Science & Technology

Cisco Press, 2000 FINE First Printing Hardcover, revised & updated second edition. Perfectly crisp & clean, ownership stickers and stamps on prelim pages, otherwise as-new. 7.5" by 9.5", 387 pages. - Prepared by a former consulting engineer and manager at Cisco Systems, this book is a comprehensive resource that explains the complexities of full-scale deployment of residential broadband networks. It's especially valuable for people implementing, guiding, and predicting the future of residential broadband technologies: product developers, engineers, network designers, business people, lawyers, regulators, investors, and industry analysts. The author explains residential broadband access networks, consumer uses of the Internet, digital media content development, accessibility, cable TV, xDSL, FTTx, wireless access networks, home networks, etc. . more information

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Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 GOOD+ vintage softcover, 8" by 10" in card covers, 268 pages, illustrated. Light soiling to wraps, red pen marks on front cover. Interiors clean, tight, unmarked, only a trace of general wear to pages. Navair 00-80T-86, Army Technical Manual TM 11-690, Air Force Technical Order TO 12-1-63. Includes fundamental theory of transistors, transistor amplifier fundamentals, parameters, equivalent circuits, characteristic curves, bias stabilization, analysis and comparison charts, audio tuned & wide-band amplifiers, oscillators, pulse and switching circuits, modulation, mixing, demodulation, semiconductor devices, letter symbols, references, glossary, index. . Large Softcover. more information

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985 FINE/VERY GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing. A very handsome copy with as-new boards, appears unread. Unclipped DJ has just one closed tear. 6.25" by 9.25", 187 pages. - - - A definitive, scientific study that reads like a fast-paced novel about "the most physically perfect of all life forms." The author has had close personal encounters with sharks since he made a pet out a Mediterranean cat shark as a boy. This portrait of the 350 member shark family was written after more than four decades of observation.. Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1928 VERY GOOD Hardcover, 1st Printing of revised & updated 1928 Edition. Clean green cloth HC's show only a trace of wear at spine tips and corners. Clean, tight, previous owner's name and date on front endpaper otherwise unmarked. 5.25" by 7.5", 255 pages, frontispiece, photos, diagrams. - - - Includes the chief characteristics of the most common and useful minerals, including where they can be found and their origins. The book deals with both mineralogy, geology, and prospecting. The author was a Provincial Geologist of Ontario and Professor of Geology in the School of Mining, Queen's University in Kingston.. Hardcover. more information

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McGraw-Hill, 1983 FINE/NEAR-FINE First Edition. Small notation to front endpaper, otherwise AS-NEW in all respects: crisp & clean, square and tight, no wear to boards or binding. Dust-jacket is excellent, with no tears, no chipping. 6.75" by 9.5", 436 pages. - - - Scholarly and highly-detailed text discusses the characteristics of artificial intelligence techniques and problems. Chapters include predicate logic, non-montomic logic, probabilistic reasoning, semantic nets, conceptual dependency, frames & algorithms, etc. Problem exercises at the end of each chapter allow the reader to gain further knowledge. . Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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London, U.K.: Evans Brothers VERY GOOD+/no DJ, circa 1920, undated revised edition, The Kingsway Series. Handsome blue boards in excellent condition, very clean, no fading. School stamp on half-title page, otherwise unmarked. All 264 pages FINE, appears unread, no foxing. A quality vintage volume that, as the title suggests, answers 1,000 questions. Quite interesting to read early 20th Century answers on air travel, medicine and music.. Hard Cover. more information

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Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1963 VERY GOOD/no DJ. First Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked, just a hint of edge wear to covers, otherwise FINE. Text entirely in German. Published as 'Science of Life' in English. Approx. 7" by 9.25", 368 pages, 336 illustrations, 16 in color. . Hard Cover. more information

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972 NEAR-FINE/VG- First U.S. Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked, all 287 pages as-new. DJ has light edge wear, a few short closed tears. 7' by 9.25", 292 illustrations, 19 in color, including bones, tools, weapons, ruins, cave paintings and sculptures. An excellent text on paleoanthropology, combining a broad overall view of the history of man, with an extraordinary sensitivity to perspective and detail.. more information

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