Engineering Fundamentals" is designed to meet the latest course requirements & brings together the essential material from Roger Timings previous engineering texts: " Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering" " Fundamentals of Engineering" " Basic Engineering Technology & General Engineering". A highly readable text is supported by numerous illustrations learning objectives & exercises at the end of each chapter making " Engineering Fundamentals" a complete student-focused course that is ideal for classroom workshop & independent study. It is a comprehensive general engineering text for vocational students apprentices & trainees. It provides knowledge & understanding required for competence-based courses. It builds on the success of Roger Timings classic engineering texts." ...

Engineering Mathematics" is by far the bestselling book of its kind with well over half a million copies sold. Widely recommended by lecturers it is also a huge word-of-mouth seller. Its unique programmed approach takes the student through the mathematics in an interactive step-by-step fashion with a wealth of worked examples & exercises. It is the most comprehensive course of its type. This carefully revised sixth edition has an even more user-friendly page design. The accompanying Personal Tutor CD-ROM has been revised & enhanced. New for this edition are a series of applications questions freely accessible on a companion website." ...

Colour layout helps navigation & highlights key learning points formulae & exercises Fully up-to-date with Levels 2 & 3 of the BTEC Engineering Specifications Containing 1000 worked problems 1750 further problems & 238 multiple-choice questions & answers Real-world situations & engineering examples put the theory into context John Bird's approach to mathematics based on numerous worked examples supported by problems is ideal for students of a wide range of abilities. Theory is kept to a minimum with the emphasis firmly placed on problem-solving skills making this a thoroughly practical introduction to the mathematics engineering that students need to master. This book presents a logical topic progression rather than following the structure of a particular syllabus & is suitable for all Level 3 vocational students early Foundation Degree students & for any introductory course involving engineering mathematics. However the coverage has been carefully matched to the mathematics units within the 2010 Level 2 & 3 BTEC National Specifications. In this sixth edition there is new material on logarithms exponential functions vectors & methods of alternating waveforms. The book now

Includes:: even more problems to work through. ideal to be used as tests or homework full solutions to the revision tests are supplied on the accompanying instructor's website.

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Engineering Mathematics is the best-selling introductory mathematics text for students on science & engineering degree & pre-degree courses. Sales of previous editions stand at more than half a million copies. It is suitable for classroom use & self-study. Its unique programmed approach takes students through the mathematics they need in a step-by-step fashion with a wealth of examples & exercises. The book is divided into two sections with the Foundation section starting at Level 0 of the IEng syllabus & the main section extending over all elements of a first year undergraduate course & into many second year courses. The book therefore suits a full range of abilities & levels of access. The Online Personal Tutor guides students through exercises in the same step-by-step fashion as the book with hundreds of full workings to questions. ...

This text teaches maths in a step-by-step fashion
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Engineering Science: For Foundation Degree & Higher National covers the engineering principles & applications that students need to know at this level focusing upon core science & maths topics. This textbook helps students to get to grips with the complicated scientific principles involved in engineering. Subjects covered in this book include engineering mathematics electrical & electronic principles control engineering engineering materials mechanics & thermodynamics making it ideal for engineering students at foundation degree & Higher National level. Students following the Foundation Degree & Higher National courses will find this book essential reading as it covers the core material that they will be following in the duration of their courses. Knowledge-check questions summary sections & activities are included throughout the book & applied mathematics is integrated alongside the appropriate areas of engineering studies. The result is a clear straightforward & easily accessible textbook that encourages independent study & covers the most complex of the scientific principles that students are likely to come across at this level. ...

This is an epic visual guide to the great engineers who have built our world. Full of great tales of achievement & ingenuity Engineers" celebrates 80 of the greatest engineers that ever lived & the stamp they have left on the world. Learn all about how their projects have changed the course of history & added to human progress from the men who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Industrial Revolution & the impressive structures of Isambard Kingdom Brunel & on to the pioneers of space travel & the computer scientists of today. From initial concepts to prototypes & finished designs " Engineers" is full to bursting with technical drawings specially commissioned artworks blueprints & virtual tours that help bring the structures inventions & technological breakthroughs to life. " Engineers" is for anyone who is intrigued by the power of the pioneering mind." ...

From Paul Kennedy author of The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers" one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades " Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In January 1943 Churchill & Roosevelt & the Combined Chiefs of Staff met in Casablanca to review the western Allies' war aims & strategy. They realised that to attain their ultimate aim of 'unconditional surrender' they would have to achieve some formidable objectives
- win control of the Atlantic sea-lanes & command of the air over the whole of West-Central Europe work out how to land on an enemy-held shore so that Continental Europe could be retaken how to blunt the Nazi blitzkrieg that a successful invasion would undoubtedly provoke & finally how to 'hop' across the islands of the Pacific to assault the Japanese mainl&. Eighteen months later on as Paul Kennedy writes 'these operational aims were either accomplished or close to being so.' The history of the Second World War is often told as a grand narrative. The focus of this book by contrast is on the problem-solvers
- Major-General Perry Hobart who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker 'the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang'; Captain ' Johnny' Walker the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a 'creeping barrage'. The result is a fresh perspective on the greatest conflict in human history. Paul Kennedy is one of the world's best-selling & most influential historians. He is the author or editor of nineteen books including " The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers" which has been translated into over twenty languages " Preparing for the Twenty-First Century" " The Parliament of Man" & the now classic " Rise & Fall of British Naval Mastery"."

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New-for-this-edition features include ' First Time' for visitors who haven't been to England before museum itineraries to help readers get to the heart of attractions like the British Museum & driving routes around the Cotswolds; The maps in the London chapter will be in full-colour to help readers better navigate the country's capital. ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As every schoolboy knows you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally & does exactly that. He constructs on the island The Project a vast heritage centre containing everything English from Big Ben to Stonehenge from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous risky & vastly successful. In fact it gradually begins to rival Old England & even threatens to supersede it... One of Barness finest & funniest novels England England calls into question the idea of replicas truth vs fiction reality vs art nationhood myth-making & self-exploration. ...