Today many machining operations are considered “old fashioned†processes. The last decade has brought new fashionable research topics including nanotechnology, alternative energy, and the latest is “additive manufacturing.†Even additive manufacturing requires a finishing process as the dimensions and surface quality of the parts are not final due to the limitation of the process itself. […]
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at […]
The Ruby Red international bestselling trilogy by Kerstin Gier took the world by storm is now available as a beautiful boxed set. The perfect gift for all the Ruby Red fans. Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended―and eccentric―family in an exclusive London neighborhood. She’s had a relatively normal life so far, in spite of her […]
Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother’s mysterious death, he’s lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, he’s tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph […]
Written for the 2008 revised FCE exam, it is informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus and providing a complete FCE exam paper specially prepared for publication by Cambridge ESOL. This topic-based course covers every part of the FCE exam in detail, ensuring that students are fully equipped to tackle each part of every paper. In […]
You create the life you choose to live. There are no victims. The lessons are clear, the direction is laid out, the direction that will make you happy and make your life fulfilled as you look forward to what comes next. You must merely put it in practice. In THE PASSION TEST, Chris and Janet […]
The author of The Pirate Hunter,which made Captain Kidd come to life, focuses here more broadly on a piracy hot spot. Resolved to stop the enslavement of American merchant sailors by North African nations, Jefferson deployed most of the infant U.S. Navy to the Mediterranean and sent a column of troops overland from Egypt to […]
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens’ ways are strange and frightening…again, humans die. And it is only the […]
This volume does not aim to contain all “the best American humorous short stories”; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first […]
Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie An Amish Murder Sworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo’s New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series. Some secrets are too terrible to reveal. Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve. . . . In Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and “English†residents have […]