'They haven't found the bomb - the ship will explode in twenty hours'. Mariah Mundi and Jack Charity are sailing to America on the magnificent ship Triton, the biggest and fastest steam cruiser the world has ever seen. This is no pleasure cruise - Triton is racing the ship Ketos for a prize that peo[...]

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems i[...]

A former Air Force officer and World War II flying ace describes his career in the European theater of the Second World War, offering a gripping account of his experiences in the cockpit during 151 perilous combat missions in the skies over Europe. Original.[...]

This 1933 volume is the second of two books making up the third edition of a 1903 original by British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson.[...]

With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. "As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Alan Lightman's playful and [...]

Increasing concern with fuel consumption leads to widespread interest in lightweight structures for transportation vehicles. Several competing technologies are available for the structural connections of these structures, namely welding, mechanical fastening / riveting, and adhesive technologies. Ar[...]

Det är hårda tider i London. Trollkarlen Magnus Malachi vakar noga över sitt senaste fynd - Tersias, den blinde pojken som kan se in i framtiden. Men i takt med att Tersias krafter blir allt mer kända försöker fler dra nytta av Tersias märkvärdiga förmåga. Luffaren Jonah och hans kompanjon[...]

It is rare indeed that one comes in contact with a process or technique which impacts many technical disciplines. Ion exchange is such a processs. Although many books have been written on the topic of ion exchange, most have been aimed at the specialist and the graduate engineer or chemist. The auth[...]