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Maximum LEGO EV3: Building Robots with Java Brains
Brian Bagnall · Variant Pr
Pages: 450
Format: Book
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The LEGO® Mindstorms™ EV3 set is the latest in robotics technology, allowing you to build incredible motorized inventions without knowing anything about electronics. As a mass market device with hundreds of pieces and a suite of available programming tools, it can be both powerful and overwhelming.... |
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Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement
Sarah R Davies · Polity
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea... |
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Boom!: The Chemistry and History of Explosives
Simon Field · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Black powder, the world's first chemical explosive, was originally developed during the Tang dynasty in China.It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrates, as well as the best way to mix them for a complete and powerful... |
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Power from the Wind: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Energy Production
DAN CHIRAS · New Society Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The completely revised and updated comprehensive guide to small wind energy systemsSkyrocketing energy costs and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources are making homeowners and businesses look at different ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their... |
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Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
COLLEEN MARGARET CLARKE · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what... |
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Researching the Law: Finding What You Need When You Need It
Amy E Sloan · Wolters Kluwer
Pages: 147
Format: Paperback
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Concise new title by the top author in legal research. Focuses on pre-and post-search analysis for effectively filtering vast amounts of material. Teaches students how to identify the most pertinent and authoritative information to solve a legal problem. Features: Concise, reasonably... |
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Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide
THOMAS LAWRENCE LONG · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide is the ideal, pocket-sized manual for undergraduate and graduate nursing students who want to improve their writing.Writing is often a part of many nursing courses, including introductions to health systems, nursing fundamentals, public and community health,... |
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Plan Your Estate
Denis Clifford · NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, all in easy to understand language. Nolo's bestseller Plan Your Estate shows how to: |
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 6th Edition
Stan Gibilisco · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 800
Format: Print book
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals and applications -- all without taking a formal course This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics,... |
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2018, Trade Edition
Old Farmer's Almanac · Old Farmer's Almanac
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been... |
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Cosmic Debris: What It Is and What We Can Do About It
Jonathan Powell · Springer
Pages: 267
Format: Paperback
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This book examines the mysterious and the well-studied debris in Earth's crowded neighborhood. From orbiting comets to the workings of the Asteroid Belt, and from meteor showers to our home-grown network of orbiting satellites, the full diversity of space objects and the debris they... |
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Mastering 3D Printing
Joan Horvath · Apress; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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Mastering 3D Printing shows you how to get the most out of your printer, including how to design models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate 3D printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.Youve printed key chains. Youve... |
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Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom
Joshua A T Fairfield · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
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In this compelling examination of the intersection of smart technology and the law, Joshua A. T. Fairfield explains the crisis of digital ownership - how and why we no longer control our smartphones or software-enable devices, which are effectively owned by software and content companies.... |
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Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
E D Hirsch · Harvard Education Press
Pages: 270
Format: Print book
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In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit,... |
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