Here are 150 different solitaire games, ranging from simple to fiendish, using one, two, or three decks of cards.

This book is a very general and accessible introduction to Object Oriented Analysis. It contains extensive pedagogy and incorporates patient explanations, making it ideal for beginners. Incorporation of real-world examples, case studies, and in depth theory and skills for practical application makes this book very user-friendly.

Pliny wrote of Babylon that "here the creator of the science of astronomy was." Excavations have shown this statement to be true. This book argues that the earliest attempts at the accurate prediction of celestial phenomena are indeed to be found in clay tablets dating to the 8th and 7th centuries BC from both Babylon and from Nineveh. The author carefully situates this astronomy within its cultural context, treating all available material from the relevant period, and also analysing the earlier astrological material and the later well-known ephemerides and related texts. A wholly new...

This volume C 3, as a part of the Gmelin "Thorium" Handbook, Series C, describes the thorium-nitrogen compounds. Included are compounds both of technological importance like the nitrides and the nitrates and those of merely scientific interest, such as amides and related compounds. However, due to the decreasing technical importance of the nuclear thorium fuel cycle, especially with the advanced fuels like the nitride ThN, in recent years, the thorium compounds with nitrogen have been investigated much less extensively than the correspond ing uranium compounds. In order to have the data for...

D. Brown's "BUG" is the highly anticipated graphical autobiography about a convicted felon and the 16 years of incarceration that undeniably shaped not only his life, but his family's as well.Growing up in Kansas City, MO living an impoverished and often times unsupervised life, BUG became accustomed to making his own way early on. After high school, the Air Force and marrying his high school sweetheart, Bug soon found himself drawn to the hustle and affluence of the drug game. Risking his family and his life he became engrossed in the fast life of drugs, violence, and riotousness that...

America's Culture of Professionalism proves an emerging culture of interdependence is possible if and when enough professionals and laypersons refashion their roles and relationships having both something to contribute and something to learn from each other.