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"With over a thousand realistic practice questions and detailed answer explanations, Ultimate Aptitude Tests provides essential practice for test takers. The book offers practical skills and understanding of psychological tests, abstract visual tests, verbal and numerical reasoning aptitudes, recruitment tests, aptitude assessment, and different types of mechanical and spatial tests. This updated third edition contains a new section to cover the variety...

Revised and updated edition study guide for the HESI A2 nursing exam.

Follow the creation and testing of the world's first stealth bomber, the B-2 Spirit.

"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...

"Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his...

In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.