Technology & Engineering

Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide.How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world...

Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace? Making mistakes in many areas of health and safety can be both incredibly dangerous and hugely costly. So what can you do to avoid hazards and expensive, time-consuming legal battles?...

This new edition of A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering provides clear and concise definitions and explanations for over 8,000 mechanical-engineering terms in the core areas of design, stress analysis, dynamics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics,...

The fast and easy way to start and maintain a hive Beekeeping For Dummies is a practical, step-by-step beginner's guide to beekeeping. It gives you plain-English guidance on everything you need to know to start your own beehive, from buying the right...

Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905104031Author Melanie BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Royal Yachting AssociationPublisher Royal Yachting AssociationDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789505115Author Dr David BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2, are handbooks not only for students studying residential surveying but also for those involved in the appraisal of residential property.Volume 1 has been updated and covers the valuation process as it...

Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: Design and TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)Encourage your students to be creative, innovative and critical designers with a textbook that builds in-depth...

Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered, but none intended to be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed cross-section photography, Open Circuits reveals the surprising...

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet.Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young...

Exam Board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: Food Preparation & NutritionFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Endorsed for OCR.Develop your students' knowledge and understanding of food and nutrition, improve their practical food preparation and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'A beautifully written, incredibly timely book' - Clover Stroud, author of My Wild...

A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games. Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with calculators inspired Gunpei Yokoi to create the Game & Watch. Ever since then,...

'Engaging and insightful.' REED HASTINGS, CEO of Netflix 'Charming, fascinating and very funny. Marc Randolph demystifies the world of Silicon Valley start-ups, and makes you laugh a lot along the way.' DECCA AITKENHEAD, The Sunday Times'Pick up the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905104130Author Royal Yachting AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Royal Yachting AssociationPublisher Royal Yachting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999791667Author Alexandra HeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Tractorland LtdPublisher Tractorland LtdWeight(grams) 22g

The Electrician's Guide to Emergency Lighting, 3rd Edition has been updated to take into account changes to the Code of Practice for the Emergency Lighting of Premises in BS 5266-1:2016. The Code of Practice has undergone extensive...

This book presents the Human Factors methodologies and applications thereof that can be utilised across the design, modelling and evaluation stages of the design lifecycle of new technologies entering future commercial aircraft.As advances are made to...

This crystal-clear Study Guide from CGP covers everything students will need for success in KS3 Design & Technology. It explains all the essential skills and processes, and how to apply them in practice. There's also plenty of useful background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853411670Author David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Packard Publishing LtdPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906435080Author Melanie BartlettFormat PaperbackImprint Royal Yachting AssociationPublisher Royal Yachting AssociationDimensions(mm) 209mm * 149mm * 5mm

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850105718Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm)...

Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest...

Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: EngineeringFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in GCSE Engineering with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860542824Author Karen PryorFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Ringpress Books LtdPublisher Interpet Publishing

'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers,...

This is a practical manual focusing principally on the needs of sheep farmers and shepherds in the United Kingdom but covering material applicable to sheep-farming situations worldwide. It should also be invaluable to agricultural and veterinary students...

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century'The...

'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-PresidentOn April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank...

Don Logan's latest book ""his tenth with Schiffer Publishing, and the first in a planned multi-volume set on F-4 Phantoms chronicles the service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 and RF-4 Phantom II in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard...

Focusing primarily on core topics in mechanical and electrical science, students enrolled on a wide range of higher education engineering courses at undergraduate level will find Engineering Science, second edition, an invaluable aid to their learning...

At long last, here is the thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics. It is widely accepted as the best single authoritative book on electronic circuit design, and is in fact so popular that it has been...

Simply Stairs is a 'how to' book which guides the reader through all aspects of the design and construction of a wide range of timber staircases, step-by-step. It provides anyone with a basic knowledge of woodwork with the know-how and confidence to...

Updated in line with the 18th edition of the wiring regulations.This book is an essential guide to the City & Guilds 2391-50 and 51: Initial Verification and Certification of Electrical Installation and Periodic Inspection and Testing, also C&G 2391-52:...