A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy. For the next eight years, he experienced the trials and tribulations of a sailor's life. Intelligent and capable, he served a series of officers, all of whom helped advance his education. Yet he found the taxing conditions of life onboard d...

When young Gil Bennett is drafted into military service in mid-World War II, he knows his life will be different. But one thing that won't change is his love for Annie, who accepts his marriage proposal and vows to be waiting when he comes home. While Gil endures the horrors and suffers the wounds of war in Europe, Annie must bear the challenges faced by a lonely young woman yearning for companionship. If they are to be together again, can things be as they were before?

Although he misses Melinda, the girl he left behind, after his time as a homeless orphan on the streets of Paducah Jeter thinks being a groom in the White House stables, and life in general in the nation's capital, is all he'll ever want. His friend and mentor, Shakespeare-quoting Union Army Captain Joseph Emerson, is an advisor to President Lincoln. With the President just re-elected and the war with the Confederacy won, they all see bright days ahead.But an assassin's bullet brin...

This book presents a clear and consise introduction to heat transfer for senior level undergraduates in engoneering. The main concepts are summarized for practicing engineers with an extended introduction to the application of numerical methods in heat transfer.

When you sleep in a crisp hotel bed, eat at a high-end restaurant, or visit a hospital, you expect absolute hygiene. Yet, the massive infrastructure required to ensure this cleanliness is completely hidden from the consumer. Nobody thinks about who washes the world's linens. Behind the scenes operates the commercial laundry and uniform leasing industry—a silent, multi-billion dollar juggernaut. This sector is a fascinating intersection of chemical engineering, complex routing logistics, an...

Silicon Valley worships the disruptor. Venture capital flows endlessly toward flashy new startups and revolutionary product launches, while the concept of simply keeping existing systems running smoothly is dismissed as boring, low-status administrative work. This dangerous "innovation bias" is causing our digital infrastructure to rot from the inside out. When companies prioritize shipping new features over fixing old bugs, they accumulate massive technical debt, leading to catastrophic s...

Life has been good in the old Prather house on the bluff overlooking Singleton's Branch. Then the second "once in a hundred years" flood in a decade brings changes that will affect the Prather family for years to come. Lacy, who sees beauty wherever she looks and expects others to be as good as she is, can no longer count on her big brother to protect her from an abusive husband, and the family learns a hard truth: No one is immune to the quirks of fate, be they blessings or tragedies, and...

The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century, when it became a major centre of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Argyll was founded on Lismore in 1200, and the medieval Cathedral Church of St Moluag was completed in 1400, the choir of which forms the basis of the present-day parish church.Robert Hay tells the story of Moluag's monastery, recently rediscovered by community archa...

Police Chief Corey Conn thinks his home town of prosper point is the perfect place to end his Career in the force. Till recently, it had been a quiet, small town with simple problems and good people. Now, people are rioting in the streets, anger and hate is rising on every corner. Guns are loaded as people take shelter in the community center. The only hope the town has might be the stranger who just arrived.

The modern economy runs on a single, powerful engine: the feeling that you are almost there, but not quite yet. We are trained to believe that financial anxiety is a number problem—that if we just hit that next net worth milestone, the worry will evaporate. "The Finish Line Mirage" exposes the psychological trap of moving goalposts. Through interviews with multimillionaires who still feel poor and middle-class families who feel abundant, it explores the elusive concept of "Enough." It argu...

You picked up this book because days feel heavier than you expected after 60. Joy is muted, energy lower, and the future uncertain after retirement, kids moved, a diagnosis or a loss. You blame poor sleep on age, aches on arthritis, fatigue on a busy week, and staying home on preference, while underneath you feel flat for 14 days and wonder if this is just getting old. It is not.This book is not a textbook and not slogans about thinking positive. It is not instant change and not a ...

Business, academia, industry, and the military require well trained personnel to function in highly complex working environments. To reduce high training costs and to improve the effectiveness of training, training system developers often use sophisticated training media such as, simulators, videodisks, and computer-based instruction. The designers of these training media are continually striving to provide maximum training effectiveness at minimum cost. Although literature is available on...