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Liverpool University Press Brian Friel
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical examination of Friel’s dramatic writing both within the context of Irish storytelling and considering his crucial position as a writer from the north of Ireland negotiating between the responsibilities of art and the demands of violent conflict.
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Liverpool University Press Caroline Drama The Plays of Massinger Ford
Book SynopsisIn this study Julie Sanders reveals the concern that the public theatre playwriting of Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome had towards issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.
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Liverpool University Press Ivor Gurney
Book SynopsisDrawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney’s difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney’s poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer.
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Liverpool University Press Revolutionary Women Writers Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise.
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Liverpool University Press John Bunyan
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Liverpool University Press Anita Desai
Book SynopsisThrough detailed discussions of a number of short stories and novels, and references to other works by Indo-English writers, this book shows how Desai maps her ‘India’, and opens up ways of reading ‘India’ for the reader as outsider.
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Liverpool University Press J.G. Farrell
Book SynopsisThis new, invigorating and accessible study excitingly explores the substance and significance of J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy and assesses its damning and influential critique of British colonial rule.
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Liverpool University Press Marina Warner
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of Marina Warner's work.
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Liverpool University Press The Imagist Poets
Book SynopsisThe Imagist Poets revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations.
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Liverpool University Press Janet Frame
Book SynopsisClaire Bazin explores the extraordinary life of Janet Frame and highlights the author's significant contribution to postcolonial and gender studies.
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Liverpool University Press Anita Desai
Book SynopsisThrough detailed discussions of a number of short stories and novels, and references to other works by Indo-English writers, this book shows how Desai maps her ‘India’, and opens up ways of reading ‘India’ for the reader as outsider.
£71.50
Liverpool University Press Norman MacCaig
Book SynopsisThis study locates Norman MacCaig in his literary and social contexts and presents his work according to its major emphases.
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Liverpool University Press Olive Senior
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Liverpool University Press Olive Senior
Book SynopsisDenise deCaires Narain discusses Senior's technique of alerting the reader to the historical narratives of the individuals she writes about, and foregrounds the writer's work as a distinct and invaluable intervention in Caribbean Literature.
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Liverpool University Press Bram Stoker
Book SynopsisThis accessible book offers an introduction to a range of Bram Stoker's work – novels, short stories, biography, and criticism. It provides a discussion of recent scholarship on Stoker including the many attempts to write his life and find the ‘real’ Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes.
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Liverpool University Press Sylvia Plath
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Liverpool University Press Elizabeth Taylor
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to the work of the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor.
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Liverpool University Press Women Writers of Childrens Classics
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Liverpool University Press Salman Rushdie
Book SynopsisThis study seeks to provide a balanced view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its dual responsibility to the 'found' world of historical circumstance and the 'made' world of the imagination.
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Liverpool University Press Vernon Lee
Book SynopsisThis book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
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Liverpool University Press Sidney and His Circle
Book SynopsisIn this compact, yet wide ranging guide Matthew Woodcock presents a structured introduction to each of Sidney’s major works.
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Liverpool University Press The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
Book SynopsisThis study responds to developments of the sensation novel within literature, television and popular culture, and takes into account recent studies of the genre.
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Liverpool University Press Crime Fiction From Poe to the Present
Book SynopsisThis book examines why the form of the detective 'whodunnit' narrative has proved so tenacious, and plots a course through the thousands of crime novels and stories which have appeared since the narrative was established.
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Liverpool University Press Childrens Literature From the Fin de Siecle to the New Millennium
Book SynopsisA volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.Trade Review‘In anyone’s terms this is a virtuoso and scholarly tour de force analysis of the past 100 years of children’s fiction.’ Times Higher Educational Supplement‘..a very useful book in an area where a short pithy introduction like this is badly needed.’ Times Educational Supplement‘a constantly thoughtful and thought-provoking book with the importance of literature and the needs of real children as its constant concerns. There are some remarkable insights into the history of children’s literature.’ The School Librarian‘a fascinating, scholarly examination of the dialectical relationship between children’s literature and attitudes towards children and childhood.’ The Reader’s Guide to Literature.‘Reynolds..has approached the task in an original and potentially illuminating fashion..’ Folly
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Emerald Publishing Limited TwentiethCentury Economics
Book SynopsisThe archival collection has two parts. The first presents correspondence between the American economist, Alfred S. Eichner, and the English economist, Joan Robinson, and related documents. The correspondents were major contributors to Post Keynesian economics in terms of both ideas and creating self-consciousness. The second presents hitherto unpublished correspondence and documents pertaining to the nature, rise and limits of quantitative methodology in economics. The materials are from Wesley C. Mitchell, Henry Schultz, and Arthur F. Burns. They examine many issues that remain in contention today.Table of ContentsOn the Genesis of Post Keynesian Economics. Alfred S. Eichner, Joan Robinson and the founding of post Keynesian economics (F.S. Lee). Tributes in memory of Alfred S. Eichner. Correspondence: working out the megacorp and oligopoly, 1969-1971. Correspondence: organizing the U.S. post Keynesians and macrodynamics, 1971-1972. Correspondence: neoclassical economics and the post Keynesian paradigm, 1973-1976. Appendix I. Regulating private power. Appendix II. Price policies of oligopolistic companies: The larger dynamic. Appendix III. Adrian Wood, the magacorp, and the determination of the mark up. Content and Methodology During the Interwar Period. The quantative method in economics: its promise, strength and limits (W.C. Mitchell et al.). Introduction (L. Fioritio, W.J. Samuels). The years of high pluralism: U.S. interwar economics: new light from the Mitchell correspondence (L. Fiorito). Henry Schultz's "The Quantative Method with Special Reference to Economic Inquiry" (L. Fiorito, W.J. Samuels). Editor's note (L. Fiorito). The quantative method with special reference to economic inquiry (H. Schultz, A.F. Burns's "Scientific Method and Business Cycles" (W.J. Samuels). Introduction (W.J. Samuels). Scientific method and business cycles (A.F. Burns).
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Emerald Publishing Limited Research in Social Movements Conflicts and Change
Book SynopsisPresents two papers on methodological issues facing the study of social movements. This work includes four papers on specific social movements or social movement organizations, two papers on aspects of social change and inequality, and one study critically analyzing the conflict resolution prospects in a situation of protracted violence.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Methods and the Study of Social Movements. Methods, movements and outcomes: methodological difficulties in the study of extra-movement outcomes (J. Earl). In newspapers we trust? Assessing the credibility of news sources that cover protest campaigns (E. Swank). Case Studies in Social Movements. Framing the nonproliferation debate: transnational activism and international nuclear weapons negotiations (J. Smith). Mega hog farms in the Texas Panhandle region: corporate actions and local resistance (A. Bonanno, D.H. Constance). Coalition work among environmental groups: who participates? (M.B. Shaffer). Technology, honesty, and work: the Peruvian small-scale industrialists, 1971-1992 (O. Celle de Bowman). Social Inequalities and Social Change. Ethnic economies and social policy (S.J. Gold, I. Light). Labor market segmentation and the cultural division of labor in the copper mining industry, 1880-1920 (T. Boswell, J. Brueggemann). Palestinian Islamism and Israeli-Palestinian peace (R. Reuveny).
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Emerald Publishing Limited Bank Fragility and Regulation Evidence from
Book SynopsisFocuses on problems in banking that have the potential not only for disrupting the smooth provision of banking and other financial services, but also for adversely affecting domestic and even international macroeconomic activity. This work talks about fragility and regulation in different countries.Table of ContentsList of contributors. Introduction (G.G. Kaufman). Part I. Cross-country evidence on banking crises: do financial structure and bank regulation matter? (J.R. Barth et al.). Towards a regulatory agenda for banking in Europe (H.A. Benink, R.H. Schmidt). Subordinated debt and bank capital reform (D.D. Evanoff, L.D. Wall). Challenges to the structure of financial supervision in the EU (K. Lannoo). Comment (R. DeYoung). Part II. Deposit rate premiums and the demand for funds by thrifts (D. Aadland, D. Dahl and A. Stephens). A regulatory regime for financial stability (D.T. Llewellyn). The development of internal models approaches to bank regulation & supervision: lessons from the market risk amendment (M.R. Saidenberg, J.A. Lopez). Comment (M.J. Courchane). Part III. The role of a camel downgrade model in bank surveillance (R.A. Gilbert, A.P. Meyer and M.D. Vaughan). Credit registers and early warning systems of bank fragility. The Italian experience (P. Marullo Reedtz, M. Trapanese). Deposit insurance funding and insurer resource allocation: a portfolio model of insurer behavior under uncertainty (S.A. Seelig, J. O'Keefe). Comment (D.P. Morgan).
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Emerald Publishing Limited Market Discipline in Banking Theory and Evidence
Book SynopsisContains papers which consider the basic role of market discipline, how it may be applied to banking and more broadly to large financial institutions of various types.Trade Review...Twelve papers consider the resurrection of the concept of market discipline in banking, how well market discipline has worked in the past, and the promise it may have for the future. Individual papers were presented during the annual meeting of the Financial Management Association International in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2003 or during the annual meeting of the Western Finance association in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2003. Journal of Economic Literature, 2004Table of ContentsList of contributors. Introduction (G.G. Kaufman). Part I. Market discipline in banking: Theory and evidence 1. Resolving large complex financial organizations (R. Bliss). The impact of supervisory disclosure on the supervisory process (R. Feldman, et al.). Market discipline: A theoretical framework for regulatory policy development (P. Hamalainen, et al.). International financial conglomerate and bank insolvency regimes (R. Herring). Comment (J. Bisignano). Comment (B.E. Gup). Comment (G.G. Kaufman). Comment (H. Rosenblum). Part II. Market discipline in banking: Theory and evidence 2. Market discipline and financial crisis policy: A historical perspective (M.D. Bordo). The role of market discipline in handling problem banks (D.T. Llewellyn, D.G. Mayes). Do un-insured depositors vote with their feet? (K. McDill, A.M. Maechler). Market discipline of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: How do share prices and debt yield spreads, respond to new info? (R.S. Seiler, Jr.). Comment (L. Mote). Comment (R. van Order). Part III. Market discipline in banking: Role of supervisors and netting. Netting, financial contracts, and banks: The economic implications (B.Bergman, et al.). Inter-bank netting agreements and the distribution of bank default risk (W.R. Emmons). Do jumbo-cd holders care about anything? (J.R. Hall, et al.). Bank loan underwriting practices: Can supervisors' risk assessments, contribute to early warning systems? (C. Richardson, et al.). Comment (D. Evanoff). Comment (J.E McNulty).
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Emerald Publishing Limited Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research
Book SynopsisFeaturing articles covering areas of accounting, this volume examines the behavioral implications of alternative going concern reporting formats. It explains how forensic experts at professional service firms assess the factors that indicate financial statement fraud. It reports three research studies examining performance in a managerial setting.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Reviewer Acknowledgements. Editors Comments. Editorial Policy and Submission Guidelines. Tax Compliance Intentions of Low-Income Individual Taxpayers. (H. Efebera et al.). Determinants of Tax Professionals Advice Aggressiveness and Fees. (D. D. Bobek, R. C. Hatfield). Behavioral Implications of Alternative Going Concern Reporting Formats. (C. Viger et al.). Management Fraud Risk Factors: An Examination of the Self-Insight of and Consensus among Forensic Experts. (S. Webber, B. Apostolou, J. M. Hassell). Budgetary Slack Creation and Task Performance: Comparing Individuals to Collective Units. (J. M. Kohlmeyer, III, J. E. Hunton). Budget Team Goals and Performance Antecedent and Mediating Effects. (P. Chalos et al.). Performance Evaluations, with or without Data from a Formal Accounting Reporting System. (Yin Xu, B. Tuttle). Unraveling the Expectations Gap: An Assurance Gaps Model and Illustrative Application. (K. Gladden Burke, S. E. Kovar, P. J. Prenshaw).
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Emerald Publishing Limited Empirical Methods for Bioethics
Book SynopsisThe effect that bioethics can have on policy decisions and health care delivery demand an enhanced approach to our understanding of such complex issues. This book shows how empirical social research can be used to illuminate and answer such quandaries.Table of ContentsSection I 1. Introduction. Liva Jacoby, Ph.D. and Laura Siminoff, Ph.D., Co-Editors. 2. The Significance of Empirical Research for the Advancement of Bioethics--A Philosopher's Perspective. Wayne Shelton, Ph.D. 3. The Signficance of Empirical Bioethics for Medical Practice--a Physician's Presepctive. Joel Frader, M.D. Section II --Qualitative Methods 4.Ethnography. Elisa Gordon, Ph.D. 5. Content Analysis. TBD 6. Focus Groups. Chris Simon, Ph.D. 7. Semi-structured Interviews. Pamela Sankar, Ph.D. Section III--Quantitative Methods 8. Structured Interviews and Surveys. Caleb Alexander, M.D. 9. Intervention and Outcome Studies. Marion Broome, Ph.D. 10. Research using Hypethicals. Connie Ulrich, Ph.D. 11. Deliberative Procedures. Susan Goold, M.D. Section IV Summary. Co-editors
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John Wiley & Sons Conservative Management of Sports Injuries
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John Wiley & Sons Managing the Respiratory Care Department
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John Wiley & Sons Essentials of Public Health Biology A Guide for A Guide for the Study of Pathophysiology
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John Wiley & Sons Pediatric Physical Examination Health Assessment
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John Wiley & Sons Global Case Studies in Maternal and Child Health
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John Wiley & Sons Handbook of Local Government Fiscal Health
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John Wiley & Sons Criminal Interrogation and Confessions
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Mira Books A Secret Splendor
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Thomas Nelson Publishers NET Abide Bible Journal Leviticus Paperback Comfort Print Softcover
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Kwela BUYS n Grensroman
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Human & Rosseau 150 Stories
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Human & Rosseau Infanta
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Human & Rosseau Ester
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Johns Hopkins University Press Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome Ancient
Book SynopsisHe discusses the strategies the Romans employed to alleviate or prevent flooding, their social and religious attitudes toward floods, and how the threat of inundation influenced the development of the city's physical and economic landscapes.Trade ReviewA comprehensive, insightful and lucid book-length study on a topic of great importance. -- Eric Kondratieff Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007 Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome is that rare thing in scholarship, a work that genuinely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. Professor Aldrete has brilliantly illuminated an aspect of ancient Rome that was ever present to the city's inhabitants but almost invisible to modern historians. -- Stanley Burstein History Teacher 2007 Thoughtful study. -- Dennis E. Trout American Historical Review 2007 A noble attempt to bring interdisciplinary evidence from outside classical sources to bear on a long-standing problem of Roman history and archaeology. -- James C. Anderson, Jr. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 A meticulously researched, well-written, and thoroughly referenced study of a little known aspect of Rome's history. -- Brian Fagan Historian 2009Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Floods and HistoryChapter OneFloods in Ancient Rome: Sources and TopographyFloods and the Foundation of RomePrimary Source Descriptions of Floods in Ancient RomeGeographic Extent of Floods Based on Primary SourcesThe Topography of Rome and FloodsMaps of Hypothetical Floods of Different MagnitudesChapter TwoCharacteristics of FloodsFlood Types and Basic HydrologyHydrology of the Tiber and the Tiber Drainage BasinDuration of Floods at RomeSeasonality of Floods at RomeFrequency of Floods at RomeMagnitude of Floods at RomeConclusionChapter ThreeImmediate Effects of FloodsIntroduction and MethodologyDisruption of the Daily Life of the CityDestruction of PropertyCollapse of StructuresInjuries and DrowningCleaning Up after a Flood: Water, Mud, Debris, CorpsesChapter FourDelayed Effects of FloodsWeakened BuildingsFood Spoilage and FamineDiseasePsychological TraumaRecovery and ReconstructionChapter FiveMethods of Flood ControlDrain: The Roman SewersFill: Attempts to Raise Ground LevelDivert: Canals and Channel Modification SchemesContain: Roman EmbankmentsAdministrative Oversight of the TiberChapter SixRoman Attitudes toward FloodsFloods and the Urban Fabric of Ancient Rome: Public BuildingsFloods and the Urban Fabric of Ancient Rome: HousingWater and the GodsFloods and the Gods: Portents and Divine AngerFlood Reports: Context and CausationFlood Prevention: Costs and BenefitsConclusion: The Romans' Failure to Make Rome Safe from FloodsAppendix I: List of Major Floods at Rome, 414 BC–AD 2000Appendix II: The Modern Tiber EmbankmentsAppendix III: A Note on Hydrological SourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Electoral Systems and Democracy
Book SynopsisQuade, Benjamin Reilly, Andrew Reynolds, David Samuels, Richard Snyder, Richard Soudriette, R. Kent WeaverTrade ReviewAn accessible and comprehensive collection... usefully grounds the key theoretical arguments with empirical evidence. -- Toby James Political Studies Review 2007 Very useful for pedagogical purposes... Recommended. General readers and undergraduates. Choice 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. Electorial Systems and Institutional Design1. A Primer for Decision Makers2. A Gobal Snapshot3. Dealing with Divided Societies4. The Case for Power Sharing5. The Impact of FederalismII. Is Proportional Representation Best?6. Constitutional Choices for New Democracies7. The Problem with PR8. PR and Democratic Statecraft9. Double-Checking the Evidence10. The Primary of the ParticularIII. Country and Regional Experiences11. Constitutional Engineering in Southern Africa12. Comment: Elections in Agrarian Societies13. Rejoinder: The Case for Proportionality14. Electoral Reform and Stability in Uruguary15. Devaluing the Vote in Latin America16. Why Direct Election Failed in Israel17. The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan18. The Curious Case of Afghanistan19. Iraq's Year of Voting DangerouslyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Beyond the Black Box
Book SynopsisShows how crash investigators, scientists, and engineers use physics and engineering to determine the probable cause of airplane accidents and how resulting safety recommendations are incorporated to make flying safer. Beginning with the 1931 Fokker F-10A crash, this work examines crash investigations through the lens of physical science.Trade ReviewThe author does a first-rate job... The easy-to-read and engaging manner of the writing makes this an interesting historical as well as scientific text. -- Charles K. Jervis National Science Teachers Association 2008 Bibel takes the reader, chattily and with skill, through his analysis of a series of fatal accidents. -- Paul Marks New Scientist 2007 Offering insights into how aviation accident investigations are conducted, Bibel addresses the causes of such accidents, from in-flight breakup to metal fatigue and combustion, and the lessons learned. Enriched with many drawings, graphs, and equations... Highly recommended. Library Journal 2007 A fascinating book. -- Steven D. Levitt New York Times 2008 The author succeeds in both science and storytelling. Choice 2008 The easy-to-read and engaging manner of the writing makes this an interesting historical as well as scientific text. -- Charles K. Jervis NSTA Recommends 2008 Beyond the Black Box provides a behind-the-scenes look at plane crash investigations. Air Safety Week 2008 Bibel takes responsibility for his readers' understanding... using similes based on everyday events and objects. -- Don Fry Virginia Quarterly Review 2008 Terrific book. Discover 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. The Crash Investigation Process2. How Planes (Often) Crash3. In-Flight Breakup4. Pressure, Explosive Decompression, and Burst Balloons5. Jet Propulsion, Burst Engines, and Reliability6. Metal Fatigue: Bending 777s and Paper Clips7. Combustion: Fire and Explosion8. Crash Testing9. Human Tolerances to G Loads and Crash ForcesNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making and Selling Cars Innovation and Change in the US Automotive Industry
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