Considering the Journey was written to help perspective doctoral and PhD candidates get an idea of what to expect about the Doctoral Journey before signing on the dotted line from a person that made the journey. The author speaks from his experience of not knowing much about the journey before he began and how he fields questions from those that ask him about the experience before they make the decision to start a program. This is an invaluable guide that a perspective candidate can truly ...

When misanthropic fifty-year-old Seth Bridges, on the cusp of suicide, spots a strange woman heading towards him, he is transported back in time and into his former childhood self. Determined not to squander his second chance, he graduates from high school--for the second time--and heads off to a 1979 Las Vegas with one hundred thousand dollars taped to his waist: cash he has accumulated betting long odds against old money. All the while, he is haunted by nightmares of an impending pandemi...

An arcane ritual reveals a code hidden within Thelema’s most holy book.Over a period of several years, the former head of Kenneth Grant’s Typhonian Order in the United States, conducted a bizarre sexual ritual with elements of Thelema, Lovecraft, and the Egyptian mummification ceremony to unlock a mathematical code buried in plain sight in Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law.Jeffrey Evans, a follower of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema since his teenage y...

The doctoral journey is not something that should be entered in too lightly. It can be both expensive and very time consuming and must be understood before the commitment is made to begin. Chances for success in finishing the journey would be greatly enhanced if the trials and tribulations of the journey was known before the journey began.This book gives the perspective doctoral candidate an inside look at those trials and tribulations and what the candidate deals with once on the journey....

Ground improvement has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving areas of geotechnical engineering and construction over the past 40 years. The need to develop sites with marginal soils has made ground improvement an increasingly important core component of geotechnical engineering curricula. Fundamentals of Ground Improvement Engineering addresses the most effective and latest cutting-edge techniques for ground improvement.Key ground improvement methods are introd...

Considering the Journey was written to help perspective doctoral and PhD candidates get an idea of what to expect about the Doctoral Journey before signing on the dotted line from a person that made the journey. The author speaks from his experience of not knowing much about the journey before he began and how he fields questions from those that ask him about the experience before they make the decision to start a program. This is an invaluable guide that a perspective candidate can truly ...

Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more personal book telling some of the history of Scotland, Archibald's memories, experiences and recollections there as well as stories he was told by people he met. He has a good sense of humour which shines through.

The City of London is where London began 2,000 years ago when the Romans invaded Britannia. Today it is one of the most important financial centres in the world. With much destruction during the bombing of the Second World War, the City has reinvented itself into a high-tech business city, and through these photographic postcards you can see how ‘The Square Mile’ was over the past 100 years. Fred Judge, an early twentieth-century photographer, was a pioneer of early postcard publishing; he...

Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable.Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the c...

Contributions by Keith A. Baca, Jeffrey P. Brain, Samuel O. Brookes, Ian W. Brown, Philip J. Carr, Jessica Crawford, Patricia Galloway, Alison M. Hadley, Christopher T. Hays, Edward R. Henry, Cliff Jenkins, Jay K. Johnson, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty, Maria Schleidt, Mary Evelyn Starr, James B. Stoltman, Andrew M. Triplett, Melissa H. Twaroski, and Richard A. WeinsteinThis volume includes original scholarship on a wide array of archaeological research across the South. One essay e...

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data. This compact guide explains complex topics in straightforward and practical terms, via research examples, textual and visual software guides, and hands-on exercises.Through each chapter’s introductory examples, the manual illustrates how socially learned knowledge provides group members with shared understandings of the world, wh...

I thought I found my fated pack when I was seventeen.The Werth pack promised me they would always take care of me, never let me hurt. I thought we were going to spend forever together. But in one moment of betrayal, they ripped it all away.Shattered and rejected, I ran.Seven years later, I'm forced to come back to the scene of my biggest heartbreak. I plan a quick visit. Get in. Sign some paperwork. Get out. No longer than twenty-four hours. But wha...