Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, condition
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060755792
ISBN-13: 9780060755799
In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner’s syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child—eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen—bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally
Author: B.K.N. Rao
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: monitoring, condition, handbook
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 1996-12-06
List price: $222.00
ISBN-10: 1856172341
ISBN-13: 9781856172349
The need to reduce costs has generated a greater interest in condition monitoring in recent years. The Handbook of Condition Monitoring gives an extensive description of available products and their usage making it a source of practical guidance supported by basic theory.This handbook has been designed to assist individuals within companies in the methods and devices used to monitor the condition of machinery and products.
Author: Sam Kubba
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: assessments, condition, property
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0071498419
ISBN-13: 9780071498418
Accurately Assess the Physical Condition of Property for Commercial Real Estate Transactions! Turn to Property Condition Assessments for comprehensive guidance on accurately collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the physical condition of property for commercial real estate transactions. This definitive resource provides expert information for evaluating the quality of construction, integrity of building systems, and other critical components. This hands-on reference discusses the latest industry standards and explains how to appraise structural, roofing, mech
Author: Peter Clement
Publisher: Fawcett
Keywords: condition, critical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-08-26
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345443403
ISBN-13: 9780345443403
In the heat of a passionate encounter, ecstasy suddenly turns to terror for renowned geneticist and TV personality Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. Stricken by a brain hemorrhage, she is rendered completely paralyzed and speechless . . . but still utterly aware; a prisoner inside her own body.Kathleen is rushed to a Manhattan hospital, her chances of survival slim. Even if she pulls through, the likelihood that she’ll sustain permanent brain damage is near one hundred percent. But neither outcome can compare to the insidious fate in store for her masterminded by the very people entrusted with saving h
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: condition, inhuman
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-02-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743417348
ISBN-13: 9780743417341
A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and delight.
Author: John Kekes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: condition, human
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-07-29
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199588880
ISBN-13: 9780199588886
The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility, and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of the human condition that rejects both facile optimism and gloomy pessimism; acknowledges that we are vulnerable to contingencies we cannot fully control; defends a humanistic understanding of our condition; r
Author: J. S. Rao
Publisher: Narosa
Keywords: machines, monitoring, condition, vibratory
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2000-09-14
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0849309379
ISBN-13: 9780849309373
(Narosa Publishing) A guide for the practicing engineer in rotating machinery installations interested in applying vibratory condition monitoring for maintenance. Important aspects are explained in detail with emphasis on two basic methods of analysis: Fast Fourier Transform, and Cepstrum. DLC: Machinery--Vibration.
