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Newton's Telecom Dictionary 15 Ed
Harry Newton
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Current:
9.7 |
The technology of long-distance voice and data communication incorporates millions of details. The business of selling that technology involves plenty more. Anyone hoping to navigate this jungle of facts and terminology had better keep a co
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Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications)
Nathan J. Muller
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Current:
9.6 |
Complex and fast-changing-it's synonymous with telecommunications. There's too much rapidly evolving technology for professionals to stay on top of it all-yet they need to. And that's why this across-the-bandwidth reference will be an indis
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The Facilitator's Fieldbook: Step-by-Step Procedures * Checklists and Guidelines * Samples and Templates
Thomas Justice
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Current:
9.5 |
What is facilitation? Ironically, it's a difficult word that means "to make easy." When applied to businesses and organizations, facilitation means helping people work together in groups and teams to achieve their goals. But wait, you're
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Career Renewal : Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals
Stephen Rosen, Celia Paul
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Current:
9.5 |
Suffering from career burnout, career regret, or job dislocation? Learn how to measure your own "career health" with "Career Renewal"--the only guide available to professionals who find themselves in career limbo. Throughout the book the au
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Forbes Greatest Technology Stories : Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business
Jeffrey S. Young
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Current:
9.5 |
You'll never look at your laptop the same way again Backed by Forbes' excellence in reporting, this book follows on the success of the blockbuster Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time to bring readers another series of remarkable st
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GSM Made SIMple
George Lamb
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Current:
9.5 |
A non-technical explanation of GSM. Written in non-engineering language for anybody who needs to understand how Global Systems for Mobile Communications work. Great for sales and customer service staff. more]
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Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Michio Kaku(Preface)
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Current:
9.4 |
Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification. S
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Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson, Edmund O. Wilson
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Current:
9.2 |
The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and t
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Technical Manual : Technical Manual (Star Trek, Deep Space Nine)
Herman Zimmerman
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Current:
9.1 |
Whether you're looking for a cross-section of a Bajoran tricorder, plan drawings of the USS Defiant, or a detailed explanation of station wastewater treatment, you'll find everything you need in the Deep Space Nine Technical Manua
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The Quotable Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Current:
9.0 |
The Quotable Einstein is a complete compendium of quotes from the great physicist, organized thematically, usefully indexed, and thorough in its inclusion and documentation of attributed material, sources, and dates. As a resource fo
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Apollo 8 : The NASA Mission Reports With CDRom
Robert Godwin, United States National Aeronautics and Space adm
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Current:
8.9 |
On December 21st 1968 the United States' National Aeronautics & Space Administration sent three men to orbit the moon. It was the boldest step yet taken in the quest to fulfill President John Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon by t
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Cats' Paws and Catapults : Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.7 |
"Life is what biology's all about. Technology is something else altogether. Or so I believed before I got into a kind of biology that's about technology as well as life," begins biomechanics expert Steven Vogel in the preface to more]
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.6 |
How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither
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The Baltimore Case : A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
Daniel J. Kevles
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Current:
8.5 |
In a perfect world, science wouldn't be done by human beings, since despite our best efforts, we aren't truly objective about anything. When personality and emotion inevitably get mixed up with science, sparks can fly. The most notorious su
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The T-Factor 2000 Diet: The Best Diet Ever, Now Made Better
Martin Katahn, Jamie Pope
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Current:
8.4 |
The Best Diet Ever . . . Now Made Better. The revolutionary low-fat, metabolism-boosting diet now revised and expanded to help you lose weight faster than ever (and forever!). Long-term statistics tell us that most dieters eventually regain
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A Walk Through Time : From Stardust to Us : The Evolution of Life on Earth
Sidney Liebes
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Current:
8.4 |
Every step you take in A Walk Through Time moves you millions of years forward in Earth's history. Inspired by the idea of a one-mile stroll through the evolution of life, Sidney Liebes recruited some terrific writers and artists to
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Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Stephen Jay Gould
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Current:
8.3 |
The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result
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What Einstein Didn't Know : Scientific Answers to Everday Questions
Robert L. Wolke
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Current:
8.2 |
A "Washington Post" columnist offers a fun, fascinating guide to everyday science for those who never wore a slide rule or a pocket protector. Read more
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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Arthur C. Clarke, Ian MacAuley
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Current:
8.2 |
"Nobody has done more in the way of enlightened prediction than Arthur C. Clarke," wrote Isaac Asimov, no slouch in that department himself. And indeed, this collection of Clarke's essays contains an astonishing amount of prophecy, in every
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The Ascent of Science
Brian L. Silver
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Current:
8.0 |
The Ascent of Science is a remarkable achievement: a concise, informative, and easily readable book that breathes life into an often dry, impenetrable subject. The lengthy text spans several centuries of scientific discovery and theo
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McGraw-Hill Illustrated Telecom Dictionary (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications)
Jade Clayton
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Current:
7.9 |
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Engineering Formulas
Kurt Gieck, Reiner Gieck
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 23
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American Electrician's Handbook
Terrell Croft, Wilford Summers
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 24
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National Geographic's How Things Work : Everday Technology Explained
John Langone
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 25
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
Sybil P. Parker
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 26
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering
Sybil P. Parker
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 27
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The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook
Edwin Bernard Kurtz
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 28
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Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management
John Dixon Campbell
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 29
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Normal Accidents : Living With High-Risk Technologies
Charles Perrow
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 30
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Electric Motor Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)
H. Wayne Beaty, James L., Jr. Kirtley
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Current:
7.6 |
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National Plumbing Codes Handbook
R. Dodge Woodson
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 32
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Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
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Current:
7.4 |
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Turn Left at Orion : A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope-And How to Find Them
Dan M. Davis
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Current:
7.3 |
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 35
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 1999-2000 : A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 80th ed
David R. Lide
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Current:
7.1 |
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Jupiter's Travels : Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
Ted Simon
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Current:
7.1 |
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| 37
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Lessons from the Field : Applying Appreciative Inquiry
Sue Annis Hammond, Cathy Royal
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 38
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Apollo 10 : The Nasa Mission Reports
Robert Godwin
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 39
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Apollo 9 - The NASA Mission Reports
Robert Godwin, United States National Aeronautics and Space adm
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 40
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Scientific Style and Format : The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (6th Ed)
Edward J. Huth
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Current:
6.8 |
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Higher Superstition : The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
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Current:
6.8 |
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Building Construction Cost Data 2000 (Means Building Construction Cost Data, 2000)
T. J. Pinch, Haarry Collins
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Current:
6.8 |
The flagship of Means construction cost titles, the 57th annual edition contains up-to-date prices on major construction materials, labor and equipment costs associated with new construction projects and includes additional information on s
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A Field Guide for Science Writers
Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson
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Current:
6.7 |
Science writers are translators of sorts: they transform the jargon-laden language and arcane concepts of the science world into something the rest of us can understand and even appreciate. For this, they must be able to comprehend (and ass
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Means Illustrated Construction Dictionary [UNABRIDGED]
Howard Chandler
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Current:
6.5 |
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| 45
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Iso9000 Pocket Guide
David Hoyle
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Current:
6.4 |
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Petroleum Refining for the Non-Technical Person
William L. Leffler
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Current:
6.4 |
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Pro/Engineer Solutions and Plastic Design
Norm Ladouceur
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Current:
6.4 |
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| 48
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Petrochemicals in Non-Technical Language (Book Only Order #P4463)
Donald L. Burdick, William L. Leffler
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Current:
6.3 |
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Guide to Nontraditional Careers in Science
Karen Young Kreeger(Preface)
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Current:
6.3 |
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The Golem at Large : What You Should Know About Technology
T. J. Pinch, Haarry Collins
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6.3 |
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