Household CEO: Home Economics for Everyone is both a common sense manual and a pep talk on the importance and value of assuming responsibility for your household, no matter what stage of life you are in. The book covers a broad range of topics, beginning with how to approach the housing market, a topic especially important as many potential homebuyers face a high price of entry, high interest rates, and low inventory. The book then pivots to more everyday issues such as understanding how a...

Tybee Island is a tiny piece of land, only-two-and-a-half miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide; however, its strategic location near the mouth of the Savannah River assigned to it an important role in the birth and history of the state of Georgia. Over this coastal community five flags have flown, representing Spain, France, England, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. Using numerous vintage photographs from the archives of the Tybee Island Historical S...

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology―fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2017 National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®), this authoritative resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance. You will get comprehensive coverage of the newest equipment, techniques, and procedures along with current OSHA, ANSI, and AS...

HUNT A TRAITOR HIDDEN DEEP IN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN THIS HIGH-OCTANE MILITARY THRILLER, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWPERFECT FOR FANS OF TOM CLANCY AND ZERO DARK THIRTY---There's a traitor - a high-level Russian asset known as NOMAD - embedded deep in the heart of British intelligence. Whoever they are, they're playing a game only the dead understand . . .When a British Special Forces team ...

HUNT A TRAITOR HIDDEN DEEP IN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN THIS HIGH-OCTANE MILITARY THRILLERPERFECT FOR FANS OF TOM CLANCY AND ZERO DARK THIRTYThere's a traitor - a high-level Russian asset known as NOMAD - embedded deep in the heart of British intelligence. Whoever they are, they're playing a game only the dead understand . . .When a British Special Forces team vanishes on a deniable mission inside t...

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology--fully updatedCompletely revised to reflect the 2012 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook, 12th Edition, provides in-depth information on overhead and underground distribution and transmission lines. The latest OSHA, ANSI, and ASTM standards are emphasized throughout.This authoritative resource presents basic principles, equipment, standards, and safety ...

A Compact, On-the-Job Reference for Linemen and CablemenFully updated with the latest NEC and OSHA standards, this one-stop portable guide contains the crucial electrical data, formulas, calculations, and safety information essential at any jobsite. The Lineman's and Cableman's Field Manual, Second Edition, provides easy-to-follow details on constructing, operating, and maintaining both overhead and underground electric distribution and transmission lines....

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology―fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®), this classic resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance. You will get comprehensive coverage of the newest equipment, techniques, and procedures along with current OSHA, ANSI, and ASTM reg...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge“Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a coherent story of how the promise of the democratized Internet ended up under the control of just a few. Read The New Goliaths to see how the forest came to have only room for a few tall trees with th...

Five Science Fiction stories from the strange mind of Mack Reynolds. Always innovative and interesting, these were published in the early science fiction and fantasy magazines of the 1940's and 50's.

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously? That question prompted Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher of the early Roman Empire, to write On the Happy Life, and he continued to seek answers in his Moral Epistles. In How to Live, Seneca biographer and translator James Romm presen...

With a new chapter in the history of baseball currently being written in Washington, DC, every fan ought to know about history of baseball in the nation's capital. This book examines the unique relationship between presidents and baseball, the long and intense rivalry of the congressional baseball, and the Washington Senators.