Everyone questions the meaning of unhappiness at some point, but no one has to suffer bad times alone. Author Viola Mari Settle contends that life is not supposed to be all happy, and it is how we choose to deal with the bad times that really counts. The good thing about going through the trials is learning how to handle them. Viola cautions us not to be like the person who builds his house on sand only to have it fail from instability. Instead, in her first book, Why the Wheels Keep Turning, she shows readers how to be like the wise who built their home on solid rock. Through revisiting her years of marriage and parenthood, as well as her experiences as an L.A. bus driver, Viola Mari Settle proves that handing problems over to Jesus is the key to a healthy and blessed life. Join Viola for the chaotic ride of life, and learn the lessons of patience, forbearance, strength in adversity, and most of all, Why the Wheels Keep Turning. Are you ready to give your all to the Master and fight the good fight of life? Author Viola Mari Settle lives in California with her children and grandchildren, and enjoys learning to appreciate all that life has to offer.

A helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland sends unexpected ripples through the international community in this intricate new thriller from the author of "Winterland" and "Limitless."

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

This is a story of George Henry Nolan spanning four decades between 1920 and 1960. His eldest brother Joe had controlled the family purse strings and lost his fathers fortune, amassed on the diamond diggings in South Africa, to the smooth operators on the Bikita Tinfields in 1932. George chose to go it alone. His story is also the tale of the many colourful characters he met along the road from wattle and daub to Lithium Lodge. Life in the mining camps and Jo-burg slums in the early days was tough, but, at times both hilarious and tragic. Prospecting in unexplored wild malaria infested country a health risk. His struggle with the incompetence and prejudice of the Ministry were endless. In the fifties he proved the economic value of the worlds largest petalite deposit. He then had to deal with the chicanery of the metal brokers, the lithium corporations and mining magnates. George had to learn fast the complicated art to straddle the ropes of big business.

Describes four steps to implementing a Total Productive Maintenance program, in chapters on preventive and predictive maintenance, computer methods, and other topics. Also provides the basic technical information to allow operators to repair the equipment they run, such as mechanical drives and flui