Author: Frank M. White File Type: epub Whites Fluid Mechanics, sixth edition will continue the texts tradition of excellent problems of different types, precision and accuracy, and good application of concepts to engineering. This is the number one supplement package in Fluids! The new 6th edition will feature the best general problem-solving approach to date, presented at the start of the book and carefully integrated in all examples. Students can progress from general ones to those involving design, multiple steps and computer usage. Word problems are included to build readers conceptual understanding of the subject, and FE Exam problems (in multiple-choice format) are included. EES (Engineering Equation Solver) software is included so that students can effectively use the computer to model, solve and modify typical fluid mechanics problems. A DVD containing EES is free with every book, and Appendix E describes its use and application to fluid mechanics. A limited version of EES, that does not expire, is included on the CD ROM. Users of the book can also download and distribute the full Academic Version of EES, which is renewed annually with a new username and password. Also an animation library will be included as well as 150 algorithmic problems, in ARIS, McGraws-Hills electronic homework management system.hrhrhrhr
Author: Jud Nirenberg
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Jud Nirenberg unveils his collection of essays on Romani civil rights and relationships, entitled Gypsy Sexuality Romani and Outsider Perspectives on Intimacy. A contributor as well as a coordinator of this collaboration, which showcases the writing of Romani authorities, scholars, activists and civilians, Nirenberg has compiled a beautiful and diverse selection of running dialogue on being Romani across the globe. **
Author: William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this centurys greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeatss own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the worlds most beloved poets available in paperback.**
Author: Katrin Tent
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Many areas of mathematics were deeply influenced or even founded by Hermann Weyl, including geometric foundations of manifolds and physics, topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harmonic analysis and analytic number theory as well as foundations of mathematics. In this volume, leading experts present his lasting influence on current mathematics, often connecting Weyls theorems with cutting edge research in dynamical systems, invariant theory, and partial differential equations. In a broad and accessible presentation, survey chapters describe the historical development of each area alongside up-to-the-minute results, focusing on the mathematical roots evident within Weyls work.ReviewThe quality of the articles is high the promise of the title is met, and the material is presented at a very accessible level, but without courting triviality. Michael Berg, MAA Reviews Book DescriptionThe work of Hermann Weyl has had a lasting influence on areas of mathematics such as topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harmonic analysis, and on the foundations of mathematics itself. In this volume leading experts outline the connections between Weyls theorems and up-to-date results in many contemporary topics.
Author: Linda Mizejewski
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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women arent funny. But todays funny women arent a new phenomenonthey have generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tinchers daredevil stunts, Mae Wests linebacker walk, Lucille Balls manic slapstick, Carol Burnetts athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneress tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldbergs sly twinkle, and Tina Feys acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of womens bodies and behaviors. Hysterical! Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the fields leading authorities, introducing a new framework for womens comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racialethnicsexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical! masterfully demonstrates that hysteriawomen acting out and acting upis a provocative, empowering model for womens comedy. **
Author: Dorothy Wang
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When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poetsLi-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Luthe book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets.** When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poetsLi-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Luthe book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets. **
Author: Robert A. Norman
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This book explores cultural evolution and the meaning of the word natural. We are at the crossroads of a major transformation. Why is our current time so important in the history of man? We are at a point where we may be the last generation that is not partially or fully bionic. The last natural man natural in what way? What is natural? Is it a catch phrase like integrative or holistic that transmits a certain magical warm glow? If the word natural was a plant, it would be beautiful, green, luxuriant, and edible.Does it mean we are the last to not replace or modify our parts? What about laser surgery? Knee or hip replacement? Botox and fillers? Chemical therapy? Or a directional chip in the brain?Do we really mean the very last natural man? Cultural evolution has been the major driving force over the last several thousand years and enormous in its influence compared to almost invisible changes in our physical adaptations. If cultural and religious evolution was the driver for human history, are we now entering the phase of physical transformation where humanity refuses to accept mortality and seeks to make changes to defeat nature. In this book the authors are describing a paradigm shift of all of humanityjust as hunter-gatherers had their stellar features, the future man will have many attractive qualities, even if many artificial. We are often balancing on the precipice between science and science fiction, now ready to tip the scales and slide comfortably into the future of great discoveries and wonderful changes. But are these changes all for the good? What will being human mean?A lively, superbly informed, compassionate conversation between two accomplished physician-writers about the human past and the human future, carefully grounded in the sciences of medicine and evolution. If you care about who we are and what may save us from ourselves, read this enormously informative and entertaining book. Melvin Konner, MD, PhD, author of The Tangled Wing Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit and Women After All Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
Author: Gail Fine
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Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Menos Paradox, which is first formulated in Platos Meno, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave is able to discover through inquiry. Hence, contrary to the paradox, inquiry is possible after all. Plato is not the only philosopher to grapple with Menos Paradox so too do Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus. How do their various replies compare with one another, and with Platos? How good are any of their replies? In a fascinating fragment preserved in Damascius Commentary on the Phaedo, Plutarch briefly considers these questions (though for obvious chronological reasons he doesnt discuss Sextus). But Fines book is the first full-length systematic treatment of the paradox and responses to it. Among the topics discussed are the nature of knowledge how knowledge differs from mere true belief the nature of inquiry varieties of innatism concepts and meaning the scope and limits of experience. The Possibility of Inquiry will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient epistemology, in ancient philosophy, or in epistemology. **Review The Possibility of Inquiry stands out for its philosophical rigour, attention to detail and unity of purpose. Inquiry on this issue will continue for many more years to come, not least because Fine has given it such a boost. --Phronesis [C]hallenging and thought-provoking.... Fine cares deeply about Menos paradox itself, but she also uses it to illuminate ancient epistemology more broadly. Thus this book should find a wide audience among scholars of ancient philosophy. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review About the Author Gail Fine earned her BA from the University of Michigan, and her PhD from Harvard University. Since 1975, she has been a professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Since 2008, she has also been a Senior Research Fellow in Merton College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford. She is the author of On Ideas Aristotles Criticisms of Platos Theory of Forms (Clarendon Press, 1993) of Plato on Knowledge and Forms Selected Essays (Clarendon Press, 2003) and of many articles in various areas of ancient philosophy. She is also the editor of Plato 1 and 2 in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (OUP, 1999), and of the Oxford Handbook of Plato (OUP USA, 2008).