Bøker av Roger King

Un immortale è preoccupato per la sorte della Terra. Dal suo pianeta osserva pensieroso una coppia al chiaro di luna abbracciati sulla spiaggia. Riflette. Gli umani hanno il dono del sentimento e vuole capire l'innesco. Importante sapere come si accende la scintilla che avverte in loro e sfruttarla per altri scopi. Può fare di tutto, ma il sentimento non riesce a comprenderlo per gestirlo a suo piacimento. In quel momento decide che la cosa più giusta sia scommettere su un terrestre e l'occasione, è lì, proprio alla sua portata.Quella coppia non saprà mai quanto sarà speciale quella persona concepita sulla spiaggia per chissà quale volontà. Gli umani avranno l'ultima possibilità di cogliere il meglio da questo dono chiamato amore. Sperando, che sia anche verso la Terra.

"The Mystery of the Ages." God the father told Daniel to seal the words till the time of the end. Daniel chapter 12:4 & 9. What did Daniel seal? You will be amazed.

Placing the making of the dentiste within social, political and technical contexts, this book aims to receal the origins of the dentiste in the French surgical profession. This new sphere of practice represented a radical departure from what had gone before as this book reveals.

By turns insightful, comic, affecting, and profound, Roger King's Love and Fatigue in America briskly compresses an illness, a nation, and an era through masterly blending of literary forms. In a work that defies categorisation, and never loses its pace or poise, the debilitated narrator is, ironically, the most lively and fully awake figure in the book.

This is an up-to-date textbook which takes fully into account recent developments in political sociology. Taking as its starting point the fragmentation of the discipline, it covers a wide range of new issues and debates as well as the more traditional concerns of the subject.

This book is an introduction to managing threats in pipelines. Everyone working in the pipeline industry - and anyone concerned with safe and reliable operation of pipelines - needs to be aware of threats and must understand how the resulting risks are managed.The book opens with an introductory overview and a chapter on 'Pipeline Engineering Principles,' which introduces the reader to the infrastructure that transports our energy around the world: crude oil and natural gas pipelines. It also gives basic principles in pipeline engineering and explains some pipeline design concepts.Pipelines are made using steel tubes called 'line pipe,' and Chapter 3, 'Line Pipe Principles,' covers the manufacture of this line pipe and the standards used to ensure high quality. Chapter 4, an 'Introduction to In-line inspection, or ILI - the use of inspection tools inside a pipeline - reviews the in-line inspection tools available today for inspecting all the types of high-pressure pipelines.Chapters 5 through 12 cover some of the main threats to pipelines: corrosion, cracking, mechanical damage, geohazards, material and construction defects, theft, and specific threats to submarine pipelines. Chapter 13, 'Pipeline Defect Assessment Basics,' introduces the reader to methods for assessing the significance of pipeline defects such as corrosion and dents.Chapter 14 is devoted to 'Pipeline Integrity Management.' Integrity management is part of asset management and includes the many and varied activities pipeline operators must undertake to ensure that releases of products from their pipelines do not occur.In the final chapter several eminent figures in the pipeline industry share their thoughts on the state of current technology and the needs and promise of the future.

An integrated account of the state in the contemporary world, this text provides an accessible but informed introduction for students. It covers the rise of the state and argues that its power and influence are in decline in the face of globalization and new forms of governance in the 21st century.