Environmental Engineering, Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to air, water, noise, and radioactive materials pollution and its control. Legal and regulatory principles and risk analysis are included in addition to engineering principles. The text presents the engineering principles governing the generation and control of air and water pollutants, solid and hazardous waste, and noise. Water quality and drinking water treatment are discussed, as well as the elements of ris...

'My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is just chuck yourself in at the deep end.'Liam is fifteen and he's just signed up for Bev Road Baths' first ever synchronised swimming team. It's for his best mate Caz really. She needs to get a team together to win the annual Project Prize at school. She tries every year. She always loses. But Liam's an optimist, he's determined to help. There's just one problem. Liam can't swim…A one-man musical comed...

Lex The Last Terranby J. Matthew RobinWhen sixteen-year-old Lex Loxley, a foul-mouthed delinquent with a knack for trouble, is abducted by aliens, his life takes a brutal turn. Forced to fight in an intergalactic gladiator arena, he becomes humanity's unlikely champion proving to his captors that Terrans are the strongest, most dangerous species in the galaxy.But after years of undefeated battles, L...

Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—inspiration for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures“Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen KingSeven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unex...

Science to build a starship. Wizardry to take it past light speed. A crew to give it a soul.The Mobius is a cobbled-together ship with a matching crew. Captain Carl Ramsey is an ex-Earth Navy pilot whose crew won't let him fly his own ship. The pilot is his ex-wife, the mechanic is a drunk, and the chief of security is from a predatory species. Instead of a star-drive to travel through the astral space between worlds, the ship's wizard does it by hand.

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION“Open Water is tender poetry, a love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with each other in a world that hardens against Black people.”—Yaa Gyasi, author of HomegoingIn a crowded London pub, two young p...

Sometimes your customer is a galactic mega-corporationSometimes your customer is a Galactic Commonwealth politicianAnd sometimes, your customer is a guy who approaches you in a bar.Life is never boring for the crew of the Ghost

"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling authorCold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death...Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect ...

Just because every job we pull goes supernova doesn't mean this one will.Captain Carl Ramsey and the crew of the Mobius are constantly on the run from one bad decision to the next. Every time it looks like they might score big, something goes wrong. But no one ever got ahead by quitting, and the only alternative is honest work. There are always more jobs to pull, more schemes to hatch, and more authorities to evade.Mission 5: Alien Racer

GridlockToo many cars and not enough space equals gridlock.Gridlock is when a city dies.Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice.How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train?Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transpor...

At least it's not mechanical calamari!Wil and the crew of the Ghost have been hired as security consultants for the galaxy's newest, biggest, and most luxurious cruise ship's maiden voyage.Sounds perfect, relax in the lap of luxury on someone else's dime.Except, of course, that's not what happens.While a war rages on the outer edges of the Galactic Commonwealth, something more base is taking shape aboard the Galactic Empress.It's ok...

****SHORTLISTED for the COMPTON CROOK AWARD, 2023**Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space!**Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago.That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister.Rig embarks on a journey across the gala...