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  Architecture of Approximate Deconvolution Models of Turbulence

  A. Labovschii, W. Layton, C. Manica, M. Neda, L. Rebholz, Iuliana Stanculescu, and C. Trenchea

  This report presents the mathematical foundation of approximate deconvolution LES models together with the model phenomenology downstream of the theory. This mathematical foundation now begins to be complete for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. It is built upon averaging, deconvolving and addressing closure so as to obtain the physically correct energy and helicity balances in the LES model. We show how this is determined and how correct energy balance implies correct prediction of turbulent statistics. Interestingly, the approach is simple and thus gives a road map to develop models for more complex turbulent flows. We illustrate this herein for the case of MHD turbulence.

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  Writing Students Should Write about Advertisements

  Claire E. Lutkewitte

  This professional development guide offers insights and strategies about using pop culture in the first year writing classroom. The edited volume includes essays by instructors who share details of their most effective class ideas and writing assignments. It is a resource for new teachers and for those interested in incorporating popular culture into their writing courses.

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  Mediation

  Judith McKay

  Social problems affect everyone. Because so many actual and potential problems confront us, it is often difficult to decide which ones affect us most severely. Is it the threat of death or injury during a terrorist attack? Is it the threat caused by industrial pollution that may poison us or destroy our physical environment? Or does quiet but viciously damaging gender, age, class, racial, or ethnic discrimination have the most far-reaching effect? Do the problems of cities affect us if we live in the suburbs? Do poorer nations′ problems with overpopulation affect our quality of life?

  The Encyclopedia of Social Problems offers an interdisciplinary perspective into many social issues that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level. With more than 600 entries, these two volumes cover all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in social problems and also provide insight into how social conditions get defined as social problems, and the ways different people and organizations view and try to solve them.

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  Oil Diamonds and Human Rights in the Marketplace: Campaigning to stop the capitalization of Sudanese oil development and the international trade in conflict diamonds

  Ismael Muvingi

  This book explores the processes and outcomes of two US social justice campaigns against the violence associated with extractive industries in Sierra Leone, Angola and Sudan: The Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Markets Sanctions Campaign. The book provides a narrative of the campaigns and advances two arguments. It challenges the notion that social movements cohese on the basis of commonality of principle and argues that based on the studies, ideologically diverse coalition participants can successfully prosecute campaigns based on strategic operationalization. Secondly, most social movement scholarship is state centric inits analysis of the opportunity structures that enable mobilization and movement processes. This book illustrates that opportunities for social justice action also reside in the free market and are therefore better understood through a tripartite institutional, discursive and strategic opportunity structure framework of analysis. The analysis sheds more understanding of these specific initiatives as well as the operationalization of coalition campaigns and will be of interest to university students,scholars and social justice activists.

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  Coral Reefs of the USA

  Bernhard Riegl and Richard E. Dodge

  Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories. It is written by the most experienced authorities in their fields and geographic areas. Stretching from the Caribbean to the western Pacific, the coral reefs of the USA span extensive geographic and biotic diversity, occur in a wide variety of geomorphological settings, and provide a representative cross-section of Holocene reef-building. This book will therefore be of broad general interest. For the first time, complete scholarly reviews are given for the geology, geomorphology and the biology of reefs encompassing a vast area stretching from the Mariana Islands in the west, Samoa in the south, Hawaii in the north and the Virgin Isalnds in the east. This book is not a status report, but will provide up-to-date information about stressors and the biotic responses of the reefs, as well as the geological explanations why these reefs exist in the first place. It will be an invaluable baseline-reference for all those who are engaged in research or management of these coral reefs or to those who simply enjoy being well-informed about one fo the most iconic ecosystems of the USA.

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  Introduction: A Diversity of Oceans, Reefs, People, and Ideas: A Perspective of US Coral Reef Research

  Bernhard M. Riegl and Richard E. Dodge

  [Chapter Introduction] By virtue of its geographical extent and the size and wealth of its population, US surveyors and academics entered the scientific coral reef world soon after the study of the latter became of interest. But even earlier, the coral reefs of what are today territories of the USA have been noted and, at least cursorily, studied out of necessity since they were threats to vessels along the trade routes. Also the fossil coral reefs of the USA, of which the country has many famous examples, have received much early study and maybe even more attention than the living coral reefs. They hold a special place in sedimentology and economic geology since some of them are associated with the important oil finds that set off the early twentieth-century oil-boom in places like Texas and Utah. We will not treat these in the present volume, but restrict ourselves to the living coral reefs that can be observed in the ocean today. Recent reviews and entry points to the study of the fossil system can be found, among many others, in Stanley (2001) and Kiessling et al. (2002).

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  Geologic Setting and Geomorphology of Coral Reefs in the Mariana Islands (Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)

  Bernhard Riegl, Samuel J. Purkis, Peter Houk, Genevieve Cabrera, and Richard E. Dodge

  [Chapter Introduction] These westernmost territories of the United States are where “America’s day begins”, and contain the most diverse coral reefs under the US flag (Randall 1995; Paulay 2003). The Mariana Islands have a long history of dedicated coral reef investigations by international and US researchers begun by Agassiz (1903). Despite having been discovered by the Spanish in 1521, these islands were rarely visited by Westerners due to their isolation. The Spanish used the Marianas as a trade-route stop-over between the Philippines and South America, a history that later attracted others interested in finding treasure. In 1742, Tinian was visited by the British Commodore Anson who became rich and famous after pirating Spanish treasure, and in 1765 and 1767, Byron and Wallis revisited the island in continued search of treasure and territories. Accounts of Anson’s and Byron’s voyages were some of the earliest documentations of the Marianas. In Guam , research received a boost when the USA acquired it from Spain following the Spanish American War , and in the CNMI , when Germany bought the islands in 1899. Coral reef investigations began in 1903 when Agassiz reported about the Marianas in the course of his decade of coral reef expeditions around the world from 1893 to 1902. The German explorer Prowazek, reported on the “raised coral limestones” of the CNMI in 1913. Under Japanese mandate, Sugawara (1934) investigated the coral reefs and Holocene limestones on Rota just prior to the Second World War. At a similar time, Stearns (1937, 1940a, b) reported on Guam’s geology , hydrogeology and drew attention to the erosional notches, which have remained informative features for many subsequent investigation (Shepard et al. 1967; Easton et al. 1978; Kayanne et al. 1993; Dickinson 2000). From these beginnings, perspectives regarding eustacy in the entire Pacific Ocean were gained. After the war, intensive US-funded mapping and geologic research led to a series of United States Geological Survey publications (Cloud et al. 1956; Doan et al. 1960; Tracey et al. 1964). The seventh International Coral Reef Symposium took place in Guam and highlighted carbonate and reef studies in the Marianas, and Siegrist and Randall (1992) provide an informative overview and guide. Another excellent review of geology and hydrogeology is Mink and Vacher (1997). In addition to the raised limestone islands of the southernmost Mariana islands, the archipelago also includes nine emergent, purely volcanic islands.

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  Edgar Ulmer’s Homicidal Noirs: Psychosis and Possession in Strange Illusion, Strange Woman, and Bluebeard

  Marlisa Santos

  Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies.
  
  Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important to Ulmer's career, such as his work at the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), and his work in exploitation films and ethnic cinema. Part II analyzes Ulmer's film noirs, featuring an emphasis on Detour (1945) and Murder Is My Beat (1955). Part III covers a variety of Ulmer's individual films, ranging from Bluebeard (1944) and Carnegie Hall (1947) to The Man from Planet X(1951) and Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957). Part IV concludes the volume with a case study of The Black Cat (1934), offering three different analyses of Ulmer's landmark horror film.

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  You Gotta Eat Somethin: Food, Violence, and Perversity in Scorsese’s Urban Films

  Marlisa Santos

  You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate offers tantalizing essays immersed in the culture of food, expanded across genres, disciplines, and time. The entire collection of You Are What You Eat includes a diversity of approaches and foci from multicultural national and international scholars and has a broad spectrum of subjects including: feminist theory, domesticity, children, film, cultural history, patriarchal gender ideology, mothering ideology, queer theory, politics, and poetry. Essays include studies of food-related works by John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Fay Weldon, Kenneth Grahame, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, J. K. Rowling, Mother Goose, John Updike, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Amanda Hesser, Julie Powell, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Martin Scorsese, Bob Giraldi, Clarice Lispector, José Antônio Garcia, Fran Ross, and Gish Hen. The topic addresses a range of interests appealing to diverse audiences, expanding from college students to food enthusiasts and scholars.

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  Case Study: Rapid Species Identification of Pelagic Shark Tissues Using Genetic Approaches

  Mahmood Shivji, Melissa Pank, Lisa Natanson, Nancy Kohler, and Michael Stanhope

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  Rapid Species Identification of Pelagic Shark Tissues Using Genetic Approaches

  Mahmood S. Shivji, Melissa Pank, Lisa Natanson, Kevin E. Kohler, and Michael J. Stanhope

  This important and exciting title represents the first authoritative volume focussed on pelagic (open ocean) sharks as a group. Virtually every pelagic shark expert in the world has contributed to this landmark publication which includes the latest data and knowledge on pelagic shark biology, fisheries, management, and conservation.

  Pelagic sharks face unprecedented levels of exploitation in all the world's oceans through both direct fisheries and by-catch, and effective management for these species is contingent upon solid science and data, which this book brings together for the first time. All those involved in shark biology will need to have a copy of this book.

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  Bioluminescence

  Andrey V. Suntsov, Edith A. Widder, and Tracey Sutton

  This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish. Fish larvae (and fish embryos) are not small juveniles or adults. Rather they are transitionary organisms that bridge the critical gap between the singlecelled egg and sexually immature juvenile. Fish larvae represent the stage of the life cycle that is used for differentiation, feeding and distribution. The book aims at providing a single-volume treatise that explains how fish larvae develop and differentiate, how they regulate salt, water and acid-base balance, how they transport and exchange gases, acquire and utilise energy, how they sense their environment, and move in their aquatic medium, how they control and defend themselves, and finally how they grow up.

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  Coordination Polymers of the Lanthanide Elements: A Structural Survey

  Daniel T. de Lill and Christopher L. Cahill

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  Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Workbook

  Mark A. Jaffe

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  Crinoidea

  J. S. Pearse and Charles Messing

  The Fourth Edition of The Light and Smith Manual continues a sixty-five-year tradition of providing to both students and professionals an indispensable, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to Pacific coast marine invertebrates of coastal waters, rocky shores, sandy beaches, tidal mud flats, salt marshes, and floats and docks. This classic and unparalleled reference has been newly expanded to include all common and many rare species from Point Conception, California, to the Columbia River, one of the most studied areas in the world for marine invertebrates. In addition, although focused on the central and northern California and Oregon coasts, this encyclopedic source is useful for anyone working in North American coastal ecosystems, from Alaska to Mexico.
  
  More than one hundred scholars have provided new keys, illustrations, and annotated species lists for over 3,500 species of intertidal and many shallow water marine organisms ranging from protozoans to sea squirts. This expanded volume covers sponges, sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish, flatworms, polychaetes, amphipods, crabs, insects, snails, clams, chitons, and scores of other important groups. The Fourth Edition also features introductory chapters on marine habitats and biogeography, interstitial marine life, and intertidal parasites, as well as expanded treatments of common planktonic organisms likely to be encountered in near-to-shore shallow waters.

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  Midwater Fish Assemblages and Seamounts

  Filipe M. Porteiro and Tracey Sutton

  Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands of seamounts, they are usually formed from volcanoes in the deep sea and are defined by oceanographers as independent features that rise to at least 0.5 km above the seafloor, although smaller features may have the same origin.

  This book follows a logical progression from geological and physical processes, ecology, biology and biogeography, to exploitation, management and conservation concerns. In 21 Chapters written by 57 of the world’s leading seamount experts, the book reviews all aspects of their geology, ecology, biology, exploitation, conservation and management. In Section I of this book, several detection and estimation techniques for tallying seamounts are reviewed, along with a history of seamount research.

  This book represents a unique and fresh synthesis of knowledge of seamounts and their biota and is an essential reference work on the topic. It is an essential purchase for all fisheries scientists and managers, fish biologists, marine biologists and ecologists, environmental scientists, conservation biologists and oceanographers. It will also be of interest to members of fish and wildlife agencies and government departments covering conservation and management.

  Supplementary material is available at: www.seamountsbook.info

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  Ecological Shifts along the Florida Reef Tract: The Past as a Key to the Future

  William F. Precht and Steven Miller

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  Coral Reefs and Global Change: Extreme Climatic Events and Coral Reefs: How Much Short-Term Threat from Global Change?

  Bernhard Riegl

  Coral reefs around the world are sustaining massive damage at an alarming rate. Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology provides a uniquely historical perspective on the destruction—through both natural and human processes—of coral reef ecosystems. Chapters applying the principles of geophysics, paleontology, geochemistry, and physical and chemical oceanography supply novel insights into the workings of coral reefs, complementing real-time ecological studies and providing critical information for crafting realistic environmental policy.

  By reconstructing the ecological history of coral reefs, the authors are able to evaluate whether or not recent, dramatic changes to reef ecosystems are novel events or part of a long-term trend or cycle. The contributions examine the interacting causes of change, which include hurricane damage, regional outbreaks of coral-consuming predators, disease epidemics, sea-level rise, nutrient loading, global warming and acidification of the oceans. Crucial predictions about the future of coral reefs lead to practical strategies for the successful restoration and management of reef ecosystems. Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology will be of particular interest to students and professionals in ecology and marine biology, including environmental managers.

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  Extreme Climatic Events and Coral Reefs: How Much Short-Term Threat from Global Change?

  Bernhard Riegl

  [Book Description] Coral reefs around the world are sustaining massive damage at an alarming rate. Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology provides a uniquely historical perspective on the destruction - through both natural and human processes - of coral reef ecosystems. Chapters applying the principles of geophysics, paleontology, geochemistry, and physical and chemical oceanography supply novel insights into the workings of coral reefs, complementing real-time ecological studies and providing critical information for crafting realistic environmental policy.

  By reconstructing the ecological history of coral reefs, the authors are able to evaluate whether or not recent, dramatic changes to reef ecosystems are novel events or part of a long-term trend or cycle. The contributions examine the interacting causes of change, which include hurricane damage, regional outbreaks of coral-consuming predators, disease epidemics, sea-level rise, nutrient loading, global warming and acidification of the oceans. Crucial predictions about the future of coral reefs lead to practical strategies for the successful restoration and management of reef ecosystems. Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology will be of particular interest to students and professionals in ecology and marine biology, including environmental managers.

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  "Big Fat Fish": The Hypersexualization of the Fat Female Body in Calypso and Dancehall

  Andrea Shaw-Nevins

  This collection of essays brings together critical perspectives from a wide variety of Caribbean artists, about Caribbean culture and its connections to political traditions in the African Diaspora.

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  A Molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates

  M. S. Springer, W. J. Murphy, E. Eizirik, O. Madsen, M. Scally, C. J. Douady, E. C. Teeling, M. J. Stanhope, W. W. de Jong, and S. J. O'Brien

  [Book Description] Broadest possible perspective on early primate phylogeny and the adaptive uniqueness of the Order Primates

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  Basic Theory and Experiments in Physics

  Diego Castano and David Simon

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  Cathal O Searcaigh: Gay, Gaelach agus Galanta - Gay, Gaelic, and Gorgeous

  James E. Doan

  Cathal Ó Searcaigh is one of the leading Irish poets of the past twenty-five years. His poetry is widely published in the original Irish and in translation. This, however, is the first collection of critical essays dealing with his work. Gathered here are eight essays by Irish, American and Japanese writers; an interview with the poet himself; original poems; and previously unpublished photographs and translations. The collection's international array of both contributors and perspectives reflects the breadth and scope of Ó Searcaigh's work, and also provides an indication of the high esteem in which his work is held.

  Remarkably diverse issues and themes are explored in Ó Searcaigh's poetry. These include language, place, religion, sexuality, tradition, modernity, and also the influence of other poets from Ireland and beyond. For those unfamiliar with the poet's work, this volume provides a useful introduction to his poetry; and for those already familiar with his writing, each essay offers new readings of, and fresh returns to, favourite Ó Searcaigh poems, some of which are key texts in the contemporary Irish literature scene.

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  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Temple Scroll

  James E. Doan

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  On the Side of Light: The Poetry of Cathal O Searcaigh

  James E. Doan and Frank Sewell

  Cathal O Searcaigh is one of the leading Irish poets of the past twenty-five years. His poetry is widely published in the original Irish and in translation. This book marks the first collection of critical essays dealing with his work. Gathered here are eight essays by Irish, American, and Japanese writers; an interview with the poet himself; original poems; and previously unpublished photographs and translations. The collection's international array of both contributors and perspectives reflects the breadth and scope of O Searcaigh's work, exploring such themes as language, place, religion, sexuality, and modernity.