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The New York City Subway System (Building America: Then and Now)
The New York City Subway System (Building America: Then and Now)
In 1912, workers digging to create the Broadway Subway, north of Murray Street in lower Manhattan, hit a brick wall approximately 21 feet (6.4 meters) below the street surface. Breaking through the wall, the laborers came upon a tunnel 9 feet (2.7 m) in diameter and lined with eight- inch- thick (20.32 centimeters) bricks. Two rails led into a...
Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms
Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms
Computer terminology is constantly expanding, and the brand-new edition of this dictionary has been updated to keep pace with the latest important innovations in computer science and technology. Emphasis is on helpful information for non-technical home computer users. The book presents more than 3,200 computer-related terms with clear and succinct...
Genetics and Genomics of Cotton (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models)
Genetics and Genomics of Cotton (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models)

A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the farm gate, and which sustain one of the world’s largest industries (textiles) with an annual worldwide economic impact of about $500 billion. In a number of ways, cotton...

Extrusion in Ceramics (Engineering Materials and Processes)
Extrusion in Ceramics (Engineering Materials and Processes)
For some time now, I have been toying around with the idea of writing a book about “Ceramic Extrusion”, because to my amazement I have been unable to locate a single existing, comprehensive rundown on the subject – much in contrast to, say, plastic extrusion and despite the fact that there are some outstanding contributions to be...
Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers
Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers

Python is fast becoming the programming language of choice for hackers, reverse engineers, and software testers because it's easy to write quickly, and it has the low-level support and libraries that make hackers happy. But until now, there has been no real manual on how to use Python for a variety of hacking tasks. You had to dig through...

Handbook of Behavior Genetics
Handbook of Behavior Genetics

Behavior Genetics is an interdisciplinary area combining behavioral sciences and genetics.  The study of behavior genetics has become increasingly important as we see growth spurts in finding genes involved in complex behaviors following on advances in molecular genetic techniques. This domain has now become a vast common ground for...

Projects in Computing and Information Systems: A Student's Guide
Projects in Computing and Information Systems: A Student's Guide
Projects are a major component of virtually all undergraduate and postgraduate computing and information science courses within universities. They require students to draw on a number of separate but highly important skills; surveying literature, report writing, developing and documenting software, presentational skills, time management, ...
The Google Way: How One Company Is Revolutionizing Management as We Know It
The Google Way: How One Company Is Revolutionizing Management as We Know It

Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again-the way we work, how organizations are controlled,...

The Unbreakable Child
The Unbreakable Child

Grim yet ultimately inspiring, this harrowing biography catalogues years of institutional abuse that took place in the Saint Thomas–Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum, a Catholic orphanage in Anchorage, Kentucky. After many years of neglect by their drug-addicted mother, Kim and her three older sisters were...

The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation, 1800-2000
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation, 1800-2000

The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution...

The Employee Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Every Employee Has
The Employee Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Every Employee Has

Not everything that you might think is unfair in the workplace is actually illegal.

In order to fully protect your rights, you must understand them first. The Employee Answer Book, the latest addition to the Answer Book Series, answers real questions from real people. This book discusses federal employment law in detail and touches...

A Lighter Footprint: A Practical Guide to Minimising Your Impact on the Planet
A Lighter Footprint: A Practical Guide to Minimising Your Impact on the Planet
I believe that global warming is the biggest issue facing humanity today – it represents a far greater threat than terrorism, fundamentalism, or nuclear war. I am not alone in this belief. Scientists and many policymakers agree that the global population must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 per cent...
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