Technology : Engineering

Product Development begins with an understanding of market needs, within a sound business model, a well-defined capital strategy, and well-thought-out strategic goals. This new book by industry-expert Marc Annacchino, will help the professional engineer, manager, marketer, and all others who must come together as a working team, to better understand their respective roles and responsibilities in that process. more...

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Learn BIOCHEMISTRY without stressing out your brain CELLS. Trying to understand the chemical processes of living organisms but having trouble metabolizing the complex concepts? Here's your lifeline! Biochemistry Demystified helps synthesize your understanding of this important topic. You'll start with a review of basic chemical concepts and a look at cell structures and cell division. Next, you'll study carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, nucleotides, and enzymes. Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, and the control of chemical processes round out the coverage. Hundreds of examples and illustrations make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter questions and a final exam help reinforce learning. This fast and easy guide offers: Numerous figures to illustrate key concepts; Details on DNA and RNA; Coverage of hormones and neurotransmitters; A chapter on analytical techniques and bioinformatics; A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work. Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Biochemistry Demystified is your key to mastering this vital life sciences subject. more...

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This Manual contains the complete illustrated solutions to all the problems in the seventh edition of Craig's Soil Mechanics. more...

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Provides plans, with diagrams and schematics, to build more than 50 solar energy projects. This book provides explanations of the science and math behind each project. It also explains projects that progress in difficulty - from simple ones that may inspire science fair entries - all the way to converting a real home to solar energy. more...

Price: $24.95

The necessity of expertise for tackling the complicated and multidisciplinary issues of safety and risk has slowly permeated into all engineering applications so that risk analysis and management has gained a relevant role, both as a tool in support of plant design and as an indispensable means for emergency planning in accidental situations. This entails the acquisition of appropriate reliability modeling and risk analysis tools to complement the basic and specific engineering knowledge for the technological area of application. Aimed at providing an organic view of the subject, this book provides an introduction to the principal concepts and issues related to the safety of modern industrial activities. It also illustrates the classical techniques for reliability analysis and risk assessment used in current practice. more...

Price: $75.40