Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact that encompasses aspects of physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology. Full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language of fluid dynamics. This introductory text is geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. It assumes a knowledge of calculus and vector analysis.Author Richard E. Meyer notes...

Man has learnt to control his dominion by the use of what initially lay about him; wood and stone for shelter and building as well as resources from the plant and animal worlds over which he slowly obtained dominion. But as he organised into Nations and Empires, he needed more with which to keep the whole machine spinning. Society was growing and consuming more. But many of the richer seams of fuel and minerals lay buried underground. These riches needed exploiting, brought to the surface ...

For some stories there is no happy resolving of the narratives and the characters struggle against the odds that are always destined to overwhelm them. In these stories our authors reveal and examine situations where the only possible outcome is sadness, and sometimes even worse.

From the FORGOTTEN REALMS series, a fantasy novel in which a petty criminal who tries to pass himself off as a wizard discovers that he has attracted the attentions of an assassin.

There are many different ethics involved in business practices. Everything from medical practices to government related businesses have their own set of ethical laws and rules. For most people, money makes the world go round and business bears that money. Businessmen will perhaps do anything just to achieve the ultimate goal of having a business, and that is to earn income. Net profit or income financially means a surplus of sales or revenues after deducting costs and expenses.

What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time?This book addresses the question through an in-depth play-by-play description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a real classroom, followed by chapters that look at it from different angles by "zooming in" on one facet to analyze it closely:*Reading. What is reading? What definiti...

If you ever wonder if your favorite superhero is sexier in their costume or in the nude, then this book of poems and comics is clearly for you. If you don't, what's wrong with you? Did your parents beat you with a rolled up comic book when you were a kid? Do they still do it? Call the police already!Although superheroes come up a lot in this book, other topics include things like dating, sex, video games, life, and philosophy.What about the infinity boob itself? The infinit...

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this new and revised collection of essays. Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014 in Mississippi's capital to develop an economically uplifting democratic 'solidarity economy,' is anchored by a network of worker-owned, self-managed cooperat...

14 physicians share lessons they have learned while leading change in healthcare … and how they learned them.

Predictive modeling involves the use of data to forecast future events. It relies on capturing relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences and exploiting this to predict future outcomes. Forecasting future financial events is a core actuarial skill - actuaries routinely apply predictive-modeling techniques in insurance and other risk-management applications. This book is for actuaries and other financial analysts who are developing their ex...

Many people dream, often from childhood, of a future in the arts, as a famous musician or author, or nowadays merely famous for being famous. But roll back the decades and the pursuit of a successful career in the arts was both lauded by their audience and many times frowned upon by friends and family, who thought they might have better ways to enhance the family’s reputation.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...