This textbook introduces new chemical engineering students to the key subjects taught in most undergraduate Chemical Engineering degrees: Process Engineering Fundamentals, Chemical Thermodynamics, Process Fluid Flow, Process Heat Transfer, and Chemical Reaction Engineering. Rather than providing total coverage of all these topics, it explains the material in an accessible way for students new to the subject, allowing them to understand why these topics are important and to ready them for m...

In the early 20th century, before the design of the four-wheeled automobile was universally standardized, a Russian count named Pyotr Shilovsky convinced the British engineering firm Wolseley to build something utterly terrifying: a massive, heavy, six-seater luxury car that balanced on only two wheels. The 1914 Gyrocar was a breathtaking, absurd defiance of gravity. Shilovsky believed that a two-wheeled vehicle would be narrower, more aerodynamic, and capable of taking sharp turns at high...

A collection of stories where your innocent childhood toys are not what they seem.In Digital Dottie, little Kathy receives the top trending toy of the season for her birthday - Digital Dottie, a computer-generated best friend on a tiny screen. However, things start to get stranger and stranger as the virtual girl takes on a life of her own...In Wishbug, Davey Pike and Bobby Chase trade a chocolate bar for a creepy three-legged bug with a homeless man who claims it can grant...