Emerging Laser Technologies for High-Power and Ultrafast Science includes chapters from leading experts devoted to the most recent achievements in the field. Including cutting-edge topics such as high energy/high average power laser systems, the most current developments for high repetition rate high average power infrared fiber laser systems, breakthroughs of the development of CPA based on chromium doped zinc selenide gain material, infrared/mid-infrared laser systems based on h...

From Wilderness to Monarchy offers a Latter-day Saint perspective on Israel’s spiritual and historical journey as recounted in the Old Testament. Beginning with the book of Joshua, it explores Israel’s transition from Moses’s leadership to the hardships and difficulties in the conquest accounts—focusing on covenantal duties, military battles, and moral challenges. The book moves through the era of the Judges, highlighting both general spiritual decline and the faithfulness of indi...

For some, the Old Testament is a difficult volume to read, much less understand. The language, symbolism, and history depicted within it can be challenging and at times frustrating. Modern biblical research and the methodologies used in that research have opened up this book of scripture to greater understanding. So too has the restoration of the priesthood and continuing revelation, which have revealed that the Old Testament patriarchs are not simply literary examples of righteous behavio...