A Birder's Guide to Southern California (Lane/Aba Birdfinding Guide.)

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A Birder's Guide to Southern California (Lane/Aba Birdfinding Guide.)
Brad Schram , and Harold Holt
Manufacturer: Amer Birding Assn
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Where birders go in southern California: A locality guide to finding birds
Henry E Childs
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A birder's guide to Southern California
James A Lane
Manufacturer: Distributed by L & P Press
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A Birder's Guide to Southern California
James A Lane
Manufacturer: L & P Press, Denver, CO
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A Birder's Guide to Southern California.
James A. LANE
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A birder's guide to Southern California: A travel guide written especially for the bird watcher. Precise mileage and directions are given for finding the best birding spots
James A Lane
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A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
B. (H. Holt & J. Lane) Schram
Manufacturer: American Birding Association
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000WQGQY6

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The most comprehensive backpacker's guide available on where to go, when to go, and how to go, from dealing with prickly officials to what anti-malarials to take.

Every year, thousands of people hit the backpacker trails for the adventure of a lifetime. Planning a trip is exciting—but it can be daunting, especially the first time. The Backpacker's Bible will help you make your travels as hassle-free as possible. It's packed with advice on everything you need to sort out before you set off, from planning your itinerary to packing your bags, organizing money to keeping in touch with home. There's also useful information on working abroad, tips on how to be a good traveler, and valuable advice on staying safe and healthy. All this, plus an A-Z guide of contacts and climates for each country, hints on how to cope with coming home, and much, much more.

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Marginal At Best.......2001-01-25

Brought to you by Cosmo? This book is more about travel from city to city with a four star motel meets Lonly Planet... Should not be in the backpacking section. All of the sources are limited to the UK.

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This unique compilation of chapters reviews a broad range of topics at the cutting edge of hearing research. The authors include many of the top auditory scientists in the world as well as some of the brightest rising stars. Although the book obviously focuses on the exciting, revolutionary work being done with mice, the authors have made a strong effort to provide general background information and present the insights gained from the study of mice in the greater context of auditory research. Each section includes specific procedures, potential problems and their solutions, and tricks of the trade gleaned from the authors. The book contains numerous figures and tables, more than 2,000 references, and much data not previously published. Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research: From Behavior to Molecular Biology provides state-of-the-art research with a clear look at what the future holds.

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Many process control books focus on control design techniques, taking the construction of a process model for granted. Process Modelling for Control concentrates on the modelling steps underlying a successful design, answering questions like: How should I carry out the identification of my process in order to obtain a good model? How can I assess the quality of a model with a view to using it in control design? How can I ensure that a controller will stabilise a real process sufficiently well before implementation? What is the most efficient method of order reduction to facilitate the implementation of high-order controllers? Different tools, namely system identification, model/controller validation and order reduction are studied in a framework with a common basis: closed-loop identification with a controller that is close to optimal will deliver models with bias and variance errors ideally tuned for control design. As a result, rules are derived, applying to all the methods, that provide the practitioner with a clear way forward despite the apparently unconnected nature of the modelling tools. Detailed worked examples, representative of various industrial applications, are given: control of a mechanically flexible structure; a chemical process; and a nuclear power plant. Process Modelling for Control uses mathematics of an intermediate level convenient to researchers with an interest in real applications and to practising control engineers interested in control theory. It will enable working control engineers to improve their methods and will provide academics and graduate students with an all-round view of recent results in modelling for control.

Dimension Reduction of Large-Scale Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Oberwolfach, Germany, October 19-25, 2003 (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering)

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Dimension Reduction of Large-Scale Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Oberwolfach, Germany, October 19-25, 2003 (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering)

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In the past decades, model reduction has become an ubiquitous tool in analysis and simulation of dynamical systems, control design, circuit simulation, structural dynamics, CFD, and many other disciplines dealing with complex physical models. The aim of this book is to survey some of the most successful model reduction methods in tutorial style articles and to present benchmark problems from several application areas for testing and comparing existing and new algorithms. As the discussed methods have often been developed in parallel in disconnected application areas, the intention of the mini-workshop in Oberwolfach and its proceedings is to make these ideas available to researchers and practitioners from all these different disciplines.

Model Reduction for Control System Design (Communications and Control Engineering)

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Model Reduction for Control System Design (Communications and Control Engineering)
Goro Obinata , and Brian D.O. Anderson
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Modern methods of filter design and controller design often yield systems of very high order, posing a problem for their implementation. Over the past two decades or so, sophisticated methods have been developed to achieve simplification of filters and controllers. Such methods often come with easy-to-use error bounds, and in the case of controller simplification methods, such error bounds will usually be related to closed-loop properties.
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of approximation methods for filters and controllers. It is fully up to date, and it is authored by two leading researchers who have personally contributed to the development of some of the methods. Balanced truncation, Hankel norm reduction, multiplicative reduction, weighted methods and coprime factorization methods are all discussed.
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Higher harmonic control analysis for vibration reduction of helicopter rotor systems (SuDoc NAS 1.15:103855)

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Higher harmonic control analysis for vibration reduction of helicopter rotor systems (SuDoc NAS 1.15:103855)
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Some limitations of model reduction and controller design methods for large, uncertain dynamical systems

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Some limitations of model reduction and controller design methods for large, uncertain dynamical systems
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First Story

Somewhere In Time.

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The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair: And Other Excursions and Observations
George Plimpton
Manufacturer: Random House
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George Plimpton on Sports (On)

ASIN: 1400063426
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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George Plimpton needed no encouragement. If there was a sport to play, a party to throw, a celebrity to amaze, a fireworks display to ignite, Plimpton was front and center hurling the pitch, popping the corks, lighting the fuse. And then, of course, writing about it with incomparable zest and style. His books made him a legend. The Paris Review, the magazine he founded and edited, won him a throne in literary heaven. Somehow, in the midst of his self-generated cyclones, Plimpton managed to toss off dazzling essays, profiles, and New Yorker “Talk of the Town” pieces. This delightful volume collects the very best of Plimpton’s inspired brief “excursions.”
Whether he was escorting Hunter Thompson to the Fear and Loathing movie premiere in New York or tracking down the California man who launched himself into the upper atmosphere with nothing but a lawn chair and a bunch of weather balloons, Plimpton had a rare knack for finding stories where no one else thought to look. Who but Plimpton would turn up in Las Vegas, notebook in hand, for the annual porn movie awards gala?

Among the many gems collected here are accounts of helping Jackie Kennedy plan an unforgettable children’s birthday party, the time he improvised his way through amateur night at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater, and how he managed to get himself kicked out of Exeter just weeks before graduation.

The grand master of what he called “participatory journalism,” George Plimpton followed his bent and his genius down the most unbelievable rabbit holes–but he always came up smiling. This exemplary, utterly captivating volume is a fitting tribute to one of the great literary lives of our time.

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First Story.......2007-07-11

Except for the first story, which is what the title story, it was not that great of a collection. Some amusing parts and Plimpton is likable but ok at best.

Somewhere In Time........2005-04-12

This is a collection of some of his essays and articles as compiled after his death last September by his wife, Sarah Dudley. The majority of them are from the 'New Yorker' although two appeared in 'Harper's Magazine,' two in 'Esquire,' two were in 'Men's Journal' (one extremely long, other extremely short), also 'New York Post' and 'Playboy.'

"The Cellular Age" (1996) has just now reached Knoxville. The mental people out on the streets with their imaginary enemies have become vocal here. On Gay Street, during the lunch hour when the outdoor eating areas were full, one man walking up the sidewalk toward them kept yelling threats at no one in particular. Those of us on the sidewalk across the street from him looked to see who he was spewing his vendom toward, but there was no visible source. Just yesterday, a homeless woman sat in a bus shelter behind me as I was waiting for the Broadway bus to town; she started yelling, "Ronnie, kill them" over and over. I looked to see if she had a phone or a gun. Thank goodness, the bus arrived and she stayed in the shelter, lost in a world of her own.

George, it seems, sought out the oddballs, as does one of the columnists at a local tabloid. They seek these people out to interview as if they are normal and the readers are abnormal. The title of this book is one of his 'New Yorker' articles about a prank which a Vietnam vet survived, only to later commit suicide in delusion that he was in a movie. He romantizes the whole incident, but PTSS caused a lot of veterans of that war to want to die. He made his literary success on these strange people and unusual happenings. Some of these pieces were merely personal observations. He led an interesting life.

We'll miss you, George.......2005-01-26

I ordered this book after reading an excerpt of the title piece in the New York Times. Like most of us, I was aware of Larry Walters's epic flying lawn chair adventure, and I was happy to hear the full details of the story. Plimpton did a terrific job of painting a sympathetic and poignant picture of Walters. Indeed, throughout the book Plimpton displays a wonderfully breezy, droll, self-effacing writing style, and I enjoyed this book thoroughly.

The title selection is the best in this book, but other highlights include "Inside the playpen of the damned" (a look inside the world of actors in pornographic movies); Plimpton's autobiographical sketch of how he flunked out of Exeter; and "The man who was eaten alive" (a description of Alan Root, a documentary film maker who has had more than his fair share of adventures filming wildlife in Africa).

The only criticism I have of this book is that--like Plimpton's life itself--it is too short. I get the impression that it had originally been intended to be longer, but Plimpton's untimely death no doubt threw a monkey wrench in those plans. As it stands, the book contains only 184 double-spaced pages with large margins, and several of the 18 selections included are only a couple of pages long. They're all highly entertaining, but when I buy a book with a $24.95 cover price, I prefer a little more heft.

In sum, this book is a delightful way to spend an hour or so. Plimpton is obviously a remarkable man and gifted writer who led an extremely interesting life. The world will miss him.

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