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  • The Automotive Chassis
    Giancarlo Genta / Lorenzo Morello
    This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical experience as engineering designers for vehicle and chassis components at a major automotive company.The book is primarily intended for students of automotive engineering, but also for all...
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    112,91 €

  • The Automotive Chassis
    Giancarlo Genta / Lorenzo Morello
    This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical experience as engineering designers for vehicle and chassis components at a major automotive company. The book is primarily intended for students of automotive engineering, but also for al...
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    126,31 €

  • Technology and the Growth of Civilization
    Giancarlo Genta / Paolo Riberi
    Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way been changed by the presence of our species, starting from the Neolithic era so many centuries ago. This book provides a crash course on the issues and debates surrounding technology’s ...
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    47,83 €

  • Next Stop Mars
    Giancarlo Genta
    This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet. Considering the environmental dangers and the engineering and design needed for a successful trip, it covers every aspect of a possible mission and outpost. The chapters explain the motivations behind t...
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    62,97 €

  • The Motor Car
    Francesco Cavallino / Giancarlo Genta / Lorenzo Morello
    This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology. The text is subdivided in parts that cover all facets of the automobile, including legal and economic aspects related to industry and products, product configuration and fabrication processes, historic evolution and future developments.The first part describes how motor vehicle...
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    132,04 €

  • Vibration Dynamics and Control
    Giancarlo Genta
    Mechanical engineering,and engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face p- found issues of productivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series is a series f- turing gr...
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    118,81 €

  • The Automotive Chassis
    Giancarlo Genta / L. Morello
    This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body. It is the result of a decade of work mostly done by the FIAT group, who supplied material, together with other automotive companies, and sponsored the work. The first volume deals with the design of automotive components and the second volu...
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    94,39 €

  • A Man From Planet Earth
    Giancarlo Genta
    Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.Wh...
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    25,71 €

  • The Automotive Chassis
    Giancarlo Genta / L. Morello
    The aim of the book is to be a reference book in automotive technology, as far as automotive chassis (i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body) is concerned. The book is a result of a decade of work heavily sponsored by the FIAT group (who supplied material, together with other automotive companies, and sponsored the work). The first volume deals ...
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    100,58 €

  • The Hunter
    Giancarlo Genta
    The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all o...
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    25,11 €

  • Vibration of Structures and Machines
    Giancarlo Genta
    Addressing important practical aspects of nonlinear vibration analysis, this book presents cases rarely discussed in the existing literature yet are of considerable interest to researchers and practical engineers, such as rotor dynamics and torsional vibration of engines. The book can be used not only as a reference, but also as a graduate-level text,...
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    132,28 €

  • Lonely Minds in the Universe
    Giancarlo Genta
    This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological implications, discussing the philosophical and religious connotations and rebuffing pseudo-scientific assertions such as ’rare earth’. The author discusses such philosophical questions as: What is intelligence? What is consciousness? Should we expect ETIs t...
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    35,42 €