For years, the trail of his life led through dense marshes, high mountain forests and steamy jungles. Then it stopped with just one word. Cancer. For the next seven years, Pat Herzog was pursued by chronic leukemia until undergoing life-threatening experimental treatment. Thereafter, he was relentlessly bushwhacked by fatigue and brain fog, skirting the edges of depression. Only by regaining his passion for nature was he finally able to overcome his fear of living. More than an authentic tale...

NATO warplanes randomly fall from the skies. Can MI6 trainee Janice Wellington, a disgraced, former soldier suffering from anxiety attacks, keep her fear in check long enough to uncover the plot and resolve the crisis, before the enemy attacks?MI6: RISE OF THE JADE DRAGON is the explosive first installment in this heart-pounding MI6 Spy Trilogy. If you enjoyed the adrenaline-fueled espionage of the Jack Ryan series, you'll love this thrilling spy a...

NATO warplanes randomly fall from the skies. Can MI6 trainee Janice Wellington, a disgraced, former soldier suffering from anxiety attacks, keep her fear in check long enough to uncover the plot and resolve the crisis, before the enemy attacks?MI6: RISE OF THE JADE DRAGON is the explosive first installment in this heart-pounding MI6 Spy Trilogy. If you enjoyed the adrenaline-fueled espionage of the Jack Ryan series, you'll love this thrilling spy a...

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting & Dynamic Environments Tes...

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting & Dynamic Environments Testing including pap...

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems. In order to achieve learning under uncertainty, data-driven methods for identifying system models in real-time are also developed. The book illustrates the advantages gained from the use of a model and the use of previous experience in the form of recorded data through simulations ...

Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 5. Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the fifth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Sensors and Instrumentation, including papers on:Sensor ApplicationsAccelerometer DesignAccelerometer CalibrationSe...

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger nation...

Napoleon's surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.

Red Sonja, the She-Devil with A Sword, must survive an epic journey through three kingdoms, each one a roiling snakepit of old grudges, ancient magic, and arcane science! The unflinching heroine fights to protect her new friends from harm when they fall prey to the scheming witch Azenathi. Seeking the cursed Horn of Negal as ransom, Red Sonja charges headlong into the lair of her greatest adversary yet: a deadly doppelganger who shares her form, mirrors her martial skill, and knows no merc...

She's not the only one with secrets.In a world where power comes with a price, some truths are more dangerous than lies.Wave has spent her entire life hiding what and who she is—but now everything threatens to unravel. Claiming her rightful place in society as the Stormbringer heir paints a target on her back . . . denying it means a life of imprisonment. Both options will doom her to a life she never wanted.But secrets don't stay buried forever. An...

She is the storm they never saw coming.Wayla Spinwell is just another student on paper, a storm spirit with a pretty face and minor magic. She's a carefully crafted lie, because if anyone learns that she's really Wave—half siren, half stormbringer—she won't survive long enough to graduate.At Tracthesian Academy, power and status are the only currencies that count. Wave has plenty of both, but hiding is her only option to learn how to balance her po...