Technology, Engineering, Agriculture & Industrial Books

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...

The media often portrays our climate future as a choice between bleak and bleaker, which may seem justified given the many impacts of global warming that we are already seeing. But it doesn' t have to be that way, because if we understand the science...

How are we supposed to handle these new tools that could end up changing our genetic material?The advancement of the new genetic technology has hurtled forward at breakneck speed. When the first genetically modified children, the twins Lulu and Nana,...

Wales boasts a stunning array of castles, the most per square mile of any country in Europe, from the earliest stone fortifications at Chepstow to the 19th-century folly of Castell Coch and from the splendor of Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Conwy and Harlech,...

The no-nonsense, practical guide for farm-preneurs to grow a successful farm business - completely revised and updated.You launched your farm because you love working the land and producing food. Yet to succeed you also need to think like an entrepreneur...

The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a "jobs vs. the...

A fresh, research-based look at how companies can better compete, on their own terms, with tech giants from a Harvard Business School professor and a former Bloomberg journalist.Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the...

A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities - among the most...

The modern radio is a wonder, and behind that magic is mathematics. In The Mathematical Radio, Paul Nahin explains how radios work, deploying mathematics and historical discussion, accompanied by a steady stream of intriguing puzzles for math buffs to...

Data science methods and tools - including programming, data management, visualisation and machine learning - and their application to neuroimaging research.As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to...

If you are an inventor or entrepreneur who wants to understand how to use the patent system to help fulfill your business goals, this book is for you.This book won't teach you how to write a patent application. What it will teach you are the most...

A decade to save the planet.That's the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the...

From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the very edge of what we consider known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps, say the authors,...

Profitable winter market gardening - the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets.Many small farms shut down during the dark winter months. Yet with the right techniques, equipment and cultivars,...

The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow.Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a few...

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens...

It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and...

This book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel...

With SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, any woodworker can download SketchUp and be drawing helpful, detailed woodworking plans like a pro in no time at all.An affordable, simple, and powerful 3-D design program, SketchUp can be used to create models and...

The ultimate guide to the Japanese martial arts by the world's foremost expert! Author Alexander Bennett is the ultimate insider, having lived in Japan for decades. He holds multiple black belts in Kendo and Naginata, as well as PhDs in Japanese...

A captivating and wonderfully illustrated chronicle of one of the most influential and legendary names in gunsmithing history.John M. Browning was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1855, into a world of gunsmithing. His father was a gunsmith who was already well...

A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries.For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology...

An introductory text on the analysis, control, and estimation of nonlinear systems, appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate studentsThis self-contained and accessible introduction to the concepts and techniques used for nonlinear feedback...

A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end-an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history.It describes...

The Japanese sword is much more than just a weapon-it is a social and religious icon traditionally worn by the samurai warrior as an instrument of justice and courage, the sword was an embodiment of the soul of the person who...

Master the Japanese art of shuriken throwing with this illustrated martial arts guide.Japanese Throwing Weapons: Mastering Shuriken Throwing Techniques is a detailed instruction manual for learning authentic shuriken throwing techniques as practiced in...

The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites is the first book to present all 25 major global launch sites from Wallops Island in the United States to Tanegashima in Japan and Woomera in Australia. It explains their architecture and geography and is...

An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded...

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer androle modelwho is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements asthe first woman tocommand an American space mission as well as...

Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet...

From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insider's guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether...

Amass makes a case for architectural experiments with massing. By understanding architecture as a collection of interrelationships between multiple masses, plusClover uses pressure, thickness and media - the core subjects of this book - to...

One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the Year The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we...

An examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the...

Part conspiracy theory, part popular science, Genes, Giants, Monsters and Men explores the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as has been taught in textbooks. Farrell considers how the religious stories that have often been...

The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape...

Meet the makers as Gather & Nourish offers an aromatic insight into the motivations and challenges of artisan food producers.Food is not just a way to fill our stomachs but is representative of the culture and time we live in. It tells a...

Ian Logan fell in love with American railroads back in the 1950s. Inspired by the songs of folk and Motown, he set off to see the places, the trains, the locomotives, and the everyday life of the first machine-powered transportation system on the North...

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by...

This is the essential guide to the plants suited to our changing climate of warmer, drier summers, written by Kew expert Tony Hall.With over 20 years' experience of working with drought-friendly and Mediterranean plants, Tony profiles more than 200 plant...

Sub Culture explores the crucial role of the submarine in modern history, its contribution to scientific progress and maritime exploration, and how it has been portrayed in art, literature, fantasy and film. Ranging from the American Civil War to the...

The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity and danger...

Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerised us, and heavenly bodies have inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, and scientists. Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolours, prints, as well as plates from books, celestial...

Bousquet's book considers the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the battlefield. It spans the entire modern era, from the Scientific...

As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In Deciphering Sun Tzu, Derek Yuen seeks to...

A set of highly renowned experts offer diverse new research and a analysis of today's proxy wars, focusing on the Middle East and its neighbours.Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the...

Japan's World Heritage Sites presents the exquisite temples, shrines, gardens, castles and natural wonders found throughout Japan which have now been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This new edition has more convenient size and includes...

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEEA renowned cardiologist and Harvard professor spells outthe future digital shift of medicine - and how it will impact the lives not only of patients and health care professionals but of all humans.Future care is...