The New Press is pleased to announce the publication of this new title with the American Museum of Natural History, a collaboration that began with the publication of Epidemic! in 2000.
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Written by cutting horse trainer, teacher, international clinician and author, Barbra Schulte, Cutting, One Run At A Time is sure to become every cutter's personal cutting resource guide with all the information, tips, pictures, illustrations, and quotes needed to boost their cutting expertise...guaranteed. Plus, riders from any discipline will benefit from the first five chapters which are geared toward helping riders master high-performance skills and incorporate Barbra's Mentally Tough program into their everyday riding.
Divided into two major sections, the first section covers critical foundation skills outside of the cutting arena. It will help you to: Identify your goals
Build a strong support system
Choose a horse that suits your needs
Develop basic riding skills
Learn the mental skills of great competitors
Then the second half will give you many indispensable tips about how to ride and show in the arena. It will help you to: Master riding a trained cutting horse
Maintain your trained cutting horse
Develop your own showmanship style
Study cattle to be more in control
Execute confident herdwork strategies
Plus, you'll enjoy: Quotes from champion non-pro and pro riders like Paul Hansma, Lindy Burch, Winston Hansma, Kobie Woods, and Dick Gaines.
Summarized tips for quick reference.
Resource suggestions for cutting, as well as reined cow horse, reining, team penning, and other related events.
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An All Around Guide to Cutting.......2000-04-22
Barbara Schulte's point-by-point guide to cutting and competing devotes about half of its content to the mental aspect of the sport. Barbara covers topics such as the importance of goal setting, mental strategies, and the power of positive thinking. In the remaining half, she deals with selecting the right horse, making sure the rider has the basic riding skills down, practicing effectively, and learning how to work the herd. The material is presented in "executive summary" fashion with the outset of each chapter telling the reader what that chapter will say. Within each chapter, Barbara and co-author Julie Wells present information using a lot of numbered lists and headings. No reader should fail to understand the book's important points. At times, however, the elegantly simple presentation may not convey enough detail to be useful. For example, when telling the reader "how to get" a horse to have head/neck flexibility, the book assumes the reader knows what to feel for "when the horse gives his nose in response to your request." (People may incorrectly think a horse "gives" when his nose points in the direction of the direct rein pull but the horse is still bracing on the rein, not softening.)
When Barbara presents information on reading cattle and working the herd, she excels. The reader will appreciate how she breaks down each step of a cut and correlates those steps with what the rider should be doing to effectively ride his or her horse. She could have written the whole book on those topics, and the reader would still want more.
The book's quirky format may annoy some readers. (On the even numbered pages are inspirational quotes from cutters or photos/illustrations; the odd numbered pages contain the text.) But the presentation does make for easy reading. Whether the reader is interested in acquiring performance coaching/positive thinking skills, learning how to cut cattle, or both, Barbara shares enough gems to make this a worthwhile read.
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Despite ongoing negotiations, consensus has not yet been reached on what action will be taken to combat global warming. A number of companies have looked beyond the current stalemate to see the prospect of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions not as a roadblock to growth and innovation but as a unique opportunity to increase profits and productivity. These "cool" companies understand the strategic importance of reducing heat-trapping emissions and have worked to cut their emissions by fifty percent or more. In the process, they have not only reduced their energy bill, but have increased their productivity, sometimes dramatically.
In Cool Companies, energy expert Joseph Romm describes the experiences of these remarkable firms, as he presents more than fifty case studies in which bottom line improvements have been achieved by improving processes, increasing energy efficiency, and adopting new technologies. Romm places efforts to reduce emissions in the context of proven corporate strategies, showing managers how they can build or retrofit their operations with the latest technologies to reduce emissions and achieve quick returns on the investment. Case studies explain:
- the concept of "lean production" and why systematic efforts to reduce emissions so often lead to productivity gains
- how changes in office and building design can significantly increase productivity, greatly compounding gains achieved from increased energy efficiency
- options for "cool" power-from cogeneration to solar, wind, and geothermal energy
- energy efficiency in manufacturing, including motors and motor systems, steam, and process energy
In profiling successful companies such as DuPont, 3M, Compaq, Xerox, Toyota, Verifone, Perkin-Elmer, and Centerplex, among many others, Cool Companies turns on its head the notion that the effort to combat global warming will come with massive costs to the industrial sector. It is a unique and essential business book for anyone concerned with increasing profits and productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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simple approach and numerous examples.......2001-07-24
The book should enlighten those equating the green movement with adverse economic impact. It simply doesnt have to be the case. Companies like Shell and Dow are realizing, the early birds will gain serious competitive advantages when adopting "cooler" operating philosophies including: lower operating costs in general, increased productivity, and lower carbon costs when they ultimately get implemented. Numerous verified examples are provided that cement what should be a common sense belief that reduction of waste (all types) lead to leaner more competitive companies.
I approached my own boss with these ideas and received a chuckle in response. Its an uphill fight out there, hopefully the more people become informed, the easier it will be. This book is a great one to hand to a nay sayer. (I plan on sending a copy to both my boss and President Bush for Christmas)
Improving your Bottom Line by Reducing Greenhouse Gases.......2000-06-13
By Stephen Corrick Reprinted with permission...Joseph J. Romm was an Assistant Secretary of theUS Department of Energy. He obviously learned his lessons well. Hisbook, Cool Companies, makes an overwhelming case: Not only willreducing greenhouse gases not hurt companies' ability to compete, the action of reducing greenhouse gases (and industrial energy waste generally) offers the single easiest productivity booster, and among the shortest payback periods of any available to American industry today.
Cool Companies offers insights into the detailed processes by which all company sites-from industrial giants like DuPont and 3M all the way down to individual apartment owners-have used greenhouse gas emission reduction to drive many more dollars to their bottom line.
The only question one is left with after Romm so effectively makes his case is why the coal and oil companies are playing Chicken Little and screaming that reducing greenhouse gases will hurt American business. Obviously, the only American businesses they are referring to must be their own. The Wall Street Journal and the American Chamber of Commerce would be well served to get the true picture and start representing the needs and interests of the majority of their customers-whose interests, at this point, are often diametrically opposed to those of the fossil fuel industry.
Run out and buy this book, before your competitors do.......1999-10-16
Romm has done a great service with this book. There are a lot of people telling us we must act on climate, and a lot of theory on how. Too often, it is abstract and esoteric -- Romm gives practical, easy to follow examples of how the best in class cut costs; cut carbon; and boosted productivity.
If you work anywhere in corporate management -- Whether you are the Chief Operating Officer, The Chief Financial Officer, the Plant Manager, or the Environmental Manager, you need to run out and buy this book, and then read it, before your competitors do.
You'll find case study after case study of how the best companies cut carbon. From building design, to the office environment, to industrial processes on the plant floor, this book tells -- often in the words of the managers themselves -- how they did what they did. Not only the technologies they chose, but how they sold other managers, developed creative financing strategies(often getting projects financed off ledger, out of future savings for example), and obtained credit for cutting other emissions.
If you are an environmentalist or a regulator facing the prospect of a climate treaty, the examples Romm outlines show why the arcane debate about the cost of cutting greenhouse gasses is flat out irrelevant. Cool Companies save money by becoming more efficent.
Bottom line? If you read only one book on cutting greenhouse gasses -- make it this one.
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April showers lead to May flowers.......2000-11-22
April is a graphic design genius, so it's hard to go wrong with the subject matter of this book. Of course THE April Greiman book to own is the out of print "Hybrid Imagery : The Fusion of Technology and Graphic Design" - but if you can't get that classic, then this little gem will have to do. The nice thing about this book is that it covers her work in the 90's, and while the web stuff doesn't shine - her print work and dish sets are damn good. Sadly the book doesn't capture her magic as it's rather on the small side - so you can't see all of that wonderful detail that April has in her work. In the end this book is a good appetizer, but it leaves you wanting a full meal. However it will make a good addition to your personal library, and it would make a nice gift for a creative friend.
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Advanced Metalcutting Calculators in U.S. & Metric Units: Milling, Turning, Boring, Drilling, and Machining Time
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Advanced Metalcutting Calculators contains four calculators, each for major metalcutting operations: Milling, Turning, Boring, Drilling, and one calculator for exact machining time when facing, cutting off, and deep grooving. All calculators are developed in Microsoft Excel, and execute all parameters in both U.S. and Metric units of measure. These calculators provide more accurate computations than any other calculators on the market. They are unique in computing cutting forces, torque values, and required machining power. Additionally, feed and radial cutting forces are calculated by the Turning and Boring Calculator (covered by U.S. Patent No. 6,836,697). Any metalworking professional is sure to find these calculators handy, especially for maximizing productivity of cutting by selecting such parameters at which nominal power of the machine tools can be effectively utilized.
Distinctive Features
- All calculators computer RPM versus selected cutting speed, cutting time, and metal removal rate.
- All calculators compute cutting parameters in customary U.S. and metric units of measurements
Milling Calculator provides advanced computations of
- Cutting force versus tensile strength of work material and area of the chip.
- Torque at spindle versus cutting force and the cutter diameter.
- Area of the chip versus feed per tooth and the depth of cut.
- Adjustments to feed rate depending on the lead angle of the cutter and width of cut.
- Required machining power versus cutting force and cutting speed, or versus torque at spindle and cutters rpm.
Turning Calculator provides advanced computations of
- Cutting force components.
- Torque at spindle versus tangential force and the workpiece diameter.
- Required machining power versus tangential force and cutting speed, or versus torque at spindle and the workpiece rpm when indexable insert of the cutting tool is sharp.
- Required machining power at the moment when insert must be indexed or changed.
Boring Calculator, in addition to the same four feature above, provides advanced computations of
- Deflection versus resultant cutting force, unsupported length of the bar, moment of inertia of the bar cross-sectional area, and the modulus of elasticity of the bar material.
- Modulus of elasticity of the bar material used versus the code assigned to steels, tungsten heavy alloys, and cemented carbides (these materials are used to fabricate boring bars).
Drilling Calculator provides advanced computations of
- Tangential force versus drill diameter, feed rate, power constant of the work material, and the drill wear factor.
- Thrust (axial force) versus tangential force and the coefficient of porportionality.
- Torque at the drill versus tangential force and the drill diameter.
- Required machining power versus tangential force and the cutting speed, or versus torque at the drill and the spindle rpm (for sharp indexable inserts and at the moment when the inserts must be indexed or changed).
- Penetration rate versus feed rate and rpm.
Machining Time Calculator (facing, cutoff, and grooving) provides advanced computations of
- Radius of the workpiece (in inches) when spindle of the machine tool runs at its maximum rpm.
- Machining time when facing or cutting off to the center of the workpiece, min.
- Machining time when deep grooving, facing, or cutting off to a shoulder of the workpiece, min.
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