New Releases by Michael Carr

For more than twenty years, shipment consolidation has been utilized as a method to significantly decrease the cost of transporting goods, people, and information. Due to ever-increasing fuel costs and customer expectations, consolidation strategies are becoming even more important in the freight transportation industry. The hub-and-spoke model has also been widely recognized as an effective design for shipment consolidation. This shipment consolidation takes advantage of transportation economies of scale by gathering the shipments from clustered origins around a transshipment center, called a hub, transporting them in bulk to other hubs, and distributing the shipments to clustered destinations. This research proposes mathematical models and solution methodologies that will determine the optimal set of hub-to-hub routes for the consolidation and transportation of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments, shipments that were originally transported individually by commercial trucking. Data from a Fortune-500 manufacturing company concerning a large-scale domestic LTL network has been provided as a case example for the proposed methods. Results are given in which 8 scenarios are identified to save transportation costs when compared to previous policy. The methods can also be extended or tailored in a variety of ways.

How can you protect your kids if you don''t know where they are? Few parents would let their children wander the streets at all hours or meet with strangers, but kids do that and more on the internet without even leaving their bedrooms. Do you know the people your daughter chats with online every night? Is your son being cyberbullied? Have you seen the videos your kids are downloading? Michael Carr-Gregg urges parents to venture into the online world inhabited by their children and get in touch with their day-to-day lives. He explains what kids get up to, provides guidelines for family internet safety and advises how to minimise the risks without limiting your children''s freedom to learn, explore and communicate online. The internet has changed parenting forever. Carr-Gregg provides an essential guide to the online world of today''s real wired children, from toddlers to teenagers.

This book will give you an insight into what it was like in the beginning before the earth, as we know it, was formed. You will also find some very interesting events that occurred before Adam was created. The biblical origins of mankind are not what most theologians believe, nor is it what most scientists believe. Those of us who believe there are other life forms in the universe will receive confirmation through the scriptures. This will be a book that will be hard to put down. Grab your Bible and follow along! You will be amazed!

Our knowledge of Mars has grown enormously over the last decade as a result of the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the two Mars Rover missions. This book is a systematic summary of what we have learnt about the geological evolution of Mars as a result of these missions. It describes the diverse Martian surface features and summarizes current ideas as to how, when, and under what conditions they formed, and explores how Earth and Mars differ and why the two planets evolved so differently. The author also discusses possible implications of the geologic history for the origin and survival of indigenous Martian life. Up-to-date and highly illustrated, this book will be a principal reference for researchers and graduate students in planetary science. The comprehensive list of references will also assist readers in pursuing further information on the subject. Colour images can be found at www.cambridge.org/9780521872010.

Christians are called to bear a cross. These crosses sometimes involve the general burdens that affect everyone. At other times Christians bear specific burdens. The Lord promises us that our crosses and burdens can be transformed into small splinters if we focus on what really matters. How can this happen? You will find the answer in Splinters of the Cross ... the same answer that was found by Abraham, Moses, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and many more: God''s grace is sufficient for you.

Weather Predicting Simplified is the first book that shows the reader, with many sample satellite photos and weather maps, how to predict the weather easily and accurately - without having to wait for hours for NOAA updates.

This text introduces modern geographical theory in an accessible format and reflects the changing nature of the subject. The in-depth analysis of topics, consolidated by extensive reference to case study material makes this textbook an essential.