Making crazy devices that perform simple but useful tasks has never been more fun! Make 50 Wild and Wacky (but Useful!) Contraptions shows you how to create the most mazelike contraptions imaginable. Inside you'll discover:
The key players in the world of contraptions: Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson, and Robert Storm Petersen
The different components that go into making a contraption, and how to build them
The scientific, mechanical, and engineering secrets behind each of the components
How to build working models that demonstrate all of the techniques
Finally, and most importantly, Make 50 Wild and Wacky (but Useful!) Contraptions contains 50 easy-to-follow projects that show you how to make your own fiendishly complicated machines.

Make 50 Wild and Wacky (but Useful!) Contraptions

Science & Math

Brandt, Robert

CHALINE, ERIC

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

HarpPeren

The Power of Evidence to Create Design Excellence This practical, accessible book―for design professionals and students alike―is about design excellence and how to achieve it. The authors propose an evidence-based design approach that builds on design ingenuity with the use of research in ways that enhance opportunities to innovate. They show the power of research data to both reveal new design opportunities and convince stakeholders of the value of extraordinary work. A guide for all designers who want to earn their place as their clients' trusted advisor and who aspire to create places of beauty and purpose, the book demonstrates: <ul>
<li> An approach to applying evidence to design that neither turns designers into scientists nor requires large-firm resources </li> <li> The wide range of types of evidence that can be applicable to design and where to look for it </li> <li> Direct, practical application of the evidence-based design approaches in use today </li> <li> Provides tools to distinguish strong evidence that can improve design decisions from misleading assertions resulting from weak research </li> <li> Benefits of evidence-based design, including improved human and building performance </li> </ul>
Two featured case studies illustrate the theory and practice of evidence-based design. The work of the authors' 2005–2007 AIA College of Fellows Benjamin Latrobe Research Fellowship provided an empirical foundation for this book, and addresses the use of rigorous research methods to understand relationships between design choices and health outcomes. The California Academy of Sciences, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Chong Partners Architecture, and Arup, provides transparent evidence that enhances building technology performance in the context of a powerful design expression. In-depth interviews and case studies are clustered around three research categories: modeling, simulation, and data mining; social and behavioral science and the physical and natural sciences; and including cutting-edge use of neuroscience to understand human response to physical environments. The twenty-two featured thought leaders include: William Mitchell, MIT Media Lab; Fred Gage, Salk Institute; Phil Bernstein, Autodesk; Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy &amp; Violich; James Timberlake, KieranTimberlake; William and Chris Sharples, SHoP Architects; Vivian Loftness, Carnegie Mellon University; John Zeisel, Hearthstone; Paco Underhill, Envirosell; Susan Ubbelohde and George Loisos, Loisos+Ubbelohde Architecture-Energy; Chris Luebkeman, Arup; Martin Fischer, Stanford University CIFE; and Kevin Powell, GSA.

Design Informed: Driving Innovation with Evidence-Based Design

Arts & Photography

Chong, Gordon H.

Martin, W. Mike

Architecture

wiley

Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Compass Tennessee covers everything there is to see and do -- plus gorgeous full-color photographs; a wealth of archival images; topical essays and literary extracts; detailed color maps; and capsule reviews of hotels and restaurants. These insider guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of Tennessee.

Compass American Guides: Tennessee, 1st Edition (Full-color Travel Guide)

Travel

Caribbean

Compass America Guides

A fantastic guide to enjoying the best that Middle Tennessee has to offer. Amply illustrated with b&amp;w photographs. Softcover. Still sealed in shrink-wrap. Fine condition.

Touring the Middle Tennessee Backroads (Touring the Backroads)

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Blair

Painted Trillium is an absorbing story of relationships, survival, and rebirth in the Civil War, told through the lives of a twenty-one-year old Tennessee woman and a young Union officer with a fiancée back in Ohio. The war snuffs out life as Carrie Blaylock knows it, taking her father, her brother, and the man she planned to marry. The war does something else. It pulls back the curtain of convention and lays bare Carrie’s deepest desire: a life beyond the confines of domesticity. She vows to make her own way and never be dependent on any man. To Captain John Lockridge, the war is more of an interruption. He’ll return to Columbus, marry his fiancée, and resume his nascent law practice. But first, he’ll have to make it home alive. Through a chance encounter in early 1863 while the Union army is based at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Carrie and John become friends. Their acquaintance promises to be brief. President Lincoln expects the Army of the Cumberland to launch its next push south with the advent of spring. The dutiful and studious Carrie takes a step toward independence by signing on to teach at a school that will open after the Union army marches away. She begins meeting regularly with the headmaster, Morton Walling, a widower with a young daughter. When Morton’s interest in Carrie broadens beyond teaching, Carrie is flattered. She starts to rethink her vow to live independently. Much to President Lincoln’s frustration, the army stays put as the bright hues of Middle Tennessee’s spring turn into the deep greens of summer. Fueled by their mutual love of literature and nature, the friendship between Carrie Blaylock and Captain John Lockridge deepens, and ultimately takes Carrie in a direction she neither intended nor could have imagined. Travel and outdoor writer Robert Brandt has drawn on his storehouse of knowledge about his native state, as well as dozens of diaries, letters, and reminiscences, to produce a compelling story of the equivocal and complicated relationships that evolved between citizens of this deeply divided state and Union soldiers. The story explores war’s impact on women in particular and the ways it altered their lives forever.

Painted Trillium: A Novel of the Civil War

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Wandering in the Words Press

Covering cities, states, and regions of the United States, these richly illustrated handbooks capture the character and culture of important American destinations, along with topical essays, color maps, and capsule reviews of restaurants and hotels.

Compass American Guides: Tennessee, 2nd Edition (Full-color Travel Guide)

Europe

Dig It: Life Will Beat You if You Let It-Don't Let It

DIG IT is about getting what you want in life. It is a blue print for making it happen, wrapped in the story of a small town high school volleyball teams quest to win a state championship. Thought provoking and to the point, DIG IT outlines the key steps for making your dreams a reality, assisting you in defining not just HOW, but WHY. Reading DIG IT will stir the passion in your heart, re-kindle the power of your dreams, and the Self Reflection Journal within the book provides you the opportunity to detail your thoughts and feelings while putting your plan in writing. DIG IT is a great read for young and old, but most important, DIG IT is a story waiting to be written, it is the story of you... DIG IT!!!

Self-Help

Motivational

iUniverse

DIG IT is about getting what you want in life. It is a blue print for making it happen, wrapped in the story of a small town high school volleyball teams quest to win a state championship. Thought provoking and to the point, DIG IT outlines the key steps for making your dreams a reality, assisting you in defining not just HOW, but WHY. Reading DIG IT will stir the passion in your heart, re-kindle the power of your dreams, and the Self Reflection Journal within the book provides you the opportunity to detail your thoughts and feelings while putting your plan in writing. DIG IT is a great read for young and old, but most important, DIG IT is a story waiting to be written, it is the story of you... DIG IT

Beneath the veneer of "Music City, USA" and "The Athens of the South" that each year draws more than 10 million visitors, there is a stunningly beautiful natural landscape enjoyed by locals and outsiders alike. Nashville's 533 square miles include such varied areas as steep forested ridges, deep rich woods, soggy river bottoms, grassy meadows, and rocky mini-deserts. Much of this heterogeneous landscape is preserved in an ever-expanding award-winning network of greenways and parks. Natural Nashville explores them all. Whether you like to walk, run, hike, bicycle, canoe, bird watch, or just enjoy quiet time outdoors, this guide tells you where to go and what you will find when you get there. More than 25 greenways and parks; Detailed descriptions; Activities; Nashville's natural landscape A complete guide to more than 25 greenways and nature parks. Detailed descriptions, activities, nature information.

Natural Nashville: A Guide to the Greenways and Nature Parks

Nature & Ecology

In 1908, a series of newspaper reports brought scandal and disgrace to well-known New York social and civic icon Henry Sanger Snow, who had turned to embezzlement in the wake of the Great Panic stock market crash of 1907. Rather than surrender to the police, Snow abandoned his wife, children, and even his identity, fleeing to Caracas, Venezuela, just days before fear of plague closed the port. It was the beginning of thirty-seven years of duplicity and deceit. En route to Venezuela, Snow assumed the name of Clark, claiming to represent wealthy northeastern US businessmen seeking Venezuelan investments. In a country seething with rumors of revolution, foreign investors were hard to find, so Clark was viewed with suspicion. Clark meddled at will in Venezuelan politics. He befriended US State Department officials, finagling an appointment as deputy consul. He conspired with revolutionaries, engineered the escape of two enemies of the state, and palled around with the dictator known as the Tyrant of the Andes. And he never got caught. Alerted to Clark's story by the impostor's grandson, Robert Brandt's in-depth investigation into State Department, military, and journalist records reveals the history of the twentieth century's greatest impostor, the man Brandt calls The Chameleon.

Chameleon: The True Story of an Impostor's Remarkable Odyssey

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Books by Brandt, Robert

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Make 50 Wild and Wacky (but Useful!) Contraptions

Design Informed: Driving Innovation with Evidence-Based Design

Compass American Guides: Tennessee, 1st Edition (Full-color Travel Guide)

Touring the Middle Tennessee Backroads (Touring the Backroads)

Painted Trillium: A Novel of the Civil War

Compass American Guides: Tennessee, 2nd Edition (Full-color Travel Guide)

Dig It: Life Will Beat You if You Let It-Don't Let It

Dig It: Life Will Beat You if You Let It-Don't Let It

Natural Nashville: A Guide to the Greenways and Nature Parks

Chameleon: The True Story of an Impostor's Remarkable Odyssey