Giancarlo Genta: 8 books

Road Vehicle Dynamics supplies students and technicians working in industry with both the theoretical background of mechanical and automotive engineering, and the know-how needed to perform numerical simulations. Bringing together the foundations of the discipline and its recent developments in a...

L'idea che l'uomo non sia l'unica forma di vita nell'universo è molto antica, ma è solo dagli anni '60 del '900 che l'argomento, da oggetto di speculazione filosofica e teologica, è divenuto centro di serie indagini scientifiche da parte della bioastronomia e dell'astrobiologia. Nonostante la scienza...

Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of the environments and conditions space robots have to work in, the author discusses a variety of manipulatory devices robots may use to perform...

Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity...

The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators...

This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet. Considering the environmental dangers and the engineering and design needed for a successful trip, it covers every aspect...

This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology. The text is subdivided in parts that cover all facets of the automobile, including legal and economic aspects related to industry and products, product configuration and fabrication processes, historic...

La tecnologia è antica quanto la specie umana e ci ha profondamente plasmato, influenzando la nostra evoluzione, tanto che non riusciamo neppure a immaginare come potrebbe essere la nostra vita in un mondo non trasformato dall'uomo. Fin dalla preistoria, in ogni angolo del pianeta l'homo sapiens...