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The Brooklyn Bridge (Building America: Then and Now)Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is widely considered the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. This vision of designer John Augustus Roebling would be the longest bridge ever built at the time. During the 30-year construction period, the project withstood city politics, numerous construction conundrums and accidents, and... | | Tsunami Generation and Propagation (Springer Geophysics)
This book introduces a framework of tsunami modelling from generation to propagation, aimed at application to the new observation started in Japan after the devastating tsunami of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. About 150 seismic and tsunami sensors were deployed in a wide region off the Pacific coast of eastern Japan in order to... | | Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.
An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of... |
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On Teaching Mathematics
As a young instructor, I enjoyed teaching but I didn’t appreciate how difficult it is to
communicate mathematics effectively. Early in my teaching career, I was confronted with
a student rebellion when my efforts to explain epsilon-delta proofs were not greeted with
the enthusiasm I... | | |
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Visualization Handbook, First EditionThe field of visualization is focused on creating images that convey salient information about
underlying data and processes. In the past three decades, the field has seen unprecedented
growth in computational and acquisition technologies,
which has resulted in an increased ability both to sense the physical world with
very... | | Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb)
In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and Young Americans for Europe. The rocker settled in Berlin, where he would make his “Berlin Trilogy”âthe albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, which are now considered some of the most critically ... | | Ajax And Php: Building Responsive Web ApplicationsAJAX is a complex phenomenon that means different things to different people. Computer users appreciate that their favorite websites are now friendlier and feel more responsive. Web developers learn new skills that empower them to create sleek web applications with little effort. Indeed, everything sounds good about AJAX!
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