This book presents a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the Green–Naghdi (GN) Theory of water waves and its applications in marine hydrodynamics and ocean engineering. It introduces the fundamental ideas behind GN theory, tracing its development and connections to other nonlinear wave theories. The text explains, in clear terms, the theoretical background of GN equations: how they are derived, their various formulations, and how they compare with classical and modern approaches. In t...

Perfect for fans of Jack Reacher and Joe Pickett, Rockets’ Red Glare is a fast-paced thriller that introduces Sage Mendiluze, a police deputy determined to find and stop a series of relentless and brutal murders.After two wilderness guides are gunned down at a remote campsite in a nearby national forest, it’s determined that the fatal shots came from Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation. Tribal Police Deputy Sage Mendiluze is called in to hike the rugge...

In Stuttering and Its Management, William Webster shares his academic research into brain mechanisms underlying stuttering, as well as his lifelong journey as a person who stutters. Webster explores the patterns of patterns of brain activation in those who stutter and describes a Two-Factor Interference Model which can inform strategies for the effective management of stuttering. Stuttering and Its Management offers a number of practical approaches to improving speech fluency.Peopl...

From the bestselling author of THE RISE AND FALL OF A YUMMY MUMMY.'The number you are calling is unavailable. Please try again later.'Gina has only been married six months when her husband Rex goes on holiday to Spain and vanishes without a trace, tipping her dream new marriage into nightmare. As a frantic search gets nowhere, Gina is adamant that he's alive and vows never to give up hope. Speculation is rife: he's drowned at sea, lost his memory...or just walked away. Trou...

In one volume, this work covers the theological heritage of Baptists over four centuries. The emphasis is upon Baptist theologians in Britain and North America. Based upon a polygenetic understanding of Baptist identity, the discussion is organized by unique types of theological discourse: confessional documents, hymns, pastoral publications, academic theology, and several contextualized categories, including Southern Baptists, African American Baptists, Canadian Baptists, and European Bap...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian story, dated from the late 14th century. It's a chivalric romance, a genre that was hugely popular in the courts of Medieval Europe - stories filled with adventures and featuring a knight that goes on a quest. In this book, Sir Gawain is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. One day, a mysterious man appears, the Green Knight, who dares any knight to hit him with his axe, with the knowledge that he...

When his Los Angeles neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence—and Tookie's reputation—began to spread across Los Angeles. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always released because the charges did not sti...

This proceeding constitutes the 13th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, held in Chicago, IL, USA, during July 8–11, 2024.The 27 full papers and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They were categorized under the following topics: Brain Network Modeling; Tools for Studying Behaviors; Sensors and Sensing, Navigational Systems; Control and Mechanics of Soft and Continuum Systems; System Design; Neural Networks for Computa...

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The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

Edward C. Webster was one of the earliest vocational guidance and industrial psychologists in Canada. He opened his practice in 1936 and was also a long-time professor of psychology and university administrator. During the last decade of his life, he began to document his perspective on early professional psychologists—almost all of whom he had known personally—and the nature of the profession, its origins and evolution in Canada, and the interplay between the emergence of psychology as a ...

Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain. Although they have far reaching consequences for both citizens and their rights, they are not always subject to regulatory demands and oversight. This being said, democratic fora where citizens and institutions may question such practices cannot be mobilised without widespread awareness of the dangers and consequences of surveillance practices and who is responsible for them...