New Releases by Sam Miller

A textbook connecting fundamental physics to practical applications, for students in meteorology or atmospheric science and for working professionals as a reference text.

A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India’s past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years. Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans came to imagine India. Spanning the centuries from Alexander the Great to Slumdog Millionaire, Miller’s account features, among others, Thomas the Apostle, the Chinese monk Xuanzang, Marco Polo, Babur, Clive of India, Allen Ginsberg, the Beatles and Steve Jobs-all of it interspersed with the story of his own 25-yearlong love affair with India. At once scholarly and thoughtprovoking, delightfully eccentric and laugh-out-loud funny, this book is destined to become a much-loved classic.

The secret of effective leadership can elude even the best principals. In The Secret Solution, How One Principal Discovered the Path to Success, a principal travels a journey through four distinct leadership styles as he works to transform a school. On this journey, he encounters characters familiar to all of us who have worked in education, including superstars, fence-sitters, and even bullies. This quick-reading parable provides practical guidance for both current and future administrators, immediately relevant in applying knowledge to practice. Readers will quickly recognize staff from their own buildings who come to life in this engaging story.

Come on a journey through the minds of children.A collection of short stories and poems written by home school authors aged eight to fourteen about wishes that might have been better left unsaid and adventures too outrageous to be believed.It has been my pleasure to teach this class of bright, funny young people. I hope you enjoy reading their anthology.- Beaulah Pragg (Teacher and Author)

This book is one in a series of IBM® publications written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene® supercomputer, Blue Gene/Q®, which is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers from IBM in the Blue Gene series. This IBM RedpaperTM publication helps you develop tools, such as a debugger, that can be used on the IBM Blue Gene/Q platform to control and monitor application threads and processes.

"A gold standard for accuracy and depth." Daily Telegraph

"A gold standard for accuracy and depth."—Daily Telegraph This seminal new work covers the best of India in one detailed, fully illustrated volume. History, culture, religion, architecture, and archaeology are all covered, with practical touring tips, to provide a framework for understanding and enjoying this thrilling and diverse subcontinent.

A provocative portrait of one of the world''s largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the conventional travelogue Sam Miller set out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as "India''s dreamtown—and its purgatory." He treads the city streets, making his way through the city and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinations—Nehru Place, Rohini, Ghazipur, and Gurgaon—which most writers and travelers ignore. His quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the overlooked, and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of call make appearances: the ancient monuments, the imperial buildings, and the celebrities of modern Delhi. But it is through his encounters with Delhi''s people—from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of a police brass band—that Miller creates this richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller, like so many of the people he meets, is a migrant in one of the world''s fastest growing megapolises, and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. He possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life''s diversities, for all the marvelous and sublime moments that illuminate people''s lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one that unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung, and the unfamiliar.

Table for Two sets the table with all the Amish food favorites—just for two! Sam & Amy Miller and their extended family have shared 438 of their best recipes in helpings that won''t leave a week of leftovers if there are only two at your house.

Presents a pictorial history of Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton through a series of photographs and images. This work features historical captions.

This classroom-tested, easy-to-teach curriculum--used successfully by teachers, parents, peer tutors, and paraprofessionals--practically guarantees your students will develop keyboarding proficiency and confidence.

Designed to introduce fundamental keyboarding skills to elementary and middle school students.

This beginner''s guide to multimedia presentation on the Mac shows users how to incorporate sound, video, and animation into desktop applications. Part I gives readers a solid background in multimedia concepts and associated hardware; Part II explains every feature of QuickTime; Part III introduces QuickTime "movies" as data resources in an interactive environment.

The Myotron is a new type of instrument for the dynamic measurement of skeletal muscle forces and behavior. It is basically a servo-controlled exoskeleton with integral force and position transducers (non-myoelectric). A two-axis instrument was designed and fabricated to establish the practicality and medical utility of such a device. In-hospital evaluation of the instrument as a medical research aid substantiated that the device is potentially suited for basic studies of neuromuscular activity, studies of neuromuscular disorders, development of new rehabilitation therapy techniques, and studies of new powered orthotic devices. This report introduces the Myotron concept and describes the construction and operational principles of the two-axis instrument. The evaluation experiments and results are presented, with recommendations for further research. A selected bibliography is appended.