Why is it that when a mid-level employee makes a mistake, they are immediately fired and lose their livelihood, but when a CEO drives a multi-billion-dollar corporation into total bankruptcy, they are terminated with a guaranteed fifty-million-dollar severance package? This infuriating paradox is fueled by the corporate legal structure of the "Golden Parachute." Originally designed in the 1970s to protect executives in the event of a hostile takeover, these lucrative contractual clauses ha...

Are you responsible for your plant's industrial machines? Is My Machine OK? is a compact and handy reference on the potential risks of machine failure and safe machinery operation. Authors Robert Perez and Andre Conkey, aided by several contributors, provide 225 pages in this hardcover guide. It foms a solid basis for reliable and safe machine operations. The authors employ their extensive background to combine the most commonly used assessment tools in a single source.Developed sp...

Every operator who is responsible for monitoring critical rotating equipment will greatly benefit from this handy reference book. The goal of this book is to present proven techniques that will enable rookie and veteran operators alike to detect problems early and, we hope, eliminate major outages and/or maintenance costs. To achieve this goal we shall explain the basics of lubrication systems, bearings, drivers, seals and sealing systems, for centrifugal and positive displacement pumps as...

In the heart of the Australian goldfields, where fortunes were made and lost, there lived a woman with a gift for storytelling. May Wentworth, a pioneer and a writer, collected the tales of the diggers, the miners, and the settlers who had come to this harsh and unforgiving land. In Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume One, Wentworth brings to life the magic and wonder of the Australian bush. From the mischievous bunyip to the wise old gum tree, from the beautiful rainbow serpent to the cunn...