American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South's covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built "invulnerable" ocean-going ironclads; sustained Confederate logistics; financed covert operations; and acted as the mastermind behind the destruction of 130 Union ships. Ironically, this man who conspired to destroy the Union and kidnap its president later stood as the favorite uncle and mentor to Theodore Roosevelt. Bulloch's astonishing life unfolds in this first-ever biography.
The music and film industries have long come to terms with the digital, and now the traditional printed book is challenged by digital formats. The e-book has become established in most countries, but is still a small part of the book industry. In this book a group of researchers follow the actors involved in the Swedish e-book market, from authors and publishers to libraries, booksellers and readers during 2012-2016. Using surveys, interviews and other sources the main actors were researched and it is shown how they act and react towards the e-book and towards each other. While the main focus in on Sweden as a small language country, several international comparisons are made. Are printed books disappearing soon? How are reading habits changing when the book becomes digital? Which forces are driving radical change and which are holding it back? The book discusses these and related questions and shows that after a period of rapid increase in the production and use of e-books, several factors slow down the rate of adoption, but digitisation of the book is an ongoing process and the current e-book is not the end of the story.
We created this book with you in mind. It is our journey of becoming authentic. We offer insight into how we should be authentic in every area of our lives (business, ministry, family, friends and relationship with God).
This edition covers the considerable developments which have taken place (in the 11 years since the first edition was published) in the measurement of water quality, with particular reference to methods for estimating and controlling possible errors in analytical results.
D. E. Alburger; I. Perlman; J. O. Rasmussen; Earl K. Hyde; Glenn T. Seaborg; George R. Bishop; Richard Wilson; S. Devons; L. J. B. Goldfarb; R. J. Blin-Stoyle; M. A. Grace
Acoustics in Moving Inhomogeneous Media is a complete and rigorous study that covers many fields including atmospheric and ocean acoustics, aeroacoustics, acoustics of turbulent flows, remote sensing of the atmosphere and ocean, and noise pollution in the atmosphere. The book considers sound propagation through moving media with deterministic inhomogeneities such as vertical profiles of temperature and wind velocity in the atmosphere. It moves on to a new study of sound propagation and scattering in media with random inhomogeneities in adiabatic sound speed, density, and medium velocity. This new edition sets out state-of-the-art numerical methods for calculating the sound field and its statistical characteristics in moving inhomogeneous media, with codes downloadable from the book’s website. It presents new extra-wide-angle and wide-angle parabolic equations in moving media, which are applicable for arbitrary Mach numbers, in the high-frequency approximation. Also new starting equations for the finite-difference time-domain simulations, and new formulations for the temporal and frequency coherence of acoustic signals, spectral broadening due to atmospheric turbulence, and the effect of turbulence on pulse propagation, with new experimental results pertinent to the statistical characteristics of the sound field. This book is essential for graduate students and researchers in a range of theoretical and applied interests in acoustics.
When we see evil, when it is thrust in our face, it's easy to recognize. But when it sneaks up behind us and whispers in our ear, it is almost impossible to identify. When those in authority, even our own heroes tell us we're not seeing evil, we grow bitter and strike out in defiance. For if we do not question the narrative we're being given, we cease to be part of the human race. Danny and Billie MacDougal want only to have peace; to begin their lives together. They soon realize they have no hope in attaining true peace unless they stand up and defend the most vulnerable among us, our children.
The Dying Beatitude, Book One of The DiCaro Family Saga, focuses on one of the most pressing problems America faces today, the crises within the healthcare delivery system.John DiCaro, an immigrant baker and family patriarch, the first of four generations, came to America with vivid memories of death and suffering as a boy in Italy. With the impossible dream of becoming a doctor himself, he transfers that dream to his only son, John Jr., now a typical, traditional 'family doctor' during the mid-twentieth century. The untimely death of Susan, his wife, sets the stage for the intensification of existing personality aberrations in their youngest child, five-year-old Tommy.This third generation of the DiCaro family; the sons and daughter of Dr. John and Susan DiCaro, each take a different path in life, but all play a crucial role in shaping the future of medicine in America as it exists today. Oldest son Johnny becomes a physician and joins his father's practice. Middle child Maria-a state's attorney and later, a U.S. Congresswoman-is obsessed by the plight of the elderly who in turn refer to her as 'the senior citizens' Joan of Arc'. Youngest son, the troubled Tommy, chooses a role which will dramatically impact healthcare; quietly and anonymously assisting HHS in achieving its ever increasing control of healthcare policy and enforcement in America. His marriage to the daughter of a powerful U.S. Senator broadens his base of power and insures his rise to higher levels of control, while maintaining the faceless and invisible form of an omnipotent bureaucrat. ... the oncoming headlights exploded into her eyes like two bright stars with blinding vertical and horizontal lines. The sheer panic lasted only a moment. Realizing the oncoming vehicle was in her lane, coming straight at her, Susan instinctively pulled the steering wheel hard to the right. But it was too late. The red pickup never changed course, hitting the DiCaro car head-on. Susan's hideous screams of disbelief and pain were dampened by the tearing, screeching sound of metal consuming metal. Join author Dr. Wilson as he travels with four generations of this Italian-American family while it reaps the bounty of John DiCaro Sr., the baker. Witness the good and the bad of medical practice, politics and federal bureaucracy from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century.Dr. Wilson is a retired family physician who lives with his wife Marilyn, RN, MSW, in Florida.
This is a comprehensive accounting of the richest mussel fauna in the U.S.Alabama rivers and waterways are home to the largest and most diverse population of freshwater mussel species in the nation, roughly 60 per cent of U.S. mussel fauna. The Mobile River Basin, which drains portions of Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi waterways, also contains diverse mussel populations. However, many of these species have been significantly depleted in the last century due to habitat alteration (river damming, channelization, siltation), pollution, and invasive species, and many more are in imminent danger of extinction.The authors offer encyclopedic entries on each of the 178 mussel species currently identified in Alabama and the Mobile River Basin - the scientific and common names; a morphological description as well as color photographs of the shell appearance; analysis of the soft anatomy; information about ecology, biology, and conservation status; and, a color distribution map. With an extensive glossary of terms and full index, plus additional material on the archaeological record, a history of commercial uses of mussels, and the work of significant biologists studying these species, this volume is a long overdue and invaluable resource, not only for scholars of aquatic biology and zoology but also conservationists interested in the preservation of ecological diversity and protection of inland environments.
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