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Bioenergetics is the study of the way biological systems, usually at the molecular level, utilize and convert energy in order to drive the biochemical reactions that constitute life. However, because of its often quantitative

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Computational Methods for Fluid-structure Interaction
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Fluid-structure interaction is a new theme of investigation in computational methods, covering many applications in both engineering and medical sciences. This book deals with various examples of interaction between a fluid and a structure, and each author presents, for the different problems involved, the method which is considered to be the most appropriate.

Computational Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems. Applied Mechanics Division, Volume 26

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Computational Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems. Applied Mechanics Division, Volume 26
T., & T. L. Geers, eds. Belytschko
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Computational methods for fluid/structure interaction: Presented at the 1993 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 28-December 3, 1993 (AMD)

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Development of an integrated BEM approach for hot fluid structure interaction annual report, November 1987 - November 1988 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:184587)

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Development of an integrated BEM approach for hot fluid structure interaction annual report, November 1987 - November 1988 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:184587)
Gary F. Dargush
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Howells examines divorce, 19th century style

Eminently readable

Hick Duo Go Splitsville in Beantown

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A Modern Instance
William Dean Howells
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She stopped. Bartley looked at her a moment, and then caught her to him and fell a-laughing over her, till it seemed as if he never would end. "And you thought--you thought," he cried, trying to get his breath,--"you thought you were Eily, and I was Hardress Cregan! Oh, I see, I see!" He went on making a mock and a burlesque of her tragical hallucination till she laughed with him at last. When he put his hand up to turn out the gas, he began his joking afresh. The real thing for Hardress to do, he said, fumbling for the key, is to blow it out.

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Howells examines divorce, 19th century style.......2006-09-14

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) ranks as one of America's most important authors. Ever heard of him? I hadn't either until I stumbled over his name several years ago, back when I was reading Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser. Howells was a proponent and practitioner of realism in literature, a concept that meshed pretty well with novels written by Norris and Dreiser. Since I enjoyed "The Octopus," "McTeague," "Sister Carrie," and "An American Tragedy" so much, I just knew I needed to visit a few of Howells's novels at some point. That time is now. I read two of them, this one and "A Foregone Conclusion". I'm not overly impressed with either one of them. I know, I know...I probably need to read "The Rise of Silas Lapham" to get the full William Dean Howells effect. I just don't want to right now. I can say, after reading these two books, that I understand why Howells is such an obscure figure in American literature. He might practice the sort of realism that fueled many of the novels from Norris and Dreiser, but his failure to focus on the truly sordid details of American life cost him a lasting reputation with a popular audience.

"A Modern Instance," written in 1882, studies in minute detail the relationship between Bartley Hubbard and Marcia Gaylord. The story kicks off in Equity, Maine when Hubbard sweeps into town to run the local newspaper. He's quite the dandy, college educated and sharp as a tack, but he lacks morals. Marcia Gaylord is the daughter of the town lawyer, a very beautiful girl who could probably marry anyone she wanted. Of course, she picks the dashing Bartley. The two hit if off well, and Marcia's father likes the young man enough to help him pursue a legal career. Then tragedy strikes in the form of an incident involving Bartley, a young woman, and a young man who works at the newspaper. No one dies, fortunately, but the event sours Hubbard's reputation with Marcia's father. Bartley soon heads for Boston in search of a new start, and Marcia leaves her family to follow him. The two marry, rent a place in Beantown, and Bartley takes a "temporary" position as a big city journalist until he can get his law career on track. It soon becomes clear that Bartley Hubbard will most likely never advance beyond a career in journalism. Nor will his morals improve.

As for Marcia, her devotion to Bartley blinds her to the man's flaws. Even an incident involving Hubbard, alcohol, and the police fail to dislodge her loyalty to her man. His failure to practice law causes tempers to flare, but these emotions soon fade away into semi-blissful domesticity. Anytime Marcia gets angry with her husband, she quickly caves in and lets Bartley do what he wants. This behavior infuriates Ben Halleck, a morose, wealthy young man who went to college with Bartley. He knows his old friend's failings, knows he will never change, but he soon discovers that he loves Marcia. It is this love, and the guilt he has for loving another man's wife, that continually torments his soul. When Bartley shows up on his doorstep asking for a sizable loan, Halleck gives him the money with the knowledge that Hubbard will likely never repay him. Sure enough, Bartley bails on his wife, his kid, and his debts and heads to points west. The resulting furor arising from such an immoral action finds Marcia, her crusty old father, and several members of the Halleck family heading out to Indiana in order to confront the scoundrel in divorce court and put the whole affair in order.

I liked "A Modern Instance" when compared to "A Foregone Conclusion". The story flows better, for one thing, and a few of the characters arouse more interesting. Especially Bartley Hubbard. I hated the guy and his malicious activities, but he carries himself with such aplomb that you can't help but admire his style. I had a tough time liking Marcia. She's whiny, full of self-pity, and a dunderhead of the first order. In addition to Bartley Hubbard, I also enjoyed the subject matter, i.e. divorce and its repercussions in the late 19th century. Howells paints the whole affair as if it's the worst thing that could happen to a person, and that's probably true in America circa 1882. Especially with a young kid in the mix. I'm sure his audience for this book reacted in a highly emotional way after reading the story. Today...eh, not such a big deal. It happens all the time. The story might have induced apoplexy in the audience had Howells made Marcia's actions the main motivation for divorce proceedings. THAT would have really shocked the readers. I don't think Howells was prepared to go that far.

I didn't like a few things about the story. Since a few of the characters aren't interesting personalities (Marcia and Ben Halleck, mainly), it's hard to care about what happens to them. I also didn't enjoy the long, discursive segments of the story in which Howells waxes philosophic about marriage and morals in the context of civilization, among other things. He's right about marriage, of course, as anyone who looks around at the mess we live in today can clearly see, but these digressions hamper the narrative flow in places. Still, "A Modern Instance" contains more good than bad. Howells possesses a vivid writing style that brings the 19th century environment to life, he has a firm grasp on human psychology, and Bartley Hubbard is a fun fellow to read about. I'm having a tough time deciding on how many stars to give "A Modern Instance". I want to label it with three, but I think I'll go with four since I liked the story better than "A Foregone Conclusion". I'm still not overly impressed with William Dean Howells. Read Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser instead.

Eminently readable.......2006-04-17

One can tell this is a book first published in 1882, but nevertheless I found it totally readable, and was quite caught up in the story. If you have to like the characters in a novel, then this book might not be for you. I usually prefer to have some admirable characters in a book, but neither the heroine nor the male lead character will excite your admiration. Laid in Equity, a fictional town in Maine, and in Boston in the 1870s, the account of how Marcia Gaylord throws herself at the deficient Bartley Hubbard and they enter into a marriage one suspects will not work, the account is of abiding interest, with many aspects which if viewed from the standpoint of the novel's date of composition are fraught with importance and even today provoke thoughtful consideration. I personally enjoyed this book more than The Rise of Silas Lapham, and you might too.

Hick Duo Go Splitsville in Beantown.......2003-01-16

Since reading this novel first some six years ago, Iýve always felt that it has one of the most unattractive titles of any book I know. On re-reading it, I still think so. This should not put readers off, however, because behind that bland, unimaginative moniker, which reflected some long-since faded thoughts by the author, you will find a fascinating study of divorce in the 19th century, in a society that condemned it. Fifty years ago I can remember my own mother whispering the word ýdivorcedý when speaking about a couple no longer togetherýit was too shameful to say out loud. Yeah, well, times have changed. But what about the mid-1870s ? Howells carefully draws the picture in his usual, nuanced style.

A handsome, but shallow youth, Bartley Hubbard, flirts with Marcia Gaylord in a small Maine town. We can see their union is ill-fated right from the start, her family opposes it (he seems to have no relatives), but Marcia burns for Bartley. They marry surreptitiously and head for Boston where Bartley gets a foothold in the newspaper world. He mouths idealistic pap like ýI hope I shall never do anything unworthy of your idea.ý but basically he has no moral framework in his character; heýs selfish, facile, opportunistic, and self-indulgent. Marcia, though beautiful, is ignorant, self-centered, and very jealous. Howells emphasizes their lack of religion as a key to their deficiencies. As the marriage falls apart, we turn more and more to other characters, all in the higher levels of Boston society, who have the moral fiber that the Hubbards do not. Ben Halleck, Bartley's ex-friend, wrestles with his conscience over his secret love for Marcia as he sees her suffer over Bartleyýs abandonment of her. In very 19th century style, he worships her "as a woman whose constancy to her mistake" makes her sacred. He suppresses all his desires, even disappearing to Uruguay for two years, but merely thinking of another manýs wife, albeit a desperately unhappy one, is utterly beyond the pale. He castigates himself unmercifully and winds up a penitent minister. But A MODERN INSTANCE is not a simple melodrama---it is a complex mix of personalities. There are no simple answers---isnýt it easy to be upright when you are financially secure ?---and the end is indefinite. Though Hubbard is used as an example of moral decay, a man without firm principles and moral rectitude, he is still the most vivid, most realistic character. He is a likeable scamp, no matter how he is villified by the Boston society people.

The values that people live by in Boston circa 1875 are far from those we know today. They agonize about things that would not give us much pause. They emote on ýcivilizationý because they, like Howells, could not imagine the horrors of the 20th century. Thus, in a sense, Howellsý novel is passé. Yet, his conversations, his picture of relationships, his description of the times, and even of nature are excellent. For example the vivid logging camp scenes (pp.79-97)are pure genius. You feel that you know that time and place by the end. Even if there are certain melodramatic twists and turns in the novel, and even if the last 90 pages drag a little, I would certainly recommend that you read A MODERN INSTANCE if you have any interest at all in American literature. It is a startlingly powerful book whose characters will stay with you.

A truely "modern" novel.......2000-07-27

Howell's novel follows the doomed marriage of jealous, insecure Marcia Gaylord and immoral--but somehow quite likeable--Bartley Hubbard. The story is very readable, and only seems to bog down in the last section of the book. The characters are well drawn, and Howell captures the changing character of American society towards the end of the nineteenth-century. There are no great moments of drama--rather this novel quietly makes its points. Cady's excellent introduction is best saved until after reading the book, so as to not spoil the plot. A great read for lovers of Wharton or Dreiser, or for anyone interested in American culture.

Roman farm management: the treatises of Cato and Varro done into English, with notes of modern instances, by a Virginia farmer

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Historical Monographs collection.

William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Library of America)

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William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Library of America)
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Four novels by America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the century, which explore the conflicts of private life and social institutions with unflinching realismn. Contains "A Foregone Conclusion" and "Indian Summer," dramas of complex romantic entanglements set in Italy, "A Modern Instance," the first full-scale study of infidelity and divorce in American fiction, and "The Rise of Silas Lapham," a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business and new money.

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Great introduction to Howells.......2007-07-12

William Dean Howells is one of those writers who everyone respects and recognizes as an important figure in American literature yet very few people read. This collection offers an excellent introduction. Four of Howells's greatest works are here. "A Foregone Conclusion" and "Indian Summer" are charming romances based in Italy. With the possible exception of James, there is no other male writer from the Gilded Age who captures American women better than Howells as the female leads from both novels show. Howells also offers some interesting social commentary on both Italy and America. Howells had a political background (he wrote offical biographies of both Lincoln and R.B.Hayes) and this is reflected in both novels. Both stories could be conventional romances; but with a skillful author like Howells, these tales are lifted to excellent studies of character, place, society and his times. "A Modern Instance" and "The Rise of Silas Lapham" are much more realistic and are set in the United States. They are also darker. Howell examines the newly rich, journalism, industry and the changes in the Republic during his life. He also continues to portray excellent characters. While these four novels are only a fraction of what Howells wrote (the man wrote over 100 books, including over 35 novels), they provide an excellent starting point. These books have quick plots, lovely images, memorable characters and offer insight into the human heart and into a distant past. The Library of America can be commended for its solid job in assembling this book. Both scholars and general readers will enjoy this collection.

realistic window into another literary age.......2001-08-05

My friend Paul caught me reading this book and said "Wow, I'd have to believe that I was nearly immortal in order to read Howells." For the early 1880s, though, this is a pretty readable book. The ideas are familiar: "Money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about any one else, and they respect them more." (Rise of Silas Lapham)

My favorite section from The Rise of Silas Lapham: "This comes of the error which I have often deprecated," said the elder Corey. "In fact I am always saying that the Bostonian ought never to leave Boston. Then he knows--and then only--that there can be no standard but ours. But we are constantly going away, and coming back with our convictions shaken to their foundations. One man goes to England, and returns with the conception of a grander social life; another comes home from Germany with the ntion of a more searching intellectual activity; a fellow just back from Paris has the absurdest ideas of art and literature; and you revert to us from the cowboys of Texas, and tell us to our faces that we ought to try Papa Lapham by a jury of his peers. It ought to be stopped--it ought, really. The Bostonian who leaves Boston ought to be condemned to perpetual exile."

If these novels lack the genius of Edith Wharton or Henry James they provide a much more realistic view of American life circa 1880. You might not learn as much about the interior of the human heart but you'll learn something about how people got from place to place, furnished their houses, and managed businesses.

The Minister's Charge.......2000-02-21

The Minister's Charge cannot be rated, in my estimation, as one of Howells better works. Although the relationship between the minister and his charge is intriging, the superferlous details of the young characters social life drags on and on in its useless verbosity. I enjoy Howells, and appreciate most of his works, but I labored through this book but ultimately had to leave the last 30 pages unread.

Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W.D. Howells

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Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W.D. Howells
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Does God Answer Prayer? an Affirmative With Some Modern Instances
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Very Good. No Jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Undated-c1919-1920. "Prayer and Answers on Battlefields", "Prayer in Peril", "Prayer in Healing", "Modern Doubt, etc. 193 pages

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Couldn't Put it Down
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An Affair to Remember

Instances of the Number 3
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When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (not even women) conform to the attitudes generally expected." Indeed, in this ironic and witty novel nothing is quite as we expect to find it. Telling the story of Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater, Vickers brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years - and continue to reverberate after secretive, generous, sexually prodigal Peter Hansome dies suddenly in a car accident, on his way home from an assignation with yet another lover, about whom neither woman knows.

While Frances, a London art dealer and sometime artists' model, gradually makes friends with the older, Shakespeare-loving Bridget, these two unconventional women start to learn the whole truth (or almost the whole truth) about the man whose death brought them together and whose ghost watches over them still.

Wise, wry, and intellectually playful, Instances of the Number 3 explores the mysterious power of triangles in love, art, and theology. It confirms Salley Vickers as one of the most intelligent new voices in British fiction.

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A fresh triumph from an exciting new novelist, this witty tale brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years.

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Couldn't Put it Down.......2003-07-02

I picked this book up having read some favorable reviews and read it nearly straight through. I haven't been swept away like that in a long time. I'm sure that the main pull for me was the author's incredibly compelling and authoritative (no pun intended!) tone. A bit of Fay Weldon, some Iris Murdoch but also
unique and although I had a bit of trouble at first with the use of a ghost and guessed another plot device it didn't matter and I put the book down with a sigh, sorry that it was over. Maybe it was the combination of the quotidian and the otherworldly that did it for me. "Quirky" doesn't begin to do this book justice.

Excellent read of romantic triangle.......2003-04-11

A suprising novel about the survivors of the death of a man who was afraid to be alone. All of the intimates of his life end up interacting when they are filling the holes that his death has left in their lives.

Bridget Hansome, the wife of a husband with a wandering eye, deals with his mistress with admirable compassion and understanding. She is somewhat confused when a young man shows up, requesting assistance in her husband's name. The novel turns on the interactions between the three people as they unravel the tangle of the errant husband's life. The ability of all of the people to forgive and understand Peter Hansome's inability to be alone is written about in such a way that it is entirely believable. No one in this novel has clear cut motives for their actions - - life is realistically muddled and tangentially approached.

I liked the touch of magical realism present in the spirit of the husband. The denouement was an excellent twist with several levels of interpretation - - including a direct jab at how people manage to fool themselves and prefer blindness (a lovely harmonic referral to one of the points of the novel; that you may need to chose to be blind to the faults of someone in order to love them). An excellent read.

Portrait of an affair with a touch of the mystical.......2003-03-22

From the first page of INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER THREE I was struck by how unexpected the characters were. Here we have a man's funeral attended by his widow (Bridget), his family, his close friends...and his mistress (Frances), whom nobody knew existed until the day before. Yet rather than the melodramatic scene one would expect to ensue, all parties involved actually behave cordially, even to the point of absurdity. Further, there is a marked lack of emotional reaction of any kind from the widow, including grief. Is this Surrealism, I wondered, or just very British mannerisms?

What became apparent as I delved further into this mysterious novel was that the author uses the memories and flashbacks of her characters to gradually build a complete picture of the scenario. We are privy to behind-the-scenes thoughts of all three participants in the love triangle, even Peter's (the deceased husband); yet the narrative voice takes on the quality of an objective observer who is piecing together the events and forces that shaped these people's lives. Well before I looked at the author's biography I had the feeling of listening in on a series of therapy sessions and, surprise! ...the author is in fact a psychologist.

Frances, Peter and other side characters start by showing self-centeredness and shortsighted thinking. This novel could be said to be about how they each embarked on a journey after Peter's death to examine themselves and grow spiritually. On a larger scale, I think the author uses their personal stories to underscore the connection that religion, environment, and maturity have to our lives and what kind of people we become.

I believe the strong point of IOTNT is in Bridget herself. As unusual in a contemporary novel as it is to feature a woman in late middle age, it is even more commendable that she is able to separate her personal hurts from what she knows to be the moral, compassionate way to live. Bridget is able to open her arms to an inconvenient, homeless teenager and take him in simply because her late husband knew him and would have wished it. We see her welcome Frances, if not warmly at first, then at least civilly. Later, she includes Frances in some areas of her life and even maintains a tenuous friendship with her despite repeatedly discovering the many small ways her husband cheated her for the sake of this other woman. She can recognize Frances as a worthy person because Peter loved her, too, and thus is eventually able to overcome her own bitterness about the affair. Her human wisdom is uncommon for any age.

Readers may find the writing style a bit dry if they are not used to contemporary British fiction. On the other hand, there are insights into human nature and even a touch of supernatural elements to bring this work a bit above the ordinary novel fare. I rate IOTNT 4 stars for fresh, thoughtful character studies and a new angle on how ordinary people handle the bigger mysteries of life and death.

-Andrea, aka Merribelle

The rarest combination: provocative and charming.......2003-03-04

The triangles of human relations seldom seem as lovely as the Three Graces depicted on the dust jacket, and yet the beauty which shines forth from Salley Vicker's pellucid prose makes the reader reconsider the possibilities for redemption in apparently convoluted circumstances.

Perhaps the most provocative triangle is set up by the author herself: her text, the reader, and other texts (Shakespeare [mostly, but not exclusively, Hamlet] and Donne). The plot resolves and the triangles collapse, after a fashion, but the narrative lives on in the sense that readers may well find themselves scurrying to unpack further meaning for themselves in, say, the sermons of John Donne. And in this, of course, the triangle magically collapses into a dialog between the reader and Hamlet's mother or Cordelia.

This book engages in the most catholic sense because it sends readers into their own orbits of imagination and existential inquiry. And it is also simply fun to read: fun to apprehend and unfold the layers of mystery.

An Affair to Remember.......2002-06-10

Salley Vickers explores the territory between men and women with tongue-in-cheek humor. The novel has a European sensibility that Americans find amusing since we tend to get so agitated about sex, particularly the extramarital type which is in abundance in Iot#3. Here, it is a bit more routine, to be expected now & then; and while there is the requisite level of tense emotion, no one divorces over such a thing. The irony of the novel is that it is also a spiritual search to reconcile the innate biological urge of man with the higher calling. Peter, the husband who dies as the novel gets started, is a newly converted Catholic. He arrives as a ghost to have some of those heart-to-heart meaningful conversations with widowed wife Bridget that a man just can't get while alive. So as we learn about Frances, his mistress, and Zahin and Zelda, the Iranian love interest, we get an exploration of a life lived fully from the perspective of one who has already lived it and now experiences purgatory. That said, the novel doesn't dwell on the philosophic parts; it gives the novel a substance beyond the superficial level of an assignation. Vickers does a good job building a sense of character in the supporting characters. Mickey the next door busybody who gets involved in a sandwich shop and the painters and sculptors who Frances knows are well drawn. The relationship between Bridget and Frances is the centerpiece as the widow and the mistress become acquainted, only to have the relationship mirrored as Bridget starts a relationship with the married Stanley. I enjoyed the novel's flow, it's bite-size chapters, and its British flavor. This is one that makes you think as it entertains. Enjoy.

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THE MODERN INSTANCE

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