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Contains 75 papers and 321 abstracts presented at conferences sponsored by the Water Resources Engineering (Hydraulics) Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This title includes topics, such as: history of bridge scour research, bridge scour determination, stream stability and geomorphology, construction scour, and more.

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A former US Army officer at Hue during the Tet offensive recounts the longest continuous battle of the Vietnam War. Describing poor coordination between the seperate fights occuring, he suggests that the ferocity of the North Vietnamese forces during this battle led eventually to US withdrawal.

Amy Wygant reads Racine's Phedre (1677) through an analysis of its seventeenth-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequant reception history. She explores the construction of the Racinian language as 'musical', the poetics of the Racinian gaze, and Racine's labrynthine eros of memory and forgetting. Reference is made to Lully's operas, the battle between the advocates of colour and the champions of drawing in the Royal Acad...

The TABS Assessment Tool is a norm-referenced tool designed to identify temperament and self-regulation problems that can indicate that a child is developing atypically or is at risk for atypical development. This 55-item checklist covers areas such as temperament, attention, attachment, social behavior, play, vocal and oral behavior, sense and movement, self-stimulation and self-injury, and neurobehavioral state. The parent-completed checklis...

Focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire, this text demonstrates how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies.

Karl Terzhaghi (1883-1963) is one of the leading civil engineers of this century and widely known as the father of soil mechanics. This critical biography shows Terzaghi's struggle to understand the phenomena observed on many major engineering projects. It explores friendships, conflicts, jealousies, frustrations, and enormous successes.

Supersedes any prior volume on the connection between psychopathology and personality traits. Compiles the most recent findings from more than 30 internationally recognized experts. Analyzes the association between personality and psychopathology from several interlocking perspectives-descriptive, developmental, etiological, and therapeutic- concluding that the association is strong and important, no matter what angle it is considered from.

Analyses of the results obtained by fluorine combustion calorimetry over the past two decades and is devoted to problems that dominated the development of fluorine bomb calorimetry, including purification and analysis of fluorine, methods devised for the combustion of different substances and analysis of the reaction products, construction of calorimetric bombs, and peripheral apparatus for the safe manipulation of F2 and fluorides.

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The book covers delirium and how to treat it. This is a package of 12.

The book reviews neuroscience mechanisms and analyzes genetic determinants. It covers information on diagnosis, cognitive characteristics, functional imaging, animal modeling, and antipsychotic treatment. This book discusses evolving techniques of functional brain imaging and what they can tell us about normal brain function and its pathology.

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Developed by psychiatrists who are in active clinical practice, this practical guideline offers invaluable information to psychiatrists who care for patients with delirium. It summarizes the current data available on this topic and provides recommendations for treatment. In helping the clinician provide treatments that address the underlying etiology of the delirium, it discusses psychiatric management, environmental and supportive interventio...

This is a task force report on dangerous sex offenders.

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Results from years of work with physicians guilty of sexual misconduct and the patients they mistreated. Examines all of the dimensions associated with this terrible occurrence: legal, ethical, administrative, educational, and rehabilitative. Provides thorough, candid coverage crucial for psychiatrists and other medical professionals, social workers, lawyers, medical board administrators, and residents in ethics and forensics seminars.

Duquette analyses the main public policies of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico to explore examples of how countries make the transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society.

A study of the state of communication research in Germany. The topics represent areas in which the German literature can either contribute significantly to the international research body or provide German-based results for international comparisons.