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This book presents the results from a joint conference of The British Society for Plant Pathology and the Systematics Association. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as biological databases, geographic information systems, and probabilistic identification systems. ... Read more

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In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Samuel Morse developed a working telegraph in 1844 that changed the way people communicated. ... Read more

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Joan Joffe Hall&#39s third full-length poetry collection presents a life&#39s worth of writing and reflects the author&#39s feminist stance as well as her humanist concerns and Jewish heritage. The poems are by turns outraged, elegiac, lyrical, and comic. ... Read more

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Describes the two year government undercover operation investigating corruption and illegal practices in the two Chicago commodity exchanges and culminating in the indictments of 46 industry professionals. Describes how these very complicated markets function and how their ``old-boy club'' style first created the problems and later shielded many of its members from investigation and prosecution. A true inside account, it explores rampant fraud and abuse in the futures markets. ... Read more

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it was ok
Kind of drawn out and long, not as exciting to read as some reviews and title suggests ... Read more

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This newly updated guide to mountain biking in the eastern half of Massachusetts features 25 destinations for enthusiasts of all abilities. There are many places to ride in Massachusetts' extensive system of state parks and public and privately owned reservation lands, but finding the best of these off-road riding opportunities is another matter. Massachusetts-born Robert Morse has been exploring his state's byways and trails for years and has selected the very best non-paved rides for this book, now completely revised and updated. Cyclists may be surprised to find outstanding mountain biking right within the metropolitan Boston area, as well as rides ranging from coastal trails on Cape Cod to mountain summits in the Holyoke Range. Each tour description includes a map, detailed mile-by-mile directions, practical information, and points of interest along the way. Tours range from 2.5 to 21 miles in length, from beginner to advanced. This edition features three new tours--in the Blue Hills Reservation outside Boston, and in Leominster and Erving State Forests in central Massachusetts. A new overview chart provides detailed information on the rides at a glance. Three new rides are included in this edition. ... Read more

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Time is of the essence during the civil PE exam. Make the most of your time by storing commonly used equations in your HP 33s calculator prior to the exam. Essential Equations for the FE Exam Using the HP 33s gives you all the tools you need to input important equations for the exam in your calculator. ... Read more

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Equation book for HP 33s
All of the equations in this book, plus many more equations and theory can be downloaded for free on the FE website.The HP 33s calculator is really not necessary for the exam.

How much do you need it for PE/FE Exam
If, for whatever reason, you end up going for this HP33 calculator to use it in a PE/FE exam, you will not need anything more than the manual which comes with the calculator, and which has some examples.
If you are an engineer, you are able to select and enter the formulas/equations yourself.

helped me pass the PE
The HP 33 is not a user friendly calculator (neither is the owners manual) but this book definetly helps you understand it's programability well it spoon feeds exactly what & how to enter the calulations.It helps more with the a.m. general session since you encounter more straitforward "plug and chug" problems, but still helpful in the p.m.Time is the shortest commodity in a test, so give yourself a little edge and run through the equations faster with your calculator preprogrammed.Very handy for equations where you have to solve for y in a y^n form, let the calculator do the iterations and algebra in a second, instead of spending precious time working it out by hand.But program early and work problems with your calculator so you can help determine if the answers coming out are reasonable "garbage in -> garbage out"

This is the only one you need!
This book is great, there are plenty of equations for you to use in the test, great book... It takes some time to programm all the equations in the calculator, but if you calculate how much time you are saving in the long run you should be fine... 100% recomended...

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Read it in a day passed the exam, but I don't think it helped not one bit I returned it. Still waiting for my refund! ... Read more

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Boxed CD-ROM based on the National Board of Echocardiography content outline for the Perioperatvie Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Certification Exam. System requirements: Windows 95+, 32MB RAM (64MB recommended), and 10MB free space; Macintosh OS 8.0+, 32MB RAM (64 recommended), and 10MB free space. ... Read more

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TEE: An Interactive Board Review on cd-rom
This cd-rom requires Netscape Navigator to work. Unless you are living in 1999, or have a computer from that era with Netscape, it won't work. So, don't waste your time. I was hoping to use it to study for the TEE Board exam and was disappointed that it was useless. Luckily, I was able to return it (for a partial refund from Amazon).

Great Board Review
I found this CD-ROM set to be invaluable for preparing to take the TEE Board exam.The authors have TEE video clips and related questions on all the pertinent material covered on the exam. The question answers are not only clear and concise, they also include references to other TEE texts.Would reccomend to anyone preparing to take their Boards. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of David Morse, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2317 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Glenn Hughes, Joe Satriani, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, David Coverdale, Ian Paice, List of Deep Purple Band Members, Don Airey, Joe Lynn Turner, Roger Glover, Tommy Bolin, Nick Simper, Rod Evans. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jon Douglas Lord (born 9 June 1941) is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player. Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms. He has most famously been a member of Deep Purple, as well as of Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton ... Read more

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This book offers a detailed presentation of results needed to prove the Morse Homology Theorem using classical techniques from algebraic topology and homotopy theory. The text presents results that were formerly scattered in the mathematical literature, in a single reference with complete and detailed proofs. The core material includes CW-complexes, Morse theory, hyperbolic dynamical systems (the Lamba-Lemma, the Stable/Unstable Manifold Theorem), transversality theory, the Morse-Smale-Witten boundary operator, and Conley index theory.

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modern treatment of classic Morse theory
Morse theory (the study of the critical points of a nondegenerate smooth function on a smooth manifold and in particular their topological implications) is a classic subject whose standard texts, Milnor's Morse Theory and Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem and Morse's Calculus of Variations in the Large, date from the '60s or earlier. Starting in the late '80s, due to the work of Floer and Witten, a new perspective emerged, both on the old finite-dimensional theory (Witten's rediscovery of Morse homology) and on infinite-dimensional Morse theory, initiated by Floer, which resembles gauge theory and has deep ties to symplectic geometry. This book by Banyaga and Hurtubise attempts to, first of all, present the classic finite-dimensional theory but in modern dynamical-systems terminology, and also give a brief introduction to the newer developments in Floer homology. It is more successful on accomplishing the former, as its treatment of Floer homology is rather cursory. It is largely self-contained, as an introductory graduate text, requiring only a knowledge of singular homology theory and basic topology and analysis.

The book includes 2 chapters on prerequisite material, namely, CW homology and basic differential topology, but if you don't know these subjects already, in particular, the differential topology, this won't be enough to help you. All the standard results in Morse theory, as can be found in Milnor's books or Matsumoto's An Introduction to Morse Theory, are presented, although some of the proofs are given in more general form, such as Palais's proof of the fundamental Morse lemma, which also works on Banach spaces. There are many topics that have been collected from the literature, including the full set of Morse inequalities, such as the polynomial Morse inequalities, and Morse-Bott functions, which usually don't appear in other books on Morse theory. There's also an extensive treatment of dynamical systems, which are implicit in the Morse theory but not usually formally addressed, including a modestly analytically challenging proof of the stable/unstable manifold theorem, which forms the core of the book, as well the lambda-lemma, Kupka-Smale theorem, which shows the Morse-Smale gradient vector fields are generic, and the Conley index. The culmination of these technical results is the Morse homology theorem, which relates the CW homology (hence singular homology) of a compact smooth Riemannian manifold to the homology of a Morse-Smale-Witten chain complex, which is particularly easy to compute, only involving counting flow lines between critical points with signs coming from orientations and flow directions.

The last 2 chapters are more specialized and can be omitted in a short course or on a first reading. There's one on the Morse theory of Grassmann manifolds by constructing perfect Morse-Bott functions on them. Here previous knowledge of Lie groups and algebras is necessary, although some of it is derived.A large part of the proof of the existence of such Mose-Bott functions is practically copied verbatim from Milnor's ("Morse Theory") proof that Morse functions are generic. The payoff in this chapter for so much effort is somewhat modest - it ends by only stating some similar results, such as the cohomology of the classification space for complex bundles and Morse theory for Lie groups, that should probably have been proved here. The last chapter and a half of the book is primarily concerned with applications to symplectic geometry, including Floer homology. A ton of material is summarized very quickly, often by just copying sections of several papers, in a manner that will not be of much help for beginners. The main point of this seems to be showing how Morse theory can be applied or extended, or even just showing THAT it can be applied.

This is a textbook, so there is a wealth of exercises and a fair amount of examples. For most of the book, the proofs develop very slowly, with all of the steps explicitly spelled out, making them easy to follow. The emphasis on using modern dynamical systems terminology and theorems, the presentation of multiple proofs of the same theorem, practical demonstrations on how Morse homology can be computed, and the inclusion of more obscure results are also pluses, as is the proof of the Morse homology theorem, which differs from other proofs in that it doesn't involve infinite-dimensional techniques or require overly restrictive assumptions on the Morse function (such as it being self-indexing or compatible with a Riemann metric). It is unusual among books on Morse theory in that it is both modern (unlike Milnor, Morse, or Matsumoto) and classical (unlike Schwarz's Morse Homology or Chang's Infinite Dimensional Morse Theory). The main drawbacks of the book are that it doesn't do a good job of explaining or using the Floer theory and homology on Grassmann manifolds presented at the end of the book, a large amount of material seems to be copied from other sources, it takes a long time to arrive at the most interesting results (certainly longer than necessary), and there is a plethora of mathematical typos, much more than one normally finds (and the bibliography includes 2 of the most bizarre kinds of typos I've ever seen).
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The forces of globalization are shifting our world, including the public sector, away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume in the "Transformational Trends in Governance & Democracy" series explores what the shift looks like and also offers guidance on what it should look like. Specifically, the book focuses on the role of "career leaders" - those in public service - who are agents of change not only in their own organizations, but also in their communities and policy domains. These leaders work in network settings, making connections and collaborating to create public value and advance the common good. Featuring the insights of an authoritative group of contributors, the volume offers a mix of scholarship, from philosophical discussions to conceptual models to empirical studies that, taken together, will help inform the transformation of public leadership that is already underway. ... Read more

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Transforming Public Leadership
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This digital document is an article from Roeper Review, published by The Roeper School on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Divergent Production in Gifted Adolescents Using Timed vs. Untimed Stimuli with Creative Prompting.
Author: Gregg A. Johns
Publication: Roeper Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: The Roeper School
Volume: 22Issue: 3Page: 165

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Outstanding stories and other imaginings on...war and dismembrance, Cormac McCarthy, the straight life, a digital moon, our sacred ditty, vanishing acts, second chances, growing up tough, shedding skin, inside the nuclear test zone, the path to divine joy, the girl who didn't believe in love, prize winning stories, articles, and poems, humor, and more. ... Read more