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If you are a Christian, the support beam of your life is the Cross. Christians must weigh life and devote themselves to whatever it is that carries the most weight.

Stray dogs are a remarkably persistent problem caused by our behavior and confounded by our assumptions. Taking Bangkok as an example, “A Stray View” explores the reality, causes and management of strays and asks whether free-ranging dogs have a place in our society. This book offers a fresh and...

Holographic Data Storage: From Theory to Practical Systems is a primer on the design and building of a holographic data storage system covering the physics, Servo, Data Channel, Recording Materials, and optics behind holographic storage, the requirements of a functioning system, and its integration...

Master magicians of their time, Hatton and Plate recorded in this book — which they wrote in 1910 — solutions to problems that seemed unsolvable. Indispensible to today's amateur and professional magicians, the how-to manual explains 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items. 194 black-and-white illustrations.

The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...

Can you imagine a world without music? We shape sounds into words, yet sound itself gives us the means to escape the bondage of words. We try to convey the essence of beauty in its most intense and ineffable forms, even when we know that the most well chosen words cannot quite express the scope of...

Geared toward both beginning and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this self-contained treatment offers an elementary approach to finite projective planes. Following a review of the basics of projective geometry, the text examines finite planes, field planes, and coordinates in an arbitrary...

After seven years experience as a doctor working in hospitals in Australia, New Guinea, and England, I had become convinced that human suffering and happiness are largely rooted in our behaviour, in particular, the attitudes behind our behaviour. Over two and a half thousand years, Buddhist...

Pope Francis urges Christians to be nourished by the Word of God. Fr Graffy introduces all the books of the New Testament, giving advice for both private and liturgical reading of the Gospels, letters and other books. It is ideal for anyone wishing to understand and gain more from the New Testament,...

Convection in Porous Media, 4th Edition, provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, covering a wide range of topics, such as fibrous insulation, geological strata, and catalytic reactors. The presentation is self-contained, requiring only routine mathematics and the basic elements of fluid...

An advanced, practical approach to the first and second laws of thermodynamics Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics bridges the gap between engineering applications and the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Going beyond the basic coverage offered by most textbooks, this authoritative...

This updated edition of a widely admired text provides a user-friendly introduction to the field that requires only routine mathematics. The book starts with the elements of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, and covers a wide range of applications from fibrous insulation and catalytic reactors to...

Clearly structured throughout, the introduction highlights the different types of crime where these techniques are regularly used. This chapter includes a discussion as to who performs forensic wildlife examinations, the standardisation and validation of methods, and the role of the expert witness...

Examining the issues of ethics and justice as they apply to the environment, this book starts from the observation that the parallel expositions of environmental ethics and environmental justice appear to have few points of contact. Environmental justice is highly politicized and concerned with human...