Mccool: 21 books

Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroots movement to bring these rivers...

In September of 1951 Saucon Valley Country Club hosted its first USGA championship the 51st U.S. Amateur. The book chronicles this ground breaking event in club history. In the book you will meet the patriarch of Saucon Valley, Eugene Grace, president of industry giant Bethlehem Steel Corporation...

In Irish Holiday Fairy Tales, international award winning, feline author, Finn McCool, the Magic Leprechaun Cat, weaves magical fairy tales based on Irish legend, folklore or history with a wee bit o' leprechaun magic, and starring some of his favorite Magic Leprechaun Cat relatives. The beautifully...

*‘Bollywood comes to Griffin—sort of.’ In Australia, we like ’em blonde and bronzed. In India, it’s ‘fair and lovely’. So what happens if you’re stuck in between? John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams of being cast in his favourite TV soap, Bondi Parade....

Structured Parallel Programming offers the simplest way for developers to learn patterns for high-performance parallel programming. Written by parallel computing experts and industry insiders Michael McCool, Arch Robison, and James Reinders, this book explains how to design and implement maintainable...

These stories were written for Australia's Berkelouw Books Pittwater Short Story Award between 2011 and 2016. This collection includes the 2014 winner, 'The Hole Thing' and three other stories which were either short-listed or commended. Following the contest rules, each of the stories...

Crisis has enveloped the more than 200,000 nationally and regionally protected natural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Heritage managers – those who manage natural sites such as national parks, wilderness areas, and biosphere reserves, as well as those who manage cultural sites including...

Not your ordinary, limp, fan fiction. I BELIEVE IN THE MAN IN THE SKY channels Johnny Cash, 2000AD, William S. Burroughs, Phillip K. Dick, Elvis, J.G. Ballard and The Louvin Brothers in a slaughter house classic of hillbilly ravings and personal redemption. Set in a toxic dystopian future where 'thee'...

Defence lawyer Michael Doyle has lost the will to fight. He would rather have his clients plead guilty than conduct their trials. Then he meets Lightning, a young Aborigine charged with a brutal crime, committed in a sweltering North Queensland town.Doyle undertakes Lightning’s defence with practiced...

A true legendary Russian hero, a groundbreaking Russian filmmaker! Alexander Nevsky is a central figure in Russian history, having lived during one of Russia''s darkest periods - the invasion of the Teutonic Knights. Alexander Nevsky helped establish the Russian nation by defeating the Teutonic Knights,...

My Guards and My Angels tells the story of a queenpin who escaped the death angel simply by following her spiritual attributes. Her path, as rendered in this book, is based on a true story. The writers guards take the reader on a journey of struggle, while her angels were assigned to shield the writer....

Wrestling is as much a part of winter in Iowa as is snow and cold. Dreams of state championships begin in elementary school and, since 1972, come to fruition - or heart-breakingly fall short - at an arena in Des Moines in February or March. In 2011, the tournament finals sold out for the 24th consecutive...

Understand and utilize the latest developments in Weibull inferential methods While the Weibull distribution is widely used in science and engineering, most engineers do not have the necessary statistical training to implement the methodology effectively. Using the Weibull Distribution: Reliability,...

This book is a practical, task-based, step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates topics ranging from MVC code-separation, to code-modularity, to utilizing ActiveRecord for data abstraction which are explained from the ground-up to provide a strong framework of understanding for creating professional web-applications...