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Upgrading and Repairing PCs

Upgrading and Repairing PCs 19th ed., Scott Mueller, Que, 2010 1100 pages, with DVD videos.

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Programming the Propeller

Programming the Propeller with Spin – A Beginner’s Guide to Parallel Processing, Harprit Sandhu, McGraw-Hill, 2010 Propeller is a chip with 8 32 bit CPU’s, and Spin is a language provided by the chip manufacturer. This book is about designing … Continue reading

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Electrician’s Guide to Control and Monitoring

Electrician’s Guide to Control and Monitoring Systems – Installation, Troubleshooting, and Maintenance, Albert F. Cutter, McGraw-Hill, 2010 Technicians will find this useful when working with relays, sensors, and controllers. There is not much new technology here. 200 pages.

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How to Install Automotive Mobile Electronics

How to Install Automotive Mobile Electronics, Jason Syner, Motorbooks, 2009 Here is a do-it-yourself guide to selecting and installing custom sound and navigation systems. It has many illustrations, but gives shallow coverage of the electronics and acoustics. A chapter shows … Continue reading

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Got Sun? Go Solar

Got Sun? Go Solar – Harness Nature’s Free Energy to Heat and Power your Grid-tied Home, Rex A. Ewing, PixyJack, 2009 Here is a practical introduction to home solar power for do it yourself people, with no engineering degree needed. … Continue reading

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The Battery

The Battery – How Portable Power Sparked A Technological Revolution, Henry R. Schlesinger, Smithsonian Books, 2010 This is mostly a history of battery technology, but it ends with a discussion of future portable power sources including ultra-capacitors, bio and nano … Continue reading

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Mind Performance Projects

Mind Performance Projects for the Evil Genius: 19 Brain-bending Bio Hacks, Brad Graham, McGraw-Hill 2010 This large format book will help you make a lie detector and study REM sleep, using simple components wired together on a breadboard.

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Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Build your own Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle / Seth Leitman, McGraw-Hill, 2009. Written for a technically competent reader, this book appears to cover your car project from soup to nuts (er, from planning through construction). 250 pages, with tables, schematics, … Continue reading

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Lineman’s and Cableman’s

The Lineman’s and Cableman’s field manual 2nd ed. / Thomas M. Shoemaker, McGraw-Hill, 2009 If you work at the top of poles, you need to know all this information. Hardcover, 350 pages.

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Lineman’s and Cableman’s

The Lineman’s and Cableman’s handbook 11th ed. / Thomas M. Shoemaker, McGraw-Hill, 2007 If you work at the top of poles, you need to know all this information. Hardcover, 750?? pages.

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