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Offers coverage of the composition, structure, and properties of inorganic glasses. This book facilitates learning with a discussion of fundamental concepts, chapter-ending problem sets, an emphasis on key ideas, and timely notes on suggested readings.

This unique book provides a new and well-motivated introduction to calculus and analysis that are historically significant fundamental areas of mathematics and widely used in many disciplines.

Following from a public symposium entitled 'Trusting the Clergy?' this volume includes the viewpoints of influential people in the Catholic Church in America, including Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, Bishop Howard Hubbard, and Father Donald B. Cozzens.

Provides a detailed look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific software program, this book focuses on the fundamentals of editing as art. It includes examples, analysis, and film stills from great movies.

Wire drawing is a metalworking process used to reduce the diameter of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). This text explains the complex theory and engineering concepts with relation to wire drawing. It offers real-world worked examples, problems and protocols based on true life engineering scenarios.

Provides an account of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers, the basis of all our telecommunications infrastructure as well as being used in the medical field.

Explores architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design and provides a architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation. Using cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, and leisure strategy planning, this text presents the mechanisms of spatial control inherent in architectural rectification.

Gives an analysis of the economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. This work examines the program's successes and failures, providing a discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the US conducts foreign policy.

As a director, you must have a concept - a director's idea, to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. Using case studies of directors as examples, this book is aimed at providing the theory and the practice to help directors improve their work. It stands as a blend of theory and practice.

A blend of screenwriting technique and film studies, this work discusses screen stories as they have evolved through the years, focusing on the basics of scriptwriting. It examines the internationalization of storytelling, and illustrates how particular innovations have helped national screen stories to international success.

Reviews the advances in ultrasound technology and provides a basis for its importance in clinical practice.

Proceedings of an International Symposium on Adhesives, Sealants, and Coatings for Space and Harsh Environments, sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society, held April 7-9, 1987, in Denver, Colorado

Proceedings of a Symposium on Recent Developments in Adhesive Chemistry, sponsored by the Divsion of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, held March 21-23, 1983, in Seattle, Washington

Includes five chapters, numerous additions to existing chapters, and a collection of questions and exercises. This title presents an introduction to financial engineering that shows readers how to create financial assets in static and dynamic environments.

Presents detailed discussions on the systematic, ecological, and evolutionary implications of the pollination of terrestrial orchids of Southern Australia and the Mediterranean; variation and diversity in deep-sea echinoids; the molecular evolution of the alcohol dehydrogenase genes in Drosophila;