Paul Erland: 3 books

"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any doubt of its finality." -- William Ernest Hocking.Everyone thinks about death from time to time, even if no one really expects it to happen to them. In this book you'll find a wide-ranging collection...

Sully is a fifty-something-year-old barfly playing out his days, until a series of events rouses him, and opens the floodgates of memory. At the library, where he works, he’s asked to lead a Great Books class, and not until after he agrees does he discover that all the participants happen to be...

This is the first complete account of the physics of the creep and fracture of ice, and their interconnectivity. It investigates the deformation of low-pressure ice, which is fundamental to glaciers, polar ice sheets and the uppermost region of icy moons of the outer Solar System. The book discusses...