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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)
‘A book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future’ THE TIMES
Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems — and how we can solve them.
A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION 2024 * A GUARDIAN BIGGEST FICTION AND NON-FICTION FOR 2024 * A WATERSTONES ‘BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2024’ * A GUARDIAN ‘FIVE GREAT READS’
We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we’ve made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history.
Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you’ve been told about the environment, from the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside, to the evils of overpopulation, plastic straws and palm oil. It will give you the tools to understand what works, what doesn’t and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.
These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let’s turn that opportunity into reality.
‘Practical and truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD * ‘Does for the environment what Hans Rosling did for health’ BILL GATES * ‘Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising’ DAVID WALLACE-WELLS * ‘I find it hard to express how much I love this book’ RUTGER BREGMAN * ‘An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it’ TIM SPECTOR
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Occupational Health and Safety Law
Designed to provide an introduction to occupational health and safety law. This title outlines the legal system in which English health and safety law functions. It covers accident compensation and case law, British regulatory legislation and recent judicial decisions.Read more
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People Power: Transform your business in the era of safety and wellbeing
Turbocharge employee engagement through health and safety
‘Health and safety’ has regained its rightful place at the heart of the organization, alongside wellbeing and other people issues. Keeping it there, however, is tricky, and returns on investment are difficult to quantify. At the same time, companies yearn for new ways to engage their employees.
Karen J. Hewitt urges us to switch gears on health and safety – from systems and compliance to inspiration and engagement. With her simple three-step formula (Build, Buzz, Bake), she offers us her recipe for building employee engagement through health and safety, with significant gains for the business overall.
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Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers
This book has been developed with an intellectual framework to focus on the challenges and specific qualities applicable to graduates on the threshold of their careers. Young professionals have to establish their competence in complying with multifaceted sets of ethical, environmental, social, and technological parameters. This competence has a vital impact on the curricula of higher education programs, because professional bodies today rely on accredited degrees as the main route for membership.
Consequently, this four-part book makes a suitable resource for a two-semester undergraduate course in professional practice and career development in universities and colleges. With its comprehensive coverage of a large variety of topics, each part of the book can be used as a reference for other related courses where sustainability, leadership, systems thinking and professional practice are evident and increasingly visible.
Features
- Identifies the values that are unique to the engineering and computing professions, and promotes a general understanding of what it means to be a member of a profession
- Explains how ethical and legal considerations play a role in engineering practice
- Discusses the importance of professional communication and reflective practice to a range of audiences
- Presents the practices of leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, safety and sustainability in engineering design
- Analyzes and discusses the contemporary practices of project management, artificial intelligence, and professional career development.
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Safety at street works and road works: a code of practice
This publication sets out the statutory requirements for signing, lighting, and guarding at street works and road works. This is the core reference manual for utility companies, local authorities, street work contractors and others whose day-to-day business involves street works (works by statutory undertakers and other utility companies etc) and road works (works to maintain or repair road infrastructure). The code, which covers all of the UK and includes national variations, is now compulsory for highway/road authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It applies to all single carriageway roads and dual carriageways with a speed limit of 40 mph or less. The code is now divided into three parts: Basic Principles, Operations, and Equipment and Vehicles; site layout diagrams have been redrawn to make them easier to understand. There is: increased emphasis on using risk assessment and guidance on what to consider in such assessments; strengthened guidance on providing for pedestrians and cyclists and new guidance on traffic control measures related to road closures, one-way working and temporary road obstructions; enhanced advice on other traffic control measures including works near tramways and railways, and mobile/short duration works; and updated advice on high visibility clothing and the signing and conspicuity requirements for work vehicles. Effective from 1 October 2014 when it will supersede the 2001 edition (ISBN 9780115519581).Read more
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Self Build and Renovation For Dummies
Creating your dream home is an exciting idea, but it’s also a major project and one where you need to be an expert on everything from planning laws to landscape design, and all that’s in between. Self Build and Renovation For Dummies takes you through every step of the process, from choosing and buying a plot of land, through to the building’s design and on to the actual build – plus all the financial and legal stuff – using plain English in an easy-to-understand format. Here is everything you need to know to create your perfect home.Read more
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Sustainable Business: Uncover the benefits of embracing environmental and social responsibility
Greener and kinder practices can benefit your business, the planet and people. They don’t have to cost you money or push you to increase your prices.Sustainability is a much-used word today… but what does it actually mean? Sophie Wragg guides you through the maze of climate terms so you can calculate your carbon footprint, understand new business models and choose the options that are right for your business.
Make your business stand out for the right reasons. Bring your business to life, lower your costs and external risks, and attract the right people to you to secure your future in our greener, kinder new world.
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Technical Communication for Environmental Action (SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication)
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work-which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication-this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.Read more
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Technical Drawing 1: Plane and Solid Geometry (Longman International Technical Texts)
Technical Drawing 1: Plane and Solid Geometry is the first of three books which together provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of secondary school technical drawing syllabuses. The books are also suitable for Craft level courses such as engineering and building related subjects and for industrial training courses where an understanding of technical drawing is required. The three books may be used together or seperately to suit a variety of needs.
Using numerous illustrations and easy-to-follow text, this book covers: basic drawing equipment; drawing polygons; circles and other loci; enlargement and reduction; isometric; orthographic; oblique and auxiliary projection; freehand sketching; sections; true shapes and lengths; interpenetrations; developments; the helix.
Other features of this book include exercises which may be used for self-study, revision or evaluation, and a useful glossary of key terms.
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Technical Drawing 2: Mechanical Drawing (Longman International Technical Texts)
Technical Drawing 2: Mechanical Drawing is the second of three books which together provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of secondary school technical drawing syllabuses. The books are also suitable for Craft level courses such as engineering and building related subjects and for industrial training courses where an understanding of technical drawing is required. The three books may be used together or seperately to suit a variety of needs.Using numerous illustrations and easy-to-follow text, this book covers: drawing office practice; pictorial drawings; orthographic projection; section views; screw threads; engineering fasteners; assembly drawing; design process; materials.
Other features of this book include exercises which may be used for self-study, revision or evaluation, and a full index.
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Technical Drawing 3: Building Drawing (Longman International Technical Texts)
Technical Drawing 3: Building Drawing is the third of three books which together provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of secondary school technical drawing syllabuses. The books are also suitable for Craft level courses such as engineering and building related subjects and for industrial training courses where an understanding of technical drawing is required. The three books may be used together or seperately to suit a variety of needs.Using numerous illustrations and easy-to-follow text, this book covers: drawing office practice; freehand sketching; orthographic projection; building construction drawing; foundations; floors; wall openings; doors and windows; stairs; roofs; electrical wiring plans; drainage and sanitation systems.
Other features of this book include exercises which may be used for self-study, revision or evaluation, and a full index.
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Technical Drawing for Product Design: Mastering ISO GPS and ASME GD&T (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering)
This book is intended for students, academics, designers, process engineers and CMM operators, and presents the ISO GPS and the ASME GD&T rules and concepts. The Geometric Product Specification (GPS) and Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) languages are in fact the most powerful tools available to link the perfect geometrical world of models and drawings to the imperfect world of manufactured parts and assemblies. The topics include a complete description of all the ISO GPS terminology, datum systems, MMR and LMR requirements, inspection, and gauging principles. Moreover, the differences between ISO GPS and the American ASME Y14.5 standards are shown as a guide and reference to help in the interpretation of drawings of the most common dimensioning and tolerancing specifications.The book may be used for engineering courses and for professional grade programmes, and it has been designed to cover the fundamental geometric tolerancing applications as well as the more advanced ones. Academics and professionals alike will find it to be an excellent teaching and research tool, as well as an easy-to-use guide.Read more
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Technical Drawing, Plane and Solid geometry (Ordinary Level): Questions and Answers
Technical Drawing Plane and Solid Geometry Ordinary Level: Questions and Answers
Unlock the world of technical drawing with this definitive guide, perfectly sized at 8.25″ x 6″ and spanning 378 enlightening pages. Whether you’re a student, an educator, or a self-learner, this book is your key to understanding both plane and solid geometry at the ordinary level.
Structured in a question-and-answer format, each chapter challenges readers with problems, immediately followed by detailed solutions. This approach ensures a practical grasp of each topic, allowing readers to evaluate their knowledge and then see the expert solution.
To enhance comprehension, readers are encouraged to reference related works by the same author: Technical Drawing, Plane & Solid Geometry, Ordinary Level. https://a.co/d/5sILFWDKey Topics Covered:
- Geometric construction
- Circles: Construction and blending of lines and curves
- Tangents onto circles: Construction techniques
- Polygons: Construction methods
- Enlargement and reduction of plane figures, along with equivalent areas
- Scales and their applications
- Conic sections
- Isometric, orthographic, and oblique projection
- Loci
- Link mechanism
- Auxiliary views/projections
- Lines in space
- Development of surfaces
- Interpenetration of solid figures
Please Note: The solutions provided offer clear insights but are not scaled for precision.
Dive into a learning experience like no other and arm yourself with the knowledge and skills to excel in technical drawing. Add this invaluable guide to your collection today!
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Technical Engineering Drawing Manual Following ISO and BSI standards – Volume 1: 100 fully worked drawing examples featuring Design for Manufacturing principles
We use real-life scenarios to show what happens in day-to-day product development. The book’s examples are driven by Design For Manufacturing (DfM), Systems Thinking, User-Centred Design, realistic tolerances and drawing annotations.This book gives every product designer, engineer, maker and manufacturer the skills to document, create and understand technical drawings: readers will benefit from this book regardless of their experience level.
The 100 examples apply to any industry: from robotics and medical devices to machinery and aerospace. We address outdated practices from old standards that have no place in modern times, but we still find them in most design offices.
Throughout the book, we use proven design workflows to help you develop mechanical systems cost-effectively, integrating ISO standards for technical annotation and document management. The workflows include document revision control, ISO and BS 8888: 2020 compliance, Bill of Materials (BOM), part dimensioning and tolerancing.
PROTONIUM dedicates its efforts to spreading manufacturing knowledge that conditions parts’ design and how they are made. We believe that by designing with DfM considerations and thorough technical documentation, engineering companies and manufacturers can reduce the iteration cycles, minimise the use of raw materials, reduce their carbon footprint and break into the market faster.
Introducing this book into a company’s training workflow will have several operational positive impacts:
• Engineering managers can bring consistent training by providing the engineers with the means to develop their design for manufacturing skills.
• Project managers will de-risk design deliverables and keep the project’s cost lower as designs are cost-effective to manufacture.
• Supply Chain professionals will get faster supplier quotes because designs are manufacturable.
• Designers will iterate less and deliver faster because their designs are developed in fewer iterations as the features can be manufactured.
• Companies will reduce development costs and increase quality in tandem with elevating the agility to react to market changes.Read more
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TECHNICAL ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK: Useful Sketchbook with A4 Technical Drawing Formats with Title Block, for Engineers, Architects, Interior Designers, Furniture Designers,…
Put your technical ideas on paper when you want to transmit a technical concept, when you have to write down the requirements of a project, when you want to sketch a plan, or when you have an idea and don’t have a computer available!This sketchbook with A4 technical drawing formats with title block is the perfect companion in all your engineering design activities. You’ll feel focused and inspired about the work you’re about to undertake when you take notes in a way that complements your intentions. The Technical Engineering Notebook contains 75 A4 technical formats with title block, consisting of 25 blank formats, 25 graph paper 5×5 mm formats, and 25 isometric graph paper 5 mm formats, suitable for any situation.
A useful tool for engineers, designers, or architects!
The main features of our notebook:
– 150 single-sided printed pages, making 75 A4 drawing formats, with title block
– printed on high quality white paper
– elegant premium cover, matt finish
– soft coverGet your copy today and start sharing your technical ideas!
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Book 1 Electrical Installations, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeships (5357 and 5393), Level 2 Technical … & T Level Occupational…
Equip yourself with the tools for success in Electrical Installations with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds and IET.
– Study with confidence using the most up-to-date information available for the new industry standards, including the 2022 amendments to BS7671: 2018, The IET Wiring Regulations 18th edition
– Enhance your understanding of concepts in electrical installation with 100s of clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences
– Get ready for the workplace with industry tips
– Prepare for your trade tests or end-of-year exams with end-of-chapter practice questions
– Engage with author Peter Tanner’s accessible text, drawing on his extensive industry experience
– Target your learning with detailed qualification mapping grids for the latest City & Guilds Level 2 qualifications – including the 2365, 8202, 5357 and 5393 specifications, as well as the 352 and 353 T Level occupational specialismsRead more
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Book 2 Electrical Installations, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeships (5357 and 5393), Level 3 Advanced … & T Level Occupational…
Equip yourself with the tools for success in Electrical Installations with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds and IET.
– Study with confidence using the most up-to-date information available for the new industry standards, including the 2022 amendments to BS7671: 2018, The IET Wiring Regulations 18th edition
– Enhance your understanding of concepts in electrical installation with 100s of clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences
– Practise maths and English in context, with embedded ‘Improve your maths’ and ‘Improve your English’ activities
– Get ready for the workplace with industry tips
– Prepare for your trade tests or end-of-year exams with end-of-chapter practice questions
– Engage with author Peter Tanner’s accessible text, drawing on his extensive industry experience
– Target your learning with detailed qualification mapping grids for the latest City & Guilds Level 3 qualifications – including the 2365, 8202, 5357 and 5393 specifications, as well as the 352 and 353 T Level occupational specialismsRead more
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The City & Guilds Textbook: Plumbing Book 1, Second Edition: For the Level 3 Apprenticeship (9189), Level 2 Technical Certificate (8202), Level 2 … (6035) & T Level…
Equip learners with the tools for success in a career as a plumber with this comprehensive and updated edition of our bestselling textbook, published in association with City & Guilds.
The new edition will help learners to:
– Study with confidence, covering all core content for the 6035, 9189 and 8202 specifications, as well as the 355 and 356 plumbing and heating T Level occupational specialisms.
– Target learning with detailed qualification mapping grids.
– Get to grips with technical content presented in accessible language.
– Enhance their understanding of plumbing practice with clear and accurate illustrations and diagrams demonstrating the technical skills you need to master.
– Practise maths and English in context, with embedded ‘Improve your maths’ and ‘Improve your English’ activities.
– Test their knowledge with end-of-chapter practice questions, synoptic assessments and practical tasks.
– Prepare for the workplace with up-to-date information on relevant key regulations and industry standards.
– Keep their knowledge current, with clear coverage of major modern cold water, hot water, central heating, sanitation, rainwater systems and environmental technologies.Read more
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The Essential Guide to Technical Product Specification. Engineering Drawing
This book has been produced as a companion to BS 8888, Technical product specification Specification, which is the definitive standard for technical product realisation. It offers straightforward guidance, together with pictorial representations, to all practitioners of technical product specification, providing the necessary tools to enable engineers engaged in design specification, manufacturing, and verification with the essential basic information required for specifying a product or component. As BS 8888 is being increasingly adopted in major sectors, particularly in defence contracts, so the need to use BS 8888 becomes more pressing. This publication presents up-to-date information on the technical drawing aspects of BS 8888, in a manner similar to the presentation in the old BS 308, and will help users trained in BS 308 to adapt to the new standards. It includes comprehensive sections extracted from and referenced to international standards relating to linear, geometric and surface texture dimensioning and tolerancing, together with the practice of welding symbology, limits and fits, and thread data. It also includes an illustrated index to all standards referenced in BS 8888.Read more
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The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore
Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?
In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster growing. This was considered an amazing innovation and was the beginning of a new industry: salmon farming.
The industry spread from coastal Norway to Scotland, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Chile, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the United States. Business boomed, jobs were created, and a new type of food, the farmed salmon, spread around the globe. People everywhere bought and enjoyed the abundant fish: grilled, poached, roasted, and as sushi and sashimi. They were grateful for this delicious, affordable protein.
But at what cost?
We now know that there were unintended consequences: some of these new fish escaped, competing for sustenance with other fish in the sea. The new fish spread diseases, salmon louse swarmed, and wild salmon stocks dwindles.
In a prizewinning five-year investigation, authors Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli took an in-depth look at Norway’s role in the global salmon industry and, for the first time, produced a comprehensive evaluation of the detrimental effects of salmon farming. From lice to escapees, from concentrating the waste of sea pens in the fjords through which wild salmon swim to their natal streams to the fact that salmon farming causes a net reduction of protein reaped from the ocean, the results don’t look good. Recent victories, such as the banning of net-pen fish farms in the waters of Washington State, are an indication that we are awakening to the environmental price of engineered fish.
It is said that we will continue to make the same mistakes unless we understand them. The New Fish combines nature writing from Norwegian fjords, the coast of Canada, Icelandic landscapes and the far south of Chile with character-driven literary non-fiction and classic muckraking. The authors started with this question: What happens when you create a new animal and place it in the sea? This book will tell you the answer.
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Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Fluids
The fifth edition has been issued to incorporate two new tables – Data of Refrigerant 134a and a table containing for selected substances, molar enthalpies and molar Gibbs functions of formation, Equilibirum constants of formation, as well as molar heat capacities and absolute entropies.Read more
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Thermodynamics For Dummies
Take some heat off the complexity of thermodynamicsDoes the mere thought of thermodynamics make you sweat? It doesn’t have to! This hands-on guide helps you score your highest in a thermodynamics course by offering easily understood, plain-English explanations of how energy is used in things like automobiles, airplanes, air conditioners, and electric power plants.
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Thermodynamics 101 ― take a look at some examples of both natural and man-made thermodynamic systems and get a handle on how energy can be used to perform work
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Turn up the heat ― discover how to use the first and second laws of thermodynamics to determine (and improve upon) the efficiency of machines
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Oh, behave ― get the 411 on how gases behave and relate to one another in different situations, from ideal-gas laws to real gases
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Burn with desire ― find out everything you need to know about conserving mass and energy in combustion processes
Open the book and find:
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The laws of thermodynamics
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Important properties and their relationships
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The lowdown on solids, liquids, and gases
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How work and heat go handin hand
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The cycles that power thermodynamic processes
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Chemical mixtures and reactions
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Ten pioneers in thermodynamics
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Real-world applications of thermodynamic laws and concepts
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Master the concepts and principles of thermodynamics
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Develop the problem-solving skills used by professional engineers
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Ace your thermodynamics course
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Traffic signs manual: Chapter 8: Traffic safety measures and signs for road works and temporary situations, Part 1: Design
This document provides guidance for those responsible for the design of temporary traffic management arrangements which should be implemented to facilitate maintenance activities or in response to temporary situations. It contains advice relating to traffic safety measures, and the identity and location of the traffic signs needed to guide road users, including pedestrians, safely past obstructions in temporary situations. It is structured to facilitate and reflect the design process for temporary traffic management, from the initial broad brief to details of signing provision. It raises the principal issues that need to be considered in temporary traffic management design and provides advice about their resolution. The document deals with the design of temporary traffic management arrangements on single carriageway roads and dual carriageway roads separately. The design guidance is illustrated by the inclusion of sample plans. This edition supersedes the 2006 edition (ISBN 9780115527388)Read more
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Traffic signs manual: Chapter 8: Traffic safety measures and signs for road works and temporary situations, Part 2: Operations
This document provides guidance for those responsible for planning, managing, and participating in operations to implement, maintain and remove temporary traffic management arrangements. It contains advice relating to good working practice spanning all aspects of temporary traffic management operations from broad management issues to issues involving the activities of individual operatives. The guidance is illustrated by the inclusion of sample plans relating to the operational guidance of particular temporary traffic management techniques. This edition supersedes the 2006 edition (ISBN 9780115527395)Read more
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Transport in a Free Market Economy
Transport policy has dramatically changed over the last ten years with major regulatory reforms and privatisation of transport enterprises. Part 1 presents an authoritative statement of the theoretical arguments for and against regulatory reform, the changing political scene in North America and the different mechanisms that can be used to return state-owned monopolies to the private sector. Part 2 presents the empirical evidence on ten years of airline deregulation in the United States and this review is matched by an assessment of the different situation in Europe where national governments are under pressure to follow the same path.Read more
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Welding For Dummies
Every critical welding technique and process distilled into a one-stop, accessible resource
Safe and effective welding might seem like a pipe dream if you’re just getting started. But with a little help from Welding For Dummies you’ll be a “golden arm” in no time. This guide will give you techniques you need to get a handle on material evaluation, clean-up, and every step in between.
You’ll find practical advice on every popular kind of welding, including stick, tig, mig, fluxcore, and even oxyfuel cutting. You’ll also get tips on the ideal welding techniques to choose for specific projects. The book shows you how to:
- Find the required training for welding certifications
- Use brand-new welding technologies, including laser techniques
- Practice critical welding techniques you can use in your own hobby shop while staying safe
Whether you’re looking for some help to further your do-it-yourself projects at home or you’re just getting started with a traditional welding educational program and you need a useful supplementary resource, Welding For Dummies is an irreplaceable reference that helps make a challenging trade accessible to everyone.
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