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What engineering is really all about.......2002-09-29
This book is what engineering is really all about- actually designing machinery and mechanical components to fill a need. I know that is why I got into the game several decades ago. Yet with all the management, scheduling, quoting, and clerical chores that are piled on engineers and engineering departments these days, it is easy to lose sight of why you chose this career in the first place. In fact, that's the only thanks you ever get in a largely thankless profession- the joy of occationally getting to design something that works.
This book is a rarity, it works as both an introductory text, as a design text, and as a life long reference book. I've taken mine along on many an assignment long after I had discarded lesser texts and references to save weight.
You get the fundamentals of how to produce a useful, working, engineering drawing that the shop can actually use to produce a part (you would be amazed at how many CAD "experts" cannot do this.) Then you get detailed information on industrial processes and materials (casting, forging, cold heading, powder metallurgy, extruding, roll forming, electroforming, welding, plastic injection, etc.) Plus you get a good intro to standard design components like all types of fasteners, bearing, seals, couplings, clutches, speed reducers, etc.) Then, you also get excellent basics in speciality areas like sheet metal development, piping, jig and fixture design, fluid power, and structural drafting. The sections on beam equations, trusses, and strength of materials are quite clearly written and requires only a working knowlege of trig. You top it off with an appendix that covers everything from conversions and fastener specs to fit types and geometric tolerancing.
Whenever I get disgusted and start to question why I am still doing this after so many others have gotten out, I pick up this text and flip through it. It reminds me that America used to be known as the land of engineers- real engineers.
This Should Be the First Book in Your Engineering Library.......2000-08-25
Having started in engineering as a draftsman more than 40 years ago, I have seen them all ... and in my humble opinion this is the best book of its kind ever written. The authors, Jensen and Helsel, have bypassed most of the fluff, like how to sharpen your pencil, and go directly to the heart of the matter. They have packed more pertinent, practical how-to information and technical reference data in this book than you will find in any other five books of its size. The book is easy to read, and to find specifically what you need. Proper and in-depth coverage is given to the very latest in drafting standards in both metric and inch systems; including limits and fits, geometric tolerancing, shop practices, and also standard parts.
I started using this first edition of this book more than 20 years ago, and have found no other to compare with it, or any of the succeeding editions. If I had only one book to take with me to the job, it would be this one.
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A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World
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The Photobook: A History - Volume 2
ASIN: 0878466258
Release Date: 2001-10-02 |
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Drawing as much from the techniques of photojournalism and the poetics of the New Novel as from the aesthetics of fine art, the photographs of Sophie Ristelhueber convey a world at once intensely personal and objectively restrained. Her camera embraces the scars of human existence, whether the devastation of a war-torn landscape, the furrows of a suture, or the hidden wounds of remembered childhood, conferring on each a personal resonance that echoes far beyond the events portrayed. Details of the World offers the first comprehensive overview of Ristelhueber's career, presenting a selection from all her major installations as well as previously unpublished recent work. She has also worked closely on the book's design, making it not only the best anthology of her images, but also an art object in and of itself.
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Photos by one of France's most interesting younger artists.......2001-12-09
The author's candid photos have earned her a reputation as one of France's most interesting younger artists: the publication of Details Of The World coincides with a major exhibition of her works, and provides black and white and color photos of her achievements and the evolution of her art. All her major works and many previously unpublished efforts are packed into this important guide.
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Hagar the Horrible: Excuse Me!
Dik Browne
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A hilarious must-have!.......2002-04-02
This 4"x7" paperback book is a collection of Hägar the Horrible comics by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89). Here in this book are many adventures of Hägar, his friend Lucky Eddie, his formidable wife Helga, his beautiful though self-conscious daughter Honi, his bookish son Hamlet, and even his honed-helmet wearing dog Snert. Along the way, they have adventures and hijinks with friends, enemies, dragons, cows, and many others.
Recently, while digging through an old box full of books, I came across several of my treasured Hägar books, of which this is one. My children (girl eleven, boy eight) grabbed it away from me, and were soon happily reading the jokes out loud to all present. It is so nice to see that Hägar can entrance the young of today, much as he did me. They loved it when Hägar's horn proves to be a dragon call, rather than a moose call, and all of his troubles with Helga!
We all love this book. If you can get it, then do so!
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Enterprise Resource Planning: Integrating Applications and Business Processes Across the Enterprise
Erin Callaway
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate the primary applications in an organization. A typical ERP system provides applications for accounting and controlling, production and materials management, quality management and plant maintenance, sales and distribution, human resource management, and project management. This new report from CTR examines the benefits and drawbacks of implementing ERP systems. Implementing ERP suites can improve and update corporate resource management, but the training and costs involved can be prohibitive. Therefore, the report also provides a five-step plan for ERP implementation and explains how to calculate ERP return on investment (ROI). Topics Covered Include:
What Is ERP?
ERP: A Business Necessity
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This a basic book on the subject. To much expensive.......1999-08-04
I am a Italian IS Manager and was looking for a good, professional book on the subject. The book is covering almost all main subjects about ERP but I think it is too superficial. In my opinion, the price of the book should be around 20 US$
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Best advice on home buying.......2000-04-04
No one should buy a home without reading this book first! It is a gem--packed with useful information in a very readable format. The author uses his knowledge of the real estate business and his own experiences as a professional to provide a valuable and thoughtful perspective on the whole process. I wish I'd read this book before my first foray into the world of home-buying, but even after several such ventures in my life, I still found I learned a lot by reading this book.
A map for the homebuyer.......2000-04-02
Buying a house would be a lot easier for all of us if we did it frequently. But most of us only buy a home a few times in our lives and, face it, the process is dauntingly complex. As with any complex field, real estate has developed its own technical vocabulary. Fortunately, this book is written in plain English, and makes few assumptions about its readers.
That being the case, it is an invaluable resource to potential home buyers, *especially* if the buyer is looking in the author's home state of Colorado.
The reader learns about the advantages of "buyer agents" and is walked step-by step, in plain English, through the maze involved in finding and purchasing just the right home. Numerous anecdotal "horror stories" illustrate the potential pitfalls in the buying process.
I know *I* will be able to make better decisions on my next house purchase after having read this book.
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It's time for you to take control! The historical system of buying a home left buyers unrepresented and at the mercy of both sellers and their real estate representatives. This pioneering work shows you how to get the best deal, from selecting the right REALTOR and getting them to work FOR YOU, to negotiating, financing the transaction, and inspecting the property.
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Polly's Magic Games is a book for children with OCD to share with their family and friends ............ to read together and understand.
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Polly's Magic Games.......2000-08-26
As soon as my 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with OCD, we bought this book. I found it very helpful. It made her realize that there are other children just like her. I also let friends and family members read it. It gave them an easy to understand look at what life with OCD is like. I would reccomend this book to anyone who has a child in their life with OCD.
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From the mythic rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch to the high-profile trial of Lynndie England, the war in Iraq has highlighted women_s presence within the military as never before. Carol Burke, a folklorist who taught as a civilian professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, for seven years, analyzes the military as an occupational folk group, arguing that every detail of military culture-from the 'high-and-tight' haircut to the chants sung in basic training is laden with significance. Exploring the minute ways that -the cult of masculinity- persists in all branches of the United States military today, Burke unearths fascinating details and offers eye-opening anecdotes about basic training, military dress and speech, the history of the marching chant, the disdain some veterans still harbor for Jane Fonda, and the colorful-and sometimes questionable-rituals of military manhood. Postulating that culture is made-not born-Burke urges the military to consciously change its policy of -gendered apartheid- so it can evolve into the gender-, race-, and sexuality-neutral democratic institution it needs to be.
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The Proud, the Few, the Disfunctional.......2005-08-18
Author Carol Burke is not afraid to jump into a controversial topic and throw everything she has at it. Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight starts out by quoting the woman-hating and profane marching songs of some basic training units. She describes the perverted and disgusting hazing that first-year service academy students are subjected to. She explains how a Navy admiral who didn't fit the mold was ridiculed, criticized, and threatened until he finally committed suicide. This is not the military that the Pentagon wants us to see.
Burke's observations and conclusions, however, are not to be dismissed. The military is a macho culture and in an all-volunteer force, those who join are either compelled to by economics (lack of training and opportunity for better jobs) or are attracted by what seems to be the last bastion of the ultra masculine he-man, no-girls-allowed crowd. Burke investigates why this should be and how it is neither good for the military mission nor sustainable.
Burke's style is readable and entertaining. She takes the lid off the military's embarrassing secrets and proceeds to shock and awe. Much more disturbing than the overt misogyny of the marching songs Burke cites, are the numerous lyrics that mention napalming and killing children. This sounds like a disfunctional organization rather than a training ground for tomorrow's heroes.
Camp All-American is well-researched and there is an excellent bibliography. A single exception may have been the story she tells of the bedtime ritual at the Naval Academy, in which plebes say goodnight to their superiors and then to Jane Fonda, followed by a profanity. The only source for this story is an anonymous academy faculty member.
As I was reading the book, which was published in early 2004, I wondered how Burke would explain Abu Ghraib in the context of her military and prison studies. As luck would have it, the online magazine Salon did an interview with her and it's still available in their archives. In it she addresses that very subject. The Lord of the Flies mentality did not surprise Burke, nor did the fact that everything was meticulously photographed. She mentioned, as she does in the book, that as society changes and technology advances, the military will find that gender is no longer an issue. Torture, on the other hand, probably will be.
The View From a Female and Folklorist.......2005-06-08
The present day military training procedures were originally developed by the Greeks as a way of training men to fight in their Phalanx. In that society the separation of the genders was even more complete. This training procedure has been followed, not without some minor change for a couple of thousand years. And the change that has come in, has come in reluctantly on the part of the military. After all, the training procedure works. That's why it is still followed by nearly every army in the world.
Ms. Burke chronicles the story well. She sees things from a female and folklorist point of view that is different that what I would see. She comes to two recognizable conclusions.
First the American Military is dysfunctional. Yup! No doubt about that. And to think that this is the military that wins. Imagine what the others must be like. Go read Len Deighton's book "Blood, Tears and Folly" about the screw ups in World War II.
Second, she would like to see a bunch of changes in the military. Yup! Let's change it. But let's change it slowly. Bad as it is, the current system has worked for a couple of thousand years. Be careful you don't produce something even more dysfunctional in an attempt to be politically correct.
Finally she talks about Jane Fonda. Yes, she's probably right about that too. I hear that her new movie is pretty good. It's undoubtedly silly, but I'm not going see Hanoi Jane in a movie.
A complete waste of time and money.......2005-01-14
I must first apologize to anyone who has purchased this book in the past three months. If I had written this upon finishing Burke's diatribe perhaps I could have saved you some of your hard-earned money.
My time is limited, so I will simply say that Ms. Burke distorts reality beyond recognition; portraying the marginal as the typical. Her research was either shoddy, or more likely, she discarded any findings that didn't conform to her agenda.
This is probably the first book I've ever read that I can truly say is not worth the paper upon which it is printed.
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The Celtic Encyclopedia, 5 Volume Set
Harry Mountain
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A veteran birder and gifted nature writer is our guide in this charming, surprising, informative, and unexpectedly exciting foray into the wild kingdom that flourishes quietly just beyond our backyards. Logged within a few miles of his suburban Connecticut home, Robert Winkler's local life list runs to hundreds of birds, from familiars like American Robins and Blue Jays to such rarities as American White Pelicans and Sandhill Cranes. He's been attacked by a Northern Goshawk, watched a pair of Bald Eagles perform a mid-flight mating dance, stumbled over a wriggling den of copperheads, and spotted such shy and elusive creatures as red foxes, coyotes, and flying squirrels.
These vivid anecdotes and many more are woven into a fascinating tapestry of bird lore and birding wisdom, embroidered with an abiding, observant love of all animal life. A book that will delight birders everywhere and fascinate nature lovers of all stripes, Going Wild celebrates the often-overlooked yet amazingly rich world that starts so close to home.
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Going Wild will have you going nutty, about birds.......2007-02-09
I originally bought this book for my young nephew who is interested in birds. I am glad I took up this book myself, borrowing it from him a few days after giving it to him, before he could start on the book himself.
Reading Going Wild had the effect of exploding the natural world, seen and heard through the prism of birds, before my own eyes and ears. Being a life-long resident of suburbia myself, for the most part living in northern Virginia close to the Potomac River, I had had some memorable encounters with birds, most notably perhaps when a Bald Eagle played tag with me (there's that anthropomorphizing). What is inspirational about reading Going Wild is that it revs you up for even more bird interaction than you've been accustomed to. And you can't blame a dearth of bird experiences on living in a suburban setting. Once you read about Robert Winkler's adventures, from dodging a maternal goshawk to watching the life-and-death scenes unfold around the backyard bird feeder, you'll be eager to rack up your own.
Going Wild is also an excellent primer on birding, full of practical knowledge deftly delivered. I am lucky to be introduced to this world (my own world, it turns out) by someone as uniquely gifted as Robert Winkler.
What Birding is all about........2005-12-09
This is an excellent book describing what birding is all about;well written by someone who has , if they pick it up in their youth, maintains the interest the rest of their life.Winkler is very typical, even though hardly any two birders are identical and all alter the area of their interest as the years go on.He talks mainly about his birding experiences in the general area around where he lives in Connecticut;but it reflects the same things a birder partakes in no matter where he/she lives in North America.If Winkler were to relocate to Key West,Tucson,San Francisco,Detroit,Denver,Vancouver,Halifax or where I live,Toronto,he would be able to pick up his birding in a very short time.I guess it's a bit like fishing;where there's water,there's fish;and where there is outdoors there's birds and all that nature provides along with it. I also believe that it is the great variety of activities that come under the umberella of Birding that makes it so attractive.Winkler touches on a lot of these things and there are many more.Just to name a few; many birders "get into"..banding,club activities,Hawk Watching,photography,drawing,listing (building the greatest list of species you can in an area,town,county,state,your own property,from your car,country,life or year,winter list-total species from Dec 1-Feb 28,..it is up to the individual to choose and make the rules.
That is the whole idea of a Rare Bird;a new one for your list.
So you can see volumes could be written;but this book gives a person a real smattering of this hobby,sport,activity,interest,pastime, or as some might call it an obsession or madness.
There is another aspect of birding that probably transends all this is the friends one makes.As a matter of fact,birders often meet another birder in the field and strike up an acquaintace immediately.They enjoy sharing what they know or have found.
Winkler also shows that along with birds there is the great experience of being outside and enjoying all the other nature and animals that go along with it.If one travels ,you will encounter all kinds of interesting and wildly different areas.What comes to mind is being in a small boat out in the Gulf Stream,on the trails in the mountains of Yosemite,walking along the banks of the river at Niagara Falls in the winter,in the heat of the desert in Arizona with the snakes tarantulas and lizards,in the Everglades or your own local spot as Winkler talks about.What he really does is show that the enjoyment can come wherever one lives.
Overall, this is a book every person will enjoy whether you have been into it for a number of years or just thinking about it.
His experiences are just like any other birder who has been doing it for years.It is all there ,just for the taking.
The only shortcoming of this book is there was no photo of the author.You can read all the description of a bird you want,but nothing compares to a picture.Come to think about it,looking at birders is great sport when the birding gets slow.
A whimsical yet educational gathering of birding wisdom and lore which makes for light, delightful reading.......2005-11-07
Robert Winkler's Going Wild: Adventures With Birds In The Suburban Wilderness presents the experiences of a veteran birder and nature writer who observes literally hundreds of birds from within a few miles of his suburban Connecticut home. Funny encounters, intriguing observations and natural history blend in a whimsical yet educational gathering of birding wisdom and lore which makes for light, delightful reading.
A trip through the wilderness.......2005-02-02
Going Wild is a fascinating and detailed account of one man`s birdwatching forays into the suburban wilderness. The narrative ranges from anecdotes about him being attacked by Northern Goshawks, to the story of when he lost the power to his home due to a squirrel electrocuting itself on his power line - these tales can bring a tear to your eye, or have you laughing out loud.
With Robert Winkler, National Geographic, have found a genuine birder with an obvious talent for writing - you can tell he has a deep passion for the wilds of his native Connecticut home, and for all of nature`s finery. His writing displays beautiful style and is clearly heartfelt - a treatment which does justice to the subject matter.
My only gripe [and this is purely jealousy on my part] is about his different opinion to mine on what constitutes a suburban area! The forested mountains and lakes of his stories are hardly the same as my own suburban patch, which is surrounded by industrial units and housing!
Whether you are American, British, or any other nationality, this book will translate to your own experiences, the species and locations involved will likely differ, but the stories hold true no matter what. I can give no better plaudit than saying I will recommend this book to all my birdwatching compatriots, and anyone else who harbours the slightest feeling for the natural world.
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