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Built

The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures

by Roma Agrawal ...

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksThe wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksThe wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed
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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics

A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World

by James Kakalios ...

Most of us are unaware of how much we depend on quantum mechanics on a day-to-day basis. Using illustrations and examples from science fiction pulp magazines and comic books, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics explains the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics that underlie the world we live in.Watch a Video ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Most of us are unaware of how much we depend on quantum mechanics on a day-to-day basis. Using illustrations and examples from science fiction pulp magazines and comic books, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics explains the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics that underlie the world we live in.Watch a Video
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What Is ChatGPT Doing

... and Why Does It Work?

by Stephen Wolfram ...

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of writing at a convincingly human level. But how does it really work? What's going on inside its "AI mind"? In this short book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram provides a readable and engaging explanation that draws on his decades-long unique experience at the frontiers of ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of writing at a convincingly human level. But how does it really work? What's going on inside its "AI mind"? In this short book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram provides a readable and engaging explanation that draws on his decades-long unique experience at the frontiers of
... Read more
Everyone a Leader

A Guide to Leading High-Performance Organizations for Engineers and Scientists

by David Colcleugh ...

Aimed at practicing engineers and scientists as well as students, Everyone a Leader: A Guide to Leading High-Performance Organizations for Engineers and Scientists offers innovative learning frameworks for acquiring competence in leadership that were originally developed at DuPont Canada.This book is specifically tailored to meet the needs of those in engineering and scientific fields. David ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Aimed at practicing engineers and scientists as well as students, Everyone a Leader: A Guide to Leading High-Performance Organizations for Engineers and Scientists offers innovative learning frameworks for acquiring competence in leadership that were originally developed at DuPont Canada.This book is specifically tailored to meet the needs of those in engineering and scientific fields. David
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Parting the Desert

The Creation of the Suez Canal

by Zachary Karabell ...

Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project
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Recalculating

Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work

by Lindsey Pollak ...

A leading workplace expert provides an inspirational, practical, and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers, and transitioning professionals looking to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving workplace.Covid-19 has heightened career uncertainty in a work landscape dominated by turbulence and change, and it is directly impacting how people are entering—or re-entering—the ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

A leading workplace expert provides an inspirational, practical, and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers, and transitioning professionals looking to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving workplace.Covid-19 has heightened career uncertainty in a work landscape dominated by turbulence and change, and it is directly impacting how people are entering—or re-entering—the
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Foundations of Robotics

A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS

Edited by Damith Herath, David St-Onge ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book also ... Read more

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This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book also
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Éléonore

Une aventure moderne de chercheurs d’or

by Hugo Fontaines, Marc Tison ...

L’or était là. Des milliards de dollars d’or enfoui, invisible, en pleine taïga, 200 kilomètres à l’est de la baie James. Un complexe minier grand comme un village s’y dresse aujourd’hui, construit au coût de deux milliards de dollars. Auparavant, il n’y avait rien : que des épinettes rabougries, du lichen et de l’eau. À perte de vue, de l’eau. Au milieu de nulle part, comme le veut l’expression ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

L’or était là. Des milliards de dollars d’or enfoui, invisible, en pleine taïga, 200 kilomètres à l’est de la baie James. Un complexe minier grand comme un village s’y dresse aujourd’hui, construit au coût de deux milliards de dollars. Auparavant, il n’y avait rien : que des épinettes rabougries, du lichen et de l’eau. À perte de vue, de l’eau. Au milieu de nulle part, comme le veut l’expression
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The Pencil

A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski ...

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today. ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
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Let There Be Water

Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

by Seth M. Siegel ...

Discover how Israel transformed from a parched land into a water superpower, offering a blueprint for a world facing an imminent water crisis.As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Discover how Israel transformed from a parched land into a water superpower, offering a blueprint for a world facing an imminent water crisis.As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face
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Autonomy

The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World

by Christopher Shulgan, Lawrence D. Burns ...

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphoneWe stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles and instead will get around in driverless electric vehicles that we summon with the touch of an app. ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphoneWe stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles and instead will get around in driverless electric vehicles that we summon with the touch of an app.
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Samuel Colt: The Great Equalizer

by Daniel Alef ...

Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt's widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt's name in American mythology, sanitized his foibles and misdeeds, and oversaw the amazing growth of ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt's widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt's name in American mythology, sanitized his foibles and misdeeds, and oversaw the amazing growth of
... Read more
iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino

Wiring the iPhone and iPad into the Internet of Things

by Alasdair Allan ...

Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You’ll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.iOS ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You’ll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.iOS
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The Victorian Internet

The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage ...

A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries,
... Read more
Impossible Takes Longer

75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?

by Daniel Gordis ...

WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZEA nuanced examination of the Israel’s past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Israel. Revised and updated throughout for the paperback edition.In 1948, Israel’s founders sought a “national home for the Jewish people,” a core ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZEA nuanced examination of the Israel’s past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Israel. Revised and updated throughout for the paperback edition.In 1948, Israel’s founders sought a “national home for the Jewish people,” a core
... Read more
Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino

Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the Environment

by Patrick Di Justo, Emily Gertz ...

Makers around the globe are building low-cost devices to monitor the environment, and with this hands-on guide, so can you. Through succinct tutorials, illustrations, and clear step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to create gadgets for examining the quality of our atmosphere, using Arduino and several inexpensive sensors.Detect harmful gases, dust particles such as smoke and smog, and upper ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

Makers around the globe are building low-cost devices to monitor the environment, and with this hands-on guide, so can you. Through succinct tutorials, illustrations, and clear step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to create gadgets for examining the quality of our atmosphere, using Arduino and several inexpensive sensors.Detect harmful gases, dust particles such as smoke and smog, and upper
... Read more
Technology: A World History

by Daniel R. Headrick ...

Series series New Oxford World History
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and ... Read more

$26.39 CAD

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and
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Tous fous?

L'influence de l'industrie pharmaceutique sur la psychiatrie

by Jean-Claude St-Onge ...

"Tous fous?" cible la biopsychiatrie, selon laquelle la détresse psychologique résulterait d’un déséquilibre chimique dans le cerveau, sans égard au contexte social et personnel des patients. L’auteur remet en question la prescription massive d’antidépresseurs et d’antipsychotiques aux effets sous-estimés et souvent dévastateurs: anxiété, pensées suicidaires, diabète, AVC, atrophie du cerveau… ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

"Tous fous?" cible la biopsychiatrie, selon laquelle la détresse psychologique résulterait d’un déséquilibre chimique dans le cerveau, sans égard au contexte social et personnel des patients. L’auteur remet en question la prescription massive d’antidépresseurs et d’antipsychotiques aux effets sous-estimés et souvent dévastateurs: anxiété, pensées suicidaires, diabète, AVC, atrophie du cerveau…
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Saudi America

The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World

by Ms. Bethany McLean ...

Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking’s impact—on Wall Street, the economy and geopoliticsThe technology of fracking in shale rock—particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas—has transformed America into the world’s top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be “energy independent” and a “net exporter” in less than a decade, a move that will ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking’s impact—on Wall Street, the economy and geopoliticsThe technology of fracking in shale rock—particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas—has transformed America into the world’s top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be “energy independent” and a “net exporter” in less than a decade, a move that will
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The Way Forward

Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy

by Dakota Meyer, Robert O'Neill ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges—this is a must-read book!” —Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your BedAmerican Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O’Neill and Dakota Meyer—an in ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges—this is a must-read book!” —Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your BedAmerican Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O’Neill and Dakota Meyer—an in
... Read more
Birdseye

The Adventures of a Curious Man

by Mark Kurlansky ...

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
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Silent Killers

Submarines and Underwater Warfare

by James P. Delgado, Clive Cussler ...

'Silent Killers is a triumph that is educational as well as highly entertaining.' - Clive CusslerJames P. Delgado, President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, presents a detailed and visually stunning examination of the history and development of the modern nuclear submarine.Calling on his training as a nautical archaeologist who was among the first explorers to dive the Titanic, ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

'Silent Killers is a triumph that is educational as well as highly entertaining.' - Clive CusslerJames P. Delgado, President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, presents a detailed and visually stunning examination of the history and development of the modern nuclear submarine.Calling on his training as a nautical archaeologist who was among the first explorers to dive the Titanic,
... Read more
Space Exploration

A History in 100 Objects

by Sten Odenwald ...

A NASA science educator showcases important objects in space history from Galileo's telescope to the Curiosity rover: "Will fascinate readers of any age." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)This book examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From an ancient Mayan codex to Sputnik to Skylab and into the twenty-first century, some objects are iconic ... Read more

$17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A NASA science educator showcases important objects in space history from Galileo's telescope to the Curiosity rover: "Will fascinate readers of any age." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)This book examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From an ancient Mayan codex to Sputnik to Skylab and into the twenty-first century, some objects are iconic
... Read more
Sustainability Assessment

Criteria and Processes

by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

$104.99 CAD

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need
... Read more

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