Author: T S PaulPublisher: T S Paul
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Engineering Murder
Author: T S PaulPublisher: T S Paul
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Engineering Eden
Author: Jordan Fisher SmithPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307454266
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. Their testimony would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades of patchwork efforts to preserve an idea of nature that had never existed in the first place. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled twentieth-century growth of the conservationist movement, Smith gives the lie to the portrayal of national parks as Edenic wonderlands unspoiled until the arrival of Europeans, and shows how virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. In the tradition of John McPhee's The Control of Nature and Alan Burdick's Out of Eden, Jordan Fisher Smith has produced a powerful work of popular science and environmental history, grappling with critical issues that we have even now yet to resolve.
The Sketching Detective and the Bitcoin Murders
Author: Jack McCormacPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514418916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Upon arriving at his university office one morning, Jack MacKay finds the body of a former boyfriend of his wife, Fiona, lying on his desk with a bullet hole in his back. The murdered man was Billy Bell, the owner of the Bell Bond Company and a former professional football player. Eventually, Jack and Fiona overcame the polices suspicion that Jack was involved in the murder. They learn that the computer theft of bitcoins is in some way involved in the death. Together with Billys wife, who is nicknamed Hercules because of her great physical strength, they eventually stumble across the unlikely killer.
ATL Engineering
Author: scavolaPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781467921459
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
MA: for mature readers (note: back cover has nudity, a 'rear view')Stephen Cooper moved to Atlanta to distance himself from tragedy; adjusting to an unexpected promotion, he gets embroiled in the murder of his predecessor and corporate espionage, complicated by his romantic liaisons.Mystery, intrigue, comedy, romance, and sex, with a cast of hot characters, straight, bisexual, and gay, and plots and subplots, all intertwine.In the form of a primetime television soap opera, each chapter is an episode, the book, a season.Starring:Stephen Cooper, a man in his mid-thirties trying to change his life radically, but failing.Eric Davis, working his way up the corporate ladder, but Stephen Cooper's in his way.Tony Lonni, straddling both youth and maturity, he has to make the choice.Sue Calloway, the matron of the group, experienced and established, and a master of the games people play.Adam Dennis, young, shy, and naive, his life changes in a moment, or two.Ethan Baker, the villain, who considers any option to succeed, even if it's damaging and/or illegal.Joan Porter, a police detective who is very methodical, but moves too fast in her personal life.Jorn Dunst, a man of mystery, found in a heap on the side of the road.With 'Murder and Espionage', who knew engineering could be so . . . fun!ATL Engineering - Season 1: Murder and EspionageATL Engineering - Season 2 - A Beautiful Waste of Flesh (also available)(note: this book is NOT illustrated, James Melinae is credited as drawings by/illustrator for his art used on the cover)
The Bank Vault Mystery / Broker's End
Author: Louis F. BoothPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616463267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
On the morning of the thirty-first three engineers accompanied by the manager visited the vault of the Consolidated Bank. Shortly after they left, it was discovered that a bag containing $180,000 in cash had disappeared. And so commenced the famous bank vault case in which Maxwell Fenner, the casual, dapper detective, made a list of six suspects and in tracking them through a maze of motives and two murders found a criminal genius. The Bank Vault Mystery is remarkable for the originality and logic of its complex plot. The setting, too, in and about Wall Street, Fulton Street, and the financial district is full of local color. Its finished, careful style makes it particularly enjoyable whether you read many or few detective stories. Brokers' End: It was a clever set up. The Treasurer of the great bond concern of F. W. Strong lay across his elaborate mahogany desk with a bullet hole in his forehead. His revolver was at hand, the ejected shell gleamed from the carpet nearby. Motive? The House of Strong after forty years of business "without loss to any investor" had, a few days previous, been declared insolvent by the Court and there were rumors in the air of "irregularities" in the books. It was a clever set up, but after Maxwell Fenner had looked it over and glanced significantly at Inspector Bryce, the latter expressed the thoughts of both when he remarked, "I smell something fishy-it's too damned neat." And then commenced the pursuit and detection of what was to become a string of the most diabolically ingenious murders in the experience of the dapper, casual, and disconcertingly naive Maxwell Fenner.
Beyond Reason
Author: Ken EngladePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312923464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The true story of Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering, convicted of the double murder of her parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom.
Granite Elephants
Author: Tom RhynePublisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1632994305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
“That’s what always worries me about you two. Killings bring a lot of heat.” Granite Elephants, Tom Rhyne’s debut work, is a clever, entertaining thriller with a likeable protagonist in widower Jury Garrett, a near-50 ex-cop who spends some of his time as a private investigator, but only on cases he likes. “He took another slow drag on his cigarette and stared at the ceiling. I still don’t understand why he wouldn’t help us use his system for our military applications. Why can’t we keep this son-of-a-bitch under control? He’s a geek, not Jason fuckin’ Bourne.” Set in Austin and Brussels, Rhyne’s story opens with a Sunday-night phone call from a young and beautiful wife, Janelle Kinlaw, whose husband, Walter, an equally young high-tech entrepreneur, has disappeared during a trip to Europe. Jury’s work on her case soon leads him into conflicts with the U.S. Army—who had funded Walter’s start-up company in Austin—some criminal types wanting to collect on a New York agency’s sub rosa loan, the Austin Police Department, and a highly placed banking official located in a secured office in Brussels. As Jury follows a complex series of rabbit trails to find out “Where’s Walter?,” he leans on former associates whose specialized knowledge (including applications of artificial intelligence to international currency trading) helps him get closer to the missing entrepreneur. Anyone who has spent time in Austin will find this quick-moving, down-to-earth page-turner of very special interest. Rhyne will definitely leave you wondering where Jury goes from here. Tom Rhyne has been involved with computer technology since 1957, when he built a computer that won the science fair in his hometown of La Marque, Texas. Since then, he has earned three degrees, including a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he competed in 1967. He then moved back to Texas to teach computer engineering at Texas A&M. He has also worked for NASA, Texas Instruments, and Motorola. He is a registered agent with the U.S. Patent Office and has served as an expert witness in over a hundred patent cases involving computer technology and fraud detection.
Engineers and Engineering
Author: Was It Murder?
Author: Philip L. RifePublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595247504
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
How did these famous people REALLY die? * Princess Diana * Napoleon Bonaparte * Glenn Miller * Lawrence of Arabia * General George Patton * President Warren Harding * The popular gossip columnist who planned to "blow the lid off" the JFK assassination * nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood * TV's Superman * Marilyn Monroe * presidential advisor Vince Foster * The European prince whose romantic "suicide" has been immortalized in books, plays and movies * The woman in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick * John F. Kennedy, Jr. WHAT THIS BOOK SAYS ABOUT THE DEATH OF THESE AND MANY OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE WILL SURPRISE YOU!
Death
Author: Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)Publisher: Penguin/Ananda
ISBN: 9780143450832
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Whether a believer or not, a devotee or an agnostic, an accomplished seeker or a simpleton, this is truly a book for all those who shall die!