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Asleep in ArmageddonYou don't want death and you don't expect death. Something goes wrong, your rocket tilts in space, a planetoid jumps up, blackness, movement, hands over the eyes, a violent pulling back of available power in the fore-jets, the crash.... Sale pried himself...

Properties of Saturated and Superheated Steam in U.S. Customary and SI Units from the IAPWS-IF97 International Standard for Industrial Use. Prepared by the ASME Research and Technology Committee on Water and Steam in Thermal Systems, Subcommittee on Properties of SteamAuthor: AsmePublisher: American Society of...

Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two SticksWhen I first determined on the publication of a new edition of "The Devil on Two Sticks," I had certainly no idea of engaging in a new translation. I had not read an English version since my boyhood,...

Asneha, the legend of the opalOnce upon a time, in the land of Kasi, there lived a poor musician, who was also a poet and a most imaginative storyteller. He had lost his flute in a village brawl, and being too poor to buy...

Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market - A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its historyhe cultivation of asparagus for home use as well as for market is so rapidly increasing, and...

AspasiaWanneer deze roman, naar eene vele malen aangehaalde les van onzen tijd, een volkhet oud-helleenschebij zijn arbeid opzoekt en de cosmopolitische arbeid van het Helleensche volk zich uitstrekt tot den werkkring van kunstenaars, dichters en denkers, zal het dan niet schijnen, dat aan deze...

Aspazio: Tragedio en Kvin AktojLi nur siblis, krakis, ronkis, eligis plej diversajn sonojn kvaza li havus la goron topitan per spongo. Oni devas eltrani al li buon en alia loko, ar per tiu i buo li jam neniam ekparolos. Kompreneble, sed li alkuris tiel...

Aspects and ImpressionsThese Essays are mainly reprinted from The Edinburgh Review, The London Mercury, The Modern Languages Review, and The Fortnightly Review. "Malherbe and the Classical Reaction" was the Taylorian Lecture at Oxford for 1920, and is included here by the courtesy of the...

Illustrates how aspects can offer a profound depiction of an individual and his or her destiny. - Contains comprehensive sections full of interpretations for every planetary combination. - Concepts are explained through the use of actual birth charts and diagrams. - A core textbook...

Aspects of LiteratureTwo of these essays, 'The Function of Criticism' and 'The Religion of Rousseau,' were contributed to the Times Literary Supplement; that on 'The Poetry of Edward Thomas' in the Nation; all the rest save one have appeared in the Athenum. The essays...

Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and InquiriesSince that day when, a quarter of a century ago, Richard Wagner ceased to be a dynamic figure in the life of the world, the history of operatic art has been, save for a few conspicuous exceptions, a...

Aspects of Modern Oxford, by a Mere DonFellows of Colleges who travel on the continent of Europe have, from time to time, experienced the almost insuperable difficulty of explaining to the more or less intelligent foreigner their own reason of existence, and that of...

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) - with scientific elucidationsThe twofold aim of the present work (a carefully prepared and executed attempt to enhance the enjoyment of Nature by animated description, and at the same time to...

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 2 of 2) - with scientific elucidationsWhen the active curiosity of man is engaged in interrogating Nature, or when his imagination dwells on the wide fields of organic creation, among the multifarious impressions which...

Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British floraIn the following chapters an attempt is made to deal, in a quite elementary way, with some of the wider aspects of plant lifeto discuss questions which arise in the mind from a contemplation...

Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)The prairie vole is by far the most abundant mammal on the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation and on grassland areas throughout northeastern Kansas. This vole therefore affects the vegetation, perhaps more than...

E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room With a View) takes on the seven elements vital to...

It's Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce. In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run...

This follow-up to Ian C. Esslemont's Blood and Bone is sure to delight Malazan fans. Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and inaccessibility, is at last yielding its secrets. Tales of...

Assassinhe rifle lay comfortably in his hands, a gleaming precision instrument that exuded a faint odor of gun oil and powder solvent. It was a perfect specimen of the gunsmith's art, a semi-automatic rifle with a telescopic sighta precisely engineered tool that could hurl...