Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant - Evans's poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin lorries, bullet-pierced road signs, to love's strains and pleasures. As entertaining as they are impressive, these poems are in and of the physical world, brimming with ideas and passion and sharing it all with real panache.

Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the alternative uses of Tipp-Ex, how not to take stairs, the joys of metal-detecting, or the vertigo of jet-lag. This sense of immanence below the surface, just beyond reach, is addressed through themes of family, memory, history, illness and recovery, travel, and exploration. This questioning, "sustained gaze," casts a steady, sombre eye over the everyday, but with care, candour and lightness, too.

Nematodes are major pests of a number of temperate crops and can cause significant economic losses to farmers. This book provides a comprehensive account of such parasites, with chapters focusing on nematode pests of the main crops of importance in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Written by leading authorities from the USA, UK, Canada, France, Netherlands, Australia, Bolivia and New Zealand, this book is a definitive reference work for plant pathologists in general, and nematologists in particular.

After a life-time's teaching Classics to the Upper-Sixth, at a very minor Boy's Public School in Oxfordshire, the last of the 'DWEMs', as he likes to describe himself, believes that he is fighting a rear-guard action, defending and guarding a diminishing mythopoetic world view on which his own personal values, and those of Western Civilisation are built. And which are being cruelly tested, to breaking-point when he is called to 'support' one of his own 'favourite' ex-students who has been arrested for 'Terrorist Activities'. It is this, above all else which becomes the Circumstances of Departure; his own and of others, in one way or another. (DWEM was coined by Bernard Knox, to describe Classicists as a species: Dead White European Males.)

The arrival of a stranger in the poorest community in Manila brings the possibility of danger and threats from the authorities and the money people, but despite this, he is received into their lives as a visitor-a man without a name and a past with unexplained consequences. Although he remains an enigma throughout his stay in the village, he touches all their lives in unexpected ways, bringing hope and sorrow in equal measure.

Some cats have special abilities and insights which allow them to observe humans, and communicate their observations. This is a story of one such cat, who has enjoyed the company of writers and university professors, and using his remarkable powers of critical judgement, he has commented on the lives of animals and the human condition, in high and low places.

This book is for database designers and database administrators using Visio, which is the database component of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects suite, also included in MSDN subscriptions. This is the only guide to this product that tells DBAs how to get their job done. Although primarily focused on tool features, the book also provides an introduction to data modeling, and includes practical advice on managing database projects. The principal author was the program manager of VEA's database modeling solutions.
.Explains how to model databases with Microsoft(r) Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA), focusing on tool features.
.Provides a platform-independent introduction to data modeling using both Object Role Modeling (ORM) and Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM), and includes practical advice on managing database projects.
.Additional ORM models, course notes, and add-ins available online."

Written by an author with many years of experience teaching CNC machining, this workbook is the perfect complement to Programming of CNC Machines, 4thedition. It is filled with many practical exercises and is one of the few workbooks available that tests users through the application of programming functions commonly used in CNC programming. Together with its companion text, this workbook can be used as a complete CNC training program; or, it can be used on its own by students or professionals to verify that they have the basic skills needed to write a CNC program.Ken Evans has held a variety of machining and related jobs throughout his career; and is currently a CNC Programmer at a prominent aerospace company. Ken was a Machine Tool Technology instructor for 20 years at Davis Applied Technology College in Kaysville, Utah, where he taught a variety of courses throughout the machining curriculum, including Mastercam CAD/CAM. In addition, he has trained other educators from around the region on how to set-up, program, and operate their CNC machines; and has been a Training & Applications Specialist for a local machine tool distributor. Unit 1: CNC Basics Unit 2: Setup & Operation Unit 3: CNC Turning Center Programming Unit 4: CNC Machining Center Programming Unit 5: Answer Key

This book really is a Handbook for thinking, speculating-on, and enjoying learning about your inner-core, the essential inner you, that people for centuries have called the soul. The book is based on both academic and practical experience, whilst working in the field of social care, and is a personal guidebook for exploring ideas about souls, and how to connect with others and the environment. It uses a wide range of thought-provoking eclectic ideas from various sources; stories, news reports, myths, poems; utilizing anything which discusses real-life situations, encouraging readers to reflect and work out their own solutions to their own life problems, both big and small. This book is about how to think about and connect with your inner-self, your soul and with the souls others around you.