Technology & Engineering
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 The New Carbon ArchitectureBuiding to Cool the Climate |
"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when … | Bruce King | 186 | 2017 | View |
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From  The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit AnalysesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The Selling of Toronto’s Smart CityFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 1 explores the stakeholders who initially pitched the partnership between the city of Toronto and Google’s urban planning division Sidewalk Labs. | Blayne Haggart | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The State of Our GroundwaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Struggle for Freedom |
Daniel Paul | 52 | 2006 | $3.64 Add | |
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From  The Treasure Proves Elusive |
1845-1866, The recommencment of the search for treasure on Oak Island (Truro Syndicate), issues with water while excavating, 1849 drilling program. | Graham Harris | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Treaty of 1725 and Proclamations |
Daniel Paul | 14 | 2006 | $0.98 Add | |
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From The Uncritical Acceptance of New TechnologiesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies discusses five topics related to the widespread belief in the inevitability of technological change: the myth of value-neutrality, the technological … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 20 | 2011 | $2.00 Add |
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From The Value of the Treasure |
Contains an assessment of the value of the lost treasure still awaiting recovery. | Graham Harris | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From The Way of the EngineerFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores new technologies and innovative solutions to water shortages, and shows how we can engineer more efficient ways to use our limited water supply. | Marq de Villiers | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Them’s the BrakesOut “Smarting” Traffic Safety Efforts in Edmonton From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 11 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies | Jen Raso | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
 NEW! This Is Your Captain SpeakingStories from the Flight Deck |
For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travellers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight Captain Doug Morris has … | Doug Morris | 278 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! This is Your Captain Speaking… |
In the introduction author Doug Morris explains how he hopes this book will fill the void of aviation knowledge by enlightening a wide spectrum of readers. As his aviation career is on its final … | Doug Morris | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Daniel Maskell; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From Important Evidence is Revealed |
1955-2005, George Greene’s work on the Island (Summer1955), William and Victor Harmon (1958), Robert Restall (1965) killed in shaft they dug, Robert Dunfield (1965) excavates, discoveries … | Graham Harris | 43 | 2013 | $4.30 Add |
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From Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization |
Daniel Paul | 41 | 2006 | $2.87 Add |
