'Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place...a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again.' Aloo …
William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was…
Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber cafe in Nigeria ... The countries change, but people…
From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Children, w…
On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his…
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you …
Part 1 Game-Changing Strategies 1 Chapter 1 Climbing Out of the Hole Chapter 2 The Small Batches Principle Chapter 3 Pets and Cattle Chapter 4 Infrastructure as Code Part II Workstation Flee…
1 Introduction 2 Operators and Functions 3 Vectors with Real-Valued Components 4 Complex Numbers and Functions 5 Complex-Valued Matrices and Systems 6 1-D Special Functions 7 2-D Special Func…
1 Introduction, Measurement, Estimating 2 Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension 3 Kinematics in Two Dimensions; Vectors 4 Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion 5 Circular Motion; Gravitati…
1 Electronic Power Conversion PART I FUNDAMENTALS 2 DC/AC Half-Bridge Converter 3 Control of Half-Bridge Converter 4 Space Phasors and Two-Dimensional Frames 5 Two-Level, Three-Phase Voltage…
1 Introduction 2 Material engineering 3 High power density machines 4 High speed machines 5 Other type of novel motors 6 Electric motors for medical and clinical applications 7 Generators for…
Chapter 1 Introduction and Scope Chapter 2 Performance Requirement and Compliance Criteria Chapter 3 Seismic Actions and Geotechnical Aspects Chapter 4 Conceptual Design of Bridges for Earthquak…
A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. …
In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession; in Orkney an old man lives with the ghosts of his past. In the Outer Hebrides some travellers learn a lesson; in Glasgow a young woman steals a me…
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a bo…
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but no…
Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two Americans girls on the train. They were nice and…
Part I 1. Introduction 2. Energy-Related Challenges 3. The Indispensable Role of Social Science in Energy Research Part II Invited Contributions 4. What About Social Science and Interdiscip…
1. Energy Systems 2. Energy Resources 3. Energy Vectors 4. Energy Conversion and Transformation Plants 5. Distributed Generation and Cogeneration 6. Energy Useful Effect End Use
In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets …