Mastering 3D Printing by Joan Horvath

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Mastering 3D Printing shows you how to get the most out of your printer, including how to design models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate 3D printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.

You've printed key chains. You've printed simple toys. Now you're ready to innovate with your 3D printer to start a business or teach and inspire others.

Joan Horvath has been an educator, engineer, author, and startup 3D printing company team member. She shows you all of the technical details you need to know to go beyond simple model printing to make your 3D printer work for you as a prototyping device, a teaching tool, or a business machine.

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• Paperback: 207 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 27, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1484200268
• ISBN-13: 978-1484200261
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Updike by Adam Begley

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Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing on in-depth archival research as well as interviews with the writer's family, friends, and colleagues, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life—including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his firsthand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling novel Couples.

Product Details Hardcover: 576 pages Publisher: Harper; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition (April 8, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0061896454 ISBN-13: 978-0061896453

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The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) by Rick Riordan

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Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen-all of them-and they're stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood-the blood of Olympus-in order to wake. 

The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it might be able to stop a war between the two camps.

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• Age Range: 10 - 14 years
• Grade Level: 5 - 9
• Series: The Heroes of Olympus (Book 5)
• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (October 7, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423146735
• ISBN-13: 978-1423146735

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H2H (Hand to Hand) Combat, Soldiers by Greg Thompson

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The US Army— the most modern fighting force in the world—relies on the latest technology in smart bombs, fighter planes, and smart ships, but when fighting in the battlefield, all the technology in the world can be reduced to two soldiers locked in hand-to-hand combat, where survival is the winning prize. The most technologically advanced fighting force in the world relies on the best and most effective hand-to-hand fighting techniques ever developed. In H2H Combat, Soldiers Edition, the creator of SOCP (Special Operations Combatives Program), Greg Thompson, demonstrates the same combat and self-defense techniques he teaches to the Special Forces and Army troops. You will learn modern clinching, effective striking, basic weapon takeaway, knife defense, and grappling techniques that may someday save your life.

Product Details Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Thompson H2H Inc.; Soldiers edition edition (October 23, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0615530605 ISBN-13: 978-0615530604

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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It's had over a billion page hits to date. A year ago Munroe set up a new section - What If - where he tackles a series of impossible questions: If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? How dangerous is it, really, in a pool in a thunderstorm? If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? What if everyone only had one soulmate? From what height would you need to drop a steak to ensure it was cooked by the time it reached the ground? What would happen if the moon went away? 

Product Details Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 2, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0544272994 ISBN-13: 978-0544272996

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Twenty Seconds Ago (Jack Reacher, #19) (Personal) by Lee Child

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Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president.

Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.

This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.

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• Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0593073827
• ISBN-13: 978-0593073827

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

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• Hardcover: 282 pages
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books; 1 edition (7 Oct 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805095152
• ISBN-13: 978-0805095159

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