Basic Ship Theory Volume 2

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Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text for naval architecture students, as well as being a useful reference for the more experienced designer.

The fifth edition continues to provide a balance between theory and practice. Volume 2 expands on the material in Volume 1, covering the dynamics behaviour of marine vehicles, hydrodynamics, manoeuvrability and seakeeping. It concludes with some case studies of particular ship types and a discussion of maritime design. Both volumes feature the importance of considering the environment in design.

Basic Ship Theory is an essential tool for undergraduates and national vocational students of naval architecture, maritime studies, ocean and offshore engineering, and will be of great assistance to practising marine engineers and naval architects.

Brand new edition of the leading undergraduate textbook in Naval Architecture.
Provides a basis for more advanced theory.
Over 500 examples, with answers.

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Well Respected Text.......2005-10-10

Written by final semester NavArch student and thirteen year active duty Sailor.

I obtained it new from Amazon and it came damaged and very late so another was sent express and it was fine.

A little different from past revisions. It looks to be enitrely in metric where earier editions had english units also. The single volume hard-cover is not as ungainly as expected. It is merely just like stacking two of the older paperbacks and wrapping in a hardcover.

Ever since starting NavArch, the faculty at my school list this as a definite optional text for anyone who might need a little more explanation of things that they couldn't get from the school's course books (if they don't already use it.) The staff were "loyalists" in that they went with the SNAME texts (SD&C, SSD, PNA) as well as ANA by Zubaly for primary texts. They were confident that if you have a the money the first optional text to get would be Basuc Ship Theory. Our freshly graduated fro U of M professor broke mould and dropped the SNAME texts and fully switched to BST for the first semester Ship Statics course.

I am one semester out from graduating. The SNAME golden oldies are valuable as references and should be mandatory texts. As priamry texts they are a little dry though. I feel there should be a central course text book that portrays things in plain english for the uneducated with worked examples. It should be capable of raising a "rookie" first semester sophmore to an "apprentice" first semester junior. BST does this well and is a "total package" that covers a lot without going to far into dusty reference category. It woould, however, be a valuable addition to a reference library.

My heart and mind still say the first text to start your NavArcheducation with is Zubaly's Applied Naval Architecture. My respect for it's usefullness in entry level NavArch education was high even before I had the opportunity to wark with the author.

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Good Foundational Knowledge.......2002-12-31

I am indebted to these authors for helping me to understand marine structures better. They start rather simply and move onto the complex rather fast without losing you in the process. I especially found the section on scantling effective plating widths helpful. I also was blessed by the way they described how grillage structures work. The section on stability testing is succint but rich in depth. I often use the statistical approaches presented for pedulum readings.

Naval Architecture has never been more interesting.......1999-11-10

Well, maybe it has. Anyway, this book is really poorly written and frequently pisses you off. Plus, the index has only the words that you never need to look up. If you're buying this book you've probably been required to do it by some higher power, but don't buy it otherwise. Just use PNA if you can get away with it.

Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume 2 (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )

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Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume 2 (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
Mary Warner Marien , and William Fleming
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A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS challenges students to see the links between common purposes, themes, and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy.

Fashion Theory, Volume 10, Issues 1 & 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture - Vogue Special Issue (Fashion Theory)

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Fashion Theory, Volume 10, Issues 1 & 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture - Vogue Special Issue (Fashion Theory)

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Release Date: 2005-12-22

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Fashion Theory provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. It provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art, history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology. It is multi-disciplinary, features international coverage and is heavily illustrated.

Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Cuture (Fashion Theory)

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What’s Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms?, Sharon Kinsella

Fashion and Anxiety, Alison Clarke and Daniel Miller

Paul Poiret’s Minaret Style, Nancy Troy

Exhibition Review: Why the Absence of Fashionable Dress in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Exhibition Art Nouveau, 1890-1912? , Lou Taylor

The Common Sense of Yacht Design : The Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture : 2 Volumes in 1

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L. Francis Herreshoff
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Design of Survivable Networks with Bounded Rings (Network Theory and Applications Volume 2)

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B. Fortz
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This book studies the problem of designing, at minimal cost, a two-connected network such that each edge belongs to a cycle of bounded length. This problem arises in the long-term planning of telecommunications networks. The book provides an in-depth study of the underlying polyhedron, proposing several classes of facet-defining inequalities that are used in a branch-and-cut algorithm. Several heuristics are also proposed in order to solve real-world instances of the problem, and extensive numerical results are reported. The polyhedral analysis is done in the best mathematical programming tradition. Results obtained here demonstrate how to use polyhedral theory for practical network design problems, and are therefore of interest for mathematical programming practitioners as an application of classical theoretical concepts. Moreover, telecommunications specialists can find practical solutions to real-world problems, as several heuristics are proposed that can be easily extended to related problems. Audience: Operations research and mathematical programming researchers, and telecommunications specialists.

Fashion Theory Volume 11 Issues 2 and 3 (Fashion Theory)

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This special issue of Fashion Theory is a special issue focusing on Muslim fashions.

Fashion Theory Volume 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

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Agnes Rocamora: High Fashion and Pop Fashion: The Symbolic Production of Fashion in Le Monde and The Guardian

Tina Mai Chen: Dressing for the Party: Clothing, Citizenship, and Gender-formation in Mao’s China

Mary Lynn Stewart with Nancy Janovicek: Slimming the Female Body? Re-evaluating Dress, Corsets, and Physical Culture in France, 1890s-1930s

Paoloa Zamperini: Clothes that Matter: Fashioning Modernity in Late Qing Novels

Thomas Humery: Exhibition Review: Behind the Outfit: The ‘Wardrobes’ Exhibition at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile

John Harvey: Book Review: Venus and Furs: The Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia V. Emberley

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Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)

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Masculinities Special Issue

The overwhelming majority of books and articles on fashion focus on women. But of course men get dressed too. The prevailing stereotype is that women spend more time thinking about and buying clothes, but not only do the essays in this stimulating issue overturn this stereotype -- they also show that, historically at least, men’s clothes were of paramount importance to their self-presentation, particularly with respect to sexual identity.

Peter McNeil: Macaroni Masculinities

Fiona Anderson: Fashioning the Gentleman: A Study of Henry Poole and Co., Saville Row Tailors 1861-1900

Laura Ugolini: Clothes and he Modern Man in 1930s Oxford

Becky Conekin: Fashioning the Playboy: Messages of Style and Masculinity in the Pages of Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963

Ulrich Lehmann: Language of the Pursuit: Cary Grant’s Clothes in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’

Alistair O’Neill: John Stephen: A Carnaby Street Presentation of Masculinity 1957-1975

Valerie Steele: Book Review: The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, fashion and city life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward

Fashion Theory: Volume 7, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)

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'Fashioning the Church'
Simona Segre, IULM University, Milan

'Projecting an Image and Expressing Identity'
Marjorie Kelly, Independent Scholar

'Dilemmas in African Diaspora Fashion'
Van Dyk Lewis, Cornell University

'The Cultural Politics of the Uniform'
Jennifer Craik, Griffith University

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

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A Candid Look at Medicine
A truly fine blend of literary accounts and health issues
A literary look at the human side of medicine

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Joseph D'Donnell
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A stirring collection of stories, poems, and essays on all aspects of the medical profession, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the "Children of Crisis" series. A century of unprecedented scientific advances has left the medical profession facing profound ethical and procedural crises, as doctors, nurses, hospice workers, psychiatrists, and others involved in the healing arts struggle to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. A Life in Medicine explores questions such as, "What is a 'small, good thing' in medicine?" "Can patients be instruments of grace?" and "How does one muster one's compassion for (so-called) 'difficult' patients?," bringing together provocative and moving writing on the moral and ethical lives of physicians, nurses, and psychiatrists, and injecting a dose of contemporary reality into a centuries-old discussion. The book is organized around the central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill, and duty, and contributors include well-known writers, doctors, nurses, practitioners, and patients, who address life and death, cancer and AIDS, seizures and psychosis, advocacy and anatomy, from both ends of the stethoscope.

With stories by: Raymond Carver • Anton Chekhov • Shusaku Endo • Anne Fadiman • Laurie Moore • William Carlos Williams

Poems by: • Hart Crane • Walt Whitman • Raymond Carver

And essays by: • Wendell Berry • Robert Coles • Robert Jay Lifton • Sara Lawrence Lightfoot • Audre Lorde • Lewis Thomas • Albert Schweitzer • Terry Tempest Williams

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A Candid Look at Medicine.......2006-04-05

My rather on-and-off-again interest in medical and health issues prompted me to pick this up when I saw it in the library. It's a wonderful collection of essays, poetry and stories by professionals and "laymen" alike, on the mysteries and challenges of medicine. I especially enjoyed the fiction selections, from the story of a woman who hypnotizes the doctor after a dehumanizing and personal exam, from the terror of the doctor who gets stuck with an AIDS patient's needle, to the perversion of all medical ideals in the euthanasia programs of WWII, I found the stories and essays fascinating and almost disturbingly real. You can pick and choose what you like--I'm not much for poetry, but lingered over "The Good Doctor," about the seamier side of the long-standing hierarchical structure in medicine. I highly recommend this anthology.

A truly fine blend of literary accounts and health issues.......2004-05-06

Poems, essays and stories by those involved in the healing profession make A Life In Medicine: A Literary Anthology a truly fine blend of literary accounts and health issues, organized around central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill and duty. Doctors, nurses and health practitioners alike consider what it means to care for patients in a century of rapidly-changing scientific advancements.

A literary look at the human side of medicine.......2002-12-04

Whenever I see a book with Robert Coles name on it I know it will be worthwhile to read. Coles served as one of several editors of A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology and the selections within are outstanding. They include poems, essays, short stories, and excerpts from longer works. The authors range from those working in the field (nurses, medical students, midwives, and physicians) to those not commonly associated with the field (e.g., Raymond Carver).

The book is thought provoking and emphasizes how we are all connected to the process of life and death. As a physician (with writing as an avocation) I thought it offered a wonderful look at the many facets of medical care and those that deliver it.

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