Robert T. Smith was a Star Tribune columnist from 1968 to 1989. Funny or sad, his columns always told stories worth reading. This book collects the best of his work. Nearly 70 of Smithís favorite and most memorable columns are collected here.
Now in its 4th edition, Smith/Minton, Calculus offers students and instructors a mathematically sound text, robust exercise sets and elegant presentation of calculus concepts. When packaged with ALEKS Prep for Calculus, the most effective remediation tool on the market, Smith/Minton offers a complete package to ensure students success in calculus. The new edition has been updated with a reorganization of the exercise sets, making the range of exercises more transparent. Additionally, over 1,000 new classic calculus problems were added.
In his previous books, Robert Smith (better known to his mates as 'Nige') told colourful tales of his apprenticeship in the 1950s at Chatham Dockyard and his subsequent 42 years in the MoD. In this new book he delves further into the past by describing his boyhood adventures among the youthful community of Rainham, Kent, his home town, and then goes on to recap the dockyard training that followed.
The mystical, the mysterious and the macabre have attracted and repelled people from the beginnings of the human race. There was a time when witches were hunted and burned at stakes and people who were thought to be possessed by demons were shunned or stoned. But in our time--the Aquarian 70s--there has been a dramatic shift in attitude toward those who experience the occult world or are in some way 'spiritually different.' Maxine believes she was alive in Rome during the time of Julius Caesar and that one day in the Forum she killed her husband. Ronald speaks in tongues as a higher form of praying: '...calamandro...kuboosh...haykya...' Lisa, a witch, says, 'There are doctors and businessmen and scientists and people from every walk of life who belong to covens.' Mrs. Faber 'talks' through automatic writing to her deceased husband who has been to other planets. Spiritualists, revivalists, astrologers and exorcists were all challenges to veteran reporter Robert T. Smith. Mr. Smith's 25 years of journalistic experiences have taught him to be skeptical. During his numerous interviews there were events that he said, 'Couldn't be explained naturally.' One reviewer reported, 'Cult & Occult is like a catalog covering all of the unexplainable mystical and spiritual experiences you've heard about in a lifetime. Believers will find in it an affirmation of what they already believe. Others will be fascinated by the diversity.' Cult & Occult is a revealing book. It includes true reports about individuals following paths toward religious rituals, the stars, God, the Devil, peace with nature and the open door to the unknown."--back cover.
Robert T. Smith was a Star Tribune columnist from 1968 to 1989. Funny or sad, his columns always told stories worth reading. This book collects the best of his work. Nearly 70 of Smithís favorite and most memorable columns are collected here.
Students who have used Smith/Minton's Calculus say it was easier to read than any other math book they've used. That testimony underscores the success of the authors’ approach, which combines the best elements of reform with the most reliable aspects of mainstream calculus teaching, resulting in a motivating, challenging book. Smith/Minton also provide exceptional, reality-based applications that appeal to students’ interests and demonstrate the elegance of math in the world around us. New features include: • A new organization placing all transcendental functions early in the book and consolidating the introduction to L'Hôpital's Rule in a single section. • More concisely written explanations in every chapter. • Many new exercises (for a total of 7,000 throughout the book) that require additional rigor not found in the 2nd Edition. • New exploratory exercises in every section that challenge students to synthesize key concepts to solve intriguing projects. • New commentaries (“Beyond Formulas”) that encourage students to think mathematically beyond the procedures they learn. • New counterpoints to the historical notes, “Today in Mathematics,” that stress the contemporary dynamism of mathematical research and applications, connecting past contributions to the present. • An enhanced discussion of differential equations and additional applications of vector calculus.
For fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, the true, bewildering story of a young woman’s disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused of murder. On April 28, 1984, Denice Haraway disappeared from her job at a convenience store on the outskirts of Ada, Oklahoma, and the sleepy town erupted. Tales spread of rape, mutilation, and murder, and the police set out on a relentless mission to bring someone to justice. Six months later, two local men—Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot—were arrested and brought to trial, even though they repudiated their “confessions,” no body had been found, no weapon had been produced, and no eyewitnesses had come forward. The Dreams of Ada is a story of politics and morality, of fear and obsession. It is also a moving, compelling portrait of one small town living through a nightmare. “A riveting true story of a brutal murder in a small town and the tragic errors made in the pursuit of justice.”—John Grisham
This work spanning twelve extensive volumes is the result of contributions by many Southern men to the literature of the United States that treats of the eventful years in which occurred the momentous struggle called by Mr. A. H. Stephens “the war between the States.” These contributions were made on a well-considered plan, to be wrought out by able writers of unquestionable Confederate record who were thoroughly united in general sentiment and whose generous labors upon separate topics would, when combined, constitute a library of Confederate military history and biography. According to the great principle in the government of the United States that one may result from and be composed of many — the doctrine of E pluribus unum--it was considered that intelligent men from all parts of the South would so write upon the subjects committed to them as to produce a harmonious work which would truly portray the times and issues of the Confederacy and by illustration in various forms describe the soldiery which fought its battles. Upon this plan two volumes — the first and the last-comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the existing magnificent territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States, supplemented with sketches of the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers and other officials of the government; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. The two volumes containing these general subjects are sustained by the other volumes of Confederate military history of the States of the South involved in the war. Each State being treated in separate history permits of details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its heroes and its battlefields. The authors of the State histories, like those of the volumes of general topics, are men of unchallenged devotion to the Confederate cause and of recognized fitness to perform the task assigned them. It is just to say that this work has been done in hours taken from busy professional life, and it should be further commemorated that devotion to the South and its heroic memories has been their chief incentive. This volume one out of twelve, covering the Civil War in Maryland and West Virginia.
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