Gross: 466 books
enLIGHTened
How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Meet your new best yoga-and-healthy-eating friend in this smart, accessible, and funny memoir of dieting and discovery.
For years, Jessica struggled with fluctuating weight and bouts of unhappiness. Like many of us, she found comfort in food and craved cigarettes and self-confidence. Then one...
by S Kjelstrup, D Bedeaux, E Johannessen;J Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The book describes in a simple and practical way what non-equilibrium thermodynamics is and how it can add to engineering fields. It explains how to describe proper equations of transport, more precise than used so far, and how to use them to understand the waste of energy resources in central unit...
by Pascal Giard, Warren J. Gross, Claude Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
A new class of provably capacity achieving error-correction codes, polar codes are suitable for many problems, such as lossless and lossy source coding, problems with side information, multiple access channel, etc.
The first comprehensive book on the implementation of decoders for polar codes,...
by Lynne Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Coming of Age in the 1950s includes 64 illustrated short stories, sprung from the pages of the author's diaries, which she has kept since she was 10 years old. Most of the stories are based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but the last few feature Los Angeles, California. The stories incorporate historical...
by Lynne Gross
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Stories from My Career is a compilation of 50 stories about the author's career as a college professor and media practitioner. Her career began in the 1960s when very few women were employed in either area and spanned six decades until her retirement. The initial stories take place in Pittsburgh, where...
by Lynne Gross
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
This book describes five generations that emanated from Germany and Italy. It is based on research through ancestry.com and other internet sources as well as interviews with relatives and discoveries in long-forgotten closets and scrapbooks. It includes tales of immigration, settling, and dealing...
by Lynne Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Summary: Branching Out and Taking Risks in the 1980s includes 72 illustrated stories, sprung from the pages of the author’s diaries, which she has kept since she was 10 years old. Most of the stories are based in the Los Angeles area of California while others are located in countries where she...
Our Time
Training, Deploying, and Combat with Company C, 2Nd Battalion, 47Th Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The 9th Infantry Division was formed in a new and unique way in 1966. Traditionally, soldiers attended basic training on one Army post, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at another, then reported to their units to begin serving with soldiers they had never met. The 9th was different. Recruits reported...
WikiLeaks
From Popular Culture to Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
“Little did I know that I was getting involved with WikiLeaks at the time of the biggest leaks in human history.” — Birgitta JónsdóttirWithin a relatively short period of time, WikiLeaks became the best-known whistle-blowing organization in the world. Due in large part to the release of massive...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Renal and Adrenal Tumors
Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Magnetic Resonance (MRI), Therapy, Immunology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors,...
Waipi’O Valley
A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Waipio Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hauola, the biblical Garden of Eden located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus...
Waipi’O Valley
A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Waipio Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hauola, the biblical Garden of Eden located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus...
by Jay Gross
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
A collection of 23 inspiring, fun and easy DIY projects that will transform your home to the after part of a renovation show. Take everyday objects from around your home, or at least tell your friends they were, and turn them into benches, beds, knife blocks or barbeques. Create unique bespoke furniture...