Authors:Scott Baldwin, Francis H. Hare, Jr., Francis E. McGov
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Keywords: digest, case, liability, product
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2009-11-18
List price: $255.00
ISBN-10: 0735588023
ISBN-13: 9780735588028

Here’s a unique first-stop research tool that describes all the latest product liability cases by type of case, so you can quickly find key cases and typical issues involving similar products. Completely updated for 2010-2011, Product Liability Case Digest covers the full range of products in six main categories: - Construction Equipment and Materials; - Consumer Products; - Farm Machinery and Products; - Medical Products; - Motor Vehicles; - Workplace Products An invaluable tool for the busy practitioner, Product Liability Case Digest provides an immensely valuable head start to rese

Authors:David W. Francis, Diane Demali Francis,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, series, postcard, coasters, roller, golden
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-06-10
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738523380
ISBN-13: 9780738523385

The Roller Coaster-the Cyclone at Coney Island, the Racer at Pittsburgh’s Kenywood Park, the Blue Streak at Sandusky’s Cedar Point-icon of the midway, capable of reducing even the strongest of grown men to screaming, white-knuckled hysterics. During the early decades of the 20th century, daring designers pushed the limits of these high-speed thrillers, reaching hundreds of feet in height and thousands of feet in length, with ever more miles of winding, twisting, lurching track dominating the landscapes of America’s amusement parks. Most of the roller coasters from that golden

Authors:David W. Francis, Diane Demali Francis,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, point, cedar
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-04-26
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738532347
ISBN-13: 9780738532349

In 1870, Louis Zistel began ferrying passengers from Sandusky to the Cedar Point Peninsula’s beer garden and sandy beaches. In 1888, the Grand Pavilion was built, housing a massive theatre, bowling alley, photographic studio, and kitchen, and shortly thereafter, the resort’s first roller coaster was installed. George Boeckling transformed the resort into a self-sufficient city and amusement park, but the park suffered badly in the 1930s economic depression. However, after Cedar Point changed hands several times in the 1950s, it became one of America’s leading amusement parks.

Authors:David W. Francis, Diane Demali Francis,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, akron
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-01-13
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738531944
ISBN-13: 9780738531946

Best known as the "Rubber Capital of the World," Akron, Ohio, was a major player in many industries long before Benjamin F. Goodrich moved there in 1870. From humble canal town to global industry giant, Akron rode the economic roller coaster through the Depression, wars, strikes, and financial booms. As a major manufacturing center of everything from sewer pipe to matches to oatmeal, Akron lured prospective workers from other towns, states, and even countries. This lively mix of diverse cultures helped to create Akronís unique beauty and boundless spirit. ÝÝAkron, Ohio, examines this spe

Authors:Francis E. H. Tay, Francis Tay Eng Hock, Lixiang She
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: using, data, mining, techniques, forecasting, financial, shares, exotic, methods, ordinary
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2003-05
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 9812380752
ISBN-13: 9789812380753

Exotic methods refer to specific functions within general soft computing methods such as genetic algorithms, neural networks and rough sets theory. They are applied to ordinary shares for a variety of financial purposes, such as portfolio selection and optimization, classification of market states, forecasting of market states and data mining. This is in contrast to the wide spectrum of work done on exotic financial instruments, wherein advanced mathematics is used to construct financial instruments for hedging risks and for investment. In this book, particular aspects of the general

Authors:Dick Francis, Felix Francis,
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Keywords: heat, dead
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 033045482X
ISBN-13: 9780330454827

’I wondered if I was dying. I wasn’t afraid to die, but such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.’ The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner at the Hay Net - the racing town’s favourite Michelin-starred restaurant - founded by Max Moreton, something of a local celebrity. Spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expected of the evening. But much worse is to come...his food is suspected of putting twenty-four dinner guests i

Authors:Dick Francis, Felix Francis,
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Keywords: crossfire
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-08-17
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 039915681X
ISBN-13: 9780399156816

An exhilarating new novel from the New York Times-bestselling authors. Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother’s house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather. But there’s another reason for the stifling tension at