Step back in time and experience the Civil War through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the first shots on Fort Sumter. Hear blood-curdling rebel yells. Experience a brutal battle at sea. True Stories of the Civil War doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

In this illustrated interactive book, young readers decide the course of surviving an outer space threat.A huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth. It's enormous, as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. You've got a little more than a day to get to safety. Where will you go? Who will you help—and who will help you?With 42 choices to make leading to 15 different endings, can you survive the greatest disaster that the human ra...

This book presents the proceedings of the American Society for Composites 39th Technical Conference. This volume, the third of six volumes, gathers studies and findings related to testing with ASTM standards, assessment of the effects of defects, aspects of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of composites, and processes toward sustainable composites. The content includes experimental and computational approaches that contribute to advancing knowledge in the characterization of composite behav...

How did economic “experts” worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world of experience. Post Keynesian theory is designed to be applicable to the real world, and this book demonstrates how applying it to policy formulation could help practically resolve economic problems. Davidson goes on to demonstrate how many Post Keynesian economists warned of the impending financi...

Collects Shuri #6-10. Shuri faces her destiny! With T’Challa gone and Wakanda in peril, the Black Panther is needed — and Shuri must step up to fill the void. But she’s about to face a threat unlike any her home has seen before! Shuri heads to America to investigate a lead, but she’s not the only hero on the case. With New York City and New Jersey in danger as well, there’s no way Miles “Spider-Man” Morales and Kamala “Ms. Marvel” Khan are sitting this one out! And with her people in peril...

Ghost Riders past, present and future unite! When a strange group of new villains sets their sinister plan in motion, Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch, Robbie Reyes, Kushala, Fantasma, Hellverine and more must combine forces to save the world. But just who is the Spirit of Violence, and what horrors do they bring from Johnny Blaze's and Danny Ketch's pasts? Forget everything you thought you knew about Ghost Rider and get ready for your favorite flaming-skulled furies to know torment - none more s...

Collecting Namor (2024) #1-8. After redefining the Punisher, Jason Aaron sets his sights on Namor the Sub-Mariner! War rages beneath the waves, from the lost cities of the Secret Seas to the fathomless depths where the Elder Whales reign. Seven kings, old and new, fight to rule the watery realm. But where is Namor, the once mighty Sub-Mariner? He's sitting behind bars on the surface, with no intention of ever setting foot in the seas again. But Namor's conviction will be tested to its limi...

Over 13,000,000 people are currently blogging with thousands being created each day. But what about the blogs you haven't seen, written by the iconic men and women you're dying to know the most intimate details about but who died before the internet was invented?This original take on the biggest literary development since the paperback offers 200 blogs inspired by the most famous minds in history, detailing their hysterical personal revelations, such as: John Lenno...

Get the authoritative guide to the waterways of West Virginia, featuring almost all of the state’s paddleable waterways in more than 200 trips.West Virginia’s paddling routes are legendary: Gauley River, North Branch of the Potomac, New River, Cheat River, Tygart River, Waites Run, Red Run, Roaring Creek, and Keeney Creek—just to name a few! The best way to experience the Mountain State is by paddle. Canoeing & Kayaking West Virginia is the most comprehens...

A Primer in Theory Construction is for those who have already studied one or more of the social, behavioral, or natural sciences, but have no formal introduction to the way theories are constructed, stated, tested, and connected together to form a scientific body of knowledge. The author discusses scientific theories in general terms, but also addresses the special challenges of developing scientific knowledge about social and human phenomena.This Allyn and Bacon Classics ...

This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought.

The purpose of this volume is to reopen the discussion of how to develop the economic theory of investment to better model the facts of experience and to provide policy makers with a better understanding of how capital markets work. In this final decade of the twentieth century, almost everyone agrees that human progress will be closely related to the decisions regarding the investments made to promote economic growth of output. Despite the Nobel prize work done in recent decades, economic...