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Confronting Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome

13 reviews
Lyn Frederickson

Grand Central Publishing, 1992

This book gave me hope!
I recommend this book to anyone who has been diagnosed or thinks they may have MVP. Lyn Fredrickson takes a rational approach and gives practical, medically sound advice for the person with MVP. After reading this book, I knew I was not dying, and I wasn't crazy. Ms. Fredrickson assured me my symptoms were real, and gave me hope for a life unchained from those symptoms. Don't pay any attention to ...

Advanced Strength and Applied Stress Analysis

8 reviews
Richard Budynas

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1998

Composite Beams in Bending
Well, I have lots of book and this is one of the books I have in my bookshelf. Obviously I have not read the entire book but I did of course read pages from 302 to 309. I was particularly interested in Composite Beams in Bending and those 7 pages did help me. I am not sure if there were any errors in the mathematical calculations as noted by some earlier reviewer but these 7 pages looked okay ...

1633

65 reviews
Eric Flint, David Weber

Baen, 2003

Splendid alternate history tale.
David Drake does it again with this superb alternate history. He is certainly the premier SF writer today!

Taking Control: Living with the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome

30 reviews
Kristine Anne Scordo

Kardinal Publishing, 2006

Excellent resource
I bought this book a few years ago after being diagnosed with MVP. I read the personal stories and felt great sympathy for the people who were experiencing so many symptoms which I didn't have. However, in the past two years, I have experienced many new symptoms and this book has been so reassuring and helpful in giving me ideas about how to control them. I have found Dr. Scordo to have much ...

Displacement Based Seismic Design of Structures

2 reviews
M.J.N. Priestley, G.M. Calvi, ...

IUSS Press, 2007

Excellent Reference
Excellent Reference for Bridge and Structural engineers who want to learn more on displacement capacity design.

The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

1 review
Gina Perez

University of California Press, 2004

Great Book
This is a wonderful book, with a focus on Puerto Ricans in Chicago. Content includes various experiences, histories, and analysis of current situations (housing, jobs, culture) in the Chicago area.

Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice
William P. Quiqley

BookSurge Publishing, 2008

When Hurricane Katrina hit, seventy thousand people were still in New Orleans. In STORMS STILL RAGING, Quigley passionately tells the stories and the facts about who was left behind when Katrina hit, and who is still being left behind in the rebuilding of New Orleans. Quigley writes about Katrina?s effect on housing, public education, healthcare, and criminal justice in a way that makes these conflicts come alive. Katrina pulled back the ...

Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

1 review
Steven Bouma-Prediger, Brian J. Walsh

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008

High Acclaim for Beyond Homelessness
"The nineteenth century found its essential mythological resources in the second principle of thermaldynamics- The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space," "Of Other Spaces," Michel Foucault, 1967. We have found, I believe, Foucault to be right. We have entered an age in which "place studies" have emerged as the hot field in philosophy, architecture, geography, economics, ...

Experimental Methods for Engineers (McGraw-Hill Mechanical Engineering)

2 reviews
Jack P. Holman

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2000

good introduction to measurement
Much of the engineering curriculum is devoted to analytical techniques for solving particular problems, often derived mathematically from first principles. However, without grounding results within the physical realm, solutions may neglect factors that do not neatly fit into the assumptions used. Thus, measurement of phenomena are needed. But what constitutes a valid measurement? Holman ...

Your First Sailboat : How to Find and Sail the Right Boat for You

11 reviews
Daniel Spurr

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2004

So Many Sailboat Details To Learn!
I love to sail but buying my first sailboat is quite the adventure. This book makes reading about all the details enjoyable and even humorous at times. I especially appreciate all the great illustrations to help understand the parts & various conditions of boats.

Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Contestations)

1 review
Bonnie Honig

Cornell University Press, 1993

An important book whose author was denied tenure by Harvard
As the 1997-8 academic year starts, Bonnie Honig is no longer at Harvard. She is now a tenured professor of political theory at Northwestern University. This is the sad end of a story that made national headlines in the spring of 1997: Despite being recommended by both her department and an external review board, Harvard's President, Neil Rudenstine, decided not to extend Assosicate Profeesor ...

Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences (Global Institutions)
Thomas G Weiss

Routledge, 2006

The crisis of internally displaced persons (IDPs) was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. This volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting IDPs. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews with leading personalities, Internal Displacement ...

Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One
Deke McClelland, Tim Grey

Deke Press, 2008

Coming to terms with alpha channels (or masks) is the most sure-fire way to boost the quality of your work in Photoshop. But masking isn't easy-in fact, the elusive alpha channel has been described as the least understood feature in Photoshop's enormous arsenal. Now, you can master masking with Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Through step-by-step text lessons, DVD-video demonstrations, and real-world projects, ...

As Painting: Division and Displacement

The MIT Press, 2001

As Painting , which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Wexner Center for the Arts, offers thought-provoking new perspectives on the evolution of painting in the United States and Europe since the mid-1960s. It illuminates the flexible boundaries of what can be seen or interpreted "as painting" and that medium's interrelationships with sculpture, photography, and installation, highlighting points of convergence and divergence. ...

Positive Pressure Attack for Ventilation & Firefighting

3 reviews
Kriss Garcia, Reinhard Kauffmann, ...

Fire Engineering Books & Videos, 2006

Great Concept.
The authors have a fantastic concept with the PPA. It is well thought out and well researched. I think for fire departments in the north east that are unfortunatly forced to use 3 firefighters on an engine company the concept is just that. The engine company I am assigned to would love to be able to affect a quick attack as described in this book but we just do not have the manpower to do so. The ...

Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

1 review
Wallace Chafe

University Of Chicago Press, 1994

Memory, Language, and Imagination
A fabulous book about how communication. If it was read by tech writers, I think a lot of tech writing (as well as legal) would be infinitely better. At the root of many of the ideas is how we hear and process things in our brain - it may not be "real" linguistics (although the author is a linguist) but it's really useful.

Development and Displacement
Jenny Robinson, David Turton, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Development and Displacement draws together a number of emergent challenges to the practices and theories of development in the contemporary world, associated with forms of displacement. The authors offer a careful analytical approach to the phenomenon of displacement, drawing on the work of development theorists, geographers and cultural studies. Illustrating the persisting importance of places and territories in a globalising world where ...

Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

3 reviews
Caren Kaplan

Duke University Press, 1996

Travel and Its Metaphors
Following the path set by James Clifford, who long ago proposed a much-needed bridge between anthropological, literary and historical approaches to the topic of travel culture, Kaplan analyzes the various metaphoric uses of travel in feminist and poststructuralist criticisms. Displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, tourism and so on: Kaplan aims to ...

Children And Youth On The Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict And Displacement (Studies in Forced ...

Berghahn Books, 2005

Displacement Of Men By Machines - Effects Of Technological Change In Commercial Printing
Elizabeth Faulkner Baker

Budge Press, 2007

FOREWORD So far as the writer knows, this publication is the first that deals both with changing technology and labor displacement in representative plants and with the subsequent economic history of the men displaced. Economic sailing is rough in these years. The catastrophe ofmen tossed overboard through displacement by machines has sharply commanded attention. Technological unemployment has come to the fore as a source ofalarmed discussion. ...

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