Product Description: This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and contributions from globally leading agency experts from NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES, as well as European and North American academics and industrialists, this handbook, as well as giving an interdisciplinary overview, offers, through individual self-contained chapters, more detailed understanding of specific fields, ranging through:·         Launch systems, structures, power, thermal, communications, propulsion, and software, to·         entry, descent and landing, ground segment, robotics, and data systems, to·         technology management, legal and regulatory issues, and project management...read more

Product Description: This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 – 13 June 2013. It is a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology in 2013 across the globe, capturing flight programs, technology development programs and new technology and application concepts...read more

Product Description: They came to England to start a new life – but to embrace the future they must confront the past  November, 1956. Despite concerns on the national and international stage, life for the ambitious nine young families who live in the Dower House, including concentration camp survivor Felix Breit, his wife Angela and their four children, is good...read more

Product Description: From war-torn Europe they came to Britain, yearning to start a new life. Together, they found it. - Spring, 1947. A concentration camp survivor, noted sculptor Felix Breit, arrives in London, hoping to rebuild his life and career...read more

Product Description: They came to England to start a new life – but the horrors of the past are never far behind . . .  - In spring 1949, Felix Breit and his new wife Angela, both concentration camp survivors, join eight other families in a post-war experiment in communal living in the Dower House, an imposing Georgian mansion in Hertfordshire...read more

The saga of the Stevenson family continues through the 1860's when Caspar and Boy, sons of one of the richest men in the world, become part of their father's plan to conquer society as he has already conquered the worlds of industry and finance

Product Description: The gripping second novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga from epic master Malcolm Macdonald At a time when fabulous fortunes could be made through the will of a strong man or the wiles of a beautiful woman, John Stevenson's genius as a builder and his wife Nora's clear-eyed, brilliant cunning promise to make them one of England's richest families...read more

The unforgettable first novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga from epic master Malcolm Macdonald John Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident bring young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue it from catastrophe. Together with their friends the Thorntons-who are troubled by a marriage mismatched in passion-they are willing to risk any dare, commit themselves to any act of cunning on their climb from rags to riches. The first novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga, The World from Rough Stones is the epic story of two ambitious but poor young people who, at the very start of the Victorian Era, combine their considerable talents to found a dynasty and go on to fame and fortune. "A monumental saga...rich and tremendous." -Boston Globe "A saga of immense power...the most exciting since the Swanns of Delderfield and the Forsytes of Galsworthy!" -Cincinatti Times "Zestful research and Macdonald's mastery of the dialects and speech of all classes bring his novel noisily to life from the first to the last page." -The [London] Times "A powerful new novel...a successful attempt to blend fiction with authenticity. The story is rich with colourful characters, brawling, boozing, and bedding...leaves the reader waiting impatiently for the next novel in what must be a memorable series." -Yorkshire Evening Post

Product Description: Although the world’s distances have shrunk before the speed of modern-day travel, there are still a surprising number of isolated people and places. Among these are the tribes of the Outer Islands of Indonesia―Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas and Irian, the Indonesian part of New Guinea...read more

The works of Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) represent the most radical expression of 20th-century modernism in music. A friend of Debussy, Strauss, and Busoni, he lived to become the conscience of modern American music and a colleague of Cage, Boulez, and Xenakis. This intensive study of Varèse's music comprises a series of descriptive analyses of all Varèse's available works, addressing the ideas, both aesthetic and scientific, which underlie the composer's boldly original view of sound and musical structure. Also discussed is Varése's conception of music as influenced by both 20th-century humanities' expanding consciousness of its place in the universe and the esoteric philosophies of late 19th-century Paris. As much of Varése's oeuvre has been tragically destroyed, MacDonald demonstrates the possibility of inferring much of his lost early works, such as the unachieved choral symphony Espace, designed to be performed simultaneously in various capitals around the world, enlarging listeners' appreciation of his works that survive. Also explored for the first time in print are the previously unpublished scores Tuning Up and Dance for Burgess and the reinstated original version of Amériques, released for performance in 1998 by Varése's executor Chou Wen Chung.

Rose Tremayne rises from housemaid to international stage star, but love still eludes her as she chases after a man from her humble past, in a rags-to-riches saga set in the early twentieth century.

Tamsin Harte and her mother are forced to open a boarding school when her father dies, but she aspires to marry Master Victor Thorne someday, a plan that could be jeapordized by the intervention of a true love closer to home. Original. (view table of contents)

This historical novel brims with intrigue as young Master Peter de Vivian becomes so taken with the new housemaid, Gemma Penhallow, that he forgoes convention to be with her, but the older generation still has its ways of keeping them apart.

Set in 1914, this romantic saga follows American John Carrington and his two children as they leave the United States and return to their ancestral home in Cornwall, only to be threatened by a grudge from long ago. (view table of contents)

At the height of the Great War, young Jennifer Owen finds herself helping out in a convalescent home, beginning an acting career, and falling in love, but with the end of the war, she faces a choice between marriage or pursuing her career. (view table of contents)

Reviews classical music compact discs and includes discussions on composers as recording artists and the importance of historical recordings

After Chrissy Moore, her older sister, and her three younger brothers are orphaned, Chrissy works to find a way to keep the family fed and together, but some secret force is working to split the family apart.

Desperate to escape the traditional role alloted to women in turn-of-the-century Cornwall and determined to take over the family business despite her father's opposition, spirited Jessica Kernow concocts a false engagement to Cornwallis Trelawney.