TLC (Tranquility Logistics Corporation) is a story of overcoming obstacles. A small group of people working for NASA on the Lunar Colonization Project were looking at financial restrictions canceling their program. The story follows these people as they band together and try to find private funding. Finding a willing and beautiful colonist helps. Following them through trials and triumphs, delight and devastation in a sometimes shocking and often sexy tangle of their paths is sure to keep the pages turning. Follow them as they recruit new characters to their cause and their Idea grows exponentially causing a turn in the economy and sparking world interest. But keep in mind; this is space travel, the most dangerous job yet.

Reared in Freedmen's Town, Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. He was frequently called "the power broker of the Tuskegee Machine": he was a Renaissance man, scholar, and political fixer. However, his life has not received a full examination until now. Built upon fifty years of research, Maceo C. Dailey's Emmett J. Scott offers fascinating detail by describing Scott's role in promoting the Tuskegee Institute. Before his death, Dailey had nearly singular access to the Scott papers at Morgan State University, which have been officially closed for decades. Readers will finally be exposed to Scott's behind-the-scenes contributions to racial uplift and will see Scott's influential role in advancing not only the Tuskegee Institute but also the Booker T. Washington agenda. Editors Will Guzmán and David H. Jackson lend their own expertise in bringing Dailey's lifetime project to fruition. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, a close friend of Maceo Dailey, provides a timely foreword. Former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown, granddaughter of Emmett J. Scott, reflects on her relationship with Scott and his impact in the afterword. Taken together, this work of biography is an impressive reference and an essential endeavor of recovery, one that restores to prominence the life and legacy of Emmett J. Scott.

Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays that deals in a variety of ways with the problem of communicating modern physics to both physicists and non-physicists. The author is Professor David Mermin, a well-known theoretical physicist, who recently won the first Julius Edgar Lileinfeld prize of the American Physical Society 'for his remarkable clarity and wit as a lecturer to nonspecialists on difficult subjects'. David Mermin's wry humour is clearly apparent in most of these articles, but even those that are more serious are characterized by a liveliness and commitment to finding startlingly simple ways of presenting ideas that are traditionally regarded as complex. This book will appeal to physicists at all levels, to mathematicians, scientists and engineers, and indeed to anyone who enjoys reading non-technical accounts of new ways of looking at modern science.

This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industrialization and modern economic growth only to achieve remarkable economic development during the second half of the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading historians, the book sheds new light on all aspects of economic history from population, agriculture, manufacturing and international trade to government, finance and welfare. The book include extensive new data and will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development.

Die grosse Starke des Ashcroft liegt in den ausfuhrlichen Erklarungen, die didaktisch geschickt aufeinander aufbauen. Tiefer gehende quantenmechanische Rechnungen werden vermieden. Stattdessen wird mit logischer Klarheit ein anschauliches Bild der Festkorperphysik entwickelt, das dem Anfanger den Einstieg in das schwierige Fach erleichtert."

A readable and entertaining look at how Einstein's special theory of relativity gives us a new understanding of the nature of time Relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education. Its subject is time, with which we all think we are familiar. Einstein's special theory of relativity reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong. This clear, lively, and informal exposition of special relativity takes a highly original approach to introduce readers to the true nature of time. It is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary geometry. It's About Time offers deep insights to curious readers who have no technical scientific background.

Offering an intriguing insight into the world of Islam from a woman's point of view, At Her Feet gives voice to six Muslim women of different ages and their response to events including an honour-killing in Jordan and everyday life in Cape Town. They examine their experiences as Muslim women both with respect to the behaviour of other practitioners of Islam, as well as at the hands of people outside of their faith. At Her Feet played to full houses around South Africa and garnered its author international acclaim. This edition includes: an introduction by the playwright, vocabulary help on the page, exam-style questions for learners, and information on the play's historical background.

In "It's About Time," N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry.

The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades. Mermin's approach is imaginative, yet accurate and complete. Clear, lively, and informal, the book will appeal to intellectually curious readers of all kinds, including even professional physicists, who will be intrigued by its highly original approach.

In the 1990's it was realized that quantum physics has some spectacular applications in computer science. This book is a concise introduction to quantum computation, developing the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. It begins with an introduction to the quantum theory from a computer-science perspective. It illustrates the quantum-computational approach with several elementary examples of quantum speed-up, before moving to the major applications: Shor's factoring algorithm, Grover's search algorithm, and quantum error correction. The book is intended primarily for computer scientists who know nothing about quantum theory, but will also be of interest to physicists who want to learn the theory of quantum computation, and philosophers of science interested in quantum foundational issues. It evolved during six years of teaching the subject to undergraduates and graduate students in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and physics, at Cornell University.

Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays that presents the dilemma of communicating modern physics to both physicists and nonphysicists. Some addressed to a general audience, some to students and others to scientists, the essays all share a preoccupation with both the substance and the style of written scientific communication, and offer a unique view of everyday science or scientific practice with the intention of increased clarity for the reader. The author believes the tradition of bland and impersonal scientific writing over the past fifty years deprives scientists of powerful tools for enhancing their clarity and capacity to communicate complex ideas. A well recognized theoretical physicist and winner of the first Julius Edgar Lilienfeld prize of the American Physical Society, Mermin writes with wry humor and conveys complex ideas with startling simplicity.

This book examines the phenomenon of school shootings to critically and objectively search for ways to minimize or stop these incidences. It examines the profiles and tactics of the shooters themselves, looks at suggestions for defending the schools and classrooms, and offers some compromise regulations requiring compromise by all to, in the short term, minimize the occurrences. But it also suggests that such simple answers are not even addressing the real root causes of the problem and to do that we have to look in the most uncomfortable of places... ourselves.

This book examines influences from a wide range of fields to identify trend lines and potential future needs for professional photographers. It also addresses potential changes needed in photo-education to prepare students for the highly competitive and ever-changing world of professional photography.

You may be thinking, there are so many books out there on the South Beach Diet, what makes this one so special, especially when the creator of the diet himself has written not only a user's manual on the subject, but many more books that followed. Let me tell you why this book is different and just as important as all the others are. You will find the answers to many of the questions you have regarding the South Beach Diet, from a different perspective - that of an individual who has experienced the diet, successfully, albeit with trials and tribulations. You will also gain an understanding of why the South Beach Diet was created, who it was created for and how it works, phase by phase. In Chapter 1, you will learn all about the South Beach Diet, including the basics and what the different phases are for. You will also learn about the different types of foods you can eat during your South Beach Diet experience and what types of foods you should avoid to reach your goal weight. Chapter 2 focuses on explaining who the South Beach Diet is for, including whether or not individuals with diabetes and celiac disease can participate in the program. One of the most important parts of a diet are results - that's why you are on a diet. In Chapter 3 you will learn about the successes of others who have experienced the South Beach Diet, and what results you should expect to see and when. Finally, in Chapter 4, you will discover the ultimate tool necessary for success during the South Beach Diet - the meal plans. You will receive sample meal plans, find out why following the rules is important and what types of quick meals can be completed on for a busy family on the go. You will also read and learn about great places to find recipes appropriate for the South Beach Diet and what your grocery shopping list should look like, so that you have the right foods in your home. As with any diet, exercise is an important part, so in Chapter 5 you will learn about the different exercises you should be doing, as well as how often you should incorporate physical activity into your routine. There will also be an explanation pertaining to different exercises for the different phases. As you go through the book, you may be wondering more about certain topics, such as what is the glycemic index and how does it work. You will find the answers to these questions in Chapter 6 along with reasons why you should choose the South Beach Diet and how to keep yourself motivated.

Forces of nature sweep a biker and a corporate lawyer toward justice for a wild mountain river.

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