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  • Space-Based Solar Power in Plain English

    Orbital Solar Arrays and Wireless Microwave Beams are Building a Continuous Clean Energy Grid in Space

    by Victor Schell ...
    You have probably heard the pitch. Solar panels in orbit. Endless sunshine. Clean power beamed to any city on Earth. Sounds either magical or absurd. This book takes the question seriously — beam by beam, cell by cell, kilometer by kilometer — so you can see what space-based solar power actually is, and whether it belongs in a real grid.Follow the engineers of Helios Orbital Systems — a fictional ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to Medical Open Network for AI

    Introduction to MONAI, the Framework Hospitals, Radiologists, use to Turn Medical Images Into Clinical Intelligence

    by Victor Schell ...
    Medical imaging AI is real work now — segmenting tumors on MRI, catching strokes on CT, measuring cardiac function on echo — and most of it, quietly, runs on one open-source framework: MONAI. This book takes you inside MONAI: what it is, how it works, and how a model actually goes from a Jupyter notebook to a hospital PACS system.Follow Cerulean Imaging AI — a fictional composite of the data ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to Modular Nuclear Reactors

    How Small Reactors, New Fuels, and Factory Builds Are Rewriting Nuclear Power

    by Victor Schell ...
    Nuclear power keeps showing up in headlines it hadn't visited in decades. A hyperscaler signs a decades-long PPA for a reactor that doesn't exist yet. A state passes an SMR-siting bill. TRISO fuel finally gets qualified. This book takes you inside the engineering — module by module, coolant by coolant, license step by license step — so you can see what modular nuclear actually is, what it costs, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Turning Air to Stone

    Carbon Engineering and Direct Air Capture Pull Greenhouse Gases Directly from the Atmosphere

    by Victor Schell ...
    You have probably heard someone say we need to pull carbon dioxide out of the sky. This book takes you inside the machinery that actually does it — sorbent by sorbent, calciner by calciner, well by well — so you can tell what direct air capture really is, what it costs, and what it will take to scale from kilotons to gigatons.Follow Aria Carbon Systems — a fictional company building its first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to Drone Swarms

    How Fleets of Small Machines Coordinate, Decide, and Reshape the Sky

    by Victor Schell ...
    One drone is a machine. Many drones talking to each other are a team. This book takes you inside that team — sensor by sensor, message by message, decision by decision — so you can understand what drone swarms actually are, what they can do, and where the honest boundaries sit.Follow Mateo, Iris, and the crew through coverage grids, mesh-networked mapping runs, flocking exercises, structured task ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to Desalination

    Physics of Reverse Osmosis, Graphene Membranes, and Water Infrastructure Turn the Oceans into Fresh Water

    by Victor Schell ...
    Fresh water is the resource most cities cannot import fast enough. This book takes you inside the machinery of desalination — membrane by membrane, pump by pump, brine outfall by brine outfall — so you can see what the ocean-to-tap system really is, what it costs in energy and salt, and where the next order-of-magnitude improvements will come from.Follow the Nereid Team, a fictional composite of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Molecular Sponges Explained

    A Plain-English Guide to Metal-Organic Frameworks, Selective Materials, and the Science of Tiny Spaces

    by Victor Schell ...
    Series Book 4 - Clean Water and Carbon Capture
    Metal organic frameworks are making headlines for capturing carbon, harvesting water and storing fuels, and you can understand why without a chemistry degree. This book explains how these molecular sponges work and how to judge which results truly matter.Learn why porous crystals with designed internal rooms excite chemists, why uptake never equals useful output, plus how comparisons, conditions, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Space Debris Explained

    A Plain-English Guide to Orbital Collisions, Space Traffic, and Cleaning Up Earth's Orbits

    by Victor Schell ...
    Series Book 1 - Planets and the Search for Life
    Thousands of satellites and fragments now share the sky above you, and the choices made about them affect GPS, weather forecasts and the internet you use daily. This book explains space debris, collision alerts and cleanup efforts in plain English so you can follow the story with real understanding.Follow one fictional alert from radar clue through estimate, decision, then consequence, learning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Forever Chemicals Explained

    A Plain-English Guide to PFAS, Water Testing, and the Science of Capture and Destruction

    by Victor Schell ...
    Series Book 1 - Clean Water and Carbon Capture
    PFAS keep showing up in water reports and news stories, and you deserve to know what a cleanup claim really proves. This book walks you through testing, treatment and destruction in plain English so you can read every announcement with confidence.Follow every stream past an encouraging cleanup headline, from treated outlets through spent media, brines, residues, emissions, plus unresolved fluorine ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Earth Engineering

    Perspectives, Principles, and Practices

    by Murray Sarafinchin ...
    Questions about the Earth continue to haunt engineers. For instance: What do we know about our ancient planet? How should we be using it? And what are the best technologies and strategies to sustain us?Earth Engineering provides the background necessary to analyze these questions as well as perspectives, principles, and practices to guide your understanding of geoengineering problems. Scientists, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Practical Civil Engineering

    by P.K. Jayasree, K Balan, V Rani ...
    The book provides primary information about civil engineering to both a civil and non-civil engineering audience in areas such as construction management, estate management, and building. Basic civil engineering topics like surveying, building materials, construction technology and management, concrete technology, steel structures, soil mechanics and foundations, water resources, transportation ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Groundwater Prospecting: Tools, Techniques and Training

    by Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka ...
    In this book Groundwater Prospecting: Tools, Techniques, and training methods are explained in detail. The author is a Geologist, Geographer, Environment, Climate Change and Development professional.Many countries are facing severe water constraints today. Every country should be able to harness and manage its water resources more efficiently to support intensive agriculture, to fulfill drinking ... Read more

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