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Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.

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This volume outlines the foundational principles of a range of methodologies in technical communication, reflecting on the process of importing and employing these methodologies into technical communication research.

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The chapters comprising Part I outline larger theoretical perspectives from which to examine techical communication: humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication, communication theory and technical writing, and the teaching of technical writing.

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A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

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State-of-the-art robotics research on topics including manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization, visual SLAM, haptics, and biologically inspired design.

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An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.

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Robots: A Reference Handbook differs from most other books on robotics in the variety of resources that it provides to readers of all ages.

Robots: A Reference Handbook teaches readers about a wide variety of robots.

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Traces the life and times of American rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard, describing his essential contributions to the science and technology of the twentieth century, the sometimes turbulent life of the visionary genius, and his pivotal role in launching the Space Age. Reprint. 20,000 first printin

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This book tells about an amazing discovery to provide energy to the world safely forever. It makes energy cheaper than ever before, produces vast amounts of pure water and produces a new type of treatment for cancer. All this with 1/100th of the waste than present reactors with no CO2 production and will burn up present nuclear waste. Welcome to the 21st century.

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Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. Conversely, he also replies to the academic debate on the excesses of modern technology in the West, with a sharp criticism of feminist and post-modernist perspectives.

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Reprint. First published: Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960. With new foreword.

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Reprint. First published: Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960. With new foreword.

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Discusses recent proposals for dramatic policy changes and offers conclusions regarding the implications of such changes with an eye toward their potential to restart the global arms race.

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A controversial and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness.

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"The history of "ad-tech" reveals the practices, tools, and relationships that form the commercial infrastructure of the largest digital media platforms"--

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Space debris is a growing environmental and space hazard. There could exist in the sky tens of millions of "space objects" measuring one centimetre across or smaller. This title investigates how the satellite industry can be protected from manmade and natural space hazards.

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This book shows how private industry can make a profit building and installing solar hydrogen systems that eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from generating electricity and most greenhouse emissions from the transportation sector while eliminating all petroleum imports.

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How Thomas Edison's 19th century invention of the phonograph led to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of 20th & 21st centuries. Ever since, recorded sound has been all around us, in music, office, home. The quest for better sound was one of the driving forces of technological change.

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An overview of how sound design is invented, produced, implemented and used in the early 21st century.

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This historic shift from government to private leadership in space is evidenced in the many large and small companies already planning private space stations and battling to create their own launches at far lower costs than NASA's projects.

The book begins with an engrossing account of the causes of the Challenger failure.