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Delivered in an accessible, concrete style, this groundbreaking work examines the diffraction of acoustic and electromagnetic waves from several classes of open structures with edges or cavities. It describes a breakthrough in analytical techniques for accurately determining diffraction from various classes of canonical scatterers. Part II of a two-volume set, it is an authoritative account of mathematical developments over the last two decade...

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Preceded by Skills-based learning for caring for a loved one with an eating disorder: the new Maudsley method / Janet Treasure, Graainne Smith and Anna Crane. 2007.

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This presentation covers known and new results on extending modules and related notions. An extending module is a module for which every submodule is essential in a direct summand. Semisimple modules, uniform modules and injective modules are examples of extending modules.

Transformations of Policing returns to the central issues discussed in 1983's Police and People in London, the largest and most detailed study of a police force and its relations with the public that has yet been undertaken in Britain. It considers whether the main conclusions need to be revised in light of constant changes to the political, legal, managerial, technological and social framework of policing.

Virtual environments (VE) are human-computer interfaces in which the computer creates a sensory-immersing environment that interactively responds to and is controlled by the behaviour of the user. This book explores a variety of different tasks that might benefit by being performed within a synthetic world.

This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity, and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water, and will be used by planners, designers and policy makers internationally.

This substantially revised 3rd Edition of Environmental Hazards, argues that knowledge about hazards and hazard mitigation, must be better applied to reduce death and destruction, particularly in developing countries. All the major rapid onset events which directly threaten humans and what they value are covered: * tectonic hazards - earthquakes and volcanos* mass movement hazards* severe storm hazards* biophysical hazards - temperature extrem...

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Oceanography and Marine Biology remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. With all chapters peer-reviewed, it is an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science, and the volumes find a place in the libraries of marine laboratories and institutes as well as universities.

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Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity. Movies from "Forrest Gump" to "Phil...

In Clinical Management of the Elderly Patient in Pain, some of the world's leading authorities describe the unique difficulties that arise when trying to provide pain relief to elderly patients--and how to overcome them. They examine conventional treatment with opioid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs along with a broad range of alternatives to consider when frontline drugs fail. Non-drug options for pain relief from the fields of phys...

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