Short of time, as we all are, I've only had two days with the proof copy of the first volume, Foundation, and admit I haven't quite finished it, but did manage to get from pre-history to King John.
(The first volume, "Foundation: the History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors," was published in the United States in 2012; Volume 2, "Tudors: the History of England From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I" is out in Britain and will be published here, by St. Martin's Press, on Oct. 8).
He was a prolific scholar who wrote or co-wrote textbooks that became classics in the field, including the three-volume "Foundations of Measurement".
Speaker Gingrich told me that he became a historian because he read Isaac Asimov's seven-volume Foundation series about a mathematician and psychohistorian from Planet Trantor "who looked at long sweeps of history and tried to understand probable patterns of behavior".
In the second volume of Foundations of Futures Studies he even claims that "[t]he critical realist theory of knowledge can incorporate the testing of value propositions just as it tests truth claims about the past and the present".
The results reveal that the nanotube volume fraction, foundation stiffness, and the panel curvature ratio have a significant effect on the thermal postbuckling behavior of CNTRC cylindrical panels.
Parametric studies are conducted to examine the effects of CNT content by volume, elastic foundation, skew angle, plate width-to-thickness ratio, plate aspect ratio and boundary conditions on the nonlinear responses of the FG-CNT reinforced composite skew plates.
"The sheer volume of new foundations established in this region will help balance that out," he said.
Volume I, The Foundations, discusses architecture and its functional and ornamental aspects and presents a brief history of Venice.
The cut and the volume form the foundations, with the fabric bringing it to life.
A detailed numerical study is conducted to examine the effects of temperature rise, carbon nanotube volume fraction, elastic foundations and the geometrical parameters on the deflection of the cylindrical panels.
