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  • Explosives

    History with a Bang

    by G I Brown ...
    This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, the author relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavour. Many of those involved - Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, Robert Oppenheimer ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Friends, Followers and the Future

    How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

    by Rory O'Connor ...
    There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information.In the process, ever-growing networks of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rediscovery of Synchronous Reluctance and Ferrite Permanent Magnet Motors

    Tutorial Course Notes

    by Gianmario Pellegrino, Wen L. Soong, Nicola Bianchi, Francesco Cupertino, Thomas M. Jahns ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers an essential compendium on the analysis and design of synchronous motors for variable-speed applications. Focusing on synchronous reluctance and ferrite permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous reluctance machines, it provides a broad perspective on three-phase machines for variable speed applications, a field currently dominated by asynchronous machines and rare-earth PM synchronous ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Famous Scientific Illusions

    by Nikola Tesla ...
    Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Electric Century

    How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World

    by J.B. Williams ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Transformers and Inductors for Power Electronics

    Theory, Design and Applications

    by W.G. Hurley, W.H. Wölfle ...
    Based on the fundamentals of electromagnetics, this clear and concise text explains basic and applied principles of transformer and inductor design for power electronic applications. It details both the theory and practice of inductors and transformers employed to filter currents, store electromagnetic energy, provide physical isolation between circuits, and perform stepping up and down of DC and ... Read more

    $105.00 USD

  • Ancient Engineers' Inventions

    Precursors of the Present

    by Cesare Rossi, Flavio Russo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae and reveal a surprising modernity in their conception.Most of the inventions ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Electric Power System Planning

    Issues, Algorithms and Solutions

    by Hossein Seifi, Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian ...
    Series series Power Systems
    The present book addresses various power system planning issues for professionals as well as senior level and postgraduate students. Its emphasis is on long-term issues, although much of the ideas may be used for short and mid-term cases, with some modifications. Back-up materials are provided in twelve appendices of the book. The readers can use the numerous examples presented within the chapters ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Fast Spectrum Reactors

    Edited by Donald R. Todd, Alan E. Waltar, Pavel V. Tsvetkov ...
    This book is a complete update of the classic 1981 FAST BREEDER REACTORS textbook authored by Alan E. Waltar and Albert B. Reynolds, which , along with the Russian translation, served as a major reference book for fast reactors systems. Major updates include transmutation physics (a key technology to substantially ameliorate issues associated with the storage of high-level nuclear waste ), ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Photon Absorption Models in Nanostructured Semiconductor Solar Cells and Devices

    by Antonio Luque, Alexander Virgil Mellor ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book is intended to be used by materials and device physicists and also solar cells researchers. It models the performance characteristics of nanostructured solar cells and resolves the dynamics of transitions between several levels of these devices. An outstanding insight into the physical behaviour of these devices is provided, which complements experimental work. This therefore allows a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Electronics Revolution

    Inventing the Future

    by J.B. Williams ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives – the way we work, live, and play. It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices, and integrated circuits, through radio and television, to computers, mobile telephones and GPS. Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home and computers dominate ... Read more

    $40.49 USD