Machines at Work

Reducere. Look at all the amazing machines you'll find on a farm. Take a close look at a tractor and its various attachments and learn how a crop is planted ...

Reducere. The Mighty Machines series. Mighty machines in full color for the kids who love them. In the Mighty Machines series, vivid color photographs of mac...

It's time to go to the theme park! Giant rides loom around you, and countless parts are in motion. But many simple machines are at work too. See th...

Discover the engineering behind how machines work

Reducere. A richly illustrated book about the big machines kids love. Kids love big machines: watching real machines do real work, playing with toy machines,...

Discover machines on the building site, at home and in the playground in First Explorers: Machines. Each scene has chunky push, pull and slide mech...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter BuehrIllustrator: Walter BuehrThe First Book of Machines, first published in 1962, is a timeless work that explains ...

Reducere. The First Book of Machines , first published in 1962, is a timeless work that explains the history of machines up to modern devices that assist man...

Reducere. The Mighty Machines series. Mighty machines in full color for the kids who love them. In the Mighty Machines series, vivid color photographs of mac...

Reducere. The Mighty Machines series. Mighty machines in full color for the kids who love them. In the Mighty Machines series, vivid color photographs of mac...

Reducere. More fabulous huge machines for the kids who love them. Children always get excited watching cranes reach for the heights. Knowing that one person ...

Reducere. An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future In the 19th century, English texti...

Reducere. A practical step-by-step set of science activities revealing to children the forces at work in the world around them. Professor Robert Winston give...

Reducere. Demonstrating the differences between seemingly similar slot machines and the strategies behind them, this gambling guide will teach readers all th...

DescriptionLearn about machines the fun way The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this kid-friendly guide to understanding the basics o...

Reducere. Learn about machines the fun way! The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this kid-friendly guide to understanding the basics of simple m...

Unlike people, robots can do repetitive tasks perfectly every time, without getting tired or needing breaks for food or sleep! Robots have become e...

Reducere. Elliott is a boy who likes to find things and, one day, he stumbles across a machine. At first, he can’t work out what the machine is for – it does...

Reducere. This classic work explores the kinematics of machinery, chronicling the discovery and application of principles underlying the controlled movements...

Reducere. This is a book about starting a vending business and building an empire of vending machines at ANY AGE Dominick Barbato has been in the vending ind...

Reducere. Experience the bustling energy of an urban construction site with Steve Light's colorful celebration of builders, breakers, and the machines they u...

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker l...

Reducere. DescriptionMany people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book ...

Reducere. Truck-loving preschoolers will love this charming, busy bulldozer hero ``Push`` McCallahan is a hardworking bulldozer who's on the construction sit...

Reducere. In his classic book, J. G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition and enthusiasm. He provides an impo...

It takes hundreds of people, dozens of machines and years of work to construct a skyscraper. Lift the flaps to see construction crews digging, dril...

Reducere. '...an essential and fascinating manual for every woman who wants to understand equality within an ever-changing, modern world.' Scarlett Curtis'.....

Reducere. Caution Construction zone ahead Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a big building going up -- and who hasn't? -- will be thrilled by this behind-...

Reducere. In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows...

Reducere. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAROne of Fortune Best Books of the YearOne of Inc. Best Business Books o...

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age, " (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of ho...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book has been written from the standpoint of an unbiased investigation into the 'processed food and additives' industry. An examina...

How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany.The concept of productivity o...

DescriptionOur organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journe...

Reducere. Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms,...

Reducere. The Soviet bloc got there first. And set off a titanic struggle between good and evil to control and use psychic powers. Read about decades-long sc...

Reducere. Ever wish you could convert a hand knit pattern to work on your knitting machine? Well it is possible if you have a little help. This book explains...

Reducere. Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at...

Reducere. DescriptionWham-a-hammer, bam-a-slamma The construction crew is back -- but what are they building this time? Crash-a-rumble Smash-a-grumble What's...

What is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller mach...

Reducere. In 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a c...

Professional Sheet Metal Fabrication is the number-one resource for sheet metal workers old and new. Join veteran metalworker Ed Barr as he walks y...

Reducere. Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty--a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macab...

Reducere. Once upon a time, a Ph.D. went to work at Mickey D's...And what he found was illuminating. Jerry Newman, a college professor who has taught busines...

Principles of Mass and Flow Production is a 55th Anniversary Special Reprint Edition of Frank G. Woollard's long-forgotten book published in 1954, ...

Reducere. David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of physics, biology, and chemistry in this unconventional and highly origin...

Reducere. The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during th...

Reducere. The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during th...

Reducere. DescriptionIf yesterday was the best day ever, wouldn't it be great to find a way to repeat it? A whimsical tale about happiness with sure appeal f...

If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet-...

This book is a call to examine the very nature of technology and to develop practices for meeting its many challenges. Illuminating, compelling, ch...

Reducere. Homemade bread is something we all love but rarely have the time to make. Thanks to the bread machine, we can enjoy delicious loaves of warm bread ...

Henry Petroski's previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil...

This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL B...

Reducere. Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For m...

Reducere. Forget expensive mattresses, fancy foam pillows, and white noise machines. There's no better treatment for insomnia than cognitive behavioral thera...

Reducere. The uplifting, amazing true story--a New York Times bestsellerThis edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. I...

He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Fra...

Reducere. In factoriesIn the skyIn your cars and phonesIn your own homeRobots are everywhereAnd they have been for a lot longer than you might realize.From t...

Reducere. In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business wo...

Reducere. David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of physics, biology, and chemistry in this unconventional and highly origin...

DescriptionHow is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and c...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sensitive, informative, and inspiring pictur...

Reducere. David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of physics, biology, and chemistry in this unconventional and highly origin...

Reducere. ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES***'EPIC, VIVID AND BELIEVABLE' Guardian on Thief's MagicInternational No. 1 bestselling author Trudi Canavan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elisabetta ParisiMaking your own pasta is a very satisfying way to spend your time in the kitchen. The rewards come from bo...

Reducere. Would you like to know what your life will be like in the next decade?Are you curious to learn about how you'll be getting around town, where you'l...

Reducere. Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, wh...

Reducere. DescriptionSanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So na...