Science and Technics / Technology & engineering

Making Android Accessories with IOIO

von Simon Monk

Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after...

British Architectural Styles

von Trevor Yorke

Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed and original drawings, to help put a date to the variety of period buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from...

Total Quality Management: A pictorial guide for managers

von John S Oakland & Peter Morris

Another new book in the popular and original series of pictorial guides - John Oakland cuts through the complex concepts and confusing jargon associated with implementing Total Quality, and Peter Morris presents...

Heavy Oil Production Processes

von James G Speight

As conventional-oil resources are depleted worldwide, vast heavy oil reserves available in various parts of the world become increasingly important as a secure future energy source. Brief but readable, Heavy...

Teardowns : Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart

von Bryan Bergeron

Learn practical electronics from a skilled mentor!“The text is written as if Dr. Bergeron, who is a highly experienced electronics practitioner, is speaking directly to the reader with a point-by-point commentary...

Fluid Mechanics DeMYSTiFied

von Merle Potter

Your solution to mastering fluid mechanics

Need to learn about the properties of liquids and gases the pressures and forces they exert? Here's your lifeline! Fluid Mechanics Demystified helps you absorb the essentials...

Google SketchUp Cookbook

von Bonnie Roskes

As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step...

Learn to Solder: Tools and Techniques for Assembling Electronics

von Brian Jepson, Tyler Moskowite & Gregory Hayes

Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, desolder cleanly (when things...

Steve Jobs

von Walter Isaacson

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

von Bill Bryson

From one of the most beloved authors of our  time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

“Houses...

The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

von Eli Pariser

In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we...

Building Construction Handbook

von Roy Chudley & Roger Greeno

•  Ideal for students on all construction courses
• Topics presented concisely in plain language and with clear drawings
• Fully updated to include all revisions to Building and Construction regulations

Building...

Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding

von , J. O. Baker

This early work on rabbit farming is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the best methods of housing, breeding, feeding and other aspects of rabbit management. This is...

Project Planning and Control Using Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.2 EPPM Web

von Paul E Harris

A user guide, reference book and two-day training course written for Project Management Professionals who wish to learn how to plan and control both an unresourced and resourced project in an established Oracle...

Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

von Melissa Fay Greene

The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most...

30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius

von Simon Monk

30 Ways to Have Some Computer-Controlled Evil Fun!

This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to program and build a variety of projects with the Arduino microcontroller development system. Covering Windows,...

Project Planning & Control Using Primavera P6 Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.1 Professional Client and Optional Client

von Paul E Harris

A user guide and training manual written for Project Management Professionals who wish to learn how to plan and control projects in an established Primavera Enterprise environment with or without Resources and...

Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project 2010 and PMBOK Guide Fourth Edition

von Paul E Harris

This book is principally a Microsoft Project book aimed at Project Management Professionals who understand the PMBOK Guide Fourth Edition processes and wish to learn how to use Microsoft® Project 2010 to plan...

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

von Michio Kaku

Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.

In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating...

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

von Carol Ekarius

Carol Ekarius' natural, organic approach to livestock management produces healthier animals, reduces feed and health care costs, and maximizes your profit. Includes case studies of successful farmers, nitty-gritty...