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.
No Ducks in the Attic & Other Basics of HVAC Installation, J. R. Schuster, BookSurge, 2009
HVAC technicians will find this no-nonsense book useful. 140 pages.
Wind Power, Peggy J. Parks, ReferencePoint, 2010
A 75 page overview with pictures and bar charts, which will be useful to students.
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 how to mould custom fiberglass panels, and another chapter discusses competing in car shows.
Half-lives – A Guide to Nuclear Technology in Canada, H. Y. Tammemagi, 2009
This book is on the history and technology of nuclear power and medicine in Canada. It covers many topics and is well written. Unfortunately, its discussion of storage for nuclear waste is cavalier. 250 pages.
Toward A Zero Energy Home : A Complete Guide to Energy Self-sufficiency at Home, David Johnston, Taunton, 2010
This book is for the homeowner who wants to build a energy efficient dwelling. It is readable, and has many pictures, but is unfortunately intended for the do-it-yourself type. 250 pages.
Learning AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, 2010
This is a user guide to AutoCAD. More graphics than text. 850 pages, heavy.
The LEGO Book by Daniel Lipkowitz, DK Publishing, 2009
This book is full of pictures of the latest Lego toys, and will make a youngster want to get them all. The history of the company is briefly told by a few pages of pictures.
The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide By Allan Bedford, No Starch Press, 2005
If you are building larger or more complex projects with Lego bricks then this book will be useful. It discusses all the brick shapes, and techniques for planning and scaling your creation. 300 pages.
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, photos and diagrams.