Most Popular Books by Ian Graham

Illustrations and text describe how humans have tried to learn more about space and some of the equipment and vehicles used to do this.

Focuses on communication in business, in the home, from space, and through the telephone, television, and computers.

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Patriots & Tyrants: A Black Shuck Thriller "Ian Graham writes the kind of stories I want to read. Full on, Action packed, adrenaline fueled. Keep your eye on this author, he''s going to be a big name in thrillers before long." - Matt Hilton (author of the Joe Hunter thriller series) During the fall of the Soviet Union an elite team of operatives were trained on the steppes of Russia. Loyal to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, they were created for a single purpose; to bring about the downfall of the entire British government in one terrifying attack. They were known only by their codename, Black Shuck. In the years that followed—betrayed from within by the internal power struggles of the IRA—the team members were hunted down. Forced into a battle for their lives, three survived, fading into the turbulent streets of Northern Ireland. To this day, their identities remain a mystery— but nothing can stay hidden forever. ---------- Patriots & Tyrants is a suspense laden, action filled collection of stories featuring characters from the upcoming Black Shuck thriller series that follows former IRA volunteer turned American patriot, Declan McIver. Can Mossad agent Abaddon Kafni capture an Iranian arms dealer? Can former IRA volunteer Declan McIver stop a friend from being murdered in Boston''s seedy underworld? Can internationally feared assassin Torrance "AU" Sands succeed in killing a vicious cult leader? Can Russian soldiers capture Chechen terrorist Ruslan Baktayev in the aftermath of the Beslan School Massacre?

Explains why computers and other technologies are revolutionizing communications and covers fibre-optics, cable and satellite TV, videotex, facsimilie transmission, and electronic mail.

Text, simple diagrams, and illustrations introduce race cars, complex vehicles designed to be driven safely at very high speeds.

Offers a humorous but factual look at the life of a laborer working on the transcontinental railroad.

This book explores some of the science and technology used in the entertainment industry.

Many commercial organizations are deciding to adopt object technology. To make the transition successfully, it is essential to work out a migration strategy covering technical, managerial, and educational issues. This book--for software team managers, project leaders, software engineers, and others--presents such a strategy, and includes a fully enabled CASE tool that automates the process.

Examines the enormous risks involved in salvage operations, both on the surface and below the water, and discusses the equipment used.

Describes different kinds of motorcycles and how they are designed, discussing such topics as engine power, superbikes, off-road racers, and drag racing.

A guide to the capabilities, software, and hardware of transputer parallel processing systems. Not intended as a substitute for engineering data when detailed design decisions are to be made. Programming examples are in C (rather than occam). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Discusses various modes of transportation on wheels, on water, on the tracks, in the air and in space.

Discusses the history, technology, and future of different types of tanks, focusing on the engines, weapons, crews, defenses, combat use, and the development of anti-tank weapons.

Surveys different types of trucks around the world, discussing how they operate and what they do.

Describes important inventions in medicine, transportation, communications, and power, and the men and women responsible for them.

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world. Each volume in the series consists of three fascicles, which examine an individual site or group of neighboring sites and include maps of site location and plans indicating the placement of monuments within each site. Each inscription is reproduced in its entirety in both photographs and line drawings. The text of each volume presents descriptive information about the sites and monuments and their associated artifacts. -- Publisher''s description.