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IPT's Industrial Trades Handbook: Power Transmission Systems
by Bruce M. Basaraba
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IPT's Industrial Trades Handbook is an excellent trouble shooting guide for Millwrights and Industrial Mechanics. It is a required text in many apprenticeship and upgrading programs, and is used by technical colleges, trade unions and the maintenance... (read more)

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How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff
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Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic. . . . This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining and highly readable manner.Illustrator and author pool their... (read more)

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
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If you haven't read Mary Roach's previous bestsellers Bonk and Stiff (shame on you!), Packing for Mars is as good an introduction to Roach as you'll find. Space travel hasn't been this funny or intriguing since Douglas Adams — and best of all, it's... (read more)

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IPT's Industrial Fasteners Handbook: Bolting and Securing Systems
by Bruce M. Basaraba
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IPT's Industrial Fasteners Handbook is an excellent reference for engineers, draftsmen, supervisors, journeymen and apprentices of all steel related industries, including: aerospace, refining and chemical, pulp and paper, mining, shipyard, construction... (read more)

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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Roadside Geology of Oregon (Roadside Geology)
by David D Alt
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Ugly's Residential Wiring (Ugly's Electrical Reference)
by Ugly
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Codebreakers : the Inside Story of Bletchley Park (93 Edition)
by F.h. (ed.) Hinsley
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Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Sam Ruby
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Vintage)
by James Gleick
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Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
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Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet
by Ann Edminster
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