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Engineering Manuals from Wikibooks

I subscribe via RSS to certain pages on Wikibooks to insure I am kept aware of new engineering and technology manuals. Here is why ...

PDF Versions - Technical Manuals

• Ada Programming Volume 1: Tutorial
• Ada Programming Volume 2: Keywords
• Ada Programming Volume 3: Operators
• Algorithms
• Basic Computing Using Windows
• C# Programming
• Chemical Engineering Processes (intro)
• Control Systems
• Engineering Acoustics
• Firefox
• Python Programming
• Python Programming (non-programmers intro)
• Serial Data Communications
• Trigonometry
• UNIX: Learning the vi editor

You will also find non downloadable html versions, like Nanotechnology. I suspect in many cases the pdf version will be available in the near future. Most of these manuals I will add as links on TechKnow (my engineering learning wiki).

Engineering Manuals

I've added (and populated) an engineering manuals page on engineering learning portal, TechKnow. There are already over 40 manuals linked. Please add any other legally available manuals which are available without charge.!

Programming Using Java eBook

Here is an excellant free JAVA Programming manual from Hobart and William Smith Colleges... use online or download. I've also added this eBook to my search engine and TechKnow.

• Introduction to Programming Using Java

ProEngineer Wildfire Learning Resources

Here are some great ProEngineer Wildfire learning resources:

Version 2.0 (all pdf links)

ProE CAD/CAE/CAM Tutorials

ProEngineer Wildfire 2.0 Manual

ProEngineer Wildfire 2.0 for New Users

ProEngineer Wildfire 2.0 Quick Reference

More ProE links from the University of Victoria

In addition, Carnegie Mellon has this very good online ProE tutorial. Finally, I have added these links to my TechKnow engineering learning portal under the engineering software tools category.

Baseball !!!

Okay ... knowledge management comes in many forms! It's Summer in the good ole USA, and that means baseball, apple pie and Chevrolets ... thus I bring you:

• 2007 Complete Baseball Recordbook
  (from the Sporting News - free)

Did you know who the youngest and oldest pitchers to ever appear in a World Series game?

• Fred Lindstrom, New York NL, Oct 4, 1924
  (18 years, 10 months, 13 days)
• Sam Rice, Washington AL, Oct 4, 1933
  (43 years, 7 months, 12 days)

China's March on the 21st Century

Most of us, including me, never get to attend seminars at the Aspen Institute. Their seminars pull together some of the world's leading thought leaders. A recent Aspen Strategy Workshop was held on China. You may download the workshop's the 169 page book / report without charge.

• China's March on the 21st Century (pdf)

Here is how the Aspen Institute describes this book:
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"This publication is the outcome of the Aspen Strategy Group's summer 2006 workshop, the first session of its kind in which distinguished Chinese guests joined the ASG membership for an open exchange of ideas surrounding China's rise. The publication includes the revised versions of the 11 papers presented at the meeting as well as the workshop agenda and ASG Director Kurt Campbell's scene setter and concluding observations. Representing a rich range of fields and perspectives, the authors examine economic and transnational challenges as well as Chinese soft power, the implications for U.S., regional, and global security, and the possibilities for cooperation in the critical years ahead. Contributors include both American as well as Chinese participants such as Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, Wang Jisi. Their analysis presents varying scenarios – engagement, coexistence, or heightened tensions in such areas as trade and military affairs."

Downloadable Technical Manuals from WikiBooks

Don't forget to check out Wikibooks periodically. Here are two well done technical manuals which are available online or via downloadable pdf:

• ADA Programming
• Control Systems / Control Engineering

Wikibooks has a "featured books" section.  These are manuals and books which are robust and ready for prime time! These books are also featured on my eBook Google Co-Op Search Engine.

eBook: Fundamentals of Wireless Design

The University of California at Berkeley has a great eBook available for free download:

• Fundamentals of Wireless Design

Google Book Search - New Features

Quite frankly, I'm not postive when this capability appeared in Google Book Search. I was checking some of my Google Book Search books which I have saved as favorites, and I am now able to scroll through the entire contents of each book.  If it stays around, this is a huge new feature. Here are some examples:

• Airliners of the 1960's
• Canoeing with the Cree
• Hiking Minnesota
• Windows XP in a Nutshell

I need to spend more time with Google Book Search.  Here is an earlier screencast / tutorial I've created on the topic.
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Stephen Downes correctly noted in this post's comment, that it's only an expanded preview.  Drat!  Still, the expanded preview is nice, and one can normally search within a book to pull up specific pages.

Secure Computing Podcast & eBook

Computing security should not be ignored by anyone, or any organization. However, not everyone can be a software / network security guru. Spend 22 minutes and listen to one the the world's leading experts, Ross Anderson, as he is interviewed about this topic. Mr. Anderson is professor of security engineering at the Cambridge University and is also author of the book Security Engineering (available for free download).

• The Silver Bullet Security Podcast: An Interview With Ross Anderson

The Silver Bullet Security Podcast Series is just one example of the podcasts you may access via my engineering podcast search engine. In addition, I've incorporated the security eBook into my Google Co-Op eBook search engine. You may access all of my search engines via this link.