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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in
recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture,
manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and
visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy
support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and
administrative levels. This holds especially for emergency
preparedness and health risk reduction, which are all essentially
spatial problems. To date, however, many initiatives have remained
disconnected and uncoordinated, leading to less powerful, less
compatible and less widely implemented systems than might otherwise
have been the case.
This volume provides an overview of modern acoustical techniques for the measurement of mechanical properties. Chapters include Fundamentals of Elastic Constants; Point Source/Point Receiver Methods; Laser Controlled Surface Acoustic Waves; Quantitative Acoustical Microscopy of Solids; Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy; Elastic Properties and Thermodynamics; Sound Speed as a Thermodynamic Property of Fluids; Noninvasive Determination of Sound Speed in Liquids; Introduction to the Elastic Constants of Gases; and Acoustic Measurement in Gases.
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts from both industry
and academia, Acoustic Wave Sensors provides an in-depth look at
the current state of acoustic wave devices and the scope of their
use in chemical, biochemical, and physical measurements, as well as
in engineering applications. Because of the inherent
interdisciplinary applications of these devices, this book will be
useful for the chemist and biochemist interested in the use and
development ofthese sensors for specific applications; the
electrical engineer involved in the design and improvement of these
devices; the chemical engineer and the biotechnologist interested
in using these devices for process monitoring and control; and the
sensor community at large.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in
recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture,
manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and
visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy
support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and
administrative levels. This holds especially for emergency
preparedness and health risk reduction, which are all essentially
spatial problems. To date, however, many initiatives have remained
disconnected and uncoordinated, leading to less powerful, less
compatible and less widely implemented systems than might otherwise
have been the case.
Cy Riemer--fifty-ish, divorced, and father of four--surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride. In this wry, moving, and wise novel, Richard Stern offers his masterful portrait of Cy as the quintessential caring yet controlling parent, a relentless seeker of self-knowledge whose search is intensified through conflicts with his brilliant, ne'er-do-well son Jack. The manipulation of a smart, sane, self-justifying narrator . . . is not the least of Stern's achievements in this delicate fabrication of tough prose and tender adjustment of sentiment.--Geoffrey Wolff, Los Angeles Times Richard Stern's novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane. He knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders--and about writing American prose.--Philip Roth A delectable rhetorical display. . . . --The New Yorker Anyone who has read Richard Stern's previous novels won't need to be told he is an unusually crisp and intelligent writer, with a sharp edge to his wit; and in A Father's Words he runs true to form. Many of the book's pleasures are incidental: jokes, intellectual cadenzas, agile turns of phrase . . . The author's powers of farcical invention climax in a brilliant, bitter episode where . . . the younger man proclaims his final failure . . . Mr. Stern has written an excellent novel.--John Gross, New York Times Richard Stern is American letters' unsung comic writer about serious matters . . . [A Father's Words] produced in this reviewer an apostolic desire to convince a wider audience to try Stern, especially the vintage Stern.--Doris Grumbach, Chicago Tribune
"What Is What Was," Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is
the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction.
Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral
Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner
praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound,
Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin
(in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin
Heidegger.
In midcentury America, the golden age of television, a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Through a devastating series of exposures-"You're on Camera"-Golk manipulates the high and mighty, the lowdown and dirty, and the outrageous weird; all are within the compass of Richard Stern in this early novel, a comedy with as many inspired maneuvers as its rambunctious protagonist has for taking the measure of a profligate world. "Golk is a rich and marvelously detailed novel by a man with a cultivated intelligence; it is also the first really good book I have read about television."-Norman Mailer "An original: sharp, funny, intelligent, rare. . . . Working in a clean, oblique style reminiscent of Nathanael West, Mr. Stern has written in Golk a first-rate comic novel, a piece of fiction that is at once about and loaded with that kind of recognition that junkies call the flash."-Joan Didion, National Review "Golk is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all Golk is pure-that is to say necessary. Without hokum."-Saul Bellow "Golk (like Golk himself) is a wonderous conception. Its world responds to personification, not analysis, and personify it Mr. Stern has done. A book in a thousand."-Hugh Kenner "What I like about Mr. Stern's fantasy is that it has been conceived and written with so much gaiety. Far from a political melodrama, it reminds me of a Rene Clair movie, and even the surrealist touches needed to bring out the power and pretense of the television industry are funny rather than symbolically grim."-Alfred Kazin, Reporter "A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled."-Flannery O'Connor
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