It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a bo…
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but no…
Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two Americans girls on the train. They were nice and…
Part I 1. Introduction 2. Energy-Related Challenges 3. The Indispensable Role of Social Science in Energy Research Part II Invited Contributions 4. What About Social Science and Interdiscip…
1. Energy Systems 2. Energy Resources 3. Energy Vectors 4. Energy Conversion and Transformation Plants 5. Distributed Generation and Cogeneration 6. Energy Useful Effect End Use
In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets …
Shirley Homes, private investigator. Like Sherlock Holmes a hundred years ago, she lives in London, enjoys working on difficult cases, and has some helpful friends. She understands people, is a goo…
Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holme…
A woman and a man...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her...It's an ol…
I'm afraid to look in the storeroom, All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, th…
1 First-hand Information 2 Renewable Energy Sources - a Survey 3 A Tailwind for Sustainable Technology 4 Flowing Energy 5 How the Sun gets into the Power Plant 6 Solar Cells - an Overview 7 S…
1. Introduction to 802.11ac 2. The PHY 3. The MAC 4. Beamforming in 802.11ac 5. 802.11ac Planning
1. Finance Theory: Do We Have a Science to Teach? 2. The Theory and Practice of Investment Management after the Crisis: Need for Change? 3. Teaching Finance: Can We Do Better? 4. What's Missing …
1 Business and trade in Islamic Thought 2 Human Nature and Motivation 3 Islamic Schools of Thought 4 Islamic Work Ethic and Values 5 The Structure and Functions of Groups 6 Power and Authority…
Chapter 1 Faults in Electrical Machines and their Diagnosis Chapter 2 Modeling Induction Machine Winding Faults for Diagnosis Chapter 3 Closed-Loop Diagnosis of the Induction Machine Chapter 4 I…
France, 1815, Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy…
When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is how a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai b…
The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a des…