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Physics of Optoelectronics integrates into one comprehensive treatment introductions to semiconductor lasers and optics, linear algebra and quantum mechanics for optoelectronics, and quantum optics. It builds all the background you need to understand current research and publications of laser engineering-physics, from the basics of lasers and LEDs through the rate equations to the quantum mechanical expressions for gain and optical fields. Top...

This collection of original essays edited by Parker and Pahls, explores how various Oxford Movement converts to Roman Catholicism contributed to debates surrounding papal infallibility in the 1850s, 1860s and beyond.

In light of her impending death, thirteen-year-old Beatrice Danzig has changed her name to Christmas. She's at the center of Christmas in July, a novel in ten stories told by ten residents of suburban Saxon Hills: the bored wife of a senior softball slugger, a socialite with a glitter fixation, a beekeeping hermit, a young runaway who can't outrun her past. The novel explores each of these people's lives before and after meeting Christmas-as w...

William Shakespeare was England's greatest bard. Yet who was this sublime genius? Where did this universal talent have its origins?

William Shakespeare was England's greatest bard. Yet who was this sublime genius? Where did this universal talent have its origins?

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started provides a basic tutorial on digital signal processing (DSP). Beginning with discussions of numerical representation and complex numbers and exponentials, it goes on to explain difficult concepts such as sampling, aliasing, imaginary numbers, and frequency response. It does so using easy-to-understand examples with minimum mathematics. In addition, there is an overview o...

William Shakespeare was England's greatest bard. Yet who was this sublime genius? Where did this universal talent have its origins?

Best-selling author, Max Reilly, is still recovering from the hole left in his life caused by the car crash that killed his wife. So when he meets Emma - who is waiting for a divorce from her violent husband - and is pulled back into the world of desire, it is hard to reconcile with his grief.

A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book." -Antonya Nelson, author of Bound Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want. And after knowin...

Hast du Soul? Dann komm zu der Band, die mehr schuftet als jede andere auf dieser Welt! - Armut und Langeweile bringen Deco (Andrew Strong), den blutjungen Leadsänger mit der riesigen Soulstimme, und andere junge Musiktalente dazu, Dublins schwärzeste Garagenband zu gründen. Doch nach schweißtreibenden Probenmonaten und ersten umjubelten Auftritten stellen sich Probleme ein - und die Einsicht, dass Talent nun mal nicht alles ist...

Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland.Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's a...

ZEITGENÖSSISCHE AUSNAHME-KÜNSTLER PRÄSENTIEREN NEUE GESCHICHTEN MIT DEM MANN AUS STAHL Ob in dem kleinen verschlafenen Dorf Smallville, in der Millionenstadt Metropolis oder gar im Weltall - der Mann von Morgen muss sich einer Vielzahl von Bedrohungen stellen in dieser Sammlung außergewöhnlicher Superman-Geschichten von einigen der besten Comic-Künstlern unserer Zeit. Unermüdlich kämpft der Stählerne gegen Widersacher und Schurken wie den gen...

The killer. When he was a troubled youth, his turbulent father told him a crazy story. Haunted by the indignity of his unstable childhood, his passion for revenge is almost demonic. Danger lurks. A responsible citizen stumbles onto a corpse and receives a nightmarish warning. The sheriff and his deputies are called upon to track down the murderer. And two small-town reporters become part of the terrifying story they are covering. What will hap...

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A debut novel in which an industrial downsizer faces small-town racism, political hardball, and the chance for love and redemption

Characters: 3 male, 5 femaleComedy Interior The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Company has been sold and two of its vice presidents, David McGrachen and John Baker, have planned a weekend off before the new C.E.O. arrives on Monday. With their wives safely off on a shopping spree in New York City, they check into The Oakfield Golf and Country Club intending to "golf their brains out." They unexpectedly encounter their new boss, Ms. Hutchison, and sh...

An absurd look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk

In the autumn of 1975, a small town struggles with the mysterious murder of Brandon Pierce, a gay teenager found dead in his parents' bed following a high-school key party. As Thomas Edgecombe, the editor of the town's newspaper, diligently reports on the crime, he begins to suspect that his two sons may know more about the murder than they're letting on. Daniel, a straight-A student and a griend of the victim, seems destined for a prestigious...

Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families.

Would you rather your child was smart or good?Academic achievement is not the only important aspect of raising children.?We also need to think consciously as to how we develop the next generation to be ethical thinkers and decent members of society. The main place children learn morals and ethics is not from school or religion but from thei...