Engineering & Transportation

Two leading futurists analyze war in the past, offer insight into modern conflicts, and examine the future face of war based on the idea that forms of war a...

An Assessment Of The Revolutionary Potential Of Artificial Intelligence And Robotics Traces How Technology Arrived At This Point And How Artificial Life, Ma...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Sta...

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose...

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily lif...

FROM THE PRIZEWINNING BLOGGER OF WAITERRANT.NET, AN INSIDER'S HILARIOUS LOOK AT A WAITER'S LIFE AT AN UPSCALE NEW YORK-AREA RESTAURANT-KITCHEN CONFIDENTIA...

Completely revised and updated, New Kitchen Idea Bookfeatures inspirational and practical design solutions to turn your dream kitchen into a reality. This ...

Explores The Techniques Of Working With Wood.Categories: Engineering & Transportation EngineeringIndustrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems

The Present Is A Contest Between The Bright And Dark Sides Of Discovery. To Avoid Being Torn Apart By Its Stresses, We Need To Recognize The Fact - And Gain...

Casey Reas & Ben Fry. Includes Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering Electrical & Electronics ElectronicsSensors

Did you know that an oil spill occurs somewhere in the world almost every day of the year? Berger and Mirocha focus on one of the worst spills in history—...

Strong, versatile, and amazingly easy to work with, concrete is the ideal medium for outdoor art and long-lasting, practical projects for the garden. And, b...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Of Viper Pilot Chronicles Another Thrilling Chapter In American Aviation History: The Race To Break The Sound Barrier....

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent...

The first book published in the Beer and Johnston Series, Mechanics for Engineers: Statics is a scalar-based introductory statics text, ideally suited for...

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 C...

There Are Few Industrialists In History Who Could Match Elon Musk's Relentless Drive And Ingenious Vision. A Modern Alloy Of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howa...

Frequently described as the quintessential book for beginning helpers, The Skilled Helper has a worldwide reputation for its clarity, for its true-to-life e...

Clear and easy to understand instructions and photographs presented in a step-by-step format to help guarantee beautiful results. Projects include install...

Offers A Concise History Of Globalization, Discussing A Wide Range Of Topics, From The September 11 Terrorist Attacks To The Growth Of The Middle Class In B...

Technology Is Rapidly Moving Into Our Bodies, Writes Cyber Expert Keenan, And This Book Gives A Chilling Look Ahead Into Where That Road May Lead Us - On A ...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illust...

This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Souther...

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to voice user interface (VUI) design. The VUI is perhaps the most critical factor in the success of an...

BUMPER TO BUMPER, The Complete Guide to Tractor-Trailer Operations, our original text on truck driving and related activities, has trained thousands of our ...

One Of The World' S Foremost Military Historians Offers A Sweeping View Of The Place Of Warfare In Civilization. Probing The Meanings, Motivations, And Meth...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!Join the Backyard Farming Movement and Turn Your Home into a Homestead!Backyard Farming: Homesteading is your ...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car acro...

The 'Official' CB Slanguage Language Dictionary Mini Edition is now available for Kindle readers. This New York Times Best Seller about CB radio lingo has s...

Covering his first four years as National Security Adviser, Kissinger discusses his part in formulating the Nixon Doctrine, discloses his views on the Vietn...

It's a beautiful book, and I hope it reaches a million hearts!" (Rev. John Powell, S. J., Author of Unconditional Love) "Emotionally Free is a life–changi...

A clearly written, basic introduction to astronomy for those not scientifically oriented, this book's terse coverage of pertinent information has been updat...

Designed for use in courses such as electronic devices or electronic circuits, this edition features a new chapter on communication circuits, as well as per...

In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics—the search for the laws of nature—losing its way....

In Its Third Edition, Technical Graphics Communication,, Has Become A Standard In The Field Of Engineering And Technical Graphics. This Text Presents Both T...

For Frederick The Great, The Prescription For Warfare Was Simple: Kurz Und Vives (short And Lively) - Wars That Relied Upon Swift, Powerful, And Decisive Mi...

An ex-Marine captain shares his story of fighting in a recon battalion in both Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with his brutal training on Quantico Island a...

From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about warIn 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl M...

Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications communicates directly with tomorrow's engineers in a simple yet precise manner. The text covers the basic pr...

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called “first-hand food”—meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the wo...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most re...

Product Description From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its...

Gregory A. Freeman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [289]-291) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Transportation ShipsHistory ...

In John Deere: A History of the Tractor, acclaimed author and photographer Randy Leffingwell uses his unique brand of storytelling to chronicle the company ...

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the p...

On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustr...