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  • Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users (6th Edition)

    by Sandeep Dogra ...
    Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users (6th Edition) textbook has been designed for instructor-led courses as well as self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers interested in learning Fusion 360, to create 3D mechanical designs. This textbook is a great help for new Fusion 360 users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. This ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

    Series Book 0 - A Norton Short
    In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

    The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck

    by Gary Kinder ...
    “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People).September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Invented Underpants?

    The Weird Trivia of Human Invention from Fire to Fast Food (and Everything In Between)

    by Stewart Ross ...
    Series series Fascinating Bathroom Readers
    A comprehensive collection of fun facts about the origins of pretty much everything, from windows to washing machines to websites.This fact-packed collection recounts the origins, invention, and discovery of just about everything, from the big bang to driverless cars. With sections covering topics such as the arts, sports, weapons, buildings, medicine, food, and many more, you can find out ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket

    15 Projects with the Low-Cost AVR ATtiny85 Board

    by Mike Barela ...
    Arduino's ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you're still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project that has an Arduino inside. This is where Adafruit's Trinket comes in. Arduino-compatible, one-third the price, and low-power, the Trinket lets you ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook

    by Robert Ratay ...
    The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Resource on Forensic Structural EngineeringThoroughly revised and featuring contributions from leading experts, this definitive handbook offers comprehensive treatment of forensic structural engineering and expert witness delivery. From exploring the possible origins of errors, through investigating and analyzing failures, to working with the legal profession for ... Read more

    $113.99 USD

  • Project Management for the Built Environment

    Study Notes

    by Low Sui Pheng ...
    Series series Management in the Built Environment
    This book presents the fundamentals of project management as applied in the built environment and more specifically for the construction industry. It presents the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) using practical examples to show how various project management principles and concepts can be applied in practice. Providing study notes for students and aspiring project management ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Road Taken

    The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

    A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

    by Roma Agrawal ...
    A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world.Some of engineering’s mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Predictive Statistics

    Analysis and Inference beyond Models

    Series Book 46 - Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
    All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • Electronic Value Exchange

    Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System

    Series series History of Computing
    Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Track Changes

    A Literary History of Word Processing

    The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

    by Lucy Sante ...
    **Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.“[Sante] is an endlessly curious writer with a sharp wit and an elegant prose style . . . As a physical object, the book is a stunner, loaded with maps, archival stills of the construction process, vintage postcards, and ads warning New Yorkers to check their plumbing and ‘stop that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Enigma of the Aerofoil

    Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

    by David Bloor ...
    Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair

    A Century of Progress

    by Bill Cotter ...
    Series series Images of America
    It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century of Progress Exposition, better known as the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the amazing progress that had been made since the founding of the city just 100 years earlier. Many of America's largest companies joined with countries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inventor in You

    A Step-By-Step Guide to Your First Invention

    Charles Kannankeril, an inventor with seventy patents, draws on his years of experience in creating innovative and useful products to help you bring your own ideas to life. Whenever someone says, I wish there were a better way to do this, then you have an opportunity for an invention. All you need to do is identify a solution, make it a reality, and then promote your method. The more you cultivate ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Chilled

    How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

    by Tom Jackson ...
    A thrilling, mystery-lifting narrative history of the refrigerator and the process of refrigerationThe refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Use and Care of Handtools and Measuring Tools

    Safety Procedures, Using, Hand, Power, Non-Edged, Edged, Equipment, Hammers, Screwdrivers, Wrenches, Pliers, Chisels, Bolt, Cable, Glass, Cutters, Measurements, Calipers, Micrometers, Gages, Auto, Mechanic, Carpentry, Masonry, Machinist, Course

    by TSD Training ...
    Series series Mechanics and Hydraulics
    Use and Care of Handtools and Measuring ToolsThe purpose of this course is to increase your knowledge of the use and care of handtools and measuring tools.No matter how small the job, safety precautions must be taken at all times. A tool may be efficient, essential, time-saving, or even convenient; but it is also dangerous. For this reason, handtools must be used correctly. You must also be alert ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Burn

    Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis

    An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate CrisisIn order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Handbook of Filter Media

    Edited by D. Purchas, K Sutherland ...
    This comprehensive handbook provides a complete and updated overview of filter media. From classification to performance date to practical selection tables. ... Read more

    $305.99 USD

  • Floodpath

    The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles

    by Jon Wilkman ...
    Amazon Book of the Year"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street JournalA visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible. But the failure of the St. Francis Dam remains an urgent lesson about our human limits, all but forgotten today.Just before ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    “Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”—John Horgan“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.”—Peter ThielEver since Alan Turing, AI ... Read more

    $14.99 USD