Andrew W Hess

The Forgotten Frontier: A History of the Sixteenth Century Ibero-African Frontier

Christmas in Oz

The Forgotten Frontier: A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political af...

Flight Test Lab: Airplanes

This combination book and model kit taps into kids' enduring interest in airplanes by bringing them into the hangar for a tour of how planes work, and then into the planes themselves for a pilot's eye view of what it's like to soar. Clear explanations of concepts like the law of motion are here, alo...

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems

Expert guidance on theory and practice in condition-based intelligent machine fault diagnosis and failure prognosisIntelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems gives a complete presentation of basic essentials of fault diagnosis and failure prognosis, and takes a look at the cut...

Hall of the Forgotten

The Hall of the Forgotten is a series of poems inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's Cask of Amontillado. A man who has been picked on, lost, and pushed aside wants to put his past behind him. What better way to cast them out than to encase them in their own private cells underneath a secluded mansion.

The Phoenix Blade

What would you do if everything you said and did was monitored and used to force you into working covertly for the government? College student Andrew Lancaster has had enough of corrupt politicians and corporate greed, but his anger filled rants may have gone too far. When Lancaster is contacted by ...

Toto and the Cats of Oz

The cats of Oz are staging a revolution led by the mysterious magical cat, Joom. They conquer the emerald City and are overrunning the rest of Oz. Toto has disappeared. Dorothy is worried about him. How can she find him in the midst of the trouble from the cats? Many of the others of your favor...

Christmas in Oz

A book about Merrie Christmas Pedersen going to Oz, meeting some of the usual characters and asisting in stoppping the Wicked Witch, Lorabie.