Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin novels are unsurpassed for their historical accuracy, their swashbuckling plots, and for piquing the desire of non-sailors (like me) to learn more about the nautical technology of the Napoleonic era. HEART OF OAK answers the need of the nautically-challenged for an illustrated glossary of this technology. But even better, it offers both the non-sailor and sailor alike an "insider's view" of life on board a typical British warship of the time. Through its brilliant photographs of common everyday items, it answers the small but nagging questions raised by O'Brien's descriptions of shipboard life, such as what did the grog cup of a common sailor look like, how big is a holystone, and what's a deadeye and how does it work? HEART OF OAK is a great improvement over the usual dry nautical encyclopedias that merely catalog the naval equipment of the time. Like the Aubrey and Maturin novels, it pumps blood into the sinews of history. Handsomely designed, elegantly and sparely written, McGuane has given us a treasure trove of images and visceral insights that enhances O'Brien's works, but also stands solidly on its own as a poetic pictorial history of Nelson's navy.

I'm so glad I found this fabulous book for my husband who is a HUGE Patrick O'Brien fan. Not knowing much about naval history myself, I found myself immersed for an hour or so in this great, visual history book. The photographs are wonderful - the subject matter is by turns exciting, majestically beautiful, and sometimes a bit gruesome! - the writing is concise and leaves you wanting to learn more. I'm now inspired to hit the O'Brien books myself! A perfect gift for history buffs.

James McGuane's "Heart of Oak" is a marvelous visual journey into, as the subtitle has it, "A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy". The book is filled with photographs of artifacts from British nautical museums (plus a number taken aboard HMS Victory and at other naval-related sites), pictures not of static, dead objects on dusty museum shelves, but photographs artfully dynamic, almost as if the tools portrayed were set down a few minutes ago and a horny-handed seaman might return shortly to resume his work. Many of the most fragile artifacts, such as a leather bucket and handmade trousers of light sailcloth, were recovered from the wreck of HMS Invincible lost in 1758, decades before the era of Horatio Nelson and Jack Aubrey, but nonetheless strongly representative of what would have still been found aboard a Royal Navy ship during the Napoleonic Wars. The range of articles pictured is remarkable: a tar brush, pistols and boarding pikes, sailmakers' fids, a surgeon's bleeding bowl, cable laid rope, a glim (the thick glass lens set into a powder magazine enclosure to admit light but not flame), a seaman's knit woolen cap, a ship's lead, hourglasses (well, 28-minute glasses, to be accurate), a square wooden plate with raised rim (keeps the food in place when the ship rolls), sailors' knives, a cat-o'-nine-tails, a pressgang's cosh, and much, much more. "Heart of Oak" is not a highly structured analysis of the physical accoutrements of nautical life two centuries ago, but it is a bit of a time machine, transporting the modern student of naval history (or a lover of the novels of Patrick O'Brian or C.S. Forester) back into that vanished world.

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Great review. Even demonstrates bathtub electrotherapy. Utterly shocking and in depth coverage of this most electrifying subject!

This book is recommendable for students and physicaltherapists, practitioners of the use of electrotherapy modalities and procedures in the usage clinical. The authors offer a review of the physiologics principles, devices, instrumentation, and general principles of electrical stimulation. This title contributes to knowledgement about current developments in their research findings, theory and wide range of clinical application of the modality. Whereas, this book provides understanting and support for the practice of electrotherapy to obtain desired physiologic responses for the management of diseases and injuries in humans by physitherapy

Provides a superb one semester introduction course into the field of digital logic design. Enough material to provide a good reference for use in later practice.

Excellent book for entry level to digital design. Serves very well as reference guide for the basics on digital design. Lots of solved problems and problems to do. Some math that you can go into or skip.

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This book is very fascinating and informative.
My boyfriend are relocating to the Denver area, and this book really caught our eye. We found it VERY helpful to know what type of weather to expect in Colorado.
This book has beautiful pictures of the different types of weather which occurs in Colorado: lightning, hail, tornadoes, blizzards, avalanches, floods, and etc...
It even gives historical pictures of extreme weather phenomena which occured in Colorado's past.
The chapters are broken down into these categories:
Chapter 1: Colorado Spring
Chapter 2: Colorado Summer
Chapter 3: Colorado Autumn
Chapter 4: Colorado Winter
Chapter 5: Weather of the Century
Chapter 6: Storm Chasing
Chapter 7: Meteorology or Media-rology?
Chapter 8: Photographing weather
Chapter 9: The Fragile Planet

Every page features spectacular color photos of various weather patterns. In the back of the book are various weather-related websites.
I am originally from Kansas, which is part of "Tornado Alley" - and I amazed that Colorado also has tornadoes--which I never knew- (although they are more likely to occur on the far eastern plains).
I had no idea that the eastern plains of Colorado are also one of the hail capitols of the world.
This book is truly captivating for anyone who is fascinated by weather. I highly recommend it.

Colorado is known for its mountains, but it could be easily famous for its high-drama weather. This book explains the relationship between the mountains and weather phenomenon such as Colorado's wild hail storms and its towering thunder clouds. It offers scientific explanations that don't require a science degree to follow, as well as lots of history and great weather stories. It's topped off with truly awesome photography.

It's a great book for anyone whose curiousity about weather extends past tomorrows forcast.

In A Silent Siren Song: The Aitken Brothers' Hollywood Odyssey, 1905-1926, Al Nelson and Mel Jones effectively collaborate to tell a story of Hollywood's silent screen era as represented by Harry and Roy Aitken, two of film history's most innovative movie makers and their cadre of the great directors and stars of the day. This notables ranged from D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford, to Lillian Gish, Mabel Normand, "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A Silent Siren Song traces the Aitkens' brothers rise from small-time film distributors to the captaining of a genuine movie empire and the production of silent era classics from the Keystone Kops to "Birth of a Nation". This is an impressive, informative, and very welcome contribution to personal and academic film history collections.

You have heard of Warner Brothers. Have you ever heard of the Aitken brothers? Probably not, but their innovations in the motion picture business before talkies helped make Hollywood what it is today. They are often left out of the movie history books, so that even silent film fans may not know who they are. This need no longer be the case. _A Silent Siren Song: The Aitken Brothers' Hollywood Odyssey, 1905 -1926_ (Cooper Square Press), by Al P. Nelson and Mel R. Jones, provides a biography of the brothers, who produced more than 2,500 films, including some legendary ones.

These were, amazingly, Wisconsin farm boys. They knew they wanted to do something more lucrative and exciting than milk cows, and in 1905 when Roy went to a nickelodeon in Chicago to see _The Great Train Robbery_, he sent for Harry to come see it, too. They saw that movies were a business with a future, and set up their own nickelodeon. _A Silent Siren Song_ wonderfully traces the arc of the brothers' career, buying nickelodeons, then running a film exchange to rent films to other peoples' nickelodeons, then distributing films to Europe, then producing films themselves. They helped the careers of Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplain, the Gish sisters, and many more famous stars, but they knew to promote their directors as well. Their most famous director was D. W. Griffith, and he made for them the first superpicture, _Birth of a Nation_ in 1915. A smash success, it was followed by _Intolerance_, a critical success, and an expensive commercial flop. The Aitkens, for many reasons detailed in this careful book, could not survive as outsiders in Hollywood, and returned to Wisconsin.

Harry and Roy were happy when they were on top and unembittered when they had to head back home. This book shows just how innovative they were. Besides making the first superpicture, they established worldwide branches for film distribution; they were the first to use public relations and full-page ads for films; they engaged the finances of Wall Street to make movies. An engaging, revealing work, _A Silent Siren Song_ gives us back some film history we lost in letting us meet the Aitkens. It is a happy overview of movie production, distribution, and display when the movies were just beginning.

THE ANGELS--The Catholic Teaching on the Angels. Fr. Parente. (Formerly: Beyond Space). From Scripture, Fathers & Doctors of the Church, St.Thomas, official pronouncements, holy writers. Their creation, test, fall, nature, powers, duties, Saints who conversed with, 9 choirs, famous Angels, etc.

I undertook reading this work during my self improvement phase - to read all the biographies on the shelves at the local library. The Life and Times of James P. Beckworth stands out, years later as the one that had the most impact on me, gave me the most shivers, and remains one that I wish I had stolen for my own collection. I never swiped it, of course, so now I shall buy it.

These accounts, transcribed from James Beckworth's verbal accounts were first published as a series of news accounts to American readers back east who longed to hear news of their flegling nation as it grew. Today, compiled in this work, they account all the romance as well as the day to day life and times of the beaver trapper era in the Rocky Mountain West over a hundred years ago.

Accounts of indian wars and Beckworth's participation on both sides of the conflicts as well as insights into beaver trade, indian life, trapper life, the gold rush and how the west was eventually overtaken by settlers are generously intermingled with personal (and probably exaggerated) accounts of glory and suffering. Herein is the true life account and the likely inspiration for the movie "Little Big Man." Jim Beckworth was living as an indian while avoiding becoming a victim of an army massacre, he was an Army tracker, had many wives, and relates countless adventures amidst the wilderness of the mountains, in peril of natural and human enemy. We can't hope to have the adventures that these mountain men had but we can experience them through books like this.

A can't-put-it-down-'till-finished read!

A comprehensive text book, covering the fundamentals of axial, shear and bending stress in beams. Also the elastic stability (ie: column buckling and flexural-torsional buckling behaviour) and dynamic behaviour also ultimate strength. The book has a number of usefull programs in BASIC for 2-D finite element analysis of trusses, 2_D rigid jointed frames and 2-D grillages, also the natural frequencies of the same, etc. The book focuses on modern methods for problem solving, but also covers more traditional (pre-computer era) methods for moment distribution in frameworks, etc.

A moving critical study on those silences that confronted women artists in the West, focusing on professional, non-professional, and traditional women artists' struggles to find voices and to cope with markets for their work. Jensen discusses several artists whose careers were shadowed or distorted by husbands, some of whom were themselves artists or collectors. She also treats extensively the history of a Native American basket maker's struggles with market forces, traditional cultural artmaking and art-using practices, discrimination, and family forces. Covering late pioneer days through the rise of Hollywood and spanning painting, photography, literature, dance, and crafts, the book surprised me with its concise and compelling portrayals of many societies and art worlds. Jensen communicates immediate and personal interpretations of the "lifeways" of silenced and near silenced women artists, as well as some who succeeded--at their great cost--in finding a voice.

These series of books are the best available resource for conducting ACW battlefield tours - assuming that your purpose in touring battlefields is to study and understand the applicable tactics, strategy and terrain and to develop an appreciation for the objectives and efforts of the participants. If you go to ACW battlefields to gawk and gossip as an everyday tourist then you do not need to study these guides. If you have an active interest in ACW history, military history in general or fascinating chapters in human history, then these guides are remarkable values, "Best Buys". Thorough but not intimidating, insightful and objective, with no deficiencies noted.