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Air Traffic Control Career Prep: A Comprehensive Guide to One of the Best-Paying Federal Government Careers, Including Test Preparation for the Initial ATC Exams (Air Traffic Control Career Prep)
This valuable guide—essential for anyone interested in or already pursuing a lucrative career as an air traffic controller—thoroughly explains the air traffic control field and what training and qualification requirements are needed. Part career guide, this handbook provides a brief introduction to the aviation industry and discusses the role of the FAA while also explaining what an air traffic controller can expect in terms of working conditions, available positions, benefits, and salary. A comprehensive test preparation section filled with questions, answers, practice tests, explanations, and test-taking tips and strategies helps applicants prepare for the current air traffic controller FAA entrance exam (AT-SAT). A helpful list of employment contacts and a CD-ROM are also included.
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Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library) (Space Technology Library)
This practical handbook for Space Mission Engineering draws on leading aerospace experts to carry readers through mission design, from orbit selection to ground ops. SMAD III updates the technology, provides greater emphasis on small spacecraft design and the cost-reduction process, and includes more detail on multi-satellite manufacturing, space computers, payload design and autonomous systems..
Price: $61.40 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
This edition substantially expands the coverage of Viscous Flow and makes the new edition more well-rounded in that the material can now be used not only for standard incompressible and compressible flow courses, but also for courses that emphasize viscous flow. The Second Edition also contains new homework problems, worked examples, expanded coverage of Hypersonic Flow, and other updates throughout..
Price: $78.70 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Commercial Aviation Safety
Text offers guidance on today's security concerns on the ground and in the air, changes in systems and regulations, new maintenance and flight technologies, and recent accidents For students. Includes index, references, and review questions. Previous edition: c2001. DLC: Aeronautics--United States--Safety measures..
Price: $35.60 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Airport Planning & Management
This meticulously researched text by a noted aviation management expert is so definitive that it is used as a course book in the American Association of Airport Executives' accredidation program. Now completely updated, it features coverage of the latest industry statistics, trends, and legislation. Also new in this revision: expanded material on deregulation and passenger facility charges, coverage of technological developments such as navaids and procedures, and discussions of changes in such airport operations as security, noise monitoring, and runway maintenance..
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
Teaching text developed by U.S. Air Force Academy and designed as a first course emphasizes the universal variable formulation Develops the basic two-body and n-body equations of motion; orbit determination; classical orbital elements, coordinate transformations; differential correction; more. Includes specialized applications to lunar and interplanetary flight, example problems, exercises. 1971 edition.
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System Engineering Management (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)
Technology/Engineering/General

A top-down, step-by-step, life-cycle approach to systems engineering

In today's environment, there is an ever-increasing need to develop and produce systems that are robust, reliable, high quality, supportable, cost-effective, and responsive to the needs of the customer or user. Reflecting these worldwide trends, System Engineering Management, Fourth Edition introduces readers to the full range of system engineering concepts, tools, and techniques, emphasizing the application of principles and concepts of system engineering and the way these principles aid in the development, utilization, and support of systems.

Viewing systems engineering from both a technical and a management perspective, this fully revised and updated edition extends its coverage to include:
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The changing areas of system requirements
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Increasing system complexities
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Extended system life cycles versus shorter technology cycles
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Higher costs and greater international competition
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The interrelationship of project management and systems engineering as they work together at the project team level

Supported by numerous, real-life case studies, this new edition of the classic resource demonstrates-step by step-a comprehensive, top-down, life-cycle approach that system engineers

can follow to reduce costs, streamline the design and development process, improve reliability, and win customers..
Price: $102.28 [Notify me when price goes down.]


International Law
Fully revised and updated to December 2002, Malcolm Shaw's bestselling textbook on international law is a clear, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the subject. The fifth edition includes new material on Inter-state Courts and Tribunals, arbitration tribunals and the role of international institutions such as the WTO. It will remain an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike. While essential reading for students of international relations and the political sciences, the scope of the text also makes it of interest to lawyers and government and international employees. Previous Edition Hb (1997): 0-521-59384-0 Previous Edition Pb (1997): 0-521-57667-9.
Price: $55.89 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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