National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [PDF ebook] 
Volume 12

In this life-affirming book, author David Shaw explores ten major themes that affect us all – and offers a unique way to engage with them.Whether it’s fear or forgiveness, credence or clarity, materi …

A novel chronicle that speaks of cruelty and torture in Uzbekistan. …

‘I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges.’ When …

_____________ A charming account of the life of Dorice Greenfield; dancer, wife, mother and now, author. At fifteen, Dorice runs away from her evacuated school campus, and the relative safety of the …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway”s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson”s cruise to the cannibal-infested S …

A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city”s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer bec …

Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down… At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start …

This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan”s northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in re …

The children were scared and confused, but most importantly, they felt lost when the one person who is supposed to love you and care for you, abandon you and cares more about the men in her life rath …