If you have designs for wonderful machines in mind, but aren’t sure how to turn your ideas into real, engineered products that can be manufactured, marketed, and used, this book is for you. Engineering professor and veteran maker Tom Ask helps you integrate mechanical engineering concepts into your creative design process by presenting them in a rigorous but largely nonmathematical format.Through mind stories and images, this book provides you with a firm grounding in material mech...

Reeds Marine Surveying is aimed at students of marine surveying, professional marine surveyors, boatyard operators and technically-minded boat owners, and covers the latest marine surveying technology, including analysis of the mechanical behaviour of materials, failure analysis, stress concentration, fatigue and fracture, corrosion, wood-damaging organisms, polymer chemistry, and the composition and characteristics of common plastics, metal, alloys and composite materials.

Willing Wisdom: Seven Questions Successful Families Ask is the first book to introduce a new process to help families talk, build and share their estate plans. The book explains why silence and poor planning continues to destroy family wealth and why more than 50% of adults do not have a legal Will and Powers of Attorney for Finance and Health Care. Included in the book is seven questions successful families ask to inspire readers to bring new urgency and transpar...

Referring back to the early 2000s, this book traces the development of podcasting from a “do-it-yourself” medium by amateurs into its current environment, where a wide variety of individuals, organizations, and platforms operate in an increasingly crowded and competitive market.Through original case studies of shows and platforms including "The Daily" and Spotify, the authors explore the processes and effects of commercialization, platformization, and datafication in the industry. ...

Fascinating Facts for Smart and Inquisitive Teens: Unlock a World of Wonder!Are you ready to uncover mind-blowing facts, quirky trivia, and fascinating discoveries that will blow your mind? "Fascinating Facts for Smart and Inquisitive Teens" is the ultimate guide for young explorers who are hungry to learn about the incredible wonders of the world around them. Whether you're into animals with superpowers, mind-bending science experiments, or weird weather ph...

From the author of the bestselling Complete Book of Bible Trivia, fascinating facts from the social and cultural history of the Bible.With 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About the Bible but Never Thought to Ask discover how the Bible has impacted language, U.S. history, worship, music, art, literature, movies, and theater; how the Bible was passed down to us; plus every key person, place, event, and idea in the Bible. Bestselling Bible triv...

"A clear-eyed, no-nonsense approach to navigating negotiations. Babitsky and Mangraviti distill Machiavelli into a negotiation algorithm." —Robert Burton, author of On Being CertainNegotiating is an art. It's complicated. To become an exceptional negotiator traditionally requires years of experience in negotiations. But that doesn't mean that most people can't quickly and easily learn proven negotiating skills and techniques if someone sh...

With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare bookPhilip St. Ives has no love for New York’s drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip’s lawyer to ask about a...

In this world we often find ourselves at the mercy of those who we assume know more than us. This can cost us time, money, energy, and even our health. Arm yourself with the information you need and the questions you should be asking to protect yourself and to make sure that you get exactly what you need when you need it.Heating and air conditioning systems run on simple principles and ignorance of those can cost you more than you can dream! This book gives you the tools to empower...

Every business has blind spots. Some are buried in spreadsheets, others tucked behind enthusiasm or optimism that hasn't been tested. What separates long-term players from short-lived sparks isn't just hard work or passion—it's the ability to pause and ask the right questions before momentum becomes a runaway train. The Bold Ask takes you through that moment with precision. It builds a mindset where confidence isn't bravado, it's clarity. It's not about confrontat...

This book is based on a simple concept-Imagine God, the ultimate guest, comes to dinner and begins asking you some simple questions about your life…Do you complain about the lack of flowers or do you plant seeds?Do you create happiness or do you chase after it?Do you encourage more than you criticize?Do you place as much importance on how you think as how you look?Beautifully packaged, this thought provoking book will appeal to people of all faiths.

“How To Ask For More And Get It is not, as the title might suggest, a book for the greedy, pursuing compulsive and unrealistic dreams of acquiring more worldly wealth. Rather, it is designed to help the average person get his due in the thousands of exchanges, both mundane and important, that punctuate his or her life,” says Francis Greenburger and Thomas Kiernan.All of us are confronted daily with countless exchanges, both ordinary and extraordinary, the outcomes of which...