Of the many systems engineering texts, no text or professional book includes practical methods, such as incorporating customers' needs into the product performance. This go-to reference provides metho
In forty-two chapters - one for each administration - this over-the-shoulder peek at America's most famous residence reveals the intimate life of each president and his family. The history of family s
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the White House with this richly illustrated new book on America's, if not the world's, most famous residence. Abigail Adams dried her wash in the unfinished East Ro
On an anti-terror black op in Indonesia, FBI special agent Jeremy Waller sees something he never expected: six terrorists are arrested, but three of them are clearly good-old-boy Americans. Even more
Calder is a Fetch, a death escort, the first of his kind to step from Heaven back to Earth.The first to fall in love with a mortal girl. But when he climbs backwards out of that Death Scene, into the
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By 1972, U.S. forces had nearly perfected the art of Search and Rescue. But in the maelstrom of a battle on Easter Day of that year, an operation unlike any other was set in motion to save Lt. Col. Ic
The results of the first season of archaeological excavations at the small port site of Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea are presented in this volume. Archaeological evidence testifies to the importa
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