Jane Asher's Costume Book

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The Most Fun You'll Ever Have in a Costume!

Jane Asher's Costume Book
Jane Asher
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Creative costumes........2005-09-29

Unusual costumes that will make you smile. Not your typical costumes - she has really put some thought into them, and her instructions are pretty good.

The Most Fun You'll Ever Have in a Costume!.......2000-03-19

You don't have to sew to love this book. You don't even have to ever make one of the many brilliant costumes described in this book to love it. Jane Asher's clever creative ideas and terrible, terrible puns, combined with wonderful celebrity photos are a delightful entertainment just to read. If you do chose to make one of her costumes, the instructions are well-written and easy to follow. She has tried, with mixed success, to translate some of the materials for the American audience. Included are several costumes which are visual puns and require almost no materials and no talent at all. However several of the fancier costumes are quite elaborate, so this book should please the sewer and non-sewer alike. Check out the dazzling photos of Haley Mills, James Coburn, Peter Asher and others. Note, this book is also published under the title Jane Asher's Fancy Dress.

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best short, complete book on ancient Greece.......2006-09-07

If you don't know much about ancient Greek history or culture, this is the best short book I know of. On every page, in every sentence, the author gets straight to the point, with no fancy obfuscations, assuming no prior knowledge. I've never seen a better organized history of ancient Greece. Besides that, I strongly approve of the map selection and the timelines. He gives just enough depth to be a solid introduction--just a little bit more than "what you're supposed to know."

Some teachers I know prefer a book titled "Ancient Greece" written by a team of authors led by Sarah Pomeroy. It has just a bit more depth than this book, but it isn't nearly as well written. It seems that they wanted it to be easily comprehensible, but I'm not sure they succeeded. It does have the advantage of a little more depth, but if you're reading for pleasure, I recommend this one rather than that one.

It is, though, only an introduction; that's the obvious downside of being short. You might want more information about the culture: more excerpts from the poets, the thoughts of the philosophers described in more detail, more plates (or plates in color) about the art. Actually the book is amply illustrated in black and white. But of course a book dedicated to Greek culture would have better information on any of these aspects, and that would be a book worth reading. This one serves only as an introduction. I strongly recommend reading the Norton Critical Editions of the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, a couple famous tragedies (in my opinion, Euripides' Medea is the one to read first), and a few of Plato's more famous dialogues. THAT is an introduction; but if that's the kind of thing you intend to do, this book will be a great place to start.

On the historical/political/social matters, this book is again a great introduction, but only an introduction. If you want more detailed information, especially a look at the reasons historians believe such and such happened, I very strongly recommend John V. A. Fine's "The Ancient Greeks," one of the very best history books I've ever read. Of course it's a lot longer, but it's worth it. Once again, if you're reading for pleasure, I recommend this one first, and then Fine's book, which is a bit harder to follow.

If you want to read about Greek religion, I would once again start here; but then you should read the classic, Walter Burkert's book, and follow it up with Jan Bremmer's book, both titled "Greek Religion."

Of course, why not a little cheerleading for learning about ancient Greece? Since the Renaissance and even more since the Victorian era, anyone in the West who would call themselves educated has had to have basic knowledge of ancient Greece. They were certainly very influential on Western culture, and via Bactria even had some considerable influence on East Asia.

I've found that Greek history somehow arouses more curiousity in students than modern European or American history. I think it's because of the nature of the ancient Greeks themselves, because they reflected on human nature via their own history, so as we study ancient Greece, we get to reflect on the nature of power, why governments take forms such as aristocracies or democracies or monarchies, why wars are won or lost, why empires rise and fall, how much blood and misery flow through history, and so on. Students don't merely have to memorize lists of events and prepared ideas, but they get to reflect about life, why the world is the way it is, for themselves. And that is what most people, young or old, are all about.

As good as it gets for general history.......2006-06-02

This is the book that aroused my interest in ancient Greek history. I've read a lot of general histories, and most are tough to endure. Not this one. Filled with helpful chronolgical charts, maps, organized headings, and clear and succinct prose -- this book conveys the ancient Greek experience in a little over 200 pages.

Trust me, if you want to begin your study of the ancient Greeks (or reinforce and give context to what you already know about the Greeks) read this book.

A very good introduction to Ancient Greece........2006-05-31

This book is an excellent guide to early greek history. After this one should go on to more detailed books written by the like of Graham Shipley, Robin Osborne and Simon Hornblower. Blackwells also has han excellent line up of books on the rchaic, Hellenistic periods. Well done to the author.

Great overview of great civilization.......2004-12-27

Professor Martin has done a great job here, compressing into 221 pages the history of Greece from prehistoric to Hellenistic times. The book is very well written, and the fact that it includes maps, timelines and pictures helps a lot. The prose is clear and concise, with brief biographies of the most remarkable people. Martin has an ability to vividly depict the daily life and social structure of the Greeks, especially Athenians, that makes it very engaging and approachable. Of course, the main attraction of the book is that the Greek civilization was so fascinating, and that there is much in our own time that comes straight from them, so it's easy to feel empathy with the Greeks. We owe them so much. An excellent book to put some order in your chronology of events when you read texts from these times, and excellent as well as introduction or reminder.

Good overview, but reads like a textbook.......2003-05-06

Martin's history of Ancient Greece is comprehensive and thorough, providing a useful overview of the development of civilization in Greece and covering the major events of the subsequent history while also paying attention to lifestyle and cultural topics. I have two quibbles with the book. I think the early section covering pre-Bronze Age civilization could have been shorter, as much of the analysis is of necessity overly speculative. I was also slightly disappointed with the tone of the work, which often read like a textbook: I felt as though I was reading lists of fun facts without theme or context, and I found myself mentally preparing lesson plans and hypothetical quizzes. I hoped for a slightly deeper examination of Greek civilization.

Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene)

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Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene)
Thomas R. Martin
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times.
Thomas R. Martin
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Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene Ser.)

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Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene Ser.)
Thomas R. Martin
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
Thomas R. Martin
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene)
Thomas R. Martin
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times.
Thomas R. Martin
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Encylopedia Britannica on This Day 2005 Calendar

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For generations, Encyclopedia Britannica has been the world's premier source of reliable information on people and events. In its 200 years of publishing, the Encyclopedia has amassed a treasure trove of history and personalities, in many cases capturing them as they happened. (For example, Sigmund Freud wrote the entry on psychoanalysis, and Harry Houdini wrote the one on conjuring in the thirteenth edition in 1926.)

Here, for the first time assembled into a day-by-day calendar format, are the movers, shakers and greatest happenings throughout the ages.

Every day features an event that shifted the course of our world or the birthdate of someone whose contribution made all the difference, such as the Wright brothers' first sustained flight at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903, or the birth of the Italian physicist who invented the first electric battery, Alessandro Giuseppe Volta, on Feb. 18, 1745.

Full of fascinating information, much of it little-known, this is the perfect calendar for history and trivia buffs alike.

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Spanning the entire range of viscous fluid flows of engineering interest - from low-speed to hypersonic flows - this volume introduces and analyzes turbulent flows, the physics of turbulent shear flows, and turbulence models. It covers older analytical methods which are widely used in preliminary design, especially for design optimization studies, and offers concurrent treatment of momentum, heat and mass transfer. For mechanical, aerospace, and civil engineers.

Turbulent Flow: Analysis, Measurement and Prediction

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Turbulent Flow: Analysis, Measurement and Prediction
Peter S. Bernard , and James M. Wallace
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Provides unique coverage of the prediction and experimentation necessary for making predictions.

Covers computational fluid dynamics and its relationship to direct numerical simulation used throughout the industry.
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Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Incompressible Flows: Analytical and Numerical Results for a Class of LES Models (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering)

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Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Incompressible Flows: Analytical and Numerical Results for a Class of LES Models (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering)
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Large eddy simulation (LES) seeks to simulate the large structures of a turbulent flow. This is the first monograph which considers LES from a mathematical point of view. It concentrates on LES models for which mathematical and numerical analysis is already available and on related LES models. Most of the available analysis is given in detail, the implementation of the LES models into a finite element code is described, the efficient solution of the discrete systems is discussed and numerical studies with the considered LES models are presented.

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Intermittency In Turbulent Flows
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The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of a large class of nonlinear systems; however, the universality properties of specific nonlinear systems remain open questions. This volume consists of articles by leading figures who all participated in a workshop held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge.

Analysis of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer on a flat Plate at High Mach Numbers with Variable Fluid Properties (NASA TR R-17)

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Analysis of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer on a flat Plate at High Mach Numbers with Variable Fluid Properties (NASA TR R-17)
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Analysis of Turbulent Flow and heat Transfer on a flat Plate at High Mach Numbers with Variable Fluid Properties (NASA TR R-17)
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Modeling and Computation of Turbulent Flows
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Modelling and Computation of Turbulent Flows has been written by one of the most prolific authors in the field of CFD. Professor of aerodynamics at SUPAERO and director of DMAE at ONERA, the author calls on both his academic and industrial experience when presenting this work.

The field of CFD is strongly represented by the following corporate companies; Boeing; Airbus; Thales; United Technologies and General Electric, government bodies and academic institutions also have a strong interest in this exciting field.

Each chapter has also been specifically constructed to constitute as an advanced textbook for PhD candidates working in the field of CFD, making this book essential reading for researchers, practitioners in industry and MSc and MEng students.

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Computational Methods for Turbulent, Transonic, and Viscous Flows
J. A. Essers
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Cost Benefit Analysis of Adjustable Speed Drives Aboard Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers

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Mathematical Foundation of Turbulant Viscous Flows: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy September 1-5, 2003 (Lecture ... Mathematics/ Fondazoine C.I.M.E, Fierenze,)

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Mathematical Foundation of Turbulant Viscous Flows: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy September 1-5, 2003 (Lecture ... Mathematics/ Fondazoine C.I.M.E, Fierenze,)
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Five leading specialists reflect on different and complementary approaches to fundamental questions in the study of the Fluid Mechanics and Gas Dynamics equations. Constantin presents the Euler equations of ideal incompressible fluids and discusses the blow-up problem for the Navier-Stokes equations of viscous fluids, describing some of the major mathematical questions of turbulence theory. These questions are connected to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg theory of singularities for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that is explained in Gallavotti's lectures. Kazhikhov introduces the theory of strong approximation of weak limits via the method of averaging, applied to Navier-Stokes equations. Y. Meyer focuses on several nonlinear evolution equations - in particular Navier-Stokes - and some related unexpected cancellation properties, either imposed on the initial condition, or satisfied by the solution itself, whenever it is localized in space or in time variable. Ukai presents the asymptotic analysis theory of fluid equations. He discusses the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya technique for the Boltzmann-Grad limit of the Newtonian equation, the multi-scale analysis, giving the compressible and incompressible limits of the Boltzmann equation, and the analysis of their initial layers.

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