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Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these moder……続きを見る

Improvements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about a sea change in the ways in which most people in the industrialized world work. In many organizations the ability……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents Contents in Alpahbetical Order A 1 Adding Machine; or Machine to cast up correctly large columns of figures. 2 Air Pump; essay towa……続きを見る

As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "……続きを見る

Manual of how things work, with 233 illustrations, first published around 1905. "Dealing in Simple Language With Steam, Electricity, Light, Heat, Sound Hydraulics, Optics etc." According to Wikipedi……続きを見る

In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity andimpact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements -jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws hisde……続きを見る

Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. The ter……続きを見る

This book presents the principles and techniques of program specialization ー a general method to make programs faster (and possibly smaller) when some inputs can be known in advance. As an illustra……続きを見る

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of ……続きを見る

Fundamentals of Air Cleaning Technology and Its Application in Cleanrooms sets up the theoretical framework for cleanrooms. New ideas and methods are presented, which include the characteristic inde……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains a detailed and practical guide to keeping and breeding game birds, with information on pheasants, quail, ducks, bantam, and more. This easy-to-digest guide contains al……続きを見る

^The Sound Protection Handbook> is designed to be a useful guide to current operational sound practices within the broadcast industry. Multi-skilling within the industry has meant that the role of t……続きを見る

If you've ever wondered how an Etch A Sketch writes on its gray screen, or why a boomerang comes back, or how an R/C car responds to a radio controller, now you'll have your answers. The Way Toys W……続きを見る

This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and co……続きを見る

The theory of probability and mathematical statistics is becoming an indispensable discipline in many branches of science and engineering. This is caused by increasing significance of various uncert……続きを見る

Hoping to help transform engineering into a more socially just field of practice, this book offers various perspectives and strategies while highlighting key concepts and themes that help readers un……続きを見る

The best backyard experiments for hands-on science learning The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science is Neil Downie's biggest and most astounding compendium yet of science experiments you can do in you……続きを見る

A flexagon is a motion structure that has the appearance of a ring of hinged polygons. It can be flexed to display different pairs of faces, usually in cyclic order. Flexagons can be appreciated as ……続きを見る

They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, gover……続きを見る

Issues of ecologyーboth as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issuesーhave long been of interest to literary crit……続きを見る

Construction is one of the most challenging industrial environments for effective people management. It is characterised by geographically dispersed projects, production-oriented management styles, ……続きを見る

Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-tech……続きを見る

Dirk van Dalen’s biography studies the fascinating life of the famous Dutch mathematician and philosopher Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. Brouwer belonged to a special class of genius; complex and oft……続きを見る

Using a historical sociology approach, this book illustrates the formation of the technological state in Indonesia during the New Order period (1966-1998). It explores the nexus between power, high ……続きを見る

“Gyros” is an excerpt from the Navy Electricity and Electronic Training Series, and is an excellent introduction to gyroscopes and accelerometers. This provides fundamentals of technology essenti……続きを見る

In the history of planet earth, mass species extinctions have occurred five times, about once every 100 million years. A "sixth extinction" is known to be underway now, with over 200 species dying o……続きを見る

This early work by Alfred W. Marshall is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a wealth of information on the design and construction of engineering measuring tools and i……続きを見る

This is the internationally regarded definitive handbook for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing gaff rigged craft. It provides a fascinating insight into the design, history, techniques ……続きを見る

This book describes in depth the fundamental effects of buoyancy, a key force in driving air and transporting heat and pollutants around the interior of a building. It is essential reading for anyon……続きを見る

This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection. The first section of the book pro……続きを見る