![]() ![]() Kirkus Reviews also commented that the book's plot was "preposterous" but stated that the readers "won't care". Common Sense Media praised Stormbreaker for its action sequences, but criticised its dialogue and logic. The aim of the attack was to kill hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren and their teachers.Ĭritical reception for Stormbreaker was mixed to positive, with the book being placed on multiple ALA lists. There he discovers the Stormbreaker computer factory where millions of computers were being filled with biological weapons which would give smallpox to the user. He is sent undercover to Port Tallen, Cornwall. ![]() ![]() The protagonist, Alex Rider, after the suspicious death of his uncle, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6. Ī film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2006, which performed poorly at the box office and earned negative reception. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. The book was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2000, and in United States release on, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. ![]() Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Shift omnibus![]() ![]() Vector-control scheme is employed to achieve decoupled control of direct-axis and quadrature-axis currents. An inner current control and outer dc voltage more » control loop is built for controlling the AFEC. The dynamic model of an AFEC in the synchronous reference frame (SRF) is presented. Such a controller eliminates the left-half plane (LHP) zero in the command-to-output transfer function for dc bus voltage regulation that is inherent to the conventional 1DOF-PI for this application. This paper proposes a two degree-of-freedom type proportional-integral controller (2DOF-PI) for the regulation of dc bus voltage in an AFEC. In most of the research, a conventional one degree-of-freedom type proportional-integral controller (1DOF-PI) is used for the regulation of the dc bus voltage in an Active Front-End Converter (AFEC). ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Nettleblack by Nat Reeve![]() ![]() She was raised in Wales, then sent by Edwina to study at Girton, for her social advancement. But Henry hasn’t lived in this town of Dallyangle for long. She sets off with ambitions of escaping to London, sure that there must be a train station somewhere in the town. So she makes a rash decision to run away from home. For the sheltered, socially awkward and perpetually anxious Henry, this is the worst fate imaginable. Edwina has decided it will be Henry who achieves this. It was their dead father’s wish that at least one of his daughters marry into the nobility. ![]() ![]() The Nettleblacks are the wealthiest family in town, but their money came from trade. Henry Nettleblack has just learned that her elder sister, Edwina, plans to send her off for a month-long pheasant shoot, to meet the man Edwina plans for her to marry. Her story is about love and diversity and being able to choose your own identity. Henry feels she can’t be constrained by the expectations of her family. This is our introduction to Henry, the ‘heroine’ of Nat Reeve’s startlingly good debut novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each character has his or her own personality, from Shasta and Aravis to the horses to the sinister Tarkons of Callormen, who even now plot an invasion of Narnia to steal away Queen Susan. An excellently written tale brought superbly to life by British actor Alex Jennings. ![]() THe pair is soon joined by Aravis, a girl who fled her father's estate with her own steed Hwin, another talking horse, to escape an arranged marriage. He is accompanied by the talking horse Bree, former steed of a cruel lord from Callormen who intended to buy Shasta as a slave. Set some years after the events of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe but before Prince Caspian, The Horse and his Boy tells the tale of how young Shasta, an orphan boy raised on a small island by a solitary, dour fisherman, suddenly finds himself embarked on a grand adventure to reach the land of Narnia. ![]() ![]() will enchant readers from the first page." - Kirkus Reviews "Hilarious. ![]() ![]() The swift pace of the tale and non-stop action. and want another and another." - Booklist"Readers bewitched by this lively series will enjoy this adventurous sequel." - Kirkus Reviews"wists throughout the story make it a worthwhile fractured fairy tale." - School Library Journal Praise for Whatever After:"An uproariously funny read. Praise for Whatever After #2: If the Shoe Fits:"Tween girls are going to gobble this story up. ![]() |