Technology category: 51960 books
by Martin Gitlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Readers get acquainted with the people behind today's most cutting-edge technologies in the self-driving car tech field--from bright ideas to cool new products--and inspires readers to consider a high-tech future career. Careers in Self-Driving Car Technology introduces six exciting careers and features...
by John Lockyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Using examples from some of the most popular Olympic sports, this captivating title will have readers excited and eager to learn all they can about telling time and timing accuracy! Vivid photos and a colorful timeline combine with easy-to-read text, STEM topics, and mathematical charts and graphs...
by Carol Riggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
"The Body Institute is a roller coaster of a book. This fast-paced sci-fi thriller grapples with issues of identity and scientific technology run amok in a society only two steps ahead of our own, while scrutinizing an all-encompassing obsession with being thin which is very much part of the...
Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
What is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence going to change our lives?
“Alexa, play my favorite song! Alexa, shut the garage door!” Imagine a world in which you simply call out a request while sitting in your living room and have a small computer comply. Suddenly, the...
Self-Driving Cars
The New Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Self-driving cars mark the next great shift in mass transportation. Learn about early attempts at self-driving technology, the benefits of driverless cars, controversies surrounding the new technology, innovations that make self-driving cars possible, and the industry's major players. This emerging...
Advanced Race Car Chassis Technology HP1562
Winning Chassis Design and Setup for Circle Track and Road Race Cars
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Updated with nearly 60 percent new material on the latest racing technology, this book details how to design, build, and setup the chassis and suspension for road race and stock cars. Includes chassis dynamics, spring and shock theory, front and rear suspension geometry, real world racing aerodynamics,...
The Industrial Revolution
Investigate How Science and Technology Changed the World with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Imagine a world without brand-name products! Before the Industrial Revolution it was not possible to produce enough of the same item to have a brand, but in 100 years the world changed from make-your-own everything to a society of manufactured goods. The Industrial Revolution: Investigate How Science...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the Introduction: Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all but the last chapter remaining to be started. He had been preparing to do a memoir, on and off, for many years, but only in the...
Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control
Selected Papers of the Fourth CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Held in Warsaw, Poland, April 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The first three CEAS (Counsil of European Aerospace Societies) Specialist Conferences on Guidance, Navigation and Control (CEAS EuroGNC) were held in Munich, Germany in 2011, in Delft, Netherlands in 2013 and in Toulouse, France in 2017. The Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and the Rzeszow University...
by James G. Speight
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Shale Oil represents a huge additional global fossil fuel resource. However, extracting oil from the shale is no simple task; much still needs to be understood to make the process more cost-effective to increase economic flow rates. Clear and rigorous, Oil Shale Production Process will prove useful...
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world.
Troublemakers is the gripping...
Defying Reality
The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
**A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.
You’ve...
Managing Technological Innovation
Competitive Advantage from Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Written by the author who helped crystalize the field of technology management and the management of innovation with the first two editions of Managing Technological Innovation, this Third Edition brings the subject in line with current business strategy. It also presents information in a newer organized...
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now.
"This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man....