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Well written.......2007-10-13
This book is written by the mother of the Late Christa McAullife.It was a wonderful book!Interesting and a inside look at the excitement they felt being chosen then the tradgedy they felt after the Loss of her.It basicly is a bio about Christa.
An Uplifting Story of Life.......2001-04-22
Unlike most books about Christa McAuliffe this one discuses Christa's life before the selection as teacher in space as well as after the selection process and it is written by the person who knew her like no one else, her mother. We learn of Christa's childhood and her spirt and joy that stayed with her during the course of her whole life. Nothing could take this away from her and with it she enriched and touched the lives of every student she had. Corrigan's book using letters and family history paints a touching portrait of Christa no one else could. Everyone should read this book and it will uplift you farther than you ever thought possible and give you a whole new out look on teachers and what the power they have to uplift. No matter what your backround is you will benefit from having read this book.
A Touching Memoir.......1999-08-16
This book is honest and touching. Rarely do we receive the privelege of being allowed into the heart of a mother who has lost a son or daughter. So much is learned from Corrigan's novel.
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The Boat That Wouldn't Sink
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Biography of a Boat.......2000-11-12
THE BOAT THAT WOULDN'T SINK by Clinton Trowbridge is a touching and impressive account of an old 34-foot catboat that was owned by a family in Maine. The Scatt II became a member of the family and is spoken of as if it were human. Captain Trowbridge goes beyond the exciting adventures of this old craft. His reflections on life and nature are full of philosophy and poetry. His own Preface best describes his wonderful book: "As I look back at the early fifties, when we bought the Scatt II, the boat described in these pages, what sticks out is the remarkable innocence of the times. Youth always thinks it will live forever, but not usually with such conviction and such consequent abandon. What seems foolish to the point of madness now, was then just a bit of derring-do. Beau Geste was our role model , and Swallows and Amazons our idea of a seafaring adventure. Nothing really bad could ever happen, and if we got into trouble, somehow we would get out. There were no sharks in the sea, and a wooden boat would always float. "One might think that only seven years after the end of the Second World War, life would have seemed less benign. I had but narrowly escaped both WW II and the Korean War, yet not only was I somewhat regretful of not having been involved, I--we--still managed to romanticize the experience of war itself. We flew with Chennault's Tigers and rode alongside Patton in his tank liberating the oppressed. America had not seen the miseries of war close up, not at home, and even our returning war heroes, like Audie Murphy, didn't want to talk about them. We owned the Scatt for twenty-six years, however. She brought up the next generation and shaped all of our lives--taught us through example sometimes more than we wished to learn. The Scatt endured, more in spite of than because of us. And if we did too, that was partly her work as well. We grew closer to each other, and more alike--like ancient dogs and their masters. This is a love story, then; and like all love stories, there is a strong element of notalgia. Would that ...could that... But we can't--and we don't really want to. It is also a book about joy, and sadness, and the thrills and perils of the sea. But most of all, it is a book about innocence: the life we imagine when we think of ourselves as gods."
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A Companion to Luis Buñuel (Monografías A) (Monografías A)
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Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century, his films invariably included in the critics' lists of the top 100. Born in the Spanish village of Calanda and shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the eyeball in Un Chien andalou [1929] one of the most memorable episodes in the history of cinema. Subsequently, Buñuel worked in Mexico where, in spite of tight budgets, he made films as memorable as The Forgotten Ones [1950] and He [1952]. From 1960, greater financial and technical resources allowed him to make, in Spain and France, the films for which he is best known: Viridiana [1961], Belle de jour (1966), Tristana (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [1972], and That Obscure Object of Desire [1977]. Although the French films in particular are less aggressive and more ironic than his early work, they nevertheless reveal Buñuel's continuing preoccupations: sex, bourgeois values, and religion. In this study, Gwynne Edwards analyses Buñuel's films in the context of his personal obsessions and suggests too that, in contrast to many of his fellow artists, he experienced a degree of sexual inhibition surprising in a surrealist.
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Americans' failures are as spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash; sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; and even failures that failed to happen!
Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger select twenty miscues, goofs, complications, and failures that shaped modern America and reveal the life lessons these gaffes teach, including:
- Accentuate the Positive: How Thomas Edison Invented Trash Talk
- Understand the Market: The 1967 Monkees-Jimi Hendrix Concert Tour
- Desperation Is the Cradle of Bad Ideas: Cleveland Indians' Ten-Cent Beer Night
- Sweat the Details: The Sixty-Story John Hancock Guillotine
Enriched by handy clip-'n'-save "Recipes for Disaster," Oops proves that when it comes to failure, truth is stranger than fiction!
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Oops may be the only American cultural history to ever include flaming elephants, government-funded psychics, and a cutting-edge cinematic technology known as ""Smell-O-Vision."" This chronicle of often overlooked snafus will delight fans of popular culture who appreciate that Americans' failures are as spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash; sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; even failures that failed to happen!
Veteran journalists Smith and Kiger select twenty miscues, goofs, complications, and failures that shaped modern America and reveal the life lessons these gaffes teach, including:
- Accentuate the Positive: How Thomas Edison Invented Trash Talk
- Understand the Market: The 1967 Monkees-Jimi Hendrix Concert Tour
- Desperation Is the Cradle of Bad Ideas: Cleveland Indians' Ten-Cent Beer Night
- Sweat the Details: The Sixty-Story John Hancock Guillotine
Enriched by handy clip-'n'-save ""Recipes for Disaster"" (Marinated Myopia, Cooked Goose, False-Alarm Chili), Oops proves that when it comes to failure, truth is stranger than fiction.
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An Entertaining Guide to the Mistooks of Our Time.......2006-05-22
This book is an entertaining and informative look of some of the major fiascoes of American popular history. I have witnessed or at least heard about the majority of the mistakes displayed here. For example, I remember seeing the John Hancock Tower partially covered in plywood on childhood trips to Boston (although the book doesn't mention this, I believe that the surviving panes of glass went to Building #19, a locally famous salvage/overstock store here in the Boston area, for sale for the uses described by the authors). The authors do a good job in filling out the facts behind the fiascoes (I didn't realize that I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand Clippy). As a previous reviewer stated, the one problem that I did have with the book is a lack of a photo section, as items such as paper dresses, the Dodge LaFemme, the rockin' Tacoma Narrows Bridge & Flying Cars need to be seen. I also didn't care too much for the "receipe" section that ended each chapter. Despite this, I do recommend this book to be added to your own Dynamic File of Trivia.
You'll Keep Quoting This Book.......2006-04-20
This hilarious book is lots of fun to read and even more fun to tell people about. You'll be amazed that you haven't heard of these things before. Smith and Kiger have this way of rolling out odd little details in a dry way that really build a humorous picture without trying to be funny. My favorite story was about 10 cent beer night at the Cleveland Indians baseball game in 1974. They start by telling how Cleveland was suffering from an image problem because the river had recently caught fire and the Cleveland Mayor had ignited his hair with a blow torch at a ribbon cutting ceremony. You know the rest of the story will only get better. Buy it. Read it. Quote it.
Entertaining and Informative.......2006-04-02
In a very entertaining and informative account of what the authors considers "fiascos", the book narrates various incidents, fads, and "strategic thinking" that were...well, not so successful. A range of 'stories' from religious movements founded on interesting sex mores, y2k bug, paper fashion, battle of towers in Boston, plans for assasination of Castro, Cleveland Indians' beer promotion, and Edison killing an elephant (!) are all part of this book. Some stories are so interesting, it is a surprise that they have been obscure so far. On that front, the author scores full points. It is a little disappointing that the authors were not able to locate any interesting pictures or photos of the events narrated. Instead they focus on a very amateurish-looking "ingridient list" for each of the 'fiasco' narrated in the chapter. The book is very neatly organized - each chapter focusing on a specific event/trend. Quite humorous writing style adds to the enjoyment of the book. A good read.
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Let the Ground Force team help you create the perfect outdoor space. Packed with photographs and invaluable, no–fail advice, this outstanding guide shows that gardening is not just for the experts. With 195 color photos.
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Tackling the broad range of allocation problems that actually confront engineers, programmers and analysts in today's business and industrial worlds, this book takes readers step-by-step through all the mathematical programming techniques--including the trailblazing Karmarkar algorithm--needed to excel in any operations research course. It's easy to see why the first edition of this invaluable study guide sole more than 35,000 copies! It cuts down study time while it builds essential skills.
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not enough.......2007-01-23
First of all, be careful, this is not a text book. It has a good presentation for problem solution. First, there are a some solved problems, then supplementary problems are coming. The answers of supplementary problems are at the end of the book.
This book might be useful for beginners. For every topic, there are easy problems, not specific problems similar to case studies. If you are over beginner degree, this book will not be useful for you. Especially, integer programming sections are not satisfactory. For instance, there isn't any facility location problem solution.
To sum-up this book may be useful for a beginner as a workbook.
Doubles as inexpensive textbook on operations research.......2006-04-15
Some of the primary tools used by operations researchers are statistics, optimization, stochastics, queueing theory, game theory, graph theory, and simulation. Because of the computational nature of these fields operations research also has ties to computer science, and thus this outline is useful to people from both fields. OR is concerned with optimization problems in which one seeks to maximize or minimize a specific quantity. The first part of this book is on optimization via linear, integer, and nonlinear programming. Next, network analysis is covered. Network analysis is the general name given to certain specific techniques which can be used for the planning, management and control of projects. Two different techniques for network analysis were developed independently in the late 1950's - PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) and CPM (Critical Path Management). These techniques are also covered in the outline. The next subject tackled is that of inventory models - allowing shortages, allowing price discounts, risk conditions, etc., and their mathematical modeling. Game theory, decision theory, and dynamic programming are all explained in the context of inventory models and forecasting. Finally, there is coverage of Markov chains and queueing theory. Queuing Theory arises from the use of mathematical analysis to theoretically describe production processes along with statistical/probabilistic techniques to account for varying dynamic patterns within the stages of a productive process. The problem to be met is simply entitled "congestion", what happens when a system does not operate smoothly or efficiently.
I really liked this Schaum's outline, and I used it to teach myself most of the mathematical processes covered without the need for any additional resources. The theory is given in small doses along with very illustrative examples. The mathematics starts with simple algebra and works up to nothing more complex than probability and statistics. I highly recommend it for anybody enrolled in an operations research class as well as computer scientists and mathematics students that are studying any subset of the topics covered in this book.
Schaum's Outline of Operations Research.......2002-07-21
i found this book to be a very helpfull tool a long with my text book.it excels in its simplicity and a wide varity of examples and solved problems written in plain english.
hope you like it too.
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Solved problems book.......2001-06-13
Originally the book of Richard Bronson(1982) was very useful for the solution of simple problems, then a difficult one, but it is always required a text book accompany this. The students of my classes need all the time solved problems to practice.
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- Great as a supplement and source of example problems
- Good overview...and sample problems
- Good supplement of an engineering economics book
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Remarkable technological advances still elave us basing most major engineering decisions on economic considerations. So, this clear and concise examination of the principles of engineering economics should benefit all undergraduate students, regardless of their area of interest. Students will learn about compound interest and the time value of money, depriciation and taxes and more, and then find out how to use this information to make real-life decisions. Includes hundreds of practise problems with answers.
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Great as a supplement and source of example problems.......2007-08-18
The best thing about this outline, particularly the second half, is the use of real-world examples to illustrate the use of equations. Lots of Engineering Economy texts either fail to explain the equations sufficiently, or they lack examples of varying complexity so that the student can really test their knowledge of the subject. This outline bridges that gap and would make an excellent study guide for anyone enrolled in an Engineering Economy class. Just don't think it can stand alone as a textbook on the subject.
The first five chapters are very basic, starting with the calculation of simple interest and continuing through continuous compounding and continuous payments. Chapter three is rather interesting, showing how algebra and linear interpolation can be used to calculate various values if they fall between two tabulated values. It's a simple enough concept, but it is often omitted in textbooks on engineering economy.
Chapter six turns to more advanced topics, starting with economic equivalence and determining at what time money transactions actually occur based on the fact that money changes value with time. Chapter 7 treats several valuation methods which are useful in deciding among economic alternatives. Chapter 8 acts as a sequel and is devoted to techniques that are primarily used for analyzing proposed capital investments. Chapter nine reaches back to the concept of the MARR (Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return) first discussed in chapter six and discusses in detail the best way to allocate a given budget among several competing projects. Chapters 10 and 11 discuss the related issues of equipment replacement and retirement, depreciation, and taxes. The outline shows how to determine if a piece of equipment has reached a point beyond which it has become uneconomical to operate it even if the equipment is still "running".
Chapter 12 is a capstone chapter in the book in that it bridges the gap between the specific techniques presented in the first eleven chapters and investment decisions made in the real world. Chapter twelve is thus concerned with the presentation of a feasability analysis to a lending institution. Highly recommended as a study guide.
Good overview...and sample problems.......2006-03-24
this was an average book on the subject with good sample problems. a good resource for a student
Good supplement of an engineering economics book.......2002-04-04
This is a good compendium of pills and problems useful for practicing and for quick reviewing engineering economics concepts. It does not, however, stands alone as a book on the subject because it lacks unity and completeness in its treatment. The book was helpful for me to revisit some points and to clarify a few others, and I think that was the main purpose of the authors. For the price it is a very good deal.
Schaum's Outline of Enginering Economics.......2000-07-26
Very useful for the Industrial Engineering student or someone interest in engineering economics. It had many typical situations that help in evaluating engineering projects.
Schaum's Outline of Enginering Economics.......2000-07-26
Very useful for the Industrial Engineering student or someone interest in engineering economics. It had many typical situations that help in evaluating engineering projects.
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This thoroughly revised, updated edition takes into account the more recent participative, strategy-oriented approach to operations management. Throughout, descriptive material and basic concepts are presented in a question-and-answer, solved problems context.
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Schaum's Outline of Operations Management.......2000-04-25
Professor Monks has done an excellent job of summarizing and giving worked out problems for a very useful field of industry that is often neglected in pure and applied mathematics. This neglect, especially at the pre-college level but also at higher levels, makes it harder for management and operations research college instructors to convey the quantitative methods to their students. These methods are fascinating and include statistical forecasting (with time series and exponential smoothing, correlation, regression), statistical quality control, production scheduling and control (linear programming, dynamic programming), manufacturing /service and maintenance (queuing theory, reliability, simulation, calculus), budgeting, inventory, etc. I recommend this book for everybody in business for themselves or for others and for students at all levels in order to tie in their studies more practically with the real economic world. In addition, the more people are familiar with the methods, the less employment mistakes will be made since so many of the methods interact with hiring, firing, temporary layoffs, etc. With more talent in the field, alternative methods can be developed and tried (for example, present theory assumes that a lot of things involve independent or non-influencing events, but a lot of events are very interdependent and the theory needs far more development there - see my review of Castillo).
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