Fifty years ago this year, London Transport embarked on a large experiment - the London bus reshaping plan. Under it, large capacity one-man operated buses were introduced on suburban bus routes for the first time and many routes were altered and shortened. It was to lead to the worst period in the history of London bus services. This book covers this period with details of the policy, the implementation, the reactions and the consequences. The route alterations are also detailed and the book is illustrated with around 200 photographs and maps.

Offering a single volume reference for high frequency semiconductor devices, this handbook covers basic material characteristics, system level concerns and constraints, simulation and modeling of devices, and packaging. Individual chapters detail the properties and characteristics of each semiconductor device type, including: Varactors, Schottky diodes, transit-time devices, BJTs, HBTs, MOSFETs, MESFETs, and HEMTs. Written by leading researchers in the field, the RF and Microwave Semiconductor Device Handbook provides an excellent starting point for programs involving development, technology comparison, or acquisition of RF and wireless semiconductor devices.

Welcome to Los Angeles, America's second-largest city and home to 3.8 million people. But L.A. didn't start out that way. Olvera Street: Discovering the Soul of Los Angeles is a travel guide that leads you past today's glitzy bars and eateries, the big sports centers and high-rises, to trace the city's roots. Travel back more than two centuries to when forty-four settlers walked from Mexico to start a new life near what would become today's downtown Los Angeles. While decades of neglect and the developer's bulldozer have claimed many of the original buildings, at Olvera Street, part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, you can still see and touch the city's beginnings. Join Mike Harris as he guides you along Olvera Street with its unique museums, artwork, multi-generation Mexican family shops, and restaurants. Starting at the plaza's kiosk, located just across the street from historic Union Station, journey with Mike on an easy walking tour detailing the struggles and triumphs of creating an international city. Learn how each new culture that came to Los Angeles, from Native American, Spanish, and Mexican to African American, Chinese, French, and Italian, impacted its destiny.

Would you love to start your own business but feel daunted by the slim odds of success? Do you dream about making millions but simply don't know where to start? Find Your Lightbulb answers all these questions, helping you to harness your ability to make millions from nothing more than a simple idea. You don't need to be superhuman, you don't need to have funds in the bank - you don't even need to have an amazing idea in order to get started.

Serial entrepreneur Mike Harris shows you that all it takes is enthusiasm, commitment and a willingness to learn. And Mike should know - he's spent the past 20 years creating successful businesses from apparently impossible ideas - ideas which everyone told him would never work. With invaluable business advice and case studies from entrepreneurs and innovators on both sides of the Atlantic, this make-it-happen manual will help you fix the odds of success firmly in your favour.

SILK DRAGON is a story of adventure on the high seas, fierce battles with hostile kings and behind-the-scenes intrigue within the royal court. It's a story of competition among royal concubines, accumulation of fabulous riches and justice by the sword. SILK DRAGON is also a love story. Zheng He's childhood sweetheart, Xi Chen, is forced to become a lady-in-waiting to the imperial court. She desperately loves Zheng He and has pledged never to share herself with another man. But when Emperor Zhu Di requests that Zheng He bring Xi Chen to his private quarters, the faithful servant is forced to obey. Zheng He, Xi Chen and Emperor Zhu Di share a relationship that is both tragic and beautiful. The three are drawn together into a web of circumstance that is at the very core of China's strength and weakness. SILK DRAGON is the story of Zheng He, who, as a man of vision, satisfies the dreams of his emperor, but cannot satisfy the dreams of his own heart. It's the story of Xi Chen, the beautiful lady-in-waiting, who is torn between the man she loves and the love she knows is demanded by another man. And it's also the story of Zhu Di, the emperor who tries to build a dynasty for China, but knows he may lose everything he has ever tried to build because of his own traitorous son.

When you look at marriage, how would you describe it? Is it healthy, thriving, and vibrant, or is it slowly withering and losing the luster that characterized its early days? If the walls of your marriage have been broken and battered by the storms of life, there is yet hope for you This book is an enduring victorious testimony of how two severely wounded people miraculously survived their storm with God's help and through the help of others. Ronnie & Mike Harris have been where you are. When it seemed as though there was no hope to ever rebuild what sin had destroyed in their marriage of 16 years, God, the Restorer of the Breach, stepped in and changed everything after 5 years of separation and divorce. Now after their 7th year of remarriage jubilee, their story must be told as mandated by God. Join Ronnie & Mike and see how every broken wall in your own marriage can be rebuilt and how your marriage can be become a place of healing and true restoration that can echo throughout the earth. This book is a great resource for those who are separated, divorced, married, and even re-married. Ronnie & Mike have three children. Ronnie has a Business Administration Degree. Mike is a licensed minister, former college coach, campus minister, youth director, Pastoral Counseling / Sports Psychology / Biblical Studies Degree. Former professional baseball player, coach, and scout (St. Louis Cardinals & Chicago White Sox). They both work together at Miracles Baseball Academy, 501(c)3 Non Profit founded by Mike. Ronnie & Mike are marriage advisors and lay leaders at The Church Without Walls (Houston, TX) under Senior Pastor Dr. Ralph Douglas West. They are also sought after for Marriage Enrichment Workshops & Public Speaking Engagements as Mike entertains Sports Ministry and Preaching Opportunities, etc.

Expedition Leader Mike Harris is an accomplished writer, explorer and film producer who has led a number of major expeditions throughout the world, including the first expeditions to search for the Titanic in the North Atlantic. On Mike's first expedition in 1971 he led a group of professional divers and film makers to Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands where they dove on American, German and Japanese warships that were sunk by atom bomb testing after WWII. Mike produced a film of his first adventure called "Deadly Fathoms" which featured Rod Serling and won a Silver Medal at the Atlanta International Film Festival. On Mike's second expedition he led a group of mountain climbers and Biblical Scholars up the slopes of Mt. Ararat in Turkey to search for Noah's Ark. His film "Expedition to Noah's Ark" featured acclaimed actor Joseph Cotten as his on-camera host and narrator. Mike's third adventure film took him to the mountains of Old Mexico where he searched for buried treasure. His film "Pancho Villa's Treasure" featured film and television star Cesar Romero as his on-camera host and narrator. In 1980 Mike then led the first expedition to search for the Titanic in the North Atlantic. His film "Search for the Titanic" featured legendary actor Orson Wells as his on-camera host and narrator. Mr. Wells said it was an honor for him to work on such an important film. Mike's second Titanic film in 1981 featured James 'The Virginian' Drury, who actually joined Mike at sea during his second Titanic adventure. Mike has also filmed eye-witnesses in the Marshall Islands and on Saipan who claim the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan didn't just crash into the ocean and disappear as history tells us They told Mike on camera that Amelia and Fred actually crashed their Lockheed Electra off Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, were captured by the Japanese, then taken to Saipan in the Marianna Islands where they were put into prison and eventually killed. Mike's many projects have taken him from Guyana to the Arctic Circle, Greenland to Israel and have included multiple studies of the Chinese Admiral Zheng He and the incredible fleet of Ming Treasure Ships he commanded on seven expeditions sixty years before Columbus discovered America. Harris is a member of The Explorers Club of New York, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London and has been listed in Who's Who in American since 2000. Mike Harris has truly lived a Titanic Life

The central charecter had been traumatised by a rapid descent from riches to rags and being of Romany stock was branded 'Pikey Joe'. The narrative unfolds as the subject's troop shiparrives at Tilbury Docks. War experience had broadened his mind and he embarks on a triangle of relationships with his Grandmother a gypsy and a former SOE officer married to an Eastern European Romany. The triangle develops nthrough his marriage and there is an explosion of business and civic responsibility and brotherhood.

In 1980 Mike Harris led the first expedition to search for the Titanic in the North Atlantic. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" gives a behind-the-scenes look at the first Titanic expedition, how Mike then formed ORE, Ltd., the company that picked up Titanic artifacts with the French and began exhibiting Titanic artifacts around the world. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" also explains how Mike got his son, G. Michael Harris, involved in the Titanic project, how G. Michael built his own Titanic: "The Experience" exhibit in Orlando, Florida and how G. Michael took his son, Sebastian, down to the Titanic in the Russian submersible Mir 1 when Sebastian was 14 years old. For Sebastian's unique experience, he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 and made a member of The Explorers Club of New York. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" features exclusive color photographs of Mike's original 1980 Titanic expedition, multiple gallery photographs of G. Michael's Titanic: "The Experience" exhibit in Orlando, Florida, a sample of historic Titanic artifacts that have been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic and G. Michael's dive with his son, Sebastian, in the Russian submersible Mir 1. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" has a unique collection of historic Titanic photographs and illustrations.