Technology category: 51960 books
Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job
Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Do what you do best and let technology do the rest
Technology has transformed lives. Why then, has it not transformed education? What needs to change to ensure integration that empowers students and enhances teacher depth? Learn how to let technology cultivate student autonomy, creativity,...
Early American Technology
Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and...
by Johannes Fink
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
When classifying fracturing fluids and their additives, it is important that production, operation, and completion engineers understand which chemical should be utilized in different well environments. A user's guide to the many chemicals and chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing operations,...
Wireless Technology
Applications, Management, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Wireless technology and handheld devices are dramatically changing the degrees of interaction throughout the world, further creating a ubiquitous network society. The emergence of advanced wireless telecommunication technologies and devices in today’s society has increased accuracy and access rate,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
We are facing a global energy crisis caused by world population growth, an escalating increase in demand, and continued dependence on fossil-based fuels for generation. It is widely accepted that increases in greenhouse gas concentration levels, if not reversed, will result in major changes to world...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
This is a comprehensive history of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. This 70th anniversary edition begins with a history of the Center from the perspective of the Center directors— there have been ten since 1958. This ties the history of Ames into its larger context of space policy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Increase in green, renewable and sustainable energy demand due to higher environmental impacts (e.g. Greenhouse gases emissions, climate change, etc.) on consumption of fossil fuel resource put down an extra pressure on government, researchers and industrialists. Among several available biofuel options,...
Additive Manufacturing of Metals
From Fundamental Technology to Rocket Nozzles, Medical Implants, and Custom Jewelry
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This engaging volume presents the exciting new technology of additive manufacturing (AM) of metal objects for a broad audience of academic and industry researchers, manufacturing professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, hobbyists, and artists. Innovative applications ranging from rocket...
The Advanced Materials Revolution
Technology and Economic Growth in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A comprehensive treatment of the economic and global impacts of the advanced materials industry
This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the emerging international advanced materials industry and its profound impact on the world's industrialized and newly emerging economies....
Mobile Learning Environment (MoLE) Project
A global technology initiative
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The 'Mobile Learning Environment (MoLE) Project: a global technology initiative', was a two-year project that included e-Learning and medical professionals from academia, commercial, government and NGO representing 24 countries from five continents. It focused on providing training/education in areas...
by Megan Blakemore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Explores the fascinating world of smart technology. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and a "How It Works" feature, the book provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.
The Effect of Offshoring on the Information Technology Sector
Is It Really Affecting Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This book is generated from a thesis written by this author in 2009 and provides an insight into the myth that is offshore outsourcing. The Information Technology field has often been criticized for its offshore outsourcing strategy and the negative impact it has on the American Economy. This book...
Digital Media, Culture and Education
Theorising Third Space Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings. The book presents research and thinking about new dynamic literacies, porous expertise, digital making/coding/remixing, curation, storying in digital media,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Thirty-three vital papers, studies, reports, and proposals from 1996 through September 2012 are included in this unique compilation with over a 1000 pages of detailed material, providing extraordinary details about planning for robotic Mars exploration - focusing on rovers, landers, orbiters, and...