Cowan: 248 books

Provides a summary of current research results on the physiological and psychological effects of sound on people Covers how the operation of the hearing mechanism affects our reactions to sounds Includes research results from studies on noise sources of public concern such as transportation,...

Portland is not only the site of numerous marine terminals along the Willamette and Columbia Rivers but also home to much of our American maritime history. Portland shipbuilding started in 1840 with construction of the schooner Star of Oregon. Over 100 years later, three Portland shipyards would build...

Recent decades have seen huge growth in the renewable energy sector, spurred on by concerns about climate change and dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. One of the major difficulties raised by an increasing reliance on renewable resources is the inflexibility when it comes to controlling supply in...

*Whirlwind, 1886.*Annelise est une jeune femme de sang-froid. Cependant, lorsqu’elle se penche sur l’homme blessé et inconscient qu’on vient de déposer aux portes de sa clinique en pleine nuit, elle est saisie de surprise. Car elle vient de reconnaître Matt — Matt Baldwin, son ex fiancé...

A short-story collection. Meet a post-aocalyptic woman cage fighter, an old woman who holds the key to free will, a woman sheriff who serves up her own brand of justice, and others, in this salute to speculative fiction and strong women.  From the Foreword by Lizzy Shannon, Time Twist: "If...

During a thirteen month period between 1976 and 1977, a string of murders called the Oakland County Child Killings occurred in the Detroit area. The killer was dubbed 'The Babysitter' by the press because of the way he bathed the bodies, cleaned and pressed their clothes before redressing them, and ...

During the course of the last ten or at most fifteen years, a new class of building has, mushroom like, sprung up in the Metropolis, which cannot perhaps better be described in a sentence than as "The City of London Offices" (Limited). True, none of the "Houses," "Chambers," "Halls," "Buildings" that...

On a rainy October evening, Leo bikes forty kilometres into the country to see his mother. He’s tormented at not knowing who his birth father was, and she’s always refused to tell him. Leo wants connection, he wants to belong. Is he related to the family in a nineteenth-century photograph found...

Ruin is coming. For ten millennia, the Machinery Selected the greatest leaders of humanity, bringing glory to the Overland. But the Machinery came with a Prophecy: in the 10,000th year, it will break, and Ruin will come. Now, the Prophecy is being fulfilled. The Machinery has Selected a terrible being...

Set in a 1960s English new town, Your Fault charts one boy’s childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter’s story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimism and futurism of the 1960s, and to reveal how that utopianism fares as it...

Far too many believers are not fulfilling the purpose they were created for. God has an inheritance or destiny for all His children, but it is up to them to recognize and accept that inheritance. You were created for so much more, and the enemy knows that. It is through lies and deceit that the devil...

A new and retitled edition of Great Debates in Property Law, this is an engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on property law, designed to provide the additional insights necessary to excel in the study of the subject. Includes new material on e-conveyancing, and the impact of the global financial crisis and austerity politics.

Série Retour à Cahill Crossing, tome 2 Amérique, 1880 Lorsqu’un télégramme de son frère Quin lui apprend que ses parents, que l’on croyait morts dans un accident, ont peut-être été assassinés, Bowie Cahill quitte immédiatement son poste de shérif à Deer County pour rejoindre...

Désemparée, Cass affronte le regard interrogatif de Lee, l’inspecteur chargé de retrouver le pyromane qui allume des feux aux quatre coins de la ville. Car elle vient de lui révéler son plus grand secret : elle voit les incendies avant qu’ils ne se déclarent. Un don qui lui permet de sauver...