Queen Peydra ascends to the throne, but has a mere 12 years until Ruling Council will murder her.Can she escape the "Curse of Royalty"?Peydra must decide what she will do as she nears her coronation in a kingdom whose ruling body has used something they call the Protection Dictum to justify murdering the royal family for more than two centuries. Instead of being the warning against tyranny it was intended to be, the practice has become commonplace and threatens not only her...

"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy" by Sir J. A. Fleming is a pioneering work that explores the principles and applications of wireless telegraphy, a revolutionary technology that transformed communication in the early 20th century. Fleming, a prominent physicist and electrical engineer, delves into the theoretical foundations of electromagnetic waves and their practical uses in transmitting information without wires. His insights laid the groundwork for future advancements in radio techno...

One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders, Springer-Verlag, 1990; Marneros, Andreasen, and Tsuang, Negative and Positive Schizophrenia, Springer-Verlag 1993). The boundaries between various psychotic d...

Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched uranium, batteries, microwave ovens, lasers, and anodized metals. In addition, short primers cover the scientific principles underlying the engineering, including waves, nuclear structure, ...

When an Aep Power Outage leaves hundreds of thousands of customers in the dark - as the March 2026 windstorm did across Ohio - immediate questions surface about how electricity is actually generated, transmitted, and controlled, and why those systems fail under stress.This collection of twenty Nikola Tesla essays, letters, and speeches offers primary-source answers from the engineer whose alternating-current inventions still form the backbone of every modern grid.

The world of Twilight turns in the darkness, illuminated by the ethereal glow of the god-planet, Kerberos. This is a world of heroes and monsters, in which four unique individuals stand against the end of everything.One such man is Lucius Kane, a rogue born into thievery when his family is destroyed by war. On the hard streets of Turnitia, ruled over by a fearsome army and a corrupt priesthood, Lucius learns of his terrifying legacy. Lucius is a Shadowmage, a power...

Strapping warriors sail through the seas of a Counter Earth—where the powerful have every fantasy fulfilled—in this cult classic sci-fi adventure series.Former Earthman Tarl Cabot finds himself in the most depraved city on Gor. Port Kar is a city of robbers, brigands, and men without allegiance to any cause or kingdom where the weak are quickly consumed by the strong. However, Tarl is able to flourish in the cutthroat environment of the city, for he is a powerful Ta...

Fluid mechanics is the study under all possible conditions of rest and motion. Its approaches analytical, rational, and mathematical rather than empirical it concerns itself with those basic principles which lead to the solution of numerous diversified problems, and it seeks results which are widely applicable to similar fluid situations and not limited to isolated special cases. Fluid mechanics recognizes no arbitrary boundaries between fields of engineering knowledge but attempts to solv...

HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD . . .The races which ruled the Galactic Federation knew they were vastly superior to the inferior species restricted to the narrow confines of their own star systems by the crudity of their technology . . . and they had every intention of keeping things that way.It was a neat little scam, a rigged game in which only the House could win, which the Federation had played for over a hundred thousand years, and no one had ever managed to challenge it.

Here is one of Nikola Tesla's most important lectures; it brightened the world and everything in it. Of all these phenomena the most important to study' are the current phenomena, on account of the already extensive and evergrowing use of currents for industrial purposes. It is now a century since the first practical source of current was produced, and, ever since, the phenomena which accompany the flow of currents have been diligently studied, and through the untiring efforts of scientifi...

RIDMARK ARBAN is eighteen years old, a new-made Swordbearer wielding a soulblade, a mighty weapon of magical power. Ridmark is sworn to defend the High King's realm from creatures and wielders of dark magic.Yet the dark secret waiting in the village of Victrix might doom him, or send him upon a quest to dangerous lands...

In "On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena," Nikola Tesla elucidates his groundbreaking research on electromagnetic waves and light, exploring a range of phenomena that shaped the future of physics and engineering. Written with Tesla's characteristic clarity and vision, the text delves into concepts such as the transmission of energy through space and the manipulation of high-frequency currents, all while situating these discoveries within the broader context of early 20th-century sci...