This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She was a measure of human ambition against the merciless air, a ledger of speed, altitude, and calculation where every mile gained demanded the surrender of certainty—and sometimes, life itself.If you think aviation history is a list of takeoffs and landings, you haven’t felt the vibration of the Electra’s engines under a night sky, watched the horizon shrink to black nothingness, or traced the meticulous calcu...

Take a dive into the history and story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster!In The Story of Chernobyl, an international tragedy is examined after three decades of study and investigation. Michael Robinson provides an educated lens on the background and context of the Chernobyl explosion through exposition, analysis, and testimony. Each chapter addresses the what, where, when, who, how, and why of a significant stage in the emergency. Through thorough and approachable explanation, Robi...

The book was written to give children and grandchildren an account of the life of their father/grandfather. It is divided into four parts that chronologically follow the author's life. Part One; The Early Years, dwells on recollections of events and stories surrounding parents, brothers, other relatives and friends in different locales from California to Hawaii to Texas. Scouting, selling encyclopedias, the Marines, going to college and Peace Corps were all very formative in this period. P...

Students often approach math the same way they approach other courses. Read the book, take some notes, look them over, then hope for the best when the test comes. And, if the test doesn't go well, very little is approached differently the next time around. Math Study Strategies is an easy-to-use resource that helps students learn and implement strategies that are useful during each part of the class 'cycle': choosing a class (in college), preparing for class, participating in class, doing ...

This book is an attempt to reduce the barrier to entry for the key tools of homological algebra and develops the basic notions of homological algebra by emphasizing concrete, elementary, and computational examples in finite dimensional vector spaces. Linear algebra is the study of linear maps between vector spaces.The broad success of linear algebra in applications is due to the dimension theorem and the algorithms that exploit it, like Gaussian elimination and QR factorizations.

This edited volume focuses on different views of happiness and well-being, considering constructs like meaning and spirituality in addition to the more standard constructs of positive emotion and life satisfaction. A premise of the volume is that being happy consists of more than having the right things happen to us; it also depends on how we interpret those events as well as what we are trying to achieve. Such considerations suggest that cognitive-emotional factors should play a fairly pr...

Jake Davis is a ship captain taking passengers to a star system thought uninhabited when his ship is forced to land on a long-forgotten colony. What he finds causes him to question the foundation of his society and sparks a crisis that only he might be able to solve.

Book #3 in the Twelve-Time Award-Winning Fantasy Series For Kids.Amazingly fresh, charmingly funny, and embracing timeless values of kindness, understanding, and believing in oneself.Join Sir Princess Petra and her funny dragon steed, Snarls, on their zany adventures in this humorous fantasy series for kids. These multi-award-winning dragon stories for kids 7 - 11 years are sure to entertain.Sir Princess Petra has already attained her knighthood in ...

This isn't your ordinary travel guide. Beyond Austin's iconic taco trucks are eclectic dive bars, quirky galleries and hidden swimming spots that locals love - and that's where this book takes you.Whether you're a restless Austinite on the hunt for a new hangout or a visitor keen to discover a side you won't find in traditional guidebooks, Austin Like A Local will give you all the inspiration you need.Turn the pages to discover:

A course of Lenten sermons on the seven last words of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.

Michael Robinson is the winner of the 2009 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the 2023 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Tom Collins Poetry Prize in 2007."An x-ray poet, looking beneath and beyond appearance to the reality...Powerful and disturbing...Yet atonement is here as well...This is clarion call poetry, with all its evocative and gritty language."- Ian Keast, Studio."Combines serious social concern with keen perception of both the beauty and the...

Sid expressed what he thought was love, sexually, but after the immediate pleasure he felt nothing. Ambitious, his working career continued to advance but his relationships seem to end empty. Over time Sid makes gains in the concept of love, only to have tragedy enter and set him back. Sid finds out he has not one, but two boys and they become the love he had always been seeking. Eventually Sid even finds his one true love.