(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best technology books

Prius batteries contain nickel. Nickel is often found in nature among deposits of sulfur, so when mining nickel, you're also going to be releasing sulfur into the atmosphere. Sulfur in the atmosphere has a tendency to create acid rain, which has detrimental effects to the environment around it.

But wait, there's more! The raw nickel ore (probably mined in Canada) is barged over to England to be processed into more refined ore. The barge that is used to carry it across the Pacific Ocean uses approximately 4 gallons per second. Over the entire journey, that equates to several cubic fucktons.

It gets worse. After the nickel ore is refined and removed of any impurities, it is then flown over across Asia to another country (I'm pretty sure it's China, but I'm not entirely sure, but I do know that this is most certainly a step in the process) to be melted down and then further refined into a foamy kind of substance.

It's not over yet. The foamified nickel is flown once more to the Toyota factory in Japan, where it is finally made into the environmentally-friendly batteries for your Prius.

SOURCE: I read a book about it in 8th grade, but I'm sure that won't suffice for you. Give me a few moments and I'll find some links.

Edit: Got your source right here.

If you're looking for an intro to programming in Python I would suggest Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python For a general language reference Python Essential Refernce For an introduciton to the included modules The Python Standard Library by example which includes a lot of simple code examples. The book Core Python Application Programming is a great subset of the above books with less over all coverage but greater detail in the example code. And last but not least, for advanced algorithm info Annotated Algorithms in Python

I know most of those images from a book called Mechanismo that my father had when I was a kid. I spent hours watching those amazing images.

Edit: here are some more pages from the book

> Going into it, I doubted anyone could write a full book on shipping containers that would be interesting.

I have a family member in the hazardous materials shipping business. He has this book called 55 Gallons, the History of Steel Drum Reconditioning. At 448 pages, he swears it is one of the most interesting history reads ever. I have decided to pass on reading it.

Archaeology Matters by Sabloff is a good book that answers this question. Amazon Link

Coffee floats, tea sinks - a book on the history of the world’s two favorite hot beverages https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Floats-Tea-Sinks-Understanding/dp/0646091808

This is the other good review book:

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Review for Board: A Study Guide for COMLEX and Osteopathic Certifying Boards https://www.amazon.com/dp/1533022356/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.fPPCbARF4YP7

> Bill Gates isn't recognized for being a genius on similar scale to Jobs

As just one example, there's a biography titled Bill Gates: Billionaire Computer Genius. Gates demonstrably has a popular reputation for "genius".

there is a 2012 version on Amazon. Not sure if you want it though.

http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Society-Connections-Interpersonal-Relationships/dp/0697810046

I used this book which has 2 practice tests in it. If you have the modules, then I'd recommended studying them if you're doing poorly on their practice test. Taking another test will not improve your score if you don't know the material.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1519716249/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480964338&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=bcba+practice+exam

hey, looking for these two books
I only require the ebook version, not pdf

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQLFQIO
https://www.amazon.com/Nervous-System-Michael-Taussig-ebook-dp-B009E3F0LI/dp/B009E3F0LI

Theres's a book on this topic called Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles which gets into this idea into some depth.

> The Lee-Enfield Story

This? http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Enfield-Story-Complete-Lee-Metford-S-M-L-E/dp/185367138X

https://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-amazing-camouflage-deceptions-World/dp/0801549310 It talks about the magic gang and a lot of other stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/History-Rockets-Venture-Book/dp/0531114309

Ross, Sail Power

Marchaj, several books, and another

Depending on how hard core you want to get... there are some pages in this book that get into the physics.

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https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-That-Wait-Mine-Warfare/dp/B003HIWQKO

Yep, I was just going to post this. The first author on this article is a British guy who wrote an anti-climate change bestseller. He also wrote an article arguing science has too much influence over politics, and that corporations should be put in the middle to mediate that influence. How much do you have to pay a person to write these opinions?

In case no one checks, he wrote the book (Amazon Link). So it's not like he just copied some random guy's work and didn't check any of it... It's still /u/mdipierro code.

I don't know how I would prove to you that I read. I'm about 30 pages from the end of the fourth book in Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile series -- the third time through. I could be lying, I suppose.