Once again, the number of circuit boards supplied is incorrect. At the MemOX branch in North Rhine-Westphalia, the salespeople are dancing on the table. LOS GmbH's service contract with an important customer is terminated. There is only one solution to all these situations: Peter Ritter has to get involved! He conducts talks, understands the parties involved, skillfully combines and implements solutions. But will he succeed? This question arises anew in each of the entertaining stories! In...

For authors, winning a BookBub Featured Deal is almost a license to print money.However, getting a book selected by BookBub’s editorial team is a major feat. Some self-published authors have been rejected up to 28 times, and are still trying.The Magic of BookBub is a warts and all procedural that seeks to help authors make winning submissions. It highlights successful tactics, and the most favored categories for self-published authors – the categor...

This book describes the latest advances in systems biology in four plant-based marine ecosystems: seaweeds, seagrasses, microalgae, and corals. Marine organisms that inhabit the oceanic environment experience a diverse range of environmental fluctuations, anthropogenic stress, and threats from invasive species and pathogens. System biology integrates physiology, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics into numerical models and is emerging as an important approach to elucida...

Landscape architects, design professionals and contractors alike require a good working knowledge of how to achieve plant establishment under a variety of conditions and situations. Overlooking the physiological needs of plants can lead to potential problems that can have negative financial and design impacts. Plants and Planting on Landscape Sites is a practical book giving practitioners in landscape design the essential horticultural knowledge and concepts needed to understand the limits...

Told from the perspective of Russian soldiers during an imagined Soviet invasion of Western Europe, Ralph Peter, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, intelligence world veteran, and bestselling novelist, delivers an unsettling, gripping, Cold War-era story based on real events.Set in a fictionalized World War III, Soviet soldiers prepare to invade West Germany in three different locations while western leaders are distracted by the debate of nuclear weapons.In a number of day...

A fascinating "what if" history of one of World War II's most iconic battles.It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial center of communication and manufacturing, and to secure the valuable oil fields in the Caucasus.What happens next is well known to any stude...

Major Abel Jones returns in "a rich, lush portrait of a forgotten era . . . Honor's Kingdom is good history and even better storytelling" ( The Denver Post).In a stunning re-creation of 1860s London and Glasgow that reaches from the worst slums in Europe to the lobbies of Parliament, Owen Parry brings the past to ravishing life. Grotesque murders multiply as Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a well-connected Confederate agent ...

"Another evocative and boldly executed historical whodunit irresistibly steeped in Civil War atmosphere and arcana" from the author of Honor's Kingdom ( Booklist).A Union general's senseless murder is swiftly cloaked in lies and the evidence points to Irish laborers struggling to find a place in their new homeland. But the turmoil of war hides layers of dangerous secrets, and a Welsh immigrant nursing wounds old and new must overcome ancient hatre...

The New York Times–bestselling military analyst offers a collection of essays covering a generation of geopolitics and military policy.For decades, Ralph Peters has been the most provocative and visionary American writer on military affairs, strategy, security, and intelligence. In that time, he predicted every major trend that has plagued the post-Cold-War world. A career military officer and acclaimed author, he has faced issues ranging from the explosio...

The first Major Abel Jones Civil War mystery. "Immensely rewarding . . . irresistibly readable . . . finely wrought . . . a genuine novel of ideas." — The Washington PostWinner of the Herodotus AwardIn this winning blend of history and mystery, Owen Parry brings to life the story of Abel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army officer. Jones finds himself mysteriously chosen as a confidential agent to General George McClellan. No s...

"Sixth in the brilliantly researched and hauntingly rich Major Abel Jones Civil War mystery thrillers" from the bestselling author of Bold Sons of Erin ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Abel Jones arrives in New Orleans to investigate the death of a young crusader and finds himself facing fantastic rumors of the resurrected dead as the Union-occupied city approaches hysteria. The corpse of a Yankee heiress washes up on a levee. Citizens disappear ...

"Bristling with intelligent suspense . . . this superb piece of period fiction will appeal to both Civil War buffs and fans of historical mysteries." — BooklistUnion Major Abel Jones, Welsh immigrant and veteran of Britain's distant wars, survives Shiloh's slaughter only to face the riddle of a different kind of massacre. Not far from the cries and smoke of combat, murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. Their blood may be on Northern as well as Southern han...