This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for research workers in many branches of astronomy and space physics. The author considers the night sky as the celestial sphere and powerfully exploits the methods of spherical geometry. Most proble...

Desperate Dan appeared in the very first Dandy in 1937 and remained a fixture of the comic throughout its life, becoming its cover star and signature character in 1984.A resident of Cactusville, a strange mash-up of wild western town and a modern British city where herded buffalo could be seen side by side with red pillar boxes, Desperate Dan was the strongest, and often silliest, man in the west!In 2010, Jamie Smart was offered the chance to bring Dan and his appetite for ...

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.The silver lining is that “w...

“BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK A-PLAYER LEADERS AT GE.” —JACK WELCHGreat companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that’s easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers.But companies that have used Brad Smart’s Topgrading system over the past two decades have boosted th...

Neal Burgess, a semi-retired, middle-aged computer analyst from California, had just cashed in from a start-up company he helped bring to life. He bought the sailboat of his dreams and was enjoying his new live-a-board lifestyle in a small marina in southern Alabama intending to just kick back, relax, do some writing and focus on his zen practice. Life there was idyllic and blissfully uneventful until the day he met Cap'n Billy, a prototypical, down-home good ol' boy who operated a small s...

Human life on Earth was entering its death throes. The Earth itself, having long suffered the abuse of human pollution, seemed to have given up. The ozone layer was all but gone, weather patterns around the globe were erratic and extreme, oceans expelled tons of dead and dying sea life on beaches every day, groundwater was drying up, crops failed regularly and earthquakes were becoming more and more frequent. It was as if the Earth itself was trying to slough off a malignant growth.

This book was written to bring to everyone's attention our obsession with technology, which is destroying our planet's biosphere and will eventually, in the author's opinion, bring about the extinction of most species on Earth, both plant and animal, including, of course, our own. Clinging onto the belief that we will soon develop some new technology that will provide us with a free and unlimited source of energy and "save" us is just pure folly. Technology cannot be the solution to our en...

The story is set in a small village called Kinlochgoil in Argyll, Scotland and spans two different centuries. Two children, Sarah Campbell and John Cameron, both receive a chest of drawers from their parents. An event in the past by Sarah Campbell involving the chest of drawers changes the life of John Cameron in the future. Can the chest of drawers bring these two children together? I can't tell you anymore because that's the secret of the chest of drawers. You will have to read the story...

By 1022 NE (New Era), which would have been 2366 CE (Current Era) in the Earth's old method of measuring the passage of time, Humankind had become an endangered species, living on the edge of civilized space without a place to call home. With fewer than an estimated seventy-five thousand Humans left in charted space, every life mattered. However, the few remaining extra-terrestrial refuges to which Humans had migrated to were continually threatened by rival species, natural disasters, and ...

Women's Wages by Edward Cadbury, Marie Cecile Matheson, and George Shann is a pioneering early 20th-century study that investigates the economic and social conditions of working women in England, particularly in Birmingham. Drawing on detailed research, interviews, and statistical analysis, the book explores the wages, hours, and living conditions of women employed in various industries, including metalworking, clothing, and food production. The authors examine the factors contributing to ...

This is Book One of The Gliese Project, a four-book series.Dr. Sarah Chambers, Dr. Haneefah Baqri, and Dr. Raza Ahuja, all technically-oriented Ph.Ds. with a different set of skills, first met at a job fair sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley. Their meeting was unplanned and in many respects, coincidental. As a result, however, they were drawn together in an unlikely alliance by a mysterious set of circumstances that was set into motion by an equally myst...

They called it 'The Outbreak'. Such a pitiful name for something that would shatter the world into a thousand pieces, decimating the population, and even pull technology itself to a screaming halt as the world tried to reorganise its life.Humanity, however, is ever-resilient. The same traits that allowed us to become the dominant species on the planet ensured that we survived what was once thought to be its end. New countries and nations emerged, new powers and leaders of the despe...