![]() ![]() It comprises two loose-leaf volumes: Volume 1 contains the case histories concerning carbon steels Volume 2 contains those concerning stainless steels and non-ferrous materials. The Atlas fills the gap in progression from theory to practice. The existing literature on the subject is mostly rather specialised, too theoretical and of too high a scientific level to be of direct use to those looking for practical solutions to corrosion problems. Though many corrosion remedies are well-known, they are not always applied simply because engineers are not aware either of the remedies themselves or of their correct application. For technicians in the field faced with combatting corrosion problems, help is now at hand in the form of this eminently practical instructive Corrosion Atlas. ![]() ![]() This second edition has been revised and updated where necessary and expanded with 162 new cases with full colour illustrations. When published in 1988, the Corrosion Atlas, comprising 242 case histories, was described by one reviewer as ".a wonderful contribution to the corrosion literature and one long overdue". ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, we meet Vitaliy, a Mafia boss proudly starring in a film about his own crimes Zinaida, a Chechen prostitute who parties in Moscow while her sister is drawn towards becoming a Jihadi and many more. ![]() As he becomes more successful in his career, he gets invited to the best parties, becomes friend to oligarchs and strippers alike, and grows increasingly uneasy as he is drawn into the mechanics of Putin's post-modern dictatorship. ![]() The job took him into every nook and corrupt cranny of the country: from meetings in smoky rooms with propaganda gurus through to distant mafia-towns in Siberia. Peter Pomerantsev, ethnically Russian but raised in England, came to Moscow work in the fast-growing television and film industry. It is a completely new type of society where nothing is true and everything is possible-yet it is also home to a new form of authoritarianism, built not on oppression but avarice and temptation. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous masquerade where identities can be switched and all values are changeable. "Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. ![]() ![]() "Come to seek your services," he added, "on the recommendation of-" ![]() "Of the household of the most esteemed Marcus Tullius Cicero," he added, pausing with a slight inclination of his head to see if I recognized the name. No grub from the stables, then, but clearly the educated and pampered servant of a fond master. ![]() His Latin was impeccable (better than mine), and the voice that delivered it was as beautifully modulated as a flute. He had a quiet manner that was respectful but far from groveling-the politeness one expects from any young man addressing another man ten years his elder. The slave who stood at my door on this particular morning, however, was very clean and meticulously groomed. I take no offense-so long as my accounts are paid on time and in full. It's as if I were a leper, or the priest of some unclean Oriental cult. It's a kind of formality when one seeks out the services of Gordianus the Finder, one keeps a certain distance and restraint. Usually, when a client sends for me, the messenger is a slave from the very lowest rung of the household-a grub, a cripple, a half-wit boy from the stables stinking of dung and sneezing from the bits of straw in his hair. The slave who came to fetch me on that unseasonably warm spring morning was a young man, hardly more than twenty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At certain points I had to look at the cover to make sure I wasn’t reading the script!Īnyone who knows me knows how much I love the movie Goodfellas - its actually one of my favorite “mob” type movies. It was remarkable to me how closely Scorcese and staff followed the book while making the movie. The movie basically was the book, with a few characters renamed and combined. To say that the movie was “based” on the book is stating it a little lightly. The book chronicles the life of Henry Hill from childhood and his introduction to the Lucchese crime family, to life as a young adult as part of the “crew”, through his turning Federal informant and his eventual enrollment in the Federal Witness Protection program. It took me about 2 days of on and off reading to finish it and I really enjoyed it. The book is Wiseguy, by Nicholas Pileggi. ![]() I remembered that the movie Goodfellas was based on a book, but couldn’t remember the name of the book so we stopped at Barnes and Noble to look around.Īfter an online search in the store, I found it. Last summer while on vacation I was looking for a book to read. ![]() ![]() There's a lot of internal conflict (staying vs. Many questions are raised, never to be answered - which a sequel could solve, but none's been announced. ![]() As her own turn to leave looms, protagonist Jinny, who's probably about 12, starts to seriously question this blind obedience to the rules and to wonder about the kids who went before them. Once in a while a boat arrives leaving a new, little kid and taking the eldest away to parts unknown. Parents need to know that Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder ( Seven Stories Up), is about a magical island that's home to nine kids. ![]() ![]() Lots of people and things have quirky names - most notably, peeing and pooping are called "wishing."ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel has been adapted a number of times: initially for the stage in 1930 as a film in 1932, and again in 1957 and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The title might be taken from a 16th‑century poem of the same name by the English dramatist George Peele. The book became his first best-seller and has been called "the premier American war novel from World War I". Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable stature. The novel describes a love affair between the expatriate from America and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ( Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. ![]() ![]() This was thanks in part to a sisterly new champion: Ana Marie Cox, the saucy strawberry-blond editor of Wonkette, the popular political blog. The Washingtonienne, as she had named herself, quickly parlayed the miniature scandal into a more lucrative and appealing gig: media vixen-cum-novelist. In short, this was not the Profumo affair. Her various paramours were neither particularly high-powered nor publicly accountable. Though certainly explicit (no more so than the Starr Report), Cutler's anonymous Web log, now a mere vapor on the Internet, was as skimpy as her designer wardrobe, and probably siphoned about as much time from her dreary job opening constituent mail as an occasional game of computer solitaire. ![]() Swiftly thereafter, she was fired, the official reason being "unacceptable use of Senate computers." In retrospect, this seems a trifle harsh. RIGHT after cherry-blossom season last year, Jessica Cutler, a comely brunet underling employed by the office of Senator Mike DeWine, began writing a public online diary of her local sexcapades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bond does have a reputation for being a ladies man. He then joins the Navy and sees action in World War II before entering the secret service. He did attend another college and completed time at University. Bond completed his education with a brief stint in Eton College but he leaves because of an affair with a maid. He was orphaned at 11 years old after his parents died in a climbing accident and he goes to live with his Aunt. Not much is known about his heritage or his early life, other than he travelled extensively when he was younger and he learnt many languages. In one of the movies, he does mention that he is 80 years shy of retirement age, but this still doesn’t make sense. Fleming changes his dates and timelines so often in the books that no one really knows how old he is. In the books and movies, it is thought he is in his late thirties but he never ages beyond that. ![]() The character was created in 1953 and he first appeared in the novel Casino Royale. ![]() Fleming wrote about James Bond in 12 novels and then 2 short stories. James Bond is a famous character created by Ian Fleming. With a Mind to Kill (By:Anthony Horowitz) ![]() The Man With the Red Tattoo (By:Raymond Benson) The World is Not Enough (By:Raymond Benson) The Man from Barbarossa (By:John Gardner) ![]() ![]() ![]() Complexity is synonymous with Brookner even in interviews, she maintains a wit so dry and subtle, you would never realize she was wielding a dart until it was lodged under your skin. ![]() The cult of Brookner fans ranges from writers like Julian Barnes to academics like Ann Fisher-Wirth, who confesses to a love/hate relationship with Brookner’s novels. ![]() We discovered more complexity than we expected from the slim 184 pages, and the more I learned about Anita Brookner, the more surprised I felt that I’d missed her for so long. I first picked up the novel because my writing group-all of us MFAers who’ve met for ten years post-program-wanted to read a book none of us knew. It isn’t just that Edith charts a different course, maritally speaking it’s that the novel’s dramatic focus is women looking critically at other women-something that occurs because Brookner has consciously placed her characters in a “gyneceum.” Plenty to consider subversive in a context that must append the word “still” to the assertion of a single woman’s worth.Īll the attention critics give to Brookner’s unmarried heroines, though, obscures what’s truly subversive in Hotel du Lac. Thanks to the jacket copy, a generation of readers has been primed to read Anita Brookner’s 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac as “potently subversive.” Subversive how? The headline of Anne Tyler’s contemporaneous New York Times review offers one answer: “A Solitary Life is Still Worth Living.” Edith Hope, the novel’s heroine, jilts a fiancé, rejects a new proposal, and ends her affair with her married lover. ![]() ![]() Today millions of people around the world live by his teachings. ![]() The Buddha taught the Truth and the path to inner peace for forty-five years, attracting thousands of disciples. There he finally discovered the Truth and became an Enlightened One, a Buddha. With only a few humble possessions, he began a remarkable spiritual journey that ended many years later under a bodhi tree. He knew then that he must relinquish everything- his family, his wealth, his position- to discover the Truth of life and death. ![]() But one day Siddhartha left the palace and saw, for the first time, human suffering and death. The young prince, Siddhartha, was raised in the greatest luxury, sheltered from all pain and ugliness. ![]() A nonfiction picture book with full-color illustrations about the life of the Buddha, from award-winning author and illustrator Demi Many centuries ago, in a kingdom in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, a miraculous child was born to the king and queen. ![]() |