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1341) Concept cars
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"Join the car mania! It's time to shift gears and zoom into the cutting-edge world of concept cars. Learn what a concept car is, why car companies make them, and how designers imagine and create these never-before-seen vehicles."
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Overview: One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change, human interaction. Now, instead of agreeing on a particular...
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""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of our planet. Marshall McLuhan's dreams of a Global Village have become true in unimagined ways. Being an engineer myself, I admire the way Smil portrays the human Cinderellas...
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"Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval past, we understand very little about what these digital objects really are. We rarely consider how they are made or who makes them. This case-study rich book demystifies digitization, revealing what it's like to remake...
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A new edition of the first of four thrilling volumes in this mind-bending, Eisner-nominated science fiction mystery graphic novel series! Acrophobic flight attendant Blythe has just fallen for a mysterious traveler--who may or may not be a terrorist--and she's about to embark on the strangest journey of her life. Searching for him, Blythe will crash-land into a web of technological conspiracies, dark politics and secret organizations. When she learns...
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"Addressing the critical issue of knowledge transfer within an organization, this book offers practical advice on how to structure the transition of documented information and the even more valuable non-documented knowledge that outgoing staffers have-before it leaves with them. Whether a result of a retirement, an acquisition, promotions, transfers, or layoffs-all organizations have lost what these authors call "deep smarts" when workers leave. Now,...
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Become a digital-first organization--and avoid disruption. If you read nothing else on the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your digital strategy, overcome barriers to change, and win in the continuously connected world. This book will inspire you to: Devise an industry-transforming...
1353) Gold rush tech
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This in-depth program focuses on the impressive technology that evolved as a result of America's great rush to riches, and explores the inventions that took mining from a one-man operation to a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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"The library is the great equalizer. Today, for access to information, for informed and engaged citizenship, technology must be part of the mix. Are you getting to the people who don't walk in your doors? It's time to take technology on the road. This design-thinking guide will develop staff's creative problem-solving skills. You will learn to design and prototype ideas safely, quickly, and with confidence"--
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"Within the next two decades, tens of millions of Americans will reach the age where they will need either significant support to stay in their own homes or a cost-effective residential alternative. The current state of elder care in America is appalling, expensive, and unsustainable. It underserves the majority of elderly Americans and bankrupts all but the richest few while virtually ignoring this population's complex physical and mental needs....
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"New challenges, including terrorism and cyberwarfare, require new technologies. With this in mind, military leaders are overseeing the development of a new generation of cutting edge robots, unmanned vehicles, weapons, tactical gear, and other defense-related technologies" --from the publisher.