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  • The Green Energy Ship Concept

    Renewable Energy from Wind Over Water

    by Max F. Platzer, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This groundbreaking book aims to show that technology currently exists to build and operate large autonomous sailing ships equipped with hydrokinetic turbines and electrolysers that could operate in high-wind ocean areas. This technology would enable seawater to be converted into storable hydrogen, thereby tapping into an inexhaustible energy reservoir sufficient for the transition to an emission ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Standard Handbook for Aerospace Engineers, Second Edition

    by Brij N. Agrawal, Max F. Platzer ...
    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A single source of essential information for aerospace engineersThis fully revised resource presents theories and practices from more than 50 specialists in the many sub-disciplines of aeronautical and ... Read more

    $245.99 USD

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  • The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci

    by Leonardo Davinci ...
    The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci. Widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Leonardo Davinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spacecraft Systems Engineering

    Edited by Peter Fortescue, Graham Swinerd, John Stark ...
    This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters – Ground ... Read more

    $72.00 USD

  • Liberty Bell 7

    The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom

    by Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (‘Gus ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Remote Sensing

    by Siamak Khorram, Frank H. Koch, Cynthia F. van der Wiele, Stacy A.C. Nelson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Remote Sensing provides information on how remote sensing relates to the natural resources inventory, management, and monitoring, as well as environmental concerns. It explains the role of this new technology in current global challenges. "Remote Sensing" will discuss remotely sensed data application payloads and platforms, along with the methodologies involving image processing techniques as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rocket Billionaires

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

    by Tim Fernholz ...
    This "smart analysis of the New Space sector" goes inside the rapid rise and dramatic rivalry of private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin ( The New York Times Book Review).For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity—or the key to humanity's survival. Rocket Billionaires shines a light on Elon ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours

    With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation

    by Arthur Whitten Sir Brown ...
    In "Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours," Arthur Whitten Brown captures the audacious spirit of early 20th-century aviation through a meticulously crafted narrative that details the groundbreaking transatlantic flight undertaken by Brown and his co-pilot, John Alcock, in 1919. Combining vivid firsthand accounts with technical insights, Brown's literary style balances an invigorating sense of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Springer Handbook of Global Navigation Satellite Systems

    Edited by Peter Teunissen, Oliver Montenbruck ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Handbook presents a complete and rigorous overview of the fundamentals, methods and applications of the multidisciplinary field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), providing an exhaustive, one-stop reference work and a state-of-the-art description of GNSS as a key technology for science and society at large.All global and regional satellite navigation systems, both those currently ... Read more

    $341.09 USD

  • Robust and Adaptive Control

    With Aerospace Applications

    by Eugene Lavretsky, Kevin Wise ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Robust and Adaptive Control shows the reader how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events. Driven by aerospace applications the focus of the book is primarily on continuous-dynamical systems.The text is a three-part treatment, beginning with robust and optimal linear control methods and moving on to a self-contained ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Diagnosis

    Interpreting the Shadows

    by Pat Croskerry, Karen Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh ...
    Despite diagnosis being the key feature of a physician's clinical performance, this is the first book that deals specifically with the topic. In recent years, however, considerable interest has been shown in this area and significant developments have occurred in two main areas: a) an awareness and increasing understanding of the critical role of clinical decision making in the process of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth

    by C Bangs, Les Johnson, Greg Matloff ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    What was our planet like in years past? How has our civilization affected Earth and its ecology? Harvesting Space for a Greener Planet, the Second Edition of Paradise Regained: The Regreening of the Earth, begins by discussing these questions, and then generates a scenario for the restoration of Earth. It introduces new and innovative ideas on how we could use the Solar System and its resources ... Read more

    $31.49 USD