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A Path in the Mighty Waters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

A Path in the Mighty Waters

"This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contained in close quarters for months at a time, operated as compressed "frontiers," where diverse groups encountered one another and established new patterns of social organization. As he argues that experiences aboardship served as a profound conversion experience for travelers, both spiritually and culturally, Berry reframes the history of Atlantic migrations, giving the ocean and the ship a more prominent role in Atlantic history. The ocean was more than a backdropfor human events: it actively shaped historical experiences by furnishing a dissociative break from normal patterns of life and a formative stage in travelers' processes of collective identification"--

Three Laws of Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Three Laws of Nature

A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with an overview of the three laws of thermodynamics, MacArthur "genius grant" winner R. Stephen Berry explains in this short book the fundamentals of a fundamental science. Readers learn both the history of thermodynamics, which began with attempts to solve everyday engineering problems, and ongoing controversy and unsolved puzzles. The exposition, suitable for both students and armchair physicists, requires no previous knowledge of the subject and only the simplest mathematics, taught as needed. With this better understanding of one science, readers also gain an appreciation of the role of research in science, the provisional nature of scientific theory, and the ways scientific exploration can uncover fundamental truths. Thus, from a science of everyday experience, we learn about the nature of the universe.

Color and Light
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Color and Light

  • Categories: Art

Unlike many other art books only give recipes for mixing colors or describe step-by-step painting techniques, *Color and Light* answers the questions that realist painters continually ask, such as: "What happens with sky colors at sunset?", "How do colors change with distance?", and "What makes a form look three-dimensional?" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light. He bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge for traditional and digital artists of all levels of experience.

House of Abraham
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

House of Abraham

Award-winning historian Berry charts the devastating effects of the Civil War on Mary Todd Lincolns family, and the surprising impact this struggle had on the president.

All that Makes a Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

All that Makes a Man

As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home."--Jacket.

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 4402

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Understanding Energy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Understanding Energy

This book begins with primary concepts of atomic and molecular structure and of how atoms, molecules and bulk matter store and exchange energy. In the next stage, the macroscopic properties of energy and entropy, and of the constitutive properties of heat capacities are examined. From these, the concept of thermodynamic efficiency is developed. Then the notions of thermodynamic potentials and availability are introduced. With this set of concepts, the analysis of efficient energy use is presented.

Student's Solutions to the Odd-Numbered Problems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1064

Student's Solutions to the Odd-Numbered Problems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-08-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Student's Solutions to the Odd Numbered Problems to Accompany Physical Chemistry 2/e by Berry, Rice, and Ross, is a gratis item (CD-ROM) to be given to instructors who have adopted the textbook, hysical Chemistry 2/e by R. Stephen Berry, Stuart A Rice and John Ross. The CD has been prepared by Jospeh N Kushick and Caroline Taylor. The CD contains solutions(provided by the author) to odd numbered problems.

House documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 996

House documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1875
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Crossings and Encounters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Crossings and Encounters

A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imagination For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experience and in the cultural imagination. Crossings and Encounters is the first single volume to address these three intersecting categories across the Atlantic world and beyond the colonial peri...