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Know How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t

In Know-How, Ram Charan, coauthor of the bestseller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, gives readers a bold new approach to understanding leadership. Charan suggests that when it comes to choosing our business leaders, we don’t recognize the crucial difference between the appearance of leadership and the actual ability to run a business. We [...]

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Monday, December 29th, 2008 Business No Comments

Atmospheric Re-Entry Vehicle Mechanics

Atmospheric Re-Entry Vehicle Mechanics
Springer | ISBN: 3540736468 | 2007-12-10 | PDF |354 pages | 8 Mb
Ballistic reentry vehicles, capsules and planetary probes are the fastest human designed objects to fly through planet鈥檚 atmospheres. With velocities over Mach 20, RV鈥檚 have to dissipate a huge kinetic energy, and environment may exceed 100 g鈥檚 at center of [...]

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Monday, December 29th, 2008 Uncategorized No Comments

Surfing through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons

Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN 0195130065 | 1999-08-16| PDF | 272 pages | 15.46 MBDo a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be [...]

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Monday, December 1st, 2008 Technical No Comments