Planets in Dr Steiner's Agriculture Course - Paperback

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by Glen Robert Atkinson (Author)After 100 years there is still confusion in relation to Dr Rudolf Steiner's use of the planets. This has generated an apparent contradiction between lectures 2 and 6 in Dr Steiner's 1924 series of lectures known as 'The Agriculture Course'. In 'The Planets in Dr Steiner's Agriculture Course', Glen Atkinson offers a solution to this quandary. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.23 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2022

Covered Bridges of New York State - Paperback

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by Rick L. Berfield (Author)More than just relics of a bygone era, covered bridges enjoy a cherished place in the public imagination and a distinctive niche in northeastern America's regional lore and architectural history. Once, 250 covered bridges dotted the landscape of New York State. But natural disaster and human progress exacted a price, leaving only twenty-four historic bridges intact. Here is the first detailed guide to these structures, many of which are listed in the National Regis...

The Boundless Self: Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces - Hardcover

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by Paul Adams (Author)Using the body as an axis for geographical theory, this book argues that communication empowers self to constantly transcend its physical limits. It urges complete review of personal borders in space and time based on symbols, signs and signals that redefine ties to the tangible world, i.e., "Dear John" letters, layout of furniture in rooms, or chronic illness. Paul C. Adams shows how vehicular transit has altered traditional modalities like walking or biking while navig...

Evaluating Process Safety in the Chemical Industry: A User's Guide to Quantitative Risk Analysis - Hardcover

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by J. S. Arendt (Author), D. K. Lorenzo (Author)Quantitative Risk Analysis is a powerful tool used to help manage risk and improve safety. When used appropriately, it provides a rational basis for evaluating process safety and comparing alternative safety improvements. This guide, an update of an earlier American Chemistry Council (ACC) publication utilizing the "hands-on" experience of CPI risk assessment practitioners and safety professionals involved with the CCPS and ACC, explains how man...

Handbook of Carbon, Graphite, Diamonds and Fullerenes: Processing, Properties and Applications - Hardcover

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by Hugh O. Pierson (Author)This book is a review of the science and technology of the element carbon and its allotropes: graphite, diamond and the fullerenes. This field has expanded greatly in the last three decades stimulated by many major discoveries such as carbon fibers, low-pressure diamond, and the fullerenes. The need for such a book has been felt for some time. These carbon materials are very different in structure and properties. Some are very old (charcoal), others brand new (the f...

Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty - Paperback

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by Germaine M. Reed (Author)In this biography of Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938), Germaine M. Reed portrays the life and work of an internationally known scientist who contributed greatly to the industry of his native region and who played a significant role in the development of American chemistry. As president of the American Chemical Society, editor of its industrial journal, adviser to the Chemical Foundation, and as a private consultant, Herty promoted southern industrial development th...

Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control - Paperback

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by Raiford Guins (Author)Not long ago it would have been an absurd idea to purchase a television, CD or MP3 or DVD player, computer software, or game console with the intention of limiting its capabilities. However, as Raiford Guins demonstrates in Edited Clean Version, today's media technology is marketed and sold for what it does not contain and what it will not deliver. TVs equipped with V-chips, Internet filters, editing DVD players, clean-version CDs and MP3s, and game consoles with pare...

George Washington and the American Military Tradition - Paperback

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by Don Higginbotham (Author)In George Washington and the American Military Tradition, Don Higginbotham investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington's military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to our nation. Higginbotham then explores the legacy of Washington's success, revealing that the crucial blending of civil and military concerns characteristic of the Revolution has been var...

A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster - Hardcover

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by André Joseph Gallant (Author)Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that's just the beginning. Andr Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area and its fishers. With A High Low Tide he places Georgia, as well as the South, in the national conversation about aquaculture, addressing i...

Nature's Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859 - Paperback

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by Edmund Ruffin (Author), Jack Temple Kirby (Editor)History remembers Edmund Ruffin, the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861, as one of the South's most aggressive "fire-eaters." This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from Ruffin's writings, Jack Temple Kirby presents an innovative, progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist. Arranged in s...

The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach - Paperback

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by Albert G. Way (Author), Leon Neel (Author), Paul S. Sutter (Author)Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to ninety million acres across the Southeast. The Art of Managing Longleaf documents the sometimes controversial management system that not only has protected Greenwood's "Big Woods" but also has been practiced on a substantial acre...

Cooling Water Treatment Principles and Practices: Charts and Notes for Field Use - Paperback

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by Colin Frayne (Author)Cooling Water Treatment Principles and Practices: Charts and Notes For Field Use; Is the companion field guide handbook to Cooling Water Treatment Principles and Practices by Colin Frayne. In this handbook you will find many helpful formulas for use in the field such as formulas for: Refrigeration in cooling towers, Conductive heat flow, General industrial and cooling water makeup contents, Coagulants and flocculants, Filter types, Water softeners, Commonly found corro...

Electroplating and Related Processes - Hardcover

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by J. B. Mohler (Author)CONTENTS - Introduction - I. Mechanism of Electrodeposition - 2. Laws and Characteristics of Plating Baths - 3. The Deposit - 4. Preparatory Steps of Plating - 5. Preparation of the Surface - 6. Cleaning - 7. Pickling - 8. Strike Plating - 9. Rinsing - 10. Anodizing - 1 I. Brass Plating - 12. Bronze Plating - 13. Cadmium Plating - 14. Chromate Coatings - 15. Chromium Plating - 16. Acid Copper Plating - 17. Copper Cyanide Baths - 18. Iron Plating - 19. Lead Plating - 20...

The Chemical Formulary, Volume 7 - Paperback

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by H. Bennett (Editor)There is hardly any technical library in the world in which the volumes of the Chemical Formulary (Volumes 1-34) do not occupy a prominent place. Chemists both experienced and beginner, continually refer to them. It does not duplicate any of the formulas included in previous volumes, but lists a wide array of modern and salable products from all branches of the chemical industries. An excellent reference for formulation problems. - CONTENTS - PREFACE - PREFACE TO VOLUME ...

The Chemical Formulary, Volume 13 - Paperback

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by H. Bennett (Editor)There is hardly any technical library in the world in which the volumes of the Chemical Formulary (Volumes 1-34) do not occupy a prominent place. It does not duplicate any of the formulas included in previous volumes, but lists a wide array of modern and salable products from all branches of the chemical industries. An excellent reference for formulation problems. - CONTENTS - 1. Introduction - 2. Adhesives - 3. Cement and Related Products - 4. Cosmetics and Drugs - 5. E...

Industrial and Specialty Papers, Volume 3, Applications - Paperback

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by Robert H. Mosher (Author), Dale S. Davis (Author)Contents - 1. New Product Development-An Overview- Introduction; The Opportunities New Products Create; The Problems New Products Create; The New Product Development Cycle for Industrial Products; Consumer New Product Evaluation; The Role of Technical Research and Development in New Product Development; Why New Products Fail; Ten Philosophies of Successful New Product Development; Case Studies - 2. Marketing Research In The Specialty Paper B...

The Chemical Formulary, Volume 5 - Paperback

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by Karl O. Brauer (Author), Karl O. Brauer (Introduction by)This handbook provides extremely useful data and information about theory and industrial applications that formerly were limited to applications in military ordnance, fireworks, and rock blasting. These "civilian" applications include spacecraft, aircraft, underwater vehicle systems, metal forming, cladding, riveting and some other production methods. Also pairs well with: Fireworks, Principles and Practice, 4th Edition, ISBN: 082060...

The Chemical Treatment of Boiler Water - Paperback

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by James W. McCoy (Author)Those involved in the design, operation, or maintenance of industrial boilers will find this book an invaluable source of information. First the author discusses the relationship between boilers and the generated steam. The prevention of scaling, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and steam contamination are fully explored followed by an in-depth examination of the chemical treatments necessary to implement preventative measures. Specific types of boilers are disc...

Engineers' Illustrated Thesaurus - Paperback

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by Herbert Herkimer (Author)This invaluable guide contains over 8,000 illustrations of machine elements and assembled machinery for the engineer, designer, draftsman and manufacturer. Contents: I. FastenersII. Adjusting DevicesIII. Supports and StructuresIV. Basic Mechanical MovementsV. Elevators, Derricks, Cranes, ConveyorsVI. Transmission of Liquids and GasesVII. CombustionVIII. Prime MoversIX. TransportationX. Industrial ProcessesXI. Electrical AppliancesXII. Comfort Heating, Cooling and A...