Washington's History: The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest (Westwinds Press Pocket Guides)

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An anything-but-dry history textbook in a pocket-sized package, WASHINGTON'S HISTORY is a fascinating walk through the lengthy story of a place and its people. Historian Harry Ritter introduces the Native American peoples who lived in the region's coastal rainforests and inland plateau, the European and U.S. seafarers who explored and mapped the complicated shores and islands, and the leaders involved in conflicts over boundaries, resources, and religion. There's the story of The Pig War, which began with an assassinated pig in 1859 and escalated into an international skirmish. Read about the construction of the massive Grand Coulee Dam in 1933, and the creation and aftermath of Hanford, and the hopefulness surrounding the World's Fair. And then there's the land itself: vast, stirring in its stark beauty, and fearsome when natural disaster strikes, as it has in every century. Ritter offers fifty-two lively vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that together comprise a picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, and Bill Gates, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.

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Ray Ellis , and Walter Cronkite
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The Washington Almanac: Facts About Washington ((State Almanac Series))

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More than just facts

The Washington Almanac: Facts About Washington ((State Almanac Series))
Press Westwinds , and Andrea Jarvela
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ASIN: 1558684735

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"The Washington Almanac "TM"" is an essential read for anyone wanting the lowdown facts on the regional history, natural geography, economy, and peoples of the Evergreen State.

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More than just facts.......1999-12-03

This is a well organized and comprehensive compendium to Washington State. The author has gathered an impressive array of information, from economic and geographic information to touristic suggestions and interesting factoids from past and present.The author has an upbeat and informative writing style that makes you want to read the book, not just look something up.

This is a great gift for Washington residents or wannabe residents.

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Thomas E. Huggler
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ASIN: 0933112009

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Klaus Bliesener
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James Nordhoff
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John Scott Douglas
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Pearl S. Buck
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PEARL S. BUCK
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An indispensable travel guide to more than 300 National Trust properties throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

The National Trust Handbook: For Members and Visitors 2001 (National Trust)

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The National Trust Handbook: For Members and Visitors 2001 (National Trust)
National Trust
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For more than a century, Britain's National Trust has worked for the preservation of places of historic interest and national beauty throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The National Trust Handbook is a visitor's guide to the National Trust properties that are open to the public, including stately homes, gardens, castles, barns, and lighthouses. The Handbook lists more than 300 properties, and each has a brief description, address, telephone number, opening times, admission fee, travel directions, and details of the facilities on site. The National Trust Handbook will open up a world of riches to those traveling in Britain.

The National Trust Handbook 2000: For Members and Visitors, March 2000 to February 2001 (National Trust Handbook: A Guide for Members & Vistors)

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The National Trust Handbook 2000: For Members and Visitors, March 2000 to February 2001 (National Trust Handbook: A Guide for Members & Vistors)

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For more than a century, Britain's National Trust has worked for the preservation of places of historic interest and natural beauty throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Today, the Trust is the largest private landowner and conservation society in Britain. The National Trust Handbook is a visitor's guide to the National Trust properties that are open to the public, including stately homes, gardens, castles, barns-even lighthouses. The Handbook lists more than 300 properties; under each main entry, listed by country, there is a brief description of the property, with address, telephone number, opening times, admission fee, travel directions, and details of the facilities on site. The National Trust Handbook will open up a world of riches to those traveling in Britain.

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THE NATIONAL TRUST HANDBOOK 2001
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ASIN: B000S6I0F8

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From the moment Miss Payne (“The Hound of the Baskervilles, the English teacher from Hell. The Pitbull!”) walks into their classroom, Calma and Kiffo know she will have to go. After doing a bit of, well, teacher stalking, they are amazed to discover her having late-night rendezvous with suspicious associates. Could she be involved in the mob? The drug trade? How fabulous!

But the more they work to prove Miss Payne is crooked, the more evidence they find of her innocence. Creeping hell! A teacher this heinous has got to be guilty of something—right?

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Specifically for the health professional, this book contains an extensive compilation of research findings on biologic variation by race, age, and gender relating to health and illness. Completely rewritten, revised, and updated, the Second Edition includes an increased discussion of biologic variation and expanded coverage of each chapter topic.This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms that influence biologic variation. It presents a well-documented discussion of research data and indicates areas where knowledge is lacking. A theoretical explanation is followed by examination of surface and anatomical variations, developmental variation, biochemical and enzymatic variations, disease susceptibility differences, and influence of the external variation. Consideration of sexual variation reveals more differences between the sexes than among races. Misconceptions about racial uniformity and diversity are exposed throughout the book. Tables of specific biologic variations allow easy reference and access to the literature.

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Criteria of orbital symmetry conservation had a profound influence on mechanistic thinking in organic chemistry and are still commonly applied today. The author presents a coherent set of operational rules for the analysis of scope and reliability. It is written from the viewpoint of Orbital Correspondence Analysis in Maximum Symmetry (OCAMS). Its advantage lies in its provision of a coherent overview of the relation between symmetry and mechanism. For reasons of consistency, the book remains within the framework of molecular orbital theory.

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The book presents innovative methods for the solution of multibody descriptor models. It emphasizes the interdependence of modeling and numerical solution of the arising system of differential-algebraic equations (DAE). Here, it is shown that modifications of non-stiff ODE-solvers are very effective for a large class of multibody systems. In particular, implicit methods are found to dovetail optimally with the linearly implicit structure of the model equations, allowing an inverse dynamics approach for their solution. Furthermore, the book stresses the importance of software development in scientific computing and thus presents a complete example of an interdisciplinary problem solution for an important field of application from technical mechanics.

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Not Quite What One Would Expect.......2002-02-07

While the book contained an enormous amount of useful information and is elagantly written, it missed the mark on providing useful, "here's how you do it..", numerical methods and algorithms for MBS as the title implies. Since the book originated from lecture notes, it was assumed there would be a few simple examples of MBS which would be solved, in detail, using different methods to illustrate various techniques and formulations. The Chapter on software engineering, I feel, is completely out of place. Again, a useful view but not necessary within the topic of MBS and in the context of this book. To the extent software engineering is discussed, it's best left to a book explicitily on software engineering. It's between too much and not enough. In my opinion, this book would be most useful as a reference to individuals who already have an intimate knowledge of MBS and numerical methods and not to individuals with knowledge in mechanics and software seeking to learn practical formulations and numerical methods for MBS. For the price of the book, I was quite dissapointed amount of useful, "hands on" material. On a positive note, the book does cover many topics in numerical methods (e.g. integrators, contraints..) with great detail. The book is very well written, easy to read, and it apparent that great deal of effort was made to provide elegant formulas and consise notation.

Computational Dynamics in Multibody Systems

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Computational Dynamics in Multibody Systems

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792333047

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The requirements for accurate and efficient analysis tools for design of large and lightweight mechanical systems has driven a strong interest in the challenging problem of multibody dynamics. This volume addresses some basic formulations, methodologies and computational aspects of the dynamics of multibody systems, including major applications. The scope of applications is extended to vehicle dynamics, aerospace technology, robotics, mechanisms design, intermittent motion and crashworthiness analysis.
The applied scope of the book will help the advanced design engineers and researchers to appraise the different approaches available today and their use and suitability as efficient design tools for different classes of problems and practical applications in the general field of multibody dynamics.
Computational Dynamics in Multibody Systems contains the edited version of selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on `Computer Aided Analysis of Rigid and Flexible Mechanical Systems', held in Portugal, from 27 June to 9 July, 1993. It can be viewed as a natural extension of the material addressed in the Institute which was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the NATO ASIE Series, Volume 268, 1994.

Advances in Computational Multibody Systems (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)

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Advances in Computational Multibody Systems (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)

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ASIN: 1402033923

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Among all the fields in solid mechanics the methodologies associated to multibody dynamics are probably those that provide a better framework to aggregate different disciplines. This idea is clearly reflected in the multidisciplinary applications in biomechanics that use multibody dynamics to describe the motion of the biological entities, or in finite elements where the multibody dynamics provides powerful tools to describe large motion and kinematic restrictions between system components, or in system control for which multibody dynamics are the prime form of describing the systems under analysis, or even in applications with fluid-structures interaction or aeroelasticity. This book contains revised and enlarged versions of selected communications presented at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference in Multibody Dynamics 2003 that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, which have been enhanced in their self-containment and tutorial aspects by the authors. The result is a comprehensive text that constitutes a valuable reference for researchers and design engineers and helps to appraise the potential of application of multibody dynamics to a wide range of scientific and engineering areas of relevance.

Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints: Models and Case Studies (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics)

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Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems with Imperfect Joints: Models and Case Studies (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics)
Paulo Flores , Jorge Ambrósio , J.C. Pimenta Claro , and Hamid M. Lankarani
Manufacturer: Springer
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Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)

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Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)

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ASIN: 1402056834

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The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference Multibody Dynamics 2005 was held in Madrid, representing the second edition of a series which began in Lisbon 2003. The conference was held under the auspices of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ECCOMAS and provided a forum for discussion of several topics, through the participation of 161 researchers from 29 countries, mostly Europeans but also from Africa, America and Asia.

This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected conference communications, representing the state-of-the-art in the advances on computational multibody models, from the most abstract mathematical developments to practical engineering applications. This book will be highly valuable for experienced researchers that want to keep updated on the details of the latest driving ideas in this field, but also to researchers approaching the field for the first time, since it provides a useful overview of the most active areas and the efforts devoted by many prominent research groups worldwide.

A computational procedure for large rotational motions in multibody dynamics (SuDoc NAS 1.26:181222)

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A computational procedure for large rotational motions in multibody dynamics (SuDoc NAS 1.26:181222)
K. C. Park
Manufacturer: Center for Space Structures, College of Engineering, University of Colorado National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor
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A computational procedure for multibody systems including flexible beam dynamics (SuDoc NAS 1.26:199035)

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A computational procedure for multibody systems including flexible beam dynamics (SuDoc NAS 1.26:199035)
J. D. Downer
Manufacturer: Center for Space Structures and Controls, College of Engineering, University of Colorado National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor
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ASIN: B00010Q4I6

A computational procedure for the dynamics of flexible beams within multibody systems (SuDoc NAS 1.26:187667)

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A computational procedure for the dynamics of flexible beams within multibody systems (SuDoc NAS 1.26:187667)
Janice Diane Downer
Manufacturer: Center for Space Structures and Controls, College of Engineering, University of Colorado National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor]
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010DLXW

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In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions.

Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."

Equivocal Beings Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen

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Equivocal Beings Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
Claudia L. Johnson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPAT9I

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