Industrial Technology category: 2665 books
Let's Explore the Construction Site
Construction Site Kids Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
The construction site is a dangerous place to visit but it's rich in lessons too. With the use of a picture book, your child can be "in" a site but without any danger involved. A picture book is a wonderful tool that helps your child surpass all basic development stages with flying colors. It appeals to the senses, it fuels the mind and it cultivates a love for learning too!
Built
The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.
While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little...
Networks of New York
An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A guided tour of the physical Internet, as seen on, above, and below the city’s streets
What does the Internet look like?
It’s the single most essentail aspect of modern life, and yet, for many of us, the Internet looks like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our phones and...
by Chris Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
This quick-read guide introduces the reader to ten of the most amazing bridges in the world. Including photographs of every bridge and a brief description of the history of the structure, this ebook has been specially formatted for today's e-readers.
The User's Journey
Storymapping Products That People Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Like a good story, successful design is a series of engaging moments structured over time. The User’s Journey will show you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and test a cohesive vision for an engaging outcome. See how a “story first” approach...
The Evolution of Useful Things
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch?
In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that...
by Cynthia Snyder Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
The professional standard in the field of project management, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge better known as the PMBOK® Guide published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) serves as the ultimate resource for professionals and as a valuable studying and training device...
Paper
An Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear.
Would anything be lost?
Everything would be lost.
aper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and...
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establish New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design...
Cotton
From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
In the barbeque joints and plate lunch cafes off Memphis�s Front Street, one is easily reminded of the days when cotton was king, of a society of characters and cads; the big time and the small time; the rich and the richer; the hangers-on, anointed, powerful, and busted. Cotton created empires in...
by Harold Kerzner
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A new edition of the most popular book of project management case studies, expanded to include more than 100 cases plus a "super case" on the Iridium Project
Case studies are an important part of project management education and training. This Fourth Edition of Harold Kerzner's Project...
by Clarence C. Rodrigues, Stephen K. Cusick
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A Complete, Fully Updated Guide to COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY
Presenting the latest procedures and standards from U.S. and international air traffic and regulatory agencies, this extensively revised resource covers the entire commercial aviation safety system--from human factors to accident investigation....
Designing Reality
How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are...
Golden Gate Bridge
History and Design of an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge architect Donald MacDonald answers these questions and others in...