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RICHARD E. WINSLOW III ’57
A Race of Shipbuilders: The Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine Portsmouth Marine Society
In the 1600s, members of the Hanscom family settle in the Kittery-Eliot area of Maine as British colonial subjects. Over a period of 300 years, a number of their descendants became nationally known shipbuilders and naval constructors. This book describes their success, accomplishments, trials and tribulations in forging their imprint on the maritime naval world. Rather like a mirror reflecting the American experience, the Hanscoms were participants in the Revolutionary War, the California gold rush, the Civil War, Union Navy Yards, the Steel Navy, the luxury steamyacht marina, the SpanishAmerican War, and the era of gigantic transoceanic merchant marine/passenger vessels. This is the sixth book by Richard E. Winslow III that the Portsmouth Marine Society, with which he has been associated for three decades, has published.
ROBERT Q. POLLARD JR. ’80 (CO-AUTHOR)
DANIEL G. PAYNE ’80
The Demand Control Schema: Interpreting as a Practice Profession
New Street Communications LLC
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
The culmination of nearly two decades of work developing the demand control schema (DC-S), this textbook is designed primarily for classroom use in interpreter education programs (IEPs). Each of the ten chapters guides the reader through increasingly sophisticated descriptions and applications of all the key elements of DC-S, including its theoretical constructs, the purpose and method of dialogic work analysis, the schema’s teleological approach to interpreting ethics, and the importance of engaging in reflective practice, especially supervision of the type that is common in other practice professions. Each chapter concludes with a class activity, homework exercises, a check for understanding (quiz), discussion questions, and an advanced activity for practicing interpreters. Robert Pollard, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester, founded and heads the school’s Deaf Wellness Center.
Why Read Thoreau’s Walden? What makes Henry David Thoreau’s Walden one of the fundamental benchmarks in the cannon of American literature and philosophy? What role has the book played in the development of modern thought, and what relevance does it have for today’s reader? Daniel Payne ponders these and other questions, creating an accessible companion to Thoreau’s classic that explores Walden in cultural, historical, literary and philosophical contexts. Payne, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Oneonta, is the author of numerous scholarly papers. His primary research and teaching interest is nature writing and environmental literature. His biography of nature writer Henry Beston is scheduled for release in fall 2014.
KENNETH C. BUDKA ’87 (CO-AUTHOR)
Communication Networks for Smart Grids: Making Smart Grid Real Springer
A 21st century clean-energy economy demands a 21st century electricity grid, yet the communication networks of many utilities today are ill-equipped for smart grid evolution. This book presents an application-centric approach to the development of smart grid communication architecture and network transformation. It includes indepth reviews of such cuttingedge applications as advanced metering infrastructure, distribution automation, demand response, and synchrophasors, as well as more traditional utility applications like SCADA systems. Providing detailed insights derived from the authors’ pivotal research on smart grid communications and extensive consulting experience, the book explains how electric power companies can transform their networks to best meet the challenges of tomorrow’s smart grids.
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