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The Unvanquished
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Understanding Relativity: A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
Nonspecialists with no prior knowledge of physics and only reasonable proficiency with algebra can now understand Einstein's special theory of relativity. Effectively diagrammed and with an emphasis on logical structure, Leo Sartori's rigorous but simple presentation will guide interested readers through concepts of relative time and relative space. Sartori covers general relativity and cosmology, but focuses on Einstein's theory. He tracks its history and implications. He explores illuminating paradoxes, including the famous twin paradox, the "pole-in-the-barn" paradox, and the Loedel diagram, which is an accessible, graphic approach to relativity. Students of the history and philosophy of science will welcome this concise introduction to the central concept of modern physics..
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Industrial Electronics
This direct, easy-to-read book provides comprehensive coverage of industrial electronic topics, exploring the many processes used in the production of all goods and services. It contains abundant worked example solutions, problems tied to actual industrial electronic examples, and troubleshooting techniques. Coverage of a broad range of industrial electronics topics includes all the traditional areas plus complete coverage of safety, troubleshooting, motors, PLCs, robots, process control, controllers and industrial networks. For technology learners to better understandthe operation of the electronics used in industry. .
Price: $86.14
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Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris
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Programmable Logic Controllers (2nd Edition)
This outstanding book for programmable logic controllers focuses on the theory and operation of PLC systems with an emphasis on program analysis and development. The book is written in easy-to-read and understandable language with many crisp illustrations and many practical examples. It describes the PLC instructions for the Allen-Bradley PLC 5, SLC 500, and Logix processors with an emphasis on the SLC 500 system using numerous figures, tables, and example problems. New to this edition are two column and four-color interior design that improves readability and figure placement and all the chapter questions and problems are listed in one convenient location in Appendix D with page locations for all chapter references in the questions and problems. This book describes the technology so that readers can learn PLCs with no previous experience in PLCs or discrete and analog system control. .
Price: $79.00
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Lively Lessons for Classroom Sessions
Lively Lessons: For Classroom Sessions is like a breath of fresh air for classroom guidance. Each of the 21 lessons provides valuable material on the most-wanted classroom-guidance topics. The topics include: Positive Attitude, Self-Esteem, Kindness and Friendship, Feelings, Study Skills, Stress, Decision-Making, Conflict-Resolution, Career Awareness, and Drugs and Alcohol. Each topic includes between one and five lessons with an original story which can be read or told to the students, related questions for follow-up discussions, and one or more relevant activities. Many of the lessons use puppets, raps, songs, or other props to make them more interesting to the listeners. Lively Lessons for Classroom Sessions will hold your students’ interest and make teaching classroom guidance an enjoyable experience. Appropriate for students in grades 2-5.
Price: $23.95
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Deterrence by Diplomacy
Why are countries often able to communicate critical information using diplomacy? Why do countries typically use diplomacy honestly, despite incentives to bluff? Why are they often able to deter attacks using merely verbal threats? International relations theory is largely pessimistic about the prospects for effective diplomacy, yet leaders nevertheless expend much time and energy trying to resolve conflicts through verbal negotiations and public statements. Deterrence by Diplomacy challenges standard understandings of deterrence by analyzing it as a form of talk and reaches conclusions about the effectiveness of diplomacy that are much more optimistic. Anne Sartori argues that diplomacy works precisely because it is so valuable. States take pains to use diplomacy honestly most of the time because doing so allows them to maintain reputations for honesty, which in turn enhance their ability to resolve future disputes using diplomacy rather than force. So, to maintain the effectiveness of their diplomacy, states sometimes acquiesce to others' demands when they might have been able to attain their goals through bluffs. Sartori theorizes that countries obtain a "trade" of issues over time; they get their way more often when they deem the issues more important, and concede more often when they deem the issues less important. Departing from traditional theory, this book shows that rather than always fighting over small issues to show resolve, states can make their threats more credible by sometimes honestly acquiescing over lesser issues--by not crying "wolf." .
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Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts. Sartori weaves the narrative of Bengal’s embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept, from its origins in eighteenth-century Germany, through its adoption in England in the early 1800s, to its appearance in distinct local guises across the non-Western world. The impetus for the concept’s dissemination was capitalism, Sartori argues, as its spread across the globe initiated the need to celebrate the local and the communal. Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not by slavish imitation of colonizing powers, but by the same problems that repeatedly followed the advance of modern capitalism. This remarkable interdisciplinary study will be of significant interest to historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism. .
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