This updated edition emphasizes the design aspects of mechanisms, giving many industry examples and illustrations. In a clear and informal style, it presents a solid conceptual foundation of kinematics and dynamics of machinery, presented in the context of what a design engineer needs to work with. Scipted Matlab problems are included on the student resources CD-ROM.

Written with teachers, parents, and educators in mind, this guide to inspiring young people to vote explains the decline in voter participation and shows how civic education can be used to encourage eighteen-year-olds to vote. Original.

Product Description: The Good Citizen uses a new 2014 national opinion survey to describe how Americans’ views of what it means to be a good citizen is changing. Russell J. Dalton shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, younger generations are more politically engaged, more politically tolerant, and more supportive of social justice; the young are creating new norms of citizenship that are leading to a renaissance of democratic participation...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive reference examines the history and importance of youth participation in politics, suggests reasons for their disengagement, and discusses efforts to increase the interest of young voters in the political process―a process in which they could be a controlling factor...read more

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Product Description: It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet...read more

Product Description: The GOP’s leading millennial pollster offers an eye-opening look at America’s shifting demographics and reveals how these changes will affect future elections.The American electorate is undergoing a radical transformation. Cultural factors are reshaping how a new generation of voters considers issues...read more