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Get a Lifetime of Peak Performance from Your Woodworking Power Tools Taking care of your tools is important. You want them to work and you want them to last. Both financially and emotionally, woodworkers make a significant investment in the tools of their trade, and proper tool maintenance is an essential skill. Sounds intimidating? It doesn't have to be. Now, expert woodworker David Thiel shows you how to preserve the working life of your power tools and insure safety in the woodshop without spending all of your valuable woodworking time stripping down tools. Inside you'll find: • A comprehensive guide to cleaning, repairing and tuning up some of the most popular tools, including table saws, band saws, hand drills, jointers and lathes • An in-depth, illustrated look at the functions and parts of each tool • Tips on how to identify trouble spots and adjust parts to obtain optimal performance • And more... You don't need to be a machinist to keep your tools in working order. This book shows you all the basics and lets you put the focus back where it belongs - on your woodworking.
Learn how to plan for success with this hands-on guide to conducting high-quality engineering research. Plan and implement your next project for maximum impact: step-by-step instructions cover every stage in engineering research, from the identification of an appropriate research topic through to the successful presentation of results. Improve your research outcomes: discover essential tools and methods for producing high-quality, rigorous research, including statistical analysis, survey design, and optimisation techniques. Research with purpose and direction: clear explanations, real-world examples, and over 50 customisable end-of-chapter exercises, all written with the practical and ethical considerations of engineering in mind. A unique engineering perspective: written especially for engineers, and relevant across all engineering disciplines, this is the ideal book for graduate students, undergraduates, and new academics looking to launch their research careers.
Build quality furniture fast and simple! Beginning woodworkers (or experienced woodworkers who are looking for a weekend project) can accomplish these builds quickly. • Each project requires minimal woodworking experience and only hand and portable power tools--no need for expensive equipment. • These projects use only readily available materials that are easily found at your local home center, saving you lots of time and a few headaches. • Within these pages you'll also find a helpful training manual for choosing and using recommended tools--it's the perfect guide for building your skills as a woodworker. • Learn to build a variety of tasteful and functional items for the home including furniture, shelving and storage.
Eliminating security holes in iOS apps is critical for any developer who wants to protect their users from the bad guys. In iOS Application Security, mobile security expert David Thiel reveals common iOS coding mistakes that create serious security problems and shows you how to find and fix them. After a crash course on iOS application structure and Objective-C design patterns, you’ll move on to spotting bad code and plugging the holes. You’ll learn about: –The iOS security model and the limits of its built-in protections –The myriad ways sensitive data can leak into places it shouldn’t, such as through the pasteboard –How to implement encryption with the Keychain, the Data Protection API, and CommonCrypto –Legacy flaws from C that still cause problems in modern iOS applications –Privacy issues related to gathering user data and how to mitigate potential pitfalls Don’t let your app’s security leak become another headline. Whether you’re looking to bolster your app’s defenses or hunting bugs in other people’s code, iOS Application Security will help you get the job done well.
This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct "multiculturalism" has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellectual life. This book exposes the real impact of multiculturalism on the institution most closely identified with the politically correct decline of higher education--Stanford University. Authored by two Stanford graduates, this book is a compelling insider's tour of a world of speech codes, "dumbed-down" admissions standards and curricula, campus witch hunts, and anti-Western zealotry that masquera...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Secure today's mobile devices and applications Implement a systematic approach to security in your mobile application development with help from this practical guide. Featuring case studies, code examples, and best practices, Mobile Application Security details how to protect against vulnerabilities in the latest smartphone and PDA platforms. Maximize isolation, lockdown internal and removable storage, work with sandboxing and signing, and encrypt sensitive user information. Safeguards against viruses, worms, malware, and buffer overflow exploits are also covered in this comprehensive resource. Design highly isolated, secure, and authenticated mobile applications Use the Google Android emula...