Release your brakes!

Release your brakes!
James W. Newman, Art Linkletter | 1978-01-01 00:00:00 | Warner Books | 331 | Psychology
This is one of my favorite all-time books. I keep going back and back to it. Everyone today seems excited about the book, DVD and CD about "The Secret." This book by James Newman has everything "The Secret" has, but in plain, everyday language with specific steps on how to achieve what you want. And it doesn't have all the glossy PR, Hollywood production promo "The Secret" has. I met James Newman before he passed away, he is an honest, solid, sincere guy...unlike many of the "promo artists" giving their "schpeel" (is that how you spell it?) about "The Secret" on Oprah, Larry King, etc. "Release Your Brakes" is very special. Strongly recommended.
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Finite Elements: Theory, Fast Solvers, and Applications in Solid Mechanics

Finite Elements: Theory, Fast Solvers, and Applications in Solid Mechanics
Dietrich Braess | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press; 3 edition | 384 | Mathematics
This definitive introduction to finite element methods has been thoroughly updated for a third edition which features important new material for both research and application of the finite element method. The discussion of saddle-point problems is a highlight of the book and has been elaborated to include many more nonstandard applications. The chapter on applications in elasticity now contains a complete discussion of locking phenomena. The numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations is an important application of finite elements and the author discusses this subject comprehensively. These equations are treated as variational problems for which the Sobolev spaces are the right framework. Graduate students who do not necessarily have any particular background in differential equations, but require an introduction to finite element methods will find this text invaluable. Specifically, the chapter on finite elements in solid mechanics provides a bridge between mathematics and engineering.

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'This is a well written book on the mathematical foundation of the finite element method which should appeal to graduate mathematicians and researchers in numerical methods and theoretical mechanics. The coverage of the mathematical theories used in the finite element formulation is comprehensive.' A. A. Becker, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

' an excellent book on the subject, with respect to contents, readability as well as presentation highly recommended.' Michael Schafer, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik

' has advanced to be one of the most commonly used textbooks in this area.' Monatshefte fur Mathematik

Carefully written and remarkably error-free, Braess's book introduces partial differential equations (PDEs) and methods used to solve them numerically. It introduces PDEs and their classification, covers (briefly) finite-difference methods, and then offers a thorough treatment of finite-element methods, both conforming and nonconforming. After discussing the conjugate gradient method and multigrid methods, Braess concludes with a chapter on finite elements in solid mechanics. The book is written from a theoretical standpoint, and the standard convergence theorems and error estimates are provided and proved. Although a background in differential equations, analysis, and linear algebra is not necessary to read the book, it would be helpful. The level is that of a graduate course in a mathematics department. Practical considerations for coding the various methods are only occasionally discussed. There are exercises at the end of each section varying from two to six problems, about two-thirds of them theoretical in nature. The book can be used as a resource. Extensive and valuable bibliography. Recommended for graduate students. J. H. Ellison, Grove City College
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective (CD Only)

Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective (CD Only)
Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya | 2005-01-01 00:00:00 | Wadsworth Publishing; 12 edition | 1 | Art related
As the market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, deepening students' understanding of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. This version explores the history of art in the Western world in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE features such enhancements as more color photographs, a stunning new design, and the most current research and scholarship. Unique to survey texts with a Western Art focus, the authors include a chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Additionally, every copy of the text contains a free copy of the ArtStudy 2.1 CD-ROM-an interactive electronic study aid that fully integrates with the text and includes hundreds of high-quality digital images, plus maps, quizzes, and more. ”

This is only CD, without textbook. CD contains all pictures from this text. All pictures are under flash cards section. To view CD run start.exe
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The Apocalypse Troll

The Apocalypse Troll
David Weber | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | Baen | 416 | Fiction
There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aerobatics were bad enough—but then they started shooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within line-of-sight....
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Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion

Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
Joy James | 2003-03-04 00:00:00 | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 384 | Criminology
"Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners in U.S. detention. This anthology examines a class of intellectuals whose analyses of U.S. society, politics, culture and social justice are rarely referenced in conventional political speech or academic discourse. Yet this body of outlawed public intellectuals" offers some of the most incisive analyses of our society and shared humanity. Focusing on prisons as intellectual and political sites unauthorized by the state, this anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals in opposition to state policies that support racism, war, imperialism, corporate capitalism/ globalization, addresses diverse social and political issues. These essays are by writer-activists incarcerated because of their political beliefs and acts (some released by President Bill Clinton on his last day of office, others working as educators and activists behind bars), or politicized while incarcerated for social crimes, offer some controversial and thought-provoking theories of contemporary social change and liberation movements. Here former and current U.S. political prisoners and activists-writers from the civil rights/black power, women's, gay/lesbian, American Indian, Puerto Rican Independence and anti-war movements share varying progressive critiques and theories on radical democracy and revolutionary struggle. This rarely-referenced "resistance literature" reflects the growing public interest in incarceration sites, intellectual and political dissent for social justice, and the possibilities of democratic transformations. Such anthologies also spark new discussions and debates about "reading"; for as Barbara Harlow notes: "Reading prison writing must. . . demand a correspondingly activist counterapproach to that of passivity, aesthetic gratification, and the pleasures of consumption that are traditionally sanctioned by the academic disciplining of literature."--Barbara Harlow [1]"

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Low Temperature Electronics: Physics, Devices, Circuits, and Applications

Low Temperature Electronics: Physics, Devices, Circuits, and Applications
Edmundo A. Gutierrez-D, Jamal Deen (Authors), C. Claeys, Jamal Deen (Editors) | 2001-01-01 00:00:00 | Academic Press; 1st edition | 964 | Physics
Low Temperature Electronics: Physics, Devices, Circuits, and Applications summarizes the recent advances in cryoelectronics starting from the fundamentals in physics and semiconductor devices to electronic systems, hybrid superconductor-semiconductor technologies, photonic devices, cryocoolers and thermal management. Furthermore, this book provides an exploration of the currently available theory, research, and technologies related to cryoelectronics, including treatment of the solid state physical properties of the materials used in these systems.

Current applications are found in infrared systems, satellite communications and medical equipment. There are opportunities to expand in newer fields such as wireless and mobile communications, computers, and measurement and scientific equipment. Low temperature operations can offer certain advantages such as higher operational speeds, lower power dissipation, shorter signal transmission times, higher semiconductor and metal thermal conductivities, and improved digital and analog circuit performance.

The computer, telecommunication, and cellular phone market is pushing the semiconductor industry towards the development of very aggressive device and integrated circuit fabrication technologies. This is taking these technologies towards the physical miniaturization limit, where quantum effects and fabrication costs are becoming a technological and economical barrier for further development. In view of these limitations, operation of semiconductor devices and circuits at low temperature (cryogenic temperature) is studied in this book.

* It is a book intended for a wide audience: students, scientists, technology development engineers, private companies, universities, etc.
* It contains information which is for the first time available as an all-in-one source; Interdisciplinary material is arranged and made compatible in this book
* It is a must as reference source

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Summary: A seminal work in the field
Rating: 5

This is one of the first books that fully addresses the importance of silicon-based low temperature electronics. As technology evolves, humankind has found more and more applications for electronic systems, operating at evermore higher frequencies. The operation of silicon devices and circuits at cryogenic temperatures allows for "inexpensive" yet high performance electronics. A few years down the road, this book will be recognized as a seminal work in the field.
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Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Lionel Robbins Lectures)

Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Lionel Robbins Lectures)
Alan S. Blinder | 1999-01-29 00:00:00 | The MIT Press | 108 | Economics
"This brief exposé of central banking and monetary policy. . . should be required reading for all those, specialists and nonspecialists alike, interested in those subjects." -- Manuel Guitián, Finance and Development

Alan S. Blinder offers the dual perspective of a leading academic macroeconomist who served a stint as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board--one who practiced what he had long preached and then returned to academia to write about it. He tells central bankers how they might better incorporate academic knowledge and thinking into the conduct of monetary policy, and he tells scholars how they might reorient their research to be more attuned to reality and thus more useful to central bankers.

Based on the 1996 Lionel Robbins Lectures, this readable book deals succinctly, in a nontechnical manner, with a wide variety of issues in monetary policy. The book also includes the author's suggested solution to an age-old problem in monetary theory: what it means for monetary policy to be "neutral."
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Easy read, gives some insight to one of the former FED staffers. Proves that there is no magic to our money, just gut reaction and formulas. No one really know's what to do
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Mr R. S. Ritterman (San Mateo, CA) beat me to it... I had logged on to describe just how clear and understandable (not to mention brilliant and profound) this book is. Case in point: instead of simply telling us in words how central bankers evaluate their objectives before making policy decisions, Mr Blinder uses beautifully contructed clever-clogs math to make his point concise. Greenspan gets all the credit, but I assure you it was Blinder who was the real brains behind the operation. I thought about deducting one star because they didn't get the fed funds rate right - by his own admission - in 1990, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.



Students of philosophy will be talking about this gem for hundreds of years.



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After having taken Macroeconomic Theory, Alan Blinder's book was extremely clear and understandable. His comments about Central Banking behavior make wonderful sense as he takes into account both academic and real world theaters. He was especially clairvoyant in his reasoning about why a Central Bank needs to establish credibility. A definite recommendation for those interested in the Federal Reserve and what they do.
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Nothing fancy, but a good testimony from a real central banker about how real central banking has been carried out in recent US history. It is much less glamorous than all the theories, models and arguments would have it. Logical, sensible and even-tempered, like a central banker. A small book easily read in an evening that brings a lot down to earth. Only four stars because nothing this reasonable deserves five.

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