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Since the disaster in 1912, one area of the Titanic story has been overlooked. That place is Belfast, the city of her birth. This book details the events in Belfast from the time of Titanic's conception and laying of her keel to the time when Belfast and Ulster mourned the loss of loved ones on the ship's only voyage.
Offers an account of the sinking of the 'Princess Victoria' in January, 1953 and loss of 136 lives. The book covers her construction through to the final search for survivors after the vessel was no more. This book poses the question: was this a tragedy that could have been avoided?
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tools and strategies enable the capture, management, storage and delivery of an organisation's information, wherever that information exists. The book is essential reading for any executive contemplating or managing their information strategies and any enterprise architect involved in managing the delivery of an ECM solution.
Stephen Cryer is a carefree young man who has just graduated from high school and is beginning to feel the freedom of living away from home. Like so many other young people, he is drawn to the partying lifestyle he and his friends are beginning to enjoy too much. Stephen has a girlfriend and a good relationship with his father, and he doesn’t seem to have any worries in his life. That is until he meets an unusual man who is known to everyone by the name of H. Stephen tries hard to be successful in his classes at college but is constantly allowing himself to be distracted by the nightlife he thoroughly enjoys. During a break from college, Stephen goes home for Thanksgiving and finds out he has to face the demons that remained behind with his father and his brothers. Upon his return from break, Stephen falls deeper and deeper into an unhealthy lifestyle of going out night after night. His life begins to unravel in ways he could not possibly have anticipated. All the while, H remains his close companion during Stephen’s descent into a madness of his own making.
Today's gangsters are streets apart from the old-style gang lords of the Fifties and Sixties. The godfathers of old were seen by many as a stabilising influence. Their power inspired respect and they well and truly kept the underworld in check. The twenty-first century gangs of Britain are far more shady.Their brutality has spread far and wide and they live and thrive in our midst, on the streets and in suburbs where ordinary folk live. The creeping tentacles of crime have never stretched further. Organised crime is now worth more than GBP 10 billion in Britain every year. The old crimes of prostitution and extortion are being dropped in favour of multi-million pound drug deals, bringing gan...
Belfast once had the largest shipyard in the world, Harland and Wolff. It was there in 1912 that probably the most infamous ship, The Titanic, departed from the lough and sailed into the history books. This book traces the growth of the ship building industry in Belfast via stories from the small number of families responsible.
28 stories about life at sea.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing, GMP 2008, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2008. The 34 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 113 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum in the area of geometric modeling and processing and address topics such as curves and surfaces, digital geometry processing, geometric feature modeling and recognition, geometric constraint solving, geometric optimization, multiresolution modeling, and applications in computer vision, image processing, scientific visualization, robotics and reverse engineering.
Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes when unpredictable behavior patterns make it unclear who is the hunter and who is the hunted. Sheriff John Cabrelli and the new Musky Falls chief of police work swiftly to keep the community calm as they try to piece together the clues before it is too late. Musky Run is the fourth book in the award-winning Northern Lakes Mystery series, following Figure Eight, Spider Lake, and Bough Cutter.