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Texas Ranger (Paperback)
James Patterson, Andrew Bourelle
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Texas Outlaw (Paperback)
James Patterson; As told to Andrew Bourelle
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This volume is the focal point of the work undertaken in the
previous volumes of this set of books: the statement of the
fundamental principle of the dynamics whose implementation,
according to two paths whose choice depends on the problem to be
treated, leads to equations of motion. In order to achieve this, it
is treated first of all in the context of solids in their
environment, as a prerequisite for the formulation of the
fundamental principle. Then, in addition to its use in some
exercises, the approach is illustrated by three particular cases.
The first is an example where it is developed end-to-end and
addresses the two approaches that lead to the equations of motion.
The two other examples deal with two classical but important
subjects, the movement of the Earth according to the hypotheses
that can be stated about it, and Foucault's pendulum.
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Rhapsodies 1831 (Paperback)
Petrus Borel; Translated by John Gallas, Kurt Ganzl
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'Borel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist
him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary,
Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with
no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened
briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and
bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of
poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor
officialdom of Algeria, where he died because he would not wear a
hat, leaving a haunted house and a doubtful name. 'And now,' says
his only biographer Dame Enid Starkie, 'he is quite forgotten.'
Rhapsodies 1831 includes all the poems Borel wrote when he was
twenty and twenty-one. The poems, he said, are 'the slag from my
crucible': 'the poetry that boils in my heart has slung its dross'.
It is a fabulous, fiery, black-clouded dross: captains and
cutlasses, castles, maidens, daggers, danger; calls to arms,
imagined loves, plaints and howls of injustice. 'Never did a
publication create a greater scandal,' Borel said, 'because it was
a book written heart and soul, with no thought of anything else,
and stuffed with gall and suffering'. It was not reviewed. Now it
is back.
This book will help you: Recognize what information to fact-check
Identify the quality and ranking of source materials Learn to
fact-check a variety of media types: newspaper; magazine; social
media; public and commercial radio and television, books, films,
etc. Navigate relationships with editors, writers, and producers
Recognize plagiarism and fabrication Discern conflicting facts,
gray areas, and litigious materials Learn record keeping best
practices for tracking sources Test your own fact-checking skills
An accessible, one-stop guide to the why, what, and how of
contemporary editorial fact-checking. Â Over the past few
years, fact-checking has been widely touted as a corrective to the
spread of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and
propaganda through the media. “If journalism is a cornerstone of
democracy,†says author Brooke Borel, “then fact-checking is
its building inspector.† In The Chicago Guide to
Fact-Checking, Borel, an experienced fact-checker, draws on the
expertise of more than 200 writers, editors, and fellow checkers
representing the New Yorker, Popular
Science, This American Life, Vogue, and many other
outlets. She covers best practices for editorial fact-checking in a
variety of media—from magazine and news articles, both print and
online, to books and podcasts—and the perspectives of both
in-house and freelance checkers. Â In this second edition,
Borel covers the evolving media landscape, with new guidance on
checking audio and video sources, polling data, and sensitive
subjects such as trauma and abuse. The sections on working with
writers, editors, and producers have been expanded, and new
material includes fresh exercises and advice on getting
fact-checking gigs. Borel also addresses the challenges of
fact-checking in a world where social media, artificial
intelligence, and the metaverse may make it increasingly difficult
for everyone—including fact-checkers—to identify false
information. The answer, she says, is for everyone to approach
information with skepticism—to learn to think like a
fact-checker.  The Chicago Guide to
Fact-Checking is the practical—and thoroughly
vetted—guide that writers, editors, and publishers continue to
consult to maintain their credibility and solidify their readers’
trust. Â
This volume provides protocols that expand on the latest
alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) research. The chapters in this book are
divided in to three sections: Part I is dedicated to
patient-oriented research; part II discusses animal models; and
Part III focuses on in vitro studies. Written in the highly
successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters
include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the
necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and
avoiding known pitfalls. Cutting-edge and authoritative, Alpha-1
Antitrypsin Deficiency: Methods and Protocols is a valuable
resource for researchers, students, and clinican-scientists
interested in AAT deficiency, as well as anyone working in the
fields of pulmonology and hepatology.
Armand Borel's mathematical work centered on the theory of Lie
groups. Because of the increasingly important place of this theory
in the whole of mathematics, Borel's work influenced some of the
most important developments of contemporary mathematics. His first
great achievement was to apply to Lie groups and homogenous spaces
the powerful techniques of algebraic topology developed by Leray,
Cartan, and Steenrod. In 1992, Borel was awarded the International
Balzan Prize for Mathematics "for his fundamental contributions to
the theory of Lie groups, algebraic groups and arithmetic groups,
and for his indefatigable action in favor of high quality in
mathematical research and of the propagation of new ideas." He
wrote more than 145 articles before 1982, which were collected in
three volumes published in 1983. A fourth volume of subsequent
articles was published in 2001. Volume I collects the papers
written from 1948 to 1958.
Armand Borel's mathematical work centered on the theory of Lie
groups. Because of the increasingly important place of this theory
in the whole of mathematics, Borel's work influenced some of the
most important developments of contemporary mathematics. His first
great achievement was to apply to Lie groups and homogenous spaces
the powerful techniques of algebraic topology developed by Leray,
Cartan and Steenrod. In 1992, Borel was awarded the International
Balzan Prize for Mathematics "for his fundamental contributions to
the theory of Lie groups, algebraic groups and arithmetic groups
and for his indefatigable action in favor of high quality in
mathematical research and of the propagation of new ideas." He
wrote more than 145 articles before 1982, which were collected in
three volumes published in 1983. A fourth volume of subsequent
articles was published in 2001. Volume III collects the papers
written from 1969 to 1982.
Armand Borel's mathematical work centered on the theory of Lie
groups. Because of the increasingly important place of this theory
in the whole of mathematics, Borel's work influenced some of the
most important developments of contemporary mathematics. His first
great achievement was to apply to Lie groups and homogenous spaces
the powerful techniques of algebraic topology developed by Leray,
Cartan and Steenrod. In 1992, Borel was awarded the International
Balzan Prize for Mathematics "for his fundamental contributions to
the theory of Lie groups, algebraic groups and arithmetic groups,
and for his indefatigable action in favor of high quality in
mathematical research and of the propagation of new ideas." He
wrote more than 145 articles before 1982, which were collected in
three volumes published in 1983. A fourth volume of subsequent
articles was published in 2001. Volume II collects the papers
written from 1959 to 1968.
This international technology assessment study has focused on the
emerging global trend toward the miniaturization of manufacturing
processes, equipment and systems for microscale components and
products. The study has investigated both the state-of-the-art as
well as emerging technologies from the scientific, technological,
and commercialization perspectives across key industrial sectors in
the USA, Asia and Europe.
Jean Leray (1906-1998) was one of the great French
mathematicians of his century. His life's workcan be dividedinto 3
major areas, reflected in these 3 volumes. Volume I, to which an
Introduction has been contributed by A. Borel, covers Leray's
seminal work in algebraic topology, where he created sheaf theory
and discovered the spectral sequences. Volume II, with an
introduction by P. Lax, covers fluid mechanics and partial
differential equations. Leray demonstrated the existence of the
infinite-time extension of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes
equations; 60 years later this profound work has retained all its
impact. Volume III, on the theory of several complex variables, has
a long introduction by G. Henkin. Leray's work on the ramified
Cauchy problem will stand for centuries alongside the
Cauchy-Kovalevska theorem for the unramified case.
He was awarded the Malaxa Prize (1938), the Grand Prix in
Mathematical Sciences (1940), the Feltrinelli Prize (1971), the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1979), and the Lomonosov Gold Medal
(1988)."
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that
are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly
from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or
knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing
plants which come complete with material handling, information
processing and materials processing. As such, these methods require
technical knowledge from many disciplines; therefore, researchers,
engineers, and students in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, and
Manufacturing Engineering and Materials and Computer Science will
all find some interest in this subject. Particular subareas of
concern include manufacturing methods, polymer chemistry,
computational geometry, control, heat transfer, metallurgy,
ceramics, optics, and fluid mechanics. History of technology
specialists may also find Chapter 1 of interest. Although this book
covers the spectrum of different processes, the emphasis is clearly
on the area in which the authors have the most experience, thermal
laser processing. In particular, the authors have all been
developers and inventors of techniques for the Selective Laser
Sintering process and laser gas phase techniques (Selective Area
Laser Deposition). This is a research book on the subject of Solid
Freeform Fabrication.
This revised, enlarged edition of Linear Algebraic Groups (1969)
starts by presenting foundational material on algebraic groups, Lie
algebras, transformation spaces, and quotient spaces. It then turns
to solvable groups, general properties of linear algebraic groups,
and Chevally's structure theory of reductive groups over
algebraically closed groundfields. It closes with a focus on
rationality questions over non-algebraically closed fields.
This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium held in honor
of Emmy Noether's lOOth birthday which was sponsored by the
Association for Women in Mathematics, and held at Bryn Mawr College
on March 17, 18 and 19, 1982. It was fitting that the Symposium be
held at Bryn Mawr, where Noether held her last position. Indeed,
the lectures were held in Goodhart Hall, where the famous Memorial
Address was delivered by Hermann Weyl on April 29, 1935. The
Association for Women in Mathematics is honored to have sponsored
this event, which was judged by many of those attending to have
been not only scien- tifically successful but a specially moving
occasion. There were nine scientific lectures by Nathan Jacobson,
Richard Swan, Judith Sally, David Mumford, Michele Vergne, Olga
Taussky-Todd, Karen Uhlenbeck, Walter Feit, and Armand Borel. There
was also a panel discussion on "Emmy Noether in Erlangen,
Gottingen, and Bryn Mawr" in which Gottfried Noether, Olga
Taussky-Todd, Grace Quinn, Ruth McKee, and Marguerite Lehr par-
ticipated. The last four were at Bryn Mawr during Emmy Noether's
time and presented their personal reminiscences of her. Gottfried
Noether is a nephew of Emmy Noether and gave an account of her life
and career in Germany.
Technical communication instructors need professional development
opportunities that will aid them in creating their online courses;
in developing curricula; and in teaching in what may be a new
environment. Although instructors can turn to instructional design
teams for assistance in using Learning Management System and its
functions, they specifically need their own first-hand, immersive
learning within their pedagogical training. In other words,
teachers need to learn in an online context like the environment
that their students will use; such direct training helps
instructors to facilitate student learning in a technologically
distributed classroom. Beyond learning technological skills to
facilitate a course, these teachers need to learn to use the
technology effectively to keep students on track and to teach them
skills and material. This collection-which includes three
contributions from 2007 and 10 from 2017-focuses on the types of
professional development instructors need to be successful in the
online technical communication classroom. Formed as a 10-year
retrospective of the field and its advances in online education
professional development, the book offers instructors theoretical
and practical suggestions for creating and teaching successful
online courses and managing entire online technical communication
programs. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ).
This book is a publication in Swiss Seminars, a subseries of
Progress in Mathematics. It is an expanded version of the notes
from a seminar on intersection cohomology theory, which met at the
University of Bern, Switzerland, in the spring of 1983. This volume
supplies an introduction to the piecewise linear and
sheaf-theoretic versions of that theory as developed by M. Goresky
and R. MacPherson in Topology 19 (1980), and in Inventiones
Mathematicae 72 (1983). While some familiarity with algebraic
topology and sheaf theory is assumed, the notes include a
self-contained account of further material on constructibility,
derived categories, Verdier duality, biduality, and on stratified
spaces, which is used in the second paper but not found in standard
texts. The volume should be useful to someone interested in
acquiring some basic knowledge about the field... a Mathematical
Reviews
This international technology assessment study has focused on the
emerging global trend toward the miniaturization of manufacturing
processes, equipment and systems for microscale components and
products, i.e., Small Equipment for Small Parts. It encompasses the
creation of miniaturized units or hybrid processes integrated with
metrology, material handling and assembly to create microfactories
capable of producing microprecision products in a fully automated
manner at low cost.The study has investigated both the
state-of-the-art as well as emerging technologies from the
scientific, technological, and commercialization perspectives
across key industrial sectors in the U.S., Asia and Europe
including medical, electronics, aerospace, and consumer products.
The set of books on Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics, of
which this book is the first volume, is an essential tool for those
looking to develop a rigorous knowledge of the discipline, whether
students, professionals (in search of an approach to a problem they
are dealing with), or anyone else interested. This volume deals
with the elements required for establishing the equations of motion
when dealing with solid bodies. Chapter 1 focuses on the systems of
reference used to locate solid bodies relative to the observer, and
demonstrates how to describe their position, orientation, and
evolution during their motion. Chapter 2 introduces descriptors of
motion such as velocity and acceleration, and develops the concept
of torsor notation in relation to these descriptors. Finally,
Chapter 3 concerns the notions of mass and inertia, as well as the
kinetic torsor and dynamic torsor which consolidate the kinematic
and kinetic aspects in a single concept.
Noncompact symmetric and locally symmetric spaces naturally appear
in many mathematical theories, including analysis (representation
theory, nonabelian harmonic analysis), number theory (automorphic
forms), algebraic geometry (modulae) and algebraic topology
(cohomology of discrete groups). In most applications, it is
necessary to form an appropriate compactification of the space. The
literature dealing with such compactifications is vast. The main
purpose of this book is to introduce uniform constructions of most
of the known compactifications with emphasis on their geometric and
topological structures. The book is divided into three parts. Part
I studies compactifications of Riemannian symmetric spaces and
their arithmetic quotients. Part II is a study of compact smooth
manifolds. Part III studies the compactification of locally
symmetric spaces. Familiarity with the theory of semisimple Lie
groups is assumed, as is familiarity with algebraic groups defined
over the rational numbers in later parts of the book, although most
of the pertinent material is recalled as presented. and research
mathematicians interested in the applications of Lie theory and
representation theory to diverse fields of mathematics.
The formalism processing of unbuckled solids mechanics involves
several mathematical tools which are to be mastered at the same
time. This volume collects the main points which take place in the
course of the formalism, so that the user immediately finds what he
needs without looking for it. Furthermore, the book contains a
methodological formulary to guide the user in his approach.
Technical communication instructors need professional development
opportunities that will aid them in creating their online courses;
in developing curricula; and in teaching in what may be a new
environment. Although instructors can turn to instructional design
teams for assistance in using Learning Management System and its
functions, they specifically need their own first-hand, immersive
learning within their pedagogical training. In other words,
teachers need to learn in an online context like the environment
that their students will use; such direct training helps
instructors to facilitate student learning in a technologically
distributed classroom. Beyond learning technological skills to
facilitate a course, these teachers need to learn to use the
technology effectively to keep students on track and to teach them
skills and material. This collection-which includes three
contributions from 2007 and 10 from 2017-focuses on the types of
professional development instructors need to be successful in the
online technical communication classroom. Formed as a 10-year
retrospective of the field and its advances in online education
professional development, the book offers instructors theoretical
and practical suggestions for creating and teaching successful
online courses and managing entire online technical communication
programs. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ).
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