Suitable for students of aerospace engineering, this third edition is illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work. It features: a chapter on orbital perturbations; examples and homework problems; and, increased coverage of attitude dynamics, inc[...]

Suitable for engineers involved in various aspects of aerospace, this book brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. It covers topics ranging from structural components of aircraft, design and airworthiness to aerodynamics and [...]

This is a complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject. It is updated throughout, with new coverage of perturbations, Lambert's problem, attitude dynamics, and techniques for numerically integrating orbits. It includes more examples and homework problems, more Matlab algori[...]

Raphael Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified to[...]

This new novel by Marco Malvaldi marks the return of the investigative quartet nicknamed the "senile squad." At the Bar Lume, with the exception of the bartender Massimo and his assistant, the beautiful and kindly Tiziana, the youngest regular customer is Aldo, seventy-something owner of the Osteria[...]

Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the appeal, not least the fact that Paolicelli initially confessed to the crime. Guerrieri's reluctance to take on the case is intensified by the fa[...]