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Big Time
Ben H. Winters
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Discovery Miles 6 180
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Uncle Pirate (Paperback)
Ben H. Winters, Drew Fornarola
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Young audience
Characters: 3 male, 3 female
With help from Uncle Pirate and his faithful talking penguin,
maybe, just maybe, Wilson can survive the fourth grade. Wilson is
just your average kid. Then one day he finds out his uncle is a
pirate... like, a REAL pirate! Grab yer eye patches and pirate
hats, mateys! The adventure begins now!
"At heart Uncle Pirate proves more of a Boy Scout than a
buccaneer, but that won't distress theatergoers under 12, this
diverting and often funny musical's ideal audience... Theatergoers
at a recent performance particularly enjoyed a classroom duel in
which Uncle Pirate bravely wields first a pointer, then a ruler and
finally a book. Education, it seems, really is the way to win
life's battles." -New York Times.
"There's a talking penguin and plenty of 'arrrs!' for the
young'uns, while elementary schoolersand their parents will
appreciate the sarcastic dialogue and clever songs...a whimsical
adaptation of the eponymous kids book is Jolly Roger fun." -Time
Out New York
Electron emission is a fundamental phenomenon which accompanies
most interactions of energetic particles with solid surfaces. Not
only is it a special effect which for almost ninety years has
attracted the interest of physicists, but it is also of acute
importance in such fields as radiation effects and transport
phenomena in solids (e.g., radiation biology), plasma-surface
interactions, microtechnology, surface analysis, ion microscopies,
particle detector development and others. While "Volume I"
emphasizes the theoretical description of the mechanisms of
electron emission, this volume reviews modern experimental trends
and aspects of the phenomenon, e.g., kinetic electron emission from
massive solids and from thin foils under bombardment with positive,
negative, and neutral particles, and the measurement of electron
statistics in connection with potential and kinetic emission due to
slow singly and multiply charged projectiles.
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Android Karenina (Paperback)
Leo Tolstoy, Ben H. Winters; Illustrated by Eugene Smith; Translated by Constance Garnett
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Discovery Miles 990
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It's been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy's
timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer
version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with
high-powered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz
in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle alongside brave
young soldiers, and robots-miraculous, beloved robots!-are the
faithful companions of everyone who's anyone. Restless to forge her
own destiny in this fantastic modern life, the bold noblewoman Anna
and her enigmatic Android Karenina abandon a loveless marriage to
seize passion with the daring, handsome Count Vronsky. But when
their scandalous affair gets mixed up with dangerous futuristic
villainy, the ensuing chaos threatens to rip apart their lives,
their families, and-just maybe-all of planet Earth.
Critically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive
final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series.
With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found
sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked
safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force.
But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall,
Hank's safety is only relative, and his only relative--his sister
Nico--isn't safe. Soon, it's clear that there's more than one
earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and it's up to Hank to
solve the puzzle before time runs out . . . for everyone.
Homework, hormones, heartache...middle school has no shortage of
perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case
Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are
facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and
life. The handbook is packed with funny-but-useful tips for the
trickiest situations that crop up in middle school, like taking
charge of a too-busy homework schedule, dealing with a cold
shoulder from a friend who has suddenly become just too cool,
avoiding common e-mail and cell phone disasters, and more.
"The Last Policeman" received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best
Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews.
Now Detective Hank Palace returns in "Countdown City," the second
volume of the "Last Policeman "trilogy. There are just 77 days
before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace
is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the
auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving
crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding
her missing husband.
Brett Cavatone disappeared without a trace--an easy feat in a world
with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someone's gone
"bucket list" or just "gone." With society falling to shambles,
Hank pieces together what few clues he can, on a search that leads
him from a college-campus-turned-anarchist-encampment to a
crumbling coastal landscape where anti-immigrant militia fend off
"impact zone" refugees.
"Countdown City" presents another fascinating mystery set on brink
of an apocalypse--and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions
way beyond "whodunit." "What do we as human beings owe to one
another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is
collapsing all around you?"
From the publisher of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies "comes a new
tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem.
"Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters "expands the original text
of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant
lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other
biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters
are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a
mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While
sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic
sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the
hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters
triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find
true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever
snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England
blends Jane Austen's biting social commentary with ultraviolent
depictions of sea monsters biting. It's survival of the
fittest--and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love
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Winter Heart
H S Winter
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R468
Discovery Miles 4 680
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Zahnrader gehoeren zu den am haufigsten verwendeten Maschinen
elementen - es gibt wohl nur wenige Maschinen, die keine Zahnrader
enthalten. Jeder im Maschinenbau tatige Konstrukteur muss sich
deshalb immer wieder mit den Fragen des Entwurfs, der Herstellung
und des Betriebsverhaltens von Zahnradern befassen. Berechnung und
Konstruktion von Zahnradgetrieben sind heute je doch schon fast zu
einer eigenen Wissenschaft geworden; der dauernde Druck, immer
billigere, ruhiger laufende, leichtere und leistungsstarkere
Maschinen zu bauen, erforderte zwangslaufig auch immer wieder
Verbes serungen der Zahnradgetriebe. Infolge dieser dauernden
Anstrengungen und der Erfahrungen mit ausgefuhrten Konstruktionen,
haben wir heute schon einen verhaltnismassig guten Einblick in den
Beanspruchungs mechanismus der Zahnrader und es sind eine ganze
Reihe komplizierter Verfahren fur die Zahnradherstellung entwickelt
worden. Um die Ent wicklung weiter voranzutreiben, sind
verschiedene grosse Firmen dazu ubergegangen, Laufverhalten und
Tragfahigkeit in Dauerversuchen zu ermitteln. Zur Entwicklung neuer
Getriebetypen werden besondere Ent wicklungsprogramme durchgefuhrt.
- So findet man laufend neue Mittel, die Laufruhe und Tragfahigkeit
zu steigern und die Herstellung zu ver billigen. Da viele
Konstrukteure jedoch nicht die Zeit haben, sich uber alle
Fortschritte des Getriebebaues auf dem Laufenden zu halten, kommen
sie in Gefahr, mit ihren Konstruktionen - gegenuber den
Spitzenleistungen ihrer Branche - ins Hinter treffen zu geraten. Es
gibt zwar ein umfangreiches Schrifttum uber alle Zahnrad fragen und
doch ist es in vielen Fallen schwierig, die Auskunft zu finden die
man gerade benoetigt. Die fur die Praxis des Getriebebaues
erforderlichen Angaben in uber sichtlicher, sofort anwendbarer Form
zusammenzufassen, ist der Zweck dieses Buches.
In THE LAST POLICEMAN, Edgar Award winner and New York Times
bestselling author Ben H. Winters, offers readers something they've
never seen before: A police procedural set on the brink of an
apocalypse. What's the point in solving murders when we're going to
die soon, anyway? Hank Palace, a homicide detective in Concord, New
Hampshire, asks this question every day. Most people have stopped
doing whatever it is they did before the asteroid 2011L47J hovered
into view. Stopped selling real estate; stopped working at
hospitals; stopped slinging hash or driving cabs or trading
high-yield securities. A lot of folks spend their days on bended
knee, praying to Jesus or Allah or whoever they think might save
them. Others have gone the other way, roaming the streets, enjoying
what pleasures they can before the grand finale. Government
services are beginning to slip into disarray, crops are left to
rot. When it first appeared, 2011L47J was just a speck, somewhere
beyond Jupiter's orbit. By mid-October it revealed itself to be
seven kilometers in diameter, and on a crash course with the Earth.
Now it's March, and sometime in September, 2011L47J will slam into
our planet and kill half the population immediately, and most of
the rest in the miserable decades that follow. All of humanity now,
every person in the world - we're like a bunch of little kids, in
deep, deep trouble, just waiting till our dad gets home. So what do
I do while I wait? I work. Today, Hank Palace is working the case
of Peter Zell, an insurance man who has comitted suicide. To his
fellow police officers, it's just one more death-by-hanging in a
city that sees a dozen of suicides every week. But Palace senses
something wrong. There's something odd about the crime scene.
Something off. Palace becomes convinced that it's murder. And he's
the only one who cares. What's the difference, Palace? We're all
gonna die soon, anyway. As Palace digs deeper, we are drawn into
his world. We meet his sister Nico and her screwup boyfriend,
Derek, who are trying to beam S.O.S messages into outer space; we
meet Erik Littlejohn, a spiritual advisor helping his clients
through these difficult times. Palace's investigation plays out
under the long shadow of 2011L47J, forcing everyone in the book -
and those reading it - to confront hard questions way beyond
who-dunn-it. What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life
worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our
days were numbered?
Nach der Behandlung der "Riementriebe, Kettentriebe und Kupplungen"
in der Fachtagung "Antriebselemente" 1953 wurde diese Veranstaltung
im Jahre 1954 U unter den Titel "Zahnrader und Zahnradgetriebe
gestellt. Bedeutung und Umfang dieses Stoffes schlossen damit von
vornherein iede Hinzunahme von Themen aus anderen Arbeitsgruppen
des Fachbereiches aus. In ihrem ersten Teil verzeichnete die
Fachtagung 1954 VortrCige aus dem Gebiet der Zahnradfertigung, in
einem zweiten Abschnitt Themen uber den Zahnradgetriebe- bau. Aus
der Verpflichtung der Fachgemeinschaft, gelegentlich
wirtschaftliche Fra- gen auch offentlich zu behandeln, und aus der
Erfahrung, daB solche Fragen zu- nehmend das Interesse der
Ingenieure finden, wurden den technischen Referaten VortrCige
wirtschaftlichen Inhalts uber Gegenwartsprobleme aus der Zahnrader-
und Getriebeindustrie zugeordnet. Bei der Ausgestaltung dieser
Tagung wurde bewuBt angestrebt, neben deutschen Praktikern und
Wissenschaftlern auch hervorragende Vertreter der Wissenschaft und
der Industrie des Auslandes zu Wort kommen zu lassen. Damit ist mit
dieser Veranstaltung in einem groBeren Umfange eine den nationalen
Bereich sprengende Diskussion um wichtige und aktuelle Themen aus
der Zahnrad-und Getriebetechnik ermoglicht worden. Die
Zahnrader-und Getriebeindustrie hat mit der Tagung
"Antriebselemente" 1954 erneut unter Beweis gestellt, daB sie es
als eine ihrer Hauptaufgaben ansieht, den Fortschritt der T echnik
zu fordern und den Ingenieuren dieienigen Erkenntnisse zu
vermitteln, die sie bei ihrer taglichen praktischen Arbeit
benotigen. Wie bei der Voriahrs-Veranstaltung wurde damit eine
weite Ausstrahlung der gewonnenen Er- kenntnisse und Ergebnisse auf
die verschiedenen Verbraucherkreise des Maschinen- baues und der
deutschen Industrie bewirkt.
Die Bewerber um Kokerei-Assistentenstellen haben in uberwiegen del'
Zahl auf Maschinenbau- und Huttenschulen zumal in maschinen
technischer und elektrischer Beziehung eine griindliche Ausbildung
er fahren; bei del' Eigenart del' chemischen V organge, die mit
del' trockenen Destillation del' Kohle und Gewinnung del'
lSogenannten Nebenprodukte verknupft sind, und den vielseitigen
Aufgaben del' genannten Schulen ist das hinsichtlich del'
Kokereichemie weniger del' Fall. Diesel' Um stand, del' in
Sitzungen, Einzelbesprechungen und bei Vortragen aus diesem Gebiete
wiederholt zur Sprache gekommen ist, legte miT den Gedanken nahe,
das fur den Kokereiassistenten im wesentlichen Wissens werte aus
dem Gebiete del' Chemie zusammenzustellen, wobei auch del' hohen
Bedeutung del' Warmewirtschaft entsprechend die Warmelehre
Berucksichtigung finde. Zeche und Kokerei sind in den meisten
Fallen so eng miteinander verbunden, daB das Buch auch dem
technischen Grubenbeamten, del' sich mit del' neuzeitlichen
Verkokung del' von ihm gefOrderten Kohle beschaftigen will, als
Wegweiser dienen kann. Fur die liebenswurdige Unterstutzung, die
mein Vorhaben durch Uberlassung von Klischees und Zeichnungen
gefunden hat, spreche ich den nachbenannten Firmen meinen besten
Dank aus: F. J. Collin, Dortmund, Dragerwerk, Lubeck, Gebr.
Hinselmann, Essen, Heinrich Koppers, Essen, Junkers & Co.,
Dessau, Robert Muller, Glasblaserei, Essen, Dr. Otto & Co.,
Dahlhausen a. R. Schirmer, Richter & Co., Leipzig-Connewitz,
Carl Still, Recklinghausen, Union, Apparatebau, G. m. b. H.,
Karlsruhe i. B. Vorwort."
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