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Heating and Cooling Essentials 5 reviews
Jerry Killinger
Goodheart-Willcox Co, 2003
Excellent Book!!!
I think that this is one the best books I ever have had. It's a very complete book. The book begins from the more simplest to the more complicate topics. The language is simple and you can undestand everything even if you dont't have any experience. I would like to find this book in Spanish. Because I am a refrigerations teacher and this way I don't have to translate from English to Spanish for ...
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Code Check HVAC: An Illustrated Guide to Heating and Cooling, Second Edition 2 reviews
Redwood Kardon
Taunton, 2005
HVAC Code Ceck
Needs to be updated to include IBC 2003. Still showing 2002. Don't expect a new edition. Note printing of June 2002.
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Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home8 reviews
James Kachadorian
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006
A must read for understanding passive solar
This book is a near soup-to-nuts presentation of James Kachadorian's patented passive solar design. The patent had expired when the author released this book. While his design may not be suitable all climates, the book covers the design with a pretty good look at the parameters and calculations behind it. The sizing and calculation process is outlined step by step, and this process appears to ...
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Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby 4 reviews
Kevin H. Siepel
Bison Books, 2008
More than military
Mosby's Memoirs was the first book I read on John S Mosby, at least in my adult life. I grew up in northern Virginia at a place where his exploits took place and he was a legend and my idol as we played boys games of war. I was always Mosby. About that time there was a black and white TV show called the "Gray Ghost." This fueled my fire for Mosby. But boys become men and I forgot about my hero ...
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Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames55 reviews
Thich Nhat Hanh
Riverhead Trade, 2002
Essential reading
In a society where anger is "normal" this should be required reading. The author is one of the great spiritual teachers of our time and is very naturally a profound and compassionate psychologist. This is not about "getting it out". You learn to let those hot feelings cool so that you become less and less habituated to angry responses and discover more and more about self-control and, with ...
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Troubleshooting Marine Diesels15 reviews
Peter Compton
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1997
must have for boaters
excellent and thorough - a real compliment to the spec sheet and manual provided with the engine. Good maintenance tips that were not included in the original manual.
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The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling21 reviews
Daniel D. Chiras
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002
Amazing book - quite possibly the BEST on solar building
My copy of this book is a mess. It has highlighting and notes all throughout the pages and looks well worn even though I've only had the book for a year.
When the time came to do some studying on solar design, this was the book that was recommended to me. And for good reason - it packs a wallop and provides SO MUCH great information in its pages. At the time I got the book I was somewhat of ...
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects4 reviews
Norbert Lechner
Wiley, 2000
Great Book
Very informative and easy to read. I picked this book up to study for my Architect's License Exam and found it to be a very well rounded book. There are lots of good ideas for saving energy and good practices for building orientation and construction. There are also plans on how to build a small sun machine for testing your models. My only disappointment were the numerous typos. A good editor ...
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Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook: Fundamental Technologies 1 review
Aerospace Press, 2002
For the Professional Rocket Scientist
This book is essentially an update of the author's previous work, The Satellite Thermal Control Handbook, and is the collective writings of dozens of engineers who specialize in the design and analysis of spacecraft thermal control systems. While his first book focused on thermal control systems for unmanned Earth orbiting satellites, this new book expands on this information and includes ...
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Engine Cooling Systems HP1425: Cooling System Theory, Design and Performance For Drag Racing, Road ...
Ray T. Bohacz
HP Trade, 2007
A comprehensive guide to one of the most important, but often neglected, areas of performance: the cooling system. Includes information on basic engine cooling theory, as well as all components such as water pumps, radiators, coolant and thermostatic control.
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HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers: Fundamentals, Application, and Operation (Mechanical Engineering ... 3 reviews
Herbert W. Stanford III
CRC, 2003
Great Book for HVAC Information
I bought this as a Christmas present for my son who is a HVAC Technician. He was very happy and surprised when I gave him the book for Christmas. If you are into HVAC this would be an excellent book to have.
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Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong10 reviews
Tony Kordyban
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998
Refreshing Thermal issues
Started reading, simply could not stop. Direct and to the point, this book based on real facts is simply refreshing, a great source of valuable technical information presented in a very easy to understand and "humorous" fashion, that will keep you going and going and going. I recommend this book to anyone brave enough to attemp thermal qualification of any type of electronic system, and many ...
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Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil1 review
C.D. Wright
Copper Canyon Press, 2005
King Lear Blues
C.D. Wright has been afflicting the comfortable in poetry for some time now. Her poems amount to a continuing revolution. "Cooling Time" demonstrates form in order to talk about form: essays blur their borders with poems, lyrical meditations and diamond sharp bits of memoir. The relationship between her thinking and her feeling is seamless. And you can hear her as you read: demotic, classical, ...
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Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)1 review
Benjamin Franklin Cooling
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Summer 1862
This is the best summary I have ever read for the time frame of July through September 1862. Footnotes and bibliography are excellant.Mr. Cooling is a first-rate historian. Civil-Warriors will know what I am talking about. If you wish for only one book about pivotal period in the war this is it.
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HVAC Principles and Applications Manual 1 review
Thomas E. Mull
McGraw-Hill Professional, 1997
Long on principles, short on practical
I am a contractor in New England and hoped that this book would be useful for designing and installing HVAC systems in luxury single family homes. Although the author is quite good at explaining heat transfer, fluid motion and other engineering principles pertinent to HVAC, there is almost no practical applications help whatsoever. Good book for a beginner HVAC Engineer, not a good book for a ...
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The Puffin Book of Stories for Nine-year-olds (Young Puffin Read Aloud)
Wendy Cooling
Puffin Books, 2001
This collection of stories, both contemporary and classic, includes humour, fantasy, real life, traditional tales, myth and magic, by writers such as Margaret Mahy, James Berry, Terry Jones, Jan Mark, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rosalind Kerven and Francesca Simon.
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Cooling Techniques for Electronic Equipment, 2nd Edition3 reviews
Dave S. Steinberg
Wiley-Interscience, 1991
This is THE book for thermal calcs for electronic packaging.
Lots of examples which apply theory to practical thermal problems in electronic packaging.
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D Is for Dahl: A gloriumptious A-Z guide to the world of Roald Dahl2 reviews
Roald Dahl
Puffin, 2007
Fun new info on a great author
This is a great review of Dahl's life and career in a really fun format that will make it fun for kids. By making it an "alphabet book" his life and times are peppered with bits from his books, funny words he invented, and lots of great illustration from Blake. I've been reading it just a bit at a time in order to savor it, because it's worth it. This is a must have for Dahl fans of any age.
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Puffin Bk of Stories for 5 Yr-Olds (Young Puffin Read Aloud)1 review
Cooling
Penguin UK, 1999
Excellent stories...
My six year old daughter loves to listen to these stories before bed time. She will also play them during long car trips. Some of the "readers" have very strong English accents, but that only adds to the nature of the stories.
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