| "An exploration of the history and origins, basic tenets and beliefs, organization, traditions, customs, rites, societal and historical influences, and modern-day impact of Judaism" Covers the past, present, and future of mechanisms and mechanical devices. Among the thousands of proven mechanisms illustrated and described are many suitable for recycling into new mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic products and systems. Overviews of robotics, rapid prototyping, MEMS, and nanotechnology. "A step-by-step guide to estimating building costs for contractors, completely updated and reorganized to conform to Masterformat 2010. A series of questions at the end of each chapter will help the reader summarize the content. The chapter on computer estimating will be expanded to cover the new estimating software for performing quantity takeoff by computer, and content covering the procedures for conceptual estimating as well as parametric estimating will be added" -From the publisher. |