Knight's Modern Seamanship

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Revised by John V. Noel, Jr., Captain, U.S. Navy [Ret.] Associate Editors: Commander Frank E. Bassett, U.S. Navy [Ret.] Dr. Carvel Blair and Prof. Dee Fitch Steer by this venerable guide to shiphandling and safety and you'll easily see why, since publication of the first edition 83 years ago, it has been the single-most trusted "beacon" for millions of pleasure boaters and professional seamen alike. Now in its eighteenth edition, Knight's Modern Seamanship continues the salty tradition of its predecessors. It supplies all the navigation techniques, safety laws and procedures, and maintenance practices you need to make each ocean-going trip safe and enjoyable. Typhoon up ahead? Knight's explains the effects of weather on ocean travel and spells out exactly what you have to do to avoid dangerous weather systems. What kind of communication equipment should you have on board? A new section on ship communications tells you how to select and operate modern communication devices. This eighteenth edition also provides you with new sections on channel marking, towing and salvage, and the maritime buoyage system. Updated guidance is given on:
* the rules of the road--you get clear explanations of right of way, the use of radar to avoid collisions, and the law in fog; included is the complete text of the Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980. Every vessel over 12 meters in length is required by law to have a copy of these rules on board.
* shiphandling--you'll find expert discussions on docking, mooring, and anchoring; helicopter operations; and ice seamanship
* ship and boat operation--you get concise explanations of ship structure and stability, propulsion and steering, ground tackle, and cargo handling and underway replenishment
You'll even learn the art of knotting and splicing. Without a doubt, Knight's Modern Seamanship, Eighteenth Edition, is your foremost guide to mastering the lore of the sea. It is an indispensable reference source for pleasure boaters, merchant marine personnel, and anyone who needs expert seagoing advice.

Knight's Modern Seamanship Review

Knight's is indeed the professional standard omnibus for seamanship. It is an excellent comprehensive text for any mariner. That said, it is desperately in need of updating. The electronic navigation section lists systems no longer in use (Omega, LORAN), and treats GPS as a "future" system (although the editors do prophetically write that GPS receivers will drop in price until they are affordable by the average mariner).
Additionally,there are a disconcerting number of typographical errors present. I can only hope the editors are progressing on a 19th Edition.

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Macular Surgery

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Macular Surgery, Second Edition serves as a comprehensive and contemporary review of macular diseases and their management. An exhaustive review of the latest proven surgical techniques and therapies for treatment of macular disorders is provided, with emphasis on proven techniques from extensive reviews of controlled clinical trials. Specific chapters of the book are devoted to age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, macular holes, epiretinal membranes, subretinal hemorrhage, and choroidal neovascularization. An entire section is devoted to prevention of complications from macular surgery. All chapters are written by leading experts within the field.

Macular Surgery Review

This book gives a good and advanced insight to macular diseases and surgery. Touches the submacular surgery techniques and macular translocation procedures quite nicely, thought not as indepth, but no book actually does. The summary of the ETDRS and MPS is also a good reference for retina fellows.

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Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability (Dekker Mechanical Engineering)

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Based on the results of research in physical asset management, Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability: Theory and Applications introduces students to the tools for making data-driven decisions and how to use them. The book offers a solid theoretical foundation for these tools, demonstrating applications through various case studies. Firmly rooted in reality, the applications covered relate to areas such as food processing, the military, mining, transportation, steel, and petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Ideal for classroom use, this text features supplementary software that can be downloaded from the CRC Web site. The downloadable educational versions of software packages include: OREST, SMS, EXAKT for CBM optimization, PERDEC, Workshop Simulator, Crew Size Optimizer, and WiebullSoft.

This book can be used as a textbook for a one-semester senior undergraduate or postgraduate course on maintenance decision analysis. It provides problem sets with answers at the end of each chapter, an extensive set of PowerPoint slides covering the various chapters and appendices, a solutions manual for the problems in the book, and a bank of more than 100 examination questions. Instructors who adopt the book can obtain these resources at www.crcpress.com.

The authors approach the topic with the ideology that mathematical modeling is not a spectator sport. Their examination of the underpinning theories for formulating models and exploration of real-world applications make the book both informative and practical. It provides professors with the tools they need to easily teach their students how to transform data into information.

Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) Review

This book is an excellent choice for those who are looking for a text on real applications of simple but fundamental mathematical techniques in reliability and maintenance. Both authors have been involved in industrial projects in this field and the book is a summary of their experience over the last 33 years. Most of the examples are based on real applications and industrial case studies accomplished mostly by the first author (Andrew Jardine). You do not need advanced mathematics to understand the cases, however many mathematical concepts are explained in the appendices using a very simple language. The book starts with a nice summary of all the fundamental concepts in reliability and maintenance management. It talks shortly about soft aspects of maintenance such as TPM, RCM, Continuous improvements, etc and uses an interesting frame work to connect them to each other. In chapter two, it shows how the best time to replace a component or simple device can be found using simple mathematics. It then brings several applied examples which will help the reader to fully understand the concept and how to apply those simple but essential techniques. It talks about age based replacements and block replacements and discusses when we should choose one of them over the other. It also introduces a software that can simply do all the mathematics and find optimal replacement times. In Chapter 3, it talks about the inspections problems. It shows how we can find the best inspection policies based on simple mathematical models using different criteria such as minimization of the cost or downtime. Then it talks about the condition based maintenance modeling and shows that how we can find the best replacement policy based on condition indicators, age of the system, cost of preventive replacement, and cost of a failure. It shows some examples and defines software called EXAKT which is claimed to be well capable of finding the optimum replacement policy. In chapter four it talks about optimal replacement interval for capital equipment. It shows how we should take into account Life Cycle Costs in order to find the best time to replace the current equipment with a new one of the same type or one which is more technologically advanced. The best policy is the one that minimizes the total discounted costs over the time. It introduces two softwares called AGE/CON and PERDEC that can be used to find those optimal intervals without being worried about the mathematical burdens. Chapter 5 is titled "Maintenance Resource Requirements". It basically shows that how one can use basic queuing models to find the optimum number of spares, required manpower, machine shops, and decide whether it is better to do a job in house or contract it out.
I see this book a must read for both graduate and undergraduate students, practitioners and consultants because it creates a very strong and valuable link between world of mathematics with the one of practice.

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Managing Global Innovation: Uncovering the Secrets of Future Competitiveness

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What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? Based on empirical research with hundreds of R&D executives from more than 80 companies amd 1000 R&D laboratories, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 22 best-practice companies illustrate how to put these concepts into practice. Adding new examples and management models, this third edition has been completely revised and updated incorporating emerging themes in R&D such as intellectual property management, innovation in China and India, technology listening posts, and leading R&D centers. �

Managing Global Innovation: Uncovering the Secrets of Future Competitiveness Review

'Managing Global Innovation' is a must-read for anyone interested in new product development in a globalizing world. This book presents a coherent framework for international innovation strategy, global R&D organization, and the execution of transnational R&D projects. The many examples make theory and concepts easy to understand. Moreover, the book features a collection of indepth case studies of otherwise little described companies. If you ever wondered how companies like SAP, Roche, or HP compete at the forefront of technology development, then this is the book to get. All in all, a well-conceived book that immediately appeals with its balance of applicability and theory.

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Many-Particle Physics (Physics of Solids and Liquids)

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This comprehensive textbook utilizes Green's functions and the equations derived from them to solve real physical problems in solid-state theoretical physics. Green's functions are used to describe processes in solids and quantum fluids and to address problems in areas such as electron gas, polarons, electron transport, optical response, superconductivity and superfluidity. The updated third edition features several new chapters on different mean-free paths, Hubbard model, Coulomb blockade, and the quantum Hall effect. New sections have been added, while original sections have been modified to include recent applications. This text is ideal for third- or fourth-year graduate students and includes numerous study problems and an extensive bibliography.

Many-Particle Physics (Physics of Solids and Liquids) Review

Unfortunately, the 3rd edition of Mahan's book contains enormous number of misprints. Sometimes, it is impossible to understand what is meant by the author without consulting the previous edition. For example, in Sec. 4.1.5. the author refers in the text to the equation which apparently should be between Eqs. (4.126) and (4.127) but which had been omitted. At the same time, some evident drawbacks of the previous edition have not been corrected. For example, the definition of the thermodynamic average used in Sec. 3.6 is different from that used in the previous sections, although it is not mentioned in the text. Despite the book is an excellent introduction into the field of Many-Particle Physics, I would recommend to the customer to either buy the previous edition or to wait for a new one.

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Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers

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Providing an updated and comprehensive account of the properties of solid polymers, the book covers all aspects of mechanical behaviour. This includes finite elastic behavior, linear viscoelasticity and mechanical relaxations, mechanical anisotropy, non-linear viscoelasicity, yield behavior and fracture. New to this edition is coverage of polymer nanocomposites, and molecular interpretations of yield, e.g. Bowden, Young, and Argon.

The book begins by focusing on the structure of polymers, including their chemical composition and physical structure.  It goes on to discuss the mechanical properties and behaviour of polymers, the statistical molecular theories of the rubber-like state and describes aspects of linear viscoelastic behaviour, its measurement, and experimental studies.

Later chapters cover composites and experimental behaviour, relaxation transitions, stress and yielding. The book concludes with a discussion of breaking phenomena.

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Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers Review

Contrary to another (misleading) review, this fantastic new version of the book updates the earlier text to include recent advances in polymer science. It is not the student focussed 'Introduction' book but one that can be used by all, through doctorate and beyond. I found it essential reading during my degree and still use it as a reference book.

There are also no 'missing' chapters as claimed and it should be noted that the other reviewer even admits that they based their review on the earlier edition (1983), that they bought in 2013... which would, of course, be dated since it was published thirty years earlier! Reviews should be checked by Amazon before they are allowed to be published. Amazon should also check that their links are tied to the correct edition. My review of the third edition (2013) appears on the second edition (1983) sales page as well! Still, my comments would be equally valid for this earlier edition if they are read in context.

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