This captivating collection of past and present images focuses on the land, streets and buildings in the communities of Whitchurch and Llandaff North, capturing the changes that have occurred in the last century. The biggest changes to the area are the demise of major industries such as coal mining and the subsequent decline of railway freight, as well as the closure of the Glamorganshire Canal. These changes are a part of a never ending process that this collection of pictures, old and ne...

The post-apocalypse is now...How will you survive the calamity? Do you have the strength to unleash your inner beast to survive against the odds? We've got nine tales of characters doing just that, so dive in and take notes because there will be a test later! So buy a copy today, don't get caught flat-footed when crap hits the fan!

While no one thing can entirely explain the rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the historical influence of Freemasonry on this religious tradition cannot be refuted. Those who study Mormonism have been aware of the impact that Freemasonry had on the founding prophet Joseph Smith during the Nauvoo period, but his involvement in Freemasonry was arguably earlier and broader than many modern historians have admitted. The fact that the most obvious vestiges of Freemasonry ...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's greatest journalists take on the stories of sca...

Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are highly sought after delicacies growing in popularity globally. The demand for these species is rapidly outpacing natural stocks, and researchers and seafood industry personnel are now looking towards aquaculture as a means of providing a sustainable supply of these organism. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference on the basic biology and current culture practices for a wide range of geographically diverse echinoderm species.Ec...

For 25 years Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine A-Z has provided a comprehensive resource of the relevant aspects of pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, physics, statistics, medicine, surgery, general anaesthetic practice, intensive care, equipment, and the history of anaesthesia and intensive care. Originally prepared as essential reading for candidates for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar exams, this fully updated edition will also prove...

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the “extended mind” and distributed cognition, has also been important in early modern literary and cultural st...

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth’s orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself. This book offers an in-depth guide to engineers and professionals seeking to understand the technologies behind Low Earth Orbit satellites.With access to special spreadsheets that provide the key equations and relationships needed for mastering spacecraft design, this book gives the growing crop of space engineers and professi...

Slabscape: Dammit is the second novel in the Slabscape series by S.Spencer Baker.Somebody’s slung a stop sign over a solar system and Slab is heading straight for it.Stopping is not an option. Slab is over a thousand kilometres long, travelling at near-lightspeed and the thirty-two million humans, NAHs and avatars who inhabit the Slabscape are on a mission; they’re going Home and wouldn’t stop even if they could."The 'Slabscape' saga is a compulsive read for all those ...

What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix platforms.Designed to be browsed, Security Power Too...

About the bookHorseshoe is based on a real-life story of a man who is said to have a horse shoe with him all his life. No matter the circumstances, this man is able to overcome all sorts of hurdles. Irrespective of the fact that he does not hold a degree, his hard work has paid off. His strong faith in the law of the universe and his positive mindset always made ways for him in an unexpected manner. No matter the kind of problems and issues he was faced with, he was always able to o...

Slabscape: Reset is the first novel in the Slabscape series by S.Spencer Baker.Take the most sophisticated A.I. designed mind that has ever existed, encase it in over fifty million cubic kilometres of diamond nano-rods and send it off on a twenty-thousand-year odyssey towards the centre of the galaxy. Then screw it all up by allowing thirty-two million humans to go along for the ride.“Slabscape soon began to feel like a curious fusion of Douglas Adams and Iain M Banks, Hitchi...