The Giants from OR A Science Fiction novel of Don Maxwell's fantasy of the accidental discovery of Time Tone Technology, which in time, had many amazing features. Called the Old Man. I am quite comfortable with being placed among our silent majority. It would really be an understatement to say that I don't quite see eye to eye with our present form of socialism. I went down time to the early 1500's with a large group of my friends who hold the same views. This was a business venture to a place we called OR. When the crooks in government known as Bureau Rats smell money they can't be trusted. We found a way not just to tie up their hands- we found a way to cut off their noses, whiskers and all. You can't cheat death, but can avoid taxes. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers found in these six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
After the Time of Reckoning With the two generations of time travelers finally admitted into heaven. To amuse themselves, they would tell stories of their past while waiting the next generations to arrive. To inform them of how things were going for the world and their habitats out in space. To pass the time Don told many of his stories prior to his discovering time travel. To him, his 65 navy stories from the mid 1960s, with the aircraft he worked on at NAS Oakland, were quite memorable. Heidi with Big David giving their oldest son (the thinker), a tour of the families part of heaven. The Lord finally finds who helped his son at the Sea of Galilee. The arrival of Armageddon upset the order of things in heaven where millions of spirits were forgotten while waiting in line at the Curley Gates. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers in six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
The Habitats Stories of our grown-up children, Heidi a government agent and her sister Hilda a federal attorney. After their marriages they moved up to the space habitat, Asher, that Josephine-Josina, who worked as a near space supervisor, pushed to have built. The twelve habitats each were the size of a bucket. Alice-Anna gained notoriety at her California university for the development of her unusual multiple crops, her marriage to a student, and their development of an unusual farm and processing plant in Oregon. Maggie-Merea our youngest at 12, accidentally providing the star that the wise men followed. Finding and retrieving their first iron fragment from space using time technology while Josephine placed it at the museum at the Kennedy Space Center as a Christmas prank. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers found in these six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
I will flourish again! A Science Fiction novel of Don Maxwell's fantasy. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration research vessels were bothering us in 1970, around our island Pair of Dice. They were looking at the huge magnets on the ocean floor, that caused havoc with the compass. I had placed them before Columbus' first visit to the New World. It was done so I could purchase our Island in the triangle, from the English at a reasonable price. In 1771 we called it the Republic of PD. We went out in our 8 foot size to confront these men, as Odin and his Valkyrie with some Latin-speaking mermaids. We tried to give them some experiences that would make their reports more credible. We asked them to leave our piece of the ocean. With a view of a solar eclipse to convince them. It took the scientists four years to figure out who we were. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers found in these six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
The Time of Reckoning While discussing going down time and taking children to raise as theirs, a thought came from the old goddesses, and Odin caught them meddling. They joined the family to appropriate new born babies that were left for the gods prior to Christianity. While Maggie Merea our youngest daughter was searching down time for tribes of people for possible donor children she accidentally found one of the lost Israeli tribes, then the ventures in her two universities and her part-time job in Israel. When the older family members died and went to heaven, they met the Catholic rock at the gate named Saint Peter, so they had to wait outside the gates for fifty years to explain their actions after the next generation all passed on to corroborate their stories. At that time the Lord explained himself and the order of things in general after the passing of the spirits. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers found in these six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
Fitting into Society After many odd developments with our timing, the old man was able to visit all of his 60 wives at the same time. As the children grew up to go to their universities, With the unusual catching of the two old gods as they posed as flies on the ceiling. We built a 3 foot schooner time sized to visit the English in their Striates Settlements and Australia in 1854 five places on the queen's birthday. Then we developed a way to take the metal from the solution in the oceans. So that we wouldn't upset anything in our time, we went down to the last ice age. Now you know what caused the ice to melt. While running Merea's automatic dredges about 2300 BC we helped four tribes in Northwestern Asia into the Bronze Age, and got the Druids attention with Stonehenge, to mine their tin. By this time our children were doing their thing, getting jobs and finding mates. The Tome of Don Maxwell's Fantasy that is a trilogy of a family of Time Travelers found in these six books. The first canon 'The Giants from OR' The second canon, 'I will Flourish Again!' The third canon 'Fitting into Society' The fourth canon 'The Habitats' The fifth canon 'The Time of Reckoning' The Pentateuch, plus one 'After the Time of Reckoning
Don Brown introduces us to yet another little-known heroine. On June 9, 1909, twenty-two-year-old Alice Ramsey hitched up her skirts and climbed behind the wheel of a Maxwell touring car. Fifty-nine days later she rolled into San Francisco, becoming the first woman to drive across America. What happened in between is quite a tale! Through words and pictures, the author shares this story of a brave and tenacious young woman who followed her vision to conquer the open road - even when the road was nothing more than a wagon trail. Alice Ramsey's adventure offers a unique perspective on turn-of-the-century America and pays tribute to the pioneering spirit that helped create it.
What are the value of a healthy plant to you and your home? How often do you take care of your indoor plants? Do you find the thought of having healthy houseplants overwhelming? Do you feel irritated by how wilted your houseplants appear? Caring for your house plants is the most obvious approach to having a healthy, clean, and well-conditioned house plant, as good as it is. A healthy house plant can help you breathe better, make your home more pleasant, and even improve your mental health. Having a healthy house plant creates a relaxing atmosphere in your home. Taking care of your houseplant transforms your home into an earthly paradise and provides you a taste of Eden. This is what this book by DON MAXWELL has to offer. This book (How To Care For Your House Plants, A Step-by-Step Guide To a Healthy House Plant by DON MAXWELL) will assist you in developing fundamental routines and practices for maintaining a healthy house plant. This book will teach you how to: Buy house plants that fit your home; Feed your house plants appropriately; Control house plant pests; Treat house plant pests; and Prevent diseases in plants. And more... Why not grab a copy for yourself by clicking the BUY NOW button?
Explores the origins of the universe from an experimental physicist's perspective, including explaining quarks and leptons, discussing neutrino oscillations, and speculating on string theory.
Statistical mechanics: the bane of many a physics student, and traditionally viewed as a long parade of ensembles, partition functions, and partial derivatives. But the subject needn't be arcane. When pared back to its underlying concepts and built from the ground up, statistical mechanics takes on a charm of its own, and sheds light on all manner of physical phenomena. This book presents a straightforward introduction to the key concepts in statistical mechanics, following the popular style of the author's highly successful textbook "Explorations in Mathematical Physics". Offering a clear, conceptual approach to the subject matter, the book presents a treatment that is mathematically complete, while remaining very accessible to undergraduates. It commences by asking: why does an ink drop spread out in a bathtub of water? This showcases the importance of counting configurations, which leads naturally to ideas of microstates, energy, entropy, thermodynamics, and physical chemistry. With this foundation, the Boltzmann distribution writes itself in its fullest form, and this opens the door to the Maxwell distribution and related areas of thermal conductivity and viscosity. Quantum ideas then appear: bosons via Einstein's and Debye's theories of heat capacity, and fermions via electrical conduction and low-temperature heat capacity of metals. The text ends with a detailed derivation of blackbody radiation, and uses this to discuss the greenhouse effect, lasers, and cosmology. Suitable for use with core undergraduate courses in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, this book concentrates on using solid mathematics, while avoiding cumbersome notation. All the necessary mathematical steps are included in the body of the text and in the worked examples. Reviews of Explorations in Mathematical Physics by Don Koks, 2006 "With enjoyable and sometimes surprising excursions along the way, the journey provides a fresh look at many familiar topics, as it takes us from basic linear mathematics to general relativity... look forward to having your geometric intuition nourished and expanded by the author's intelligent commentaries." (Eugen Merzbacher, University of North Carolina) "... an interesting supplement to standard texts for teaching mathematical methods in physics, as it will add alternative views that could serve as additional material." (S. Marcelja, Australian Journal of Physics) "... a tour through the main ideas forming the language of modern mathematical physics ...it is a difficult task for the author to decide what is a good balance between the topics and their presentation, but in this case it has been achieved. ...for those physicists who would like to be exposed to clear motivation and careful explanation of the basics of the present-day apparatus of mathematical physics." (Ivailo Mladenov, Mathematical Reviews).
There is a new casino being built in Dodge. Since it is connected to an old Indian burial ground, there are mixed feelings about if it should be built or not. There are strange stories that have been told about Dodge, and people are worried. One person in particular is Sue. She doesn't want her husband, Jim, to work for Paul at the construction site. Paul just wants to do his job and get the casino built. However, something or someone is killing off his workers. Which has Sue worried even more. The authorities have shut down the construction site until this monster is caught. How can they catch a monster that is a toy statue one minute, and a larger than life iron demon the next, who seems to have trouble staying in one city? Will this monster ever be caught? Will the casino ever be built? Only time will tell, and according to Paul's boss, that time is running out.
Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice blends a rigorous theoretical introduction to industrial organization with empirical data, real-world applications and case studies. The book also supports students with a range of problems and exercises, and definitions of key terms and concepts. This balanced approach, which enables students to apply theoretical tools, has earned this book its ranking as one of the leading undergraduate texts in its field. For the fifth edition, relevant data, tables, empirical examples and case studies have been updated to reflect current trends and topics, in the most complete reorganization since the second edition. Further changes include: all public policy topics have been placed in the last section, making it simpler to use for courses that emphasize theory or public policy; an entirely new chapter on international trade and industrial organization; a new chapter on mergers; a separate section on antitrust; a companion website with PowerPoint slides and other supplements. This comprehensive book bridges the gap between economic theory and real-world case studies in an accessible, logical manner, making it the ideal undergraduate text for courses on industrial organization.
Tensions are on the rise after a BATF agent's cover is blown during a gunrunning bust in the Florida Keys. There's a leak within the Feds, and Mack Bolan is sent in to search and destroy before more lives are lost. But with highly trained ex-marines running the guns and dedicated to eliminating loose ends, Bolan knows infiltrating the unit could be a fatal assignment. With nothing to lose, the mercenaries are ready to declare war on whoever gets in their way. It's kill or be killed, and the Executioner is ready to take them up on their offer if that's what will break the chain of command.
For more than 275 years, the city of Augusta and its citizens have contributed greatly not only to the business, cultural, educational, athletic, and religious lives of both Georgians and South Carolinians bordering the Savannah River but also to people throughout the nation and the world. People and businesses such as Brenda Lee, Castleberry's, Lady Antebellum, James Brown, Club Car, Ty Cobb, Georgia Pacific, E-Z Go, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bobby Jones, Emerson Boozer, Beau Jack, and Butterfly McQueen, to name a few, all have close ties to the city that once spent a decade as Georgia's capital. This book tells the stories of many people who became legendary locals through their efforts that made the Augusta area a great place to live and work.
A group of insiders has stolen a top-secret code that could compromise the entire U.S. defense system. Mack Bolan is called upon to track the security breach, only to discover he's too late. With half of the code now in the possession of a radical terrorist group, the stakes have suddenly been raised and U.S. aircraft carriers are sitting ducks in the Persian Gulf. The terrorists have joined forces with a Las Vegas crime family, and Bolan must infi ltrate the Mob to stop the fi nal transaction. As the Middle East edges closer to war, the Executioner has no choice but to unleash a battle of his own.
The underlying theme of this book is that a widespread, taxonomically diverse group of animals, important both from ecological and human resource perspectives, remains poorly understood and in delcine, while receiving scant attention from the ecological and conservation community. This volume proposes a comprehensive overview of the world's river turtles' ecology, conservation, and management. It begins with a categorization of taxa which inhabit flowing water habitats followed by information on their evolutionary and physical diversity and biogeography. Within the framework of ecology, the authors discuss the composition of river turtle communities in different types of lotic habitats and regions, population dynamics, movements, reproductive characteristics and behavior, predators, and feeding relationships. In a conservation and management section, the authors identify and evaluate the nature and intensity of factors which threaten river turtle survival--almost all of which involve direct human exploitation or indirect effects of human induced habitat alteration and degradation. They then list and evaluate the various schemes which have been proposed or employed to halt declines and restore populations, and make recommendations for future management plans for specific species and regions. In closing, they state their viewpoint concerning future research directions and priorities, and an evaluation of future prospects for survival of the world's river turtle species.
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions--a perception that is reinforced by many leadership books. However, this approach ignores the expectations of modern work cultures centered on equity and inclusion, where a leader's true mission is to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting today's organizations as decision factories in which effective leaders are decision architects, enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization's highest values. As a result, a leader's impact grows because it ripples out instead of relying on one individual to play the part of heroic figure. Filled with real-life stories and examples of the structures, incentives, and systems that successful leaders have used, this playbook equips each of us to facilitate wise decisions.
Donald Ray Swinford Born: January 24, 1937 in Coles County, Illinois Married Marilyn Eads, September 20, 1958 Children: Brian James, William Ray, and Beth Ellen A retired Certified Public Accountant Bachelor of Science Accountancy, University of Illinois Son of Ruby and Adren Swinford Sibling of Owen Franklin, Eula Katherine, Hazel Maxine Edna Pearl, Albert Dale, James Cleo, and Aaron Adren Served in the United States Army, 19551958 Mayor, City of Herrin, Illinois, 19811984 Protestant faith and past church elder
This book gives a comprehensive treatment on the historical discoveries and scientific developments concerning the Universe at the atomic and subatomic levels. Discussions begin with classical discoveries on the behavior of the atom to Quantum Mechanics and ends with exciting modern discoveries that are leading us to unlocking the hidden mysteries of reality. “Quantum mechanics describes the behavior of very small objects – the size of atoms or smaller – and it provides the only understanding of the world of the very small. In the world of quantum mechanics, the laws of physics that are familiar from the everyday world no longer work. Instead, events are governed by probabilities. During the time of Newton, it was thought that the Universe ran like clockwork, wound up and set in motion by the Creator, down some utterly predictable path. Newton’s classical mechanics provided plenty of support for this deterministic view of the Universe, a picture that left little place for human free will or chance. Could it really be that we are all puppets following our own preset tracks through life, with no real choice at all? Most scientists were content to let the philosophers debate that question. But it returned, with full force, at the heart of the new physics of the twentieth century.” In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat – John Gribbin In addition, the various interpretations of quantum phenomena has led scientists and philosophers to a real possibility of finding a connection between matter and consciousness. This book contains no advanced scientific concepts, and no complicated formulas are written down for analysis. However, it does present some simple mathematical related examples in the final chapter. This is presented in order to reinforce the important ideas in QM and maintain a clear understanding of its fundamentals. It is not assumed that the reader has an understanding of Quantum Physics. Therefore the text provides the reader with enough historical and scientific information to insure his or her confidence in understanding the properties and behavior of quantum particle/wave elements.
Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond. Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, these different understandings begin with a simple drawing, a pre-mathematical picture of reality. Such drawings are a humble but effective tool of the physicist's craft, part of the tradition of thinking, teaching, and learning passed down through the centuries. This book uses drawings to help explain fifty-one key ideas of physics accessibly and engagingly. Don Lemons, a professor of physics and author of several physics books, pairs short, elegantly written essays with simple drawings that together convey important concepts from the history of physical science. Lemons proceeds chronologically, beginning with Thales' discovery of triangulation, the Pythagorean monocord, and Archimedes' explanation of balance. He continues through Leonardo's description of “earthshine” (the ghostly glow between the horns of a crescent moon), Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and Newton's cradle (suspended steel balls demonstrating by their collisions that for every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction). Reaching the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lemons explains the photoelectric effect, the hydrogen atom, general relativity, the global greenhouse effect, Higgs boson, and more. The essays place the science of the drawings in historical context—describing, for example, Galileo's conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over his teaching that the sun is the center of the universe, the link between the discovery of electrical phenomena and the romanticism of William Wordsworth, and the shadow cast by the Great War over Einstein's discovery of relativity. Readers of Drawing Physics with little background in mathematics or physics will say, “Now I see, and now I understand.”
The second edition of the Handbook of Induction Heating reflects the number of substantial advances that have taken place over the last decade in theory, computer modeling, semi-conductor power supplies, and process technology of induction heating and induction heat treating. This edition continues to be a synthesis of information, discoveries, and technical insights that have been accumulated at Inductoheat Inc. With an emphasis on design and implementation, the newest edition of this seminal guide provides numerous case studies, ready-to-use tables, diagrams, rules-of-thumb, simplified formulas, and graphs for working professionals and students.
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