The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke

The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke
Author: Siân Pattenden
Publisher: Short Books
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2006
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781904977513

With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is--and isn't. He explains the ways scientists have approached and developed fusion and discusses its advantages over other forms of energy production. Mention nuclear fusion--the joining of two light atoms to form a heavier one--and most people think of bombs. But fusion has other uses, too. Inside an encapsulated space at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, scientists test the Z Machine, a pulsed power structure that uses electricity and magnetism to produce nuclear fusion. Although much of the research has focused on the development of nuclear weaponry, the Z Machine--along with the ITER machine in France and the National Ignition Facility in California, also discussed in suitable detail--may also help scientists find a way to harness fusion energy in order to provide clean, renewable energy to the world's growing population.

Children's Book Review Index

Children's Book Review Index
Author: Dana Ferguson
Publisher: Children's Book Review Index C
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780787679385

The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.

The Times Index

The Times Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1768
Release: 2006
Genre: Times (London, England)
ISBN:

Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist
Author: Greg Sestero
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476730407

"In 2003, an independent film called The room ... made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head,' the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The room is an international cult phenomenon ... In [this book], actor Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film's long, strange journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans ... as well as the question that plagues the uninitiated: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made?"--

Operation Ward Ten

Operation Ward Ten
Author: Sian Pattenden
Publisher: Short Books
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2007
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781904977896

As Agatha Bilke sits in A and E at the Rottington Hospital, she knows she's done something awful . . . or has she? The trouble is she can't remember a thing. Covered in bandages, she finds herself admitted to the children's ward, filled with patients who have been there for months with no sign of improvement Dennis Guffe a boy with stomach pains, Holbeck Folbeck, a trust-fund kid with a 20-a-day habit (and a bad foot), and the obnoxiously nice Cauliflo wer Trinkle (is she thick?). The Worst Girl Ever Known to Humanity was never going to be a cooperative patient, and when an X-ray reveals a ghastly truth the sort of thing you wouldn't want anyone finding out about you she flees the hospital. In this hilarious sequel to The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke, Agatha performs routine heart surgery, carjacks an ambulance and uncovers the cause of a National Disaster. But what has she done with Cauliflower? And can she stop 'Holby' finding out herterrible secret?

The Magical Peppers and the Island of Invention

The Magical Peppers and the Island of Invention
Author: Sian Pattenden
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0007430388

A strange old theatre at the end of the pier is the setting for the next fantastic adventure full of magic and mayhem with unbeatable double act, Esme & Monty Pepper, and their madcap Uncle Potty...

Complexity Explained

Complexity Explained
Author: Peter Erdi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007-11-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540357785

This book explains why complex systems research is important in understanding the structure, function and dynamics of complex natural and social phenomena. It illuminates how complex collective behavior emerges from the parts of a system, due to the interaction between the system and its environment. Readers will learn the basic concepts and methods of complex system research. The book is not highly technical mathematically, but teaches and uses the basic mathematical notions of dynamical system theory, making the book useful for students of science majors and graduate courses.