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Ditching, Ditching, Ditching
Canada’s Significant Contributions to Maritime Helicopter Safety and Survival
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This booklet describes many years of struggling to make flying in a helicopter over water much safer. It analyses why, still in 2026, if you ditch, the awful statistic is that around 20% of crew and passengers will not survive, principally due to...
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The Rural Ontario Landscape
A Study of its Evolution and Management
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The broad, global perspectives of environmental management, sustainability, and stewardship provide the context for this book. Within this broad framework, a location in the Township of Centre Wellington, southern Ontario, serves as a case study...
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Lightning Nerds and Gearheads
Conversations about Engineers and Their Workplaces
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Rich in insight and gorgeously written, Lightning Nerds and Gearheads is a layperson’s glimpse into engineering. Through author Bob Cowin’s six conversations with people in the profession—including a marine engineer, an electrical engineer, and...
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Radical Farm
Animals, Food and Our Future
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As a species, we have perhaps never been so confused about what to eat. The ethical, environmental, and health-related impacts of our diets are hot topics of discussion, with plant-based lifestyles often touted as the best way forward. But what...
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The Old Oil Field of Humble and its Operation
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The first sign of oil in Humble was found by a man named Slaughter. He was eating his lunch by the San Jacinto River when he noticed bubbles coming out of the water’s edge. Slaughter discovered that it was natural gas by lighting a match to...
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Energy Diversity for Carbon Neutrality
A Sustainable Strategy for Net- Zero
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We are currently experiencing the greatest change in the economy since the industrial revolution: the transition to net-zero emissions. The book aims to educate professionals, industries and consumers on the diverse energy mix needed for power...
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Go Fast Go Faster
An Advocate’s Journey
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Go Fast Go Faster is a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of a father’s love for his daughter, and how together, they continue to triumph over tragedy. In November of 1995, birth trauma left James McDermott’s daughter Mariel profoundly brain...
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All At Max
Designing, Building, and Certifying the RJ85 Next Generation Air Tanker
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This book offers a behind-the-scenes account of the design, development, build, and certification of a next-generation airtanker (water bomber), an aircraft designed to assist wildfire-fighting efforts, particularly in Canada, the United States,...
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Culture of Control
Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board
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In 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB’s increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West were prohibited from responding to free market...
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Introduction to Computer Aided Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
Using Mechanical Model
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Introduction to Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing: Using Mechanical Model is an overview of the process leading up to a manufactured product. Based on core principles of mechanical engineering and applied computer science,...
