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  • Attention

    From Theory to Practice

    by Arthur F. Kramer, Douglas A. Wiegmann, Alex Kirlik ...
    Series series Human Technology Interaction Series
    The study of attention in the laboratory has been crucial to understanding the mechanisms that support several different facets of attentional processing: Our ability to both divide attention among multiple tasks and stimuli, and selectively focus it on task-relevant information, while ignoring distracting task-irrelevant information, as well as how top-down and bottom-up factors influence the way ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis

    The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System

    by Douglas A. Wiegmann, Scott A. Shappell ...
    Human error is implicated in nearly all aviation accidents, yet most investigation and prevention programs are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. Appropriate for all levels of expertise, the book provides the knowledge and tools required to conduct a human error analysis of accidents, regardless of operational setting (i.e. military, commercial, or general aviation). The ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Special Edition Illustrated)

    by Leonardo da Vinci ...
    Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are the living record of a universal mind. They encompass all the interests and experiments of this self-taught polymath, from mathematics to flying machines.Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect — Leonardo da Vinci, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous ... Read more

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  • Air Power

    The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Satellite Basics for Everyone

    An Illustrated Guide to Satellites for Non-Technical and Technical People

    by C. Robert Welti ...
    Learn about satellites that affect us every day, how they work, and how we can place and keep them on orbit.Satellite Basics for Everyone presents an introduction and overview to satellites. Its written as clearly and understandably as possible for a wide audience. It provides a learning tool for grade school students. High school and college students can use it for helping them decide on career ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The First Blitz

    Bombing London in the First World War

    by Ian Castle ...
    The First Blitz tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized.The first Zeppelin attack on London came in May 1915 – and with it came the birth of a new arena of warfare, the 'home front'. German airships attempted to raid London on 26 separate occasions between May 1915 and October 1917, but only reached the capital and bombed successfully ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Rocket Billionaires

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

    by Tim Fernholz ...
    This "smart analysis of the New Space sector" goes inside the rapid rise and dramatic rivalry of private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin ( The New York Times Book Review).For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity—or the key to humanity's survival. Rocket Billionaires shines a light on Elon ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spacecraft Operations

    Edited by Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book describes the basic concepts of spaceflight operations, for both, human and unmanned missions. The basic subsystems of a space vehicle are explained in dedicated chapters, the relationship of spacecraft design and the very unique space environment are laid out. Flight dynamics are taught as well as ground segment requirements. Mission operations are divided into preparation including ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management-Volume II

    Edited by Jinsong Wang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management collects selected papers from the conference of ISAMM 2013 in China held in Xi’an on November 25-28, 2013. The book presents state-of-the-art studies on the aviation maintenance, test, fault diagnosis, and prognosis for the aircraft electronic and electrical systems. The selected works can help promote the development of the ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Astrophysics at Very High Energies

    Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

    by Felix Aharonian, Lars Bergström, Charles Dermer ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    With the success of Cherenkov Astronomy and more recently with the launch of NASA’s Fermi mission, very-high-energy astrophysics has undergone a revolution in the last years. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of the recent advances in gamma-ray astrophysics and of multi-messenger astronomy. Felix Aharonian and Charles Dermer address our current knowledge on the sources ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Mathematical Perspective on Flight Dynamics and Control

    by Andrea L'Afflitto ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This brief presents several aspects of flight dynamics, which are usually omitted or briefly mentioned in textbooks, in a concise, self-contained, and rigorous manner. The kinematic and dynamic equations of an aircraft are derived starting from the notion of the derivative of a vector and then thoroughly analysed, interpreting their deep meaning from a mathematical standpoint and without relying ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity

    Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

    by Earl H. Dowell ...
    Series Book 217 - Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
    This book covers the basics of aeroelasticity or the dynamics of fluid-structure interaction. While the field began in response to the rapid development of aviation, it has now expanded into many branches of engineering and scientific disciplines and treat physical phenomena from aerospace engineering, bioengineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering in addition to drawing the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD