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This complete introduction to the use of modern ray tracing techniques in plasma physics describes the powerful mathematical methods generally applicable to vector wave equations in non-uniform media, and clearly demonstrates the application of these methods to simplify and solve important problems...

Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan? Providing a thoughtful and considered exploration of this question, this book presents a critical reassessment of posttraumatic growth, based on correcting prior theoretical and methodological limitations in the current research....

Fascinating connections exist between group theory and automata theory, and a wide variety of them are discussed in this text. Automata can be used in group theory to encode complexity, to represent aspects of underlying geometry on a space on which a group acts, and to provide efficient algorithms...

This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics. Beginning with its earliest work, there has been attention to trust running through the bioethics literature in the United States, and much of this discussion has examined its theological elements. Clearly, trust is indispensable...

Taken from the sixty-fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, this is an analysis of the importance of honey in the early twentieth century. It discusses how the demand for honey sharply increased in Europe with the outbreak of the First World War, and explores what this...

Over the last decade or so, private-sector financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has become increasingly popular around the world as a way of procuring and maintaining public-sector infrastructure, in sectors such as transportation (roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, airports),...

Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure - Principles of Policy and Finance, Second Edition explains how public private partnerships are prepared, procured, financed, and managed from both the public- and private-sector perspectives. As the use of public private partnerships continues to develop...

A Utopian civilization sporting designer babies created through genetic engineering, monitored by robotics with the assistance of artificial intelligence faces extinction from an anomaly that no one has been able to isolate, identify, or counteract. The best minds around are assigned the task...

Greed, hubris and selfish desires short-sheet the outposts of the solar system, who then send forces out to take what they need without trade nor barter. Eventually, all the planets send forth attack forces to deal with those who they think have wronged them! One person is sent out to reign in all the renegades and bring all the factions back together in peace and harmony.

Price reduced to 99c for a limited time. Ryan Saunders meets beautiful Annette Lund while stranded at Heathrow Airport, and is almost instantly drawn to her. When she leaves, he's convinced he has lost her forever, but when fate guides him back to her, the truth behind the mysterious beauty begins to unravel. Will love win, or does her past destroy their chances?

It is 1812. For four years, Daniel Brownell has been crossing the Detroit River from Canada every day to attend school in America. But as General Hull prepares to invade Canada at Sandwich, where the Brownell family has a store, eleven-year-old Daniel must choose between following his American fatherwho...

Joann Keller—a teenager prone to idealistic views of the world—doesn't know what to do with her life after school. Her choices are multiple, but she only dreams of traveling the world and doing good. With her parents consent she's allowed to take a year off, to ponder her options. She travels...

When a volcanic eruption in Iceland disrupts commercial flights all over Europe, Amanda Miller, editor and published author, finds herself on a speeding train back to London. Seated opposite an elderly gentleman, her curious and social nature prompts her to strike up a conversation to pass the time.Realizing...

The purpose of this little book is to show that Froebel?s educational theories were based on psychological views of a type much more modern than is at all generally understood. It is frequently stated that Froebel's psychology is conspicuous by its absence, but in a somewhat close study of Froebel's...