In war-torn London, 1941, fourteen-year-old Ruth Goldberg and her two younger siblings, Gabi and Hannah, survive the terrifying bombing of their family home. They believe their parents are dead, their bodies buried underneath the burnt remains – but unbeknownst to them, their father, Joe, survives and is taken to hospital with amnesia.Four years on, Ruth stumbles across a newspaper photo of a celebrated pianist and is struck by the resemblance to her father. Desperate for evidence ...

From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series.HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CALLED ANJIIN IS LOST IN THE FOG OF HISTORY, BUT THAT HISTORY IS ABOUT TO END.The Carryx—part empire, part hive—has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its conflict with an ancient and deathless enemy.When they descend on the i...

**A novelette set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, The Butcher of Anderson Station deepens the story of Colonel Fred Johnson's past as seen on the fifth episode of Season 1 of The Expanse. Now a Prime Original series.HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES**A new story set in the world of the Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero to the system. One day, he will meet a desperate man in pos...

Are you an experienced Go developer that wants to be more productive? Do you want to write cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain code?Then the Beyond Effective Go book series is for you.This series is aimed at competent Gophers. It does not mess around with the basics but instead dives right into the daily problems that professional programmers face. Chiefly, how to write fast, robust applications and services that can ...

Dynamics of Coupled Structures*, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017,* the fourth 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 the Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on:Experimental Nonlinear DynamicsJoints, Friction & Damping

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Innovators and Their Greatest Achievements gathers fourteen classic works into a capacious history of invention, scientific curiosity, and practical ingenuity. Moving between biographical narrative, popular science, technical explanation, and historical survey, the volume traces how ideas become instruments of social change. Its varied selections illuminate the drama of experimentation, the persistence behind discovery, and the often intricate relation between mechanical progress and every...

20 Must-Read Memoirs of Civil War assembles a capacious documentary literature of the American Civil War, juxtaposing battlefield recollection, military analysis, political observation, domestic testimony, and accounts of irregular warfare. Its range extends from commanders' strategic narratives to nurses' and civilians' intimate records, rendering the conflict as both a national crisis and a sequence of intensely local, embodied experiences. Particularly compelling are the contrasts betwe...

The Women of Horror gathers thirty enduring tales that map women's long, inventive engagement with the Gothic, supernatural, and psychologically uncanny. Across ghost stories, haunted houses, ancestral secrets, cursed objects, spectral doubles, and domestic terrors, the volume ranges from Romantic and Victorian Gothic to fin-de-siècle sensation, regional realism, and early twentieth-century psychological horror. Its standout episodes of imprisonment, revenance, and unsettling inheritance r...

90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol. I) gathers an extraordinary constellation of fiction, philosophy, poetry, drama, memoir, and speculative writing, tracing the evolution of world letters from antiquity to modernity. Its range extends from classical dialogue and Renaissance tale-cycles to Gothic romance, realist social critique, adventure narrative, psychological fiction, and early science fiction. Works associated with Hamlet, Moby-Dick, Jane Eyre, The Odyssey-like romance of Apule...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...

Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners have contributed chapters relating to innovative programs, co-constructed partnerships, empirical and teaching case studies, and examples of practical applications of theory for advanci...