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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation

Praxis, 2010

The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft’s computer was required to be compact and low power. Although people today find it difficult to accept that it was possible to control a spacecraft using such a...

A Walk through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends

Cambridge University Press, 2007

What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? Answering these questions and many more, this book will become an essential traveling companion for amateur astronomers heading abroad. Its unique simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemisphere skies, and the stars within them. Clear instructions...

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

When the first edition of About Face was published in 1995, the idea of designing products based on human goals was a revolutionary concept. Thanks to the work of Alan Cooper and other pioneers, interaction design is now widely recognized as a unique and vital discipline, but our work is far from finished.

This completely updated volume...

The Radio Station, Seventh Edition: Broadcast, Satellite & Internet

Focal Press, 2006

Keith's masterful updated survey of what has changed and what remains the same in the dynamic audio industry.
- Christopher Sterling,
George Washington University

The bible for beginning radio professionals. A complete guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry. The book is now a...

A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2010

The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection...

The Da Vinci Code

Doubleday, 2003

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in...

Klimt (Mega Square Collection)

Parkstone Press, 2011

Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed (with his brother and their art school companion F. Matsch), for numerous theatres and above all (on his own this time) for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart. At the age of thirty he moved into...

Lonely Planet Discover Egypt (Country Guide)

Lonely Planet, 2012

Experience The Best of Egypt
The Pyramids of Giza, Siwa Oasis, Luxor Museum – we’ve selected the most iconic sights and incredible places so you can enjoy the real Egypt with the minimum of fuss.

Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences
Itineraries...

Visualizing Data

O'Reilly, 2008

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and...

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

MIT Press, 2003

Sitting in the reading rooms of the Public Record Office in London, a historian is in the center of a museum of organization. Copies of the catalogue to the museum fill several walls (although these are now complemented by online versions). The catalogue lists are dominated by references to objects of one kind: the file. The file has in its...

Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009

The faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins, and driven by the astronomic prices realised on the global market.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the subject over a wide...

The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition, 3rd Edition

New Society Publishers, 2015

This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.

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