The Automotive Chassis

The Automotive Chassis

Book Description
This comprehensive overview of chassis technology presents an up-to-date picture for vehicle construction and design engineers in education and industry. The book acts as an introduction to the engineering design of the automobile's fundamental mechanical systems. Clear text and first class diagrams are used to relate basic engineering principles to the particular requirements of the chassis. In addition, the 2nd edition of 'The Automotive Chassis' has a new author team and has been completely updated to include new technology in total vehicle and suspension design, including platform concept and four-wheel drive technology.

Product Details

* Hardcover: 444 pages
* Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd; 2Rev Ed edition (May 23, 2001)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0750650540
* ISBN-13: 978-0750650540

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Electronics For Dummies

Electronics For Dummies

Book Description
Want to hook up your home theater system?

Want to fix it so your garage band rocks the neighborhood?

Want to solder the faulty wire on your old phonograph so you can play those 60s albums you’ve kept all this time?

Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer , hobbyist, or student , this book will turn you on to real-world electronics. It quickly covers the essentials, and then focuses on the how-to instead of theory. It covers:

* Fundamental concepts such as circuits, schematics, voltage, safety, and more
* Tools of the trade, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic probes, and more
* Common electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors, transistors)
* Making circuits using breadboards and printed circuit boards
* Microcontrollers (implementation and programming)

Author Gordon McComb has more than a million copies of his books in print, including his bestselling Robot Builder’s Bonanza and VCRs and Camcorders For Dummies. He really connects with readers! With lots of photos and step-by-step explanations, this book will have you connecting electronic components in no time! In fact, it includes fun ideas for great projects you can build in 30 minutes or less. You’ll be amazed! Then you can tackle cool robot projects that will amaze your friends! (The book gives you lots to choose from.)

Students will find this a great reference and supplement to the typical dry, dull textbook. So whether you just want to bone up on electronics or want to get things hooked up, souped up, or fixed up,…whether you’re interested in fixing old electronic equipment, understanding guitar fuzz amps, or tinkering with robots, Electronics For Dummies is your quick connection to the stuff you need to know.

Product Details

* Paperback: 432 pages
* Publisher: For Dummies (February 4, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0764576607
* ISBN-13: 978-0764576607

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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
While politicians squabble over the pros and cons of price controls on prescription drugs, onlooking citizens are often left scratching their heads. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by their inherent complexity and the blarney coming from political talking heads. In his follow-up to Basic Economics, Sowell, a leading conservative spokesman and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, seeks to alleviate this confusion. He highlights the major differences between politicians (who act for the short term, i.e., reelection) and economists (who look at the long-range ramifications of policy), and urges voters to keep these differences in mind. Sowell then focuses on a few issues, including some political hot potatoes: medical care, housing, discrimination, insurance and the development of nations. He urges readers to consider not only the intended, immediate goal of a particular policy, but also its unintended, long-range impact. For instance, he says, supporters of nationalized health care overlook the fact that it often results in health-care shortages, reduced quality of services and black markets. The great achievement of Sowell's book is its simplicity. His writing is easy and lucid, an admirable trait considering the topic at hand. This book will not satisfy hard-core economic junkies, and Sowell does not pretend it will. His target audience is the average citizen who has little or no economics background, but would like the tools to think critically about economic issues. Some readers will be turned off by Sowell's preference for free-market principles, but the author is an esteemed economist and his explanations fit well within the mainstream. As a basic primer for the economically perplexed, this volume serves very well.

Product Details

* Hardcover: 246 pages
* Publisher: Basic Books (November 11, 2003)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0465081436
* ISBN-13: 978-0465081431

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Building Forums With Vbulletin

Building Forums With Vbulletin

Book Description
This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.

The book covers:
Install and configure vBulletin
Learn the your way around vBulletin with a thorough guided tour
Customise your forum to meet the unique requirements of your community
Administer users and posts, appoint staff to moderate your forum – or moderate it yourself
See how to upgrade your vBulletin installation, or upgrade other forum systems to vBulletin
Create a beautiful forum by designing templates or adjusting existing ones
Install hacks to change vBulletin's behaviour or add new features – you will even see how to create your own hacks
Product Details

* Paperback: 244 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 30, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1904811671
* ISBN-13: 978-1904811671

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Civil Engineering Formulas

Civil Engineering Formulas

Book Description

* An indispensable, pocket reference for all practicing civil engineers and students
* Compiles all the essential civil engineering formulas and equations into one easy-to-use portable reference
* Material presented in SI and USCS formats

Product Details

* Paperback: 350 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (September 30, 2001)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0071356126
* ISBN-13: 978-0071356121

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Schaum's Easy Outline of Business Statistics

Schaum's Easy Outline of Business Statistics

Book Description
Easy Outlines are concise, easy-to-use versions of the biggest and best-selling classics in the Schaum's Outlines series. This is a continuation of the Schaum's Easy Outline Series, successfully launched in 1999. The annual enrollment in Business Statistics is 250,000.

Every book in the series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly-focused version of a top-selling Schaum's Outline. In the aggregate, these titles have sold more than 4,000,000 copies.

Format will be streamlined and updated for a contemporary look and feel
# Each book will extract the absolute essence of the subject, presenting it in concise and readily understandable form, emphasizing clarity and brevity
# Graphic elements like sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights will feature selected points from the text, emphasizing keys to learning and giving students quick pointers to the essentials

Product Details

* Paperback: 144 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 21, 2003)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0071398767
* ISBN-13: 978-0071398763


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Introduction to Project Finance

Introduction to Project Finance

Book Description
The term "project finance" is now being used in almost every language in every part of the world. It is the solution to infrastructure, public and private venture capital needs. It has been successfully used in the past to raise trillions of dollars of capital and promises to continue to be one of the major financing techniques for capital projects in both developed and developing countries.

Project Finance aims to provide:
*Overview of project finance
*Understanding of the key risks involved in project finance and techniques for mitigating risk
*Techniques for effective evaluation of project finance from both a financial and credit perspective

The author differentiates between recourse and non-recourse funding, tackles the issues of feasibility, identifies the parties normally involved with project finance plans, and details techniques for realistic cash flow preparation.

*Inspired by basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide
*Will enable students, and those already in the finance profession, to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles of project finance
*Includes questions with answers, study topics, practical 'real world' examples and an extensive bibliography

Product Details

* Paperback: 205 pages
* Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (June 27, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 075065905X
* ISBN-13: 978-0750659055



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