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Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

An MIT "hack" is an ingenious, benign, andanonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientificexpertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness -- instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withApril Fool's Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not beconfused with the sometimes...

Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)
Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

This publication is the first book on the development and application of digital terrain modelling for regional planning and policy support. It is a compilation of research results by international research groups at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, providing scientific support to the development and implementation of EU...

The Silver Bull Market: Investing in the Other Gold
The Silver Bull Market: Investing in the Other Gold

From one of the world's most respected authorities on precious metals investment--a thoroughly researched volume on the investment prospects for silver, the other gold.

  After outperforming virtually all other investments for more than a decade, gold is being reincorporated into the financial
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, 5th Edition: Current with 2011-2013 Electrical Codes
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, 5th Edition: Current with 2011-2013 Electrical Codes
The world of wiring tends to move in cycles, so to speak. The basic science that causes your blender to whir when you plug the cord into a wall outlet doesn’t change, but the ways we harness and manage electrical power are constantly improving—always with an eye toward safety. The Complete Guide to Wiring changes, too....
The Art of the Data Center: A Look Inside the World's Most Innovative and Compelling Computing Environments
The Art of the Data Center: A Look Inside the World's Most Innovative and Compelling Computing Environments

Today, data centers are the beating hearts of the companies they serve. Data centers process billions of Internet transactions every day. It's therefore critical for companies and IT organizations to understand the state-of-the-art in data center design. Narrow aspects - such as cooling, wiring, or power usage - are often the subject of...

The Environments of the Sun and the Stars (Lecture Notes in Physics)
The Environments of the Sun and the Stars (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Based on lectures given at a CNRS summer school in France, this book covers many aspects of stellar environments (both observational and theoretical) and offers a broad overview of the field. More specifically, Part I of the book focuses on the Sun, the properties of the ejected plasma, of the solar wind and on space weather. The second part...

Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer
Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer

With more than 60 practical and creative hacks, this book helps you turn Raspberry Pi into the centerpiece of some cool electronics projects. Want to create a controller for a camera or a robot? Set up Linux distributions for media centers or PBX phone systems? That’s just the beginning of what you’ll find inside...

Renewable Energy in the UK: Past, Present and Future (Energy, Climate and the Environment)
Renewable Energy in the UK: Past, Present and Future (Energy, Climate and the Environment)
?This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement.  

The book examines how renewables became what
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Cognitive Reasoning for Compliant Robot Manipulation (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)
Cognitive Reasoning for Compliant Robot Manipulation (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)
In order to achieve human-like performance, this book covers  the four steps of reasoning a robot must provide in the concept of intelligent physical compliance: to represent, plan, execute, and interpret compliant manipulation tasks. A classification of manipulation tasks is conducted to identify the central research questions of the...
Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
With ninety per cent of visible matter in the universe existing in the plasma state, an understanding of magnetohydrodynamics is essential for anyone looking to understand solar and astrophysical processes, from stars to accretion discs and galaxies; as well as laboratory applications focused on harnessing controlled fusion energy. This...
Advances in Energy Systems: The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge
Advances in Energy Systems: The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge

A guide to a multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from noted experts in the energy and utilities fields

Advances in Energy Systems offers a stellar collection of articles selected from the acclaimed journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Energy and Environment. The journalcovers...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...
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