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  • Kinetic Energy Storage

    Theory and Practice of Advanced Flywheel Systems

    by G. Genta ...
    Kinetic Energy Storage: Theory and Practice of Advanced Flywheel Systems focuses on the use of flywheel systems in storing energy. The book first gives an introduction to the use of flywheels, including prehistory to the Roman civilization, Christian era to the industrial revolution, and middle of the 19th century to 1960. The text then examines the application of flywheel energy storage systems. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals Of Modeling And Simulation

    by Giancarlo Genta, Alessandro Genta ...
    Series Book 88 - Series On Advances In Mathematics For Applied Sciences
    Road Vehicle Dynamics supplies students and technicians working in industry with both the theoretical background of mechanical and automotive engineering, and the know-how needed to perform numerical simulations. Bringing together the foundations of the discipline and its recent developments in a single text, the book is structured in three parts: it begins with a historical overview of road ... Read more

    $173.99 CAD

  • The Gaunt

    by Genta Sebastian ...
    A haunting love beyond time.Emmaline, a frontier butch burned alive as a witch in 1720, still haunted the place where she was murdered when a young suffragette of the 1920s, Kenna, tried to help her cross over. They fell hopelessly in love instead. Trying to join Em in death, Kay committed suicide and found herself chained to the room where she died.For over a century, they haunted separate rooms ... Read more

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  • Parasitic Infections in the Compromised Host

    by Peter D. Walzer, Robert M. Genta ...
    Series series Infectious Disease and Therapy
    The first in a new series created to acknowledge the explosion of knowledge in fields related to infectious disesases and clinical microbiology. Thirteen contributions focus on organisms which are of major medical importance in this country or which have contributed to an understanding of pathology. ... Read more

    $645.87 CAD

  • A Man From Planet Earth

    A Scientific Novel

    by Giancarlo Genta ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.While this policy is ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Butches Cry

    by Genta Sebastian ...
    Reveling in her contrariness, Traf’s got no time for ‘good’ women who conform. She competes with men, wears male clothing, and steals their jobs. A fighter, damn the consequences, she’s totally unsuited to the mundane role of a mid-twentieth century Azorean woman. Traf dreams of going to America where women do as they like, make their own money, and live without the permission of men. Emotionally ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Current Issues in Developmental Psychology

    Biopsychological Perspectives

    Edited by A.F. Kalverboer, M.L. Genta, J.B. Hopkins ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume contains a number of contributions, which concern basic issues in the field of brain-behavioural development in the human, especially with regard to the young child. They have been written by distinguished scientists, active in this field, who have all been participating in an Erasmus teachers exchange program, entitled 'Biopsychology of Development' (ICP-NL-3026/14). This volume is ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Journey to The Planets

    The Technology to Build a Spacefaring Civilization

    by Giancarlo Genta ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book gives an account, as little biased as possible, on human space missions beyond low Earth orbit in general, and specifically to the planets of the solar system. The importance of advanced propulsion is stressed and the mathematical methods needed to design missions based on them are described. The included computer code allows the user to assess the feasibility of the various missions ... Read more

    $293.99 CAD

  • Introduction to the Mechanics of Space Robots

    by Giancarlo Genta ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of the environments and conditions space robots have to work in, the author discusses a variety of manipulatory devices robots may use to perform their tasks. This is followed by a discussion of robot mobility in these environments and the ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Hunter

    A Scientific Novel

    by Giancarlo Genta ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Automotive Chassis

    Volume 1: Components Design

    by Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching coursesfor engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassisdesign; and on their practical experience as engineering designers for vehicle andchassis components at a major automotive company.The book is primarily intended for students of automotive engineering, but also for alltechnicians and ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Automotive Chassis

    Volume 2: System Design

    by Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical experience as engineering designers for vehicle and chassis components at a major automotive company. The book is primarily intended for students of automotive engineering, but also for all technicians and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD