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Print: $30.00 Download: $19.62 The first book that explains why managing engineering is more difficult, more demanding and more important than managing any other human activity in modern society. It explains how, by adhering to the principles taught by Peter F. Drucker in his landmark book "The Practice of Management", managers can exploit the full potentials of their peoples’ talents and of changing technologies, methods and markets.
It brings together the whole range of methods used by the world's best performing engineering companies, including research, design, development, testing, production and maintenance. The philosophy and methods for achieving excellence in quality and reliability are fully described.
The book offers fresh insights into a wide range of current engineering management issues, including education, MBA training, quality and safety standards and the roles of institutions, cultures and governments in engineering.
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Print: $11.08 Download: $3.99 A saga of high adventure, sex, madness, catharsis and exploration of human relationships in a crazy world.
Walter Minion is an archetypical retired Englishman. His life is gentle and domesticated. But gradually little stresses mount, culminating in breakdown. His enforced therapy is to undertake a voyage that will test him to the extreme limits of his courage, fortitude, love and erotic resistance.
A wondrous girl mysteriously joins him. She is feminine perfection, but Walter discovers that she is also weirdly unnatural.
The two are caught up in a series of wild adventures as they cross oceans, make exotic landfalls and survive terrifying dangers. They encounter more people: good, evil and mad. Throughout their odyssey Walter faces tantalising prospects of submission and erotic rapture. He wrestles with the emotional conflicts that ensue, and with humanity’s stupidity and hatred, beauty and love. Walter’s therapy sails to a surprising finale, a counterpoint of tragedy and joyful triumph.
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Print: $8.96 Download: $1.34 Digby Brand was the son of an English vicar. He grew up in rural England, then in about 1900 he emigrated to Argentina. He worked on sheep and cattle estancias and travelled widely over most of Patagonia. He met and fell in love with a girl whose family was descended from the Welsh pioneers. He crossed the continent to establish a new estancia high in the Andes, over the border into Chile, in desolate and unexplored country. Eventually they married, crossed the pampas to the Andes together, and started their large family.
Their story is etched against the history of Patagonia, as they faced the harsh country and climate, hardship and isolation, joy and tragedy.
The book traces the family roots in England and in Patagonia, describes the land and its history, and tells the inspiring and poignant story of a pioneer.
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Print: $5.97 Download: $0.61 An extended essay about a child's life in Patagonia in the early 1900's
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Print: $12.23 Download: FREE The personal account by Lieut. Charles Brand, RN, of his journey across the Argentine Pampas and the Andes to Peru, and back, in 1827. Re-published from the Google Books edition, with permission.
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Print: $6.24 Download: FREE The author's early life in Trinidad and Barbados.
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Print: $5.81 Download: FREE The author's time in the Royal Air Force
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I received my engineering training at the UK Royal Air Force Technical College. I served for 16 years in the RAF Engineer Branch, including tours on aircraft maintenance and in the Reliability and Maintainability office of the Ministry of Defence (Air). I joined British Aerospace Dynamics in 1975, and was appointed Reliability Manager in 1980. In March 1993 I joined British Rail Research as Reliability Manager. Since 1995 I worked as an independent consultant on engineering management, reliability, quality and safety.
I am the author of "Practical Reliability Engineering", published by John Wiley (4th. edition 2002), “Test Engineering” (John Wiley 2001) and "The Practice of Engineering Management", (John Wiley 1994) (updated and re-published by Lulu as “The New Management of Engineering” in 2005). I am also the author of the chapter on reliability and quality engineering in the Academic Press Encyclopaedia of Physical Science and Technology, and until 1999 I was the UK editor of the Wiley journal "Quality and Reliability Engineering International". I have written many papers and articles on quality and reliability engineering,engineering management, and other topics. These are published by Lulu in "In My Humble Opinion".
Recently I have turned to fiction and biography. The first two books of the Walter Minion saga are published by Lulu, and there's more to come! "Digby Brand" is the story of my grandfather in Patagonia. "Four Seasons" is my mother's story of her childhood there.
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