Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong is a collection of myths, mistakes, and "lessons learned" from practicing engineers involved in the field of electronic equipment cooling. Through anecdotes and stories based on his experiences at Tellabs Operations, Inc. Tony Kordyban covers basic dimensions of heat transfer concepts-mostly from real problems which were incorrectly solved at least once before a correct technique was applied. The book's 31 chapters, each on an important and relevant topic, contain simple line drawings to help illustrate the...

Terry Starko is hoping for a change in his luck by heading to, of all places, Detroit. This middle-aged, unemployed engineer is returning to the town where he grew up for a job interview. All his life he'd prospered, thanks to a series of fortunate misunderstandings. Now he's split from his wife, and this trip might give him a break from the bill collectors. Nailing the job interview turns out to be the least of his worries. As soon as he sets foot in the town he'd fled twenty years before, everybody is looking for him as if he'd never left: his hot new step-mother, the crack dealer from the...

Wayne is invisible. At least that's how the regular citizens of Babcock Grove act when they pass him on the street. He isn't unemployed. He has a job for every day of the month. They just don't add up to one real paycheck. He isn't homeless; there are seven different places he can bed down for the night. Just none he can call his own. Wayne is always making plans that come up just short. Maybe it's his criminal record, maybe it's the result of ancient geological forces, but he can't catch a break. But Wayne has a New Plan to end his years on the streets. He's found the perfect house to move...

The Leksotis "know too much." For centuries they were despised for their reputed supernatural powers and reclusiveness. Even the Gypsies looked down on them. They retreated into the wilderness and into legend. But World War II flushed them from their mountain refuges, making them pawns of the great powers locked in mortal struggle. 1968 was supposed to be Spencer's Best Summer Vacation Ever. For as long as the fifth grader could remember, life had been getting better and better. He got to witness the introduction of color TV, Frisbees, and the race for the Moon.. Even his big pain of a...