Color Biology III

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This title presents the systematization and description of accumulated knowledge on oceanic fronts of the Norwegian, Greenland, Barents and Bering Seas. The main fronts of the Norwegian, Greenland and Barents Seas are part of the climatic North Polar Frontal Zone (NPFZ). The work is based on numerous observational data, collected by the authors during special sea experiments directed at the investigation of physical processes and phenomena inside certain parts of the NPFZ and in the northern part of the Bering Sea, on archive data of the USSR Hydrometeocenter and other research institutions, as well as on a wide scientific literature published in Russian and Western editions.

The book contains general information on the oceanic fronts of the Subarctic Seas, brief history of their investigation, state of the knowledge, as well as detailed description of the thermohaline structure of all frontal zones in the Norwegian, Greenland, Barents and Bering Seas and of neighboring fronts of Arctic and coastal origin. Special attention is given to the study of the multifrontal character of the NPFZ and of peculiarities of its internal structure at different locations, to the description of diverse oceanic features observed in the NPFZ, as well as to some characteristics of the horizontal and vertical fine structure of hydrophysical fields in the NPFZ. The main features of the northern Bering Sea's summer ecohydrodynamics are investigated with the help of three-dimensional direct and inverse models.

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The most comprehensive text and reference available on the study of random vibrations, this book was designed for graduate students and mechanical, structural, and aerospace engineers. In addition to coverage of background topics in probability, statistics, and random processes, it develops methods for analyzing and controlling random vibrations. 1995 edition.

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need strong maths background.......2005-01-08

The author takes you on a heavy journey into probability theory. Covering single and multiple random variables. All the way up to describing the Central Limit Theorem and its uses, like Chi squared distributions. He builds on these to explain random time processes and ergodic distributions. Then in the frequency domain, we see spectral density functions and the concept of a stationary process.

All this in the first half of the book is more general than just for analysing vibrations. It could easily apply to communications theory, for example.

It is only in the second half that we get to studying random vibrations. In single and then multiple degree of freedom systems. Overall, you need a strong mathematical background before commencing this book, as well as several courses in mechanical engineering.

Stochastic Processes and Random Vibrations: Theory and Practice

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Stochastic Processes and Random Vibrations: Theory and Practice
Júlíus Sólnes
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471971928

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Beginning with the basics of probability and an overview of stochastic process, this book goes on to explore their engineering applications: random vibration and system analysis. It addresses extreme conditions such as distribution of large vibration peaks, probabilities of exceeding certain limits, and fatigue. Includes numerous tested examples: earthquake risk analysis, distribution of extreme wind speeds, analysis of structural reliability, earthquake response of tall multi-storey structure and wind loading of tall towers.

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On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction—Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.

In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy’s first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can’t make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.

Welcome to the wonderful mind of Douglas Adams.

From the Hardcover edition.

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If you loved this Douglas Adams you are gonna love this !.......2007-08-18

I was so glad that there was more Douglas Adams to read, thank god for this book. But now that I have found a book that you will love to read as it is cut from the same laugh riot ilk as any great DA.

It is not science fiction by any means, but if you like Douglas Adams, you are gonna love Pete McCarthy's book "McCarthy's Bar A Journey of Discovery in Ireland".

This is a little known book and I even had to post the photo of this book on Amazon and afterwards came across to post a review of this book for any other Douglas Adams fans as they will be glad that I have shared.

Kind Regards,
Randall

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

A look into life in his galaxy.......2007-08-02

For even a part time Adams fan, this book is golden. Assembled after his death, this book compiles many years or writings and musings, and throws them in with some unfinished works Adams left when he left this galaxy of ours. The book does take some getting used to, as many of the parts are unpolished, and largely in the state the left his mind from, which can be unorganized. Once you get past this, you really can begin to enjoy this. It reveals a deep and complex thought process, and also gives new depth to your views on Adams. I for one was amazed he could write a rather lengthy excerpt about his feelings on his own nose, to a point where I enjoyed reading it. After learning so much of his thought process, the criminal part of this work is that the man himself is gone, and now that you have insight into his life, he has departed.

If you are an Adams fan, this is a must have, no doubt about it.

A river of tears awaits any real Douglas Adams fan.......2007-03-27

A close friend of Douglas Adams once stated that, when one is reading a book by the author, one feels as if what was written was penned especially for him or her. Douglas Adams' mischievous and insightful humor has caused millions of guffaws, billions of knee-slaps, trillions of snorts, and quadrillions of smiles. Any real fan of Mr. Adams' works will find it hard to keep a dry eye throughout this beautifully arranged ode to the memory of the great author.

A collection of memorial speeches, past writings, short stories, interviews, and one incomplete fiction novel await the listener of this collection. At approximately 8 hours, this collection, narrated by Simon Jones, Christopher Cerf, Richard Dawkins, and Stephen Fry, will make you laugh, cry, think, and remember.

The eulogies will unleash your sadness. The short stories will, however briefly, trigger a newfound appreciation for certain simple things. The interviews will inspire your pursuit of clear thinking. The presentations will take your mind on a, hopefully permanent, tour of the wonders of original thinking. The incomplete novel (whether a new "Hitchhiker" or "Dirk Gentley" book, none can tell) will wake up that seldom-used "intelligent-humor" area of the brain. The overall experience will, however temporarily, change your thinking about life in general.

The only criticism I would levy against this production is its relative brevity. The addition of "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", although an entertaining short story, feels like a cheap way to extend the book somehow. "Young Zaphod" was included in previous collections of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and was thus an unusual addition to this book. However, this is a minor complaint, and is of insufficient import to justify not buying this very moving collection.

REGARDING THE UNABRIDGED AUDIO EDITION: Simon Jones' narration is appropriate on all counts. His erudite enunciation and perfect emphasis would surely earn the approval of this collection's muse--if only he were alive to hear it. Douglas Adams' humor is channeled through the talents of this remarkable voice actor: his skills make even more memorable the sad experience of remembering this genius author, comic, technophile, and luminary.

Fans of DNA: listen to on a good day, or just when you're enjoying a fantastic cup of tea.
DNA newbies who love humor, silliness, and wit: pick up the "Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" first; otherwise, you'll miss many references.
DNA newbies who hate humor, silliness, and wit: please leave your genes in the wastebasket by the door on your way out of this life.

an unfinished story.......2007-03-08

the first half of the book has extracts from inetrviews and essays Douglas has written, still fun to read. The second half is a good (but unfortunately unfinished) stry. Good to have if you are a douglas fan.

Best book I've read in the past two years!.......2007-03-08

Very funny. A good read with a nice twist on the ending. I'm not ususally a fan of Douglas Adams and I love it.

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Doug, we hardly knew ye
it was ok
The last act!...posthumours (sic) though
Cannot give it 5 stars: perfection would be if DNA would still be here
A very great pleasure tinged with melancholy

The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345460952
Release Date: 2003-07-29

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Doug, we hardly knew ye.......2007-09-20

No, this isn't the next, lost Hitchhiker book. It does include about eighty pages of pieced together stories which the editor says fell easily into place. In my view, they seem to be pieces of at least three different books which don't go together at all. One is a Hitchhiker or Dirk Gently book in the making, one slips into the nihilism that is thankfully sparse in the other books. The rest of the volume is compiled, the notes say, from ephemera found on Doug's beloved Macs. This is also a bit misleading, as most of it has already been printed before, and his other books, notably Last Chance to See, tend to be expanded versions of the short bits.

The bits that most interest me include an interview with a magazine, or group, called American Atheists. Doug's tone is light and funny, but the interviewer is dour and somber as any cartoon Calvinist. "In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy- washy Anglicanism to vague wishy- washy Agnosticism," Doug notes, "--both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much." St. Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenth century said, in effect, "Is there a God? Apparently not," going on in his Summa to suggest that there after all was one. Doug takes the other tack, in "Is There An Artifical God?" suggesting that there looks like there is one, but there's not. Doug is nevertheless highly interested in religion, a subject that bores most people. He is a true believer (or rather non-believer) converted from reading Richard Dawkins. Thus it is appropriate that the book end with Dawkin's epilogue, a eulogy for his friend.

Despite the nihilism that creeps slowly into the Guide books-- they go slowly downhill from book one and perk up again at book five, Mostly Harmless-- Doug wrote the introduction for the final, unfinished novel by that most genial of authors, British humourist P.G. Wodehouse. Perhaps because, like many authors, he found that genial tone so difficult to sustain himself, he was unstinting in his praise of the Master, whose works are being daily discovered by more and more readers looking for something light and hopeful, yet skillfully written, being-- let's just say it-- bored by the nihilism and anti-philosophy of the Decadents, moderns, and now postmodern writers which currently makes up the bulk of bookstores. "Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever" reads his enthusiastic thumbs-up, now printed on all new Penguin paperback editions. In the view of many readers, however, Adams is himself a very near number two, even as he sticks up his sub-etha thumb, hitching to the great beyond.

it was ok.......2007-03-31

it was nice to see how adams thought. that is really all you get from this book.

The last act!...posthumours (sic) though.......2007-02-19

I bought this as a tribute to the great writer. I have read most (if not all) of his works and I did not want to miss this one last thing. I am still reading it. Perhaps I may have to agree with what one of the reviewers said ..

"Adams deconstruction of the little black box joke on page 123 applies to this book as a whole. There are few small glimmers of Grand Fishhood but this salmon is just not worth the bait on the hook. Those die hard Adams fans will surely buy it but then again they would buy a book of compiled Adam's shopping lists."

Cannot give it 5 stars: perfection would be if DNA would still be here.......2005-10-03

Only 17 reviews for this book? I cannot say more than has been said by other reviewers. Some of the articles in this book you can find over the net, but I discovered that having them printed in a book is better for your eyes and your feelings (what Adams would say about my call for less trees?!). In short, an excellent collection of essays about ecology, life, technology and tea, real tea. Funny and (very) intelligent. The unfinished novel that makes the end of the book is very imaginative and even in its half-baked format is intriguing and provocative.

A very great pleasure tinged with melancholy.......2005-08-22

The good news: this book is a total hoot, on every conceivable subject, witty, dead-on about a lot of stuff; Douglas Adams even inspired me to crack open P.G. Wodehouse for the first time. It's great fun reading the fragment of the last novel and wondering where it's headed and if Dirk Gently is being slated to find love after all.

The bad news: that's all he wrote, there ain't going to be no more. Regardless, someone went around and not only got into Adams' computer and dug up all the hidden treasures tehre, but also a whole bunch of little bits and pieces from magazine interviews he did and book reviews that he wrote. And they are, one and all, priceless.

Whether you've read any Douglas Adams before or not, I can't say it strongly enough, buy this book--or at least read it!

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Douglas Adams
Manufacturer: Phoenix Audio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 159777006X

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Rescued from the Macintosh of the late Douglas Adams, "The Salmon of Doubt" gives listeners the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time with the uniquely entertaining and richly informed mind of the author. Unabridged. 2 cds.

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look no further for the meaning of life

Salmon Doubts
Adam Sacks
Manufacturer: Alternative Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1891867717

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Beautifully illustrated and deeply imaginative, the cast of conversing fish in Salmon Doubts philosophize about the meaning of life as they make their ultimate journey upstream to spawn. With lushly-rendered artwork, uproarious humor, intricately imagined settings, and striking, inventive page layouts, Adam Sacks envelops readers with his genius. The characters in Salmon Doubts fall outside the conventions of the "funny animal" or "anthropomorphic" comics genres - they look like animals, and do not wear little waistcoats or drive little automobiles. But saddled with the full weight of consciousness and speech, they testify just as much to the Human Condition as to Natural Selection.

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look no further for the meaning of life.......2006-12-09

this was a really, really, really cute comic. it's basically about a fish contemplating its life as a fish, and what more there was to life than spawning. the anthropomorphization of fish makes you wonder if our lives are as simple as fish, because ultimately we will face the same end.

Propositions and Attitudes (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

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Propositions and Attitudes (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0198750927

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The concept of a proposition is important in several areas of philosophy and central to the philosophy of language. This collection of readings investigates many different philosophical issues concerning the nature of propositions and the ways they have been regarded through the years.
Reflecting both the history of the topic and the range of contemporary views, the book includes articles from Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, the Russell-Frege Correspondence, Alonzo Church, David Kaplan, John Perry, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Mark Richard, Scott Soames, and Nathan Salmon.

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The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams
Manufacturer: Dove Entertainment Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0787104019

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Salmon of Doubt

Manufacturer: Recorded Books, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: 1402540434

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Friends and editors conceived this volume to the life of Douglas Adams.

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The Salmon Of Doubt (Unabridged)

Manufacturer: Recorded Books Unabridged
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Six Cassette Audiobook set.

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The Salmon of Doubt: Special Edition
Douglas Adams
Manufacturer: New Millennium
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 1590075617

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If You Love Douglas Adams....

The Salmon of Doubt

Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I1XDGO

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If You Love Douglas Adams...........2006-11-05

you will love this book even though the actual story part of it doesn't really go anywhere and is not complete. It is like a complilation book of many of his intros, interviews and articles. You get a chance to see the author from a new light, much like you do in "Last Chance to See".

I found myself dogearing several pages for quotes or thoughts that I just thought were terrific. I know that if I had ever had the chance to meet Douglas, I would have really enjoyed his company. Smart, witty and funny as hell.

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