About this product: I own eight books on routers and routing. Four of them are by Pat Warner. Once I read one of his books I had to have all the others and no other author would do.
Pat's video (DVD) does not disappoint, and seeing the operations described in his books enriches them both.
I wish it was longer, mostly because I love watching Pat work and seeing how the jigs and templates he has designed and built produce such beautiful results. But I think he spent the right amount of time to show the full set of operations.
About this product: Training the Versatile Hunting Dog shows you how to develop a great hunting dog with Chuck's new approach. This approach emphasizes letting your young dog first develop his natural abilities: use of nose, desire, cooperation, search, pointing, and tracking. Then, after his first season, Chuck shows you how to put the controls on your dog with chapters on the trained retrieve and whoa training. The versatile breeds also love water, and there are detailed chapters showing you how to train your dog to be an outstanding water retriever. Chuck also covers how to pick a pup, the importance of early socialization, introducing your pup to gunfire and to birds. This is a revolutionary book written for the popular versatile hunting breeds: German shorthair, wirehair, griffon, Vizsla, and Weimaraner among others. Each instructive chapter has a detailed explanation of the training techniques, along with numerous illustrative photos. There are also detailed plans for building a quail call-back pen, a pigeon pen, and a dog kennel along with a list of dog training suppliers and various hunting dog organizations.
About this product: An inspiring story of struggle and success.
Peter Pakosh was born to poor immigrants and raised on a remote Canadian farm. This is the story of his dream of making farming easier for his family and farmers everywhere. Today, his Versatile farm machinery company is recognized the world over for its outstanding and dominant product line.
Young Pakosh left the farm to take a job as a draftsman for the farm implement giant Massey Harris in Toronto. Soon Pakosh began designing and producing grain augers and sprayers in the basement of his small Toronto home. By the late 1970s, his Versatile tractors captured a 30% market share of large tractor sales in North America.
Versatile was the first to mass-produce four-wheel-drive tractors and the first to develop the bi-directional tractor (pushing or pulling with equal power). The company has long been a leader on the global agricultural scene and Ford, New Holland and Fiat have all had ownership roles in Versatile. Today this company thrives as Buhler Versatile Inc. and is recognized for its innovation and dependability.
Lavishly illustrated with contemporary and archival photographs, as well as selections from company catalogs from decades past, this book is a must-have for any tractor or farm history buff.
About this product: The complete course in a variety of music styles, The Versatile Keyboardist features a wide range of techniques and styles for keyboardists who know the significance of being well-rounded, adaptable, and open-minded. The book introduces the essentials of many styles, with examples based on actual songs. Learn the history and important players of each style and gain further understanding of the elements of a great keyboard part. The book also teaches general music theory and fundamental concepts to improve musicians in every style and unleash their potential to become flexible, adaptable, and versatile keyboardists! A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.
About this product: If you have not already heard about solitons, you will sooner or later encounter them. The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves. In this engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning of the last century to modern times, with recent applications in biology, oceanography, solid state physics, electronics, elementary particle physics, and cosmology. The main concepts and results of theoretical physics related to solitons can be explained without using much mathematics. Indeed, on the descriptive and historical level, only some knowledge of high school physics and mathematics is needed. At a higher level, for understanding the elementary theory of oscillations and waves, the reader can intuit much from the numerous illustrations and perhaps skip the formulas presented. But to appreciate the deep connections in this book between apparently different and diverse phenomena and ideas, the reader must be able to follow elementary mathematical computations. Still more advanced mathematics is required for the appendices.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: An Early History of the Soliton Chapter 1. A Century and a Half Ago Beginning of the Wave Theory The Brothers Weber Study Waves in Water From Waves in Water to Waves in Ether Scientific Discoveries - Mainstream and Ahead of Time Science and Society Chapter 2. The Great Solitary Wave of John Scott Russell Before the Fateful Encounter John Russell Meets the Solitary Wave That is Impossible! All the Same it Exists! Rehabilitation of the Solitary Wave The Solitary Wave in Solitude Wave or Particle? Chapter 3. Relatives of the Soliton Hermann Helmholtz and the Nerve Pulse Further Adventures with the Nerve Pulse Hermann Helmholtz and Eddies Lord Kelvin's "Vortex Atoms" Lord Ross and Vortices in Space About Linearity and Nonlinearity
Part II: Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves Chapter 4. A Portrait of the Pendulum The Equation of the Pendulum Small Oscillations of the Pendulum Galileo Galilei's Pendulum About Similarity and Dimensions Energy Conservation Language of Phase Diagrams Digression on Celestial Mechanics, Perturbations, and Stability Phase Portraits Phase Portrait of the Pendulum "Soliton" Solution of the Pendulum Equations Motions of the Pendulum and "Tame" Soliton Concluding Remarks Chapter 5. From Pendulum to Waves and Solitons Waves in Chains of Bound Particles Finding Modes in Chains of Particles-Important Mathematical Exercise A Historic Digression: Bernoulli Family and Waves D'Alembert's Waves and Debates on Them On Discrete and Continuous Speed of Sound and How it was Measured Dispersion in Chains of Atoms Of How to "Perceive" the Fourier Expansion Dispersion of Waves on Water Surfaces On the Speed of a Pack of Waves How Much Energy is Stored in a Wave?
Part III: Present and Future of Solitons Chapter 6. Frenkel's Solitons What is Theoretical Physics? Ya. I. Frenkel's Ideas Atomic Model of the Moving Dislocation after Frenkel and Kontorova Interactions between Dislocations "Live" Solitonic Atom Dislocations and Pendulum The Fate of the Waves of Sound Let us Have a Look at Dislocations Desktop Solitons Other Close Relatives of Dislocations: Mathematical Branch Magnetic Solitons Chapter 7. Rebirth of the Soliton Can Men be on Friendly Terms with the Computer? Many-faceted Chaos Enrico Fermi is Astonished by the Computer Russell's Soliton Returns Ocean Solitons: Tsunami, the Tenth Wave Three Solitons Soliton Telegraph The Nerve Impulse - "Elementary Particle of Thought" Vortices - Everywhere Chapter 8. Modern Solitons Modern Solitons Vortices in Superfluids Josephson Solitons Elementary Particles and Solitons Theories of Everything and Strings
Appendix I: Lord Kelvin "On Ship Waves" Appendix II: Skyrme's Soliton Appendix III: Mathematics Subject Index Name Index
About this product: Book deals with the care and training of the "Versatile Hunting Dog. A "Versatile" dog is a dog that possess all of the hunting skills and will find, track and retrieve game. Written by very knowledgable authors who are authorities on Versatile dogs. It provides step by step methods to train a "pointing" dog breed and is helpful to the first time owner as well as experienced dog trainer. Book is often recommended by dog breeders and is well known to hunting dog enthusiasts. The contents are straight forward and to the point. In fact the authors state that it is "textbook and meant to train people to train their dogs". Contains 12 chapters and covers Basic Behavior Training, Whoa ( aid to helping dog develop pointing instict), Pointing, Retrieving, Tracking Game, Seaching for Game, and Care of the Versatile Hunting Dog. It does not contain "hunting & super dog" stories. If you are serious about training your Versatile Hunting dog this book can be a great aid.
About this product: The Versatile Border Collie has been the recommended book on the breed for over a decade. In this second edition Larson covers every area of performance and registry organization, presents new herding and training information, hundreds of new photos, and much, much more. Between these pages you’ll find everything a Border Collie owner or fancier wants to know.
About this product: By-products of global biodiesel manufacturing are a global fact and the immense amount of glycerol by-product stacking unsold until mid 2005 gave a visual image of the huge loss of energy and material resources. This was due to the lack of suitable conversion processes for this, the oldest organic molecule known to man, despite various experiments by some biodiesel producers. The large surplus of glycerol by-product which entered the chemical market has caused closure of existing glycerol plants and the discovery of processes that use glycerol as a raw material for the production of value-added chemicals and even of energy. This was followed by 3-4 years of intense research activity worldwide, where human chemical ingenuity opened up a number of practical avenues to convert glycerol into value added products of mass consumption. For instance, the batteries of your laptop and iPod, as well as your car's antifreeze will soon be based on glycerol, the same sweet viscous substance currently present in soaps. Reporting and commenting on such achievements this book aims to inform chemistry professionals, including managers and technologists, on the large potential of glycerol as versatile biofeedstock for the production of a variety of chemicals, polymers and fuels. Whilst filling a gap in the current literature, this nicely illustrated book is written in a clear, concise style and presents the numerous uses of glycerol as a new raw material which are starting to have an impact on industry worldwide. Elucidation of the principles governing the new chemistry of glycerol goes along with updated industrial information that is generally difficult to retrieve. Through its 10 chapters, the monograph tells the story of a chemical success -- that of converting glycerol into value added products -- and highlight the principles that made it possible. Whether as solvent, antifreeze, detergent, monomer for textiles or drug, new catalytic conversions of glycerol have been discovered that are finding application for the synthesis of products whose use range from everyday life to the fine chemical industry. Readers are also shown how a number of practical limitations posed by glycerol chemistry, such as the low selectivity encountered employing traditional stoichiometric and older catalytic conversions, were actually solved based on the understanding of the fundamental chemistry of glycerol and by application of catalysis science and technology. Readers also find a thorough discussion on the sustainability issues of bioglycerol production covering societal, environmental and economic dimensions to reflect the needs of politicians and citizens of today who require cross border research. By explaining the advantages and problems as well as offering solutions the book aids understanding as to whether biodiesel and glycerol refineries are convenient and economically sound. Chemical research on glycerol has shown that given a strong economic input, chemists are able to rapidly devise a whole set of new upgrading processes for the biorefinery and that the latter integrated unity for production energy and chemicals is not just dream of environmentally-minded scientists but an inevitable reality of today. Due to the ever decreasing energy return on energy invested, global society is being forced to switch from fossil to renewable fuels until cheap and abundant energy of solar origin becomes a reality. In this evolution, biofuels, particularly biodiesel, will certainly play a role and therefore, glycerol will be a key raw material for the biorefinery for many years to come. Dealing with such a hot topic of urgent scientific and commercial interest, this is a true "living book" in which updates will be posted yearly on the RSC website. The book's users include industry's top managers and management consultants and also R&D and marketing managers. Along with technical content of a high quality, this is also a strategic book for top managers of the chemical, biofuel, oleochemical and detergent industries.
About this product: Most sales professionals tend to rely on just a few basic strategies. Actually, there are a range of proven techniques that can boost their business: the trick is knowing how and when to use them. This book contains fifteen powerful, effective tools for use in prospecting, educating the client, and closing. From a ‘next-step’ mechanism for identifying the best move to make, to the ‘BuyThink’ process used to help get the buyer involved, the book shows readers how to:
* be prepared * get buyers to call them back * ask the right questions quickly to open the door to larger sales * use all their skills, not just the ones they think they’re good at * talk effectively to the real decision-makers * and much more
Each chapter introduces a different tool, giving examples of how to use it, as well as a unique visual exercise to help readers remember it when on a sales call. Packed with ready-to-use techniques, Ultimate Sales Tool Kit provides a potent energy boost for sales professionals eager to improve their bottom lines.
About this product: Not only rice recipes, but one-dish meals, entrees, vegetables and even tempting desserts are in this 100-recipe collection. Prepare healthy foods for every course with the rice cooker.
BOOK
