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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now it may hold the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives. In Making Stuff Colder, David Pogue explores the frontiers of cold science from saving the lives of severe trauma patients to ultracold physics, where bizarre new properties of matter are the norm...
Series
EP volume 870-1-45
Publisher
Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
25) Solar bones
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one...
Author
Publisher
David Bull Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, author (and Ferrari insider) Luca Dal Monte uncovers a wealth of new facts about Enzo's origins, ambitions, business practices, and private life. The book revisits all the highlights of Ferrari's rise to greatness: his driving career in the 1920s; his management of racing teams for Alfa Romeo in the 1930s; the launch of his own company and team in the late 1940s, and his unprecedented...
31) Steve Jobs
Author
Language
English
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Description
Based on interviews with Steve Jobs and with his family members, friends, and competitors, this book describes the life and career of the man whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized industries from personal computers to digital publishing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How do you land a car-sized rover on the surface of Mars, resolve a five-hour traffic jam or save a herd of caribou from near extinction? Ask an engineer! Engineers are problem solvers. They use their math, science and technology skills to find creative solutions to problems that need fixing. In Engineered! bestselling author Shannon Hunt explores nine feats of engineering and the step-by-step process that engineers followed to get to a winning solution....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and...
37) Rose
Author
Language
English
Description
Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London.
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
Author
Publisher
Xlibris
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"I effectively retired on July 15, 2014, after forty-six years of service in the oil and gas industry as petroleum engineer in the US and abroad. The time had come, and it was time for me to look forward to a long-anticipated retirement and quality time with my wife and family. I decided to write my memories to share my feelings and love with my parents, family, and people close to me. It was not my intention to sound selfish or narcissistic when...
39) Underwater
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Nobody has been able to rob the Bank of Spain. A financial institution with maximum security. But this real challenge doesn't scare Thom Johnson, the brilliant young engineer recruited to figure out how to get inside. Thom and his team have only ten days to discover the secret of the box, put together a plan and prepare the assault. And above all, take advantage of the long-awaited final of the Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the perfect plan to...
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