Authors:Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore,
Publisher: Star Trek
Keywords: trek, star, foundations
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-02-24
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0743483006
ISBN-13: 9780743483001

The first full-length novel starring the Starfleet Corps of Engineers! Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.! In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the technical problems of the universe in a state-of-the-art ship. But the road to the da Vinci was a difficult one, as the S.C.E. had to go through its share of growing pains back in the twenty-third century.... Even as the da Vinci spearheads a dramatic rescue of a runaway vessel, Captain Montgomery Scott recalls his younger days as the chief engineer

Author: C. M. Jenkins
Publisher: AIAA
Keywords: applications, progress, astronautics, aeronautics, space, technology, spacecraft, membrane, inflatable, structures, gossamer
Number of Pages: 586
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1563474034
ISBN-13: 9781563474033

Written by many experts in the field, this book brings together, in one place, the state of the art of membrane and inflatable structures technology for space applications. With increased pressure to reduce costs associated with design, fabrication, and launch of space structures, there has been a resurgence of interest in membrane structures for extraterrestrial use. Applications for membrane and inflatable structures in space include lunar and planetary habitats, RF reflectors and waveguides, optical and IR imaging, solar concentrators for solar power and propulsion, sun shades, solar sails,

Author: Maya Glass
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: famous, american, history, people, first, adams, abigail, lady
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0823941000
ISBN-13: 9780823941001

Introduces the life of Abigail Adams, the wife of President John Adams, who was much more independent than many women of her time, running a farm in her husband’s absence and speaking and writing about women’s rights.

Author: Tessa Kiros
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Keywords: dreams, food, venezia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $39.44
ISBN-10: 1741962412
ISBN-13: 9781741962413

Food is a quilt that is patch worked together by people’s language, traditions and way of living. In "Venezia", Tessa Kiros shows the magic and the charm of the famous Italian city of Venice. She embroiders the recipes of this city of canals, bridges and carnivals with her own unique colors and threads. Tessa’s previous books, "Twelve, Falling Cloudberries", "Apples for Jam" and "Piri Piri Starfish: Portugal Found" have been published to international acclaim and have secured best-selling status in many countries throughout the world. "Falling Cloudberries" won several awards inclu

Author: Mike Bryon
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: reasoning, tests, type, spatial, testing, input, series, practice, diagrammatic, essential, pass, abstract
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-12-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0749449713
ISBN-13: 9780749449711

How to Pass Diagrammatic Reasoning Tests contains over 300 practice questions involving a series of pictorial or diagrammatic questions with little or no resort to words or numbers.  Each chapter is organized into blocks of warm-up questions with a mini test at the end.  The questions get progressively harder. Covering abstract reasoning, input type diagrammatic reasoning and conceptual and spatial reasoning tests, How to Pass Diagrammatic Reasoning Tests will help readers achieve a high score.

Author: Greg Ogden
Publisher: IVP Connect
Keywords: life, christ, building, guide, essentials, discipleship
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2007-11-29
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0830810870
ISBN-13: 9780830810871

A year 2000 Finalist in the ECPA book competition! Discover the fullness of life in Christ. We grow in Christ as we seek him together. Jesus’ own pattern of disciple-making was to be intimately involved with others and allow life to rub against life. By gathering in twos or threes to study the Bible and encourage one another, we most closely follow Jesus’ example with the twelve disciples. This workbook by Greg Ogden is a tool designed to help you follow this pattern Jesus drew for us. Working through it will deepen your knowledge of essential Christian teaching and streng

Author: Daniel A. Griffith
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: spatial, filtering, autocorrelation
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2003-08-13
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540009329
ISBN-13: 9783540009320

Exploiting the old maxim that ’a picture is worth a thousand words,’ scientific visualization may be defined as the transformation of numerical scientific data into informative graphical displays. It introduces a nonverbal model into subdisciplines that hitherto employed mostly or only mathematical or verbal-conceptual models. The focus of this monograph is on how scientific visualization can help revolutionize the manner in which the tendencies for (dis)similar numerical values to cluster together in location on a map are explored and analyzed, affording spatial data analyses that