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Culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. The reality and strength of culture become salient when we work within a new group and interact with people who have well-established norms and values....

The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics is the key text and reference for engineers, researchers and senior students dealing with the analysis and modeling of structures, from large civil engineering projects such as dams to aircraft structures and small engineered components. This...

After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...

(Piano Method). Since the first release of this classic Schirmer edition over 100 years ago, almost anyone who has taken piano lessons for more than two years has played from The Virtuoso Pianist . Millions of copies have been sold of these progressive exercises which guide a player's technique, building...

Travel through space and time with this multi-author anthology from Fiction-Atlas Press!

A spark ignites a new future for Anso and his twin sister Ava. One they never anticipated… When Anso discovers something different about him, something inhuman, he knows he must keep it a secret or face death at the hands of his people. Forced into an arranged marriage to a man she’s never...

The Academy: Ghost Bird series in a different look at the very beginning. Read Introductions with a whole new perspective--the boys'. Kota Lee has been trying for weeks to get the girl up the street to notice him. She’s beautiful and intriguing, but seems incredibly shy. Too shy. Every time...

How will the world end? Come the Apocalypse, will you be ready? Who do you want on your side, and which team will you be on? Picking Sides for the Apocalypse Choose Your Doom is a collection of short stories set in end times to help you get your priorities straight and answer these fundamental...

IT'LL SOON BE DARK Eighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages. Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight. These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and...

Two short stories included in one fast-paced package. WOLVES IN THE MIST Sacrifices must be made to protect a small coastal village from an annual danger. A monster from the deep rampages the town every year. This year a possible solution has been found, one that hits close to home. Will...

Northwest Smith embarks on a dangerous trip to learn the secrets of the moon and a lost civilization.

Smith was stolen away in the night, to be sacrificed to the great Julhi a mysterious being who controlled the denizens of Vonng.

Temptation lurks around every corner in worlds sometimes dark, sometimes lurid. Giving in is both dangerous and satisfying, though never in the ways one expects. While these enticements offer a vast range of benefits and boons, the cost is a soul and the devil expects his due. Sometimes suave and...

Adan went from a living hell on Earth, only to be thrown into a new purgatory. The Zargonnii vessel she'd thought was her savior is blown to bits in an alien war attack. A wormhole sends Adan and her warrior protector to an unknown world. Her only hope of surviving the ungodly planet is in the hands...