Birmingham's surrounding hills comprise the only place in the world with a plentiful supply of all the ingredients for iron making. This spurred the city of Birmingham's charter in 1871 around the crossing of two railroads. The city's development into a leading industrial center is shown here in photographs and postcard views, some a century old.

Panama City began as three 640-acre homesteads in the late 1800s and was incorporated in 1909. The seat of Bay County, this thriving port city of nearly 156,000 is home to Tyndall Air Force Base and the Naval Coastal Systems Center. This volume contains more than 200 vintage postcard views of Panama City from its earliest years through the 1970s. Scenes of neighboring Panama City Beach include early beach institutions like the Hangout at Long Beach Resort, Jenkins Drive In, Mitties Tavern,...

At the start of the 20th century, Birmingham was one of the fastest growing cities in the South, sometimes referred to as the "Magic City." It began as a town located at the intersection of two railroads and then quickly expanded and took in neighboring communities. Around this time, photographers traveled around the United States taking photographs of towns and cities and turning the photographs into postcards. The postcards collected here show historic Birmingham's downtown, hospitals, p...

There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data gathered by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project over a fifte...

Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this practical book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms and slaughterhouses, this fully updated fifth edition of Livestock Handling and Tra...

Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms and slaughterhouses, this new edition expands on new developments in the field, as well as co...

After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots have even started invading work sites. What are the main trends of CAD and robotics in the field of architecture and civil enginee ring? What type of R&D effort do university and industrial la...

When an ex heroin addict reaches their limits and stumbles across the kindness that a Jehovah Witness gets going door to door, he decides to give it a try. He soon finds out that it's not always good caring people behind every door. Does he keep his temper down or does he get invited into the wrong house?

An anthology based on killer clowns. 30 authors have come together to support the awareness of PTSD. All proceeds will go to an organazition for PTSD.

Autobiography by award winning horror author TJ Weeks. The life he led was rough, but he has pulled through and is coming through as one of the best horror authors of this day.

A monster is born as Bartholomew breaks his way through the 14th century. After living a life of loss, there’s only one way to gain. Feeling betrayed by God, Bartholomew turns to the Devil to answer his calling for revenge. Revenge is blissful, but can Bartholomew accept this fate?

Daltin, Blake, Beth and Allison go on a Halloweenn adventure through Dreamland. Stories have been told that Dreamland is where children go for amusement and never escape. The foursome is split up and left to search for each other. Making their way through the creepiness, darkness and fear of the park, they are destined to find their each other and escape. Will they escape unharmed or succumb to the rumors that have been forth told?