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All Aboard! Stowaway with 13-year-old Ray Shaw and his scraggly mutt to experience our nation’s worst maritime disaster with more lives lost than on the Titanic! Within the pages of this detailed, historically accurate, 7-day time-line chronicle you will meet the Civil War soldiers and real-life civilian passengers aboard the Sultana. Relive the days leading up to the disaster and find out what happened on that fateful night in the frigid waters of the Mississippi? Who will survive? ~A Historical Fiction Novella for Young Adults and Adults. Ideal for incorporation into Civil War curriculum~

Humans have tried to understand the nature of diseases forthousands of years. Knowledge about a disease can inspiremethods for treating the illness and measures for avoiding the illness.For a long time, doctors thought that some unseen thing inthe air brought disease. The invention of the microscope revealedthe existence of bacteria. The presence of the tiny life forms suggesteda cause of diseases that spread from one person to another.Then, scientists proposed that some infectious diseases were causedby agents smaller than bacteria. These agents were too small for themicroscope. They were almost invisible.

N ations around the world already require staggering amountsof energy for use in the transportation, manufacturing, heatingand cooling, and electricity sectors, and energy requirementscontinue to increase as more people adopt more energy-intensivelifestyles. Meeting this ever-growing demand in a way that minimizesenvironmental disruption is one of the central problems ofthe 21st century. Proposed solutions are complex and fraught withunintended consequences.The six-volume Energy and the Environment set is intended toprovide an accessible and comprehensive examination of the history,technology, economics, science, and environmental and socialimplications, including issues of environmental justice, associatedwith the acquisition of energy and the production of power. Eachvolume describes one or more sources of energy and the technologyneeded to convert it to useful working energy. Considerable emphasis is placed on the science on which the technology is based, thelimitations of each technology, the environmental implications ofits use, questions of availability and cost, and the way that governmentpolicies and energy markets interact. All of these issues areessential to understanding energy. Each volume also includes aninterview with a prominent person in the field addressed. Interviewtopics range from the scientific to the highly personal, and revealadditional and sometimes surprising facts and perspectives.Nuclear Energy discusses the physics and technology of energyproduction, reactor design, nuclear safety, the relationship betweencommercial nuclear power and nuclear proliferation, and attemptsby the United States to resolve the problem of nuclear waste disposal.It concludes by contrasting the nuclear policies of Germany, theUnited States, and France. Harold Denton, former director of theOffice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the U.S. Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, is interviewed about the commercial nuclear industryin the United States.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.