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The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build»rank: 6843by: Martijn Boogaarts, Jonathan A. Daudelin, Brian L. Davis, Jim Kelly, Lou Morris, Fay and Rick Rhodes, Matthias Paul Scholz, Christopher R. Smith, Rob Torok
: :If you're serious about having fun with LEGO robotics, you've come to the right place. The team behind The NXT STEP blog - the authoritative online source for MINDSTORMS NXT information and advice - has packaged its considerable skills and experience in this book. Inside, you'll find some of the team's best ideas for creating cool and sophisticated models, including instructions for eight robots you can build yourself. Follow along with the MINDSTORMS NXT experts as they explain the fundamentals of programming and design, accompanied by CAD-style drawings and an abundance of screenshots that make it easy for you to master the MINDSTORMS NXT system. You'll get an overview of ... |
The Truelove (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 15.)»rank: 1728957by: Patrick O'Brian
: :The 15th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.This splendid installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely acclaimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Friendly Isles (Tonga) at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R.N., is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cabletier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom ... |
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Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin)»rank: 1850611by: Patrick O'Brian
: :Read by Tim Pigott-SmithThree Cassettes, 5 HoursThe 20th and final installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Jack Aubrey: drunken, violent celebrations on the English sailors in Gibraltar; the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. In the end, Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior ... |
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey/Maturin)»rank: 1836976by: Patrick O'Brian
: :Three Cassettes, 5 hrs. 15 min. abridgedPerformance by Tim Pigott-SmithJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back in the 16th installment in Patrick O'Brian's bestselling series.At the outset of this adventure, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son: Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes ... |
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The Nutmeg of Consolation (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 14.)»rank: 1605261by: Patrick O'Brian
: :The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements ... |
The Thirteen Gun Salute»rank: 1818177by: Patrick O'Brian
: :The 13th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (on a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin–his friend, ship’s surgeon and sometimes intelligence agent–on a diplomatic mission to prevent between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer ... |
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Treason's Harbour»rank: 1643856by: Patrick O'Brian
: :Read by Tim Pigott-Smith3 cassettes/ 5 hoursThe 9th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin seriesAll of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage; for the dockyards and saloons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission. Review:This segment of the Aubrey saga is set in Malta, where the captain's 'small, sweet-sailing frigate' is undergoing repairs. The island, however, ... |
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey-Maturin)»rank: 2107010by: Patrick O'Brian
: :3 cassettes/ 5 hoursRead by Tim Pigott-SmithThe 11th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian readers and listeners have come to expect. Review:Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him ... |
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The Mauritius Command (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 4.)»rank: 1421708by: Patrick O'Brian
: :Read by Tim Pigott-Smith3 Cassettes, Approx. 5 1/4 hoursThe 4th installmentin Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin seriesCaptain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command--until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands or Mauritius and LaReunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains--Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilletante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny. Review:Sounding every bit the proper English gentleman, narrator Tim Pigott-Smith gives a delightfully entertaining, yet appropriately restrained ... |
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey-Maturin)»rank: 1796393by: Patrick O'Brian
: :3 cassettes/ Approx. 5 hoursRead byThe 12th installment in the Aubrey/ Maturin series.The time is the early 1800s, and the British Navy stands as the only bulwark against the militant fanaticism of Napoleonic France. Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime his has not committed. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually acting as the ship's surgeon to cover his activities on behalf of British intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his old ship The Surprise to command as a privateer. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace.From ... |