Technology & Engineering

Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ubiquitous weapon of modern warfare, and has now found its way into law-enforcement arsenals too...

Surrogate models expedite the search for promising designs by standing in for expensive design evaluations or simulations. They provide a global model of some metric of a design (such as weight, aerodynamic drag, cost, etc.), which can then be optimized...

Written by an acclaimed expert, Biotechnology Fundamentals, Third Edition, breaks down the fundamentals of this discipline and highlights both conventional and modern approaches unique to the industry. The revised work presents new information on...

The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It...

This third edition of the principal text on the finite element method for electrical engineers and electronics specialists presents the method in a mathematically undemanding style, accessible to undergraduates who may be encountering it for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905086702Author Bengt GrahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Radio Society of Great BritainPublisher Radio Society of Great Britain

Eat with Beder is a charity cookbook containing a unique collection of recipes and reflections from well known personalities and inspirational individuals across many industries including Steven Bartlett, Ella Mills, Dame Joanna Lumley, Theo Paphitis,...

Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539265Author Vincent IalentiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to...

This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys.Book InformationISBN...

There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are consuming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. The number of artisan cheesemakers has doubled in recent years, and many of the industry's...

With exclusive access toprivate diariesand dozens of photographs, this is theincredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War IIUnleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645277330Author Spanier Kristine MlisFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 183mm *...

Precisely matched unit-by-unit to the 2010 specification, providing a no-nonsense approach to tackling the new specification. Full technical checks from JTL and an external technical reviewer on all text and diagrams, so that tutors can take top quality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955594090Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited

History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of martial excellence abound. And yet, the only...

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540962Author Marc SeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s...

Hard Science Fiction Films that Predict Future Technology"As the breakneck advance of technology takes us into a world that is both exciting and menacing, sci-fi films give us an inkling of what is to come, and what we should avoid." -Seth Shostak,...

Research shows that CSR improves long-term business performance and that consumers prefer to patronise organizations with strong histories of social responsibility. Customers and employees are speaking with their values as well as their wallets! But...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections...

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380625Author David ToppFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies...

A "meticulously researched" (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy-from Pulitzer Prize- and...

Reflecting changes in the current health and safety landscape, Occupational Health and Safety Management: A Practical Approach, Third Edition includes examples and tools to facilitate development and implementation of a safety and health management...

Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or...

A new translation for the 21st century.The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gateway edition for the 21st century reader rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934490Author Andrew BaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879207Author Joe ToscanoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Fire Dynamics for Firefighters simplifies the science behind fire dynamics for all frontline and trainee firefighters. Firefighters are accountable for keeping up to date with their professional development and training through self-study.Book...

Wherever you fit into the debate about food - vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarian, or carnivore - you cannot argue against the fact that fish have influenced our diet for millennia, and, for many, continue to do so today. We are, after all, an...

An important guide to the quantification of contract claims in the construction industry, updated third edition The substantially expanded third edition of Evaluating Contract Claims puts the spotlight on the quantification of claims in the construction...

With emphasis on practical aspects of engineering, this bestseller has gained worldwide recognition through progressive editions as the essential reliability textbook. This fifth edition retains the unique balanced mixture of reliability theory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638785736Author Julia DimakosFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 186mm...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. But there...

Few fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece thrilled and disturbed Victorian society with its dark and compelling themes of violence, lust,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780831150327Author John Milton AmissFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Industrial PressPublisher Industrial Press