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The Seamanship Examiner / 2nd edition
For STCW Certification Examinations
2016 || Hardcover || David House e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The complete study and revision guide for the International Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW). For all ranks and serving crew in the mercantile marine, this study pack covers everything students need to revise when preparing for the oral assessment taken as part of the Deck Certificate of Competency at either junior or senior levels. Since publication of the first edition, there have been many new innovations throughout the industry.
This guide is fully updated to r...
Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems / 3rd edition
2017 || Hardcover || Robert W. Proctor e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices, globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, which require significant input and evaluation from human factors specialists. This textbook has been completely updated, with some chapters folded into other chapters and new chapters added.
Just Culture / 3rd edition
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization
2016 || Paperback || Sidney Dekker || Taylor & Francis
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney Dekkers extremely successful Just Culture offers new material on restorative justice and ideas about why your people may be breaking rules.
Supported by extensive case material, you will learn abo...
Introduction to Human Factors
Applying Psychology to Design
2017 || Paperback || Nancy J. Stone e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This is a comprehensive, but accessible text that introduces students to the fields of human factors and ergonomics. The book is intended for undergraduate students, written from the psychological science perspective along with various pedagogical components that will enhance student comprehension and learning. This book is ideal for those introductory courses that wish to introduce students to the multifaceted areas of human factors and ergonomics along with practical knowledge the students ...
Physical Chemistry of Foods
2002 || Hardcover || Pieter Walstra || Taylor & Francis
Exploring the structure and physical and chemical properties of solutions, dispersions, soft solids, fats, and cellular systems, Physical Chemistry of Foods describes the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods. Coverage progresses from aspects of thermodynamics, bonds and interaction forces, and reaction kinetics, to transport phenomena, polymers, colloidal interactions, nucleation, glass transitions and fre...
Drift into Failure
From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
2011 || Paperback || Sidney Dekker || Taylor & Francis
What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliners tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and nor...
Electronic Circuits
Fundamentals and Applications
2019 || Paperback || Mike Tooley || Taylor & Francis
Electronics explained in one volume, using both theoretical and practical applications. Mike Tooley provides all the information required to get to grips with the fundamentals of electronics, detailing the underpinning knowledge necessary to appreciate the operation of a wide range of electronic circuits, including amplifiers, logic circuits, power supplies and oscillators. The 5th edition includes an additional chapter showing how a wide range of useful electronic applications can be develop...
Introducing Food Science / 2nd edition
2015 || Paperback || Robert L. Shewfelt e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Written as an introductory food science textbook that excites students and fosters learning, the first edition of Introducing Food Science broke new ground. With an easy-to-read format and innovative sections such as Looking Back, Remember This!, and Looking Ahead, it quickly became popular with students and professors alike. This newly revised second edition keeps the features that made the first edition so well liked, while adding updated information as well as new tables, figures, exercise...
Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering
2016 || Hardcover || J.Kenneth Shultis e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Third Edition, presents the nuclear science concepts needed to understand and quantify the whole range of nuclear phenomena. Noted for its accessible level and approach, the Third Edition of this long-time bestselling textbook provides overviews of nuclear physics, nuclear power, medicine, propulsion, and radiation detection. Its flexible organization allows for use with Nuclear Engineering majors and those in other disciplines.
The Third Editi...
Quality Function Deployment
2020 || Paperback || Yoji Akao || Taylor & Francis
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a method for satisfying customers by translating their demands into design targets and quality assurance points. For a thorough "how-to" on the implementation of QFD, we went directly to the source -- Yoji Akao, the creator of QFD and one of the foremost leaders of the Japanese Total Quality Control movement.
In this unprecedented book he explains the concepts and methods of this remarkable systems engineering approach. Filled with case studies, detailed c...