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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0801868750ISBN 13: 9780801868757
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The invention of flight craft heavier than air counts among humankind's defining achievements. In this book, aviation engineer and historian John D. Anderson, Jr., offers a concise and engaging account of the technical developments that anticipated the Wright brothers' successful first flight on December 17, 1903. While the accomplishments of the Wrights have become legendary, we do well to remember that they inherited a body of aerodynamics knowledge and flying machine technology. How much did they draw upon this legacy? Did it prove useful or lead to dead ends?Beginning with the earliest attempts at flight, Anderson explains how Leonardo daVinci first began to grasp the concepts of lift and drag which would be essential to the invention of powered flight. He describes the many failed efforts of the so-called "tower jumpers," from Benedictine monk Oliver of Malmesbury in 1022 to the eighteenth-century Marquis de Bacqueville. He tells the fascinating story of aviation pioneers such as Sir George Cayley, who in a stroke of genius first proposed the modern design of a fixed-wing craft with a fuselage and horizontal and vertical tail surfaces in 1799, and William Samuel Henson, a lace-making engineer whose ambitious "aerial steam carriage" was patented in 1842 but never built. Anderson describes the groundbreaking nineteenth-century laboratory experiments in fluid dynamics, the building of the world's first wind tunnel in 1870, and the key contributions of various scientists and inventors in such areas as propulsion (propellers, not flapping wings) and wing design (curved, not flat). He also explains the crucial contributions to the science of aerodynamics by the German engineer Otto Lilienthal, later praised by the Wrights as their "most important" predecessor.In telling the dramatic story of the Wright brothers' many experiments at Kitty Hawk as they raced to become the first in flight, Anderson shows how the brothers succeeded where others failed by taking the best of early technology and building upon it using a carefully planned, step-by-step experimental approach. (They recognized, for example, that it was necessary to become a skilled glider pilot before attempting powered flight.) With vintage photographs and informative diagrams to enhance the text, Inventing Flight will interest anyone who has ever wondered what lies behind the miracle of flight.
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0801824001ISBN 13: 9780801824005
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.
Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0801811600ISBN 13: 9780801811609
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Kamber, Professor Gerald.
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801869196ISBN 13: 9780801869198
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In the first volume of their celebrated "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, John Jakle and Keith Sculle offer a comprehensive history of the American gas station, exploring every aspect of this roadside icon, including its evolving architectural identity; its place in both the American landscape and popular culture; the corporate decisions that determined its look and location; its metamorphosis into the mini-mart; and its role as the most visible manifestation of one of the world's largest industries. From the quaint curbside filling stations of the 1910s to the novelty designs of the 1920s (when stations were built to resemble English cottages, Greek temples, Dutch windmills, and Spanish missions) to the Bauhaus-inspired stations of the 1930s to today's nationwide chains of brightly lit look-alikes, The Gas Station in America is the definitive book on the subject. Richly illustrated with more than 150 images-postcards of gas stations, vintage ads, maps, and other memorabilia-this book bears witness to an economic and cultural phenomenon that continues to be a defining part of the American experience.
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0801837391ISBN 13: 9780801837395
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Softcover. Condition: New. 2nd. Revised and updated, the third edition of Golub and Van Loan's classic text in computer science provides essential information about the mathematical background and algorithmic skills required for the production of numerical software. This new edition includes thoroughly revised chapters on matrix multiplication problems and parallel matrix computations, expanded treatment of CS decomposition, an updated overview of floating point arithmetic, a more accurate rendition of the modified Gram-Schmidt process, and new material devoted to GMRES, QMR, and other methods designed to handle the sparse unsymmetric linear system problem.
Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801869528ISBN 13: 9780801869525
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First printed in 1907, A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery presents a nearly contemporary view of the lauded Confederate unit.Recruited from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (with many troops volunteering from nearby Maryland), this Confederate cavalry unit fought under General Stonewall Jackson early in the Civil War. Led by one of the grandest "cavaliers" of them all-General Turner Ashby-until his death in early 1862, the unit eventually formed part of General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry corps, moving back and forth between the tidewater and the Valley as military necessity dictated."Of all the Confederate images that survive from the American Civil War, few surpass that of the Southern cavalry in its boldness, recklessness, and dash. One of the most famous mounted units to serve the Confederacy was the Laurel Brigade. [These] horsemen gained recognition for their determination and skill as warriors on the field, while at the same time acquiring a reputation for an indifference to military discipline and organization. In time the brigade matured, due in large part to a string of commanders who instilled discipline and turned the Laurel Brigade into one of the most versatile units in the army."-from the Introduction.
Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801870771ISBN 13: 9780801870774
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801870534ISBN 13: 9780801870538
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801869587ISBN 13: 9780801869587
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0801858445ISBN 13: 9780801858444
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0801871905ISBN 13: 9780801871900
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0801838339ISBN 13: 9780801838330
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0801879493ISBN 13: 9780801879494
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0801861934ISBN 13: 9780801861932
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0801830052ISBN 13: 9780801830051
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801868556ISBN 13: 9780801868559
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0801874157ISBN 13: 9780801874154
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0801861446ISBN 13: 9780801861444
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 080186481XISBN 13: 9780801864810
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801870712ISBN 13: 9780801870712
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0801884624ISBN 13: 9780801884627
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0801853273ISBN 13: 9780801853272
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801868904ISBN 13: 9780801868900
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0801879248ISBN 13: 9780801879241
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 080185329XISBN 13: 9780801853296
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0801884489ISBN 13: 9780801884481
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0801882478ISBN 13: 9780801882470
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0801843804ISBN 13: 9780801843808
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Published by Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0801894549ISBN 13: 9780801894541
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Published by Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0801865867ISBN 13: 9780801865862
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