Coincidence Engine
Coincidence Engine

Author: Sam Leith

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2012-02-07

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0307716449

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“A tremendous novel—droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.” —William Boyd, Author of Any Human Heart and Restless.” A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the interest of the enigmatic Directorate of the Extremely Improbable. Their fascination with this random event sets into motion a madcap caper that will bring together a hilarious cast of characters, including: an eccentric mathematician, last heard of investigating the physics of free will; a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to America with a ring in his pocket and hope in his heart; and a member of the Directorate with no capacity for imagination. What ensues is a chaotic chase across a fully realized, hyper-real America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and conspiracy. The Coincidence Engine is a lively, boisterous debut that heralds the arrival of a major new talent.

Automotive Software Engineering
Automotive Software Engineering

Author: Thomas Zurawka

Publisher: SAE International

Published: 2016-09-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0768079926

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Since the early seventies, the development of the automobile has been characterized by a steady increase in the deploymnet of onboard electronics systems and software. This trend continues unabated and is driven by rising end-user demands and increasingly stringent environmental requirements. Today, almost every function onboard the modern vehicle is electronically controlled or monitored. The software-based implementation of vehicle functions provides for unparalleled freedoms of concept and design. However, automobile development calls for the accommodation of contrasting prerequisites – such as higher demands on safety and reliability vs. lower cost ceilings, longer product life cycles vs. shorter development times – along with growing proliferation of model variants. Automotive Software Engineering has established its position at the center of these seemingly conflicting opposites. This book provides background basics as well as numerous suggestions, rare insights, and cases in point concerning those processes, methods, and tools that contribute to the surefooted mastery of the use of electronic systems and software in the contemporary automobile.

Motor City Muscle
Motor City Muscle

Author: Mike Mueller

Publisher: MotorBooks International

Published: 2011-02-11

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0760339449

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Muscle cars all but disappeared by 1974, but by the 1990s, thanks to improved engine technology, they were back with a vengeance. This book traces the full history right up to today's new Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger.

Investigation of the National Defense Program: Aircraft contracts-Hughes Aircraft Co., Aircraft procurement-activities of Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, Nov. 5-8, 10-15, 17-22, 1947
Investigation of the National Defense Program: Aircraft contracts-Hughes Aircraft Co., Aircraft procurement-activities of Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, Nov. 5-8, 10-15, 17-22, 1947

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program

Publisher:

Published: 1941

Total Pages: 1480

ISBN-13:

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Part 41, focuses on Navy fuel purchase contracts for Saudi Arabian oil and businesses' use of institutional advertising for tax exemptions during and after the war.

The Collected Stories of Rumpole
The Collected Stories of Rumpole

Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-04-04

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 0141198826

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Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.