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This volume takes a look at the history of science and its place in cultural crises. ... Read more

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Chapters: Suicides by Firearm in New Hampshire, Christopher Wilder, Percy Williams Bridgman, Stephen Huneck, Ike Van Zandt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher Bernard Wilder (13 March 1945 13 April 1984) was a serial killer who abducted and raped at least ten women and killed at least eight of them during a spree across the United States in early 1984. His rampage began in Florida and continued across the country through Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, California and New York before he committed suicide during a struggle with police in New Hampshire on April 13. He is also believed to have raped girls aged 10 and 12 in Florida during 1983. For many years since his death, Wilder has also been considered the prime suspect in the unsolved Wanda Beach murder of two teenage girls in Sydney, Australia in 1965. Wilder was born in Australia. His father was an American naval officer and his mother an Australian. He almost died at birth, but recovered, only to almost drown in a swimming pool at age two. In 1962 or 1963, he pleaded guilty in the case of a gang-rape at a beach in Sydney and was put on probation, during which time he also received electroshock therapy. There is some evidence to suggest that this course of treatment only exacerbated his violent sexual tendencies. It is known that he had virtually memorized the text of the 1963 novel The Collector by John Fowles, in which a man keeps a woman in his basement against her will until she dies. A copy of the novel was found among his possessions after his death. In 1968, he married, but his wife left after only a week. Wilder emigrated to the United States in 1969. He lived in Boynton Beach, Florida in a mansion on Mission Hill Rd and made a small fortune in real estate while developing an int...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10306471 ... Read more

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Chapters: Anton Peterlin, Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Manfred Wagner, Henry Eyring, Percy Williams Bridgman, Isydore Hlynka, Clifford Truesdell, Denis Evans, L. Gary Leal, Zinovii Shulman, Josef Meixner, Ronald Rivlin, Egon Orowan, Alfred L. Copley, Baltasar Mena Iniesta, Jacob Israelachvili, G. W. Scott Blair, Arthur S. Lodge, Eugene Guth, Markus Reiner, Maurice Couette, Eugene C. Bingham, Armand de Waele, Arthur B. Metzner, James G. Oldroyd, John Hinch, Clarence Zener, Mosto Bousmina, Karl Weissenberg, Jack Richardson, Melvin Mooney, Dieter Weichert, Pierre Carreau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 113. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (Marathi: , born January 1, 1943 in Mashel, Goa) is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific ... Read more

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Chapters: Christopher Wilder, Percy Williams Bridgman, Stephen Huneck, Ike Van Zandt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher Bernard Wilder (13 March 1945 13 April 1984) was a serial killer who abducted and raped at least ten women and killed at least eight of them during a spree across the United States in early 1984. His rampage began in Florida and continued across the country through Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, California and New York before he committed suicide during a struggle with police in New Hampshire on April 13. He is also believed to have raped girls aged 10 and 12 in Florida during 1983. For many years since his death, Wilder has also been considered the prime suspect in the unsolved Wanda Beach murder of two teenage girls in Sydney, Australia in 1965. Wilder was born in Australia. His father was an American naval officer and his mother an Australian. He almost died at birth, but recovered, only to almost drown in a swimming pool at age two. In 1962 or 1963, he pleaded guilty in the case of a gang-rape at a beach in Sydney and was put on probation, during which time he also received electroshock therapy. There is some evidence to suggest that this course of treatment only exacerbated his violent sexual tendencies. It is known that he had virtually memorized the text of the 1963 novel The Collector by John Fowles, in which a man keeps a woman in his basement against her will until she dies. A copy of the novel was found among his possessions after his death. In 1968, he married, but his wife left after only a week. Wilder emigrated to the United States in 1969. He lived in Boynton Beach, Florida in a mansion on Mission Hill Rd and made a small fortune in real estate while developing an interest in photography. Over the next fe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10306471 ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Yale University Press in 1922 in 132 pages; Subjects: Physical measurements; Measurement; Mathematics / Mensuration; Science / Mathematical Physics; Science / Physics; Science / Weights & Measures; ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Typos make book worthless
Even though this is cheap, it is worthless. Many equations are missing and other characters are mistranslated (e.g., 2 times pi is translated as "2ir"; lower-case delta, I guess, is an italic "6"). I found perhaps 10 typos in the first couple of pages.

Equations were not printed correctly
The book itself is very good. However, the printed version was made using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which did not translate the equations correctly. In fact, most of the math is completely unreadable which significantly reduces the value of a mathematical book! You can also find this version of the book on the web.

10 stars
This book gives an excellent introduction to dimensional analysis theory. The examples to explain the theory are chosen from almost all areas of applied physics. I think this is the first book written on Dimensional analysis after the publication of seminal papers by Buckingham and Rayleigh.

If one needs more examples and theory of models in specific then the book by Langahar 'Dimensional analysis and theory of models' will be an useful reference. ... Read more