Defining Virtual Interactions: A Taxonomy for Researchers and Practitioners

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Defining Virtual Interactions: A Taxonomy for Researchers and Practitioners

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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ASIN: 1423540190

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A561473. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Many uses for virtual technology are being identified by diverse organizational entities around the world. Before these technologies can be fully utilized, it is important to have a common definition and understanding of what is meant by the term virtual. It is also important to understand the structural configurations possible using virtual technology and the types of virtual interactions that may occur using these technologies. This thesis will define the basic premises, structures, and definitions applicable to vial interactions. It also defines various types of virtual interactions that may occur using virtual technology. These designations will help both practitioners and researchers to focus on appropriate virtual technologies and identify the critical factors that will determine success or failure in each instance. Above all, this taxonomy will provide a foundation upon which to build a coherent, sustained, and directed study of virtual interactions that will result in improved integration of technology into organizational strategic plans. Such integration will optimize financial outlays for information technology and produce the maximum benefits for all virtual components involved.

Flow and Dispersion through Groups of Obstacles (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series New Series)

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Flow and Dispersion through Groups of Obstacles (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series New Series)

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ASIN: 0198511906

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This book contains a selection of papers from an IMA conference on flow and dispersion through groups of obstacles. The papers all concern the problem of modelling the flow through large numbers of obstacles, and of predicting the disperion of material transported by the flow.

Fluid Structure Interactions: Slender Structures & Axial Flow

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Fluid Structure Interactions: Slender Structures & Axial Flow
Michael P. Paidoussis
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: 0125443609

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This volume emphasizes the fundamentals and mechanisms giving rise to flow-induced vibration of use to researchers, designers, and operators. Fluid-Structure Interactions provides useful problem-solving tools, and conveys the ideas in a physically comprehensible manner. The book includes a complete bibliography of important work in the field.

. The Non-linear behaviour of Fluid-Structure
interactions
. The possible existence of chaotic oscillations
. The use of this area as a model to demonstrate
new mathematical techniques

This book will prove invaluable to researchers, practitioners, and students in fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, and dynamics and vibrations.

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Fundamental reference book.......2000-11-19

This is a fundamental reference book if you are working in the area of fluid-structure interaction, vibrations and stability of pipes, nonlinear dynamics, Coriolis flowmeters and cardiovascular biomechanics.

Mechanics of Flow-Induced Sound and Vibration: Complex Flow-Structure Interactions (Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol 17)

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Mechanics of Flow-Induced Sound and Vibration: Complex Flow-Structure Interactions (Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol 17)
William K. Blake
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Sound-Flow Interactions (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Sound-Flow Interactions (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ASIN: 3540433325

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The coupling between acoustic waves and fluid flow motion is basically nonlinear, with the result that flow and sound modify themselves reciprocally with respect to generation and propagation properties. As a result this problem is investigated by many different communities, such as applied mathematics, acoustics and fluid mechanics. This book is the result of an international school which was held to discuss the foundation of sound--flow interactions, to share expertise and methodologies, and to promote cross-fertilization between the different disciplines involved. It consists essentially of a set of pedagogical lectures and is meant to serve not only as a compact source of reference for the experienced researcher but also as an advanced textbook for postgraduate students, and nonspecialists wishing to familiarize themselves in depth, at a research level, with this fascinating subject.

Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)

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Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)
Alex D. D. Craik
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Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows is a coherent, up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena, both in fluids at rest and in shear flows. On the one hand, this includes water waves, internal waves, their evolution and interaction and associated wave-driven mean flows; on the other, phenomena of nonlinear hydrodynamic stability, especially those leading to the onset of turbulence. Close similarities -- and crucial differences -- exist between these two classes of phenomena and their treatment in this single study provides a particularly valuable bridge between more specialised, but related, disciplines. As a result, this unique book will appeal to researchers and graduate students of fluid mechanics in its widest sense, including the study of wave-interaction phenomena in such diverse fields as meteorology, aeronautical and hydraulic engineering, optics, solar physics and population dynamics.

3D Navier-Stokes analysis of a Mach 2.68 bifurcated rectangular mixed-compression inlet (SuDoc NAS 1.15:107123)

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3D Navier-Stokes analysis of a Mach 2.68 bifurcated rectangular mixed-compression inlet (SuDoc NAS 1.15:107123)
M. Mizukami
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A Cartesian grid approach with hierarchical refinement for compressible flows (SuDoc NAS 1.26:194938)

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A Cartesian grid approach with hierarchical refinement for compressible flows (SuDoc NAS 1.26:194938)
James J. Quirk
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A fully implicit time accurate method for hypersonic combustion application to shock-induced combustion instability (SuDoc NAS 1.15:106707)

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A fully implicit time accurate method for hypersonic combustion application to shock-induced combustion instability (SuDoc NAS 1.15:106707)
Shaye Yungster
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Hypersonic flows as related to the national aerospace plane (SuDoc NAS 1.26:199365)
Marvin Kussoy
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The Maltese Falcon

Very exciting and convenient

The first benchmark

A classic

Well worth the time.

Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man (Library of America)
Dashiell Hammett
Manufacturer: Library of America
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ASIN: 1883011671

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Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novel

In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.... He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes."

The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules and characteristic tone for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing. Drawing on his own experiences as a Pinkerton detective, Hammett gave a harshly realistic edge to novels that were at the same time infused with a spirit of romantic adventure. His lean and deliberately simplified prose won admiration from such contemporaries as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.

Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town. In The Dain Curse (1929) the Op returns in a more melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930) and its protagonist Sam Spade, Hammett achieved his most enduring popular success, a tightly constructed quest story shot through with a sense of disillusionment and the arbitrariness of personal destiny. The Glass Key (1931) is a further exploration of city politics at their most scurrilous. His last novel was The Thin Man (1934), a ruefully comic tale paying homage to the traditional mystery form and featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated inebriates who would enjoy a long afterlife in the movies.

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The Maltese Falcon.......2006-11-07

An intriguing plot with just the right blend of wry humor, sex and secrets.

Very exciting and convenient.......2006-06-19

I do like these stories, though they are so rough! It is very helpful to be able to have them all together in this one good volume, I think. But it is dangerous to read them late at night, because you either get too excited to sleep, or you dream of bad men with their car headlamps switched off in the dark!

The first benchmark.......2005-08-19

Very nice edition of the master's novels. In addition to my love of Hammett's prose, I am fascinated by the subtle political aspects of his work: he was the first crime writer to question the status quo so frankly. K. C. Constantine said, "The crime writer is society's stoolie", and Hammett is still a reliable informant.

A classic.......2004-08-26

"A Classic"

What makes a classic? In the case of a detective novel, it is a book that can be read and reread and that gives pleasure on each reading. The Maltese Falcon is now seventy-five years old, yet it continues to amaze, to amuse, to engage.

You may know the plot, but you still can't remember every twist and turn of the unfolding story, and you are surprised by details here and there you did not previously notice, or had forgotten. You may know the principal characters-the cynical detective Sam Spade, the seductive adventuress Brigid O'Shaughnessy, the exotic Joel Cairo, the crafty Caspar Gutman. But they are so expertly drawn, so powerfully realized, that you learn more about them on each reading.

You may already have committed some of the most famous lines of dialog to heart ("The cheaper the crook the gaudier the patter"-- "You're good. You're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you say things like `Be generous, Mr. Spade'"). Yet you continue to discover more, and you continue on each reading to relish the bite, the humor, the intelligence of Hammett's prose.

It's practically impossible to read this book without thinking of the motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. Don't try. John Huston's script departs here and there from the story line of the novel, but not in any serious way. Most of the changes are efforts to streamline the story and make it fit the standard (for 1941) length of a screenplay. And the best lines spoken by Bogart, Astor, Lorre, and Greenstreet are pure Hammett. The movie is true to the spirit of the book, and if you are familiar with both you can love them both.

At age seventy-five, The Maltese Falcon is a classic, and there is good reason to believe that in another seventy-five years it will still be one.

Well worth the time........2004-07-28

I have read all five novels at least twice. Will go for three times when winter arrives.

The Novels of Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man

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The Novels of Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett
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ASIN: 0394438604
Release Date: 1965-09-12

The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest (Everyman's Library)

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a great collection
Classic Hammett
A classic for every home library

The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest (Everyman's Library)
Dashiell Hammett , and Robert Polito
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ASIN: 0375411259
Release Date: 2000-12-05

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The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.

A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett's wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.

"Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer."—Boston Globe

”Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.”—Raymond Chandler

”Hammett’s prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.”—The New York Times

”As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time.”—Ross Macdonald

”Dashiell Hammett’s dialogues can be compared only with the best in Hemingway.”—André Gide

”Hammett is one of the best contemporary American writers.”—Gertrude Stein

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a great collection.......2005-01-02

The Maltese Falcon is a masterpiece. I love Red Harvest as well. The Thin Man isn't quite as good, but it's a lot of fun. All in all, reading this collection is a great way to spend a rainy weekend as I discovered.

Classic Hammett.......2004-01-23

Dashiell Hammett is best known as the man who wrote "Maltese Falcon," the classic noir mystery behind the classic noir film. That book is included here, along with the confusing "Red Harvest" and magnificent, polished "Thin Man," two other crime novels by Hammett.

The mysterious "Maltese Falcon" is at the center of international intrigue -- and murder. Cynical Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired by a beautiful, seemingly helpless woman to find a man who she says has run off with her sister. Not only is the woman lying, but someone kills Archer. A slimy fop, a cultured gangster, and a breathy femme fatale are all in the same web of crime and murder, centered on a bejewelled bird called the Maltese Falcon.

"Red Harvest" is the full-length novel introduction of the cool-as-ice Continental Op. He travels to Personville (or "Poisonville," depending on your accent) to meet a client. Except the client has just been murdered. Rather than go home to San Francisco, the Continental Op meets the dead man's wealthy father, and begins a one-man battle against the vicious gangsters who control Personville. But the death and mayhem draw him in, threatening his life as he struggles to stay afloat.

"The Thin Man" was Hammett's last and lightest novel. Nick and Nora Charles are a wealthy couple who have a weird kind of compatibility, but ex-private-eye Nick is through with crime solving. Or so he thinks. One day when Nick is out drinking, he encounters young Dorothy Wynant, daughter of peculiar inventor Clyde Wynant. Her dad has vanished, and soon his secretary/mistress is found dead. Nick finds himself sucked unwillingly into a sordid, messy crime that will leave more murdered bodies behind it.

This collection shows the unevenness of Hammett's writing at times. "Maltese Falcon" and "Thin Man" are complicated and polished, while "Red Harvest" is a dense mass of shootings, conspiracies and mysterious crimes. What they all have in common is tense, sparse writing, and hardened, cynical anti-heroes who are surrounded by other ambiguous characters.

The three-pack of "The Maltese Falcon," "The Thin Man," and "Red Harvest" is a good way to introduce yourself to Hammett's gritty, engrossing crime novels. Highly recommended.

A classic for every home library.......2000-12-30

My two favorites in this collection are The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon. I love these hard-boiled detective novels doubly for their sheer entertainment and their place in history. If you want a fascinating read to go allong with this collection, get The Perfect Murder: A Study In Detection by David Lehman. It will clue you into these novels and life. These classic American Novels by Hammett are about to explode in historical research as these novels create an important link in America from WWII to our morality.

Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man (The Great Masters Library) (The Great Masters Library)

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Fascinating Mysteries

Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man (The Great Masters Library) (The Great Masters Library)
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Fascinating Mysteries.......2001-03-16

Dashiell Hammett's novels have fascinating mystery plots and the essential elements of film noir: dangerous dames, wise-cracking "ops" (= operative = P.I.), cagey crime orgasnisers, and trigger-happy "muggs".

Hammett's novels include The Maltese Falcon (#3) and The Thin Man(#5), which are great films but they are missing some of the intrigue of the real stories. For instance, there's another angle of Sam Spade involving Iva Archer that doesn't quite make it to the film version . . . .

The Red Harvest (#1) reveals shocking corruption in city politics as the Continental Op (literally) wades through bootleg liquor and tries to keep track of the soaring body count.

The Dain Curse (#2) is a confusing compound of drug use, a religious cult, and a family's vicious criminal record. It isn't a neat, fictionalised detective story, but rather the slough of deceit Hammett must have seen while working for Pinkerton.

The Glass Key (#4) also deals with city-level political corruption, but there's another message: think of trying to use a glass key . . . .

When fortifying myself for a six hour layover and a trans-Atlantic flight, I stumbled upon this book quite by accident, but I couldn't have made a better choice. Hammett's novels make excellent reading: interesting plots, clever wording and some of those "lines" film noir can't do without. I can't resist giving an example "line" (from The Glass Key):

"'A copper found you crawling on all fours up the middle of Colman Street at three in the morning leaving a trail of blood behind you.'

'I think of funny things to do,' Ned Beaumont said."

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Five Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man

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The Novels of Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man.
Dashiell Hammett
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CLASSICS OF MYSTERY [3 Volume Set; Slipcased]: RED HARVEST; THE DAIN CURSE; THE MALTESE FALCON; THE CLASS KEY; THE THIN MAN; THE BIG SLEEP; FAREWELL MY LOVELY; THE HIGH WINDOW; THE LADY IN THE LAKE; THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD; ETC
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Manufacturer: Chatham River Press
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Dashiell Hammett - Five Complete Novels

Manufacturer: Amaranth Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: 0830004130

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Five complete novels by Dashiell Hammett. Brown bonded leather with gold lettering. Novels are Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man

FIVE COMPLETE NOVELS RED HARVEST THE DAIN CURSE THE MALTESE FALCON THE GLASS KEY THE THIN MAN

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FIVE COMPLETE NOVELS RED HARVEST THE DAIN CURSE THE MALTESE FALCON THE GLASS KEY THE THIN MAN
Dashiell Hammett
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The Novels of Dashiell Hammett : Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett
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