Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Index of Specifications and Standards
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Concrete Pressure Pipe, 3rd Ed.
Author: American Water Works Association
Publisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1583215492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This comprehensive manual of water supply practices explains the design, selection, specification, installation, transportation, and pressure testing of concrete pressure pipes in potable water service.
Publisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1583215492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This comprehensive manual of water supply practices explains the design, selection, specification, installation, transportation, and pressure testing of concrete pressure pipes in potable water service.
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report
Author: Nasa
Publisher: PDQ Press
ISBN: 9780979828898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
NASA commissioned the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to conduct a thorough review of both the technical and the organizational causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew on February 1, 2003. The accident investigation that followed determined that a large piece of insulating foam from Columbia's external tank (ET) had come off during ascent and struck the leading edge of the left wing, causing critical damage. The damage was undetected during the mission. The Columbia accident was not survivable. After the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) investigation regarding the cause of the accident was completed, further consideration produced the question of whether there were lessons to be learned about how to improve crew survival in the future. This investigation was performed with the belief that a comprehensive, respectful investigation could provide knowledge that can protect future crews in the worldwide community of human space flight. Additionally, in the course of the investigation, several areas of research were identified that could improve our understanding of both nominal space flight and future spacecraft accidents. This report is the first comprehensive, publicly available accident investigation report addressing crew survival for a human spacecraft mishap, and it provides key information for future crew survival investigations. The results of this investigation are intended to add meaning to the sacrifice of the crew's lives by making space flight safer for all future generations.
Publisher: PDQ Press
ISBN: 9780979828898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
NASA commissioned the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to conduct a thorough review of both the technical and the organizational causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew on February 1, 2003. The accident investigation that followed determined that a large piece of insulating foam from Columbia's external tank (ET) had come off during ascent and struck the leading edge of the left wing, causing critical damage. The damage was undetected during the mission. The Columbia accident was not survivable. After the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) investigation regarding the cause of the accident was completed, further consideration produced the question of whether there were lessons to be learned about how to improve crew survival in the future. This investigation was performed with the belief that a comprehensive, respectful investigation could provide knowledge that can protect future crews in the worldwide community of human space flight. Additionally, in the course of the investigation, several areas of research were identified that could improve our understanding of both nominal space flight and future spacecraft accidents. This report is the first comprehensive, publicly available accident investigation report addressing crew survival for a human spacecraft mishap, and it provides key information for future crew survival investigations. The results of this investigation are intended to add meaning to the sacrifice of the crew's lives by making space flight safer for all future generations.
Airframe and Powerplant Mechanics Airframe Handbook
Author: United States. Flight Standards Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airframes
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airframes
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Standard Specifications for Construction of Roads and Bridges on Federal Highway Projects
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
2006 Arkansas Fuel Gas Code
Author: Arkansas. Division of Plumbing and Natural Gas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580015653
Category : Natural gas
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580015653
Category : Natural gas
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
When I Need God the Most: Finding His Help When Life Gets Tense and Tough
Author:
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1622304462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1622304462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Airframe and Powerplant Mechanics General Handbook
Author: Faa
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780977489671
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-General was developed as one of a series of three handbooks for persons preparing for mechanic certification with airframe or powerplant ratings, or both. It is intended that this handbook will provide basic information on principles, fundamentals, and technical procedures in the subject matter common to both the airframe and powerplant ratings. Emphasis in this volume is on theory and methods of application."--Preface of book.
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780977489671
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-General was developed as one of a series of three handbooks for persons preparing for mechanic certification with airframe or powerplant ratings, or both. It is intended that this handbook will provide basic information on principles, fundamentals, and technical procedures in the subject matter common to both the airframe and powerplant ratings. Emphasis in this volume is on theory and methods of application."--Preface of book.
LRFD Guide Specifications for the Design of Pedestrian Bridges
Author: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Publisher: AASHTO
ISBN: 1560514698
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher: AASHTO
ISBN: 1560514698
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description