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1994 Annual Book of Astm Standards: Section 4 Construction Volume 04.08 Soil and Rock IISBN 0803121296 (0-8031-2129-6)
Softcover, Astm Intl
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1995 Annual Book of Astm Standards: Section 4 Construction Volume 04.09 Soil and Rockby Nicole C. FurcolaISBN 0803122152 (0-8031-2215-2)
Softcover, Astm Intl
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Annual Book of Astm Standards, 1997: Plastic Pipe and Building ProductsISBN 0803124333 (0-8031-2433-3)
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Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solvingby George F. Luger, William A. StubblefieldISBN 0805311963 (0-8053-1196-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862by Carol SheriffISBN 0809016052 (0-8090-1605-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1by Henry De Wolf SmythISBN 0804717222 (0-8047-1722-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Automated Calibration of Modulated Frequency Synthesizersby Dan McMahillISBN 0792375890 (0-7923-7589-0)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Basic Electronic Switching for Telephone Systemsby David TalleyISBN 081045808X (0-8104-5808-X)
Hardcover, Hayden Book Co
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Basic FORTRANby James S. CoanISBN 0810451689 (0-8104-5168-9)
Hardcover, Hayden Book Co
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Brighter Than a Thousand Sunsby Robert JungkISBN 0785787534 (0-7857-8753-4)
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Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Tellerby Gregg HerkenISBN 080506589X (0-8050-6589-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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C by Dissection: The Essentials of C Programmingby Al Kelley, Ira PohlISBN 0805331409 (0-8053-3140-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 1880-1980by Bruce SinclairISBN 0802023800 (0-8020-2380-0)
Softcover, Amer Society of Mechanical
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Cmos Logic Circuit Designby John P. UyemuraISBN 0792384520 (0-7923-8452-0)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthey Computer-Based Workby Kim J. VicenteISBN 0805823972 (0-8058-2397-2)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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The book is divided into four parts. Part I provides a motivation by introducing three themes that tie the book together--safety, productivity, and worker health. The ecological approach that serves as the conceptual basis behind the book is also described. In addition, a glossary of terms is provided. Part II situates the ideas in the book in a broader intellectual context by reviewing alternative approaches to work analysis. The limitations of normative and descriptive approaches are outlined, and the rationale behind the formative approach advocated in this book is explored. Part III describes the concepts that comprise the cognitive work analysis framework in detail. Each concept is illustrated by a case study, and the implications of the framework for design and research are illustrated by example. Part IV unifies the themes of safety, productivity, and health, and shows why the need for the concepts in this book will only increase in the future. In addition, a historical addendum briefly describes the origins of the ideas described in the book.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Lucy M. FitzpatrickISBN 0804900299 (0-8049-0029-9)
Softcover, Airmont Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Creation Of Bridges: From Vision To Reality - The Ultimate Challenge Of Architecture, Design, And Distanceby David BennettISBN 0785810536 (0-7858-1053-6)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Managementby Peter Rob, Carlos CoronelISBN 0789500523 (0-7895-0052-3)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgmentby Steven G. VickISBN 0784405980 (0-7844-0598-0)
Softcover, Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuitsby Frank Fox, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, William BowhillISBN 078036001X (0-7803-6001-X)
Hardcover, IEEE
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Digital Systems Testing and Testable Designby Miron Abramovici, Melvin A. Breuer, Arthur D. FriedmanISBN 0780310624 (0-7803-1062-4)
Hardcover, IEEE
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina And the Failure of Homeland Securityby Robert BlockISBN 0805081305 (0-8050-8130-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0802713521 (0-8027-1352-1)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'Book summary:[via]To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einsteins miracle year of discoveries, a new edition of the bestselling biography of his famous equationGenerations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history--that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked--and, through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.More editions of E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation:
Electric Circuitsby J. Richard JohnsonISBN 0810406551 (0-8104-0655-1)
Hardcover, Hayden Bk Co
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Electrical Insulating Liquids and Gases; Electrical Protective EquipmentISBN 0803125585 (0-8031-2558-5)
Softcover, Astm Intl
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Electronics One Sevenby Harry MileafISBN 0810459612 (0-8104-5961-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineerby Thomas Parke HughesISBN 0801847567 (0-8018-4756-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Engineering Electromagneticsby Aziz S. Inan, Umbran S. InanISBN 0805344233 (0-8053-4423-3)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Centuryby Janie FoukeISBN 0780353625 (0-7803-5362-5)
Hardcover, IEEE
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The Evolution of Electrical Engineering: A Personal Perspectiveby Frederik Nebeker, Ernst WeberISBN 0780310667 (0-7803-1066-7)
Softcover, Inst of Electrical &
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Exploring Engineeringby Joe KingISBN 0805363556 (0-8053-6355-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Feats and Wisdom of the Ancientsby George ConstableISBN 0809476754 (0-8094-7675-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Feats and Wisdom of the Ancientsby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809476762 (0-8094-7676-2)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Flight: My Life in Mission Controlby Christopher C. KraftISBN 0786234261 (0-7862-3426-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Flying Book: Everything You've Ever Wondered About Flying on Airplanesby David BlatnerISBN 0802776914 (0-8027-7691-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Fortran 77: With Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists/Book and Diskby D. M. EtterISBN 0805317708 (0-8053-1770-8)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Fundamentals of Differential Equationsby R. Kent Nagle, E.B. SaffISBN 0805302549 (0-8053-0254-9)
Hardcover, Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Differential Equations'Book summary:*New applications-driven sections have been added to the chapter on linear second-order equations. *The chapter regarding the introduction to systems and phase plane analysis has been reorganized and modernized to better facilitate student understanding of the material. *More material on dynamical systems has been added. *A new section on the phase line has been added to the beginning of the text. *Group Projects relating to the material covered appear at the end of each chapter. *Revised exercise sets provide fresh material for instructors who have used the text before. *Updated Interactive Differential Equations CD is keyed specifically to the text, and included free with every book. *An updated Instructors MAPLE Manual, tied to development of the text, with suggestions on incorporating MAPLE into the courses, and including sample worksheets for labs, is available. *The texts also allow optional use of Computer Algebra Systems, with many exercises and projects included to let students use software to solve interesting and realistic problems and exercises. *Necessary proofs in a conceptual presentation are always included, but may be skipped, allowing flexibility in the level of coverage of proofs. *Technical Writing Exercises are included at the end of most chapters, to build students communication skills. *Methods for approximating solutions to numerical algorithms are presented, along with computer program outlines, and are introduced early in the text. The computer program outlines can be used with many different computer languages. *Historical footnotes are given throughout, providing a context for topics. [via]
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Guidelines for Evaluating the Performance of Highway Sound BarriersISBN 0784401993 (0-7844-0199-3)
Softcover, Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Hindenburg:an Illustrated History: An Illustrated Historyby Rick Archbold, Ken MarschallISBN 0785819738 (0-7858-1973-8)
Hardcover, Chartwell Books
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Historic American Covered Bridgesby Brian J. McKeeISBN 0784401896 (0-7844-0189-6)
Hardcover, Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrongby Tony KordybanISBN 0791800741 (0-7918-0074-1)
Softcover, Amer Society of Mechanical
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How Things WorkISBN 0809448734 (0-8094-4873-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Ageby James G. HershbergISBN 0804726191 (0-8047-2619-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Lighthouse Stevensonsby Bella BathurstISBN 078388964X (0-7838-8964-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lighthouse Stevensons'Book summary:"Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors." --Robert Louis Stevenson
The 14 lighthouses dotting the Scottish coast were all built by the same family that produced Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland's most famous novelist. Surprised? Bella Bathurst throws a powerful, revolving light into the darkness of this historical tradition. Robert Louis was a sickly fellow, and--unlike the rest of his strong-willed, determined family--certainly not up to the astonishing rigors of lighthouse building, which is vividly described here. Constructing these towering structures in the most inhospitable places imaginable (such as the aptly named Cape Wrath), using only 19th-century technology, is an achievement that beggars belief. One thinks of the pyramid building of ancient Egypt. At the Skerryvore lighthouse, the ground rocks were prepared by hand (even though the "gneiss could blunt a pick in three blows") in waves and winds "strong enough to lift a man bodily off the rock" and that "it took 120 hours to dress a single stone for the outside of the tower, and 320 hours to dress one of the central stones. In total 5000 tons of stone were quarried and shipped"--and all by hand. It is mind-boggling stuff: you'll look at lighthouses with a new respect. --Adam Roberts, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of The Lighthouse Stevensons:
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Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithmsby Gary D. Hachtel, Fabio SomenziISBN 0792397460 (0-7923-9746-0)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Low Power Digital Cmos Designby Robert W. Brodersen, Anantha P. ChandrakasanISBN 079239576X (0-7923-9576-X)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 0783892799 (0-7838-9279-9)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Metric Units in Engineering: Going Siby A. Ivan Johnson, Cornelius WandmacherISBN 0784400709 (0-7844-0070-9)
Softcover, Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Minimum Design Loads for Buildings And Other Structures: ASCE/SEI 7-05by Structural Engineering InstituteISBN 0784408092 (0-7844-0809-2)
Softcover, Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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National Air and Space Museumby C. D. B. BryanISBN 081090666X (0-8109-0666-X)
Hardcover, H. N. Abrams
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Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930by Thomas P. HughesISBN 0801846145 (0-8018-4614-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Nuclear Landscapesby Peter GoinISBN 0801840783 (0-8018-4078-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Number Devilby Michael Henry Heim, Hans Mangus Enzensberger, Rotraut Susanne BernerISBN 0805062998 (0-8050-6299-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Number Devil'Book summary:Young Robert's dreams have taken a decided turn for the weird. Instead of falling down holes and such, he's visiting a bizarre magical land of number tricks with the number devil as his host. Starting at one and adding zero and all the rest of the numbers, Robert and the number devil use giant furry calculators, piles of coconuts, and endlessly scrolling paper to introduce basic concepts of numeracy, from interesting number sequences to exponents to matrices. Author Hans Magnus Enzensberger's dry humor and sense of wonder will keep you and your kids entranced while you learn (shhh!) mathematical principles. Who could resist the little red guy who calls prime numbers "prima donnas," irrational numbers "unreasonable," and roots "rutabagas"? Not that the number devil is without his devilish qualities. He loses his temper when Robert looks for the easy way out of a number puzzle or dismisses math as boring and useless. "What do you expect?" he asks. "I'm the number devil, not Santa Claus." (Ages 10 to adult) --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Number Devil : A Mathematical Adventureby Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0805057706 (0-8050-5770-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Number Devil : A Mathematical Adventure'Book summary:Young Robert's dreams have taken a decided turn for the weird. Instead of falling down holes and such, he's visiting a bizarre magical land of number tricks with the number devil as his host. Starting at one and adding zero and all the rest of the numbers, Robert and the number devil use giant furry calculators, piles of coconuts, and endlessly scrolling paper to introduce basic concepts of numeracy, from interesting number sequences to exponents to matrices. Author Hans Magnus Enzensberger's dry humor and sense of wonder will keep you and your kids entranced while you learn (shhh!) mathematical principles. Who could resist the little red guy who calls prime numbers "prima donnas," irrational numbers "unreasonable," and roots "rutabagas"? Not that the number devil is without his devilish qualities. He loses his temper when Robert looks for the easy way out of a number puzzle or dismisses math as boring and useless. "What do you expect?" he asks. "I'm the number devil, not Santa Claus." (Ages 10 to adult) --Therese Littleton [via]
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Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Ageby Paul J. NahinISBN 0801869099 (0-8018-6909-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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This, then, was Oliver Heaviside, a pioneer of modern electrical theory. Born into a low social class of Victorian England, Heaviside made advances in mathematics by introducing the operational calculus; in physics, where he formulated the modern-day expressions of Maxwell's Laws of electromagnetism; and in electrical engineering, through his duplex equations. Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this acclaimed biography will appeal to historians of technology and science, as well as to scientists and engineers who wish to learn more about this remarkable man.
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Opticsby Eugene HechtISBN 0805385665 (0-8053-8566-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Optics'Book summary:Accurate, authoritative and comprehensive, Optics, Fourth Edition has been revised to provide readers with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this book provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also including the necessary classical background. The writing style is lively and accessible.
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Oscillator Circuits & Projectsby Stephen KamichikISBN 0790611112 (0-7906-1111-2)
Softcover, Prompt Pubns
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A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementationby David R. Hanson, Christopher W. FraserISBN 0805316701 (0-8053-1670-1)
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Ringworldby Larry NivenISBN 0785773789 (0-7857-7378-9)
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Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollectionsby Charles Weiner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alice Kimball Smith, Robertl OppenheimerISBN 0804726205 (0-8047-2620-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Roman Architectureby Frank Bowman SearISBN 0801492459 (0-8014-9245-9)
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seaby Gary KinderISBN 0783803788 (0-7838-0378-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'Book summary:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Stephen Biesty's Incredible Explosionsby Stephen Biesty, Richard PlattISBN 0789410249 (0-7894-1024-9)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen Biesty's Incredible Explosions'Book summary:Don't let the title mislead you--this book isn't about things that blow up like volcanoes or chemistry experiments gone awry. Instead, illustrator Stephen Biesty and author Richard Platt (Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle, Stephen Beisty's Incredible Body) have once again blown the cover off places as big as Venice and as off-limits as a Space Station so that young ones can see what's inside. This talented duo knows exactly what interests children. For example, at the Space Station young readers get to see cool stuff like cockpit controls and the module where space experiments are performed, as well as gross stuff like what happens to an astronaut with space sickness. Looking inside a movie studio, kids can peek at the makeup and hairstyling rooms (where glamour gals and demon monsters come to life) as well as an ocean liner in a huge water tank that's being attacked by a remote-control giant squid. With so much of the big world remaining hidden or inaccessible to children, fact-filled books such as these are instantly fascinating, fun, and even (sneakily) educational. (Ages 7 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cableby John Steele GordonISBN 0802713645 (0-8027-1364-5)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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Titanic: An Illustrated Historyby Don Lynch, Ken Marschall, Robert D. BallardISBN 078581972X (0-7858-1972-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titanic: An Illustrated History'Book summary:The tragedy of the Titanic has been captured in fiction, nonfiction, music, poetry, cartoons, official judicial inquiry, survivors' recollections, still photography, TV shows, and film; all of the above are covered to some extent in this good and popular book. But few Titanic books match the paintings by Ken Marschall, a specialist on the subject whose work can be found in other books by the ship's discoverer, Robert Ballard, who wrote the introduction here. The photos are notable--including shots of the red-paint-stained iceberg that may have caused the sinking, the pristine ship, the sunken wreck, the people involved in the case--but Marschall's dozens of large-scale paintings really do help to dramatize and explicate moments no camera glimpsed and few eyewitnesses agree upon.
There is much to recommend the text, too. You could make a movie just about Second Officer Charles Lightoller, who helped accelerate the lifeboat-launching process, saving lives; stepped off the ship's bridge into the Atlantic; was sucked down into a ventilator taking in water, vainly swimming against its suction; and then got expelled by a blast of air, like a human cannonball in a circus, and landed next to a lifeboat that had been knocked 20 feet clear of the sinking ship's deadly whirlpool by a huge ship's funnel that crashed into the waves nearby. Lightoller was marvelously clever in his courtroom interrogation by an attorney determined to maneuver him into admitting blame for the disaster.
There is much more history in between the dramatic illustrations, facts both grand and trivial--if you're bent on knowing what actually happened to the dogs aboard, the answer is in this book. Definitely one of the better titles dealing with Titanic. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Unwritten Laws of EngineeringISBN 0791806413 (0-7918-0641-3)
Softcover, Amer Society of Mechanical
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Unwritten Laws of Engineeringby American Society of Mechanical Engineers, James G. Skakoon, W. J. KingISBN 0791801624 (0-7918-0162-4)
Softcover, Amer Society of Mechanical
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Upgrading and Repairing PCsby Scott MuellerISBN 0789708256 (0-7897-0825-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Upgrading and Repairing PCs'Book summary:This is the eBook version of the printed book.
Learn from the undisputed leading PC hardware teacher-World renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller. Scott has taught thousand in his weeklong seminars and millions through his books, videos and articles. Often his students refer to him with nicknames, such as "St.Scott" and claim that Upgrading and Repairing PCs has changed their lives.
This runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all-time is used by students, hobbyists, and PC professionals around the world. Upgrading and Repairing PCs is found on desks everywhere. Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 16th Edition includes hundreds of pages of new content, including an ALL NEW chapter on PC overclocking and hardware hacking. In this new chapter, Scott shows readers how to perform custom PC modifications, safely and within industry standard specifications, as well as how to pump up the performance of your PC.
For the third edition in a row, Scott has included a DVD--playable on both standalone DVD players and on DVD-ROMs--containing more than two hours of ALL NEW video shot, using an all new professional set design, lighting and a three-camera crew--including an overhead cam. The DVD also contains a searchable hard drive and vendor information, plus thousands of pages of legacy PC hardware coverage that can longer be included in the printed book, but that are invaluable to PC techs servicing older computers!
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The Verilog Hardware Description Languageby Philip Moorby, D. E. ThomasISBN 0792391268 (0-7923-9126-8)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Verilog Hardware Description Language'Book summary:The Verilog hardware description language is widely used in both industry and academia for the description of digital systems. The language supports the early conceptual stages of design with its behavioural level of abstraction and the later implementation stages with its structural level of abstraction. The language provides hierarchical constructs, allowing the designer to control the complexity of description. This work takes a tutorial approach to presenting the language. It starts with a tutorial introduction which presents the major features of the language by example. It then continues with a more complete discussion of the language constructs. Numerous examples are provided to allow the reader to learn by example. Finally, a formal description of the language is provided in the Appendix. Overall, the presentation balances a learn-by-example style with a definitive discussion of the language. It assumes a knowledge of introductory logic design and software programming. As such, the book is of use to practicing integrated circuit design engineers, and undergraduate and graduate electrical or computer engineering students. The tutorial introduction provides enough information for students in an introductory logic design course to make simple use of logic simulation as part of their laboratory experience. The rest of the book could then be used in upper level logic design and architecture courses. Included in the book is a disk that contains a DOS version of the VeriWell Verilog simulator as well as examples from the book. The examples can be simulated, modified and re-simulated. The simulator can also be used to solve the exercises. [via]
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What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical Historyby Walter Guido VincentiISBN 0801845882 (0-8018-4588-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Wind Turbine Technology: Fundamental Concepts of Wind Turbine Engineeringby David A. SperaISBN 0791812057 (0-7918-1205-7)
Softcover, Amer Society of Mechanical
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