Most Popular Books by Michael Sherman

THE ZEN OF SOLO TRAVEL is a book about the healing power of motion. Author Michael Jason Sherman presents a fast-moving, powerful and often hilarious memoir about a solo journey he took to Japan, when he was seeking spiritual answers to real questions in his life - about marriage and divorce, fatherhood, career, emotional well-being and living one''s personal destiny.The book is both a revealing story about a man seeking a higher version of himself, but also a series of spiritual principles about the Solo Traveler, a metaphor for all of us moving through the emotional journey of our daily lives. This unique book is mirroring itself - in that through reading, we learn about powerful principles from the world of Zen, Aikido, and other spiritual teachings, as we watch Michael discover these principles as he races around the subways, Buddhist temples, baseball stadiums, karaoke bars and other mystifying environs of Tokyo, Kyoto and other parts, discovering the secrets of Japan. For all the spiritual seekers out there, this book will help you connect to the larger landscape of yourselves. Through Michael''s frenetic, reflective, and often side-splittingly funny narrative, the reader is able to imagine their own solo journey, It brings us back to ourselves, and to the movement that our spirit is calling us to. THE ZEN OF SOLO TRAVEL has inspired people from all over the world to pack their bags, jump in the car (or hop on a plane, train, uber and so on), in order to leave everything behind and connect to the healing power of the road. Inspired by Kerouac and other great writers, this book helps you feel alive, giving you the sense that the answers you need about real issues in your life can come to you through a meditation of motion that takes you away from your day-to-day situations. It a testament to what it means to take responsibility for our own healing journey, from the inside out.

Two little books, one epic competition! Me vs You is more than just a book. It''s two books, actually. It''s designed to be split into two hand-held pad-and-pencil sets, one for you, one for me. Pick an activity, flip to the corresponding page in each pad, and BAM! It! Is! On!

Tables provide aid in calculating the total amount of interest to pay on a loan

Presents tables for determining the payments for car loans for a variety of amounts and interest rates

The classical Rayleigh thermal stability problem of an infinite horizontal fluid layer heated from below is extended to the case of a fluid, confined within a rigid sphere whose wall is nonuniformly heated. The temperature distribution on the wall is specified so that a constant temperature gradient is established in the direction of the body force acting on the fluid (''heated from below''). Two different variational principles are presented, each equivalent to the eigenvalue problem for the critical Rayleigh number (the stability criterion). These principles form the basis for two approximate methods of determining upper bounds to the critical Rayleigh number. The critical Rayleigh number obtained is 16,132 (based on a unit diameter) which is almost ten times greater than that of the horizontal-layer configuration (based on a unit height). The results are compared with a previously published analysis and are found to be 10 percent lower. (Author).

The classical Rayleigh thermal-stability problem of an infinite horizontal fluid layer heated from below is extended to the case of a fluid confined within a rigid, horizontal circular cylinder whose wall is nonuniformly heated. The temperature distribution on the wall is specified such that in the quiescent state, a constant temperature gradient in the fluid is established in the direction of the body force. The governing perturbation equations form a self-adjoint eigenvalue problem for the critical Rayleigh number (the stability criterion). Two different variational principles are presented, each equivalent to the eigenvalue problem. Using these principles, two approximate methods are developed for calculating upper bounds to the critical Rayleigh number. It is found that the critical Rayleigh number for the cylindrical configuration (based on a unit diameter) is about 3.8 times that for the horizontal-layer configuration (based on a unit height). The value for the cylinder is considerably lower than values calculated in previous analyses. (Author).

A consideration of the possibility of inducing a convective secondary flow in the fully developed channel flow of a quasi-incompressible (Boussinesq) fluid. Instabilities of this type occur only when the temperature gradient in the direction of the body force exceeds a certain critical value. This temperature gradient is proportional to the Rayleigh number of the fluid. 12 pp. (Author).

Examines the stylistic functions of pronoun use in William Faulkner''s As I lay dying. The quantitative portion establishes the numerical differences in pronoun use between the characters Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. The interpretive section examines Faulkner''s use of pronouns without references and how they affect his characters.