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The Cpa Examination: Text, Problems, and Solutions
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Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment (Computer Chips and Paper Clips)
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Medical Publishing in 19th Century America: Lea of Philadelphia, William Wood Amd Company of New York City, and F.E. Boericke of Philadelphia
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The Unfinished Universe
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From the dawn of humankind, men and women have looked at change--as wrought by weather, the seasons, and, most strikingly, the inexorable advance of time--as something essentially to be feared. And partially from this fear the great religions and mythologies have arisen, systems which gave meaning to the ever-changing world, and, quite often, immortality to ourselves. By the late nineteenth century, the quest for ultimate meanings became largely the province of science, and today, change still figures (on the surface, at least) as a malevolent force: most of the cosmological theories formulated in recent years predict the ultimate extinction of the world by universal entropy. Bringing together the evidence and insights of biology and physics, of astronomy and cosmology, Louise Young offers a profoundly original and stirring vision of order, form, change, and the creative forces in the universe. Opposing the long-held beliefs of many scientists that the universe is running down and will eventually collapse upon itself, Young eloquently argues that the tendency toward increasing entropy is merely one aspect of a single process that is creating more complex, highly organized, and more efficient forms of matter all the time, and at every level--from the microscopic to the stellar. In vivid, compelling prose, Louise Young--an award-winning writer on science and a former physicist--takes us on an unforgettable tour of the world around us, showing how even the most ordinary aspects of life and the universe display a strangely beautiful symmetry. She clearly demonstrates that creation was not simply some big-bang eons ago, but rather is an ongoing process, one in which we are both witnesses and participants. Illustrating her findings with many remarkable photographs and fascinating examples ranging from geology to animal behavior, and from oceanography to genetics, Young gracefully canvasses the themes of growth, change creativity, and the mystery of the universe in a book that is as much poetry as it is science. Based on solid scientific knowledge, yet informed by a refreshingly philosophical sensibility, The Unfinished Universe is a book that will inspire anyone who has ever questioned their place and purpose in a world filled with uncertainty and change.
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Lecture on the great unfinished problems of the universe.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series
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The Unfinished Universe
Louise Young
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The unfinished universe
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Startling Erudition.......2006-04-24
My favorite book.
The Unfinished Universe is an epic tale of the comparison between the city on the hill and the city of God. It is one part Augustine, one part Thomas, and one part C S Lewis. Few will come away from the book without understanding, as Pope John Paul II said, that faith is fulfilled in reason.
It was written by a Methodist minister who converted to Catholicism while writing the book. He was also a WW I veteran and the editor of The Dublin Review.
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Lecture on the great unfinished problems of the universe (The pulpit and rostrum. Sermons, orations, popular lectures, &c., phonographically reported by A.J. Graham, C.B. Collar and F.G. Fontaine)
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Novel Approaches to the Structure and Dynamics of Liquids: Experiments, Theories and Simulations (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
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Novel Approaches to the Structure and Dynamics of Liquids: Experiments, Theories and Simulations (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
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Numerical Methods for Image Registration (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)
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Based on the author's lecture notes and research, this well-illustrated and comprehensive text is one of the first to provide an introduction to image registration with particular emphasis on numerical methods in medical imaging. Ideal for researchers in industry and academia, it is also a suitable study guide for graduate mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, medical physicists, and radiologists. Image registration is utilised whenever information obtained from different viewpoints needs to be combined or compared and unwanted distortion needs to be eliminated. For example, CCTV images, ultrasound images, brain scan images, fingerprint and retinal scanning. Modersitzki's book provides a systematic introduction to the theoretical, practical, and numerical aspects of image registration, with special emphasis on medical applications. Various techniques are described, discussed and compared using numerous illustrations. The text starts with an introduction to the mathematical principles and the motivating example of the Human Neuroscanning Project whose aim is to build an atlas of the human brain through reconstructing essential information out of deformed images of sections of a prepared brain. The introduction is followed by coverage of parametric image registrations such as landmark based, principal axes based, and optimal affine linear registration. Basic distance measures like sum of squared differences, correlation, and mutual information are also discussed. The next section is devoted to state-of-the-art non-parametric image registrations where general variational based framework for image registration is presented and used to describe and compare well-known and new image registration techniques. Finally, efficient numerical schemes for the underlying partial differential equations are presented and discussed. This text treats the basic mathematical principles, including aspects from approximation theory, image processing, numerics, partial differential equations, and statistics, with a strong focus on numerical methods in image processing. Providing a systematic and general framework for image registration, the book not only presents state-of-the-art concepts but also summarises and classifies the numerous techniques to be found in the literature.
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Mathematical Models for Registration and Applications to Medical Imaging (Mathematics in Industry / The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry)
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Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, Busy-Body: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings (Library of America)
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Statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, and civic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also the most powerful writer of his time. From his first appearance in print, in the guise of the eccentric, opinionated, voluble "Silence Dogood" (1722), to his last published article, a searing satire against slavery (1790), he covered every aspect of "the question of America" with radiant clarity, wit, and penetration.
This collection begins with items written by Franklin during his early years in Boston and London (1722- 1726), including the complete "Silence Dogood" essay series. The volume also includes the famous "Busy-Body" essays (1728-1729); many of the news articles and essays he penned after he purchased the failing Pennsylvania Gazette (which eventually became the most widely read newspaper in the colonies); and various political satires, pamphlets, and personal correspondence written while he lived in Philadelphia from 1726 to 1757. The book concludes with material he published while a diplomat in London from 1757 to 1775 (including letters to the press, satires, and pamphlets).
Controversial in his own time, and the subject of vigorous debate ever since-to Matthew Arnold he exemplified "victorious good sense," while to D. H. Lawrence he was "the first dummy American"-Franklin emerges in this collection as a figure of extraordinary complexity for readers to discover, consider, and appreciate anew.
A companion volume includes Poor Richard's Almanack, Franklin's classic Autobiography, and his later writings.
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The earlier writings of one of our nation's most important founders.......2005-11-25
The wonderful Library of America (I hope all of you support it as well as buy their fabulous volumes) decided to split the 1,600 plus pages of their volume of the writings of Benjamin Franklin into two volumes. This first volume contains the earlier materials. It includes the famous Silence Dogood articles, the "Busy Body" essays, articles from his influential paper "The Pennsylvania Gazette", as well as other pamphlets, and miscellaneous writings. It concludes with some of the material he wrote while in London as a diplomat. My fear is that the second volume will be more popular because the material is more familiar. However, Franlin's earlier writings are quite important and should be read and valued just as highly.
Benjamin Franklin is one of the great icons of the American Founding. He is truly one of the essential men who built our nation and deserves every praise we can heap on him. When we see images of the founders, they are all shown as old men, not how old they were in 1776. Franklin was really a generation older than most of the firebrands who led the Revolution. He was seventy when he signed the Declaration of Independence (John Adams was 41, George Washington 44, and Thomas Jefferson 33 on July 4, 1776) and eighty-one when he signed our Constitution as a member of the delegation from Pennsylvania. He was an amazing man. He was a successful printer, inventor, philanthropist, revolutionary, diplomat, and all around student of the world.
This book is interesting to dip into and read just those portions that interest you, as well as reading its more than 800 pages front to back. It has great notes on the text that provide contextual and translation help as well as sources, a most interesting chronology of Franklin's long and productive life, and an index.
This certainly is a must have for your shelf on the history of America's Founding.
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The Portable Bankruptcy Code and Rules, 1996
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Truck Of Fools: A Testimonio of Torture and Recovery
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The testimonio of one of Latin America's leading writers, Truck of Fools is a searing personal account of incarceration and torture. It recalls the author's thirteen years as a political prisoner of Uruguay's neofascist regime during the 1970s and 1980s. An acutely perceptive poet-novelist, Carlos Liscano offers unique insight into not only the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner but also the mindset of his tormentors.
Composed as a series of brief, mostly non-sequential vignettes, Truck of Fools combines memories both painful and poignant with passages that contemplate what enforced solitude and systematically inflicted pain do to the mind and body. The author's recollections of childhood and interactions with his captors and fellow prisoners, his descriptions of specific tortures and interrogations, his meditations on the human will to survive and the equally human capacity for evilsuch parts form a powerful mosaic that is often horrifying, yet just as often inspiring. "The prisoner," Liscano writes, "holds onto something beyond the rational, the definable. Dignity sustains him."
The first major work by Liscano to appear in English, this book also includes an essay, "A Life without Object(s)," in which the author reflects on how the brutalities of prison corrupt and distort language. Repudiating such debasements of "the word," Truck of Fools is the eloquent memoir of a man who managed to reclaim his voice, who learned the value of words that speak the truth, of words that "should be saved so they can save us."
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Larry Conrad of Indiana: A Biography
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A great book about a great person.......2002-06-08
Ray Scheele does a wonderful job of capturing the life of Larry Conrad, a true public servant. The reader is left wishing that all our elected officials embodied the same qualities that Conrad did, regardless of political affiliation.
Life of A Leader.......2001-05-31
This is an outstanding account of the life of one of the thousands of Americans whose public service nurishes and sustains the nation. Raymond Scheel has not only captured the contributions of a good and effective local and state leader, Larry Conrad, but he also places Conrad in context and makes clear why such men are important. Scheele has mastered an impressive amount of material, including extensive personal interviews. This book is an interpretation as well as an account of Conrad's lfe in crystal clear language.
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In 1984 film director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy and Good Will Hunting) began his career with a small, black-and-white independent movie called Mala Noche. Van Sant's film, a gritty look at a gay man's relationship to Latino teenagers in Portland, Oregon's Little Mexico, was based on a novella by Walt Curtis, a street poet with a cult following among experimental writers and audiences. Curtis's small chapbook has never been widely available but is reprinted here with more material by him and an introduction by Van Sant. Curtis's authentic voice sounds like a cross between Allen Ginsberg and the over-narration on a travelogue about inner-city life. He is unstinting in his self-revelation, and the energy and love he has for his characters is palpable (the city of Portland is as much of a person here as his fellow humans). Mala Noche will be a revelation for anyone who loves Van Sant's film, and a fine introduction for those who have yet to watch it.
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"Bad Night".......2000-06-23
After reading this story you either like Walt Curtis or you don't. Walt, a gay man, runs a grocery store in Portland, where he has contact with poor Latino teenagers. His relationship first with Johnny and then Raul, are on the borderline of obsession, if not true obsession. The whole book centers around Walt trying to gain their love and having sexual relations with these young men. At times it's hard to take. You hear yourself asking, "doesn't he had any other interest in life" other than these boys.
Although this is a taboo subject matter, Walt is a gifted writer who speaks very honestly and from the heart. It's a fascinating story of skid row life in Portland, Oregon. Its easy to get lost in these characters lives. You'll be anxious to read the book right through to the end. Its gets my recommendation for these reasons.
Sinister, Taboo & Downright Erotic!.......1999-08-18
Walt Curtis turns 'gay writing' on its head with this sexual raid upon the senses. This poetic tome leaves the reader wondering if Curtis is mad, gifted or damned. Rare insight into the imaginative genius of cult literature's pagan god
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