Engineering & Technology
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Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies, 3rd Edition (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Get picture perfect with Photoshop CC
Photoshop is a stunning program that puts the power of a professional photography studio into your hands, but it can also be a jungle to navigate―with a dense proliferation of menus, panels, shortcuts, plug-ins, and add-ons to get thoroughly lost in. Written by a literal Photoshop Hall of Famer, the new edition of Photoshop CC For Dummies is your experienced guide to the technical terrain, slashing away the foliage for a clear picture of how to produce the perfectly framed and beautifully curated images you want.
Beginning with an overview of the basic kit bag you need for your journey toward visual mastery, Peter Bauer―Photoshop instructor and an award-winning fine art photographer in his own right―shows you how to build your skills and enrich your creative palette with enhanced colors and tone, filters and layering, and even how undertake a foray into digital painting. Add in instructions on combining text with images and the how-tos of video and animation editing, and you have all the tools you need to carve out a one-person multimedia empire.
- Master everything from the basics to professional insider tips
- Combine, layer, tone, and paint your images
- Explore the colorfully creative world of Photoshop filters
- Fix common problems
You’ll find everything on the latest version of the software that you could dream of―and an improved shot at artistic success!
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Electrician’s Guide to the Building Regulations (Electrical Regulations)
Electrician’s Guide to the Building Regulations includes the latest guidance on third-party certification schemes and covers relevant parts of the Building Regulations, including Fire Safety, Ventilation and Conservation of Energy. This guide has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022.
BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 incorporates changes from the first amendment, published in 2020, regarding Electric Vehicle Charging Installations to provide greater guidance on embracing changing technology within this sector. Additional changes within the second amendment include protection against thermal effects and fire caused by electrical equipment, protection against voltage disturbances and electromagnetic disturbances, and a new chapter on prosumer’s low-voltage electrical installations covering energy efficiency measures, the interface with the smart grid, the management of electricity consumption, the management of renewable sources of electricity, and energy storage.
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Ace The Technical Pilot Interview 2/E (AVIATION)
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Get your career off the ground with this updated guide to acing the technical pilot interview!Written by an experienced airline pilot, Ace the Technical Pilot Interview, Second Edition is filled with more than 1000 questions and answers, many of them all-new. This practical study tool asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. It’s a must-have, one-stop resource for all pilots, regardless of aircraft type, performance, or global region.
Ace the Technical Pilot Interview, Second Edition helps you:
- Review the material most likely to be asked on your interview
- Practice with 1000+ exam-style questions–complete with answers
- Learn about the latest technologies, including CPDLC (Controller Pilot Data Link Communications) and ADS (Automatic Dependent Surveillance)
- Focus your study on what you need to know
COVERAGE INCLUDES:
Aerodynamics * Engines * Jet and propeller aircraft differences * Navigation * Atmosphere and speed * Aircraft instruments and systems * Performance and flight planning * Meteorology and weather recognition * Flight operations and technique * Human performance * Type-specific questionsRead more
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Every Page Is Page One: Topic-Based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web
The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for the search box and expecting every search to work like Google. There is no first, last, previous, next, up, or back anymore. Every Page is Page One.For technical communicators, this Every Page is Page One environment presents a unique challenge: How do you cover a large and complex product using only topics, and how do you enable your readers to find and navigate topic-based content effectively?
In this ground-breaking book, Mark Baker looks beyond the usual advice on writing for the Web, and beyond the idea of topic-based writing merely as an aid to efficiency and reuse, to explore how readers really use information in the age of the Web and to lay out an approach to planning, creating, managing, and organizing topic-based documentation that really works for the reader.
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Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).
It provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks and will help you learn and memorise the most important areas, with links provided back to the main Introduction to Health and Safety at Work text to help you consolidate your learning.
● Small and portable, making it ideal for use anywhere: at home, in the classroom or on the move
● Includes specimen questions and answers based on recent examination papers
● Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference source
This revision guide is written by an experienced lecturer and former Vice Chairman of NEBOSH, who has spent many years helping students become accredited by NEBOSH.
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Inspecting Personal Fall Protection Equipment: Technical Safety Handbook
The essential reference to inspecting all forms of industrial and sporting PFPE, covering the legal and record-keeping requirements for UK workplaces post-Brexit, plus the practical process of inspection and maintenance, in complete detail and an easy-to-read style. For all those working at height or in confined spaces as part of a job or a rescue team, and those who enjoy extreme sports. Being able to inspect and maintain your gear in a safe working condition is an essential skill, and in a workplace is required by law. It requires a detailed knowledge of standards, design specifications, mechanisms of corrosion, wear and chemical damage. This fully-updated 2nd Edition has chapters on each type of device explaining clearly what standards they should meet, how they should operate, and how they can fail. The information and techniques can be applied to any brand of equipment.
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A Practical Guide to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Fire safety has been at the forefront of the public consciousness since the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in 2017. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is the main piece of legislation dealing with fire safety in premises other than dwellings in England and Wales. It imposes numerous duties on employers, landlords, occupiers which are complex and often confusing.This book provides a simple overview and explanation of the Order and the legal duties imposed by it for non-lawyers and lawyers alike. It explains who is responsible for complying with those duties and to what extent, how those duties are enforced through investigation, formal notices and prosecution and the potential consequences of breach.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Phillips is a specialist regulatory barrister at Six Pump Court Chambers.
She advises and acts for individuals, companies, and regulators and accepts instructions on a direct access basis.
Her practice encompasses all aspects of regulatory law including fire safety, health and safety consumer protection, food hygiene/food safety law and environmental law. She is ranked in Chambers and Partners 2019 (London Bar) as an ‘Up and Coming’ Junior in Consumer Law.
She is a contributing author to Garners’ Environmental Law Encyclopaedia, Atkins Court Forms, Westlaw Insight and Lexis Nexis Practice Guides and provides training and lectures to solicitors, local authorities and industry bodies such as IOSH and CTSI on regulatory law.
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How to Write Your Nursing Dissertation, 2nd Edition: With Website
how to write your nursing dissertationHow to Write Your Nursing Dissertation provides nursing and healthcare students with authoritative information on developing, writing, and presenting an evidence-based practice healthcare dissertation, project or evidence-informed decision-making assignment. Written by experienced healthcare professionals, this comprehensive textbook offers clear and straightforward guidance on sourcing, accessing, and critically appraising evidence, helping students develop their clinical research and writing skills. The authors address the common difficulties encountered throughout the process of writing a dissertation, project or evidence-informed decision-making assignment, and offer expert tips and practical advice for managing time, developing study skills, interpreting statistics, publishing aspects of the work in a journal or at a conference, and more.
Now in its second edition, this bestselling guide presents relatable and engaging scenarios to illustrate the setting of standards, explore legal and ethical frameworks, examine auditing and benchmarking, and demonstrate how evidence is applied to real-world problems. Covering the entire dissertation, project or evidence-informed decision-making assignment process from a nursing and healthcare perspective, this innovative textbook:
- Helps students develop and appropriately answer a clear dissertation, project or evidence-informed decision-making assignment
- Addresses the fundamental aspects of evidence-based practice in an accessible and readable style
- Features new and updated content on mini dissertations, final assessments, and evidence-informed decision-making projects that many healthcare institutions now require
- Presents up-to-date information that meets the needs of new healthcare roles, such as the Nursing Associate and Healthcare Assistant
- Includes access to a companion website containing downloadable information, an unabridged dissertation sample, and links to additional resources
How to Write Your Nursing Dissertation is a must-have guide for nursing and healthcare students, trainees, other healthcare students required to complete an evidence-based practice project, and anyone looking to strengthen their critical appraisal and assignment writing skills.
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Collins Complete Woodworker’s Manual “packaging may vary”
A revised, redesigned and updated edition of the definitive and bestselling woodworker’s bible.
Authoritative, superbly crafted and easy to use, Collins Complete Woodworker’s Manual is the UK bestseller and the one book every woodworker needs.
This revised edition has been extensively rewritten and contains new photographs and illustrations. It includes new products and techniques developed since the last edition, as well as updated trees’ conservation status.
Every stage in crafting furniture and other decorative pieces are fully explained starting with the basics; the nature of wood, the tools required and setting up a workshop. The book then examines the principles of three-dimensional design from inspiration to construction.
Step-by-step illustrations demonstrate how to make every type of joint and all the major crafts are given detailed coverage with the same step-by-step approach: bending wood, veneering and marquetry, woodcarving and finishing.
The book also includes a chapter on using other materials, such as metal, glass and leather in combination with wood, plus a chapter on fixings and fittings.
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The British Film Business
A fascinating read both for the general reader on film and also those with a serious interest in the subject of the film industry and film–making For the past 80 years the British film industry has struggled to compete with Hollywood. The early control of distribution by American companies in London and the lack of investment in domestic production gave Hollywood a commercial advantage that persists to this day. Successive British governments have introduced measures to protect the industry from overseas competition and stimulate British production, all with little long–term success. This book traces the history of the British film business from the days of the early pioneers, through its near collapse in the immediate post–war era to the current age of digitally enhanced blockbusters. The authors chart the successes and failures and show how Government intervention has often failed to assist the industry. They provide comment on recent developments and suggest how these could help British film making talent reach the wider audience that it frequently deserves. Bill Baillieu is a non–practising barrister with twenty years corporate finance and licensing experience in the development and funding of creative and growth businesses. His career began in the venture capital industry in the City of London, and he now specialises in the management, exploitation and valuation of intellectual property rights ranging from copyright portfolios to patented technology. John Goodchild is an experienced investment analyst and currently an associate with the London stockbrokers Walker Crips Weddle Beck plc. He has been fascinated by the British cinema since childhood when he first heard his aunta s recollections of life as a wardrobe assistant at Gainsborough Studios in the 1930s. He is also joint editor of Professional Investor where Bill Baillieua s articles on the industry were the starting point for The British Film BusinessRead more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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