From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world....

This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives. It has been reported that 75% of the problems on the manufacturing floor are caused by activities outside the plant floor. Poor production scheduling strategies and systems are often the biggest contributors to the 75%.The book explains in ...

The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly comple

Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades, most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others.Drawing on more than 40 years of application experience at one of the world’s largest chemical and materials manufacturers, coupled wi...

Providing a framework that highlights waste and its negative effects on process performance, value stream maps (VSMs) are essential components for successful Lean initiatives. While the conventional VSM format has the basic structure to effectively describe process operations, it must be adapted and expanded to serve its purpose in the process indu

Tracking Al Qaeda in Pakistan, sex on a Fijian beach, fighting UFOs in Africa - Sam Kahu's 2009 might sound exciting, but there's no room for error. Earth's alien overlords want no repeat of the last battle. They want Sam and the rest of the Changels eliminated.But as natural psychics spiritual risks also haunt them. Sam learns he must still deal with his father's legacy of evil, then he discovers his partner, the beautiful but manipulative Tahira, is way ahead of him. Has Tahira f...

Lose yourself in this heart-wrenching adult fictional novel centring around Daniel that delves into his early difficult home life, following his journey into old age. He and his younger sister Joyce, while living at home with their mum, have to endure a very hostile and abusive relationship with their dad. It is not helped by the fact that he refuses to accept them as his biological children. The dad leaves to live with his girlfriend, but when the mum passes, he is back to try and evict D...

Set against the rugged, untamed frontier of colonial Australia, Mystery on the Frontier follows young mounted policeman Rex Howard and his fellow officers as they pursue what begins as a simple case of a stolen horse-but quickly unravels into something far darker. Their search leads them through isolated settlements, dangerous bushland, and a web of hidden identities, where escaped criminals, undercover operatives, and uneasy alliances blur the line between law and survival. As th...

Part 2 of Book 1 (Serendipity)The Weaving tells five storiesIt tells the stories of Tarik Gursoy, a young Kurd, whose father became embroiled in Turkish politics which cost Tarik the life of his mother and sister at the hands of Ergenekon.It tells the story of Scott, a white Zimbabwean boy, whose father's efforts to preserve the past simply contributed to the disaster of Zimbabwe, and how Scott ended up with his step-father, Bernard Khumalo.It tells the stor...

Sam's stories about how he became a Changel are starting to test Sue's patience. The idea that the Fae (the origins of ancient myths of fairy folk from Ireland to New Zealand) are an ultra advanced race who built the secret base under Renwick house defies Sue's quest for sanity. But Sam knows that their safe house will not be safe for long, and very soon Sue will be brought face to face with the source of his fears, whether Sue believes in them, or not.

New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes in the 1980s and 1990s, and the impact it still has on policy. This book is written with non-housing specialists in mind, and will be of interest to students of housing, urban studies, pu...

In Renaissance Sam tells Sue how Dr Prosperov's secret plan to use the psychic teens as super-secret agents went down with their parents. How the base beneath Renwick was built and the children trained to use their amazing technology. It tells the story of how Sam's romance with Emma fizzled under the onslaught of the community's secret but how his relationship with his Iranian work partner, Tahira, flourished. And in the present it tells how Sam manages to whisk Sue to safety from the clu...