Best Selling Books by Michael Sherman

In Babel''s Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of the text in Jewish antiquity.

"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been abandoned, and prisons are seen even by some of those who think we need more of them as savage repositories, to be shunned or veiled rather than admired. This sad history is drawn with great insight and learning in [this] important new book about prisons and punishment in America by Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins. . . . The views of these professionals must be taken seriously."—Graham Hughes, New York Review of Books "This is a serious and enlightened and concerned attempt to fuse liberal and conservative attitudes and values to achieve a breakthrough in American penal policy."—Congressional Staff Journal

In the spatial or spatio-temporal context, specifying the correct covariance function is fundamental to obtain efficient predictions, and to understand the underlying physical process of interest. This book focuses on covariance and variogram functions, their role in prediction, and appropriate choice of these functions in applications. Both recent and more established methods are illustrated to assess many common assumptions on these functions, such as, isotropy, separability, symmetry, and intrinsic correlation. After an extensive introduction to spatial methodology, the book details the effects of common covariance assumptions and addresses methods to assess the appropriateness of such assumptions for various data structures. Key features: An extensive introduction to spatial methodology including a survey of spatial covariance functions and their use in spatial prediction (kriging) is given. Explores methodology for assessing the appropriateness of assumptions on covariance functions in the spatial, spatio-temporal, multivariate spatial, and point pattern settings. Provides illustrations of all methods based on data and simulation experiments to demonstrate all methodology and guide to proper usage of all methods. Presents a brief survey of spatial and spatio-temporal models, highlighting the Gaussian case and the binary data setting, along with the different methodologies for estimation and model fitting for these two data structures. Discusses models that allow for anisotropic and nonseparable behaviour in covariance functions in the spatial, spatio-temporal and multivariate settings. Gives an introduction to point pattern models, including testing for randomness, and fitting regular and clustered point patterns. The importance and assessment of isotropy of point patterns is detailed. Statisticians, researchers, and data analysts working with spatial and space-time data will benefit from this book as well as will graduate students with a background in basic statistics following courses in engineering, quantitative ecology or atmospheric science.

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If any single, universal truth binds the brotherhood of man, it is this: Kids love hitting targets. Or at least aiming for them. The video game industry owes its existence to this reality - but the virtual world pales in comparison to the satisfying real-life THONK! of a palpable hit. Celebrate that shoot-''em-up energy with Coin Blasters, a collection of competitive table-top target games in a book. The coin blasters themselves are sturdy plastic chutes we''ve painstakingly custom-molded to hold a coin steady and upright on its edge. With a simple flick of a finger, and a smidgen of practice, anyone can send that coin zooming with surprising speed and accuracy straight at the target. And what targets! The book is full of awesome paper engineering, resulting in a wide array of games. Take slap shots at a hockey goalie, shoot baskets at the Hot Shot Blaster Hoop, knock the teeth out of a monster''s mouth, flick a nickel field foal, and rescue pennies from a well-protected, uber-fortified, piggy bank prison. Ten different games test your coin-blasting mastery and let you dominate the kitchen table. Now that''s how you manage your money.

Michael Sherman has been a professional photographer for over twenty years. This book is a sample of his work and includes heartfelt pictures from India, Nepal, Africa, Ireland, and New York City. It also includes pictures of dancers, unusual images of musical instruments and in one case the hands of a master builder of violins and other string instruments repairing a vintage violin. Finally there are four black and white images of a young Bruce Springsteen taken in 1978.

OF ALL OF CHRIST''S VIRTUES, IT WAS HIS COMPASSION THAT MADE HIM REACH BEYOND THE POLITICS AND CULTURAL BARRIERS OF THE TIME! HE BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN MAN AND GOD AND COMMISSIONED HIS FOLLOWERS TO CONTINUE HIS WORK IN HIS ABSENCE. The journey of Christianity is best when it is experienced as a relationship with Jesus Christ. However, for many Christians, the journey is overshadowed by religious rules and the consequences for breaking them. Many well-meaning Christians get lost in dogmas, creeds, and politics of denominations, causing them to morph into religious police. This read is concise, biblically-focused, and hermeneutically sensitive. It''s an encouraging devotional for the believer who is currently struggling with the shame of vices and character flaws. Additionally, it serves as a humble reminder to the mature Christian to lovingly extend the heart of Christ and help those who struggle in Christian communities to overcome evil with good.

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This is a book of Fine Art Photography and Travel. The state of Texas has many beautiful and historic sites that are captured in this unique book.

Iron is a key micronutrient for marine biogeochemistry, limiting growth and nitrogen fixation in over a third of the ocean. However, the impacts of iron-binding ligands and iron source processes on dissolved iron distributions is not well known. The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the cycling of iron-binding ligands and the controls on their distributions and how that impacts dissolved iron. This dissertation also seeks to understand how individual iron sources influence iron distributions and biogeochemistry. To accomplish this, a new prognostic ligand tracer and iron-ligand speciation chemistry are incorporated into the Community Earth System Model (CESM). The CESM is now able to simulate realistic distributions of iron-binding ligands. The results show that with relatively few ligand sources and sinks the model was able to match observations of ligands, and that inclusion of a dynamic ligand tracer improves simulation of dissolved iron. To better understand the influence iron sources have on dissolved iron concentrations and biogeochemistry, sensitivity experiments for each source are conducted with the CESM. The results show that atmospheric dust and sedimentary iron inputs have the largest impact on dissolved iron concentrations and biogeochemistry. Hydrothermal vent inputs are important for deep ocean iron, and their inclusion in global biogeochemical ocean models would allow for more realistic iron simulation.This dissertation work also reevaluates the parameters governing the temperature influence on community phytoplankton growth rates. A dataset of in situ community phytoplankton growth rates was compiled and parameter values for the Q10 and Arrhenius models were optimized for use in global biogeochemical and ecosystem models. The results show and optimized Q10 value of 1.47 and an activation energy of 0.277 eV. Both the Q10 and Arrhenius models do equally well for estimating the temperature influence on community phytoplankton growth rates against the dataset. Evaluation of global biogeochemical and ecosystem models against our dataset will allow for further constraints on phytoplankton ecology and associated biogeochemitry.

This collection documents the attempt by the Vermont Historical Society to publish a one-volume history of Vermont made up of chapters contributed by several Vermont historians. It includes correspondence between Vermont Historical Society directors Weston Cate Jr. and Michael Sherman, the authors of various chapters, and the general editor, H. Nicholas Mueller. Drafts of chapters one to four, seven to nine, and eleven through fourteen are included, as are contracts, bibliographies, exploratory material relating to the design of the volume, and papers of the general editor. There are no drafts of chapters five, six or ten, but there is correspondence concerning chapters six and ten. The collection also includes a DOS computer disk with the final text of completed chapters.

The current research concerns the determination of the conditions needed to induce a state of convective motion in a fluid where a constant temperature gradient is directed parallel to a body force. The fluid is contained in a rather arbitrary region bounded by rigid walls. The principle of exchange of stability is established for arbitrary regions with a generalized thermal boundary condition on the bounding walls. The thermal stability problem is reduced to an eigenvalue problem for the critical Rayleigh number (the stability criterion) and then is reformulated as a variational principle. A method is developed for estimating upper and lower bounds to the critical Rayleigh number for regions in which the critical Rayleigh number cannot be calculated exactly. An extension of the thermal stability problem to include magnetohydrodynamic effects is presented. Here the fluid and the bounding walls are electrical conductors. A constant magnetic field is applied to the configuration. (Author).