Engine Summer

Engine Summer
Author: John Crowley
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 057508295X

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ...

Engine of Impact

Engine of Impact
Author: William F. Meehan III
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503603628

We are entering a new era—an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect. As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers "a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale." William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart from the rest of the nonprofit sector. Together, these components form an "engine of impact"—a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world. Drawing on decades of teaching, advising, grantmaking, and research, Meehan and Jonker provide an actionable guide that executives, staff, board members, and donors can use to jumpstart their own performance and to achieve extraordinary results for their organization. Along with setting forth best practices using real-world examples, the authors outline common management challenges faced by nonprofits, showing how these challenges differ from those faced by for-profit businesses in important and often-overlooked ways. By offering crucial insights on the fundamentals of nonprofit management, this book will help leaders equip their organizations to fire on all cylinders and unleash the full potential of the nonprofit sector. Visit www.engineofimpact.org for additional information.

The Holocaust Engine

The Holocaust Engine
Author: David Rike
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781622535606

A brain-rotting virus rages in the Florida Keys. The bewildered government destroys the mainland bridge and quarantines the islands. Soon, the population descends into chaos, as rival factions battle over dwindling resources, buildings become fortresses, boats lash together as defensible islands, and whole neighborhoods wall off into armed camps.

Advance the Engine Summer

Advance the Engine Summer
Author: Michael Leggs
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008-01-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0615196543

"Advance the Engine Summer" is the first published collection of poems by Saint Paul, Minnesota writer/musician Michael Leggs. He teaches English at Saint Paul College, and earned his M.A. in English at Kansas State University as a recipient of the William H. Hickok Creative Writing Fellowship. This collection includes selections previously published in The Argotist, Pith, and American Drivel Review.

Engine Summer

Engine Summer
Author: John Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1980
Genre: Science fiction, American
ISBN: 9780553131994

Snake's Hands

Snake's Hands
Author: Alice K. Turner
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1592240518

Brilliant, poetic, a master of fantastic symbolism and emotional portraiture, John Crowley is one of the finest contemporary American novelists. As Harold Bloom writes in his Preface to this book, "Crowley writes so magnificently that only a handful of living writers can equal him as a stylist . . . Of novelists, only Philip Roth consistently writes on Crowley's level." Engine Summer; Little, Big; Aegypt; Great Work of Time; The Translator: these are only the highlights of a twenty-five year literary career of extraordinary depth and eloquence. Yet Crowley has not been the subject of a full-length critical study until now; Snake's-Hands remedies this lack, in full. In Snake's-Hands, Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi assemble a host of brilliant essays on the fiction of John Crowley, by such eminent writers and critics as John Clute, Thomas M. Disch, James Hynes, Brian Attebery, and Bill Sheehan. Explore with them Crowley's fantasticated retellings of the Hundred Years' War and of innumerable beast fables; his subtle rendering of the bucolic decline of Earth; his astonishing, multi-leveled vision of the fairylands deep within mundane reality; his British Empire upon which the sun, heartbreakingly, never can set; his glowing, brooding trio of Hermetic masterpieces; his tale of poetry at war with nuclear annihilation. Wonders of artistry, the artistry of wonder: Crowley is a genius, and Snake's-Hands demonstrates this alluringly, in a potent mosaic of insights. Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley is the essential guide to the work of a great writer, and a landmark of criticism in its own right.

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Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka
Total Pages: 590
Release:
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Laser Diagnostics and Optical Measurement Techniques in Internal Combustion Engines

Laser Diagnostics and Optical Measurement Techniques in Internal Combustion Engines
Author: Hua Zhao
Publisher: SAE International
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0768077664

The increasing concern about CO2 emissions and energy prices has led to new CO2 emission and fuel economy legislation being introduced in world regions served by the automotive industry. In response, automotive manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers are developing a new generation of internal combustion (IC) engines with ultra-low emissions and high fuel efficiency. To further this development, a better understanding is needed of the combustion and pollutant formation processes in IC engines. As efficiency and emission abatement processes have reached points of diminishing returns, there is more of a need to make measurements inside the combustion chamber, where the combustion and pollutant formation processes take place. However, there is currently no good overview of how to make these measurements. Based on the author’s previous SAE book, Engine Combustion Instrumentation and Diagnostics, this book focuses on laser-based optical techniques for combustion flows and in-cylinder measurements. Included are new chapters on optical engines and optical equipment, case studies, and an updated description of each technique. The purpose of this book is to provide, in one publication, an introduction to experimental techniques that are best suited for in-cylinder engine combustion measurements. It provides sufficient details for readers to set up and apply these techniques to IC engines and combustion flows.