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Completely updated, this second edition contains new questions and brief, practical, and evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions that are posed during a "curbside consultation” between surgical colleagues. Dr Terry Kim and associate editors Drs Derek Delmonte and Preeya Gupta have assembled 49 top cataract consultants to offer expert advice, preferences, and opinions on tough clinical questions commonly associated with ca...

Provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind loads, as well as their combinations, which are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This Standard, a revision of ASCE/SEI 7-05, offers a complete update and reorganization of the wind load provisions, expanding them from one chapter into six.

Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to t...

This title brings together two classics for the price of one: "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "the Spanish Connection". The compilation reveals the bloody secrets of Britain's most terrifying and shocking crimes.

Features the latest research and practical data from the premier event for the microelectronics failure analysis community. The papers cover a wide range of testing and failure analysis topics of practical value to anyone working to detect, understand, and eliminate electronic device and system failures. Case histories and review papers are included, as well as guides to new and unique tools and methodologies, applications and results.

During the final years of the Japanese Occupation, Gui-yong and Eum-chun strike gold by finding a love as sweet as sticky rice. But their love for each other and for their secretly adopted daughter is not enough, as they must soon accept the impossible—a mistress moving in to bear Gui-yong the male child deemed necessary in a society still smouldering in Confucianism.

Ideal for foreigners looking for an easier, more entertaining way to learn Korean. This book organises material into themes and adds even more fascinating tips about Korean culture. The book also features easy and useful Korean expressions and charming illustrations that aid comprehension.

Patrick Warfield is an associate professor of music at the University of Maryland and the editor of John Philip Sousa: Six Marches.

Provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind loads, as well as their combinations, which are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This standard, a revision of ASCE/SEI 7-05, offers a complete update and reorganization of the wind load provisions.

The first in-depth study of Britain's many work camp systems. -- .

Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) is a relatively new subject, with its roots back in the space sector of the early 1990s. This book brings together a collection of twenty two SAE International Technical papers on this theme, organised according to specific areas of interest: engines, airframes, electrical power systems, supporting systems, and architecture.

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Whether in the arsenals of states or of terrorist groups, chemical and biological weapons (CBW) are increasingly seen as one of the major threats to global security. Alexander Kelle provides a comprehensive assessment of the multilateral prohibition regimes that have been established to confront the risks posed by CBW in the context of rapid scientific and technological advances.

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There are a number of excellent texts available on semi-classical analysis. The focus of this monograph is an aspect of semi-classical analysis that has beenless systematically developed in other texts: In semi-classical analysis, many of the basic results involve asymptotic expansions in which the terms can be computed by symbolic techniques, and the focus of this monograph is the "symbol calculus” created thus.

In the late 1960s, Serre and Tate developed a deformation theory of abelian varieties over fields of positive characteristic, and introduced several ways to identify the generic ones, which are called ordinary abelian varieties. This monograph provides a comprehensive generalisation of the Serre and Tate theory of ordinary abelian varieties and their deformation spaces. This generalisation deals with abelian varieties equipped with additional ...

Contains 10 papers recording the history and evaluating the effectiveness of ASCE's Raise the Bar initiative. These papers include current and accurate information about the broad areas of professionalism, the body of knowledge, curricula and experiential development, accreditation, and licensing. They provide a foundation for future efforts to change the education and practice of civil engineering.

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The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationally known speakers. This book illustrates the quality of their presentations.