VINCENT "CHIN" GIGANTE He started out as a professional boxer--until he found his true calling as a ruthless contract killer. Hand-picked by Vito Genovese to run the Genovese Family when Vito was sent to prison, Chin raked in more than $100 million for the Genovese family and routinely ordered the [...]

"From time immemorial," says the author, "sages from diverse cultures have passed on enduring solutions to the dilemmas of living. Yet their insights are not as known to the world as they ought to be." This deep, wise, and practical guide intends to make them more so.It is the harvest of the popular[...]

Provides information on annular flows in oil and gas well drilling operations. This book combines theory, practical examples, and important applications to describe several annular borehole flow models that deal with eccentric, nonrotating flow, concentric rotating flow, and recirculating heterogene[...]

"The 11-year-old hero of Mr. Chin's inventive, energetic first novel is educated in his Chinese heritage through a series of astonishing dreams about working on the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869."--"New York Times Book Review" "Doubt not the ability of the gifted, passionate, funny Mr. Chin."--"N[...]

Chin Na is the art of seizing and controlling, and is an element of all Chinese martial arts including Taijiquan.Today, most people practice Taijiquan to maintain health or cure sickness. For the last fifty years the martial aspects of Taijiquan have been ignored, and the art is now incomplete. Most[...]

A three-volume essay writing course for students in American English. Academic Writing Skills 2 takes students through a step-by-step process of writing expository, argumentative, and compare and contrast essays. It is appropriate for students wishing to focus on specific essay types that require t[...]

Providing readers with a clear, useful framework for systems engineering, this book integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and relates its unique framework to current, widely adopted philosophies of quality assurance.[...]

Mathematical finance is a vast subject and is an ever growing field that no single book can cover everything, nor should it try to do so. Following on from the detailed treatment on stochastic calculus in volume I, this volume focuses on solving equity, currency and commodity derivative problems fac[...]

It s been 15 years since his first memoir but Bruce is still living the dream as a "B" movie king in an "A" movie world.Bruce Campbell makes his triumphant return from where he left off in If Chins Could Kill with further hilarious, gut-wrenchingly honest confessions.Bruce brings us through his life[...]