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Wild Fire
Nelson DeMille
Vision, 2007
Wild Fire
This book is excellent, it keeps you interested page after page. I couldn't put it down. I love John Corey and Kate! What an awesome read.
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A Prayer for the Dying
Stewart O'Nan
Picador, 2000
Shattering story
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING is possibly the most emotionally-shattering novel I've ever read. O'Nan knows the way to quickly lure the reader into the lives of his characters and then skewer you with trauma. In this one, Yellow Fever strikes down a small midwest town ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 Tutorial and MultiMedia CD
Roger Toogood
Schroff Development Corporation, 2006
Excellent ProE Introduction
I am a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire. I used this book to introduce a Freshman level design course to the use of Pro/Engineer. I selected this one based on its thoughtful step-by-step approach. Toogood also keeps ...
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Parametric Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
Randy Shih
Schroff Development Corporation, 2006
The primary goal of this book is to introduce the aspects of Solid Modeling and Parametric Modeling. The text is a hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to all the important parametric modeling techniques and concepts. Each Lesson introduces a new set of commands and concepts, building on previous lessons. This text guides you from constructing ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial Wildfire 4.0 and MultiMedia CD
Roger Toogood, Jack Zecher
Schroff Development Corp., 2007
The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce students to Pro/ENGINEER's Wildfire 4.0 design capabilities. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated ...
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
John N. Maclean
Washington Square Press, 2000
Still Learning
Great reporting, decent literature although granted, few of us will ever match his father.
I know/knew many of the principals on this stage and what struck me was how well he captured them. Over and over, I'd read of another friend and easily picture them saying or ...
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Pro/MECHANICA Tutorial Structure Wildfire 3.0
Roger Toogood
Schroff Development Corporation, 2006
This book is written for first-time FEA users (in general) and MECHANICA users (in particular). After a brief introduction to finite element modeling, the tutorial introduces the major concepts behind the use of Pro/MECHANICA to perform Finite Element Analysis of parts. These include: modes of operation, element types, design studies (analysis, ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Tutorial Wildfire 3.0
Roger Toogood
Schroff Development Corporation, 2006
Detailed walk throughs!
This gives great step by step on all lessons. The Cart project at the end is fun. Good book if you want to self teach or if you need a quick resource.
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Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 Instructor (McGraw-Hill Graphics)
David S Kelley
McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2006
Inaccuracies w/r to Wildfire Release 2.0
The book explains the mechanics of how to perform basic operations with Wildfire very well, in the first half of the book. However, more complex or higher level operations are sometimes inaccurate, having incorrect or missing steps, or poorly explained in later ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tutorial & MultiMedia CD
Roger Toogood, Jack Zecher
Schroff Development Corporation, 2004
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tutorial & MultiMedia CD
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tutorial & MultiMedia CD is a great book.
The CD takes you through a step by step tutorial that gets you up to speed very quickly.
I wish they had books with CDs like this when I started learning ProEngineer back in 1995.
The transition ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 for Designers Textbook
Sham Tickoo
Cadcim, 2008
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 for Designers textbook is a comprehensive textbook that introduces the users to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, a feature-based 3D parametric solid modeling software. The textbook covers all major environments of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 with a thorough explanation of all tools, options, and their applications to create ...
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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 (Pro/Engineer)
Gary Lamit
Cengage-Engineering, 2008
A very good job with a problematic subject.
Concise and well presented with a strong approach on appropriate parametric modeling techniques that are not usually covered in other CAD books. This is without a doubt the best-written introduction book on Pro/Enginner I have ever worked with. It is also quite good as ...
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Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Sara E. Jensen, Guy R. McPherson
University of California Press, 2008
Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in ...
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Wildfire at Midnight
Mary Stewart
HarperTorch, 2003
Creepy Hebridean Murder Mystery
When I was a child in the 1970s we were on a holiday on the west coast of Scotland and by chance, taking refuge in the car from the torrential summer downpour in the barren square of Portree, my father turned on the radio. What came on was a creepy, disturbing drama ...
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The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy
Foundation for Deep Ecology, by arrangement with Island Press, 2006
Sustainable Ecosystems and Fire
Contrary to Smokey T. Bear, fire is an integral part of healthy ecosystems. The biggest problem with wildland fire is suppression, not burning. After a century of aggressive fire suppression and the myth of Smokey T. Bear, we now see clearly that fire is integral just ...
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