Engineering & Technology
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A Study Book For The NEBOSH National General Certificate: Essential Health & Safety Guide
This study book is for the New NEBOSH National General syllabus (2018 specification). The 11th edition is the latest study book from RMS Publishing designed to help students pass their NEBOSH exams. The content of this book has been updated to run in line with the new syllabus for the NEBOSH General Certificate, and includes a revision guide, case studies, and mock exam questions to test understanding. This study book is perfect for students taking the NEBOSH National General Certificate, tutors that teach the course, and those that require general health and safety knowledge. This study book has been written by tutors with a broad range of experience in health and safety, and teaching NEBOSH qualifications. The book provides a valuable and detailed understanding of the principles and practices involved in the management of health and safety.Read more
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Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner
This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches. This mixed methodology makes an ideal introduction to the subject for those studying to enter the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry in a professional capacity. Designed to equip the student with all they need to know about construction law, the topics covered include:
- the fundamentals of law and the English legal system
- contract, business, tort and property law
- procurement, subcontracting and partnering
- claims, damages, losses and expenses
- dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration, litigation and adjudication
The book’s suitability for study is enhanced by its logical structure, chapter summaries and further reading lists whilst the role of law in achieving a more collaborative and less confrontational AEC industry is examined in detail. Fully updated throughout, this new edition includes coverage of post-Grenfell legislation; increased coverage of modern methods of construction and continuously evolving technologies such as BIM and digital twins; NEC4 and the latest JCT contract suite and the Construction Playbook.
This book is useful not only for understanding the basics, but also as a reference that practitioners will use time and again.
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The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook: Proven business analysis techniques and processes for a superior user experience and adoption
Become a proficient Salesforce business analyst with the help of expert recommendations, techniques, best practices, and practical advice
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.
Key Features
- Learn the intricacies and nuances of every stage of a project’s implementation
- Discover real-world examples, tips, and tricks that you can apply to any Salesforce project
- Overcome the challenges inherent in user interaction and improve your customer experience
Book Description
Salesforce business analysis skills are in high demand, and there are scant resources to satisfy this demand. This practical guide for business analysts contains all the tools, techniques, and processes needed to create business value and improve user adoption.
The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook begins with the most crucial element of any business analysis activity: identifying business requirements. You’ll learn how to use tacit business analysis and Salesforce system analysis skills to rank and stack all requirements as well as get buy-in from stakeholders. Once you understand the requirements, you’ll work on transforming them into working software via prototyping, mockups, and wireframing. But what good is a product if the customer cannot use it? To help you achieve that, this book will discuss various testing strategies and show you how to tailor testing scenarios that align with business requirements documents. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to create easy-to-use training material for your customers and focus on post-production support – one of the most critical phases. Your customers will stay with you if you support them when they need it!
By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to successfully navigate every phase of a project and confidently apply your new knowledge in your own Salesforce implementations.
What you will learn
- Create a roadmap to deliver a set of high-level requirements
- Prioritize requirements according to their business value
- Identify opportunities for improvement in process flows
- Communicate your solution design via conference room pilots
- Construct a requirements traceability matrix
- Conduct user acceptance tests and system integration tests
- Develop training artifacts so your customers can easily use your system
- Implement a post-production support model to retain your customers
Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate- to senior-level business analysts with a basic understanding of Salesforce CRM software or any CRM technology who want to learn proven business analysis techniques to set their business up for success.
Table of Contents
- Identifying Requirements
- Elicitation and Document Requirements
- Prioritizing Requirements
- Process Flows – “As-is” versus “To-be”
- Business Requirements Document
- Solution Design and Functional Document
- Demonstrate Functionality Using Prototypes
- Exploring Conference Room Pilots
- Technical and Quality Testing
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- User Acceptance Testing
- Communication and Knowledge Management
- End User Training
- Post Go-Live Support / User Forums
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AQA AS/A-Level Design and Technology: Product Design
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Design & Technology
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2018Encourage your students to be creative, innovative and critical designers with a textbook that builds in-depth knowledge and understanding of the materials, components and processes associated with the creation of products.
Our expert author team will help guide you through the requirements of the specification, covering the core technical and designing and making principles needed for the 2017 AQA AS and A-level Design and Technology Product Design specification.
– Explores real-world contexts for product design
– Develops practical skills and theoretical knowledge and builds student confidence
– Supports students with the application of maths skills to design and technology
– Helps guide students through the requirements of the Non-Exam Assessments and the written exams at both AS and A Level.Read more
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Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction: Learn and apply the best uncertainty frameworks to your industry applications
Take your machine learning skills to the next level by mastering the best framework for uncertainty quantification – Conformal Prediction
Key Features
- Master Conformal Prediction, a fast-growing ML framework, with Python applications.
- Explore cutting-edge methods to measure and manage uncertainty in industry applications.
- The book will explain how Conformal Prediction differs from traditional machine learning.
Book Description
Embark on an insightful journey with ‘Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python’, a comprehensive resource that equips you with the latest techniques to quantify uncertainty in machine learning and computer vision models effectively.
This book covers a wide array of real-world applications, including Conformal Prediction for forecasting, computer vision, and NLP, as well as advanced examples for handling imbalanced data and multi-class classification problems. These practical case studies will enable you to apply your newfound knowledge to various industry scenarios.
Designed for data scientists, analysts, machine learning engineers, and industry professionals, this book caters to different skill levels – making it an ideal resource for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Delve into the latest Conformal Prediction techniques and elevate your machine learning expertise.
If you’re eager to manage uncertainty in industry applications using Python, ‘Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python’ is the ultimate guide for you. Order your copy today and propel your career to new heights!
What you will learn
- Fundamental concepts and principles of conformal prediction
- Learn how Conformal Prediction differs from traditional ML methods.
- Apply real-world examples to your own industry applications
- Explore advanced topics: imbalanced data & multi-class CP
- Dive into the details of the conformal prediction framework
- Boost your career as a data scientist, ML engineer, or researcher
- Learn to apply Conformal Prediction to forecasting and NLP
Who This Book Is For
This book is for people interested in Conformal Prediction – data scientists, machine learning engineers, academics, researchers, software developers, students, data analysts, statisticians.
Table of Contents
- Introducing Conformal Prediction
- Overview of Conformal Prediction
- Fundamentals of Conformal Prediction
- Validity and efficiency of conformal prediction
- Types of conformal predictors
- Conformal Prediction for classification
- Conformal Prediction for regression
- Conformal Prediction for time series and forecasting
- Conformal Prediction for Computer Vision
- Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing
- Handling imbalanced data
- Multi-class Conformal Prediction
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Technical Drawing 2: Mechanical Drawing (Longman International Technical Texts)
Technical Drawing 2: Mechanical Drawing is the second of three books which together provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of secondary school technical drawing syllabuses. The books are also suitable for Craft level courses such as engineering and building related subjects and for industrial training courses where an understanding of technical drawing is required. The three books may be used together or seperately to suit a variety of needs.Using numerous illustrations and easy-to-follow text, this book covers: drawing office practice; pictorial drawings; orthographic projection; section views; screw threads; engineering fasteners; assembly drawing; design process; materials.
Other features of this book include exercises which may be used for self-study, revision or evaluation, and a full index.
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Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition
The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resulted in new roles, decisions, and vulnerabilities whilst practitioners are also faced with new levels of complexity, adaptation, and constraints. It is becoming increasingly apparent that conventional approaches to safety and human factors are not equipped to cope with these challenges and that a new era in safety is necessary.
In addition to new material covering changes in the field during the past decade, the book takes a new approach to discussing safety. The previous edition looked critically at the answers human factors would typically provide and compared/contrasted them with current research and insights at that time. The edition explains how to turn safety from a bureaucratic accountability back into an ethical responsibility for those who do our dangerous work, and how to embrace the human factor not as a problem to control, but as a solution to harness.
See What’s in the New Edition:
- New approach reflects changes in the field
- Updated coverage of system safety and technology changes
- Latest human factors/ergonomics research applicable to safety
Organizations, companies, and industries are faced with new demands and pressures resulting from the dynamics and nature of the modern marketplace and from the development and introduction of new technologies. This new era calls for a different kind of safety thinking, a thinking that sees people as the source of diversity, insight, creativity, and wisdom about safety, not as the source of risk that undermines an otherwise safe system. It calls for a kind of thinking that is quicker to trust people and mistrust bureaucracy, and that is more committed to actually preventing harm than to looking good. This book takes a forward-looking and assertively progressive view that prepares you to resolve current safety issues in any field.
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The Beaten Track Volume 3: The Traction and Extremities of Britain’s Rail Network 1970-1985
The Beaten Track was first published in 2021. Its combination of outstanding colour photography from 1970–1985, featuring superseded motive power and long-lost extremities of the British railway network received widespread critical acclaim. Although originally intended to be a single volume, the success of The Beaten Track gave rise to a second volume, published in 2022, which continued in the same vein and received similar praise in reviews. We’re now proud to present The Beaten Track Volume 3 – a third selection of the best colour photography from 1970–1985. More than 250 high quality colour images illustrate an assortment of traction types, very few of which can still be seen on the main line, many at railway locations that have long since disappeared or have changed out of all recognition. All the photographs are accompanied by extensive captions, containing considerable historical and anecdotal information relating to the lines, stations and trains depicted. Hardback. A4 size. 176 pages.Read more
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A Study Book for the NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety: Essential Health and Safety Guide
This essential health and safety guide is designed to meet the learning requirements of the NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety specification (units FSC1 and FSC2). It provides an excellent reference for anyone who has fire safety responsibilities in a small to medium sized organisation anywhere in the world. The guide provides the knowledge and understanding, when combined with relevant experience, to carry out an effective fire risk assessment, as well as embed good practice in the workplace. The practical and informative approach of the guide will provide Health and Safety Managers, Facilities Managers and others with a perspective of the significance of fire risk within the workplace, and understanding of fire and explosion protection and prevention principles. Fire Service Personnel will also find the publication of benefit in developing their underpinning knowledge as part of the Integrated Personal Development System. Topics covered in the guide include: * Managing fire safety. * Principles of fire and explosion. * Fuel, oxygen and ignition sources and control measures. * Fire protection of buildings. * Safety of people in the event of fire. * Fire safety risk assessment.Read more
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Book 2 Electrical Installations, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeships (5357 and 5393), Level 3 Advanced … & T Level Occupational…
Equip yourself with the tools for success in Electrical Installations with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds and IET.
– Study with confidence using the most up-to-date information available for the new industry standards, including the 2022 amendments to BS7671: 2018, The IET Wiring Regulations 18th edition
– Enhance your understanding of concepts in electrical installation with 100s of clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences
– Practise maths and English in context, with embedded ‘Improve your maths’ and ‘Improve your English’ activities
– Get ready for the workplace with industry tips
– Prepare for your trade tests or end-of-year exams with end-of-chapter practice questions
– Engage with author Peter Tanner’s accessible text, drawing on his extensive industry experience
– Target your learning with detailed qualification mapping grids for the latest City & Guilds Level 3 qualifications – including the 2365, 8202, 5357 and 5393 specifications, as well as the 352 and 353 T Level occupational specialismsRead more
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Plumbing Book 1, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeship (9189), Level 2 Technical Certificate (8202), Level 2 … (6035) & T Level…
Equip learners with the tools for success in a career as a plumber with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds.
The new edition will help learners to:
– Study with confidence, covering all core content for the 6035, 9189 and 8202 specifications, as well as the 355 and 356 plumbing and heating T Level occupational specialisms.
– Target learning with detailed qualification mapping grids.
– Get to grips with technical content presented in accessible language.
– Enhance their understanding of plumbing practice with clear and accurate illustrations and diagrams demonstrating the technical skills you need to master.
– Practise maths and English in context, with embedded ‘Improve your maths’ and ‘Improve your English’ activities.
– Test their knowledge with end-of-chapter practice questions, synoptic assessments and practical tasks.
– Prepare for the workplace with up-to-date information on relevant key regulations and industry standards.
– Keep their knowledge current, with clear coverage of major modern cold water, hot water, central heating, sanitation, rainwater systems and environmental technologies.Read more
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Book 1 Electrical Installations, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeships (5357 and 5393), Level 2 Technical … & T Level Occupational…
Equip yourself with the tools for success in Electrical Installations with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds and IET.
– Study with confidence using the most up-to-date information available for the new industry standards, including the 2022 amendments to BS7671: 2018, The IET Wiring Regulations 18th edition
– Enhance your understanding of concepts in electrical installation with 100s of clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences
– Get ready for the workplace with industry tips
– Prepare for your trade tests or end-of-year exams with end-of-chapter practice questions
– Engage with author Peter Tanner’s accessible text, drawing on his extensive industry experience
– Target your learning with detailed qualification mapping grids for the latest City & Guilds Level 2 qualifications – including the 2365, 8202, 5357 and 5393 specifications, as well as the 352 and 353 T Level occupational specialismsRead more
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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition, The
Combining guidance for writing over 40 types of professional documents with thorough coverage of grammar, usage, and style, the “Handbook of Technical Writing” functions as both a writer’s handbook and a complete guide to technical communication. It provides quick access to hundreds of topics and scores of sample documents and visuals. New features in the tenth edition include: updated application cover letter, interviewing for a job, and resume sections; professionalism notes, providing insight to students entering the job market; digital tips; entries on adapting to new technologies, writing grant proposals, and using plain language; new index; up-to-date documenting sources; and, more model documents.Read more
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Introduction to Quantum Computing: From a Layperson to a Programmer in 30 Steps
This textbook introduces quantum computing to readers who do not have much background in linear algebra based on the self-study experience of the author as an engineer. The author targets undergraduate and master students who are willing to spend about 60 -90 hours seriously learning quantum computing. This book is also suitable for self-study and teaching videos for each chapter and more than 200 exercises with answers are provided. Readers will be able to write their program to simulate quantum computing algorithms and run on real quantum computers on IBM-Q. Moreover, unlike books that only give superficial, “hand-waving” explanations, this book uses exact formalism so readers can continue to pursue more advanced topics based on what they learn from this bookRead more
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TOBACCO ADVERTISING: The Great Seduction (Schiffer books for collectors) (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Since 1789, when the first tobacco advertisement appeared, tobacco manufacturers have been pioneers of advertising and marketing, revolutionizing the American way of doing business in the process. The folksy, familiar and innocent-looking images portrayed in tobacco advertising were part of the new wave of product promotion – tin tags, cigar and tobacco labels, insert cards (including the first baseball cards) – that helped transform America into a nation of smokers by 1900. With illustrations of antique artifacts, old photographs and contemporary advertising, the reader is taken through the rapid growth of the tobacco industry following the Civil War, and shown a wide-range of promotional ploys and gimmickry that evolved in this century: tobacco tins, cigarette pack art, and outdoor advertising. Other advertising objects include lapel buttons, pocket mirrors, postcards, watch fobs, pocketknives, envelope stickers and more. All are lavishly illustrated, many in full color, and an informative value guide is included.Read more
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Health and Safety in Brief
A reference of health and safety legislation for managers and a study aid for students
Under UK legislation it’s mandatory for businesses with 5 or more employees to have a health and safety policy and a member of staff dedicated to these issues. This concise guide clearly explains how to adhere to the policy in practical terms. Its bulleted format makes it ideal as a quick reference for managers as well as a study aid for students.
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Health and Safety Pocket Book
The second edition of the Health and Safety Pocket Book has been fully revised and updated to include all the relevant legal, HSE ACoP/Guidance and practice references. It remains a handy reference tool for practising health and safety professionals, auditors, managers, HR personnel, employee representatives and anyone with health and safety responsibilities.
The book is an essential compilation of guidance, data and checklists covering a wide range of health and safety topics, supported by extensive key glossary terms. The A–Z arrangement within the chapters and extensive cross-referencing make it easy to navigate, while its size and scope make it the ideal volume for ready reference and site visits. The book will also be useful for health and safety courses at all levels.
Key features include:
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- The principal health and safety legal requirements for every industry
- Safety management elements and systems
- Checklists for major hazards affecting all industries
- A wealth of charts, hard-to-remember details and data
- A glossary of the main concepts of health and safety
- A list of important health and safety courses, publications and organisations
- Revision tips for key examination themes.
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Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.
Fully updated to the April 2015 specification, the revision guide provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks, helping readers to learn and memorise the most important topics. Throughout the book, the guide links back to the Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction textbook, helping students to consolidate their learning.
· Small and portable making it ideal for use anywhere: at home, in the classroom or on the move
· Suggests useful tips on study and examination technique
· Includes practice questions and answers based on NEBOSH exam questions
· Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference
The Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide, written by the renowned health and safety author and former NEBOSH Vice Chairman Ed Ferrett, will be an invaluable tool for students as they prepare for their NEBOSH exam and for their subsequent health and safety work.
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Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies
Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and technologies, along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures, distributed and parallel computing models, virtualization, cloud developments, workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud, workload management. Further, resource management issues in cloud with regard to resource provisioning, resource allocation, resource mapping and resource adaptation, ethical, non-ethical and security issues in cloud are followed by discussion of open challenges and future directions.
This book gives students a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies and guidance on cloud computing, and is ideal for those studying the subject in specific modules or advanced courses. It is designed in twelve chapters followed by laboratory setups and experiments. Each chapter has multiple choice questions with answers, as well as review questions and critical thinking questions. The chapters are practically-focused, meaning that the information will also be relevant and useful for professionals wanting an overview of the topic.
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The Cloud Adoption Playbook: Proven Strategies for Transforming Your Organization with the Cloud
The essential roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption
As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation.
Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization. This book will help you:
- Discover how the cloud can fulfill major business needs
- Adopt a standardized Cloud Adoption Framework and understand the key dimensions of cloud adoption and digital transformation
- Learn how cloud adoption impacts culture, architecture, security, and more
- Understand the roles of governance, methodology, and how the cloud impacts key players in your organization.
Providing a collection of winning plays, championship advice, and real-world examples of successful adoption, this playbook is your ultimate resource for making the cloud work. There has never been a better time to adopt the cloud. Cloud solutions are more numerous and accessible than ever before, and evolving technology is making the cloud more reliable, more secure, and more necessary than ever before. Don’t let your organization be left behind! The Cloud Adoption Playbook gives you the essential guidance you need to make the smart choices that reduce your organizational risk and accelerate your cloud adoption and digital transformation.
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Approved Document B: Fire safety – Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings (2019 edition incorporating 2020 and 2022 amendments)
This new, revised edition of Approved Document B incorporates the June 2022 amendment booklet which takes effect on 1st December 2022.
Approved Document B of the Building Regulations covers fire safety matters within and around buildings. Published in two volumes, Volume 1 deals solely with dwellings, including locks of flats, while this volume – Volume 2 – deals with all other types of building cover by the Building Regulations.
The aim of each volume is to set out the guidelines that need to be followed in order to prevent the spread of fire over linings, such as walls and ceilings. Each volume also states what materials can be used and what British Standards each should conform to, to ensure that they provide the required level of protection.
Main changes made by the 2022 amendments
The changes focus on the following fire safety provisions:
a. Ban of combustible materials in and on the external walls of buildings: Consequential amendments following the laying of the Building (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022. Updated provisions in Section 12 for residential buildings (purpose groups 1 and 2) with a storey 11m or more in height.
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On-Board Guide: Electrical Safety for Small Craft: An IET Guide covering the safety of DC and AC electrical systems in small craft navigating on UK … sea areas (Electrical…
Small craft have an ever-increasing amount of electrical equipment, systems, and associated power requirements. As a result, significantly more risks and safety concerns need to be considered in the design and testing of electrical installations on small recreational and commercial craft.
This new On-Board Guide provides practical advice on the design, installation, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of electrical installations on small recreational and commercial craft. It summarises the existing standards and directives relevant to this sector and covers key areas such as electrical supplies (including batteries and AC power sources) as well as design guidance, cable requirements, electrical protection and testing.
The full contents include:
- Working safely and general requirements.
- Types of electrical installations on-board small craft.
- Electric power sources for small craft.
- Protection against electric shock.
- Earthing.
- Distribution systems.
- Cable installation, conductor terminations and identification.
- Batteries.
- Design guidance.
- Inspection and testing of electrical installations.
The primary readers of this guide are electrically skilled boat owners, marine electrical technicians, designers and installers of electrical systems, and small craft surveyors. The contents and coverage are applicable to the recreational and commercial small craft sectors.
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The Practical Watch Escapement
One of George Daniels’ central contributions to horology is his co-axial escapement. Having observed that the dominant lever escapement begins to change its rate after a year or two – a disturbance caused by the sliding action of the impulse elements of the escapement – Daniels set about developing a mechanism that avoided this problem. The result of his efforts was the co-axial escapement, a mechanism in which he sought to combine the strengths and eliminate the deficiencies of existing watch escapements, the lever escapement foremost among them. First devised in 1977, today it remains largely the same as fitted in watches of Daniels’ own manufacture, as well as those of several wrist-watch manufacturers. This book explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman, and is accompanied by a series of detailed line drawings.Read more
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Nerikomi: The Art of Colored Clay
A fully illustrated examination of the use of color in clay, outlining its history and exploring the styles and techniques of the leading modern makers.In nerikomi pottery, a ceramicist takes two or more different colored clays and combines them to create a decorative scheme that is then fired into the very fabric of the piece. Most often the colored designs or patterns – which may be coiled, marbled, geometric, mosaic or naturalistic – can be seen right through the piece, inside and out, the carefully engineered design permeating the structure, as opposed to using an external coat of glaze for the decoration.
In this exploration of the approach, renowned ceramicist Thomas Hoadley explains various colored-clay techniques, defining nerikomi and its close relations neriage and agateware. Hoadley examines the work of historical and modern potters worldwide, from the Japanese masters Matsui Kosei and Ito Sekisui (both distinguished as Living National Treasures) to the likes of Curtis Benzie, Dorothy Feibleman, and Barbara Gittings. Each of these artists has taken inspiration from particular sources, refined an individual technique through trial and error, and produced a distinctive signature style.
This fascinating book includes breathtaking images of finished pieces, and work-in-progress photographs, both from the author and from other leading experts in the field. Whether you have a general interest in ceramics or are seeking inspiration before embarking on your own nerikomi adventure, it tells you all you need to know about the work of the world’s leading colored-clay artists.
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Tank Gun Systems: The First Thirty Years, 1916 1945: A Technical Examination
Much has been written about the use of tanks in battle. Little, however, has appeared about the gunnery systems that are at their core. This book describes and examines the main gun systems of medium and heavy tanks from first use in 1916 in World War I to those fielded in numbers to the end of World War II in 1945, including tanks of the interwar period. Specifically considered are guns of a calibre greater than 35 mm, which have been deployed in numbers greater than 100. The emphasis is on guns mounted in turrets on heavier tracked armoured fighting vehicles (greater than 15 tonnes) which were considered tanks. There are, though, exceptions, in that the naval 6 pounder guns in First World War British tanks, as well as the 75 mm guns in French medium tanks of the same period (all turretless) are included. The treatment of gun systems includes sighting and fire control equipment, gun laying equipment, mounts and the array of munitions fired, as well as the actual gun, including its, barrel, cradle, breech, firing mechanism, sights and recoil system. Related to this are issues of gun handling (loading and unloading), ammunition design and rates of fire. Also examined are the maximum impulse and energy generated by firing some of the munitions available that must be absorbed by the gun recoil system.Read more
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Easy Guide to Health and Safety
Do you need to get to grips with health and safety principles but don’t have time to wade through reams of legislation and guidance? Do you need practical step-by-step guidance on health and safety issues for your small business? Then this is the book for you.The jargon-free Easy Guide to Health and Safety introduces the health and safety issues which the self-employed and managers, directors and staff with health and safety responsibilities in small businesses face every day. Words and legislation are kept to a minimum and the text is supported by numerous relevant illustrations. The book is packed with practical guidance and solutions, as well as handy checklists and forms for your basic health and safety needs, especially useful when setting up a new business.
The book is also suitable for students on IOSH Working Safely and NVQ level 1 and 2 courses from City & Guilds and other NVQ awarding bodies.
Phil Hughes is a well known UK safety professional with over thirty years world wide experience. He was Chairman of NEBOSH from 1995-2001 and President of IOSH in 1990-91. Phil received the RoSPA Distinguished service award in May 2001 and became a Director and Trustee of RoSPA in 2003. He received an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2005 for services to Health and Safety.
Liz Hughes taught psychology in further and higher education. She went on to qualify as a social worker specializing in mental health, and later moved into the voluntary sector where she managed development for a number of years. Liz has achieved NVQ training modules D32, 33 and 34 and has tutored students completing NVQ awards. Her psychology and education background means that she is skilled in preparing readable, easily accessible information.
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Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH National Fire Certificate
The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management. As well as being a handy companion volume to the Fire Protection Association textbook Fire Safety and Risk Management: for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, it will also serve as a useful aide-mémoire for those in fire safety roles. The book:
- provides practical revision guidance and strategies for students;
- highlights the key information for each learning outcome of the current NEBOSH syllabus;
- gives students opportunities to test their knowledge based on NEBOSH-style questions and additional exercises;
- provides details of publically available guidance documents that students will be able to refer to.
The revision guide is fully aligned to the current NEBOSH syllabus, providing complete coverage in bite-sized chunks, helping students to learn and memorise the most important topics. Throughout the book, the guide refers back to the Fire Safety and Risk Management textbook, helping students to consolidate their learning.
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The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing
The first edition of Krista Van Laan’s popular The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing has guided a generation of technical writers who are either starting out or seeking to take their skills to the next level. This classic has now been updated for the technical writer of today. Today’s tech writers truly are technical communicators, as they build information to be distributed in many forms.
Technical communication requires multiple skills, including an understanding of technology, writing ability, and great people skills. Wherever you are in your journey as a technical communicator, The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing can help you be successful and build a satisfying career.
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North Sea Passage Pilot
Under his authorship, this edition has been restructured to reflect the changing nature of passages across the North Sea. As well as a consideration of the various Traffic Separation Schemes, routes take into account the many new offshore windfarms and oil and gas extraction platforms. As its name suggests, the emphasis of this pilot is on the passage routes, whether taking a more direct line between the UK and the Continent or incorporating hops along the East Coast and the adjacent coasts of France, Belgium and Holland. Pilotage is included for a selection of key ports. Updated plans and numerous new photographs help to illustrate the key features to help guide you across this challenging yet rewarding stretch of water.Read more
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How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
‘Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.’ Damon Hill
The world s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir.
How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian s unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he s been involved.
A true engineering genius, even in adolescence Adrian s thoughts naturally emerged in shape and form he began sketching his own car designs at the age of 12 and took a welding course in his school summer holidays. From his early career in IndyCar racing and on to his unparalleled success in Formula One, we learn in comprehensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. Adrian has designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, always with a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster. And while his career has been marked by unbelievable triumphs, there have also been deep tragedies; most notably Ayrton Senna s death during his time at Williams in 1994.
Beautifully illustrated with never-before-seen drawings, How to Build a Car encapsulates, through Adrian s remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula One so thrilling its potential for the total synchronicity of man and machine, the perfect combination of style, efficiency and speed.
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Final Fantasy Xiv: Stormblood — The Art Of The Revolution – Western Memories-
Experience the rich world of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood once more via this exhaustive collection of concept art and illustrations, including character designs, field areas, dungeons, monsters, equipment, and more. The Art of the Revolution -Western Memories- also features commentary from the art team on how costumes are created. Book one of a two-book set with The Art of the Revolution -Eastern Memories-. Includes an exclusive bonus item code for an in-game Wind-up Yotsuyu minion!Read more
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Electronics All-in-One For Dummies
Open up a world of electronic possibilities with the easiest “how-to” guide available todayIf you’re looking for a new hobby that’s tons of fun―and practical to boot―electronics might be right up your alley. And getting started has never been easier!
In Electronics All-in-One For Dummies, you’ll find a plethora of helpful information, from tinkering with basic electronic components to more advanced subjects like working with digital electronics and Arduino microprocessors.
Whether you’re just getting started and trying to learn the difference between a circuit board and a breadboard, or you’ve got a handle on the fundamentals and are looking to get to the next level of electronics mastery, this book has the tools, techniques, and step-by-step guides you need to achieve your goals―and have a blast doing it! You’ll learn:
- Critical safety tips and strategies to keep yourself and your environment protected while you work
- Useful schematics for everyday devices you can put to work immediately, like animated holiday lights and animatronic prop controllers
- How to work with alternating current, direct current, analog, digital, and car electronics, as well as Raspberry Pi technologies
Perfect for anyone who’s ever looked at a circuit board and thought to themselves, “I wonder how that works?”, Electronics All-in-One For Dummies is your go-to guide to getting a grip on some of the coolest electronic technologies on the market.
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MGM (The Routledge Hollywood Centenary Series)
The winner of the 2019 Peter C. Rollins Book Award
This is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present. Following a straightforward chronology corresponding to specific periods of film industry history, each chapter describes how successive managements adjusted their production strategies and business practices in response to evolving industrial and market conditions.
As the production subsidiary of the Loew’s Inc. theatre chain, MGM spent lavishly on its pictures and injected them with plenty of star power. The practice helped sustain MGM’s preeminent position during the heyday of Hollywood. But MGM was a conservative company and watched as other studios innovated with sound and widescreen, adjusted to television, and welcomed independent producers. By the 1960s, the company, sans its theatre chain, was in decline and was ripe for a takeover. A defining moment occurred in 1969, when Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas entrepreneur, made a successful bid for the company. There followed a tumultuous thirty-six-year period when Kerkorian bought and sold MGM three times. Meanwhile, MGM never regained its former status and has functioned as a second-tier company to this day.
Focusing on MGM’s top talent – such as Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick, and Arthur Freed; directors King Vidor and Vincente Minnelli; and stars of the screen Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Mickey Rooney – and award-winning films, this book highlights the studio’s artistic achievements and status within the industry.
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Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Studies in Computing and Culture)
Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.
Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of “humanness.” They can serve both liberation and control because some people’s freedom has historically been predicated on controlling others. Historians of computing return again and again to these contradictions, as they often reveal deeper structures.
Using twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment, a reformulation of the old mind-body dichotomy, this anthology examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing. The authors examining “Abstraction” revisit central concepts in computing, including “algorithm,” “program,” “clone,” and “risk.” In doing so, they demonstrate how the meanings of these terms reflect power relations and social identities. The section on “Embodiments” focuses on sensory aspects of using computers as well as the ways in which gender, race, and other identities have shaped the opportunities and embodied experiences of computer workers and users. Offering a rich and diverse set of studies in new areas, the book explores such disparate themes as disability, the influence of the punk movement, working mothers as technical innovators, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain.
Abstractions and Embodiments reimagines computing history by questioning canonical interpretations, foregrounding new actors and contexts, and highlighting neglected aspects of computing as an embodied experience. It makes the profound case that both technology and the body are culturally shaped and that there can be no clear distinction between social, intellectual, and technical aspects of computing.
Contributors: Janet Abbate, Marc Aidinoff, Troy Kaighin Astarte, Ekaterina Babinsteva, André Brock, Maarten Bullynck, Jiahui Chan, Gerardo Con Diaz, Liesbeth De Mol, Stephanie Dick, Kelcey Gibbons, Elyse Graham, Michael J. Halvorson, Mar Hicks, Scott Kushner, Xiaochang Li, Zachary Loeb, Lisa Nakamura, Tiffany Nichols, Laine Nooney, Elizabeth Petrick, Cierra Robson, Hallam Stevens, Jaroslav Švelch
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Electronics All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies: UK Edition
Your one-stop UK shop for clear, concise explanations to all the important concepts in electronics and tons of direction for building simple, fun electronic projects.
The 8 mini-books in this 1 volume include:
- Getting Started with Electronics
- Working with Basic Components
- Working with Integrated Circuits
- Getting into Alternating Current
- Working with Radio and Infrared
- Doing Digital Electronics
- Working with Basic Stamp Processors
- Building Special Effects
With nearly 900 pages of instruction, Electronics All-in-One For Dummies, UK Edition covers all the bases and provides a fascinating hands-on exploration of electronics.
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WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award Engineering (Technical Award) – Student Book (Revised Edition)
This popular Student Book has been revised and updated in line with WJEC’s new Level 1/2 Technical Award specification for first teaching from September 2022. Written by an experienced Engineering teacher and examiner, it offers high quality support you can trust.
– Carefully designed to be accessible, flexible, practical and student-friendly.
– Introduces students to many of the basic engineering skills and principles and gives them a good understanding of the subject area.
– Shows students how to communicate effectively as an engineer via 3D drawing techniques and technical drawings as well as how to use and identify many tools, machines and pieces of equipment that are commonplace in the engineering world.
– Includes new exam-style questions to help students practice and prepare for the exams.
– Provides links to other relevant areas of the specification to encourage a more holistic understanding of topics.
– Includes a variety of features to ensure students get the most out of the course and achieve their potential in the exams.Read more
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Certificate of Professional Competence Road Haulage 2022 edition – A complete CPC Operators course
A complete training course for the Certificate of Professional Competence Operators Licence.
Written by experts, this superb training course, prepared for the 2022 syllabus, has it all. A comprehensive and easy to follow course manual prepared by haulage industry professionals.
If you wish to be licenced as a Transport Operator in Road Haulage, you must demonstrate your ‘professional competence’. This means passing the CPC examinations. These are R1, the multiple-choice question and answer test, and R2, based on case studies.
This course will help prepare you for all aspects of the CPC Operator exams in a step-by-step manner. This enables you to study comfortably and easily, at your own pace and in your own time. You will learn at the best possible speed and take the examinations in as short a time as possible.
Attaining a CPC qualification will give you prestige and the respect of your colleagues inside the haulage industry, both in the UK and Internationally. This applies equally to a career as an owner-driver of a heavy goods vehicle, or as a professional manager with an employer responsible for any number of vehicles. You will not need prior qualifications to pass the exam. To succeed, you just need to study this course material and when you are ready take the two-part exam.
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The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise
Achieve streamlined, rapid production with enterprise-level DevOpsAwarded DevOps 2017 Book of the Year, The DevOps Adoption Playbook provides practical, actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps at enterprise scale. Author Sanjeev Sharma heads the DevOps practice for IBM; in this book, he provides unique guidance and insight on implementing DevOps at large organizations. Most DevOps literature is aimed at startups, but enterprises have unique needs, capabilities, limitations, and challenges; “DevOps for startups” doesn’t work at this scale, but the DevOps paradigm can revolutionize enterprise IT. Deliver high-value applications and systems with velocity and agility by adopting the necessary practices, automation tools, and organizational and cultural changes that lead to innovation through rapid experimentation. Speed is an advantage in the face of competition, but it must never come at the expense of quality; DevOps allows your organization to keep both by intersecting development, quality assurance, and operations.
Enterprise-level DevOps comes with its own set of challenges, but this book shows you just how easily they are overcome. With a slight shift in perspective, your organization can stay ahead of the competition while keeping costs, risks, and quality under control.
- Grasp the full extent of the DevOps impact on IT organizations
- Achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk
- Exceed traditional business goals with higher product release efficiency
- Implement DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments
DevOps has been one of IT’s hottest trends for the past decade, and plenty of success stories testify to its effectiveness in organizations of any size, industry, or level of IT maturity, all around the world. The DevOps Adoption Playbook shows you how to get your organization on board so you can slip production into the fast lane and innovate your way to the top.
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My Journey: Reflections on my life in the Bus and Coach Industry
After a lifetime career in the Bus and Coach Industry, Austin has compiled some of his thoughts, musings and reflections of the industry, from his blog, into this book.
Austin’s writing is wry, thought-provoking, humerous, observational and insightful. It highlights his passion for the bus industry, giving the reader an often unseen inside view.
With the foreword written by Sir Peter Hendy CBE,
this book will be a treasure for bus industry lovers everywhere.
Ding ding; all aboard.
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Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder.
Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered, but none intended to be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed cross-section photography, Open Circuits reveals the surprising beauty hiding inside the electronic components that drive our everyday devices. From resistors to LEDs, USB cables to headphone jacks, the book’s arresting imagery transforms more than 130 components into delightful works of art. As you visually dissect the components’ insides, you’ll learn about how they work and how they were made.
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