Enhanced with a remarkable number of new problems and applications, the Second Edition of CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS provides a concise, thorough, and relevant introduction to chemistry that prepares students for further study in any engineering field. Updated with even more questions and applications specifically geared toward engineering ...
In THE RABBIT FACTORY, Larry Brown's characters--as in most of his work--are Southern, working class, and desperate. Domino, a pot-dealer, works for a gangster-butcher and finds a dead body in the meat cooler. Aging Arthur's much-younger wife puts a move on Eric, a teenager who works in a pet shop. There's a pit bull named Jada Pickett and a one ...
Marty Hall's Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages was the number 1 servlet/JSP book in 2000 -- helping over 100,000 Java developers master the power of Java server-side programming to Web-enable an extraordinary range of applications. Now, Hall takes the next step, bringing together even more powerful servlet/JSP techniques. The second edition of ...
1997 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Glen Davis is the bad seed. It's Sheriff Bobby Blanchard's job to track him down in what promises to be a violent, High Noon stand-off between the two men who represent what seems pure evil and its exact opposite. "One: Larry Brown is a master. Two: FATHER AND SON . . . is a stinging, tragic ...
Health experts Dr. Susan E. Brown and Larry Trivieri have created a complete resource for people who want to follow a balanced pH diet while also widening their food choices. The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide offers dieters an easy-to-follow guide to the most common foods that influence the body's pH levels. The book begins by explaining how the acid ...
When writer Larry Brown died suddenly in 2004 at the age of fifty-three, he left behind an almost completed sixth novel that embodies all the talent and tenacity of his hard-driven life. Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi, very close to Larry Brown's own home, "A Miracle of Catfish" is the story of one year in the lives of four ...
This is the work of a writer unafraid to gaze directly at characters challenged by crisis and pathology. But for readers who are willing to look, unblinkingly, along with the writer, there are unusual rewards.
Set in a small town in Mississippi, this story focuses on the relationship between Joe Ransom, an aimless drunk and gambler whose job keeps him in whisky and cigarettes, and 15-year-old Gary Jones, the sole breadwinner in a family of intinerants. Both are soon drawn into a web of violent tragedy.
Every Web developer needs to understand three core technologies: HTML 4, Java 2/J2EE, and JavaScript. Now, you can learn them all in one book: Core Web Programming, Second Edition, the ultimate Web development resource for experienced programmers! Writing for experienced programmers, Marty Hall begins with detailed, practical coverage of HTML 4 -- ...
Seventeen-year-old Fay escapes from her brutish family and sets off to hitch to Biloxi. Barely schooled, barely literate, Fay has never heard of the Civil War, she's never been to a movie and dangerously, she has no idea of the effect she has on men. She finds help, but then tragedy intervenes.
The past decade has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the nature and use of political terrorism. "Psychology of Terrorism" is an indispensable resource in the field of psychology and terrorism. Given the relative newness of the discipline, there is a great need for a text that covers relevant aspects of psychology related to terrorism. This ...
Designed to help the reader understand and appreciate a healthy lifestyle, this text focuses on issues such as the benefits of exercise, proper nutrition, and managing stress. With information provided in the text, students will be able to formulate a fitness program tailored to their specific level of ability.
Braiden Chaney lost his arms and legs in Vietnam. Walter James lost most of his face. And when they meet 22 years later--in adjoining beds in a V.A. hospital, their wounds still hurt. As these two men--one black, one white--tell their stories, they tell the story of the war itself and of all the lives--poor black lives in particular--it consumed.
"Oh, the world owes me a living", sings the lazy grasshopper as the ants busily prepare for winter. Retold by beloved children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, the story of the grasshopper and the ants is based on Walt Disney's 1934 Silly Symphony animated short. The Disney classic has been newly illustrated with vibrant paintings--including a ...
Brown delivers a series of nine essays that assail the Mississippi farm life of his early years. Woven in are intimate reflections on the South and its musicians, writers, farmers, fishers and dreamers that Brown has grown to know so well.
How many times have you heard the old adage that "defense wins championships"? While it is true that one can't teach things like height, talent, or heart, sound defensive play can and is taught to great success at all competitive levels. Author Herb Brown of the Detroit Pistons preaches that defense is a state of mind - the great equalizer. If a ...
In "Billy Ray's Farm, " Brown brings the appealing blend of candor, humor, and poignancy of his acclaimed novels "Fay" and "Father and Son" to autobiographical essays that explore the emotional and physical landscape of the corner of Mississippi he calls home.
Historian Larry Brown once again uses his incredible research skills to bring the Old West to life. In this third volume of Brown's territorial crime series, he introduces us to the twenty-three women who served time in Old Wyoming's penitentiary. What did these women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets for their mug shots, do to deserve ...
The book discusses explosive pulsed power systems and their applications. It consists of 7 chapters. The first five describe the basic physics of these sources and their ancillary equipment. These chapters are based on a manual for training engineers in Russia. Chapter 6 is a description of codes and methodologies used at loughborough university ...
This book provides four complete exams (two for AP Physics B and two for AP Physics C), which represent both the multiple-choice and the free-response portions of the exams. The comprehensive reviews cover mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and other physics topics.
This memorable collection of black-and-white photographs focuses on William Faulkner's homeland, which his great corpus of fiction transformed into Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Martin J. Dain photographed Faulkner country during the last two years of the author's life (1961-62). His images of Yoknapatawpha evoke the wonderful spirit and ...
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