Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) is a way to mitigate risks and costs associated with drilling in harsh environments. Suitable for engineers, drilling managers, design departments, and operations personnel, this title offers instruction on planning, designing and executing MPD projects.[...]

"User Interface Inspection Methods" succinctly covers five inspection methods: heuristic evaluation, perspective-based user interface inspection, cognitive walkthrough, pluralistic walkthrough, and formal usability inspections. Heuristic evaluation is perhaps the best-known inspection method, requir[...]

Much of the work of user-centered design practitioners involves some type of interviewing. While interviewing is an important skill, many colleagues have little or no formal training in interviewing methods and often learn on the job with limited feedback on the quality of their interviews. This boo[...]

Linear System Theory, Second Edition, outlines the basic theory of linear systems in a unified, accessible, and careful manner, with parallel, independent treatment of continuous-time and discrete-time linear systems.[...]

The two million copy bestselling self help book "The Little Book of Calm" by the author of "Instant Calm" Paul Wilson reveals the secrets for finding calm and serenity in your everyday life. Feeling stressed? Need some help to regain balance in your life? "The Little Book of Calm" is full of wise ad[...]

Are you convinced that the future holds something really worth looking forward to? And that tomorrow has even more to offer than today? It can be like this and that's exactly what "The Little Book Of Hope" strives to help you see. Because when it comes to hope and optimism, the formula is simple: if[...]

Everyone thinks Mark is the bravest boy in the whole school. But secretly Mark is afraid of the dark! One night, when he thinks his gran is in trouble, Mark is the only one who can help. But can Mark be brave enough to help his gran in the pitch black night-time...?[...]

'He can't help being a bit wild, Mum. He's not like other dogs.' A scary werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs and Mum decides the only answer is to get Micky a puppy of his own. But when they go to the kennels to choose a puppy, Micky doesn't pick the smallest, the cutest, or the quietest d[...]

This title is the winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degr[...]

Tells the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves. This title takes us on an enchanting culinary journey through the incredible creations, inventions and obsessions that have shaped how and what we c[...]

Kelly Sparks is the undisputed gadget champ at Danville School. Then Albert Einstein Jones, an alumnus of Young Inventor's Camp, joins her class. Kelly could give up the gadget crown gracefully -but she'd much rather let the spitballs and smelly goo fly[...]