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This book presents a theoretical treatment, as well as a summary of practical methods of computation, of the forces and moments that act on marine craft. Its aim is to provide the tools necessary for the prediction or simulation of craft motions in calm water and in waves. In addition to developing the required equations, the author gives relations that permit at least approximate evaluation of the coefficients so that useful results can be ob...

The "Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion" features fourteen new essays written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in the field. Contributors include Linda Zabzeski, Hugh McCann, Brian Leftow, Gareth B. Matthews, William L. Rowe, Elliott Sober, Derk Pereboom, Alfred J. Freddoso, William P. Alston, William J. Wainwright, Peter van Inwagen, Philip Kitcher and Philip Quinn. Features fourteen newly commissioned essays. Pro...

Ken Hultman has the rare ability to state profound wisdom in a simple way. Packed with rich biblical insight, Changing Kingdoms: Choosing a Christ-Centered Life describes the epic conflict between God's values and the world's, and explains why these two paradigms inevitably clash. The book provides an in-depth study of the four primary Christian values--faith, obedience, love, and service--and shows how they define the pathway to victorious Ch...

This books adopts a non-traditional approach to accelerator theory. The exposition starts with the synchro-betatron formalism and continues with the linear and nonlinear theories of transverse betatron motion. Various methods of studying nonlinear dynamical systems (the canonical theory of perturbations and the methods of multiple scales and formal series) are explained through examples. The renormalization group approach to studying nonlinear...

In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future. An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future. Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars in the fields of strategy or organizational learning. Addresses key questions about how organizational fore...

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the theory of regular economies, which is one of the most advanced topics in modern general equilibrium theory, emphasizing the basic ideas, the tools and the important applications. Although many notions and tools of differential topology are required to understand the theory, the author chooses a minimum of them and heuristically arranges them, that is, instead of lumping together all the neces...

Proceedings from the latest meeting of the leading AI conference, includes theoretical, experimental, and empirical work.

In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technologicaladvances in image reproduction transformed Western industrial societies into visualor "ocularcentric" cultures with significant and complex consequences forwomen's lives. With the rise of mass media, photography, and movies, a woman'svisibility became a mark of her modernity, and the result was at once liberating andconfining, given the many narrow conceptions of what it m...

This book is about patterns of development in the history of culture. Bringing together three areas of research: semiotics, cultural history, and evolutionary psychology, it attempts to bridge the gap that still separates the study of culture from the cognitive sciences. The multidisciplinary approach chosen by the contributors derives its impetus from the deep conviction that in order to understand the logic of cultural development, one mus...

Le clown ou la reine? Faut-il choisir? Et si les deux pouvaient faire bon ménage? La lutte des classes connaît plus de trêves qu'on ne le croit et il fut un temps (est-il révolu?) où les fous et les princes s'amusaient mutuellement. Les oeuvres n'ont jamais manqué qui plaisaient à tous, petits et grands, doctes et ignorants. Ce livre tend à réhabiliter dans les lettres du XVIIe siècle, ordinairement vues à travers la splendeur des Cours et des...

There are many self-help books, but few that approach the issue with both common sense, empathy, sympathy and the tools to make some changes to assist the individual with their stress and pain. This book offers a myriad of tools, skills, and perspectives to assist individuals with the problems that we all encounter in our daily living. Chapters on appreciation, acceptance, communication and intimacy will provide a new vista and perspective for...

Starting with general principles, this book takes you step by step through every aspect of generating compelling characters and gripping conflicts.

Some of his fellow seminarians are not of the same moral fiber as Joseph. These and other revelations help him make a decision to defy what he views as unfair and inaccurate man made restrictions placed on priests. Joseph gains a following that not even the Pope can deny. He eventually rocks the very core of the Vatican by just being himself. This is a journey of tragedy, true love, honesty, passion and values.

It is 1910 along the rain drenched coast of Washington state. Felton Connelly is trying to run from a past that haunts him. A past that took the lives of his wife and two children. His dedication to being a police officer kept him from being there that night to save his family. He vowed to never do police work again. Until his friend Nolan Delford, an Aberdeen, Washington detective talks him into working undercover. A reluctant but capable Con...

Eight irreverent tales with a twist! Pure entertainment just for you. Comical, fascinating reading that will stir your imagination. Dangerous, out-of-control people playing deadly games. This extreme variety of villains will stop for nothing - not even a coffee break. Bad people at their best - murder! But they haven't lost their shocking sense of humor, and that's important. Step into the eye of the whirlwind and experience fast-paced stories...

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic fo...

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to the profound challenges of mass terrorism and political violence - alternatives which can better address the roots of these challenges and deliver poli...

Like a Splinter in Your Mind" leads readers through the myriad of philosophical themes within the Matrix trilogy, helping them to gain a better understanding of the films and of philosophy itself. Offers a way into philosophy through the Matrix films. Covers thirteen of the biggest philosophical questions in thirteen self-sufficient chapters suitable for course use. Demonstrates how each of these questions is illustrated through the events and...

The Patai Series publishes comprehensive reviews on all aspects of specific functional groups. Each volume contains outstanding surveys on theoretical and computational aspects, NMR, MS, other spectroscopical methods and analytical chemistry, structural aspects, thermochemistry, photochemistry, synthetic approaches and strategies, synthetic uses and applications in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, biological, biochemical and environment...

How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.