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Book The Unknowns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
  • Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 080214926X
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Unknowns written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning combat historian and author of Washington’s Immortals honors the Unknown Soldier with this “gripping story” of America’s part in WWI (Washington Times). The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now receives millions of visitors each year. “With exhaustive research and fluid prose,” historian Patrick O’Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself, and the stories of the soldiers who took part in its consecration (Wall Street Journal). When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Arlington, General John Pershing selected eight of America’s most decorated veterans to serve as Body Bearers. These men appropriately spanned America’s service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas, nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. In telling the stories of these brave men, O’Donnell shines a light on the service of all veterans, including the hero they brought home. Their stories present an intimate narrative of America’s involvement in the Great War, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles that ultimately decided the conflict.

Book Adjustment Computations

Download or read book Adjustment Computations written by Charles D. Ghilani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This companion CD-ROM contains: The software ADJUST, MATRIX, and STATS (This software is windows only), Mathcad and HTML worksheets"--CD-ROM.

Book Unknown Valor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha MacCallum
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-02-25
  • ISBN : 0062853872
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Unknown Valor written by Martha MacCallum and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News anchor of The Story with Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima to defeat the Armed Forces of Emperor Hirohito—among them, a member of her own family, Harry Gray. Admiral Chester Nimitz spoke of the “uncommon valor” of the men who fought on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest and most brutal battles of World War II. In thirty-six grueling days, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed and 22,000 were wounded. Martha MacCallum takes us from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima through the lives of these men of valor, among them Harry Gray, a member of her own family. In Unknown Valor, she weaves their stories—from Boston, Massachusetts, to Gulfport, Mississippi, as told through letters and recollections—into the larger history of what American military leaders rightly saw as an eventual showdown in the Pacific with Japan. In a relentless push through the jungles of Guadalcanal, over the coral reefs of Tarawa, past the bloody ridge of Peleliu, against the banzai charges of Guam, and to the cliffs of Saipan, these men were on a path that ultimately led to the black sands of Iwo Jima, the doorstep of the Japanese Empire. Meticulously researched, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Unknown Valor reveals the sacrifices of ordinary Marines who saved the world from tyranny and left indelible marks on those back home who loved them.

Book Somewhere in the Unknown World

Download or read book Somewhere in the Unknown World written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.

Book The known and the unknown

Download or read book The known and the unknown written by Gary K. Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roll of Honor

Download or read book Roll of Honor written by United States. Quartermaster's Department and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Graduates and Former Students of the Massachusetts Agricultural College

Download or read book Catalog of Graduates and Former Students of the Massachusetts Agricultural College written by Massachusetts Agricultural College and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korea

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  • Author : Jon Halliday
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780140104608
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Korea written by Jon Halliday and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 'Unknown War' in Korea was very important indeed: as a crucial 'hot' episode in the early Cold War, as a dress rehearsal for Bietnam and as a savage civil war complicated by outside intervention. It left a divided country (35,000 American soldiers and over 3 million Koreans dead), as well as hollow claims of victory from both sides and a legacy of bitterness and controversy. John Halliday and Bruce Cumings have assembled hundreds of photographs to provide a grim picture of everyday life in Korea under 'the heaviest and most sustained bombing ever known'. THey have also talked to a wide range of journalists, observers and participants in many countries, lifted the lid of the 'opaque Never-never-land' of North Korea and cut through the dense propaganda on both sides. The result is a full and unpartisan account of an extraordinary conflict"--Back cover

Book Discrete Time Neural Observers

Download or read book Discrete Time Neural Observers written by Alma Y Alanis and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete-Time Neural Observers: Analysis and Applications presents recent advances in the theory of neural state estimation for discrete-time unknown nonlinear systems with multiple inputs and outputs. The book includes rigorous mathematical analyses, based on the Lyapunov approach, that guarantee their properties. In addition, for each chapter, simulation results are included to verify the successful performance of the corresponding proposed schemes. In order to complete the treatment of these schemes, the authors also present simulation and experimental results related to their application in meaningful areas, such as electric three phase induction motors and anaerobic process, which show the applicability of such designs. The proposed schemes can be employed for different applications beyond those presented. The book presents solutions for the state estimation problem of unknown nonlinear systems based on two schemes. For the first one, a full state estimation problem is considered; the second one considers the reduced order case with, and without, the presence of unknown delays. Both schemes are developed in discrete-time using recurrent high order neural networks in order to design the neural observers, and the online training of the respective neural networks is performed by Kalman Filtering. - Presents online learning for Recurrent High Order Neural Networks (RHONN) using the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm - Contains full and reduced order neural observers for discrete-time unknown nonlinear systems, with and without delays - Includes rigorous analyses of the proposed schemes, including the nonlinear system, the respective observer, and the Kalman filter learning - Covers real-time implementation and simulation results for all the proposed schemes to meaningful applications

Book Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming  ICFP  01   Florence  Italy  September 3 5  2001

Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming ICFP 01 Florence Italy September 3 5 2001 written by and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chemical Engineering

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tanase Gh. Dobre
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2007-06-18
  • ISBN : 3527306072
  • Pages : 571 pages

Download or read book Chemical Engineering written by Tanase Gh. Dobre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the use of computer aided modeling and simulation in the development, integration and optimization of industrial processes. The two authors elucidate the entire procedure step-by-step, from basic mathematical modeling to result interpretation and full-scale process performance analysis. They further demonstrate similitude comparisons of experimental results from different systems as a tool for broadening the applicability of the calculation methods. Throughout, the book adopts a very practical approach, addressing actual problems and projects likely to be encountered by the reader, as well as fundamentals and solution strategies for complex problems. It is thus equally useful for student and professional engineers and chemists involved in industrial process and production plant design, construction or upgrading.

Book Security of Block Ciphers

Download or read book Security of Block Ciphers written by Kazuo Sakiyama and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive evaluation of information security analysis spanning the intersection of cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis Written by authors known within the academic cryptography community, this book presents the latest developments in current research Unique in its combination of both algorithmic-level design and hardware-level implementation; this all-round approach - algorithm to implementation – covers security from start to completion Deals with AES (Advanced Encryption standard), one of the most used symmetric-key ciphers, which helps the reader to learn the fundamental theory of cryptanalysis and practical applications of side-channel analysis

Book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum written by Fitzwilliam Museum and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Back from the Brink

Download or read book Back from the Brink written by Kevin Clements and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back from the Brink is a history of New Zealand policy on nuclear power and the growth of the anti-nuclear movement, culminating in the 1984 Labour Government's 'No Nukes' policy. Kevin Clements, a sociology lecturer and peace activist, provides a thorough, meticulously researched examination of the implications of New Zealand's stance. Tracing the history of the country's involvement in the nuclear arms race, he thoughtfully analyses the questions facing New Zealand in an age dominated by nuclear power.

Book Probability in the Philosophy of Religion

Download or read book Probability in the Philosophy of Religion written by Jake Chandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probability theory promises to deliver an exact and unified foundation for inquiry in epistemology and philosophy of science. But philosophy of religion is also fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. This volume presents original contributions from twelve contemporary researchers, both established and emerging, to offer a representative sample of the work currently being carried out in this potentially rich field of inquiry. Grouped into five parts, the chapters span a broad range of traditional issues in religious epistemology. The first three parts discuss the evidential impact of various considerations that have been brought to bear on the question of the existence of God. These include witness reports of the occurrence of miraculous events, the existence of complex biological adaptations, the apparent 'fine-tuning' for life of various physical constants and the existence of seemingly unnecessary evil. The fourth part addresses a number of issues raised by Pascal's famous pragmatic argument for theistic belief. A final part offers probabilistic perspectives on the rationality of faith and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.

Book Automotive Radar Research  Final Report

Download or read book Automotive Radar Research Final Report written by Richard A. Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extract of Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New Hampshire for the Year Ending June 1  1866

Download or read book Extract of Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New Hampshire for the Year Ending June 1 1866 written by New Hampshire. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: