The definition and solution of engineering problems relies on the ability to represent systems and their behaviour in mathematical terms.Mathematics for Electrical Technicians 4/5 provides a simple and practical guide to the fundamental mathematical skills essential to technicians and engineers. This second edition has been revised and expanded to cover the BTEC Higher - 'Mathematics for Engineers' module for Electrical and Electronic Engineer...
The poems in this collection are concerned with religion, politics, love, nature, sadness, joy and other matters having a critical bearing on the human condition. Many of them have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, been read on the radio, or been successful in competitions. I hope all my readers, whether poetry buffs or not, will find something here to enjoy and ponder.
Alby and Me is a powerful and poignant evocation of the friendship of two teenager boys growing up on a tough English housing estate in the late 1940s. Set against a background of family strife, it is a gritty, compelling, often humorous, account of a critical period in the boys' lives as they encounter bullies, sexually savvy girls, a suicide, and God. It is a story touched with both joy and sadness and has an ending many may find hard to for...
Provides a simple guide to the fundamental skills essential to technicians and engineers. Basic mathematical principles are consolidated, establishing a common base for further progress. Includes coverage of simple engineering systems, generation of numerical values for system parameters, manipulation of data to determine system response in defined conditions and evaluation of system effects from changes in variables. Comprehension is reinforc...
What would animals say to us humans if they could talk. In this little book, aimed at kids from 9 to 99, the thoughts and observations of a varied group of animals from around the world are imagined and, for fun, rendered in rhyming poems.
The 26 animals in the collection - one for each letter of the alphabet - hang out in such locations as the Amazon rainforest, the Africa deserts, the Arctic ocean, and the gardens of England. They include t...