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A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures

By: Julian A. T. Dow

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A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures

By: Julian A. T. Dow

A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures provides an in-depth background to better understanding of finite element results and techniques for improving accuracy of finite element methods. Thus, the reader is able to identify and eliminate errors contained in finite element models. Three different error analysis techniques are systematically developed from a common theoretical foundation: 1) modeling erros in individual elements; 2) discretization errors in the overall model; 3) point-wise errors in the final stress or strain results. Thoroughly class tested with undergraduate and graduate students. A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures is sure to become an essential resource for students as well as practicing engineers and researchers. New, simpler element formulation techniques, model-independent results, and error measures New polynomial-based methods for identifying critical points New procedures for evaluating sheer/strain accuracy Accessible to undergraduates, insightful to researchers, and useful to practitioners Taylor series (polynomial) based Intuitive elemental and point-wise error measures Essential background information provided in 12 appendices

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Elsevier

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0080543421

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9780080543420

Addiction by Design

Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

By: Natasha Dow Schüll

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Addiction by Design

Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

By: Natasha Dow Schüll

An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible—even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems—all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.

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Princeton University Press

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0691160880

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9780691160887

The Dow Jones Guide to the World Stock Market

By: Dow Jones & Co

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The Dow Jones Guide to the World Stock Market

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Provides descriptions of 2500 companies in 20 countries around the globe. Each country's stock market is introduced by on-the-scene reporters of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. Statistics and charts showing which stocks and industry groups have done well (or badly) are also included.

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628

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0133030172

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9780133030174

The PIMS Principles

Linking Strategy to Performance

By: Robert Dow Buzzell,Bradley T. Gale

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The PIMS Principles

Linking Strategy to Performance

By: Robert Dow Buzzell,Bradley T. Gale

A guide to the powerful, proven method of strategic planning for top profitability. Illustrated.

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344

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Simon and Schuster

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0029044308

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9780029044308

American Gulag

Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons

By: Mark Dow

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American Gulag

Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons

By: Mark Dow

The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.

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Univ of California Press

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0520239423

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9780520239425

50+ Library Services

Innovation in Action

By: Diantha Dow Schull

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50+ Library Services

Innovation in Action

By: Diantha Dow Schull

Adults over the age of 55 constitute some of the most engaged and frequent users of public libraries. They may also be the most misunderstood. As Baby Boomers continue to swell their ranks, behavior and trends in older adults have changed dramaticaly in the last ten years--and most literature on this topic is hopelessly out of date. Schull, co-editor of Boomers and Beyond, helps improve the situation by * Presenting over a dozen case studies of public library programs for older adults, spotlightin best practices that can be applied at other institutions * Detailing a four-year program, presented by the Lifelong Access Libraries National Leadership Institute, that trains librarians to meet the needs of people over the age of 50 * Discussing issues such as creativity, health, financial planning, heritage adn planning, and intergenerational activities from the over-50 perspective, laying out the trends and implications for libraries * Including samples of materials that illustrate new approaches to policies, staffing, programs, services, partnerships, and publicity Containing the keys to reshaping library services for older adults, Schull's book needs to be in the collection of every public library.

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American Library Association

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0838911196

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9780838911198

Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By: Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow

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Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By: Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

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Routledge

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1134717105

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9781134717101

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

By: Douglas N. Dow

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Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

By: Douglas N. Dow

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of Ges? Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christ?s disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows that the emphasis on the apostles within these corporate groups demonstrates how the organizations adapted existing iconography to their own purposes. He argues that their willful engagement with apostolic themes reveals the complex interaction between these organizations and the church?s program of reform.

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Routledge

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135157633X

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9781351576338

Uses of Austen

Jane's Afterlives

By: Gillian Dow

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Uses of Austen

Jane's Afterlives

By: Gillian Dow

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.

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Springer

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1137271744

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9781137271747

Governing the Firm

Workers' Control in Theory and Practice

By: Gregory K. Dow

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Governing the Firm

Workers' Control in Theory and Practice

By: Gregory K. Dow

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522218

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9780521522212

Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

By: Timothy Dow Adams

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Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

By: Timothy Dow Adams

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly complex because of apparent lies that permeate them. In examining their stories, Adams shows that lying in autobiography, especially literary autobiography, is not simply inevitable. Rather it is often a deliberate, highly strategic decision on the author's part. Throughout his analysis, Adams's standard is not literal accuracy but personal authenticity. He attempts to resolve some of the paradoxes of recent autobiographical theory by looking at the classic question of design and truth in autobiography from the underside -- with a focus on lying rather than truth. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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UNC Press Books

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1469639408

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9781469639406

Discoveries in Plant Biology

By: Shain-Dow Kung,Shang-Fa Yang

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Discoveries in Plant Biology

By: Shain-Dow Kung,Shang-Fa Yang

The different chapters not only provide excellent overviews into the development of essential discoveries in plant biology, they also help the reader to better understand the background, current status and future direction of the research in each of the areas covered".Journal of Plant Physiology, 2001

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World Scientific

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9810238827

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9789810238827

Inside the Bank of England

Memoirs of Christopher Dow, Chief Economist 1973-84

By: C. Dow

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Inside the Bank of England

Memoirs of Christopher Dow, Chief Economist 1973-84

By: C. Dow

A personal memoir from Christopher Dow, an influential British economist and a key player in the banking establishments of the post-war era. Contains insights and revelations into the issues and protagonists shaping British economic policy in the late 20th Century.

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1137032316

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9781137032317

Book's by Dow Jones & Co

A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures

A Unified Approach to the Finite Element Method and Error Analysis Procedures

Addiction by Design

Addiction by Design

The Dow Jones Guide to the World Stock Market

The Dow Jones Guide to the World Stock Market

The PIMS Principles

The PIMS Principles

American Gulag

American Gulag

50+ Library Services

50+ Library Services

Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

Uses of Austen

Uses of Austen

Governing the Firm

Governing the Firm

Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

Discoveries in Plant Biology

Discoveries in Plant Biology

Inside the Bank of England

Inside the Bank of England

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