Systems Engineering

Do you think raising chickens is only for farmers with acres of land? In reality: You can enjoy fresh eggs and feathery companions right in your backyard, no matter the size!

Space is filled with wondrous and mind-boggling objects. New discoveries are made every year. This book has 199 trivia questions to test your memory. But you don’t have to worry if you get stumped. The answer is revealed and includes 557 out-of-this-world facts. This book covers a broad spectrum of thought-provoking questions, such as:

The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement.

Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. This network has been called a greater invention than the steam engine, comparable only to the development of the printing press.

Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. Her condition is unique. It has no name. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on these detailed diaries she kept during her time of blindness and through the scientific research that was to follow.

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality.

In 1977, two spacecraft were launched from Earth to explore the outer Solar System, and incredibly, the now-ancient technology from the 1970s is still working, sending daily reports back to the planet that sent the two robotic envoys on their way, over 40 years ago. Voyager 1 and 2 have done far more than accomplish their original missions. In fact, they are now exploring interstellar space, far beyond the outer planets, in the cold wasteland between the stars.

While modern technology has helped astronomers view the furthest reaches of the Solar System, it has also allowed scientists to start discovering planets orbiting distant stars. To make it easier to assess the relative mass and size of the new planets being discovered, scientists give these measurements as multiples of those properties for either Jupiter or Earth

Have you ever wanted to learn how to better use your data? Are you interested in the works of machine learning?If you answered yes to these questions, then this book is for you. Deep learning is a powerful data tool that can help improve businesses. Deep learning is an amazing tool when you want to use data in an effective manner. Data is important to many different areas in life, so it’s important that you know how to use it. Don’t let all of your data go to waste. Get this audiobook today and improve the way your business works.

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expanded to California, Florida, and New York, the pair uncovered surprising and profound connections between ecological systems and environmental crises across the country.

Handling computers has gotten easier than before. However, do you know the world of the internet? What makes a computer go online? How can you identify someone else’s device? What are the different types of networks and how can you safeguard yourself from the different threats? Let’s find out. We will also take a look at the career of a computer networking specialist and the challenges you can expect.

Science and violence converge in modern warfare. While the finest minds of the 20th century have improved human life, they have also produced human injury. They engineered radar, developed electronic computers, and helped mass produce penicillin all in the context of military mobilization. Scientists also developed chemical weapons, atomic bombs, and psychological warfare strategies. Rational Fog explores the quandary of scientific and technological productivity in an era of perpetual war.

Stop what you’re doing right now and listen up - your commercial driving or trucking business is doomed, unless you change your mindset immediately. It’s all about knowing your business, knowing your client, and showing them why you’re better than everyone else - and you don’t need a ton of money or a university degree to accomplish just that. A little bit of business sense and some guidance is all you need to help you take the right steps.

Conquer the NABCEP PV Design Specialist Exam (PVDS): Your Guide to Photovoltaic System Design Excellence is the ultimate resource for aspiring and experienced solar professionals aiming to master PV system design and achieve NABCEP certification. This comprehensive guide simplifies complex topics and provides practical knowledge to excel in solar design while ensuring safety, efficiency, and compliance with industry standards. The book begins with the fundamentals of photovoltaic systems, delving into component functions, solar resource assessment, and load analysis. It explores critical ...

Our Nursing Review series are intended to be used by nursing students. Our goal is to help transition students to successfully practicing nurses. We divided the curriculum into sections based on the organ system review. This audiobook is focused on integumentary system that includes high-yield concepts to help you do well in nursing school, HESI, and NCLEX exams.

Throughout Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine, Beth Porter provides a great resources about recycling, explaining the complexity, guiding individual action, and contextualizing its history. This book reveals how we arrived at this state of dysfunction, and what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system. Nature knows how to recycle itself, decomposing waste back into the soil to continue the circle of growth. We should follow its lead.

This book is a resource for building your own solar PV supply for remote cameras, LED lighting systems, communication, sensors, and remote cabin and home power systems with solar PV power system examples. The solar energy resource varies with time of day, season, and local climate. Solar PV panels, sized properly, produce reliable and predictable energy production, despite daily variations, when calculated properly for each month.

Permaculture is the gardening and farming roadmap of the future. It teaches you to work with nature so that the Earth will be your ally, not your foe. It’s a must-have for every person concerned about the environment and sustainable living. It contains valuable lessons and strategies critical for the future of life on Earth.

Right now in America, there are about two million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: We’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar energy is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the home of the future.

The question of man’s place in the extended universe has been pondered by every known culture since the beginning of recorded history. Lacking the means to prove otherwise, discussions of an alternative to Earth’s solitary existence have remained conceptual. The ongoing debate is spurred by the appearance of unexplainable phenomena through the centuries in the atmosphere and the space beyond, so much so that contact with alien civilizations has been depicted in some of the most ancient examples of representational art.

Discover the fascinating world of ecology and ecosystems with this comprehensive guide, perfect for beginners! Ecology for Beginners unravels the complexities of nature, exploring how living organisms interact with each other and their surroundings. Whether you’re a student, nature enthusiast, or just curious about the environment, this book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the science of ecology.