Frictions Books

A great book to cover the basics of EHL, suitable for engineers and graduate students who want to do some serious work in lubricated tribology. Background in fluid mechanics, numerical methods and contact mechanics is somewhat needed to understand the content.

I consider that this book is one of the most interesting book about friction of polymeric materials. The book contains new research results and analysis and review of published ones in this scientific area.

Tribology is an extremely complex field that encompasses a vast variety of scientific disciplines and includes the work of such scientists as Newton and Raleigh. Stachowiak and Batchelor have produced a technical guide suitable for students, professional engineers and experts alike. It is a complete reference for tribology encompassing such diverse material as lubrication methods (Boundary, EHL etc), design and condition monitoring.

The authors have a knack for presenting otherwise inaccessible material in a manner which is easy to digest. Material, sourced and adapted from an extraordinary array of reference sources, is combined with innovative diagrams that complement the text rendering explanations of exceptionally high clarity.

Programs, based on the theory presented, are included at the rear of the book presenting the practicing engineer with invaluable tools for the design of tribological devices.

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge--celestial, biological, historical, literary--and beautifully written, all of the poems in this book are worth reading and rereading. The range of subject matter is breathtaking, from van Leeuwenhoek and his microscope to Frank Capra's films to human prehistory; and the threads that bind the images together are at once original and familiar in the way that truly great writers make you see something from such an unfamiliar but valid perspective that life, briefly, comes into focus. Moreover, the language of the poems is simultaneously natural, evocative, and fresh, covering a wide spectrum of styles and emotions, from exquisitely detailed free verse to eloquent Victorian to the narrative drive of the central poem, "Damage Assessment." In short, these poems have everything. It's the first book of poetry I've ever read cover to cover. Read it, and you will forever rejoice. Besides, who could resist a series of poems on "the intimate recollections of Frankenstein's creature"?

Sarah Jessup, a former computer hacker,is now a member of the HotWires team, investigating computer crime for the Feds.
While her employers forced her to take a recouperative vacation, she keeps encountering undercover cop, Logan Sullivan, who is staying at the same resort. Logan was privately investigating cases of women who went mysteriously missing.

Sarah and Logan team up to uncover the people behind the white-slaver trade.

Sparks fly when these two passionate law officers are in close proximity.. until they discover their true feelings... then those sparks turn to a firey passion.

Each volume of Samantha Hunter's Hotwire trilogy is a must read page-turner for those who want a sizzling story full of well versed adventure, laced with danger and sexy passion...

As a student in materials science, this is one of best books I have ever read in materials science. The text is kept to a minimum and is easy to read. The figures are large and easy to understand, and the equations are all well explained. Just about every topic in friction and wear is given at least a cursory glance along with listings of more focused literature. This book should be read by all who deal with friction and wear as part of their work or education.

Godfather Mario Puzo, reviewing a new volume of the Paris Review Writers at Work series, complains about the series' ivory-tower approach to writing and failure to account for the meat and potatoes of contracts and earnings. Michael Anesko arrives on Henry James's revered doorstep, like a Harvard Business School grad armed with ledgers and spreadsheets, to rescue James from the ivory tower of pure art in which criticism places him. And what a wonderful homage Anesko tears from time's clutches, driving out every last penny James earns.
Despite legends of the James family wealth, Henry James earns his own living by his literary labors until over fifty. His part of the family inheritance, assigned to his sister Alice, does not revert to him until her death, with James well into his middle years. He tries tirelessly to crack the American and British markets, even going so far as to write plays, hoping for a salable fame in the theater--but his theater adventures turn into blood-humbling disasters, with James himself booed by the audience. Somewhat better off after Alice's death, James gives birth to his most knotted and unsalable grand manner. His inheritance frees him at last truly to lock himself up in the ivory tower.
But this view misleads the matter, since he strives for "that benefit of friction with the market which is so true a one for solitary artists too much steeped in their mere personal dreams." James's very last literary art, aside from his unfinished novel The Ivory Tower: to spend two years shaping, revising and adding prefaces to Scribner's 24-volume New York Edition of his fiction. This defining but incomplete edition, holding all the fiction he cared to save, and his heroic effort to re-see ten of his greatest novels, as well as volumes of tales and short stories, along with his confiding prefaces about the art of writing, turns quixotic, his labors built on hope of at last finding a market for his wares amid the larger book-buying public. Will he haul in the readers? Yes! And during that two-year period he writes nothing new and earns less. Then the titanic New York Edition comes out! And sinks like steel tonnage into Atlantic darkness. The horrible beauty of Anesko's picture of James groping on the seabottom to meet his New Years bills because of the zero balance on Scribner's royalty statement, breaks the heart.
A towering slap at the Writers at Work series.

A poetic journey that will stretch and enrich your life's path. Each poem is unique unto itself creating vivid images. Creative poetry style. A perfect gift for yourself and for the poetry lovers on your gift list.

The book starts with an explortion fleet looking for a new home. When they enter the star system they are planning to explore, they are attacked by hostile aliens. The fleet escapes. But one corvette is badly damaged and leaves a small portion of its crew and a small detachment of marines stranded on a wilderness planet. This planet, Genellan, just happens to be the home to another species.

The book is well written and is the story of the humans attempt to survive and make a home. And the interactions between the three species are told from their own perspective. Giving us good insight. The characters are likable and Gier's story flows. I did not want to put the book down. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

Since 1985, the Waitangi Tribunal has had licence to investigate Maori claims of violations of the Treaty of Waitangi throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand's history. The Tribunal's mandate went beyond the purely legal realm which Iwi claims had taken place in for 140 years, and entered into a new, historical setting. In the wake of political events that have shattered nearly 20 years of political consensus on the Tribunal's role in Aotearoa/New Zealand society, Tribunal Historian Michael Belgrave has produced a book which outlines the histories and intricacies of four of the major claims.

Belgrave's approach in Historical Frictions is not simply to describe the nature of each claim, and its resolution. Rather, each of the four case studies -- Muriwhenua, Ngai Tahu, Taranaki, and Chatham Islands -- is discussed as a layered history; a history whose narrative changes over time, in response both to the needs of the Iwi making the claim, and to the legal setting in which the claim is made. It may surprise readers to discover that almost all of the claims heard so far by the Waitangi Tribunal have been tested in court at some time, even many times, over the past 150 years. Historical arguments have thus developed in response both to iwi's needs to understand their past, and to assert their rights within a Western judicial system that has been reluctant to hear them, to say the least. Change over time is thus a major theme of Belgrave's work, and indeed one of the key strengths of Historical Frictions is to bring to light the connections between Aoteroa/New Zealand's past and present, to demonstrate the relationship between the actions of settlers and rangatira in the nineteenth century and the politics of settlement today.

The strongest part of Belgrave's book is also the densist. The first two chapters, which lay the historiographical and methodological groundwork, are a complex assessment of the role of the Tribunal in New Zealand society, and the conflicting emphases of the legal and historical discourses with which the Tribunal must contend. Of particular importance is the latter, where the so-called `objectiveness' of Western academic history contrasts not only with Maori oral history, but also the long and involved legal, and thus adversarial, approach to `truth'. These tensions are perhaps borne out best in Belgrave's analysis of the Treaty itself -- Belgrave finds that the Treaty is a text whose meaning is indeterminate and shifting, and whose meaning today would be barely recognisable in the context in which it was signed.

This, of course, is where the Frictions come in. For Belgrave, the past in a colonial society is not a foreign country, but an object that is negotiated and renegotiated, and cultural contact is not something that happens once, and for one generation, but is ongoing, perhaps for all times. Belgrave's book will give little comfort to supporters of Don Brash's `one law for all' arguments -- indeed, Belgrave believes that the Waitangi Tribunal is unlikely to put an end to Maori claims -- but it offers an indepth and nuanced analysis of the Waitangi Tribunal process, as well as the histories behind the claims. Not given to simplification and reductionism, Belgrave has rendered the complexities of a history of colonisation and loss, and attempts at redress and resistance, in ways that are engaging, and perhaps offer new avenues of historical inquiry at a time when history is once again up for grabs.