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Finite Element Methods for Incompressible Flow Problems

by Volker John ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book explores finite element methods for incompressible flow problems: Stokes equations, stationary Navier-Stokes equations and time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. It focuses on numerical analysis, but also discusses the practical use of these methods and includes numerical illustrations. It also provides a comprehensive overview of analytical results for turbulence models. The proofs are ... Read more

$215.09 USD

This book explores finite element methods for incompressible flow problems: Stokes equations, stationary Navier-Stokes equations and time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. It focuses on numerical analysis, but also discusses the practical use of these methods and includes numerical illustrations. It also provides a comprehensive overview of analytical results for turbulence models. The proofs are
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Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media: Utilizing Video and Lecture Capture

Edited by Ellen G Smyth, John X. Volker ...

One of the benefits of the constantly expanding world of technology is the new and improved technologies that allow students to not only benefit from this integration, but to also come to prefer a more technologically savvy instruction style. Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media: Utilizing Video and Lecture Capture offers unique approaches for integrating visual media into an instructional ... Read more

$148.49 USD

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One of the benefits of the constantly expanding world of technology is the new and improved technologies that allow students to not only benefit from this integration, but to also come to prefer a more technologically savvy instruction style. Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media: Utilizing Video and Lecture Capture offers unique approaches for integrating visual media into an instructional
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Monotone Discretizations for Elliptic Second Order Partial Differential Equations

by Gabriel R. Barrenechea, Volker John, Petr Knobloch ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book offers a comprehensive presentation of numerical methods for elliptic boundary value problems that satisfy discrete maximum principles (DMPs). The satisfaction of DMPs ensures that numerical solutions possess physically admissible values, which is of utmost importance in numerous applications. A general framework for the proofs of monotonicity and discrete maximum principles is developed ... Read more

$188.09 USD

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of numerical methods for elliptic boundary value problems that satisfy discrete maximum principles (DMPs). The satisfaction of DMPs ensures that numerical solutions possess physically admissible values, which is of utmost importance in numerous applications. A general framework for the proofs of monotonicity and discrete maximum principles is developed
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Chess Tactics Detection Workbook

by Volker Schlepütz, John Emms ...

Experts agree that regularly solving tactics is a vital component of chess training. However, it's also widely acknowledged that there is one drawback of traditional chess puzzles—when solving them students know for sure that there is a genuine tactic in the position, whereas during a real game there is no such guarantee. In this workbook, Volker Schlepütz and Grandmaster John Emms offer a unique ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Experts agree that regularly solving tactics is a vital component of chess training. However, it's also widely acknowledged that there is one drawback of traditional chess puzzles—when solving them students know for sure that there is a genuine tactic in the position, whereas during a real game there is no such guarantee. In this workbook, Volker Schlepütz and Grandmaster John Emms offer a unique
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Cancer

Experiments and Concepts

by Rudolf Süss, John D. Scribner, Volker Kinzel ...

Translated by John D. Scribner ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book really ought to be read on vacation, just for enjoyment. Granted, cancer is, literally, a deadly serious matter, and cancer research is primarily a part of medicine with Hippocrates in its back ground. Yet, cancer research is also natural science, and as such it yields the joys and sorrows of any science. The cancer problem is also a brain teaser, a challenge for the curious. This ... Read more

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This book really ought to be read on vacation, just for enjoyment. Granted, cancer is, literally, a deadly serious matter, and cancer research is primarily a part of medicine with Hippocrates in its back ground. Yet, cancer research is also natural science, and as such it yields the joys and sorrows of any science. The cancer problem is also a brain teaser, a challenge for the curious. This
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Eight Days in May

The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

by Volker Ullrich ...

Narrated by John McLain ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

The bestselling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany.On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only ... Read more

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The bestselling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany.On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only
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Resisting Occupation

A Global Struggle for Liberation

by Mark Braverman, Wanda Deifelt, Toar Hutagalung, Sindiso Jele, Junghyung Kim, Luciano Kovacs, Su-Chi Lin, Marthie Momberg, John McNeil Scott, Volker Küster, Richard A. Davis0, Miguel A. De La Torre1, Stacey Floyd-Thomas3, Mitri Raheb4, Tink Tinker6 ...

Series series Decolonizing Theology
In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven ... Read more

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In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven
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The Orphans of Davenport

Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War Over Children's Intelligence

by Marilyn Brookwood ...

Narrated by Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

12 hours 25 min

“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents’ low intelligence and sent them to an institution for the “feebleminded” to be cared for by “moron” women. To their astonishment, under the ... Read more

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“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents’ low intelligence and sent them to an institution for the “feebleminded” to be cared for by “moron” women. To their astonishment, under the
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Resistance

The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

by Halik Kochanski ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

46 hours 15 min

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her ... Read more

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A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her
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Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

by Nicole Eustace ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

14 hours 33 min

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the ... Read more

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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the
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Rising Tide

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

by John M. Barry ...

Narrated by George Grizzard ...

Abridged

4 hours 48 min

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith AwardA sweeping account of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the devastating disaster that reshaped American politics, accelerated the Great Migration, and exposed the South’s deep racial and economic inequalities.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, ... Read more

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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith AwardA sweeping account of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the devastating disaster that reshaped American politics, accelerated the Great Migration, and exposed the South’s deep racial and economic inequalities.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society,
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The Lost Founding Father

John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

by William J. Cooper ...

Narrated by Richard Poe ...

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16 hours 38 min

Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous ... Read more

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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous
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