ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS AND ANALYSIS: VOLUME 1 offers a straightforward approach to understanding the theory of several engineering tools that are used to compute, evaluate, and analyse practical problems. It is a mathematics textbook that can be used by students, instructors, and technical carriers. Throughout the five chapters of the book, besides the pure mathematical examples, several practical issues from different fields are modelled and solved to illustrate the relation between the theory and its applications. The book elucidates the subjects in a self-contained style. This volume contains the basics and advanced topics of linear algebra and matrix theory, two-chapter ordinary differential equations to elaborate many classes, Laplace transforms with fundamental applications, and a complete engineering course of numerical methods. Each chapter ends with exercises that are arranged according to the chapter sections. The readers will find the answers at the end of the book.
Many people deal with some sort of anxiety and noise or chatter in their heads. Many of these same people have trouble quieting this noise to be able to pray, or meditate and hear what the Lord is trying to tell them.In Quiet the Noise, from childhood to present day, this book follows the story of Rami F. Odeh, who began his running career at age fifteen, barely able to run a quarter mile around his block, to completing a 53-mile, 12-hour, off-road run in 2011.Quiet the Noise is about much more than running. It is more a spiritual and religious awakening that occurred once Rami took his passion for endurance events off road and into nature.How did it help him hear our Lord? Read on...
This book continues the journey (where Quiet the Noise: A Trail Runner's Path to Hearing God left off) of Rami F. Odeh, who began his running 'career' at age fifteen, barely able to run a fourth of a mile around his block to completing a hundred-mile, twenty-seven-hour, off road run in 2012.Quiet the Noise is about much more than running; it is more a spiritual and religious 'awakening' that occurred once Rami took his passion for endurance events off road and into nature.How did it help him hear our Lord? Read on...
This book is the "final" installment the 3 volume series following the journey (where Quiet the Noise: Trail Running, Hearing God and Achieving "Impossible" Goals left off) of Rami F. Odeh, who began his running 'career' at age fifteen, barely able to run a fourth of a mile around his block to completing a hundred-mile, twenty-seven-hour, off road run in 2012 and more long distance adventures in the next few years.Quiet the Noise is about much more than running; it is more a spiritual and religious 'awakening' that occurred once Rami took his passion for endurance events off road and into nature.How did it help him hear our Lord? Read on...
Here's the story: a reverend and a rabbi start a blog. In 2008, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro began a virtual conversation via blogspot.com. Called "Mount and Mountain," the blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two key texts drawn from the canons of their respective religions: the Ten Commandments from the Torah, and the Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of St. Matthew.This book, focused on the Sermon on the Mount, represents the second half of Mike and Rami's dialogue. In it, Mike and Rami explore the text of Jesus' sermon cooperatively, contributing perspectives drawn from their lives and religious traditions and seeking moments of illumination. They are, like all of us, audience members, contemplating the words of Jesus together in the hope that we can discern Truth not only through revelation but also through conversation.As readers, we are a part of their conversation. We think and respond, we question and wonder, we entertain doubt and affirm faith. Reading their discussion, we are encouraged to begin our own.
Here's the story: a reverend and a rabbi start a blog. In 2008, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro began a virtual conversation via blogspot.com. Called "Mount and Mountain," the blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated key texts drawn from the canons of their respective religions: the Ten Commandments from the Torah, the Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of St. Matthew, and now, in their newest collaboration, the stories of Genesis.Editor Aaron Herschel Shapiro describes storytelling as an "infinite game" because stories "must be retold-not just repeated, but reinvented, reimagined, and reexperienced" to remain vital in the world. Mike and Rami continue their earlier conversations, exploring the places where their traditions intersect and diverge and listening to each other as they respond to the stories of creation, of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Jacob, and Joseph. Mike and Rami change the stories by interpretation as they themselves are changed by story and interpretation. And as we read with them, we too respond and interpret and change.
Imagining the Modern explores Pittsburgh's ambitious modern architecture and urban renewal program that made it a gem of American postwar cities, and set the stage for its stature today. In the 1950s and '60s an ambitious program of urban revitalization transformed Pittsburgh and became a model for other American cities. Billed as the Pittsburgh Renaissance, this era of superlatives - the city claimed the tallest aluminum clad building, the world's largest retractable dome, the tallest steel structure - developed through visionary mayors and business leaders, powerful urban planning authorities, and architects and urban designers of international renown, including Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Mies van der Rohe, SOM, and Harrison & Abramovitz. These leaders, civic groups, and architects worked together to reconceive the city through local and federal initiatives that aimed to address the problems that confronted Pittsburgh's postwar development. Initiated as an award-winning exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2014, Imagining the Modern untangles this complicated relationship with modern architecture and planning through a history of Pittsburgh's major sites, protagonists, and voices of intervention. Through original documentation, photographs and drawings, as well as essays, analytical drawings, and interviews with participants, this book provides a nuanced view of this crucial moment in Pittsburgh's evolution. Addressing both positive and negative impacts of the era, Imagining the Modern examines what took place during the city's urban renewal era, what was gained and lost, and what these histories might suggest for the city's future.
The first of God's creations and God's endless delight, Wisdom (also known as Chochma and Sophia) is the Mother of all life and the guide to right living. The voice of the Divine Feminine in the Holy Scriptures of Jews and Christians, Wisdom's teachings are passionate, powerful and rarely heard. That is about to change. Drawing from the Hebrew books of Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes and Job, and the Wisdom literature books of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, the Divine Feminine speaks to you directly. Rami Shapiro's contemporary translations and powerful commentaries clarify who Wisdom is, what she teaches and how her words can help you live justly, wisely and with compassion. This is not a book about Wisdom but the voice of Wisdom herself, freed to speak her mind in a manner that is liberating, uplifting and intrinsically compelling.
In Surrendered—The Sacred Art, Rabbi Rami Shapiro explores what it means to live the surrendered life—a life no longer centered on control and hence no longer at odds with the ordinary suffering of everyday living. Rabbi Rami closely examines the first three steps of Twelve-Step recovery to help us cut through the denial, illusions, and falsehoods that bind us in our fight with addictions of all kinds. He draws upon his half-century engagement with Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, as well as his own and other people’s struggles in Twelve-Step recovery, to guide us in our awakening to reality’s freedom and the path to living joyously and well.
Matthew's life was normal. He finally got a break from school and homework (which he never did anyway)."My name is Matthew Edwards."Suddenly his life is transformed when he meets a treelike boy who sends him on a mysterious quest."Well, my name is Ouron Jackson."However, the young boy has been trapped as a tree for as long as time. Matthew runs into wild creatures and adventures as he tries to obtain the five mystical items the boy had requested."Welcome, my old friend," Ouron said bitterly.Matthew is faced with tribulations along the way while meeting new friends and enemies. During his quest, he meets a girl who catches his eye. She wore a smile that filled his heart with joy, and her hair was brown with blonde running down the tips. Her eyes were purple. But she's a vampire."My mother stepped forward and bit me on my arm. Now I am here. If I look at someone and press my eyes shut, I can erase someone's mind."Sea dragons, magical swords, and dream-stating take over Matthew's new "normal" life.He screamed wildly as he charged. Their weapons clanged together. Blue sparks flew from both. Matthew quickly looked and saw that some of the tree warriors climbed up to the black pulsing square in the sky.Matthew even faces Death, literally. Betrayal, love, and sacrifice are intertwined in this story. Can Matthew save the world and everyone he loves?
