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Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus-informed account of swearing describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.

Organized into four major parts, this book begins by presenting a historical overview of the issues involved in integrating GIS and AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) systems. Part II then focuses on the data issue from several viewpoints: data collection, database structures and representation, database management, and visualization. Part III covers the areas of semantics, ontology, and standardization from a theoretical perspectiv...

Taking a practical approach, Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments presents the most useful design and modeling methods for computer simulations used to study physical systems. The authors introduce the basic concepts of design as well as the concept of Latin hypercube sampling and its modifications. They cover uniform design, measures of uniformity, and their algebraic equations. They also provide various stochastic optimization techni...

This comprehensive reference describes recent developments in the science and engineering of finely dispersed particles and related systems. Written by a team of experts, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the elucidation of the heat, mass, and momentum transfer phenomena as well as electron transfer phenomena. It explores hydrodynamic, electrodynamic, and thermodynamic instabilities that occur at interfaces and discusses the pro...

Recommended to all candidates preparing for the FRCA examinations, their trainers and qualified anaesthetists wishing to update their knowledge. Containing over 700 MCQs covering all the tricky topics that come up in the actual exam, this is one text that all candidates for the FRCA exam cannot be without.

Written by a recognized expert, this brilliant work describes the application of chemical modification of proteins to proteomic research, as well as sample preparation, sample prefractionation, analytical technologies, and validation issues in proteomic research. It merges current proteomics concepts into established solution protein chemistry concepts. The author gives particular emphasis to the process by which a biomarker can be identified,...

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Trace and ultratrace elements are inorganic chemicals that include both essential and nonessential substances found in small quantities in the environment. New analytical techniques have enhanced our understanding of the behavior of these elements in the biogeochemical cycling, chemical speciation, bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and as applied to the phytoremediation of contaminated soils. Trace Elements in the Environment explores these fr...

Organized from analytical to computational methods, this book discusses the electromagnetic-theoretical methods that can be effectively applied to modeling photonic crystals and related optical devices. This book introduces and describes each method, presenting detailed formulations for practical applications. These methods include scattering matrix, multipole theory of scattering, model of layered periodic arrays for photonic crystals, the mu...

Court Lady and Country Wife is a fascinating and substantial read, rich with historical and political detail, complex and sharply drawn characters, and more plot twists and turns than could be contained in a novel. Diane Schoemperlen, author of our lady of the lost and found.

This is a time of renewed originality in garden design. The last twenty years have seen a lucky confluence of money and talent lavished on gardening, and the results are surprising, enchanting, sometimes even controversial. The range of possibilities suggested by these thirty-five gardens is extraordinary: from Jacques Wirtz's undulating beech hedges that recede mysteriously into the mist to Penelope Hobhouse's latest interpretation of the tra...

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The outbreak of the Iraq war and its aftermath, plus the bombings in London, have stimulated Hanif Kureishi to write about the great divide between the East and the West - the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. This book is a collection of his controversial writings.

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The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville--a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize--closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all, " Parker concluded, "this was the happiest d...

In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, this text portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States--the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country of the desert West.

In the last decade millions of dollars have been spent on restoring and revitalizing the Los Angeles River and its surroundings. "Down by the Los Angeles River" is the first on-the-ground guide to checking out sites new and old, and getting to know the historic river that runs through greater L.A. The book includes beautiful watercolor illustrations as well as maps.

Wassily Leontief (1905 1999) was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in memory of Leontief by his students and close colleagues. The first part, 'Reflections on Input-Output Economics', focuses upon Leontief as a person and scholar as well as his personal contributions to economics. It includes contributions by Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson who...

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A detailed guide to one of Bach's most popular keyboard works.