Fringes

Author : Ben Mercer
Publisher : Outlier Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781915001030

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Fringes by Ben Mercer Pdf

Updated edition of the #1 Amazon Bestseller LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 Sports books tend to detail extraordinary achievements, triumphs against the odds or commemorate World Cup winning captains. This book does not do that. For many, playing professional sport is the Dream Job. Few manage it, very few make it to the top and for the rest, life is very different. This is their story. In Fringes, Ben Mercer invites you to witness life at the outer edges of professional rugby. This is a first hand account of what life is like as a journeyman professional athlete. You play, but to the wider public you don't exist. You earn but you don't drive a flash car. You sometimes pack out a stadium but sometimes, you play in a deserted park. This is the story for the majority of sports professionals. Only the minority taste the top, only one person gets to lift the cup or win the medal, only 15 get to play for England at any one time. For the rest, that’s not the case. Ben Mercer is a former professional rugby player who after becoming disillusioned and uninspired plying his trade in the English Second Division, accepted an offer out of the blue to go to France and do something different - help an amateur team turn professional. This is a first hand account of what life is like in the lower reaches of professional sport - where your employment status is as precarious as your health and barely anyone will know your name. It's about how it feels to live year to year, with teammates constantly on the move. It's about how professionalism irreversibly changes the French club Stade Rouennais as they move up the divisions, about the tension between progress and identity in a rugby team. It's also about how it feels to actually be out there on the field, how it feels to occasionally do something extraordinary and how it feels when this is no longer enough for you to make the sacrifices that you need to make to keep playing. There's no ghostwriting, it's an unmitigated meditation on how it feels and what it means to play rugby for a living, to dedicate yourself to an uncompromising but occasionally beautiful game. If you've wanted to know what life is really like as a professional athlete, on the Fringes, away from the glitz and glamour of the international game then look no further.

Author : Pericles S. Theocaris
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483186344

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Moiré Fringes in Strain Analysis by Pericles S. Theocaris Pdf

Moiré Fringes in Strain Analysis provides a comprehensive coverage of the measurement of strains in deformed bodies and engineering structures. The title details the methods and techniques in strain analysis using the moiré fringe phenomenon. The text first covers the general theory, and then proceeds to tackling the moiré patterns. Next the selection deals with the applications of line gratings to two-dimensional strain measurement. The text also talks about surface topology by moiré patterns, along with the applications of moiré methods to dynamic problems and curved surfaces. The ninth chapter discusses moiré extensometers, while the tenth chapter tackles the precision and influence of grating defects. The remaining chapters detail the technological information on reproduction techniques of gratings and the evaluation of moiré methods. The book will be of great use to students, practitioners, and researchers of materials engineering and pure and applied mathematics.

Author : Jeff Szpirglas
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459824607

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Tales from the Fringes of Fear by Jeff Szpirglas Pdf

Dragged fresh from the grave and pulled out of the haunted corners of a school locker, these thirteen new stories are a nod to the storytelling style of Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone. Most kids don’t have to stress about things like exotic insects with a taste for human flesh when they go to class. But students at this school have to be ever vigilant. You never know when a supernatural pastry or a clay monster bent on revenge might be lurking just around the corner. Even a simple field trip to a local animal sanctuary can have s-s-serious consequences. A companion volume to Tales from Beyond the Brain, these stories are guaranteed to make you laugh like a hyena, shake your head in wonder or tremble with fear.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : LOC:00185440679

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Davis-Bacon Act, Fringe Benefits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Christa Faust
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781163108

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Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox (Novel #1) by Christa Faust Pdf

Critically acclaimed Fringe explores new cases with endless impossibilities. Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division started when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist Walter Bishop and his globe-trotting, jack-of-all-trades son, Peter, to help in investigations that defy all human logic - and the laws of nature. The first in an all-new series of tie-in novels!

Author : Jennifer Gerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : WISC:89102784519

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Wisconsin Maternity Leave and Fringe Benefits by Jennifer Gerner Pdf

Author : Arthur J. Decker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Compressors
ISBN : UIUC:30112018024981

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Fringe Localization Requirements for Three-dimensional Flow Visualization of Shock Waves in Diffuse-illumination, Double Pulse Holographic Interferometry by Arthur J. Decker Pdf

Author : Carl Barus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Interference (Light)
ISBN : WISC:89097068548

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Displacement Interferometry by the Aid of the Achromatic Fringes, Pt. [I]-IV by Carl Barus Pdf

Author : Manuel Servin,J. Antonio Quiroga,Moises Padilla
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527681105

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Fringe Pattern Analysis for Optical Metrology by Manuel Servin,J. Antonio Quiroga,Moises Padilla Pdf

The main objective of this book is to present the basic theoretical principles and practical applications for the classical interferometric techniques and the most advanced methods in the field of modern fringe pattern analysis applied to optical metrology. A major novelty of this work is the presentation of a unified theoretical framework based on the Fourier description of phase shifting interferometry using the Frequency Transfer Function (FTF) along with the theory of Stochastic Process for the straightforward analysis and synthesis of phase shifting algorithms with desired properties such as spectral response, detuning and signal-to-noise robustness, harmonic rejection, etc.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : UCR:31210012715031

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Rules for the Federal Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures Pdf

Author : Lynn Waddell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780813047812

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Fringe Florida by Lynn Waddell Pdf

Most people visit the Sunshine State for its theme parks and beaches, but there is another side to Florida, an underbelly few tourists ever see, a periphery most residents know about but--out of decorum or discomfort--prefer not to discuss. In Fringe Florida, Lynn Waddell explores the frequently exotic, often sensational, and sometimes illicit worlds of the oddest state in the nation. Waddell takes the reader on a colorful journey to meet the most unconventional of Floridians in unbelievable and spectacular places. At Fetish Con, she befriends furries and pony girls. She travels to Cassadaga, the oldest active Spiritualist community in the South, where trained mediums converse with the dead, and to the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, where one can eat a hot dog while watching a reenactment of the Crucifixion. She interviews the founder of the Leather & Lace Motorcycle Club, a Daytona Beach-area grandmother who hosts the club's annual gathering at her subdivision home where scores of lady bikers camp out on her lawn. At an Animal Amnesty Day outside Busch Gardens, Waddell meets exotic reptile owners who give up their beloved-but no-longer-manageable pets and others who vie to take home the cast-offs. If you've ever wanted to parade around on a pimped-out swamp buggy amidst a couple thousand beer-swigging mud boggers or fall asleep with a python hissing in your ear, been tempted to bring a Capuchin monkey in a stroller to a Little League game, or contemplated sitting on the beach waiting to be picked up by a UFO but couldn’t quite bring yourself to such extremes, Fringe Florida is for you.

Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197555781

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On the Fringe by Michael D. Gordin Pdf

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella-- astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" is a far more complex issue. It has proved impossible to come up with a simple criterion that enables us to differentiate pseudoscience from genuine science. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements--both of which display allegations of "pseudoscience" on all sides-- there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. On the Fringe explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. This book argues that by understanding doctrines that are often seen as antithetical to science, we can learn a great deal about how science operated in the past and does today. This exploration raises several questions: How does a doctrine become demonized as pseudoscientific? Who has the authority to make these pronouncements? How is the status of science shaped by political or cultural contexts? How does pseudoscience differ from scientific fraud? Michael D. Gordin both answers these questions and guides readers along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, looking at parapsychology (ESP), Lysenkoism, scientific racism, and alchemy, among others, to better understand the struggle to define what science is and is not, and how the controversies have shifted over the centuries. On the Fringe provides a historical tour through many of these fringe fields in order to provide tools to think deeply about scientific controversies both in the past and in our present.

Author : G. S. RAGHUVANSHI,
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788120352346

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ENGINEERING PHYSICS by G. S. RAGHUVANSHI, Pdf

This book, now in its third edition, is suitable for the first-year students of all branches of engineering for a course in Engineering Physics. The concepts of physics are explained in the simple language so that the average students can also understand it. This edition is thoroughly revised as per the latest syllabi followed in the technical universities.NEW TO THIS EDITION • Chapters on: – Material Science – Elementary Crystal Physics • Appendix on semiconductor devices • Several new problems in various chapters • Questions asked in recent university examinations KEY FEATURES • Gives preliminaries at the beginning of the chapters to prepare the students for the concepts discussed in the particular chapter. • Provides a large number of solved numerical problems. • Gives numerical problems and other questions asked in the university examinations for the last several years. • Appendices at the end of chapters supplement the textual material.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : American literature
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU06862063

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The American Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Brooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191004575

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Modern Classical Optics by Geoffrey Brooker Pdf

The book gives accounts of non-quantum optical phenomena and of instruments and technology based on them, at a level suitable for the last two years of an honours degree in physics and for graduates starting out. Topics covered include the conventional (diffraction, coherence, thin films, holography...) but also the less conventional (étendue, Gaussian beams, laser cavities, cd reader, confocal microscope...) which belong in today's university courses, for example, to support laser physics. Even the conventional material has frequently been given a fresh presentation by giving a tidier-than-usual route through a calculation, or finding insightful connections with other parts of physics, or simply avoiding common errors. Problems offer opportunities for checking the reader's basic understanding, or for taking a careful route through reasoning, or for checking orders of magnitude. But most problems contain exploratory and critical material: investigating possible alternative approaches, asking searching questions about fundamentals, or solving apparent paradoxes.