What They Didn't Teach at the Academy: Topics, Stories, and Reality Beyond the Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781138458673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Dale L. June

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Revised to include more information on analytical models for wavelength independence, Radiation Heat Transfer, Augmented Edition has been rearranged, providing problems within each chapter rather than at the end of the book. Written by Ephraim M. Sparrow, a generalist who works on a very broad range of problems that encompasses almost all mechanical engineering topics, the book presents key ideas without being exhaustive. Sparrow is in charge of the Laboratory for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Practice, whose function in to undertake both industrially bases and fundamental problems that fall within the bounds of heat transfer and fluid flow.

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Hard Knock Lessons. The Final Educational Degree: Life. Watch Out for Bees: They Can Ruin Your Career. Torch of Intuition, Flames of Preparation: Safely Lighting Your Way through Traveling’s Uncertainties. Don’t Outrun Your Headlights … or Your Guardian Angel. Suicide. Suicide by Cop: Victims from Both Sides of the Badge. Time and Attitude. (Not) One of the Guys. It’s Not about the Belt: Martial Arts Spirituality—Body, Mind, and Spirit. Life Lesson Experience. Tough Love: The Overpowering Addiction of Cocaine. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). General Lessons of Life. Combat Psychology and Sports Performance. Observation, Listening, and Perception. The Importance of Effective Communication. My Life or His: Shoot or Don’t Shoot. Cultural Pluralism. Life Is Situational. K-9 Partners: True Stories. Conflict of Time, Priorities, and Family. Marriage and Conflict. The Need for Ethics. Women Who Bully. Humorous Lessons. The Fifty-Miles-an-Hour Parking Ticket. Lessons in Life: The Mom Keaner Story. I Knew You Were Federal Agents. April Fools, Motherf___ers. Mentis Incompitus (Tripped up by Bad Planning). Patriotic and Immigration Lessons. Interpreting the Meaning of the Gettysburg Address. The Golden Door. The New Colossus: What It Means to Me. Ideology and Philosophy. Don’t Be Afraid. Listen to and Use Your Intuition. What I Should Know about Islam: A Basic Primer. Ideology and Philosophy. A Look to the Future through Today’s Prism.

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Dale L. June