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  • Programmable Microcontrollers with Applications

    MSP430 LaunchPad with CCS and Grace

    MASTER THE MSP430 MICROCONTROLLER AND DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMExpand your electronics design skills to include the MSP430 family of ultra-low-power microprocessors with help from this practical guide. Programmable Microcontrollers with Applications: MSP430 LaunchPad with CCS and Grace thoroughly explains each concept and provides illustrated examples and projects. Find out how to configure the MSP430, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Pressed for Time

    The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    by Judy Wajcman ...
    The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers

    by Len Holm ...
    Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers. Many textbooks on the market focus on the theoretical principles of accounting and finance required for head office staff like the chief financial officer (CFO) of a construction firm. This book's ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Dan Cruickshank’s Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World

    Dan Cruickshank’s personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world – bridges.Bridges define places. Imagine San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan without the Brooklyn Bridge, or Sydney without Sydney Harbour Bridge.Not only this, but they are spectacles of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Robot, Take the Wheel

    The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

    From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insider’s guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they’ll soon be on every street in America. Whether it’s Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’s Distronic, or Uber’s modified Volvo, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flight Paths

    How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

    The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thunderstruck

    by Erik Larson ...
    A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Johnstown Flood

    The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Trapped Under the Sea

    One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

    by Neil Swidey ...
    The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly resultsA quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Engines of Change

    A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars

    A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius.From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Human Factors Methods

    A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design

    This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. The eleven sections represent the different categories of ergonomics ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Handbook of Electronic Package Design

    by Michael Pecht ...
    Series series Mechanical Engineering
    Both a handbook for practitioners and a text for use in teaching electronic packaging concepts, guidelines, and techniques. The treatment begins with an overview of the electronics design process and proceeds to examine the levels of electronic packaging and the fundamental issues in the development ... Read more

    $500.99 USD

  • DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC

    The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation

    From an insider, the forty-year saga of the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the pioneering companies of the computer age.Digital Equipment Corporation created the minicomputer, networking, the concept of distributed computing, speech recognition, and other major innovations. It was the number-two computer maker behind IBM. Yet it ultimately failed as a business and was sold ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Far From Home

    A Story of Life and Death in Space

    by Chris Jones ...
    An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all too real.Too Far from Home vividly captures the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Integrated Pest Management

    Concepts, Tactics, Strategies and Case Studies

    Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management. It uses natural predators, pest-resistant plants, and other methods to preserve a healthy environment in an effort to decrease reliance on harmful pesticides. Featuring forty chapters written by leading experts, this textbook covers a broad and comprehensive range of topics in integrated ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

    What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

    by John Naughton ...
    We've gone from regarding the Net as something exotic to something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. Yet most people have no idea how the network functions, nor any conception of its architecture; and few can explain why it has been - and continues to be - so uniquely disruptive in social, economic and cultural contexts. John Naughton has been thinking, arguing, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Structural Vibration

    Analysis and Damping

    by C. Beards ...
    Many structures suffer from unwanted vibrations and, although careful analysis at the design stage can minimise these, the vibration levels of many structures are excessive. In this book the entire range of methods of control, both by damping and by excitation, is described in a single volume.Clear and concise descriptions are given of the techniques for mathematically modelling real structures so ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Design and Construction of LNG Storage Tanks

    Series series Beton-Kalender Series
    Worldwide, the use of natural gas as a primary energy source will remain vital for decades to come. This applies to industrialized, emerging countries and developing countries. Owing to the low level of impurities, natural gas is considered to be a climate-friendly fossil fuel because of the low CO2 emissions, but is at the same time an affordable source of energy.In order to enable transport over ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Reconocimiento De Voz

    Cómo el reconocimiento de voz va a causar interrupciones

    by Fouad Sabry ...
    Translated by Guilherme Costa ...
    Series Book 26 - Tecnologías Emergentes En Tecnologías De La Información Y Las Comunicaciones [Spanish]
    ¿Qué es el reconocimiento de voz?La informática y la lingüística computacional han generado un subcampo conocido como reconocimiento de voz, que es un campo interdisciplinario que se centra en el desarrollo de metodologías y tecnologías que Permitir que las computadoras reconozcan y traduzcan el lenguaje hablado a texto. La principal ventaja de esto es que se puede buscar el texto. El ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mystery of Flight 427

    Inside a Crash Investigation

    by Bill Adair ...
    The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) while its investigators tried to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Genome Defense

    Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

    In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for our fundamental right to control our genes.When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Classical Thermodynamics of Fluid Systems

    Principles and Applications

    This text explores the connections between different thermodynamic subjects related to fluid systems. Emphasis is placed on the clarification of concepts by returning to the conceptual foundation of thermodynamics and special effort is directed to the use of a simple nomenclature and algebra. The book presents the structural elements of classical thermodynamics of fluid systems, covers the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Age of Edison

    Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

    A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern AmericaThe late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Screw Theory in Robotics

    An Illustrated and Practicable Introduction to Modern Mechanics

    Screw theory is an effective and efficient method used in robotics applications. This book demonstrates how to implement screw theory, explaining the key fundamentals and real-world applications using a practical and visual approach.An essential tool for those involved in the development of robotics implementations, the book uses case studies to analyze mechatronics. Screw theory offers a ... Read more

    $130.99 USD