Home Heating With Wood

Wood Pellet Heating Systems offers well-grounded advice for anyone embarking on the planning, sizing, design or installation of a wide variety of wood fuel systems. The book is well illustrated, jargon-free and clearly written, offering a valuable contribution to unlocking the potential of wood fuel in a wide range of applications. With alternative fuels on [...]

Survival!

Surviving: How Animals Adapt to Their Environments by Alessandro Minelli and Maria Pia Mannucci features more than 90 beautiful photographs of animals with an accompanying note about the survival mechanism portrayed.  This magnificent coffee table book is arranged under the broad categories of hunger, love, attacks, extremes, and change with a general introduction for each [...]

Free-Range Kids

How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) Are you afraid to let your child walk to school or to a friend’s house alone, or let them play in the park unsupervised? Lenore Skenazy has written a consciousness, and eyebrow raising book on the importance of allowing kids to do those things [...]

What is “Biomimetics?”

Bulletproof feathers certainly sound like a strange idea, but actually scientists are studying how one can create a bulletproof fabric that remains comfortable and flexible until the wearer is in danger, then harden to offer protection.  Join editor Robert Allen in Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature’s secrets to design cutting-edge technology as he explores [...]

Spacesuits

Spacesuits is a photo archive of the collection of spacesuits housed by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum . This unique book is a treasure trove for the space enthusiast.  Featuring detailed photographs of the variety of suits used by past and present astronauts, it even shows you how they are stored in the museum [...]

WI-FI HOTSPOTS

Are you interested in setting up a small wireless network to attract more customers to your business location and generate more revenue?  Wi-Fi Hotspots: Setting Up Public Wireless Internet Access by computer consultant, Eric Geier, discusses all aspects of the process.  Writing for the layperson, Geier includes information on the equipment involved, the procedures for getting [...]

New Bird Books!

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America For both serious and beginning birders, these are long standards in the field of bird watching.  The Peterson Identification System, range maps, excellent color illustrations and brief notes combine to help one identify what one [...]

The Book of Swords

This is a riveting account of the history of swords and the art of sword making. Hank Reinhardt, a widely known authority on medieval arms and armor gives us the details on how swords were made in the renaissance as well as modern times. He discusses the different types of swords used in different types [...]

Scientific American magazine slideshow celebrates 165 years of scientific progress

Scientific American magazine was founded in 1845.  To mark this 165th anniversary, the magazines editors have created this slideshow showing scientific progress as documented through the pages of this publication.

Wireless Mobility

Do you have questions about the value of implementing a wireless network in your organization?  Or about the best practices for deploying a wireless network?  Are you seeking information on the different wireless methods presented in nontechnical language that doesn’t require a degree in computer science to understand?   For answers to these questions and more, [...]