Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6366 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714042 Fully updated to cover the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, this guide unlocks myriad secrets as well as covering the basics such as synchronizing, making the most of voice-activated Siri, setting up iCloud, and making video calls with FaceTime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742402 Explores the idea of big data, which refers to our newfound ability to crunch vast amounts of information, analyze it instantly, and draw profound and surprising conclusions from it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731245 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696643 Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681378 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736380 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731434 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684891 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704518 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695125 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712758 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704093 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660264 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732266 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687447 Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696190 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678698 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1571961 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705954 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679185 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687127 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697542 The race between two ambitious, complicated men in the early 1900s to create the most extravagant, complicated timepiece ever-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704519 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682883 The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694383 From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. His path to NASA overcame many setbacks, but hard work, determination and faith led to success. Here is an insiders account of the US Space Shuttle program, including the unforgettable experience of launch, the delights of weightless living, and the challenges of constructing the International Space Station. An inspirational story of a personal journey from rural Indiana to outer space, powered by a deep Christian faith. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713210 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712686 Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations of how the world works, with contributions by Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687112 The leader of the Consumer Electronics Association draws on his decades of experience working with the worlds most innovative companies to reveal why success depends on following the ninja credo: creating a killer strategy with defined goals, flexibility, and a focus on innovative thinking. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695895 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711906 Documents the story of a small group of scientists who applied intellectual strategies to battle techniques and revolutionized the process of waging wars, citing the contributions of future Nobel winner Patrick Blackett. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741980 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738417 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682842 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696459 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668128 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682831 Showing how tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations and smaller scale inventions with great potential, Foege argues that America still cultivates visionary innovators who do not allow cultural obsessions with efficiency and conformity to interfere with their passion and creativity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713962 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523553 The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour--so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets.Were all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714938 Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and home fronts, Collingham demonstrates how access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of useless eaters, and brings to light the fact that famine was not only caused by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but was also the result of Allied mismanagement and neglect, particularly in India, Africa and China. She also shows how the war subsequently promoted the pervasive influence of American food habits and tastes in the post-war world.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668633 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685339 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672292 Starting in his own backyard in the old mining town of Bisbee, Arizona -- where he discovers that the dirt in his garden contains double the acceptable level of arsenic -- Bill Carter follows the story of copper to the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia; to the ring at the London Metal Exchange, where a select group of traders buy and sell enormous amounts of the metal; and to an Alaskan salmon run threated by mining. Boom, Bust, Boom is a highly readable account -- part social history, part mining-town exploration, and part environmental investigation. Carter blends the personal and the international in a narrative that helps us understand the paradoxical relationship we have with a substance whose necessity to civilization costs the environment and the people who mine it dearly. -- Rear jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668686 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621194 Fully updated to cover the latest developments in air conditioning and refrigeration, this is a must-have resource for beginners and seasoned AC professionals alike-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1663788 Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents - people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be self-organized. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that top-down approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a bottom-up approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems such as conflict, disease, financial instability, environmental despoliation and poverty, while avoiding unintended policy consequences. It could give us the foresight to anticipate and ameliorate crises, and to begin tackling some of the most intractable problems of the twenty-first century.--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1662033 Machinerys Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and in technical schools and colleges throughout the world for nearly 100 years. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice. The 29th edition of the bible of the metalworking industries contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist. - Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652976 Get your geek on! Discover how to turn your Kindle Fire into your go-everywhere music and video player, web and e-mail device, Android-based app and gaming center, and remote work tool. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577566 Engineering is part of almost everything we do - from the water we drink and the food we eat, to the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on. This book explores the nature and practice of engineering, its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, science and technology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621197 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671143 Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the authors personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668182 Presents a description of basic training in the American military, describing how the eight-week course imparts key physical, mental, and disciplinary skills to turn trainees into order-ready soldiers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629591 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544358 Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630161 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705526 The original 1992 Dodge Viper captured lightning in a bottle upon its debut. Combining ground-shaking V-10 American muscle and a refined chassis with true sports car handling, the Viper put America on the worlds supercar map. In 2012, Dodge will unveil its new fifth-generation Viper, and this officially Dodge-licensed book will tell the whole story. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1476084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682363 Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families, and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. His storied career brought him into contact with a variety of personalities: politicians and civil servants, developers and technocrats, saintly do-gooders, and corrupt rapscallions. Along with the rousing adventures there were satisfactions of a different sort: the enchantment of seeing architecture made real; the pride of creating housing, hospitals, schools, places of worship--shelter for the body and nourishment for the spirit-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684319 The Wright brothers have long received the lions share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wrights powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that historys nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomerys pioneering role in aeronautical innovation.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624076 Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow and require a lot less time and effort than annuals. In this book Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetable (edible plants that live longer than three years), from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants. There are many advantages to growing perennial vegetables, for example: They need less tillage than conventional vegetables and so help retain carbon in the soil ; The soil structure is not disturbed in their cultivation and more! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667781 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674524 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732900 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681974 A concise history of glassmaking around the world, from Mesopotamia to the present day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629586 A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility describes the secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats, and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice. -- Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538214 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621199 Describes digital integrated circuits, suggests practical exercises, and covers such topics as transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, transformers, and power supply circuits. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678288 Operation Detachment, the invasion of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign. 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