The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human Development)

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50/50.......2007-09-12

i am not an evolutionist so i had to leave nearly half of what i read and only take half with me so to speak. the way of living and caring for babies and children greatly inspired me and i am quite willing to promote these concepts to friends and family.

Excellent but some ADVICE... (colic and crying).......2007-08-25

While this book is excellent, and I recommend it for everyone, it attempts to connect all crying in western babies, describing the symptoms of colic, as a result of not being carried enough. This is in fact, not true, as colic is almost always a result of a delayed-onset food reaction or allergy.

For advice on the cause, cure and long-term effects of colic and other childhood problems, as well as a more scientific explanation of why children and babies should be raised in an attached parenting style, I would highly recommend the book:

BABY MATTERS by Dr. Linda Palmer

This is the book that can save a lot of babies from suffering and equip parents with all the knowledge they will need to truly raise a healthy, and happy child. This has been my bible on child care, and I think every parent in the world should read it.

EVERYONE should read this.......2007-01-17

Parents, would-be parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, anyone who knows children, anyone who was a child... you get the idea. EVERYONE should read this book.

Keep in mind these are theories of one person. You do not necessarily have to agree with everything she says, but everything that is said in the book is worth reading and contemplating.

This book shed alot of light on my own character and actually made me understand myself better, as well as understand how my actions affect my children. I am much more conscious now of decisions I make everyday that affect my family and people I come in contact with.

It is not an easy read (not terribly difficult either) but it's worth every minute you spend on it.

Highly recommend this book.

review of : "The Continuum Concept", by Jean Liedloff.......2007-01-04

This is a great book. I wish every parent in the United States Of America would read this book. A book that will really make you think about the children. I loved it.

Read this book with care.......2006-10-31

Unfortunately, I am beginning to see the results of Miss Liedloff's views on raising children in my grandchildren. I feel sorry for them.

Miss Liedloff was ashamed to admit to the Indians in South America that where she comes from 'women do not feel capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.' She does, however, want you to accept the views of a strange woman who has never had children and whose only direct experience comes from 'parenting' an anteater(!) and allowing a small monkey to sleep with her. She assumes that her views derived from analyzing mentally disturbed patients can be applied to all mothers in this country.

Modestly, she lets us know that Dior wanted her to model - but she refused, although Vogue also managed to snag her for a short period. The idea of the 'jungle' fascinated her, and when she arrived in South America she observed a perfect, primitive society not as an anthropologist, but rather as an impressionable tourist. In this perfect society when things go wrong people laugh. The only people who cause problems are those who stupidly have left the tribe and have had contact with civilization. Unfortunately, they even learn a few words of Spanish. Children, even when they are old enough only to crawl, understand danger and do not need supervision.

Miss Liedloff knows why people take drugs, what causes homosexuality, and of course how to raise children.

Please look elsewhere on how to raise children.

Continuum Mechanics: Concise Theory and Problems

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Excellent as supplementary book on the subject
Concise supplement to your professor's lecture
Awesome supplemental reading for advanced students

Continuum Mechanics: Concise Theory and Problems
P. Chadwick
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486401804

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This comprehensive treatment offers 115 solved problems and exercises to promote understanding of vector and tensor theory, basic kinematics, balance laws, field equations, jump conditions, and constitutive equations. Expressed in a common, efficient notation, the clear and formally precise steps for solving each problem foster quick comprehension.

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Excellent as supplementary book on the subject.......2002-08-23

This book contains all the required theory in compact, though mathematically strict and complete form. About 180 pages, it is a valuable supplement for the study of continuum mechanics.

Concise supplement to your professor's lecture.......2001-10-03

This "textbook" is really a bare-bones, although reasonably comprehensive, outline of an entry graduate course on continuum mechanics. Many of its 100 or so worked-out "problems" are not really problems as much they are part of larger derivations of theories. If your professor does not specify a required textbook or does not provide lecture notes, buy this book as a supplement. -UC Berkeley graduate mechanical engineering student

Awesome supplemental reading for advanced students.......2001-02-21

I first heard about this book when in engineering graduate school. At the time, this book was out-of-print, so my version came from an almost unreadable nth xerox copy, where n is a very large number. Having had two courses in Continuum Mechanics, I was in a position to appreciate this book. In addition to defining the trace and determinant in the usual way, for example, this book also lucidly presented invariant direct notation definitions. This book contains an excellent derivation of the jump relations that must be satisfied across moving shocks. This book is too disorganized and incomplete to serve as an introductory textbook, but it is fabulous as supplemental reading if you seek new insights on topics you already know.

History of Aesthetics (Continuum Classic Texts)

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History of Aesthetics (Continuum Classic Texts)
J. Harrell , and Cyril Barrett
Manufacturer: Thoemmes Continuum
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ASIN: 0826488552

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Tatarkiewicz's History of Aesthetics is an extremely comprehensive account of the development of European aesthetics from the time of the ancient Greeks to the 1700s. Published originally in Polish in 1962-7, it achieved bestseller status and acclaim as the best work of its kind in the world. The English translation of 1970-74 is a rare masterpiece. Covering ancient, medieval and modern aesthetics, Tatarkiewicz writes substantial essays on the views of beauty and art through the ages and then goes on to demonstrate these with extracts from original texts from each period. The authors he cites include Homer, Democritus, Plato, St Augustine, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, William of Ockham, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Bacon, Shakespeare and Rubens. His study is systematic and extremely wide, including the aesthetics of the archaic period, the classical period, Hellenistic aesthetics, Eastern Aesthetics, Western Aesthetics, the Renaissance, sixteenth-century visual arts, poetry and music, Italian, English, Spanish and Polish aesthetics of the sixteenth century, Baroque aesthetics, and theories of painting and architecture in the seventeeth century.

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This treatise attempts to portray the ideas and general principles of the theory of materials within the framework of phenomenological continuum mechanics. It is a well-written mathematical introduction to classical continuum mechanics and deals with concepts such as elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity in nonlinear materials. The aim of a general theory of material behaviour is to provide a classified range of possibilities from which a user can select the constitutive model that applies best. The book will be invaluable to graduate students of materials science in engineering and in physics. The new edition includes additional analytical methods in the classical theory of viscoelasticity. This leads to a new theory of finite linear viscoelasticity of incompressible isotropic materials. Anisotropic viscoplasticity is completely reformulated and extended to a general constitutive theory that covers crystal plasticity as a special case.

Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua

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Perfect!

Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
Alexander L. Fetter , and John Dirk Walecka
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486432610

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This two-part text supplies a lucid, self-contained account of classical mechanics and provides a natural framework for introducing advanced mathematical concepts in physics. Topics include Lagrangian dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics, fluids and sound and surface waves, more. 165 figures. 2 tables. 1980 edition.

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Perfect!.......2006-11-11

This book covers all the main topics that a mechanics course at the advance undergraduate or graduate level should have and more. It starts with a first chapter on Basic Principles where the authors do a general review about Newtonian mechanics, that is, Newton's laws, angular momentum, energy, conservation laws, center of mass motion, two body motion with a central potential and scattering. Then follows a chapter on Accelerated Coordinate Systems where you encounter things like the Corioly acceleration and centrifugal forces. Chapter three is a delight, it is about Lagrangian Dynamics where you learn a much powerfull formalism than newton's equations to solve problems using the Lagrangian function, learning about virtual displacements and generalized coordinates (also D'Alambert and Hamilton's principle). Chapter four is about Small Oscillations, it is very important since here you learn to work with many-particle systems that are use a lot in condense matter physics, the very well known normal coordinates are here introduced. Chapter five is about Rigid Bodies, chapter six is about Hamiltonian Dynamics, this chapter connects very well with chapter three illustrating yet another method to solve mechanics problems by defining canonically momentas for every generalized coordinates and then finding a set of first orders differential equations involving the hamiltonian (as opposed to chapter three where either D'Alambert or Hamilton principle lead to a system of second order differential equations) The hamiltonian is defined as a Legendre transformation of the Lagrangian function, also the Poisson brackets are introduced here and it is even explained how to do the transition between classical and quantum mechanics and also canonical transformations are introduced. This first six chapters make purchasing this book worthwhile but as if this weren't enough there are still another seven chapters more! I will just write their names: 7-Strings, 8-Membranes, 9-Sound waves in fluids, 10-Surface waves on fluids, 11- Heat Conduction, 12-Viscous Fluids and 13-Elastic continua. It also brings 5 appendices. This book is very well written and I always come back to it when I have to remember some mechanics formula or issue to re-study, I say that this book and Goldstein are the best books you can get on classical mechanics.

Theory of Multicomponent Fluids (Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 135)

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Beyond the mundane

Theory of Multicomponent Fluids (Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 135)
Donald A. Drew , and Stephen L. Passman
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ASIN: 0387983805

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This book is an exposition of the derivation and use of equations of motion for two-phase flow, which include bubbly liquids and particle -fluid mixtures. The approach taken derives the equations of motion using ensemble averaging, and compares them with those derived from control volume methods. Closure for dispersed flows is discussed, and some fundamental solutions are given. The work focuses on the fundamental aspects of two-phase flow, and is intended to give the reader a background for understanding the dynamics as well as a system of equations that can be used in predictions of the behavior of dispersed two-phase flows. The exposition in terms of ensemble averaging is new, and combining it with modern continuum mechanics concepts makes this book unique. The book is intended for engineering, mathematics and physics researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field.

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Beyond the mundane.......2000-08-30

This is perhaps the very first time multi-fluid modelling was given such a rigous theoretical analysis. It brings what was known as phenomenological and engineering approaches to the level of a scientific subject being operated with mathematical apparatus and opening new windows to examine problems of hyperbolicity, ill-posedness of the model and addressing multi-scale complexity in two-phase flows. It is useful book to have for anyone who want to capture the essence of multiphase flows and attempt to approach it as a scientific matter, either computationally or experimentally.

Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis. (AM-3)

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Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis. (AM-3)
Kurt Godel
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ASIN: 0691079277

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Kurt Gödel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Gödel fled Nazi Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi interference in the affairs of the mathematics institute at the University of Göttingen. In 1933 he settled at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he joined the group of world-famous mathematicians who made up its original faculty.

His 1940 book, better known by its short title, The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, is a classic of modern mathematics. The continuum hypothesis, introduced by mathematician George Cantor in 1877, states that there is no set of numbers between the integers and real numbers. It was later included as the first of mathematician David Hilbert's twenty-three unsolved math problems, famously delivered as a manifesto to the field of mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis Gödel set forth his proof for this problem.

In 1999, Time magazine ranked him higher than fellow scientists Edwin Hubble, Enrico Fermi, John Maynard Keynes, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Jonas Salk. He is most renowned for his proof in 1931 of the 'incompleteness theorem,' in which he demonstrated that there are problems that cannot be solved by any set of rules or procedures. His proof wrought fruitful havoc in mathematics, logic, and beyond.

Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: From Pore to Core and Beyond

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Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: From Pore to Core and Beyond

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Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows in Porous Media (Computational Science and Engineering)

ASIN: 1402035136

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This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous media. This flow type is of great significance in many petroleum and environmental engineering problems, such as in secondary and tertiary oil recovery, subsurface remediation and CO2 sequestration. This book contains a collection of selected papers (all refereed) from a number of well-known experts on multiphase flow. The papers describe both recent and state-of-the-art modeling and experimental techniques for study of multiphase flow phenomena in porous media. Specifically, the book analyses three advanced topics: upscaling, pore-scale modeling, and dynamic effects in multiphase flow in porous media. This will be an invaluable reference for the development of new theories and computer-based modeling techniques for solving realistic multiphase flow problems. Part of this book has already been published in a journal. Audience This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and consultants working in the area of flow in porous media.

The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics

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The bible of rational nonlilnear continuum mechanics
The bible of continuum mechanics!

The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics
C. Truesdell , and W. Noll
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ASIN: 3540027793

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Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics has become a classic treatise in the field of continuum mechanics. Originally published nearly forty years ago, it probably has influenced practically all subsequent monographs on the subject. Its main parts are:

- The General Theory of Material Behavior

- Elasticity

- Fluidity

This third edition includes the corrections made by the late C. Truesdell in his personal copy. It is annotated by W. Noll and by S. Antman who describe the monograph’s genesis and the impact it has made on the modern development of mechanics. Originally published as Volume III/3 of the famous Encyclopedia of Physics in 1965, this book describes and summarizes "everything that was both known and worth knowing in the field at the time." It also greatly contributed to the unification and standardization of the concepts, terms and notations in the field.

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The bible of rational nonlilnear continuum mechanics.......1998-11-14

If you read no other book on continuum mechanics, read this. The only other book you need read is The Classical Field Theories by Truesdell & Toupin. One must expend effort in reading The Non-linear Field Theories, but one is rewarded with keen insights and the ability to achieve and understand new results.

The bible of continuum mechanics!.......1996-10-28

The Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics is THE most comprehensive book on continuum mechanics to date. The multitude of books that have been written on continuum mechanics since the publication of this book (almost forty years ago) derive both their content and inspiration from this book. The Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics is an invaluable reference, and any serious researcher in continuum mechanics ought to have a copy of this book. This is the bible or the quran or the gita of continuum mechanics.

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