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The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
: :If you're serious about having fun with LEGO robotics, you've come to the right place. The team behind The NXT STEP blog - the authoritative online source for MINDSTORMS NXT information and advice - has packaged its considerable skills and experience in this book. Inside, you'll find some of the team's best ideas for creating cool and sophisticated models, including instructions for eight robots you can build yourself. Follow along with the MINDSTORMS NXT experts as they explain the fundamentals of programming and design, accompanied by CAD-style drawings and an ...
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Swann's Way
: :Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the original French. Now Viking makes Proust's masterpiece accessible to a whole new generation, beginning with Lydia Davis's new translation of the first volume, Swann's Way. Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood-a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to ...
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Shadows in Bronze
: :Rome, AD 71. In the second book in the bestselling Falco series, Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, has not been resting on his laurels. Tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed coup, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots — it’s all in a day’s work for an ex-private eye. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way ticket down the Appian Way — bumping into ...
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Venus in Copper
: :“Rats are always bigger than you expect.” Falco, ancient Rome’s hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent, though being bailed by his mother is almost as bad. His highborn girlfriend can’t decide if she wants him. And Titus Caesar’s reward for past services is a wet fish. Hoping for better things, he takes on new clients: on the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three nouveaux riches freedmen and their flashy wives are under siege to a clever redhead, Severina Zotica, and her foul-mouthed parrot. As he pursues ...
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Building Scientific Apparatus
: :Unrivaled in its coverage and unique in its hands-on approach, this practical guide to the design and construction of scientific apparatus, or laboratory instruments, is essential reading for every scientist and student of engineering, and physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Featured in this great new edition are features including the physical principles governing the operation of the mechanical, optical and electronic parts of an instrument, new sections on detectors, low-temperature measurements, high-pressure apparatus, and updated engineering specifications. 400 hand drawn figures and tables, have been added to this edition, which ...
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Two for the Lions (The Falco Series)
: :Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Marcus Didius Falco has the perfect plan to make money - he will assist Vespasian in the Emperor's 'Great Census' of AD 73. His potential fee could finally allow him to join the middle ranks and be worthy of long-suffering Helena Justina. Unexpectedly confronted with the murder of a man-eating lion, Falco is distracted from his original task, uncovering a bitter rivalry between the gladiators' trainers. With one star gladiator dead, Falco is forced to investigate and the trails leads from Rome ...
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Psychophysiological Recording
: :'An excellent introduction to both the methods and the principles of psychophysiology. It delivers well on the promise of its title, providing clear and well-organized descriptions of the basic phenomena in which psychophysiologists are interested and the most efficient ways in which to measure them. ... I would not hesitate ... to recommend this book to [those] who desire a straighforward and uncomplicated initiation to the trials and tribulations of life with the polygraph. ... A welcome addition to the field.' --Contemporary Psychology
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America's National Park Roads and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record (The Road and American Culture)
from: The Johns Hopkins University Press
: :The roads within America's national park system reveal a wide range of technological, aesthetic, and philosophical concerns. Their design and construction epitomize the central challenge of national park management: how to balance environmental protection with public access. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a division of the National Park Service, has spent more than a dozen years documenting the history of this vital aspect of the national park experience.America's National Park Roads and Parkways brings together 331 measured and interpretive drawings commissioned by HAER to illustrate the physical characteristics, design ...
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The Production of Houses (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
: :As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, the Oregon Experiment, and The Linz Cafe--defined a radical and fundamently new process of environmental design. Alexander now gives us the latest book in his series--a book that puts his theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment he has envisioned. The Production of Houses centers around a group of buildings which Alexander and his associates ...
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Texas Politics Today
: :TEXAS POLITICS TODAY continues to be a best seller because it offers students an overview of Texas politics by providing a wide range of viewpoints from contributing authors. Current issues and candid analysis of government increase student awareness and encourage political involvement.
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