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History of Naval Medicine including multiple cultures of the ancient world and Royal Navy and US Navy Medical. The author worked there for 10 years.

If you are an atheist with socially conservative values you will probably find most of your thoughts expressed here-maybe even for the first time ever in print.

This book discusses the fundamental principles necessary to interpret surface and cloud features in multispectral meteorological satellite imagery. It begins with background information, tracing the evolution of satellite meteorology and detailing previous instruments on which VIIRS is based. Next, two chapters examine the user requirements for cloud data products and the studies used to convert these requirements into VIIRS sensor design para...

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Featuring contributions from leading experts, Organic Photochemistry and Photophysics addresses the organic photochemistry and photophysical behavior in aromatic molecules, thiocarbonyls, selected porphyrins, and metalloporphyrins. Topics include excited-state proton-transfer reactions of aromatic compounds, the effects of atom transfer reactions to photoamination as a convenient, powerful, and environmentally friendly synthetic process, and h...

Covering latest developments and applications of advanced infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques to polymer chemistry and biochemistry, this book describes the application of static and dynamic FT-IR spectroscopies to liquid crystalline polyurethanes, the measurement of stress and strain in single- and multi-fiber components, the Langmuir-Blodgett technique in the study and preparation of high-quality ultrathin materials, and two-dimensio...

With contributions from distinguished experts in the field, DNA Microarrays and Related Genomics Techniques parallels the steps in conducting and analyzing a microarray experiment from conception to interpretation. This book explores critical aspects of designing a microarray experiment, including power and sample size. It assesses the validity of statistical methods and describes how to ensure the quality and integrity of data. In addition, t...

In "Party Lines, " eminent political analysts explain the legal and political history of redistricting since the one personone vote revolution in the 1960s and place it in the larger context of American politics. The authors document the impact of redistricting on competition, polarization, and partisan fairness, and they assess the role technology played in the redistricting process.

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This beautifully packaged collection of 12 stories from around the world honor the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year that is revered worldwide. Illustrations.

Written in a narrative prose, this is a translated collection of seventeen short stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. Here the art of the short story offers illuminated scenes of the Djiboutian urban and rural landscape, its people, and its history.

There is no competition since this is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training Offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight. Contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City Provides an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future. Reviews the training both of...

Erich J. Lejeune ist unbestritten Deutschlands Motivator Nr. 1. Er lebt, was er verkündet. Sein ganzer bisheriger Werdegang - vom Großhandelslehrling zum erfolgreichen Firmengründer und Unternehmer des Jahres, vom zähen Ringen ums wirtschaftliche Überleben bis zu einem gediegenen Reichtum - spiegeln die charismatische Kraft seiner Motivation wieder. In seinem neuen Buch "Lebenswissenschaft Motivation" legt Erich J. Lejeune Schritt für Schritt ...

An ethnographic and theoretical account of the construction of whiteness through the study of the lives of white working class Americans.

There can be no doubt about Gustav Klimts greatness as a draughtsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolours. This title brings together hundreds of Klimts works on paper in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre.

This book presents a phenomenological approach to the field of solid state magnetism. After introducing the basic concepts from statistical thermodynamics and electronic structure theory, the first part discusses the standard models for localized moments (Weiss, Heisenberg) and delocalized moments (Stoner). This is followed by a chapter about exchange and correlation in metals, again considering the results for the localized and delocalized li...

The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a "greased pig, " for example, or a "pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit." In Tracing the Essay, G. Douglas Atkins embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters. Drawing from the work of Montaigne and Bacon and recent practitioner...