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The Technology Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

par DK ...

Collections series DK Big Ideas
How much technology have you taken for granted today?It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world.The Technology Book is a guided tour to the technology of the modern world. Individual entries uncover the stories ... En savoir plus

$16.99 CAD

How much technology have you taken for granted today?It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world.The Technology Book is a guided tour to the technology of the modern world. Individual entries uncover the stories
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Traffic Engineering Handbook

par Anurag Pande, ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers), Brian Wolshon ...

Get a complete look into modern traffic engineering solutionsTraffic Engineering Handbook, Seventh Edition is a newly revised text that builds upon the reputation as the go-to source of essential traffic engineering solutions that this book has maintained for the past 70 years. The updated content reflects changes in key industry standards, and shines a spotlight on the needs of all users, the ... En savoir plus

$173.99 CAD

Get a complete look into modern traffic engineering solutionsTraffic Engineering Handbook, Seventh Edition is a newly revised text that builds upon the reputation as the go-to source of essential traffic engineering solutions that this book has maintained for the past 70 years. The updated content reflects changes in key industry standards, and shines a spotlight on the needs of all users, the
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Aston Martin

par Richard Loveys ...

Aston Martin is now more than a century old – and what a century it has been.Since its birth in London on the eve of the First World War, the company has experienced the highs of racing triumph – most famously in the 1959 Le Mans 24-hour race – and the lows of bankruptcy, yet throughout it all has been in the first rank of British marques.Published in association with the Aston Martin Heritage ... En savoir plus

$12.99 CAD

Aston Martin is now more than a century old – and what a century it has been.Since its birth in London on the eve of the First World War, the company has experienced the highs of racing triumph – most famously in the 1959 Le Mans 24-hour race – and the lows of bankruptcy, yet throughout it all has been in the first rank of British marques.Published in association with the Aston Martin Heritage
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Classical Guitar Design

par Giuseppe Cuzzucoli, Mario Garrone ...

Collections series Engineering (R0)
This book describes the entire process of designing guitars, including the theory and guidelines for implementing it in practice. It discusses areas from acoustics and resonators to new tools and how they assist traditional construction techniques.The book begins by discussing the fundamentals of the sounds of a guitar, strings, and oscillating systems. It then moves on to resonators and acoustics ... En savoir plus

$128.99 CAD

This book describes the entire process of designing guitars, including the theory and guidelines for implementing it in practice. It discusses areas from acoustics and resonators to new tools and how they assist traditional construction techniques.The book begins by discussing the fundamentals of the sounds of a guitar, strings, and oscillating systems. It then moves on to resonators and acoustics
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Mankind Beyond Earth

The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration

par Claude Piantadosi ...

Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance of reclaiming national command of our manned program and continuing our unmanned space missions, and ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance of reclaiming national command of our manned program and continuing our unmanned space missions, and
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Tank

The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them

par Mark Urban ...

'Punchy. Trenchant. Heavyweight. Mark Urban’s Tank blows the doors off, just as you’d expect from such an accomplished author. Take cover!’ Damien Lewis, author of SAS Great EscapesAn authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former officer and best-selling historianTanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

'Punchy. Trenchant. Heavyweight. Mark Urban’s Tank blows the doors off, just as you’d expect from such an accomplished author. Take cover!’ Damien Lewis, author of SAS Great EscapesAn authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former officer and best-selling historianTanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In
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Defying Reality

The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution

par David M. Ewalt ...

A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.You’ve heard about virtual reality, seen the new gadgets, and read about how VR will be the next big thing. But you ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.You’ve heard about virtual reality, seen the new gadgets, and read about how VR will be the next big thing. But you
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Henry Ford

Mass Production and the Model T

par 50minutes ...

Collections series History
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Henry Ford in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and career of Henry Ford. Prior to the early 20th century, a car was a luxury that only a privileged few could afford, but this all changed thanks to Ford. His moving assembly line drastically reduced the cost of ... En savoir plus

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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Henry Ford in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and career of Henry Ford. Prior to the early 20th century, a car was a luxury that only a privileged few could afford, but this all changed thanks to Ford. His moving assembly line drastically reduced the cost of
... En savoir plus
Unraveling

What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

par Peggy Orenstein ...

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change
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Effective Project Management

Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid

par Robert K. Wysocki ...

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updatedNow in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions! Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added four chapters of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing ... En savoir plus

$53.99 CAD

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updatedNow in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions! Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added four chapters of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing
... En savoir plus
Cancer and Vitamin C

Modifié par Qi Chen, Margreet C M Vissers ...

Collections series Oxidative Stress and Disease
Vitamin C may offer significant therapeutic benefits in the treatment of cancer. This book includes chapters by a group of leading scientific researchers documenting the ways cancer can be affected by high doses of ascorbate. After an initial chapter providing a historical perspective, subsequent chapters focus on cancer cell death, reprogramming of somatic cells, recent case studies, and other ... En savoir plus

$100.99 CAD

Vitamin C may offer significant therapeutic benefits in the treatment of cancer. This book includes chapters by a group of leading scientific researchers documenting the ways cancer can be affected by high doses of ascorbate. After an initial chapter providing a historical perspective, subsequent chapters focus on cancer cell death, reprogramming of somatic cells, recent case studies, and other
... En savoir plus
Vaccinated

From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines

par Paul A. Offit, M.D. ...

"Medical writing at its finest."—David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide. This ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

"Medical writing at its finest."—David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide. This
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Applied Photovoltaics

Modifié par Stuart R. Wenham, Martin A. Green, Muriel E. Watt, Richard Corkish, Alistair Sproul ...

The new edition of this thoroughly considered textbook provides a reliable, accessible and comprehensive guide for students of photovoltaic applications and renewable energy engineering. Written by a group of award-winning authors it is brimming with information and is carefully designed to meet the needs of its readers.Along with exercises and references at the end of each chapter, it features a ... En savoir plus

$108.99 CAD

The new edition of this thoroughly considered textbook provides a reliable, accessible and comprehensive guide for students of photovoltaic applications and renewable energy engineering. Written by a group of award-winning authors it is brimming with information and is carefully designed to meet the needs of its readers.Along with exercises and references at the end of each chapter, it features a
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SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL

Most important topic in switching

par Mulayam Singh ...

Spanning tree protocol is a link management protocol which provides path redundancy while preventing undesirable loops in the network because loops are deadly to network. In STP environment, switches exchanges bridge protocol data unit between each other. By exchanging BPDU (bridge protocol data unit) switch itself select a root bridge based on low priority or low mac address of switch. By default ... En savoir plus

$3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Spanning tree protocol is a link management protocol which provides path redundancy while preventing undesirable loops in the network because loops are deadly to network. In STP environment, switches exchanges bridge protocol data unit between each other. By exchanging BPDU (bridge protocol data unit) switch itself select a root bridge based on low priority or low mac address of switch. By default
... En savoir plus
City Limits

Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

par Megan Kimble ...

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing
... En savoir plus
WATER STORAGE & RAINWATER HARVESTING: An Illustrated Resource Guide

par Daniel Schoeman ...

You Can Create A Rainwater System!The Storage And Harvesting Of Rainwater.In This Illustrated Guide You Will Learn How To:- Devise a complete rain harvesting system by utilizing your roof space- Technical Aspects and Calculations- Tank Setup- Tank Types- Pumps and filters for water transportation- The conveyance system, a breakdown of gutters and downspoutsRainwater is a great resource for ... En savoir plus

$2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

You Can Create A Rainwater System!The Storage And Harvesting Of Rainwater.In This Illustrated Guide You Will Learn How To:- Devise a complete rain harvesting system by utilizing your roof space- Technical Aspects and Calculations- Tank Setup- Tank Types- Pumps and filters for water transportation- The conveyance system, a breakdown of gutters and downspoutsRainwater is a great resource for
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The Formula

How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

par Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year | An NPR Best BookUPDATED EDITION INCLUDES THE STUNNING RISE OF McLARENIn The Formula, Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting motor racing saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America. Taking you inside the paddock, The Formula details the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, ... En savoir plus

$18.99 CAD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year | An NPR Best BookUPDATED EDITION INCLUDES THE STUNNING RISE OF McLARENIn The Formula, Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting motor racing saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America. Taking you inside the paddock, The Formula details the eclectic culture of racing obsessives,
... En savoir plus
Ingenious

A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

par Jason Fagone ...

An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of carIn 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over ... En savoir plus

$8.99 CAD

An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of carIn 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over
... En savoir plus
On Time, In Full

Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Production Planning

par Timothy McLean ...

"On Time-In Full" is an important work. Tim McLean provides an easy to follow practical approach to building a highly performing supply chain"-Drew Locher, Shingo Prize Winning Author and Lean ThinkerThe most fundamental requirement for a manufacturing or distribution business is to deliver to customers what they want, in the quantity they want, when they want it. It doesn’t matter how good your ... En savoir plus

$78.99 CAD

"On Time-In Full" is an important work. Tim McLean provides an easy to follow practical approach to building a highly performing supply chain"-Drew Locher, Shingo Prize Winning Author and Lean ThinkerThe most fundamental requirement for a manufacturing or distribution business is to deliver to customers what they want, in the quantity they want, when they want it. It doesn’t matter how good your
... En savoir plus
Basic Structures

par Philip Garrison ...

Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and case studies show the concepts in use, and the book is well illustrated with full colour photographs and many line illustrations, giving the student a thorough grounding in the fundamentals and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. With many ... En savoir plus

$65.99 CAD

Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and case studies show the concepts in use, and the book is well illustrated with full colour photographs and many line illustrations, giving the student a thorough grounding in the fundamentals and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. With many
... En savoir plus
Architecture in Motion

The history and development of portable building

par Robert Kronenburg ...

The idea that architecture can be portable is one that grabs the imagination of both designers and the people who use it, perhaps because it so often forecasts a dynamic and creative solution to the complex problems of our contemporary mobile society, while at the same time dealing with issues of practicality, economy and sustainability.Architecture in Motion examines the development of portable, ... En savoir plus

$129.99 CAD

The idea that architecture can be portable is one that grabs the imagination of both designers and the people who use it, perhaps because it so often forecasts a dynamic and creative solution to the complex problems of our contemporary mobile society, while at the same time dealing with issues of practicality, economy and sustainability.Architecture in Motion examines the development of portable,
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Project Surveying

Completely revised 2nd edition - General adjustment and optimization techniques with applications to engineering surveying

par Peter Richardus ...

The final edition of this was published in 1977, so a completely revised and updated new edition of Project Surveying became a necessary requirement, should the book continue its service to the surveying and civil engineering students and profession in the same successful way as from the very first publication in 1966. The view held at the time still stands in full force, namely that the ... En savoir plus

$486.99 CAD

The final edition of this was published in 1977, so a completely revised and updated new edition of Project Surveying became a necessary requirement, should the book continue its service to the surveying and civil engineering students and profession in the same successful way as from the very first publication in 1966. The view held at the time still stands in full force, namely that the
... En savoir plus
Change Management for Beginners: Understanding Change Processes and Actively Shaping Them

par Steffen Lobinger ...

Change Management for Beginners: Understanding change processes and actively shaping themGo with the passage of time!Are you a change agent or do you often work on change processes?Do you know the success factors for sustainable change?Learn more about our actions and thoughts via amazing experiences in social psychology"We live in a time in which our working and living environme... ... En savoir plus

$3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Change Management for Beginners: Understanding change processes and actively shaping themGo with the passage of time!Are you a change agent or do you often work on change processes?Do you know the success factors for sustainable change?Learn more about our actions and thoughts via amazing experiences in social psychology"We live in a time in which our working and living environme...
... En savoir plus
Naturalistic Decision Making

Modifié par Caroline E. Zsambok, Gary Klein ...

Collections series Expertise: Research and Applications Series
If you aren't using the term naturalistic decision making, or NDM, you soon will be. Even as a very young field, NDM has already had far-reaching applications in areas as diverse as management, aviation, health care, nuclear power, military command and control, corporate teamwork, and manufacturing.Put simply, NDM is the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or ... En savoir plus

$187.99 CAD

If you aren't using the term naturalistic decision making, or NDM, you soon will be. Even as a very young field, NDM has already had far-reaching applications in areas as diverse as management, aviation, health care, nuclear power, military command and control, corporate teamwork, and manufacturing.Put simply, NDM is the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or
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