Technology & Engineering
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From  NEW! Why Move Toward Autonomous Vehicles?From: Autonomous Vehicles |
In chapter six, Baker reviews the arguments for why a move towards autonomous vehicles would be beneficial to present-day society, such as improved safety, shared ownership of vehicles, speed, … | Nathan Baker | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Are Dams Really that Bad?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Conclusion:Cars, Canadians and the Twenty-first Century From: Car Nation |
Looks at the interconnectedness of the car to the great political, environmental and economic questions of our time as a testament to the automobile’s continuing centrality in both our … | Dimitry Anastakis | 8 | 2008 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Locked downReimagining access for marginalized people |
Chapter six of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the issue of access for marginalized people relating to the three automobility revolutions, and argues that these coming trends do not … | James Wilt | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  More Bounties for Human Scalps and the Treaty of 1752 |
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From NEW! Philosophical Considerations: The Ghost in the MachineFrom: Autonomous Vehicles |
In chapter seven, Baker explores the ethics behind the machine learning based algorithms programmed into autonomous vehicles and the moral dilemma which can arise from the decision-making … | Nathan Baker | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Pre-Descent, In-Range, Landing and After Landing Checklist |
Chapter 6 discusses the landing process. Topics explored include ILS (Instrument Landing System), speed limits and how they calculate speed, keeping outside clean, small verses large aircrafts, … | Doug Morris | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Proposals & PartnersFrom: Samuel Cunard |
1835-1840. Looks at designing steamships for tranoceanic travel, looks at bids for steam ship companies involvment in the British mail service which Samuel Cunard went after as well as his competitors | John Boileau | 10 | 2006 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Remembering Bell and BaldwinFrom: Fastest in the World |
1957. Looks at the construction and launch of the Bras d’Or (Also known as R-103 and renamed Baddeck in 1962), an experimental prototype. | John Boileau | 10 | 2004 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Sustainability or Collapse?From: Techno-Fix |
Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 34 | 2011 | $3.40 Add |
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From  Tragedy and New Discoveries |
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 … | 43 | 2013 | $4.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development ProposalFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 6 asks the question of whether Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project was a realistic urban development program or a PR stunt by Google to market their products on a large stage. | David Murakami Wood | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From A Theory Evolves |
Analyzes important clues of a technical nature leading to a theory that the flood tunnel was not part of the original excavation project. The overwhelming conclusion that emerges from the … | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add | |
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From  Blue WaterFrom: Dry Run |
With all the concern the past decade about reducing water consumption in both residential and non-residential uses, you’ll probably not find it surprising that the water field has begun to … | Jerry Yudelson | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From BRITANNIA & BostonFrom: Samuel Cunard |
1838-1840. Examines the professional relationship between Samuel Cunard and Robert Napier. Looks at building ships to combat the challenges of the North Atlantic | John Boileau | 12 | 2006 | $1.20 Add |
