Excerpt From The Moment

Larry Smith

HarperCollins, Publishers

Being able to read and correctly interpret a blueprint is a necessary skill in the industrial world today. Designed in a workbook format, this manual begins with the basics of blueprint reading and progresses to visualization and then to multi-view drawings. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, it includes charts, tables, a glossary of terms, and a mathematics appendix to help users comprehend material. This edition features expanded coverage of GDT, more information on profile tolerances and drawings produced in CAD. Charts, tables, a glossary of terminology, and Mathematics Appendix are provided. The book also features current ASME Y14.5M-1994 Standard on Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, and CAN3-B78.1-M83 (reaffirmed 1990) Technical Drawings–General Principles Standard. Designed for those in a manufacturing trade, this is a straightforward resource that helps prepare readers to enter the industrial field of work.

Blueprint Reading for the Machine Trades

Science & Math

Russ Schultz

Technology

Pearson College Div

Being able to read and correctly interpret a blueprint is a necessary skill in the industrial world today. Designed in a workbook format, this newely revised 6th edition manual begins with the basics of blueprint reading and progresses to visualization and then to multi-view drawings. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, it includes charts, tables, a glossary of terms, and a mathematics appendix to help students comprehend material. This edition features expanded coverage of GDT, more information on profile tolerances and drawings produced in CAD. Designed for those in a manufacturing trade, this is a straightforward resource that helps prepare students to enter the industrial field of work. For individuals learning a manufacturing trade, such as machine operator, general machinist, and tool and die machinist.

Engineering & Transportation

Russ Schulz

Engineering

Pearson

I Can't Keep My Own Secrets

Rachel Fershleiser

Morris Katz first came into the limelight when the editors of the "Guinness Book of World Records" discovered that he had painted and sold more paintings than Pablo Picasso and was indeed the "world's most prolific painter." For speed, no one can compete with Morris Katz either. He turns out his paintings in minutes: 3-10 - maybe 15 minutes for a huge landscape. He uses no brushes - only a palette knife and (most surprising) a crumpled-up wad of toilet paper! With this book and its step-by-step color photos, you'll be able to do it too - turn out complete oil paintings in minutes instead of months! With enthusiasm, energy and humor that form the keynote of his personality, Morris Katz takes you through every step of the painting process, preparing a landscape and a still life right before your eyes. As he shows how to get your painting onto canvas, bring it to life - and do it faster than you can say it - he gives dozens of tips and pointers, and you won't be able to help but succeed in creating your own "instant art."

Paint Good and Fast

Morris Katz

Sterling Pub. Co.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-At-Large

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-large

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

The questions that have been at the center of invariant theory since the 19th century have revolved around the following themes: finiteness, computation, and special classes of invariants. This book begins with a survey of many concrete examples chosen from these themes in the algebraic, homological, and combinatorial context. In further chapters, the authors pick one or the other of these questions as a departure point and present the known answers, open problems, and methods and tools needed to obtain these answers. Chapter 2 deals with algebraic finiteness. Chapter 3 deals with combinatorial finiteness. Chapter 4 presents Noetherian finiteness. Chapter 5 addresses homological finiteness. Chapter 6 presents special classes of invariants, which deal with modular invariant theory and its particular problems and features. Chapter 7 collects results for special classes of invariants and coinvariants such as (pseudo) reflection groups and representations of low degree. If the ground field is finite, additional problems appear and are compensated for in part by the emergence of new tools. One of these is the Steenrod algebra, which the authors introduce in Chapter 8 to solve the inverse invariant theory problem, around which the authors have organized the last three chapters. The book contains numerous examples to illustrate the theory, often of more than passing interest, and an appendix on commutative graded algebra, which provides some of the required basic background. There is an extensive reference list to provide the reader with orientation to the vast literature.

Invariant Theory of Finite Groups (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs) (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 94)

Mara D. Neusel

Mathematics

American Mathematical Society

The "ultimate blue lake" draws travelers who enjoy incomparable views--remnants of Mount Mazama, the forest mosaic, colorful wildflowers, and a diversity of wildlife 
Each book in The Story Behind the Scenery series tells a compelling story through the eyes of an experienced interpreter whose writing reflects true enthusiasm for the park. Complete with running text and interpretive captions, accompanied by abundant full-color photographs, these books will be welcome in any home library. 
Crater Lake National Park, located in south central Oregon, was established in 1902 to preserve this deep blue lake encircled by multicolored lava walls. 
48pp., 62 color and 2 historic photos, map.

Crater Lake: The Story Behind the Scenery (Discover America: National Parks)

Travel

Ronald G. Warfield

Lee Juillerat

Travel Writing

KC Publications. Inc.

A fresh bilingual collection of more than 100 poems from China selected and translated for their Zen spirit. Drawn from twenty centuries of writing, the book includes poems by such favorits as Han Shan, Shih Te, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Pai Chu I; Chaio Jan, Yin Luan, Su Shih, Chin Kung, Chun An, and many others. Here are poems as songs from the heart of being. Now in its second printing.

Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountian

WANG, Wei

Han-Shan

Li, Po

Po-Chu-i

Mei Hui Huang

Poetry

Bottom Dog Pr

Fiction. In this anthology, through a variety of voices and venues, work and the workplace provide setting, metaphor, and meaning -- Bonnie Jo Campbell. In most ways this...is a perfect model of the American short story of work: intimate with the working experience, its work and culture, giving respect and space for the worker to speak his/her grief and joy within a collective sensibility, creating a form that exposes the effects of oppression and how character can be molded in resistance. It relies on a vibrant intimacy of voice through an oral, first-person narration and includes memoir to allow the life experience to find its own organic form -- Larry Smith.

Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

DYBEK, Stuart

Nelson, Andy

Zafris, Nancy

Daniels, Jim Ray

Contemporary

Bottom Dog Press

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