Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Guided by Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works. Each biography includes a glossary, timeline, and illustrations. An individual guide for each title provides reproducible activities to extend the text. Born in Germany in 1929, Anne Frank was a teenager during World War II. Because Anne was Jewish, she and her family were forced to escape the terror of the Holocaust that swept the continent. Beginning in 1942, Anne kept a diary of the difficult journey of her family. See how Anne’s family tried to escape the horror of the war, and how her diary became her best friend.

Albert Einstein

Multi-Objective Optimization in Physical Synthesis of Integrated Circuits

Multi-Objective Optimization in Physical Synthesis of Integrated Circuits

This book introduces techniques that advance the capabilities and strength of modern software tools for physical synthesis, with the ultimate goal to improve the quality of leading-edge semiconductor products. It provides a comprehensive introduction to physical synthesis and takes the reader methodically from first principles through state-of-the-art optimizations used in cutting edge industrial tools. It explains how to integrate chip optimizations in novel ways to create powerful circuit transformations that help satisfy performance requirements. Broadens the scope of physical synthesis optimization to include accurate transformations operating between the global and local scales; Integrates groups of related transformations to break circular dependencies and increase the number of circuit elements that can be jointly optimized to escape local minima; Derives several multi-objective optimizations from first observations through complete algorithms and experiments;Describes integrated optimization techniques that ensure a graceful timing closure process and impact nearly every aspect of a typical physical synthesis flow.

Multi-Objective Optimization in Physical Synthesis of Integrated Circuits

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Australia has been invaded. While the outnumbered Australian Defence Force fights on the ground, in the air and at sea, this quickly becomes a war involving ordinary people. Ben, an IT consultant has never fought a day in his life. Will he survive? Grant, a security guard at Sydney’s International Airport, finds himself captured and living in the filth and squalor of one of the concentration camps dotted around Australia. Knowing death awaits him if he stays, he plans a daring escape. This is a dark day in Australia’s history. This is terror, loneliness, starvation and adrenaline all mixed together in a sour cocktail. This is the day Australia fell.

The Reckoning

State of Rebellion

State of Rebellion

Everything has changed. After a devastating ambush that left the militia group Freedom Fighters struggling to survive, Cassidy Hart has been lucky to escape with her life. Along with her Commander and former Navy SEAL Chris Young, she’s made a shocking discovery concerning the whereabouts of her father. The militias have moved further into the mountains. And the secret that is kept there will come with a price. But when the National Guard arrives, Cassidy is faced with a choice that will force her to decide between her friends and her family. Omega is getting stronger. The fight for freedom looms on the horizon. It’s all or nothing. And Cassidy has no intention of giving up.

State of Rebellion

Precious Blood

Precious Blood

Dr Edward Jenner is a forensic pathologist and has performed thousands of autopsies but the killing of Andie Delore is different. She is marked with an ancient script. The sole eye witness is Andie’s flatmate and she turns to Dr Jenner for help. But when more victims are found it seems the killer is leading them into his own private nightmare, where there will be no escape.

Precious Blood

The Driver

The Driver

When you play with fire, everyone gets burned . . . Joe Weeks is new to the Grange Estate. Tolerant, doesnt mind a bit of weed, doesnt try to pull other mens women. Live and let live is his motto . . . Eddie Quinn is the hardest man on the estate. Everyone knows that its a bad idea to cross him, or his pit bull. But everyone also knows he’s honest, as drug dealers go. Joes pleased when Eddie offers him a job. But then he meets Katya. A prostitute. A slave. And desperate to escape from Eddie.

The Driver

Four Miles to Freedom

Four Miles to Freedom

When Flight Lieutenant Dilip Parulkar was shot down over Pakistan on 10 December 1971, he quickly turned that catastrophe into the greatest adventure of his life. On 13 August 1972, Parulkar, along with Malvinder Singh Grewal and Harish Sinhji, escaped from a POW camp in Rawalpindi. Four Miles to Freedom is their story. Based on interviews with eight Indian fighter pilots who helped prepare the escape and the two who escaped, as well as research into other sources, Four Miles is also the moving, sometimes amusing, account of how twelve fighter pilots from different ranks and backgrounds coped with deprivation, forced intimacy, and the pervasive uncertainty of a year in captivity, and how they came together to support Parulkars courageous escape plan.

Four Miles to Freedom

Where Youll Find Me

Where Youll Find Me

When Hanley Helton discovers a boy living in her garage, she knows she should kick himout. But Nate is too charming to be dangerous. He just needs a place to get away, which Hanley understands. Her own escape methodsvodka, black hair dye, and pretending thepast didn’t happenare more traditional, but who is she to judge? Nate doesn’t tell her why he’s in her garage, and she doesn’t tell him what she’s running from. Soon, Hanleys trading her late-night escapades for all-night conversations and stolen kisses. But when Nates recognized as the missing teen from the news, Hanley isn’tsure which is worse: that she’s harboring a fugitive, or that she’s in love with one.

Where Youll Find Me

Sword of Axia

Sword of Axia

The first volume of an epic new science fiction trilogy. Constantine Blas, Captain of a Federation Battlecruiser, is imprisoned when the sole surviving allied fleet is defeated by the religious fanatics of Axia. But Blas is not without friends. During the journey to the prison planet Nabucco I, a small group of rebels helps him to escape. Together with two other escaped prisoners, he begins to plan the fightback.

Sword of Axia

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

The Force Unleashed II

The Force Unleashed II

As ruthless apprentice to Darth Vader, Starkiller was mercilessly schooled in the ways of the dark side, commanded to exterminate the last of the purged Jedi Order, and groomed for the ultimate Sith power play: assassination of the Emperor. He served without question, killed without remorse, and lost his heart without warning to beautiful Imperial fighter pilot Juno Eclipse, never suspecting that he was just a tool in the schemes of his mastersuntil it was too late to escape their lethal betrayal.

The Force Unleashed II