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Expert Witnessing: Explaining and Understanding Science

CRC, 1998

Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice tightened the law of evidence to control the flow of information, but amazingly little has been written to analyze the nature of the problem and reduce the barriers. Expert Witnesses: Explaining and Understanding Science results from the first-hand experience of the contributors-who include ...

Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra Book and Solutions Manual

23 reviews
Carl Meyer

SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2001

A Model of Authorship
This book contains a comprehensive treatment on the topic of matrix analysis and applied linear algebra. The concepts are clearly introduced and developed. It is rich with detailed proofs that are easy to follow. Results are summarized and clearly grouped and marked for reference. As a researcher and a practitioner, I found this book quite useful in explaining mathematical concepts without the ...

Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

1 review
Carl S. Meyer

Concordia College, 1986

A good history of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Carl Meyer digs through the writings and minutes of the founders of the 153 year old American Church body The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. He presents the facts of the first immigration of Saxons to the shores of the Mississippi in Missouri and follows through the scandals and hardships all the way to the founding of the Synod in 1849.

Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings

13 reviews
Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer

Princeton University Press, 2006

Great book...
Great book. It's nice to have all the recent work done in trust metrics all in one place.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Classic Film Scripts)

4 reviews
Robert Wiene, Carl Meyer, ...

Harpercollins, 1984

Another great entry in a great series.
The BFI Film Classics series is a consistantly stimulating guide to great films, and this is one of my favorites. Robinson is particularly strong in placing this film in its historical context. As wonderful as it is, Caligari is nevertheless a product of its time, and an awareness of this only increases its resonance. This book beautifully passes the only true test of film criticsm - it ...

Cuts: Texts 1959-2004 (Writing Art)
Carl Andre

The MIT Press, 2005

Just as Carl Andre's sculptures are "cuts" of elemental materials, his writings are condensed expressions, "cuts" of language that emphasize the part rather than the whole. Andre, a central figure in minimalism and one of the most influential sculptors of our time, does not produce the usual critical essay. He has said that he is "not a writer of prose," and the texts included in Cuts ?the most comprehensive collection of his writings yet ...

The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life

2 reviews
Hedi Fried

University of Nebraska Press, 1996

The Road to Auschwitz
A touching account by Swedish psychologist Hedi Fried about her childhood experiences in the Transylvanian town of Sighet and later at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Especially moving is her relationship with her younger sister Livia whom she saves from near death a couple of times. Livia repays her sister by reviving her during the liberation of the camp. Although a gripping story about ...

The Presidential Transcripts with Commentary By the Staff of the Washington Post

1 review
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, ...

Dell Books, 1974

Smoking gun of Watergate
Good reference source for the Watergate controversy. All the dirt and audio tapes that lead to Nixon's resignation.

Carl Andre: Glarus 1993-2004
Carl Andre

Walther Konig, 2006

"When this beautiful catalog was first proposed, I rashly promised to write a dedicatory poem for it. But when I saw the first proof pages, it dawned on me that all the works which Elsbeth and Ruedi had made possible for me to create are in themselves an ongoing poem which I could never surpass." So writes Carl Andra of his work in Glarus, a Swiss mountain town.

Jewish Community Under the Frankford El, The (PA) (Images of America)

1 review
Allen Meyers, Carl Nathans

Arcadia Publishing, 2003

Allen Meyers does it again
I was fascinated with this book because I grew up not far from where this picture was taken (although many years later). Allen touches upon history, both Jewish and non, and gathered many rare photographs for his series of books on the Jewish settlements in Philadelphia, PA. (In this book, I found a school picture of one of my great-aunts.) I found his history of the area to be on target ...

Russian Literature of the Twenties: An Anthology

2 reviews

Ardis Publishers, 1987

Excellent Russian Literature Anthology
This is an excellent anthology of Russian Literature of the 1920's -- one of my favorite periods. Mayakovsky's play, "Bedbug;" Bulgakov's "Fatal Eggs," Zamyatin's "We;" are included as is poetry by Anna Akhmatova (my favorite "Lot's Wife"), Tsvetaeva, Bely, and many more. Russian literature during the 1920's was revolutionary, brilliant, multi-faceted, and as yet unbridled by the maxims of ...

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