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 | BASIC Stamp Manual Version 2.2 from Parallax The BASIC Stamp Syntax and Reference Manual is a complete resource for BASIC Stamp(R) microcontroller programming. The detailed PBASIC 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 syntax support includes example programs demonstrating all commands, and many simple circuits for interfacing your BASIC Stamp module with common devices. An illustrated tour of the BASIC Stamp Editor software introduces features new to version 2.1, including syntax highlighting, interactive communication via the Debug Terminal, and conditional compilation techniques for code that will run on any BASIC Stamp model. This Edition Supports:
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 | The Microcontroller Application Cookbook: Volume 1 Featuring the Basic Stamp Author: Matt Gilliland This is a small book (5.25" x 8.25) that is primarily a hardware reference. It assumes a working knowledge of electronics and the Basic Stamp II programming language. After some general introductory material, it consists of short chapters (2 to 5 pages each) describing one sensor, chip, circuit or peripheral. The descriptions includes an overview of the device, a schematic diagram of typical circuits and a Basic Stamp II program example. This is a reasonable tutorial for beginners but may be a bit terse for some readers. It is organized as a reference book and deserves to be kept with your essential development tools. Manufacturer: INGRAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 28111. 248 pages. ISBN: 0615115527. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| 3000 Solved Problems in Electric Circuits Author: Syed A. Nasar Schaums powerful problem-solver gives you 3,000 problems in electric circuits, fully solved step-by-step! The originator of the solved-problem guide, and students favorite with over 30 million study guides sold, Schaums offers a diagram-packed timesaver to help you master every type of problem youll face on tests. Problems cover every area of electric circuits, from basic units to complex multi-phase circuits, two-port networks, and the use of Laplace transforms. Go directly to the answers and diagrams you need with our detailed, cross-referenced index. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaums 3000 Solved Problems in Electric Circuits is so complete its the perfect tool for graduate or professional exam prep! Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070459363. 760 pages. ISBN: 0070459363. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Basic Electronics Author: Bureau of Naval Personnel This book provides an excellent introduction to electronics using lots of diagrams, basic vocabulary and a minimum of math. This book was developed by the US Navy to teach ordinary people how to maintain shipboard electronics. It is very thorough because lives depended on the results, but very readable because students were expected to have no more than a high school education. The book was last revised in 1972 so it does not discuss digital electronics. It is nonetheless a great introduction to electronics fundamentals and to a wide range of analog audio and radio circuits using tubes and transistors. Manufacturer: DOVER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0486210766. 566 pages. ISBN: 0486210766. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Build Your Own Electronics Workshop Author: Tom Petruzzellis The Electronics Workbench was created to assist the newcomer to the field of practical electronics through the creation of a personal electronics workbench. It is a place specially designed so that readers can go there to work on an electronic project, such as testing components, troubleshooting a device, or building a new project. The book includes invaluable information, such as whether to buy or build test equipment, how to solder, how to make circuit boards, how to begin to troubleshoot, how to test components and systems, and how to build your own test equipment, complete with appendix & resources, etc. This is THE book for anyone entering the field or hobby of electronics. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071447245. 428 pages. ISBN: 0071447245. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Christiansen's Electronics: Problem-Solving Companion Author: Victor F.C. Veley, Jacqueline S. Parkinson This book provides problem-solving techniques ideal for students and young engineers just starting out in the their careers Each subtopic under Electronics is addressed in a separate section and begins with a brief explanation of the topic. Then the math derivations are provided. This information does not intend to teach the topic but rather provides a reference to the topic. After the derivations 5 fully worked out problems and 5 practice problems make use of practical issues forcing the reader to look at the same problem from various angles, thereby driving home the problem-solving technique. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 007136238X. 930 pages. ISBN: 007136238X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Digital Electronics Demystified Author: Myke Predko The field of teaching digital electronics has not changed significantly in the past 20 years. Many of the same books that first became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s are still being used as basic texts. In the 20+ years since these were written, the basic rules have not changed, but they do not provide strong links to modern electronics including CMOS logic, Programmable Logic Devices and microprocessor/microcontroller interfacing. Courses teaching introductory digital electronics will fill in the missing areas of information for students, but neither the instructors nor students have resources to explain modern technology and interfaces. One assumption made by all the standard texts is that experimenting with digital electronics cannot be done easily - in the proposed book, digital guru Myke Predko will show how readers can set up their own apparatus for experimenting with digital electronics for less than $10. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071441417. 370 pages. ISBN: 0071441417. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Electric Circuits: Fourth Edition Author: Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph Edminister This new edition of Schaum's Outline of Electric Circuits give readers a thorough foundation in the theory and operation of electric circuits. This bestselling outline combines brief descriptions of theory with illustrative examples, solved problems, and supplement problems to provide a direct and effective tool and methodology for learning. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071393072. 469 pages. ISBN: 0071393072. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Electric Machines and Electromechanics: Second Edition Author: Syed Nasar More than 50,000 copies of this powerful study guide sold in the first edition! Covering a broad range of topics, from simple DC magnetic circuits to electronic control of DC and AC motors, all the concepts and their applications are clearly explained and illustrated. Includes hundreds of problems with detailed solutions to help students learn quickly and reaise test scores without investing unnecessary time. Ideal for undergraduate students of electrical engineering, for solo study, and as a refresher. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070459940. 218 pages. ISBN: 0070459940. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Electromagnetics: Second Edition Author: Joseph A. Edminister Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics is the perfect study aid loaded with solved problems and thorough descriptions of electromagnetics concepts, in plain English. Used along with your textbook, it helps you prepare for classroom exams, broadens your level of comprehension, and develops your intuitive problem-solving ability. Featuring hundreds of completely solved problems worked out step by step. This popular Schaum's Outline shows you how to solve the kinds of problems you will find on your tests. So complete it can be used alone as an independent study course, it's also compatible with any course text. For better grades in courses covering electromagnetics you can't do better than this Schaum's Outline! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070212341. 338 pages. ISBN: 0070212341. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Electromechanical Sensors and Actuators Author: Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac Unlike other treatments of sensors or actuators, this book approaches the devices from the point of view of the fundamental coupling mechanism between the electrical and mechanical behaviour. The principles of operation of the solenoid are the same in both cases, and this book thus treats them together. It begins with a discussion of systems analysis as a tool for modelling transducers, before turning to a detailed discussion of transduction mechanisms. The whole is rounded off by an input/output analysis of transducers. Manufacturer: SPRINGER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 038798495X. 341 pages. ISBN: 038798495X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius Author: Bob Iannini The do-it-yourself hobbyist market, particularly in the area of electronics, is hotter than ever. This books gives the evil genius loads of projects to delve into, from an ultrasonic microphone, to a body heat detector, and all the way to a Star Wars Light Saber. This book makes creating these devices fun, inexpensive, and easy. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071426094. 302 pages. ISBN: 0071426094. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| How Electronic Things Work...And What To Do When They Don't Author: Bob Goodman Here's a guide to understanding and repairing electronics equipment written for people who would ordinarily "call the shop." With this fully illustrated, simple-to-use guide, you will get a grasp of the workings of the electronics world that surrounds you -- and even learn to make your own basic repairs. And you may even start enjoying it! Whether you want to pocket the savings on repair bills, give your beloved equipment the best possible care, or merely understand how it all works, this book will show you how in easy-to-understand language and clear illustrations -- and you don't need any technical experience. Next time your equipment acts up, don't get mad. Get it working - with a little help from this book. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071387455. 426 pages. ISBN: 0071387455. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Practical Electronics for Inventors Author: Paul Scherz This book provides an in-depth introduction to practical electronics for readers with a reasonable working knowledge of college level math and science. In relatively few pages the author takes you from fundamental concepts to advanced circuits, thoroughly (but densley) explaining both theory and practice every step of the way. The book includes hundres of illustrations and sample circuits to support the text. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070580782. 606 pages. ISBN: 0070580782. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics (3rd Ed) Author: Stan Gibilisco This excellent book provides a comprehensive introduction to electronics that is aimed at hobbyists and technicians who want to understand and use electronics without getting bogged down in complex math or unnecessary theory. The author starts without any expectation of prior knowledge and progresses through a comprehensive explanation of common components including resistors, capacitors, inductors and transistors and common analog and digital circuits. The book includes over 500 illustrations and circuit diagrams. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071377301. 728 pages. ISBN: 0071377301. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| Understanding Electro-Mechanical Engineering Author: Lawrence J. Kamm Widely practiced, but rarely taught, the principles of electro-mechanical (mechatronic) devices and systems are of more relevance to electrical engineering than ever before. Electro-mechanical devices such as keyboards, printers, and hard and floppy disk drives are parts of every computer system. Microminiature electro-mechanical devices etched from silicon are now key transducers and motors. With a focus on electro-mechanical devices and systems in a variety of fields, this accessible introductory text brings you coverage of the full range of electro-mechanical devices used today. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the design process and get valuable insights into good design practice. Understanding Electro-Mechanical Engineering will be of interest to anyone in need of a non-technical, interdisciplinary introduction to the thriving field of mechatronics. Manufacturer: IEEE PRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0780310314. 382 pages. ISBN: 0780310314. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 101 Solved Mechanical Engineering Problems Author: Michael R. Lindeburg, PE These 101 problems, in essay format, are substantially more challenging than those you'll find on the PE exam offering a great way to hone your solving skills. Here's what one of our customers writes: "Don't let the (multiple-choice) exam format dictate how you prepare. Working longer, more detailed problems is always good, because this allows for more thorough comprehension. Then, when you get a less complex problem on the exam, with some process-simplifying 'givens,' you'll know exactly where they fit into the overall problem." Problems are grouped by topic to facilitate your review. Complete step-by-step solutions are provided. Manufacturer: PP, INC.. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0912045779. 129 pages. ISBN: 0912045779. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 1984 Author: George Orwell 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"--a startingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions--a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. Manufacturer: SIGNET. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0451524934. 328 pages. ISBN: 0451524934. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Author: Jules Verne An American frigate tracking down a ship-sinking monster faces not a living creature but an incredible invention--a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion aboard the frigate leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world, from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole, as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villians ever created, takes his revenge on all society. More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553212524. 437 pages. ISBN: 0553212524. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 3000 Solved Problems in Calculus Author: Elliot Mendelson, Ph.D. This powerful problem-solver gives you 3,000 problems in calculus, fully solved step-by-step! From Schaums, the originator of the solved-problem guide, and students favorite with over 30 million study guides soldthis timesaver helps you master every type of calculus problem that you will face in your homework and on your tests, from inequalities to differential equations. Work the problems yourself, then check the answers, or go directly to the answers you need with a complete index. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaums 3000 Solved Problems in Calculus is so complete its the perfect tool for graduate or professional exam review! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070415234. 455 pages. ISBN: 0070415234. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 700 Solved Problems in Vector Mechanics for Engineers Volume II: Dynamics Author: Joseph F. Shelley * A complete course in dynamics covering all essential definitions, concepts, and problem-solving techniques * Usable with an engineering mechanics textbook and cross-referenced with three best sellers * Learn the best strategies for solving tough problems in step-by-step detail * Prepare effectively for exams and save time in doing homework problems * Use the index to quickly locate the types of problems you most need help with * Includes a unique self-study review chapter covering all course fundamentals Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070566879. 720 pages. ISBN: 0070566879. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| 800 Solved Problems in Vector Mechanics for Engineers Volume I: Statics Author: Joseph F. Shelley * A complete course in statics covering all essential definitions, concepts, and problem-solving techniques * Usable with any engineering mechanics textbook and cross-referenced with three best sellers *Learn the best strategies for solving tough problems in step-by-step detail * Prepare effectively for exams and save time in doing homework problems * Use the index to quickly locate the types of problems you most need help with * Includes a unique self-study review chapter covering all course fundamentals Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070568359. 678 pages. ISBN: 0070568359. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| A Deepness in the Sky Author: Vernor Vinge After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years... Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812536355. 774 pages. ISBN: 0812536355. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| A Fire Upon the Deep Author: Vernor Vinge A space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival... Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812515285. 613 pages. ISBN: 0812515285. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| A Forest of Stars Author: Kevin J. Anderson Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don't realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers--and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy's most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power. Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result. Manufacturer: ASPECT. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0446610585. 682 pages. ISBN: 0446610585. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| A Sound of Thunder Author: Ray Bradbury With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades. This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari--sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly--and possibly something else much closer to home... Manufacturer: HARPER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060785691. 338 pages. ISBN: 0060785691. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Amateur Radio Author: Clay Laster Essential A-to-Z Ham Radio Guide The revised edition of the most trusted guide in ham radio is here just in time to help you pass the new No-Code Technician Class exams! Used by thousands of ham operators to set up their first shortwave transmitters and to get their licenses, Clay Laster's Beginner's Handbook of Amateur Radio, Fourth Edition delivers all the guidance you need -- from radio and electronics fundamentals needed to set up a transmitter to the newest equipment to revisions to the Federal Communications Commission rules and tests. If you want to communicate over the airwaves both locally and globally and listen in on conversations heard by very few, take this book home, and it will take you into the realm of communication, new friends, good times, and technical mastery beyond your dreams. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071361871. 506 pages. ISBN: 0071361871. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Amateur Radio Author: Clay Laster Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071361871. 506 pages. ISBN: 0071361871. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same... Manufacturer: HARPTORCH. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0380789035. 592 pages. ISBN: 0380789035. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Analog and Digital Communications: Second Edition Author: Hwei Hsu, Ph.D. This study guide acts as an excellent tutor in this subject. It offers clear explanations of the mathematics behind signal and linear system analysis, fully covering communications theory, and provides an introduction to information theory and coding. Also included are more than 400 solved problems and hundreds more with answers, so students can test themselves and track theor own progress as they master various concepts and their applications. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071402284. 330 pages. ISBN: 0071402284. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Animal Farm Author: George Orwell A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. Manufacturer: SIGNET. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0451526341. 140 pages. ISBN: 0451526341. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Around the World in Eighty Days Author: Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre--all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s, Around the World in Eighty Days generated enchantment with scientific progress--and its delightful mixture of fantasy, comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553213563. 194 pages. ISBN: 0553213563. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Blue Mars Author: Kim Stanley Robinson The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been automatically transformed from a desert world into one where humans can flourish. But as Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overpopulated and polluted planet, and Mars, its last hope, may find itself facing a population explosion or an interplanetary war. Meanwhile, the First Hundred settlers of Mars are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers." Soon the human drama at the center of this breathtaking epic explodes in political upheaval, leading to new explorations into the solar system and to choices that will decide the ultimate fate of Mother Earth. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553573357. 761 pages. ISBN: 0553573357. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Bradbury Stories Author: Ray Bradbury For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author's finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining. Manufacturer: PERENNIAL. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060544880. 893 pages. ISBN: 0060544880. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Breakfast of Champions Author: Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. Manufacturer: DIALPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385334206. 302 pages. ISBN: 0385334206. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Calculus Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Author: Steven G. Krantz Here's an innovative shortcut to gaining a more intuitive understanding of both differential and integral calculus. In Calculus Demystified an experienced teacher and author of more than 30 books puts all the math background you need inside and uses practical examples, real data, and a totally different approach to mastering calculus. With Calculus Demystified you ease into the subject one simple step at a time - at your own speed. A user-friendly, accessible style incorporating frequent reviews, assessments, and the actual application of ideas helps you to understand and retain all the important concepts. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071393080. 343 pages. ISBN: 0071393080. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Calculus for Dummies Author: Mark Ryan The mere thought of having to take a required calculus course is enough to make legions of students break out in a cold sweat. Others who have no intention of ever studying the subject have this notion that calculus is impossibly difficult unless you happen to be a direct descendant of Einstein. Well, the good news is that you can master calculus. It's not nearly as tough as its mystique would lead you to think. Much of calculus is really just very advanced algebra, geometry, and trig. It builds upon and is a logical extension of those subjects. If you can do algebra, geometry, and trig, you can do calculus. Manufacturer: WILEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0764524984. 364 pages. ISBN: 0764524984. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Chapterhouse Dune Author: Frank Herbert The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever... Manufacturer: ACE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0441102670. 436 pages. ISBN: 0441102670. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Children of Dune Author: Frank Herbert The desert planet has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possessing their father's supernormal powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. But there are those who think the Imperium does not need Messiahs... Manufacturer: ACE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0441104029. 408 pages. ISBN: 0441104029. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Children of the Mind Author: Orson Scott Card The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Stairways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Stairways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812522397. 370 pages. ISBN: 0812522397. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets Author: Julian Smart and Kevin Hock with Stefan Csomor The Definitive Guide to wxWidgets Cross-Platform Development--from wxWidgets' Creator wxWidgets is an easy-to-use, open source C++ API for writing GUI applications that run on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and even Pocket PC--supporting each platform's native look and feel with virtually no additional coding. Now, its creator and two leading developers teach you all you need to know to write robust cross-platform software with wxWidgets. This book covers everything from dialog boxes to drag-and-drop, from networking to multithreading. It includes all the tools and code you need to get great results, fast. From AMD to AOL, Lockheed Martin to Xerox, world-class developers are using wxWidgets to save money, increase efficiency, and reach new markets. With this book, you can, too. Manufacturer: PRENTICE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0131473816. 700 pages. ISBN: 0131473816. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Cryptonomicon Author: Neal Stephenson A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers, secrets, gold, spies, codemakers and codebreakers, conspiracies, power, pirates, prisoners, lovers and great escapes--from one of the boldest imaginations in contemporary fiction. Manufacturer: AVON. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060512806. 1152 pages. ISBN: 0060512806. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Dandelion Wine Author: Ray Bradbury The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553277537. 239 pages. ISBN: 0553277537. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Darwin's Radio Author: Greg Bear Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps--the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: Something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race...if a future exists at all. Manufacturer: BALLANTINE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345435249. 538 pages. ISBN: 0345435249. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Deadeye Dick Author: Kurt Vonnegut Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors--a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb--Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are. Manufacturer: DELTA. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385334176. 271 pages. ISBN: 0385334176. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Dune Messiah Author: Frank Herbert Set on the desert planet Arrakis--a world as fully real and rich as our own--Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing... Manufacturer: ACE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0441172695. 331 pages. ISBN: 0441172695. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Embedded Internet Design Author: Al Williams Best Choice for Getting Started Embedded Internet Design is the no-hassle way to make your devices Internet-active. * Demystifies the job of making devices Internet-aware * Covers Ethernet and dial up connections * A short course in Java, network protocols and Internet applications Perfect for hardware designers or hobbyists who want to bring ultra-remote control to devices anywhere. Why struggle to reinvent Internet software? Al Williams's Embedded Internet Design is the easy way to get your devices Internet enabled! Great for conquering convergence--the buzzword for the meeting of consumer electronics and the Internet--Al Williams's guide takes you beyond Internet-integrated phones and TV set-top boxes to the Internet-connected future of all kinds of appliances, entire homes, factories, and even automobiles. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071374361. 318 pages. ISBN: 0071374361. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Enchantment Author: Orson Scott Card The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death--while a malevolent presence stirred in the hidden depths below. Now, years later, Ivan is compelled to return. He finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run . . . Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345416880. 419 pages. ISBN: 0345416880. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ender's Game Author: Orson Scott Card Once again, the Earth is under attack. Alien buggers are poised for a final assault. The survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat the buggers. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battleschool. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. In simulated war games he excels. But is the pressure and loneliness taking its toll on Ender? Simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battleschool is just a game. Right? Manufacturer: STARSCAPE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0765342294. 324 pages. ISBN: 0765342294. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ender's Shadow Author: Orson Scott Card Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fistshe is way too small for thatbut with brains. Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness. What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commanderEnder Wigginperhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now. Manufacturer: STARSCAPE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0765342405. 469 pages. ISBN: 0765342405. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Engineering Mechanics Statics and Dynamics: Fifth Edition Author: E.W. Nelson, C.L. Best, W.G. McLean Students and professionals bought more than 300,000 copies of previous editions! This new edition draws on the best mathematical tool now available to solve problems. It applies the vector approach for elegance and simplicity in theory and problems whenever appropriate. Other times, for similarly adequate solutions, scalar methods are preferred. This study guide complements class texts and proves excellent for solo study and brushing up. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070461937. 519 pages. ISBN: 0070461937. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do... Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345342968. 190 pages. ISBN: 0345342968. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Fates Worse Than Death Author: Kurt Vonnegut "Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss..." - Kurt Vonnegut Manufacturer: BERKLEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0425134067. 240 pages. ISBN: 0425134067. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Fluid Dynamics: Third Edition Author: William F. Hughes, John A. Brighton The explanation of a broad spectrum of fluid mechanics topics and such specialized material as hypersonic flow and non-Newtonian fluids, makes this book valuable both as a study guide and reference for practitioners, for undergraduate and graduate students, and for those studying solo. Contains new information about solving the equations that are the foundation of fluid mechanics by computer. It provides excellent preparation for such fields as aeronautics, aerospace science, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070311188. 391 pages. ISBN: 0070311188. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics: Third Edition Author: R.V. Giles, J.B. Evett, C. Liu If you want top grades and excellent understanding of fluid mechanics and hydraulics, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get hundreds of additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. This superb Outline clearly presents every aspect of fluid mechanics and hydraulics. Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutiae, Schaum's Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Compatible with any textbook, this Outline is also perfect for self-study. For better grades in courses covering fluid mechanics and hydraulics you can't do better than this Schaum's Outline! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070205094. 378 pages. ISBN: 0070205094. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| From the Dust Returned Author: Ray Bradbury A dark and brilliant masterwork fifty-five years in the making from the incomparable Ray Bradbury. At first, there was only a place on the long plain of grass and a hill on which was nothing at all but more grass and a tree that was crooked as a fork of black lightning on which nothing grew until the town came and the House arrived... Manufacturer: AVON. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0380789612. 267 pages. ISBN: 0380789612. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian Author: Kurt Vonnegut In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending but an occurance that changes those to whom it happens? As a "reporter on the afterlife," Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be strapped to a gurney by his friend Jack Kevorkian and dispatched round-trip to the Pearly Gates. Or at least that's what he claims in the introduction to these thirty-odd comic and irreverent "interviews" with the likes of William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, bringing readers to an entirely new place--a place to which only Vonnegut could bring us. Manufacturer: WSP. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0743422007. 79 pages. ISBN: 0743422007. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| God Emperor of Dune Author: Frank Herbert Centuries have passed on Dune, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice... Manufacturer: ACE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0441294677. 423 pages. ISBN: 0441294677. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Green Mars Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553572393. 624 pages. ISBN: 0553572393. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ham Radio FAQ Author: Al Alvareztorres, Ed Hare You've Got Questions...We've Got Answers! They may be straightforward or complex, theoretical or practical, but if you're an Amateur Radio operator, it's inevitable that you'll have questions. The good news: We have the answers! The ARRL Lab's Technical Information Service and "The Doctor" have been answering hams' questions for nearly eight decades. This book is a compilation of actual questions submitted to TIS staff on: *Antennas *Station setup and operation *Mobile and portable operation *Batteries, and *Grounding In addition, there is a References chapter with all kinds of useful information--the names and addresses of parts and kits suppliers, lists of essential tools, how to attach connectors--and much more. Manufacturer: ARRL. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0872598268. ISBN: 0872598268. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ham Radio for Dummies Author: Ward Silver Its time we cleared the air about ham radio. If you think of it as staticky transmissions sent by people in the middle of nowhere, think again. Todays ham radio goes beyond wireless to extreme wireless, Operators transmit data and pictures, use the Internet, laser, and microwave transmitters, and travel to places high and low to make contact. In an emergency or natural disaster, ham radio can replace downed traditional communication and save lives. Whether youre just getting turned on to ham radio or already have your license, Ham Radio for Dummies helps you with the terminology, the technology and the talknology. Written by Ward Silver, an electrical engineer, Certified Amateur Radio License Examiner, and columnist for QST, a monthly magazine for ham operators, Ham Radio for Dummies gives you the info you need to delve into the science or dive into the conversation. Complete with a glossary and ten pages of additional suggested resources, Ham Radio for Dummies encourages you to touch that dial and take that mike. Manufacturer: WILEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0764559877. 360 pages. ISBN: 0764559877. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Handbook 2004 for Radio Communications Inside this comprehensive RF Engineering Reference you'll find: *Fundamental Theory *Practical Design and Projects *Construction Techniques *Operating Practices *Wireless Technology (pagers, cell phones, etc.) ...and more! Manufacturer: ARRL. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0872591964. 1216 pages. ISBN: 0872591964. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Heat Transfer: Second Edition Author: Donald Pitts, Leighton Sissom If you want top grades and thorough understanding of heat transfer, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you 269 accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get 92 additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how youre doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutie, Schaums Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwideand this guide will show you why! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070502072. 365 pages. ISBN: 0070502072. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Heretics of Dune Author: Frank Herbert The planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... Manufacturer: ACE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0441328008. 471 pages. ISBN: 0441328008. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Hidden Empire Author: Kevin J. Anderson Having colonized the worlds of the spiral arm, mankind's three branches--the Terran Hansa, starship-dwelling Roamers, and telepathic Green Priests--are certain the galaxy is theirs for the taking. But when scientists successfully test a device that transforms gas giant planets into new suns, humanity soon discovers the brutal, horrifying price of arrogance in deep space. For Jovian planets are the homeworlds of an undreamt-of alien species, the hydrogues. Infinitely advanced, supremely powerful, and now the victims of accidental genocide, the hydrogues don't seek apologies or reparations. Instead, incredible armadas of invincible, city-sized warships suddenly emerge from the galaxy's billions of gaseous worlds with a single mission--to annihilate every last human being in the universe... Manufacturer: ASPECT. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0446610577. 654 pages. ISBN: 0446610577. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Hocus Pocus Author: Kurt Vonnegut Manufacturer: BERKLEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0425130215. 324 pages. ISBN: 0425130215. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Horizon Storms Author: Kevin J. Anderson Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat? For the leader of the Roamers, survival means extending a helping hand to others, while the chairman of the Terran Hansa plans to use a new, untested alien weapon regardless of the consequences. And for the new Ildiran Mage-Imperator, survival involves throwing off the choking tradition of the Empire--even if it might trigger a civil war. As old intrigues and dark secrets come to light, a man who is believed to be long dead returns with an ally who may save mankind. But this new fragile hope will be threatened by a fresh betrayal--the most bitter and brutal of them all... Manufacturer: ASPECT. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0446610593. 640 pages. ISBN: 0446610593. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| How To Solve Word Problems in Calculus: Proven Techniques from the Experts Author: Eugene Don, Ph.D. and Benay Don, M.S. Considered to be the hardest mathematical problems to solve, word problems continue to terrify students across all math disciplines. This new title in the World Problems series demystifies these difficult problems once and for all by showing even the most math-phobic readers simple, step-by-step tips and techniques. How to Solve World Problems in Calculus reviews important concepts in calculus and provides solved problems and step-by-step solutions. Once students have mastered the basic approaches to solving calculus word problems, they will confidently apply these new mathematical principles to even the most challenging advanced problems. Each chapter features an introduction to a problem type, definitions, related theorems, and formulas. Topics range from vital pre-calculus review to traditional calculus first-course content. Sample problems with solutions and a 50-problem chapter are ideal for self-testing. Fully explained examples with step-by-step solutions. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071358978. 226 pages. ISBN: 0071358978. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| How to Survive a Robot Uprising Author: Daniel H. Wilson In this essential survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny. From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, outwitting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans. Based on extensive interviews with prominent scientists working on the cutting edge of the latest robotics technology, and including a thorough overview of current robot prototypes--everything from humanoid walkers to insect, gecko, and snake robots--How to Survive a Robot Uprising is a perfect introduction to contemporary robotics. Manufacturer: BLOOMSBURY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1582345929. 176 pages. ISBN: 1582345929. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| IC Layout Basics: A Practical Guide Author: Christopher Saint, Judy Saint MASTER IC LAYOUT WITHOUT AN ENGINEERING BACKGROUND! To new chip applications such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, and consumer electronics, electronic semiconductor usage has exploded, creating an unprecedented demand for technicians skilled in CMOS and bipolar design and layout. In IC LAYOUT BASICS, you get the same top-notch material utilized in IBMs successful training courses. This essential primerbrings you up to speed on: * Integrated circuit processes * Layout techniques * Fundamental device concepts * Wafer processes Writing for technicians without an engineering degree , the authors present concepts from the ground up, building on the simple until the complex becomes crystal clear. Examples, self-tests, and sidebars reinforce the material and make it all quick and painless. For maximum retention, each chapter includes preview points, "motivation" boxes, and executive summaries. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071386254. 300 pages. ISBN: 0071386254. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ingenious Mechanisms: For Designers and Inventors v.4 Author: Franklin D. Jones Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. * The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. * Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. * The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. * Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831110325. 486 pages. ISBN: 0831110325. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ingenious Mechanisms: For Designers and Inventors v.1 Author: Franklin D. Jones Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. * The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. * Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. * The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. * Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831110295. 536 pages. ISBN: 0831110295. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ingenious Mechanisms: For Designers and Inventors v.2 Author: Franklin D. Jones Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. * The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. * Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. * The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. * Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831110309. 538 pages. ISBN: 0831110309. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Ingenious Mechanisms: For Designers and Inventors v.3 Author: Franklin D. Jones Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. * The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. * Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. * The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. * Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831110317. 536 pages. ISBN: 0831110317. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Jailbird Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government...and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times. Manufacturer: DELTA. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385333900. 310 pages. ISBN: 0385333900. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Lost Boys Author: Orson Scott Card For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster. Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself -- and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends. But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next. Manufacturer: HARPERT. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0061091316. 528 pages. ISBN: 0061091316. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Lucifer's Hammer Author: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known.... Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0449208133. 629 pages. ISBN: 0449208133. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Machinery's Handbook Author: Oberg, Jones, Horton, and Ryffel Machinery's Handbook is the most popular engineering reference book of all time and is considered the standard reference for the mechanical industries worldwide. Millions of copies have been sold. The new 27th edition remains true to the Handbook's original design as an extraordinary comprehensive yet practical and easy-to-use reference for mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists. This "larger-print" edition is identical in content to the original "toolbox" edition but the pages, print and graphics are all 40 percent larger. Machinery's Handbook is also available in the popular CD-ROM version. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831127112. 2693 pages. ISBN: 0831127112. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Machinery's Handbook Author: Oberg, Jones, Horton, and Ryffel Machinery's Handbook is the most popular engineering reference book of all time and is considered the standard reference for the mechanical industries worldwide. Millions of copies have been sold. The new 27th edition remains true to the Handbook's original design as an extraordinary comprehensive yet practical and easy-to-use reference for mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists. Machinery's Handbook is also available in the popular CD-ROM version and in a "larger-print" edition. The content of the latter is identical to the original "toolbox" edition but the pages and graphics are all 40 percent larger. Manufacturer: INDPRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0831127007. 2693 pages. ISBN: 0831127007. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| One More for the Road Author: Ray Bradbury America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round--eighteen brand new stories and seven previously published but never before collected--a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist. This glass overflows with a heady brew: a house where time has no boundaries; the comforts of arguments eternal; the ghosts of dear friends, errant sons and lost fathers; the addictive terror of a pre-dawn phone call. It is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the imcomparable Bradbury. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations. Manufacturer: AVON. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0061032034. 350 pages. ISBN: 0061032034. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Player Piano Author: Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut--wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Manufacturer: DELTA. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385333781. 341 pages. ISBN: 0385333781. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Quick Reference for the Mechanical Engineering PE Exam: Fourth Edition Author: Michael R. Lindeburg, PE For speedy access to the formulas you'll need during the exam, use the Quick Reference for the Mechanical Engineering PE Exam. This material, drawn from the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual, is organized by topic and indexed for rapid retrieval. Manufacturer: PP, INC.. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1888577800. 122 pages. ISBN: 1888577800. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| QUICKSILVER Author: Neal Stephenson In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe--in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. Manufacturer: HARPTORCH. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060833165. 456 pages. ISBN: 0060833165. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Radio Frequency Design Author: Wes Hayward A thorough treatment of the fundamental methods of radio frequency design using mathematics as needed to develop intuition for RF circuits and systems. You'll find emphasis on applications of simple circuit models whenever possible. Prepares readers to actually design HF, VHF and UHF equipment. Manufacturer: ARRL. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0872594920. 400 pages. ISBN: 0872594920. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Red Mars Author: Kim Stanley Robinson For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is to give Mars an Earthlike atmosphere. They will place giant satellite mirros in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planet's surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed. Manufacturer: BANTUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553560735. 572 pages. ISBN: 0553560735. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Remnant Population Author: Elizabeth Moon For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her on surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days--until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictate that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community...but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. A population of one. With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over--for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again--in ways she could never have imagined... Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 034546219X. 325 pages. ISBN: 034546219X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| RINGWORLD Author: Larry Niven A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again! Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345333926. 342 pages. ISBN: 0345333926. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Scattered Suns Author: Kevin J. Anderson The war between the hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. But the humans and Ildirans caught in the crossfire are as much at risk from internal strife. The many factions of humanity are bitterly divided as Chairman Wenceslas's vendetta against all independent colonies blinds him to outside dangers. Meanwhile, Jora'h, the Ildiran Mage Imperator, must quash a bloody coup initiated by his mad brother. Into this tumult the Klikiss robots, after infiltrating the entire human military, have launched their long-planned extermination of all things flesh and blood. How will mankind and Ildirans survive a new enemy that intends to annihilate them? Manufacturer: WARNER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0446615242. 710 pages. ISBN: 0446615242. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Shadow of the Giant Author: Orson Scott Card Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins's right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He serves the Hegemon in the terrible wars that have followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. But within his genetically modified body is a ticking time bomb--Bean has never stopped growing; from the tiny, brilliant strategist, he has grown to be a giant in body as well as mind. Soon, he will not be able to survive in the gravity of his home world. Soon, he will have to make a terrible choice. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812571398. 371 pages. ISBN: 0812571398. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Shadow of the Hegemon Author: Orson Scott Card Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345334302. 451 pages. ISBN: 0812565959. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Shadow of the Hegemon Author: Orson Scott Card The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heros; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812565959. 451 pages. ISBN: 0812565959. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Shadow Puppets Author: Orson Scott Card Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future. Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0765340054. 375 pages. ISBN: 0765340054. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Speaker for the Dead Author: Orson Scott Card In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812550757. 382 pages. ISBN: 0812550757. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Starry Messenger Author: Peter Sis A book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and physicist...Galileo Galilei. Manufacturer: FSG. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0374470278. 31 pages. ISBN: 0374470278. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Statics and Mechanics of Materials Author: William A. Nash If you want top grades and excellent understanding of the statics and mechanics of materials, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get hundreds of additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how youre doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutiae, Schaums Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwideand this guide will show you why! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070458960. 282 pages. ISBN: 0070458960. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Statics and Strength of Materials Author: John J. Jackson, Harold G. Wirtz The favorite study guide of engineering students around the world, Schaum's have an easy-to-follow format, a solved-problem approach to learning, and clear explanations of both theory and application. This popular introduction to statics and strengths of materials gives you 435 problems solved step by step, plus hundreds more problems to try on your own (you can check your answers at the back of the book.) With thorough introductions to basic principles; nonconcurrent and concurrent coplanar force systems; stress, torsion, shear, deflection, and deformation; connections; and all other important topics taught in this course, this guide can help you spend less time studying and still make better grades! Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070321213. 376 pages. ISBN: 0070321213. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Switch On the Night Author: Ray Bradbury First published in 1955, Switch On the Night is the only picture book for very young children by Ray Bradbury, the well-known science fiction and fantasy author. Here is a brilliantly original fable about a boy who conquers his fear of the night with the help of a child named Dark. Bradbury's vivid sense of magic is made all the more dramatic with the addition of stunning illustrations by Leo and Diana Dillon, twice winners of the Caldecott Medal. Manufacturer: DRAGONFLY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553112449. 30 pages. ISBN: 0553112449. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Teach Yourself Calculus Author: P. Abbott & Hugh Neill While Teach Yourself Calculus is perfect for beginners who want to acquire a working knowledge of calculus, at the same time it is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to expand their knowledge beyond the basics. In a progressive, step-by-step fashion, the book builds from the ground up to offer comprehensive coverage of a range of more advanced topics such as multiple integrals. Each chapter features numerous worked examples and graded exercises. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071421289. 316 pages. ISBN: 0071421289. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Cat's Pajamas Author: Ray Bradbury The Cat's Pajamas is an amazing journey through Ray Bradbury's illustrious six-decade career. Of the twenty-two stories collected here--some written recently, others decades ago--all but two have never before been published. Bradbury has crafted tales that are strange and scary, nostalgic and bittersweet, and humorous and touching, set in the not-so-distant past and an unknowable future: a group of senators drinks too much and gambles away the United States, a newly-wed couple buys an old house and finds their fledgling relationship tested, two mysterious strangers arrive at a rooming house and baffle their fellow occupants with strange crying in the night, and a lonely woman takes a last chance on love. The final piece is a story-poem, a fond salute from Bradbury to his literary heroes Shaw, Chesterton, Dickens, Twain, Poe, Wilde, Melville, and Kipling. A timeless collection from one of America's greatest storytellers, The Cat's Pajamas is a panoramic view of Ray Bradbury's rich and remarkable imagination. Manufacturer: HARPER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060777338. 234 pages. ISBN: 0060777338. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Confusion Author: Neal Stephenson In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves--including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack--devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues--a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver...nay, gold...nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion...and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. Manufacturer: HARPER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060733357. 810 pages. ISBN: 0060733357. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering: Second Edition Author: Frank Kreith, D. Yogi Goswami * Covers new topics including nanotechnology, MEMS, electric and hybrid vehicles, and bioengineering * Updates previous coverage with the latest developments, new references, and relevant computer technology information Since the first edition of this comprehensive handbook was published ten years ago, many changes have taken place in engineering and related technologies. Now, this best-selling reference has been updated for the 21st century, providing complete coverage of classic engineering issues as well as groundbreaking new subject areas. The second edition of The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering covers every important aspect of the subject in a single volume. It continues the mission of the first edition in providing the practicing engineer in industry, government, and academia with relevant background and up-to-date information on the most important topics of modern mechanical engineering. Coverage of traditional topics has been updated, including sections on thermodynamic, solid and fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, materials, controls, energy conversion, manufacturing and design, robotics, environmental engineering, economics and project management, patent law, and transportation. Updates to these sections include new references and information on computer technology related to the topics. This edition also includes coverage of new topics such as nanotechnology, MEMS, electronic packaging, global climate change, electric and hybrid vehicles, and bioengineering. Manufacturer: CRC PRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0849308666. 2016 pages. ISBN: 0849308666. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Halloween Tree Author: Ray Bradbury On Halloween night, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man can help the boys find him. Join the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud as he takes them on an unforgettable journey through space and time, deep into the mysteries of this spookiest of all nights. Can the boys save Pip before it's too late? Manufacturer: YEARLING. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0375803017. 145 pages. ISBN: 0375803017. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Illustrated Man Author: Ray Bradbury The tattooed man moves, and in the arcane designs scrawled upon his skin swirl tales beyond imagining: tales of love and laughter, darkness and death, of mankind's glowing, golden past and its dim, haunted future. Here are eighteen imcomparable stories that blend magic and truth in a kaleidoscopic tapestry of wonder--woven by the matchless imagination of Ray Bradbury. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 055327449X. 185 pages. ISBN: 055327449X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Industrial Design Reader Author: Carma Gorman This groundbreaking anthology is the first to focus exclusively on the history of industrial design. With essays written by some of the greatest designers, visionaries, policy makers, theorists, critics, and historians of the past two centuries, The Industrial Design Reader traces the history of industrial design, industrialization, and mass production in the United States and throughout the world. Spanning from the 1850s to the present, The Industrial Design Reader includes everything from William Morriss writings about the Arts and Crafts movement to Nixons and Khrushchevs Kitchen Debate; from Marinettis Futurism manifesto to Toyotas just-in-time production strategies. This valuable resource provides educators, students, and practitioners of industrial design with a unique and multifaceted reading experience. Includes essays and speeches by Henry Ford Sigmund Freud, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Walter Gropius, R. Buckminster Fuller, Henry Dreyfuss, Ralph Nader, Karl Marx, John Ruskin and many other protagonists of industrial design. The Industrial Design Reader is co-published by Allworth Press and the Design Management Institute. . Manufacturer: APRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1581153104. 243 pages. ISBN: 1581153104. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Martian Chronicles Author: Ray Bradbury Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red Planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars--and in that instant, Mars conquered him. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. Here are the captivating chronicles of man and Mars--the modern classic by the peerless Ray Bradbury. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553278223. 182 pages. ISBN: 0553278223. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Ringworld Engineers Author: Larry Niven It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable...and will destroy itself within months. To survive he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet. His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture, blended with the mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Larry Niven can conjure! Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345334302. 355 pages. ISBN: 0345334302. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Sirens of Titan Author: Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there's a catch to the invitation...and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell. Manufacturer: DELTA. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385333498. 326 pages. ISBN: 0385333498. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Slaughterhouse-Five Author: Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Manufacturer: DELL. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0440180295. 215 pages. ISBN: 0440180295. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Speed of Dark Author: Elizabeth Moon Thoughtful, poignant, and unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try an experimental "cure" for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that may change the way he views the world--and the very essence of who he is. Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345481399. 369 pages. ISBN: 0345481399. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The System of the World Author: Neal Stephenson England, 1714. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level as Half-Cocked Jack hatches a daring plan, aiming for the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system. Enter Daniel Waterhouse: Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, Daniel has been on a long and harrowing quest to help mend the rift between adversarial geniuses. As Daniel combs city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers, political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen, and the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton. As Newton, Waterhouse, and Shaftoe each circle closer to the object of Daniel's quest, everything that was will be changed forever... Manufacturer: HARPER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0060750863. 887 pages. ISBN: 0060750863. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| The Vintage Bradbury Author: Ray Bradbury Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their ideal selves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who lives in terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fiction writer might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradbury can tell us how the Martians see it--and the strange and dreamlike visitors from Planet Earth. Manufacturer: VINTAGE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0679729461. 329 pages. ISBN: 0679729461. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Thermodynamics with Chemical Applications: Second Edition Author: M. M. Abbott, H. G. Van Ness The fundamental principles of classic thermodynamics as they apply in science and engineering are illustrated here in numerous, fully worked out examples. Equally valuable at undergraduate and first-year graduate levels, this powerful study tool takes students from fundamental laws to the behavior of PVT systems, to the treatment of flow processes, the basics of chemical thermodynamics and more. Hundreds of review problems with answers speed comprehension and reinforce learning. Manufacturer: SCHAUM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070000425. 362 pages. ISBN: 0070000425. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| TIMEQUAKE Author: Kurt Vonnegut At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point? Manufacturer: BERKLEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0425164349. 250 pages. ISBN: 0425164349. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Trading in Danger Author: Elizabeth Moon Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, a young woman who has chosen a military career instead of joining the family's shipping business. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. But after a single error in judgment, she is expelled from the Academy in disgrace. The chance to captain a Vatta Transport ship gives her a face-saving shot at redemption. It's a simple assignment: escort one of the Vatta fleet's oldest ships on its final voyage to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky's style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to babysit the fledgling captain, they can't stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture. Business soon takes a backseat to bravery, when Ky's change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it's her military training and born-soldier's instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny... Manufacturer: DELREY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0345447611. 357 pages. ISBN: 0345447611. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Welcome to the Monkey House Author: Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Manufacturer: DELTA. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0385333501. 331 pages. ISBN: 0385333501. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Xenocide Author: Orson Scott Card On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to transform into adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effect of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, and a second Xenocide seems inevitable. Until the Fleet vanishes. The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most intelligent analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence. There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle; but will she choose life or death for the three races who live on Lusitania? Manufacturer: TOR. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0812509250. 592 pages. ISBN: 0812509250. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Zen in the Art of Writing Author: Ray Bradbury Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft--everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style--as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen in the Art of Writing is more that just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life. Manufacturer: BANTAM. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0553296345. 158 pages. ISBN: 0553296345. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Algebra for the Utterly Confused Author: Larry Stephens, Ph.D. Students and professionals alike must tap into their knowledge of algebra everyday, whether it's for the SATs, college courses, or even the workplace. Author Larry Stephens presents a super-accessible approach to the subject that even the most math-phobic student can follow, featuring simplified rules and techniques based on real-world problems that use the principles of algebra for their solutions. Algebra for the Utterly Confused offers a user-friendly, logical, step-by-step approach to the fundamentals of algebra, integrating contemporary software as one of the key tools to assist in the solutions of the problems, including MINITAB, Excel spreadsheets, and Maple. * Handy icons help students visualize concepts and techniques * More than 200 solved problems and examples aid students in working out algebraic solutions * Summary of key points for every chapter reinforces covered topics Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071381821. 221 pages. ISBN: 0071355146. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Arithmetic & Algebra....Again Author: Brita Immergut and Jean Burr Smith Does math send a chill up your spine? Do you freeze when you see formulas marching across a page? With this easy-to-use guide--specially designed for those who have had difficulties with math in the past but who are bravely re-entering the fray--you can banish your fear of mathematics and algebra forever. This anxiety-calming guide can help you excel in math--even if you thought you were a hopeless case. With plain-English explanations and step-by-step examples, it shows you how easy it can be to achieve mastery over mathematics. Arithmetic and Algebra ... Again offers you real help and real hope. Written by teachers with years of experience teaching the math-anxious, it gives you specific, one-step-at-a-time support in calming your anxiety, learning about numbers, and solving problems. Before you know it, you'll be looking forward to algebra exams! Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070317208. 379 pages. ISBN: 0070317208. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Arts and Crafts Design Author: William H. Varnum "In this relativistic age in which de gustilrie non disputandum est (it is undisputed that each person has their own sense of taste), it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values. William H. Varnum was one of those people. He offers here a textbook that will, if followed, allow students to 'directly apply well-recognized principles of design to specific materials and problems.' No situation esthetics here. In fact, he followed these principles in designing the logos representing his tools and ratio system on the cover of his book. "Varnum's book offers an enlightening, if somewhat technical, insight into thinking about design before World War I. There is no doubt that the Arts and Crafts period during which the principles of simple beauty married so neatly with function can be better understood and appreciated today through Varnum's perceptions." Manufacturer: GIBBS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0879056991. 248 pages. ISBN: 0879056991. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Basic Machines and How They Work Author: Bureau of Naval Personnel This book provides an excellent introduction to mechanics using lots of diagrams, basic vocabulary and a minimum of math. This book was developed by the US Navy to teach ordinary people how to maintain shipboard machinery. It is very thorough because lives depended on the results, but very readable because students were expected to have no more than a high school education. The book provides an intuitive introduction to basic physics including force, work, and power. The discussion of these basics is interleaved with detailed examples of practical machines including levers, gears, screws, hydraulics, bearings, differentials and internal combustion engines. Manufacturer: DOVER. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0486217094. 124 pages. ISBN: 0486217094. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| College Algebra Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Author: Rhonda Huettenmueller One of the most valuable tools acquired in a university education, college algebra is essential for courses from the sciences to computing, engineering to mathematics. It can help you do better on placement exams, even before college, and it's useful in solving the computations of daily life. Now anyone with an interest in college algebra can master it. In College Algebra Demystified, entertaining author and experienced teacher Rhonda Huettenmueller breaks college algebra down into manageable bites with practical examples, real data, and a new approach that banishes algebra's mystery. With College Algebra Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. Unlike most books on college algebra, general concepts are presented first - and the details follow. In order to make the process as clear and simple as possible, long computations are presented in a logical, layered progression with just one execution per step. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071439285. 446 pages. ISBN: 0071439285. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Getting Started in Science Fairs: From Planning to Judging Author: Phyllis J. Perry, Ed.D. Classroom-tested science projects and hard-to-find advice on all aspects of science fairs If you're looking for more than just a science fair project book, this unique, insightful guide is the one you'll want to buy. Focusing on an elementary school audience, Getting Started in Science Fairs: From Planning to Judging lives up to the promise of its title, providing not only complete descriptions of dozens of creative projects, but also all of the necessary information for staging and judging science fairs. Respected educator Phyllis J. Perry provides teachers, parents, students, and science fair organizers and judges with helpful advice on everything from setting science fair objectives to what roles adults should play. Broader in scope than other books, this guidebook's projects--all of which follow the scientific method--span nine different scientific disciplines, including botany, environmental science, and zoology. For each project, Perry thoroughly explains its objective, and describes procedures for setup and data gathering, as well as offering helpful suggestions for how to effectively display the project at a science fair. You'll also find a resource section filled with information on materials and supplies. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070495262. 183 pages. ISBN: 0070495262. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Math Word Problems Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Author: Allan G. Bluman Word problems are the most difficult part of any math course - and the most important to both the SATs and other standardized tests. This book teaches proven methods for analyzing and solving any type of math word problem. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071443169. 301 pages. ISBN: 0071443169. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| More Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects Author: Maxine Iritz By Popular Demand, Another Prize-Winning Batch of Do-It-Yourself Projects for Curious Kids Congratulations! You've finally hit the big time at school: it's time to get started on your very first science fair project. Exciting stuff--but naturally, you've got some pretty big questions... * Where can I find a really awesome idea? * How exactly do I go about getting started? * How can I make sure my display is the most eye-catching one at the fair? * And what's the secret to really impressing the judges? You'll discover all the step-by-step answers to these and loads of other questions in this eagerly anticipated follow-up to Maxine Iritz's best-selling Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects. Completely updated and more helpful than ever; More Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects shows tomorrow's superstar scientists how to find their own answers, make their own discoveries, and put together an exciting, top-notch science project. Maxine Iritz also provides detailed, top-to-bottom examples of dozens of actual student projects that have taken home top honors in the past. The book's unique organizer--complete with checklist, planner, and daily log--helps you stay on track from start to finish. A sure-fire recipe for prize-winning success, More Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects transforms learning into countless hours of exciting fun! Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071346686. 100 pages. ISBN: 0071346686. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Physics Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Author: Stan Gibilisco Now anyone with an interest in the physical sciences can master physics -- without formal training or drowning in a sea of complicated formulas and equations. In Physics Demystified best-selling author Stan Gibilisco offers a fun, effective, and totally painless way to learn the fundamentals and general concepts of physics. With Physics Demystified you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. Unlike most books on physics, general principles are presented first -- and the details follow. In order to make the learning process as clear and simple as possible, heavy-duty math, formulas, and equations are kept to a minimum. This unique self-teaching guide offers questions at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 100-question final exam to reinforce the entire book. Simple enough for a beginner but challenging enough for an advanced student, Physics Demystified is your direct route to learning or brushing up on physics. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071382011. 599 pages. ISBN: 0071382011. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Physics for the Utterly Confused Author: Daniel Oman and Robert Oman When it comes to understanding one of your most intimidating courses--physics--even good students can be confused. This book is perfect for students in either the first or second semester of non-calculus-based physics courses, and is equally useful to anyone taking a first physics course. Problems are thoroughly solved--all math steps are shown and all concepts are explained. This book will help you understand how to do your homework problems and get ready for your exams. Don't wait another minute--get the answers now and go from utterly confused to totally prepared in no time! All the Help You'll Ever Need!--The Utterly Confused Series * Handy icons to help students visualize concepts and techniques * 500 self-testing questions * More than 200 examples and solved problems * A summary of key points for every chapter Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070482624. 180 pages. ISBN: 0070482624. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Science Fair Projects for Dummies Author: Maxine Levaren Uh-oh, now you've gone and done it, you volunteered to do a science fair project. Don't sweat it, presenting at a science fair can be a lot of fun. Just remember, the science fair is for your benefit. It's your chance to show that you understand the scientific method and how to apply it. Also, it's an opportunity for you to delve more deeply into a topic you're interested in. Quite a few scientists, including a few Nobel laureates, claim that they had their first major breakthrough while researching a science fair project. And besides, a good science fair project can open a lot of doors academically and professionally, but you already knew that. Stuck on what to do for your science project? This easy-to-follow guide is chock-full of more than 50 fun ideas and experiments in everything from astronomy to zoology. Your complete guide to doing memorable science projects and having fun in the process, Science Fair Projects For Dummies is a science fair survival guide for budding scientists at every grade level. Manufacturer: WILEY. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0764554603. 358 pages. ISBN: 0764554603. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Super Science Fair Sourcebook Author: Maxine Haren Iritz How to select, research, create, and display projects...plus loads of prize-winning examples and exciting new projects! A terrific resource for students ages 10 and up, and parents and teachers this comprehensive guide to science fairs provides sound advice and information on all aspects of competition, from concept to presentation. As an added bonus, it also contains a collection of the best science fair projects from author Maxine Haren Iritz's previous books, as well as plenty of new ideas. Rich with tips and ideas that can give your project an edge over the competition, Super Science Fair Sourcebook includes reproducible forms, data charts, checklists, and more. Of special interest is Iritz's discussion of how to harness the power of computers and CD-ROMs to energize and expand your research. And you'll find a plain-English explanation of how to tap the Information Highway. Parents and teachers will get critical advice on how to evaluate projects for difficulty, cost, safety, and compliance with ISEF rules; understand judging and awards; and make the entire science fair effort run smoothly. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0070328498. 248 pages. ISBN: 0070328498. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| To Engineer Is Human Author: Henry Petroski How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s--the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book. More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life. Manufacturer: VINTAGE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0679734163. 251 pages. ISBN: 0679734163. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Easy Microcontrol'n v4.1 Author: David Benson "Easy Microcontrol'n" is intended to ease the beginner toward understanding and application of the PIC line of microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, Inc. Examples of assembly language programs range from a simple one to turn on LED's to more complex ones for timing and for event-counting. Writing programs is covered in-depth and the use of flow charts, as an aid to visualizing what a program does, is emphasized. The approach is hands-on with many examples, all of which may be demonstrated using a very simple demo board (a project) in the beginning of the book. New version 4.1 using MPLAB v7 Manufacturer: SQUARE1. 178 pages. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | Microcontrol'n Apps Author: David Benson "Microcontrol'n Apps" is an intermediate level applications guide covering Microchip Technology's PIC Microcontrollers. Serial communication as a means of transferring data between PIC microcontrollers and peripheral chips and also between two or more PIC microcontrollers is described. Use of the 93C46 serial EEPROM is detailed as an example. Since we live in an analog world, A/D and D/A are discussed with several methods illustrated for each. Conditioning signals from sensors with an analog voltage output is described. Interfacing PIC microcontroller-controlled systems with humans requires some math, binary to decimal conversion and vice versa, alphanumeric LCD interfacing and scanning keypads. Single wire serial communication with a PIC-controlled LCD module which can be built by the reader is included. A digital thermometer project brings these topics together as an example. The book also explains how to establish serial communication between a PIC microcontroller and a PC via a RS-232 conversion circuit and a terminal program. These techniques are used in a digital voltmeter/data logger experiment for uploading data to a PC for display plus graphing using a spreadsheet program. Moving up or down from the now familiar PIC16F84 to other devices is covered in detail so that you will easily be able to work with the new devices being introduced by Microchip. Finally, use of the Microchip in-circuit debugger (ICD) is described. "Microcontrol'n Apps" gives the reader the tools to design, build, and debug intermediate level microcontroller-based instrumentation and systems. Manufacturer: SQUARE1. 437 pages. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| PIC Microcontroller Project Book Second Edition Author: John Iovine The PIC microcontroller is enormously popular both in the U.S. and abroad. The first edition of this book was a tremendous success because of that. However, in the 4 years that have passed since the book was first published, the electronics hobbyist market has become more sophisticated. Many users of the PIC are now comfortable shelling out the $100). This new edition is fully updated and revised to include detailed directions on using both versions of the microcontroller, with no-nonsense recommendations on which is better served in different situations. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071437045. 292 pages. ISBN: 0071437045. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| PIC Robotics Author: John Iovine Here's everything the robotics hobbyist needs to harness the power of the PICMicro MCU! In this heavily-illustrated resource, author John Iovine provides plans and complete parts lists for 11 easy-to-build robots each with a PICMicro "brain. The expertly written coverage of the PIC Basic Computer makes programming a snap -- and lots of fun. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071373241. 274 pages. ISBN: 0071373241. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| PICMicro Microcontroller Pocket Reference Author: Myke Predko Designed to complement Programming & Customizing the PICMICRO, this book contains a minimum of verbiage and serves as an immediate device, code and circuit lookup for experienced PICMICRO applications designers. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071361758. 704 pages. ISBN: 0071361758. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Programming and Customizing the 8051 Microcontroller Author: Myke Predko Ready-to-build 8051 microcontroller projects--at your fingertips. Probably the most successful microcontroller on the market today, Intel's legendary 8051 lives on in enhanced versions sold by more than 20 chip manufacturers. Packed with over 30 experiments using Dallas Semiconductor's "HSM" flavors of the 8051 plus the Atmel AT89Cx051 "Flash" based versions, Myke Predko's Programming and Customizing the 8051 Microcontroller puts you in control of the 8051's architecture and instruction set--and even supplies a baker's dozen of ready-to-build example applications, programs and circuits. (You'll see how to create an Atmel AT89Cx061 programmer...a device emulator that exploits the 8051's ability to access external memory...a robot based on the Tamiya "Wall Hugging Mouse"--complete with a TV remote control interface...two real-time 8051 operating systems...and many other exciting projects). Best of all, the included CD-ROM supplies source code for the book's experiments and applications, a demonstration cop of the "UMPS" integrated development environment (IDE), and data sheets for the Dallas Semiconductor and Atmel 8051 compatible devices. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071341927. 541 pages. ISBN: 0071341927. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers Author: Myke Predko This book is a fully updated and revised compendium of PIC programming information. Comprehensive coverage of the PICMicros' hardware architecture and software schemes will complement the host of experiments and projects making this a true, "Learn as you go" tutorial. New sections on basic electronics and basic programming have been added for less sophisticated users along with 10 new projects and 20 new experiments. New pedagogical features have also been added such as "Programmers Tips" and "Hardware Fast FAQs". Key Features: * Printed Circuit Board for a PICMicro programmer included with the book! This programmer will have the capability to program all the PICMicros used by the application. * Twice as many projects including a PICMicro based Webserver * Twenty new "Experiments" to help the user better understand how the PICMicro works. * An introduction to Electronics and Programming in the Appendices along with engineering formulas and PICMicro web references. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071361723. 1190 pages. ISBN: 0071361723. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Programming the SX Microcontroller: A Complete Guide from Parallax Author: Gunther Daubach If you're ready to learn assembly language programming and the SX architecture, this is the book. The book begins with a step-by-step tutorial demonstrating the Parallax SX-Key software and programming tool. This covers the SX-Key debugger, registers/code windows while developing timing-based programs. The following chapters of the book provide detailed explanations of architecture including register use, memory configuration, interrupts and stack management. Short program examples are used to demonstrate arithmetic and logic instructions, Virtual Peripherals and UARTs. Applications examples in the second half of the book include function generators, pulse width modulation, analog to digital conversion, reading keypads, controlling LED displays, serial bus communication, and programming the SX Tech Bot. Manufacturer: Parallax. Manufacturer's Part Number: 192898228X. 457 pages. ISBN: 192898228X. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | Serial Communications Author: Roger L. Stevens "Serial Communications is a comprehensive advanced level book which details various methods for implementing serial communications between a Microchip PIC microcontroller and an external device. Asynchronous serial communications is covered both by using an on-chip USART and by bit-bang methods. The RS-232 standard is explained. A discussion of synchronous serial communications includes the I2C (Philips Semiconductors), SPI (Motorola) and Microwire (National Semiconductor) protocols. The Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire bus is described. Many code examples are included as modules which will provide the basis for the reader's own PIC microcontroller applications. Manufacturer: SQUARE1. 566 pages. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | Time'n and Count'n Author: David Benson "Time'n and Count'n" is an intermediate level book on 16-bit timing and counting applications using Microchip Technology's PIC microcontrollers. More opportunities for creating fun projects are described. Learning to use timer 1 (TMR1) with it's powerful capture, compare and pulse width modulation (PWM) modes will expand your PIC microcontroller design capabilities significantly. TMR1, which is an on-board feature of many of the mid-range PIC microcontrollers, is a 16-bit timer/counter. The maximum count is 65,535 vs. 255 for timer 0 (TMR0). This is a big help! TMR1 used in conjunction with the capture, compare, PWM (CCP) module may be programmed to do useful things unattended leaving the PIC free to perform other tasks. A special pin may be used for external inputs to TMR1 and another special pin may be used as an external output from TMR1. The techniques presented in the book are useful for generating single time intervals and free running outputs as well as for measuring period and frequency. PWM using TMR1 unattended is also described. These timing and counting techniques serve as the basis for designing and building your own period and frequency generating and measuring test equipment as described in the book. Manufacturer: SQUARE1. 218 pages. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius Author: Myke Predko This book provides an amazingly comprehensive education in robotics in a relatively short number of pages. The book is organized into 123 experiments that cover almost every aspect of hobby robotics including mechanics, electronics and microcontroller programming using the Parallax Basic Stamp. Each experiment is 1-3 pages long including a tutorial and a lab experiment involving construction of a device or circuit and exercices exploring its operation and use. The book takes a very practical, hands-on approach to its subjects. Only a handful of pages include any math and that doesn't get any more complex than middle school pre-algebra. The book is very readable but very dense. If you read it cover to cover you will have been exposed to almost all the skills and components used in hobby robotics. If you work your way through all the experiments you will create several simple robots and will develop an comprehensive working knowledge of robotics. The material in this book will be challenging for most adults but can be handled by motivated high school students. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0-07-141358-8. 355 pages. ISBN: 0-07-141358-8. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| Anatomy of a Robot Author: Charles M. Bergren This work looks under the hood of all robotic projects, stimulating teachers, students, and hobbyists to learn more about the gamut of areas associated with control systems and robotics. It offers a unique presentation in providing both theory and philosophy in a technical yet entertaining way. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071416579. 305 pages. ISBN: 0071416579. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Build A Remote-Controlled Robot Author: David R. Shircliff TAB ELECTRONICS...THE PREMIER NAME IN AMATEUR ROBOTICS Since the 1987 release of Gordon McComb's blockbuster ROBOT BUILDER'S BONANZA, hobbyists have looked to TAB as THE SOURCE for cutting-edge, how-to robotics titles. These groundbreaking, heavily-illustrated books explain how to create everythinbg from basic, simple robots to ones that walk, see, feel, talk, listen and fight! Written by "professors of robotics" such as Gordon McComb and John Iovine, they're great for beginners as well as experienced robot builders. Authoritative, innovative, fun, and always far ahead of anyone else, TAB continues the tradition with BUILD YOUR OWN ROMOTE-CONTROLLED ROBOT. BUILD YOUR OWN ROMOTE-CONTROLLED ROBOT: * Complete plans for building the inexpensive "Questor" Robot * Includes step-by-step detailed photographs of every stage of the assembly process * Provides easy-to-read wiring diagrams and a complete parts list * The perfect "first book" for amateur robotics Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071385436. 112 pages. ISBN: 0071385436. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Build Your Own All-Terrain Robot Author: Brad Graham, Kathy McGowan Remotely operated robots are becoming increasingly popular because they allow the operators to explore areas that may not normally be easily accessible. The use of video-controlled technology has sparked a growing public interest not just in hobbyists, but also in the areas of research, space, archeology, deep-sea exploration, and even the military. Significant changes in the technology marketplace have made the creation of an all-terrain, video controlled robot accessible to even the amateur robotic hobbyist. There are many robotics project books currently on the market, but most are targeted to hobbyists, and are strictly for indoor use. This book has the ideal mix of brains and brawn, making it appealing to hobbyists and interested professionals alike. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 007143741X. 298 pages. ISBN: 007143741X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Build Your Own Combat Robot Author: Pete Miles, Tom Carroll Create your own powerful battling robot from start to finish using this easy-to-follow manual. Robotics experts Pete Miles and Tom Carroll explain the science and technology behind robots, and show you what materials you need to build and program a robot for home, school, and competition. Manufacturer: OSBORNE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0072194642. 381 pages. ISBN: 0072194642. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Build Your Own Humanoid Robots Author: Karl Williams This unique guide to sophisticated robotics projects brings humanoid robot construction home to the hobbyist. Written by a well-known figure in the robotics community, Build Your Own Humanoid Robots provides step-by-step directions for 6 exciting projects, each costing less than $300. Together, they form the essential ingredients for making your own humanoid robot. Serious enough to interest robot professionals, the plans inside offer serious fun to hobbyists. They give you the power to breathe life into a mechanical being with amazingly human qualities, and feature all the instructions you need for programming the inexpensive chips that give your humanoid brains and sensitivity. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071422749. 211 pages. ISBN: 0071422749. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Building Robot Drive Trains Author: Dennis Clark and Michael Owings This very readable book provides essential information about motors, control electronics, wheels and mounting options with a minimum of jargon and math. It explains all you need to know in order to use small DC motors, gear motors, stepper motors and hobby servo motors in robotics and other educational and hobby applications. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071408509. 400 pages. ISBN: 0071408509. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| CNC Robotics Author: Geoff Williams Nothing improves efficiency in a wood-or metalworking shop--or almost any small manufacturing concern--like a CNC (computer numerical control) robot. But if you've priced one, you know the cost is a whopping $1,500! CNC Robotics gives you step-by-step, illustrated directions for designing, constructing, and testing a fully functional CNC robot that saves you 80 percent of the price of an off-the-shelf bot--and that can be customized to suit your purposes exactly, because you designed it. Build your own workshop bot and bring speed, precision, and automation to your workbench or enterprise. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071418288. 311 pages. ISBN: 0071418288. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Combat Robot Weapons Author: Chris Hannold ABOUT THE CD: The CD-ROM contains CAD and rendering software, CAD models, robot fighting videos and printable tables filled with useful information for all robot builders. Rhino3D is a computer aided design (CAD) program and provides the tools to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing. (Evaluation version) Flamingo is a raytracing program that provides photometrically accurate images with reflections, refraction, diffusion, translucency, transparency, color bleeding, shadows, depth of field, depth attenuation, ClearFinish(TM), and indirect lighting. (Evaluation version) The robot fighting videos are some of the best fight clips available from the NC Robot StreetFight. The CAD models include a full representation of Dagoth, the thirty pound bot constructed in Combat Robots Complete. This particular model shows Dagoth's upgrade plans from a wedge bot with spike to a vertical spinner bot with a secondary wedge. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071422005. 207 pages. ISBN: 0071422005. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Combat Robots Complete Author: Chris Hannold Here's everything you need to jump into the fascinating and fun world of fighting robots -- even if you don't have advanced electronic or engineering skills. The author, a five-year fighting bot and twenty-year bot veteran who has promoted robot combat events, offers priceless "insider info" covering everything from step-by-step guidance on constructing your first combat robot to the lowdown on the federations that sponsor or guide competitions. The CD-ROM contains a step-by-step guide to creating your own battling robot plus hundreds of FAQs that tap into the author's years of experience. Perfect for first-time robot builders as well as more advanced hobbyists who want to experience the thrill of metal bashing metal. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071408886. 311 pages. ISBN: 0071408886. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics Author: Stan Gibilisco This handy collection of straightforward, to-the-point definitions is exactly what robotics and electronics hobbyists need to get and stay up to speed with all new terms that have recently emerged in robotics and artificial intelligence. Written by an award-winning electronics author, the Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics delivers 400 up-to-date, easy-to-read definitions that make even complex concepts understandable. Over 150 illustrations make the information accessible at a glance and extensive cross-referencing and a comprehensive bibliography facilitate further research. Covering the very latest trends and developments and written with an eye toward future applications, this compact, no-fluff reference belongs on the desktop of every robotics, artificial intelligence, and electronics hobbyist. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071410104. 365 pages. ISBN: 0071410104. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms Author: Benjamin Erwin With its emphasis on building technical skills and having fun, LEGO Mindstorms has become a popular "toy" for technological tinkerers of all ages. This book-CD package helps you build a variety of exciting robots, and in the process expands your programming knowledge, enhances your problem-solving skills, and boosts your creativity. Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms walks you through the creation of several different kinds of robots: basic mobile robots, kinetic sculptures, robotic animals, data-gathering robots, and robots that can communicate over the Internet. As the book progresses, the robots become increasingly sophisticated and the programming becomes more complex. Manufacturer: ADDISON. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0201708957. 303 pages. ISBN: 0201708957. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Easy Step'n Author: David Benson "Easy Step'n", An Introduction to Stepper Motors for the Experimenter," explains to the reader how to determine surplus motor electrical and mechanical specs by using easy-to-build electrical and mechanical test equipment. The experimenter will learn to design and build microcontroller based control systems and to design and build driver circuits to switch power applied to stepper motor windings. The book is hands-on and full of experiments. The format of the books uses flow charts and many code examples in a step-by-step approach. Manufacturer: SQUARE1. 198 pages. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| Extreme MINDSTORMS: An Advanced Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Author: Dave Baum, Michael Gasperi, Ralph Hempel, and Luis Villa Three MINDSTORMS experts have joined with the maintainer of the legOS HOWTO to produce the book that all advanced users of LEGO MINDSTORMS have been waiting for. Each author has written material based on his specialty. Dave Baum shows you how to take NQC to its limits. Ralph Hempel explains the ins and outs of pbForth. Michael Gasperi teaches you how to build numerous custom sensors with simple, systematic instructions. Luis Villa show you how (and when) to upgrade MINDSTORMS' built-in operating system to take advantage of the extra power of legOS, a complete C environment for the RCX. Extreme MINDSTORMS: An Advanced Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS starts with an overview of the RCX firmware and includes a whole chapter on the new RCX 2.0 firmware. Next, the book concentrates on the steps needed to build Seeker, a Light-Seeking Robot, and to program it in NQC. Later chapters extend Seeker's functionality using pbForth and legOS. The book concludes with two chapters on building both custom passive and custom powered sensors. These sensors can take LEGO MINDSTORMS to levels impossible to achieve with just the parts supplied in the box or available through normal channels. Manufacturer: APRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1893115844. 347 pages. ISBN: 1893115844. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| How To Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot Author: Ed Sobey Step by step, Ed Sobey explains simple properties of robotics and helps young readers construct a completed working robot. He also presents ideas for original variations on the robot, so readers can enter their creation in a robotics contest. Contest resources are listed, along with winning tips for successful entries. A unique addition to this series! Manufacturer: ENSLOW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0766016277. 128 pages. ISBN: 0766016277. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Industrial Robotics Author: Harry Colestock With the proliferation of many types of robots in recent years, there is a real need to assist engineers, automation manufacturers, and robot aficionados in the proper selection, care, and feeding of a robot to achieve the maximum in productivity. This book does just that, along with classifying robots in accordance to their complexity and function provided. The book is perfect for large corporations as well as smaller "Mom and Pop" shops who may be considering using robots to help their industrial applications. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071440526. 211 pages. ISBN: 0071440526. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Insectronics Author: Karl Williams Build the baddest bug in town! It walks on six legs, possesses artificial intelligence, utilizes state-of-the-art technology--and is incredibly inexpensive to build! This complete project book delivers all the step-by-step plans you need to construct your own six-legged insect-like robot that walks and actually responds to its environment. Using inexpensive off-the-shelf parts, hobbyists can "build a better bug" and at the same time have loads of fun honing their knowledge of mechanical construction, programming, microcontroller use, and artificial intelligence. If you want to follow the lead of today's robotics experts who are looking to insects for structural inspiration-and have hours of amusement-Insectronics belongs in your home workshop. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071412417. 272 pages. ISBN: 0071412417. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Intermediate Robot Building Author: David Cook For readers of Robot Building for Beginners, or any novice ready for the "next level" in robotics, welcome to your next great read! Intermediate Robot Building offers the kind of real-world knowledge that only an experienced robot builder can offer the kind of knowledge beginners usually have to learn through mistakes. In this book, you'll learn the value of a robot heartbeat and the purpose of the wavy lines in photocells. You'll find out what electronic part you should sand. You'll discover how a well-placed switch can help a robot avoid obstacles better than a pair of feelers. And you'll avoid mistakes that can cause a capacitor to explode. Want a robot that can explore rooms, follow lines, or battle opponents in mini-sumo? This book presents step-by-step instructions and circuit and part descriptions so that you can build the robot featured in the book or apply the modules to your own robot designs. Finally, you'll find the complete schematics for Roundabout, a room explorer that requires no programming and uses only off-the-shelf electronics. With Roundabout, you'll use many of the same techniques used by professional robotics engineersand you'll experience many of the same challenges and joys they feel when a robot "comes to life." Manufacturer: APRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1590593731. 442 pages. ISBN: 1590593731. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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 | Junkbots, Bugbots and Bots on Wheels Author: Dave Hrynkiw, Mark W. Tilden This book is a fun book which introduces you to BEAM robotics and the art of building robots using both purchased and salvaged materials. The book provides thorough instructions for building 8 low cost robot projects. Manufacturer: OSBORNE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0072226013. 374 pages. ISBN: 0072226013. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| LEGO Software Power Tools with LDraw, MLCad, and LPub Author: Kevin Clague, Miguel Agullo, Lars C. Hassing LEGO Master Builders have created a powerful set of tools that are distributed as freeware to the LEGO community to assist LEGO fans in their building adventures. Until now, these tools have been difficult to find, and even more difficult to configure to work with one another. Here, in one book, readers will find steps for installing and using all of the most popular LEGO freeware applications. Also, all of the applications are consolidated into one simple-to-install program that allows readers to be up and running in minutes. Manufacturer: SYNGRESS. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1931836760. 489 pages. ISBN: 1931836760. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Mobile Robotic Car Design Author: Pushkin Kachroo, Patricia Mellodge Build a car robot, save thousands (and master some of the most sophisticated concepts in robotics) This thoughtful guide gives you complete, illustrated plans and instructions for building a 1:10-scale car robot that would cost thousands of dollars if bought off the shelf. But beyond hours of entertainment and satisfaction spent creating and operating an impressive and fun project, Mobile Robotic Car Design provides serious insight into the science and art of robotics. Written by robotics experts, this book gives you a solid background in electrical and mechanical theory, and the design savvy to conceptualize, enlarge, and build robotics projects of your own. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 007143870X. 278 pages. ISBN: 007143870X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| PDA Robotics Author: Douglas H. Williams The virtual chasm between PDAs and robots has been spanned, with McGraw-Hill's PDA Robotics: Using Your Personal Digital Assistant to Control Your Robot, an easy-to-read guide to integrating these two pieces of technology into a single, remote-controlled powerhouse. Written in easy-to-understand language by a renowned software designer and robotics expert, this unique resource reveals innovative concepts and designs, helping you to build your own PDA-controlled robot from the ground up. Perfect for hobbyists, students of electronics, and engineers alike, this book is your entree into the brave new world of PDA-controlled robots! Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071417419. 232 pages. ISBN: 0071417419. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Physical Computing Author: Dan O'Sullivan and Tom Igoe Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers The computer revolution has made it easy for people with little or no technical training to use a computer for such everyday tasks as typing a letter, saving files, or recording data. But what about more imaginative purposes such as starting your car, opening a door, or tracking the contents of your refrigerator? Physical Computing will not only change the way you use your computer, it will change the way you think about your computer -- how you view its capabiliites, how you interact with it, and how you put it to work for you. Its time to bridge the gap between the physical and the virtual -- time to use more than just your fingers to interact with your computer. Step outside of the confines of the basic computer and into the broader world of computing. Manufacturer: THOMSON. Manufacturer's Part Number: 159200346X. 464 pages. ISBN: 159200346X. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Programming Robot Controllers Author: Myke Predko Learning to program Robot Controllers just got a lot easier! In this innovative addition to the Robot DNA Series, author Myke Predko tells you everything you need for your robot to perform up to specification and expectation - and for you to fully understand how robot controllers are programmed using the versatile Microchip PICmicro PIC16F627. All you need to get started are inexpensive off-the-shelf parts and the "C" programming language compiler included on the CD-ROM. If you're an amateur robotics hobbyist ready to enjoy the challenge - and rewards - of programming, there's no better coach then Myke Predko. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071408517. 456 pages. ISBN: 0071408517. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robot Builders Bonanza (2nd Edition) Author: Gordon McComb A major revision of the bestselling "bible" of amateur robotics building--packed with the latest in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego Mindstorms Kits, and other commercial kits. Gives electronics hobbyists fully illustrated plans for 11 complete Robots, as well as all-new coverage of Robotix-based Robots, Lego Technic-based Robots, Functionoids with Lego Mindstorms, and Location and Motorized Systems with Servo Motors. Features a pictures and parts list that accompany all projects, and material on using the BASIC Stamp and other microcontrollers. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071362967. 753 pages. ISBN: 0071362967. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robot Building for Beginners Author: David Cook The hardest part of hobby robotics may be just getting started. You need to learn a bit about electronics, mechanics, programming and several other fields of study. It can feel intimidating. This book does a great job of getting you started by clearly explaining the electronics and mechanics needed to build robot. It explains concepts logically and simply with lots of pictures and drawings so you can really understand both how robots work and how they are physically put together. The author assumes no prior knowledge of electronics or mechanics. The book is written for adults but even motivated junior high school students should find the material approachable. Manufacturer: APRESS. 568 pages. ISBN: 1-893115-44-5. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| Robot Building for Dummies Author: Roger Arrick Find out how to build and program your own robot "the dummies way." This book covers a huge amount of material in an easy to read, how-to oriented style. The books topics include
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| Robot Companions Author: E. Oliver Severin Inside Robot Companions you'll find all the details, plans, and information you need to make a robot partner part of your daily life, at a price you can afford. Author E. Oliver Severin, originator of some of the technologies that makes robots friendly, useful, and educational, shows you how to find or build your own robot helpmate-either from commercial kits or by assembling separate, off-the-shelf parts. With Robot Companions, you'll learn how to build your own robot for purposes such as companionship, supervision of the elderly, tutoring the young, doing household chores, and much more. The book delves into essential enabling technologies such as mobility, voice, communications, touch, sight, and smell response so you'll understand the mechanics behind form, function, and "personality." If you're looking for an industrious mechanical someone to help with the housework, care for the kids, even watch over aging parents without complaint, Robot Companions belongs on your shelf! Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071422129. 307 pages. ISBN: 0071422129. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robot Programming Author: Joseph L. Jones This ingenious book/Web site partnership teaches the skills you need to program a robot-and gives you a virtual robot waiting online to perform your commands and test your programming expertise. You don't need to know either robotics or programming to get started! Using an intuitive method, Robot Programming deconstructs robot control into simple and distinct behaviors that are easy to program and debug for inexpensive microcontrollers with little memory. Once you've mastered programming your online 'bot, you can easily adapt your programs for use in physical robots. Though Robot Programming smoothes the path to aquiring skills in this arcane art, it does not reduce it to simplistics. With this resource, you can open the door to all the complexity, sophistication, versatility, and robustness that it is possible for robot behavior to exhibit. Manufacturer: TAB. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071427783. 293 pages. ISBN: 0071427783. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robotic Explorations Author: Fred G. Martin Written by one of the founders of the famous MIT "6.270" Lego Robotic Design Competition, Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering engages students in hands-on robot building, emphasizing technological systems of all kinds--electrical, mechanical, and computational. A first text for students as well as reference for practitioners, the book provides all the practical information needed to create an introductory freshman-level laboratory class. This versatile and pioneering book sparks the imagination and leads the reader into many thought-provoking and challenging engineering situations. Manufacturer: PRENTICE. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0130895687. 462 pages. ISBN: 0130895687. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robotics Author: Mark Beyer A simple, easy-to-read book about robots and life in the future. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0516240072. 48 pages. ISBN: 0516240072. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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| Robotics Technology Author: James W. Masterson, Robert L. Towers, Stephen W. Fardo This text employs a comprehensive approach to presenting the technical aspects of robotics. Robotics Technology covers the basic principles of industrial robotics, power supplies and movement systems, sensing and end-of-arm tooling, and control systems. The text format is easy-to-follow and highly illustrated, making this an outstanding choice for introductory level robotics courses and robotics technician training. Manufacturer: GOODHEART. Manufacturer's Part Number: 1566370469. 320 pages. ISBN: 1566370469. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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 | Robotics with the Boe-Bot v2 from Parallax Author: Andy Lindsay The Robotics text, based on the Boe-Bot, is the most popular book in the Parallax Stamps in Class series. The text introduces motor control, sensors used to avoid objects and follow light and actuators used to provide sound and light feedback. The text is organized into 8 chapters and includes 41 hands-on activities. Topics covered include:
The appendices include helpful tips relating to PC to BASIC Stamp Communication Trouble-Shooting, Resistor Color Codes, Breadboarding Rules, Contests, and more. While this book is writen specifically for the Boe-Bot, it can be used with any robot using servo motors and a Basic Stamp controller. Manufacturer: Parallax. Manufacturer's Part Number: 28125. 326 pages. ISBN: 19289820304. More Product Details ... | ||||||||||||
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| Robots, Androids, and Animatrons Author: John Iovine Bring a robot to life without programming or assembly language skills! Theres never been a better time to explore the world of the nearly human. You get everything you need to create 12 exciting robotic projects using off-the-shelf products and workshop-built devices, including a complete parts list. Also ideal for anyone interested in electronic and motion control, this cult classic gives you the building blocks you need to go practically anywhere in robotics. Manufacturer: MCGRAW. Manufacturer's Part Number: 0071376836. 332 pages. ISBN: 0071376836. More Product Details ... | |||||||||||||
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