Robert Duncan Books

Dr. Robert C. Duncan wrote the definative text that enabled Nasa to go to the Moon.
Although this book is outdated, Duncan's optimism is not. His vision, taught to MIT students in the early 1960's, helped recruit the team of Apollo scientists who took us to the Moon and back safely. This book is a remarkable period piece for all scientific historians.

This book is a classic, foundational work in the field of discrete choice theory, written in Duncan Luce's typically crystal-clear prose and mathematics. The 1950s was clearly a fertile time for the decision sciences and this book---much like Luce's other book (co-authored with Raiffa) on game theory---shows this clearly. In this book, Luce introduces what came to be called "Luce's choice rule" or "Luce's choice axiom", providing a stochastic generalization of Arrow's independence of irrelevant alternatives axiom; in short, he invented multinomial logit analysis, although he quickly moved on to other things leaving the development to others. Everything built by authors such as 2000 Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden rests (as he freely admits in his Nobel lecture) on Luce's fundamental contribution. It's really great that it's been made available again at an affordable price, making it possible for those of us who have continuously charged library copies to finally return them!

It is difficult for me to imagine anyone reading through this work who is not a scholar of Hebrew poetry.
The work is of great historical importance as it defines as principal device of Hebrew poetry, the device of parallelism.
However refinements and qualifications of Lowth's thesis are made by more modern scholars , two of the most well- known of whom are, Robert Alter and James Kugel.

First published by the Jargon Society in 1958, Letters announces the major phase of Robert Duncan's writing. Though long unavailable, it stands as a foundational book of postmodern poetry, setting "self-creation and self-consciousness in constant interplay" (in the author's own words).

"The composition of Letters begins with 'Letter to Denise Levertov' and moves out over almost three years' work to complete a book presided over by an alphabet primary to world creation. These angelic letters then those powers hidden or discovered are substance of our speech. A naming of my peers, and an exclamation of joy: Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, James Broughton, Mike McClure, Helen Adam - it is the presence of companions, named and unnamed, that inspires Letters. A book of primaries, a book of companions. A book of praise. I have stored here, as best I know how, the songs of all I live by. For I adhere to form as the bee obeys the geometry of the hive." Robert Duncan

This book is short but too the point. How does it feel to be a foster child? How does it feel to loose your mother? How does it feel to be separated from your brothers and sisters? This books gives a clear insight of what its like. But most important it helps any new foster parent understand what behind the child. It helps you with things like how to welcome that new child with love and warmth. Helps to understand what and how to treat a child in the system according to their own indiviual needs. Gives great examples and suggestions.

This pocket guide is intended to provide users with a concise presentation of the concepts, procedures and examples they will need to construct and apply both small models (e.g. first order model obtained from step tests) and large models (e.g. a first-principle model that is based on mass and energy balances), using state-of-the-art software for simulation and model predictive control.

This guide contains details, data, and test results that are yet not available in the literature. The user doesn't need to have an advanced degree to get the most out of this guide.

Building on the knowledge and the goals of the authors' best-selling book, Advanced Control Unleashed, this guide is designed to enable the engineers closest to the applications to exploit their experience by embedding it in a model and a control system.

I am an Industrial Practitioner of Process Control. I have been working for more than 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation, and Process Safety and Control Engineer for the Oil & Gas Industry. I own both books, and I have found that together they are an excellent reference in my day to day activities.

Negotiating Your Salary & Perks is a no-nonsense career guide to maximizing one's salary, title, responsibilities, perks, work flexibility, and other job benefits. Focusing on how to negotiate the terms of one's job from the moment one starts looking for it, Negotiating Your Salary & Perks discusses such topics as the importance of knowing one's market, the necessity of being firm to win respect, why one should discourage premature offers and always talk to the decision maker rather than an intermediary, being wary of the employer's bag of tricks, what to do when one's employer thinks the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, and much more. A subtle guide to the art of the deal and creating win-win situations, and enthusiastically recommended as its tips, while directly applicable to salary negotiation, are useful for deal-making in virtually any business context. Highly recommended.

This book providees insight into some of the most notorious people of rock. The highlight is the chapter about Jim Morrison, things that even die hard fans wouldn't expect. Overall this book is worth reading.

This volume contains the very fine poem "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow."

This is an outstanding account both of Robert Duncan's role in the San Francisco "renaissance" of the 1950s, which intersects with (but is not limited to nor primarily of) the Beatnik movement in San Francisco and the rise of the gay subculture, and of Rumaker's personal odyssey as a gay man in a city still dominated by Irish cops and forces explicitly hostile to an implicit gay city.

One shakes with Rumaker's account of being accosted and arrested for walking down Polk Street, an incident which commonly results in publication of one's name in the newspaper and typical ouster from one's employ.

In a city transformed by art and gay rights since those times, it's invaluable to note and fix in one's mind the personal heroism that made San Francisco the most obvious of gay meccas.

Of course, those familiar with Robert Duncan also know that he is one of America's greatest poets and the author of the best gay love poem ever, "Passages 18: The Torso," among many other notable works.