William J. Kennedy

WITTY, INTENSELY REAL, POWERFULImagine the madcap characters of MASH transported to Vietnam-era Pentagon. Like their Korean War counterparts, these young men are recent college graduates drafted into military service for an unpopular war. Toiling in the basement office of the Pentagon, far from the rice paddies on the other side of the world, war is not an abstraction for them. With a profound sense of obligation to their brothers in the jungle, they couple compassion and humor to cause mayhem in the bureaucratic process with their zany antics.Early praise for "THE PENTAGON YEARS""...an off-kilter, often hilarious portrait of life inside the stateside U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era... refashioned by a satirist's wicked imagination..." Robert Bidinotto, award winning author of "Hunter".

Jonathan West can now officially call himself an MD. It's the spring of 1975, and he's honored to graduate from Yale with his classmates. But his growing unease about the future has cast a shadow on the day. Jonathan may be a skilled doctor, but he's also a CIA assassin. His handlers all expected him to spin out after he completed his first kill, but Jonathan was remarkably unfazed. He was so unaffected that he's beginning to wonder if this is something to be concerned about.Jonathan has many other worries. He has a one-year-old son and a wife who thinks he's just a pharmaceutical researcher. He's also accepted a new mission from the CIA that'll place him in Iran during one of the most turbulent times in history. His target is the Shah of Iran, and the Shah's death could have enormous implications for the entire world. As Jonathan plunges into his new assignment, this healer understands he must once again become an assassin for the greater good. But as he travels from Geneva to Tehran to Egypt in pursuit of his victim, will his scruples get in the way of carrying out his murderous task?

Fans of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor will flock to this compelling international espionage thriller in which a young man balances the line between being a protector and exterminator of life.All Jonathan West ever wanted was to become a physician. So when opportunity comes knocking regarding the guaranteed admission into the Ivy League school of his dreams, he doesn't say no - even though it means becoming a spy for the CIA.But what he wasn't entirely aware of was that he would become DB Cooper and be participating in the hijacking of Northwest Airline Flight 305, a mission created by the CIA to create awareness of terrorist threats and accelerate the adoption of greater airline anti-terrorist precautions.In school, West befriends an Iranian student group and is targeted by a member of the SAVAK, the brutal Iranian secret police. The SAVAK agent wants to conduct an assassination that would change the worldwide political dynamic. It's up to West to decide how far he'll take his new role as a CIA assassin and in doing so whether he can retain his dream of practicing medicine.Introducing a captivating and morally gray character, "First Kill" will leave readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

This new International Version includes all material covered in the standard eighth edition, but numerical data and calculations are expressed in Systeme International (SI) units. Completely revised, this latest edition includes new chapters on electrical systems; motors and drives; commissioning; and human behavior and facility energy management. Also updated are chapters on lighting, HVAC systems, web-based building automation, control systems, green buildings, and greenhouse gas management. Written by respected professionals, this book examines objectives of energy management and illustrates techniques proven effective for achieving results.

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets—as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy. Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet's divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet's acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pléiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces.

The new edition of a bestseller, this book is one of the leading educational resources for energy manager or energy professional as well as new people enter the field of energy management and energy engineering. It is the most widely used college and university textbook, as well as one of the most widely used books for professional development training. New topics include energy auditing, energy bills, life cycle costing, electrical distribution systems, boilers, steam distribution systems, control systems and computers, energy systems maintenance, insulation, compressed air, renewable energy sources and water management, distributed generation, and creating green buildings.

This book is intended for use as the textbook in a second course in applied statistics that covers topics in multiple regression and analysis of variance at an intermediate level. Generally, students enrolled in such courses are p- marily graduate majors or advanced undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines. These students typically have taken an introductory-level s- tistical methods course that requires the use a software system such as SAS for performing statistical analysis. Thus students are expected to have an - derstanding of basic concepts of statistical inference such as estimation and hypothesis testing. Understandably, adequate time is not available in a ?rst course in stat- tical methods to cover the use of a software system adequately in the amount of time available for instruction. The aim of this book is to teach how to use the SAS system for data analysis. The SAS language is introduced at a level of sophistication not found in most introductory SAS books. Important features such as SAS data step programming, pointers, and line-hold spe- ?ers are described in detail. The powerful graphics support available in SAS is emphasized throughout, and many worked SAS program examples contain graphic components.

Drawing upon poststructuralist theories of nationalism and national identity developed by such writers as Etienne Balibar, Emmanuel Levinas, Julia Kristeva, Antonio Negri, and Slavoj Zizek, noted Renaissance scholar William J. Kennedy argues that the Petrarchan sonnet serves as a site for early modern expressions of national sentiment in Italy, France, England, Spain, and Germany. Kennedy pursues this argument through historical research into Renaissance commentaries on Petrarch's poetry and critical studies of such poets as Lorenzo de' Medici, Joachim du Bellay and the Pleiade brigade, Philip and Mary Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Kennedy begins with a survey of Petrarch's poetry and its citation in Italy, explaining how major commentators tried to present Petrarch as a spokesperson for competing versions of national identity. He then shows how Petrarch's model helped define social class, political power, and national identity in mid-sixteenth-century France, particularly in the nationalistic sonnet cycles of Joachim Du Bellay. Finally, Kennedy discusses how Philip Sidney and his sister Mary and niece Mary Wroth reworked Petrarch's model to secure their family's involvement in forging a national policy under Elizabeth I and James I. Treating the subject of early modern national expression from a broad comparative perspective, The Site of Petrarchism will be of interest to scholars of late medieval and early modern literature in Europe, historians of culture, and critical theorists.

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch's Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch's vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe. Totems for Defense and Illustration of Taboo: Sites of Petrarchism in Renaissance Europe is the eighth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures which have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods. Critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch's Rime sparse, Kennedy argues, inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch's vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe. Through their critical intervention one particular focus of the poetry-the author's expression of his specifically Italian social, cultural, and political identity-came to acquire a protonationalist value for his later readership. Consequently the Petrarchan sonnet, the most widespread vernacular literacy mode in elite circles of sixteenth century Europe, became a site for early expressions of national sentiment and convictions about the formation of national cultures. This paper explores how Du Bellay and the Pleiade poets in France, and Philip Sindey and his niece Mary Wroth in England expressed conflicts between their wishes to project a broad vision of emergent national identities on the one hand and their compulsions to protect the specific interests of their own social classes on the other.

In this book the authors have assembled the best techniques from a great variety of sources, establishing a benchmark for the field of statistical computing. ---Mathematics of Computation . The text is highly readable and well illustrated with examples. The reader who intends to take a hand in designing his own regression and multivariate packages will find a storehouse of information and a valuable resource in the field of statistical computing.