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Howard C. Hayden (Vales Lake book)  Now available!

A Primer on CO₂ and Climate discusses the global warming controversy, using a heavy emphasis on data.  Yes, glaciers are receding, but they have been doing so since 1750.  Yes, sea level has been rising, as it has been for the last 18,000 years; we are continuing a slow rate of rise that has persisted for about 7,000 years.  Yes, the earth has been warming (unless you ignore the data since 2001) for over a century.  Yes, CO₂ has been rising, but the rise extends back hundreds of years.  Yes, there is a correlation between CO₂ concentration and earth's mean temperature, but there is a better correlation between temperature at a given time and CO₂ concentration hundreds of years later.  Yes, Antarctic ice shows higher CO₂ concentration than it has for the last half-million years, but --- on the half-billion year time scale, CO₂ concentration has never been this low.

 With only on weak correlations and computer models with many arbitrary coefficients, some fear mongers (including, but not limited to Al Gore) have expressed willingness to destroy the economies of the world by restricting energy production.

Jill Moring (Vales Lake book) 

Jewels in Peyote Stitch is a book of intermediate to advanced designs for beaded jewelry done in odd-count flat or tubular peyote stitch. The band bracelet designs in the collection could be accomplished by beginning peyote stitchers. Bead-covered beads are used for bracelet clasps. Complete instructions for all of the necessary beading techniques are given in clear color diagrams.

Many designs are sets that include a necklace, bracelet and earrings. The author often mixes bead colors to achieve an “antique” look or to give the beaded surface extra interest. Unusual projects include “Blooming”, a three-dimensional flower pin; and “Victorian Rose”, a medallion necklace, bracelet and earring set. The author encourages beaders to try their own color combinations if they choose.

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Howard C. Hayden (Vales Lake book)

For decades, solar proponents have predicted that we would soon get 20% to 100% of our energy from solar sources — biomass, hydro, wind, solar-thermal, photovoltaics and others.

The dreamy-eyed predictions all failed because they were based on emotional urges and political agendas rather than honest assessments. The gurus were numerous, but solar energy is a topic of science, where votes don’t count, even when they come from high-profile lawyers, political appointees, and leaders of environmental organizations.

The Solar Fraud explains the realities of solar energy, especially how much one can expect from solar sources.

The second edition is revised and expanded.

Junichiro Fukai  (Vales Lake book)

. . . . . A drive on a highway with clear signs has a predictable view. If you take a detour to go around a mountain or go through a forest, you might encounter an unexpected beauty . . . . .

This book is about an experience concerning a promenade along electrodynamics. Stories begin with a puzzling question on the forces between two charges in relative motion. The readers are guided to go through a mathematical road to reach a new formula to predict phenomena associated with electrodynamics. The results are further elucidated by comparing the theory with special relativity. The arguments are limited in basic theory and results are presented in a clear and comprehensive manner.

The "new" theory we found here turned out to be an old one that was discovered by Wilhelm Weber in 1848. The theory was, however, incomplete. The author shows some fundamental remedies to fix the shortcomings and explores a different world view based on the new theory.

This book is about an attempt of human mind to find a connection between the world of ideas and the world of phenomena.

$39.95 hardback

David S. Hayden (Haydenpub Book)

CNC is the language that is used to tell programmable lathes, milling machines and other equipment how to shape materials according to the designer's wishes.  This Beginner's Guide lays out the basics in very clear detail.

Bonus deal:  Get free copy of The PC Easy Reader: Because you are NOT a Dummy or an Idiot

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press paperback book, 10th printing)

Every source of energy has its hazards.  To ask for "safe energy" is to ask for gasoline that doesn't burn.  In this classic book, Petr Beckmann compares the hazards of nuclear energy with those of other sources in the only honest way: by comparing hazards for equal amounts of energy produced.

 

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press hardcover book, limited supply)

Three features make this book unusually interesting.

First, by combining two methods independently discovered by Prof. Tricomi (Italy) and a group of Russian mathematicians (not published in English before), the text derives the properties of all classical polynomials in general, and simple substitutions yield the differential equations, Rodriguez formulas, generating functions, leading and second coefficients and other characteristics of any classical family.

Second, the results are applied to contemporary problems

Third, this book contains the first publication of a method treating non-Gaussian random processes with virtually any probability distribution.

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press paperback book, limited supply)

An extract of Beckmann's Probability in Communication Engineering (Harcourt Brace & World, 1967), this book is written as an introduction to probability for students of science and engineering who have a background in calculus.  Very readable.

Humor compiled by Petr Beckmann (Golem Press book, limited supply)

Seems to be a paperback version of  Whispered Anecdotes from Behind the Iron Curtain. 

A crowd of Czechs admires the US Ambassador's Cadillac parked in a Prague street.  One of them says to his neighbor:
"Isn't it beautiful?  What a show of technology and economic power!"
"Yes," answers the addressed man, "a great product of Soviet industry."
"You crazy?  Don't you know a Cadillac?"
"Sure I do.  It's you whom I don't know."

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press paperback book, limited supply)

Neither a concert guide nor a reference book, Musings is a potpourri of interesting anecdotal matter of music lovers.

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press hardcover book, limited supply)

No matter what the vocabulary is, and no matter what the grammatical structure is, every language is an error-correcting code.  It has to be, because messages are always sent over "noisy channels" and become garbled.  The receiver, nevertheless, must be able to interpret the message correctly.

We have one copy in stock.  After it is gone, we will have only photocopies on a per-order basis.

Petr Beckmann (Golem Press hardcover book.)

A moving charge experiences a force as it moves through a magnetic field.  The velocity to be used in the formula, however, is not the velocity of the charge with respect to the magnetic field, but the velocity with respect to the observer, according to the theory promulgated in books of electricity and magnetism.  This, says Beckmann, is offensive to the relativity principle.

Viktor V. Shevchenko (Translated from Russian by Petr Beckmann.  Golem Press book)

Available only as photocopy.

Y.S. Shifrin (Translated from Russian by Petr Beckmann.  Golem Press book)

While supplies last.

L.N. Zakharyev, A.A. Lemanski, and K.S. Shcheglov (Translated from Russian by Petr Beckmann; Golem Press hardcover book.)

VERY RARE.  Only 3 in stock.  Buy now!