New Releases by Mike JACKSON

This is the most comprehensive collection of art from the ground-breaking animated series, ReBoot!

General Sir Mike Jackson''s illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army. This autobiography aims to exhibits the qualities for which Jackson is admired; his professionalism, his honesty, his directness, his exuberance and his sense of humour.

A biography of the Wright brothers, who became famous as the inventors of the airplane.

Deflection-based techniques are being widely used to evaluate the structural integrity and for estimating the elastic moduli of in-service pavements. These deflections can be non-destructively induced and measured using various commercially available devices. In recent years, the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) has gained worldwide acceptance among most highway agencies due to its versatility and ease of use. However, as with any testing using subject-driven, instrumented devices, the major concerns of the end usefulness of the resulting data are accuracy and precision. Although a level of uncertainty is always inherent to any measurement process, it must also be appropriately quantified or assessed. Therefore, the Florida Department of Transportation initiated the present field study to assess the level of precision of FWD measurements on flexible pavements. Deflection data were acquired using three FWD units concurrently on four different asphalt pavement sections. The precision was then addressed in terms of testing repeatability and reproducibility. In addition, the effects of buffer designs on deflection measurements were also evaluated. This paper presents a description of the testing program, data collection efforts, and subsequent analyses and findings. Precision statements for repeatability and reproducibility of field measurements were developed and are summarized herein. A generally high level of repeatability and reproducibility of the deflection measurements is demonstrated.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 22, held in Sunderland, UK in July 2005. The 16 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatio-temporal databases, data integration and information retrieval, XML, and applied information management.

The third title in this well-received series of guides to the major British motorways. Following the success of the M5 Sights Guide (now put of print) and the M6 Sights Guide (available from all good book shops), Mike Jackson has now travelled, examined and photographed the M4 from end to end - starting north of Swansea and ending at Chiswick flyover. It''s over 200 miles long and has nearly 300 photographed sights. It''s packed with an intriguing exploration of the communities around the carriageway and offers incisive commentary on the culture, businesses, attitudes and environment through which the carriageway passes. Like the previous books, it''s irreverent and avoids replicating the tourist or public relations literature. Instead it reveals little known and often funny facts about the institutions we are passing. What''s going on behind those doors? Which famous people have lived in those big houses? What do they make in that factory? What terrible things have happened in that hotel? What do the guide books never tell you about Windsor Castle? From coal-mining to computers, horses to Heathrow, poverty to affluence. see from the carriageway. Guaranteed to makes journeys along any part or all of the M4 hugely more enlightening.

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the serial storage interface that has been designed to replace and upgrade SCSI, by far the most popular storage interface for high-performance systems for many years. Retaining backward compatibility with the millions of lines of code written to support SCSI devices, SAS incorporates recent advances in high-speed serial design to provide better performance, better reliability and enhanced capabilities, all at a lower cost. SAS will be a significant part of many future high-performance storage systems, and hardware designers, system validation engineers, device driver developers and others working in this area will need a working knowledge of it.SAS Storage Architecture provides a comprehensive guide to the SAS standard. The book contains descriptions and numerous examples of the concepts presented, using the same building block approach as other MindShare offerings. This book details important concepts relating to the design and implementation of storage networks.Specific topics of interest include:SATA Compatibility Expander devices Discovery Process Connection protocols Arbitration of competing connection requests Flow Control protocols ACK/NAK protocol Primitives ? construction and uses Frames ? format, definition, used of each field Error checking mechanisms Description of responsibilities for each layer: Application layer ? mode and log pages Transport Layer ? frame construction Port Layer ? call center model Link Layer ? establish and maintain connections Phy Layer ? OOB, Initialization, and Reset Physical Layer ? connectors and cablesSerial Support ? serial transmission support requirements The future of SAS ? competition with SATA and Fibre Channel in the server marketplace

Simple explanations of the natural world and introductions to different times and places! Colorful titles feature fictional children exploring factual topics ina charming, easy-to-read presentation. Beginning readers can learn about nature, recent history, and international cultures through books they can read for themselves.

Explore the different types of clothes worn by children around the world.

Simple explanations of the natural world and introductions to different times and places Colorful titles feature fictional children exploring factual topics ina charming, easy-to-read presentation. Beginning readers can learn about nature, recent history, and international cultures through books they can read for themselves.Two children on a worldwide magic carpet ride experience the richness of diverse cultures.

A title from the Rainbows series of first information books for beginning and developing readers. The series is grouped into three levels by interest and readability and then subdivided further by topic. This book makes a trip around the world to see the homes of children from different cultures.

This is part of a series of first information books for children learning to read and for developing readers. In this story three children experiment with their senses as they taste lemons, smell roses and listen to the sounds around them.

Provides instructions for making a zylophone from glass bottles, bongos from shoe boxes, and other instruments from other commonly available items.