The story of the world's largest pearl is a mix of legend, history, and human tragedy that spans the Pacific from a pre-war paradise in the Philippines, through hell on the Bataan Death March during World War II, to prejudice and betrayal in America. Take the journey with a Filipino soldier, Timoteo Matito, and an American geologist, Wilbur Cobb, as they battle greedy investors and a curse from ancient China. You'll discover the dark heart of mankind and witness a brilliant wonder of nature few people have ever seen.

Published nearly a decade ago, Fluid Machinery: Performance, Analysis, and Design quickly became popular with students, professors, and professionals because of its comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to the fluid mechanics of turbomachinery. Renamed to reflect its wider scope and reorganized content, this second edition provides a more logical flow of information that will enhance understanding. In particular, it presents a consistent notation within and across chapters, updating material when appropriate. Although the authors do account for the astounding growth in the field of computational fluid dynamics that has occurred since publication of the first edition, this text emphasizes traditional "one-dimensional" layout and points the way toward using CFD for turbomachinery design and analysis.

Presents Extensive Examples and Design Exercises to Illustrate Performance Parameters and Machine Geometry

By focusing on the preliminary design and selection of equipment to meet performance specifications, the authors promote a basic yet thorough understanding of the subject. They cover topics including gas and hydraulic turbines and equipment that is widely used in the industry, such as compressors, blowers, fans, and pumps.
This book promotes a pragmatic approach to turbomachinery application and design, examining a realistic array of difficulties and conflicting requirements. The authors use examples from a broad range of industrial applications to illustrate the generality of the basic design approach and the common ground of seemingly diverse areas of application.
With a variety of illustrations, examples, and exercises that emphasize real-world industrial applications, this book not only prepares students to face industrial applications with confidence, but also supplies professionals with a compact and easy-to-use reference.

Jack Sabre has always been a good cop, a Denver detective who has every reason to be the "nicest guy on the force." His wife, Maria, is the love of his life. She regularly volunteers at a local mission for the homeless, but her charity work brings her into contact with greedy men on the dark side of the city, and she ends up dead. Murdered. Brutally. But who killed her and why? Jack thinks he knows, and with the department dragging its feet on the investigation, he goes after the killer himself, earning him the nickname "Black Jack." But the line between justice and revenge is thin and brittle, and when crossing that line backfires on Jack, people get killed, both good people and bad.

Philip looks back at his life so far, a long and complicated journey. First there was his conversion at an evangelical crusade, followed by a critical retracing of the origins of Christianity and then his reception into the Catholic Church, with whose present condition he is deeply unhappy. At the same time there was his sometimes comic education by the women in his life: Faith, who rejected him as a lover but remained his friend, Rachel, who became his wife, and Amanda, his therapist. These personal events, he recalls, took place alongside more public events in the life of the Anglican and Catholic Churches, including the Second Vatican Council, the debates over the ordination of women and the problem of the sexual abuse of children by priests, all of which impinged on his own life. Both Philip and Faith and the churches to which they belong are forced to confront the need to change, to adapt to new circumstances, in order to survive. Terry Wright has written ten academic books exploring different aspects of literature and theology. This is his second novel, after The Browning Papers.

Cold war airman Ted Miller moonlights on guitar at Club Tripoli, a Libyan nightclub. Caught up in the club's vice and crime, can he escape his entanglements and survive by assisting in a dangerous covert Air Force investigation of Club Tripoli? Miller arrives at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli in 1957. He's welcomed by former roommate Dave Walker who runs a rock and roll combo working at a downtown nightclub owned by Joe Scarlatti. Ted soon learns the real business at the club is drugs, prostitution and gambling. Ted is offered a job playing guitar at the club. He takes it for the good money. He complicates his life by working as a courier for Club Tripoli, exchanging briefcases. He isn't told what he's handling, but it pays very well. Ted fears the increasing risk to Dave and himself as Scarlatti continues to push them toward deeper involvement. Ted decides to quit the club, if he can. His base Provost Marshall reveals an ongoing Air Force investigation of Club Tripoli. He offers Ted protection and a deal if he'll act as their covert agent. Ted reluctantly agrees knowing that he's getting in way over his head.