The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 sank or crippled almost all of the battleships belonging to the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, but the fleet's aircraft carriers survived to demonstrat
The Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International explains how he built his corporation into a ten-billion-dollar enterprise, offering elementary yet effective principles for motivating employees,
This thorough update of a well-established textbook covers a core subject taught on every civil engineering course. Now expanded to cover environmental hydraulics and engineering hydrology, it has bee
An update of a classic textbook covering a core subject taught on most civil engineering courses. Civil Engineering Hydraulics, 6th edition contains substantial worked example sections with an online
Two years before this story begins, the Liawep were a lost tribe. There were seventy-nine of them, living in deep jungle in far northwest Papua New Guinea. They worshiped a mountain and dressed in lea
The World of Poldark explores the characters, the compelling stories and the era that Winston Graham'sPoldark novels- and the television series - set out to recreate, the England that Ross Poldark ret
Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso is the story of Maria Martinez and her husband, Julian, who revived the ancient Pueblo craft of pottery-making and stimulated interest in Southwestern Pueblo pottery
