Nevil Shute was a power & a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s & 30s. ...

Complete third season of the US sci-fi series starring Jerry O' Connell as Quinn Mallory, the boy genius who discovers the portal to an infinite number of parallel Earths, enabling him & his teacher, Professor Maximilian P. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) to 'slide' from world to world, accompanied by his female co-worker Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd)
- & Rembrandt ' Crying Man' Brown (Cleavant Derricks), a soul singer who just happens to be driving past Quinn's house at the moment of the experiment. In this series, the team help out on a world running low on natural resources, Quinn is captured by a tribe that think he's a wizard, & the team arrive on a terrifying planet where the human population has been wiped out by robots. Episodes are: ' Rules of the Game'; ' Double Cross'; ' Electric Twister Acid Test'; ' The Guardian'; ' The Dream Masters'; ' Desert Storm'; ' Dragonslide'; ' The Fire Within'; ' The Prince of Slides'; ' Dead Man Sliding'; ' State of the Art'; ' Season's Greedings'; ' Murder Most Foul'; ' Slide Like an Egyptian'; ' Paradise Lost'; ' The Exodus (Part 1)'; ' The Exodus (Part 2)'; ' Sole Survivors'; ' The Breeder'; ' The Last of Eden'; ' The Other Slide of Darkness'; ' Slither'; ' Dinoslide'; ' Stoker'; & ' This Slide of Paradise'.
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Complete fourth season of the US sci-fi series starring Jerry O' Connell as Quinn Mallory, the boy genius who discovers the portal to an infinite number of parallel Earths, enabling him & his teacher, Professor Maximilian P. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), to 'slide' from world to world. The pair are accompanied by Quinn's best friend & co-worker Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd) & Rembrandt ' Crying Man' Brown (Cleavant Derricks), a soul singer who just happens to be driving past Quinn's house at the moment of the experiment. Episodes comprise: ' Genesis', ' Prophets & Loss', ' Common Ground', ' Virtual Slide', ' World Killer', ' Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?', ' Just Say Yes', ' The Alternateville Horror', ' Slidecage', ' Asylum', ' California Reich', ' The Dying Fields', ' Lipchitz Live!', ' Mother & Child', ' Net Worth', ' Slide By Wire', ' Data World', ' Way Out West', ' My Brother's Keeper', ' The Chasm', ' Roads Taken' & ' Revelations'. ...

Having been fired from her job at a PR company, Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) runs to catch an underground train. Two storylines then unfold: in the first, Helen catches her train, meeting the charming James (John Hannah). Upon arriving home, Helen discovers her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) having an affair. She leaves Gerry & begins seeing James. Their relationship is placed in jeopardy, however, when Helen realizes that she is pregnant. In the second storyline, having missed her train Helen does not meet James & arrives home too late to catch Gerry. Gerry continues his affair with former girlfriend Lydia (Jeanne Tripplehorn), even when Helen becomes pregnant with his child. ...

Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is a universal design tool for the robust control of linear & nonlinear systems. This book explains the conventional SMC methodology while examining different design principles. It also

Includes:: chapters on automotive applications, chattering suppression, & control of power converters.

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Offering a snapshot of Orthodoxy Jewry in the United States, this book asks how the community has evolved in the years since World War II, & where it is headed. Incorporating everyday life, observations of cultural practices, descriptions of educational institutions, & more, it presents the varieties of Jewish Orthodox groups. ...

This book demonstrates the application of higher-order sliding-mode control to PEM Fuel Cell dynamics, from mathematical background modeling, to empirical data, to a feasibility study for the use of sliding modes in the control of an automotive fuel stack. ...