Praised by Stephen Baxter and Adam Roberts, reviewed ecstatically by SFX magazine, Gavin Smith is one of the brightest stars of space opera. In the far future, many years after the Loss of earth, humanity has changed. Strength is the only way to survive. And the most vicious man alive has a new con [...]

Covers the design, building and operation of plants for water treatment and supply, sewerage, wastewater treatment and disposal, and solid waste treatment and disposal. This work includes entries on the topics of stormwater management and flood management, as well as the EU Directives that cover thi[...]

Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, a[...]

A layman investor's guide to staying afloat in rough economic waters The recession has drained off the assets of millions of Americans. Debt, unemployment, and tanking 401(k)s have left people searching for ways to safeguard what they have in uncertain times. In The Investment Navigator , accounti[...]

Listed as one of the 30 Best Business Books of 2002 by Executive Book Summaries Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods [...]

Reflecting on a career that spanned twenty-five years and four continents, Special Agent I.C. Smith gives you the inside story of the Bureau's greatest takedowns and biggest screw-ups. This intrepid G-man has seen it all. From China to the South Pacific, from East Berlin to Arkansas, I.C. Smith is o[...]

Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it[...]