engineering

Pogue’s Basics

Did you know that can you scroll a Web page just by tapping the space bar? How do you recover photos you’ve deleted by accident? What can you do if your cell phone’s battery is dead by dinnertime each day? When it comes to technology, there’s no driver’s ed class or government-issued pamphlet covering the essentials. Somehow, you’re …

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Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society

Master interviewing skills with INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 8th Edition. This book gives you the tools to adapt your skills to address both individual and multicultural uniqueness, conduct interviews using five different theoretical approaches, and begin developing a personalized style and theory of interviewing and counseling that matches your own aptitudes …

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Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

The bestselling project management text for students and professionals—now updated and expanded This Eleventh Edition of the bestselling “bible” of project management maintains the streamlined approach of the prior editions and moves the content even closer to PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). New content has been added to this edition on measuring project management ROI, value …

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Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros By Pros)

Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you’ll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you’re building basement walls or framing a chimney opening.This wealth of visual information is mined …

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Thunderstruck

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, a true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect …

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Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius

A dozen fiendishly fun projects for the Raspberry Pi! This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to create all kinds of entertaining and practical projects with Raspberry Pi operating system and programming environment. In Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius, you’ll learn how to build a Bluetooth-controlled robot, a weather station, home automation and security controllers, …

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NFPA 70®: National Electrical Code® (NEC®), 2011 Edition

Safe, efficient, code-compliant electrical installations are made simple with the latest publication of this widely popular resource. Like its highly successful previous editions, the National Electrical Code 2011 softcover version combines solid, thorough, research-based content with the tools you need to build an in-depth understanding of the most important topics. New to the 2011 edition are articles …

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