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Contact Flying More Detail
Contact Flying By Jim Dulin
eBook (PDF): $15.95
Contact flying involves the best situational awareness available in flight: visual observation of the earth, relative wind noise, control pressure, and application of rudder based on differential... More > butt cheek pressure. No instrument, including airspeed indicator or ball is needed or used. The techniques covered are the low (6" to 3') ground effect takeoff, 45 degree Dutch rolls, the energy management (no load factor) turn, the apparent brisk walk rate of closure approach, the six second low level forced landing, the angle across the runway extreme crosswind landing, flying slow in updrafts and fast in downdrafts to achieve greater than excess engine thrust for climb in the mountains, the box canyon (energy management turn) turnaround, mountain operations with low powered aircraft, agricultural operations, and pipeline patrol operations.< Less
Seeing Is Understanding: The Effect of Visualisation in Understanding Programming Concepts More Detail
Seeing Is Understanding: The Effect of Visualisation in Understanding Programming Concepts By Jason Zagami
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Seeing is Understanding details a four year research study into how visualisations can support learning. It reports on a qualitative instrumental collective case study in which five computer... More > programming languages supporting differing degrees of visualisation were used as cases to explore the effectiveness of software visualisation to develop fundamental computer programming concepts. Cognitive theories of visual and auditory processing, cognitive load, and mental models provided a framework in which cognitive development was tracked and used to explain failures in previous software visualisation studies, in particular the study demonstrated that for the cases examined, where complex concepts are being developed, the mixing of auditory (or text) and visual elements can result in excessive cognitive load and impede learning. This finding provides a framework for selecting the appropriate instructional programming languages based on the cognitive complexity of the concepts under study.< Less
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories More Detail
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories By Leo Tolstoy
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of... More > jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes. During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and points out that, if understood as an exclusive preference for one person, it often passes quickly. Convention dictates that two married people stay together, and initial love can quickly turn into hatred. After he meets and marries his wife, periods of passionate love and vicious fights alternate. The work was banned in Russia and the US by the censors.< Less
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Welcome to the State of Kuwait By Francesca Spencer
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Based on real-life stories from an international school in Kuwait, which chart the survival of teachers from the thrown-in-at-the-deep-end start to the I-can’t-believe-we-made-it finish.... More > Outlandish comedy abounds as the teachers laugh and lose it, through a mine field of barriers to logic, and challenges to plain common sense.The book illuminates the startling excesses of the oil-money rich as they balance a past of poverty with an extreme pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. It shows Kuwait as a microcosm reflecting the more global issues surrounding waste, ecology, using more than we need, and consumerism gone mad. The stories reveal the pros and cons of teaching on the international circuit and how the teachers adapt to an alien land of dust, sexual and racial inequality and an oppressive political regime, both inside and outside school. Resilience, fortitude and a hefty dose of humour gets the teachers through to the end with a cheer and a wave.< Less
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Welcome to the State of Kuwait By Francesca Spencer
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Based on real-life stories from an international school in Kuwait, which chart the survival of teachers from the thrown-in-at-the-deep-end start to the I-can’t-believe-we-made-it finish.... More > Outlandish comedy abounds as the teachers laugh and lose it, through a mine field of barriers to logic, and challenges to plain common sense.The book illuminates the startling excesses of the oil-money rich as they balance a past of poverty with an extreme pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. It shows Kuwait as a microcosm reflecting the more global issues surrounding waste, ecology, using more than we need, and consumerism gone mad. The stories reveal the pros and cons of teaching on the international circuit and how the teachers adapt to an alien land of dust, sexual and racial inequality and an oppressive political regime, both inside and outside school. Resilience, fortitude and a hefty dose of humour gets the teachers through to the end with a cheer and a wave.< Less
Brain Function and Dysfunction More Detail
Brain Function and Dysfunction By Anand Madhu
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Alzheimer's Disease is rapidly increasing in prevalence. This pandemic of the post-industrial age wreaks havoc on the elderly people (some as young as 40), particularly in the richer and more... More > powerful nations. With only a few weak hypotheses, its cause is not understood; all proposed medicines have either failed clinical trials or proven ineffective. In this book, I lay out a new, relatively stronger and more broad-based theory of dementia causation, exploring beyond Matsuyama's 1989 theory that held pervasive Microtubule collapse to be a key characteristic of dementia. In brief: Psychological functions are carried out by neurocircuits containing myriads of Dopaminergic and Norepic systems; due to excessive electrical signalling in "dopamine-heavy" types of brains -- the signal conducting micro-tubules break down, causing the neuronal collapse which characterizes dementia. More the signalling volume, more the stress (either mechanical and/or thermal and/or chemical stress), which proves fatal in the end.< Less
Reforming U.S. Export Controls Reforms: Advancing U.S. Army Interests More Detail
Reforming U.S. Export Controls Reforms: Advancing U.S. Army Interests By Richard Weitz, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
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The U.S. defense export system is in need of significant reform to reduce the impact of its core inefficiencies and weaknesses. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) create serious... More > problems for the U.S. defense industry and thereby weaken U.S. national security in several important ways. While the ITAR is mostly successful in preventing U.S. arms from being used against the United States and its allies, the manner in which the ITAR regulations are enforced presents excessive barriers to U.S. firms that impede their ability to compete in the global defense market. These firms are important contractors to the U.S. military, and their success enables the United States to maintain a technological and industrial advantage. Additionally, when U.S. allies choose to purchase defense products from ITAR-free firms based outside of the United States, U.S. Army interoperability with foreign forces decreases.< Less
Broyze More Detail
Broyze By Malcolm Campbell
eBook (PDF): $2.50
Took me a year to type the first draft (Christmas of 02' - Christmas of 03'). And then revised and edited (finished that in June of 04'). Anyway, plot synopsis: It is 2170. The world is engulfed is... More > a war that has lasted since 2130. At the front of the war are giant mechanized robots with humans pilots called 'broyzie' (broyze for singular). A good section of the world is uninhabitable due to excessive heavy weapon use in the early days of the war (now illegal based on an agreement from all sides) and the only nations remaining are France, the United States, China, Israel, and Zealand (A composite of Australia and New Zealand). Jean Velue is a fresh pilot for France. During his service he encounters a Zealand officer named Jack Murphy who begins to manipulate events of Jean's life in order to mold him into a warrior capable of killing him. Meanwhile, pilots from France, the US, Israel, and China all team up to stop the launch of Zealand satellite carrying nuclear missiles.< Less
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Broyze By Malcolm Campbell
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Took me a year to type the first draft (Christmas of 02' - Christmas of 03'). And then revised and edited (finished that in June of 04'). Anyway, plot synopsis: It is 2170. The world is engulfed is... More > a war that has lasted since 2130. At the front of the war are giant mechanized robots with humans pilots called 'broyzie' (broyze for singular). A good section of the world is uninhabitable due to excessive heavy weapon use in the early days of the war (now illegal based on an agreement from all sides) and the only nations remaining are France, the United States, China, Israel, and Zealand (A composite of Australia and New Zealand). Jean Velue is a fresh pilot for France. During his service he encounters a Zealand officer named Jack Murphy who begins to manipulate events of Jean's life in order to mold him into a warrior capable of killing him. Meanwhile, pilots from France, the US, Israel, and China all team up to stop the launch of Zealand satellite carrying nuclear missiles.< Less
Does Anybody Think Anymore More Detail
Does Anybody Think Anymore By Albert Maslar
eBook (PDF): $9.16
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"Does Anybody Think Anymore" is anti-war, anti-Bush, "PRO-AMERICA"; a critical analysis, review, response to events occurring in 2003; covers 3 periods; Pre-Iraq War; Iraq War;... More > Post-Iraq War; Addresses Pre-emptive, unjust war with Iraq, based initially on presumptions of WMD, known to be unfounded fabrications of President George W. Bush; a vendetta completing the "unfinished" job of senior President Bush, elimination of Sadddam Hussein. The pre-emptive war created unintended, unforeseen consequences that will haunt the USA for decades. Includes political commentary about the 2004 presidential election; melding ideology of political parties, blurring of their distinctions; decline in USA morals; degredation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights; erosion of USA economy; mounting national debt; unwarranted tax cuts for the privileged; huge costs of the war and its aftermath; excessive uncontrollable costs of "Homeland Security". God Bless America...WHY? God has been outlawed in the USA.< Less

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