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  • Elon Musk

    Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

    by Ashlee Vance ...
    A New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Wasteland

    The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

    by Oliver Franklin-Wallis ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWSAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy**—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    by Max S. Bennett ...
    “I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Power Trip

    The Story of Energy

    by Michael E. Webber ...
    A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy sources through time. In 2019, as we face down growing demand for and accumulating environmental ... Read more

    S$ 20.37 SGD

  • Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

    The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

    by Jason Schreier ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear ThroneDeveloping video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • Submarine

    A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship

    by Tom Clancy, John Gresham ...
    Series Book 1 - Tom Clancy's Military Referenc
    Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the ... Read more

    S$ 11.22 SGD

  • The Two-Second Advantage

    How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough

    by Vivek Ranadive, Kevin Maney ...
    What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made him exceptional. Over the past fifteen years, scientists have found that what distinguishes the greatest musicians, athletes, ... Read more

    S$ 7.29 SGD

  • Laws of the Land

    Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

    by Tristan G. Brown ...
    A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese ... Read more

    S$ 29.75 SGD

  • The Computable City

    Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions

    by Michael Batty ...
    How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.At every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared nearly seventy-five years ago, primitive computer models were used to help understand and plan cities, ... Read more

    S$ 44.57 SGD

  • The New Carbon Architecture

    Building to Cool the Climate

    by Bruce King ...
    Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal 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 materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon ... Read more

    S$ 34.65 SGD

  • Air Disasters

    Dramatic black box flight recordings

    by Malcolm MacPherson ...
    Compelling and dramatic insights into crucial moments inside the cockpit.Discover the most sensational air disasters of recent years. Transcripts of actual black box recordings of conversations between captains, their crew, and air traffic control on the ground reveal the final moments during which life-and-death decisions were made.In some cases, disaster is averted; in others, the results are ... Read more

    S$ 12.74 SGD

  • Civil Engineering All-In-One PE Exam Guide: Breadth and Depth, Third Edition

    by Indranil Goswami ...
    Fully updated for the latest standards and exam content, this complete guide is the only resource engineers need to pass the Civil Engineering PE Exam the first time.Civil Engineering All-in-One PE Exam Guide, Third Edition is the only resource an engineer needs to pass the PE-CIVIL exam administered by the National Council of Examiners in Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). This exam is required ... Read more

    S$ 80.21 SGD

  • Top Gear Hypercars

    The Greatest Automotive Gamechangers

    by Jason Barlow ...
    Newer, faster and more spectacular than ever, join the Top Gear team as they get to grips with the latest and most innovative Hypercars.Top Gear Hypercars uncovers the 15 latest and greatest Hypercars, each pushing design and automotive technology to the limit.Aston Martin, Bugatti, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini and Red Bull are reconfiguring the Hypercar landscape, all featured in this ... Read more

    S$ 39.56 SGD

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

    S$ 12.42 SGD

  • Deep Learning on Embedded Systems

    A Hands-On Approach Using Jetson Nano and Raspberry Pi

    by Tariq M. Arif ...
    Comprehensive, accessible introduction to deep learning for engineering tasks through Python programming, low-cost hardware, and freely available softwareDeep Learning on Embedded Systems is a comprehensive guide to the practical implementation of deep learning for engineering tasks through computers and embedded hardware such as Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson Nano. After an introduction to the ... Read more

    S$ 109.99 SGD

  • Waste to Energy in the Age of the Circular Economy

    Compendium of Case Studies and Emerging Technologies

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This compendium features 18 projects that demonstrate the use of waste-to-energy technologies in the municipal, agricultural, and industrial sectors. Lessons learned from these projects are discussed and provide insights on the challenges and opportunities of waste-to-energy projects. The compendium also provides an overview of specific technologies, including an assessment of their commercial ... Read more

    S$ 7.51 SGD

  • Business Analytics for Professionals

    Edited by Alp Ustundag, Emre Cevikcan, Omer Faruk Beyca ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners. It illustrates how machine learning and optimization techniques can be used to implement intelligent business automation systems. The book examines business problems concerning supply chain, marketing & CRM, financial, manufacturing and human resources ... Read more

    S$ 88.28 SGD

  • From Cave Man to Cave Martian

    Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars

    by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book explores the practicality of using the existing subsurface geology on the Moon and Mars for protection against radiation, thermal extremes, micrometeorites and dust storms rather than building surface habitats at great expense at least for those first few missions. It encourages NASA to plan a precursor mission using this concept and employ a “Short Stay” Opposition Class mission to Mars ... Read more

    S$ 48.60 SGD

  • US Navy Gunboats 1885–1945

    by Brian Lane Herder ...
    Series Book 293 - New Vanguard
    A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II.For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world – showing the flag, landing armed parties, ... Read more

    S$ 20.92 SGD

  • Mini

    60 Years

    by Giles Chapman ...
    Mini celebrates 60 amazing years of this iconic car, from its revolutionary introduction to the popularity of its new-generation models.The first two-door Mini, introduced in 1959 and built until 2000, revolutionized automotive design with its innovative front-wheel-drive layout that made the car appear bigger on the inside than the outside. In 1999, the Mini was voted the second most influential ... Read more

    S$ 39.67 SGD

  • From X-rays to DNA

    How Engineering Drives Biology

    by W. David Lee, Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, Robert S. Langer ...
    An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became ... Read more

    S$ 34.65 SGD

  • Hands-on Signal Analysis with Python

    An Introduction

    by Thomas Haslwanter ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides the tools for analyzing data in Python: different types of filters are introduced and explained, such as FIR-, IIR- and morphological filters, as well as their application to one- and two-dimensional data. The required mathematics are kept to a minimum, and numerous examples and working Python programs are included for a quick start. The goal of the book is to enable also novice ... Read more

    S$ 80.98 SGD

  • Midway-Class Aircraft Carriers 1945–92

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 331 - New Vanguard
    The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of the Cold War fleet.Entering service in September 1945, the Midway-class aircraft carrier was the US Navy's ultimate World War II-era design, and these would be its frontline carriers as the Cold War dawned. A fine design and one big enough to accept ... Read more

    S$ 20.92 SGD

  • Hidden Warships

    Find World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships

    by Nicholas A. Veronico ...
    A photo-filled tour of wrecked warships around the world, with their stories recounted in "a wonderfully clear [and] lively style" ( Seattle Post Intelligencer).Sunk by enemy fire, scuttled, or run aground, the number of World War II-era battleships, cruisers, submarines, and other warships that ended their service on the bottom of the world's oceans and seas is enormous. In the decades since the ... Read more

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