Because the facts are so important and interesting in medical liability litigation, the authors of Boumil and Sharpe’s Liability in Medicine and Public Health have selected cases with thorough statements of facts, as well as intelligible discussions of law. The authors have avoided including medical and legal horror stories; instead, a good many cases illustrate commonplace situations in medical practice that lawyers have to discuss with doctors over and over. The medical practitioner orientation looks at negligence, informed consent, bioethics, and insurance through the eyes of doctors and other healthcare providers. The authors are not plaintiff-oriented or defendant-oriented; they are trying to show the interplay of lawyers and doctors in many roles. This law school casebook: Covers medical liability claims and allocation of liabilities Discusses treating the medical liability crisis regarding insurance Examines claims against multi

Liability in Medicine and Public Health (American Casebook Series)

Boumil, Marcia

Sharpe, David

Administrative Law

West Academic Publishing

Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2012 Every year, Choice subject editors recognise the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice's January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community. The authoritative reference on wind energy, now fully revised and updated to include offshore wind power A decade on from its first release, the Wind Energy Handbook, Second Edition, reflects the advances in technology underpinning the continued expansion of the global wind power sector. Harnessing their collective industrial and academic expertise, the authors provide a comprehensive introduction to wind turbine design and wind farm planning for onshore and offshore wind-powered electricity generation. The major change since the first edition is the addition of a new chapter on offshore wind turbines and offshore wind farm development. Opening with a survey of the present state of offshore wind farm development, the chapter goes on to consider resource assessment and array losses. Then wave loading on support structures is examined in depth, including wind and wave load combinations and descriptions of applicable wave theories. After sections covering optimum machine size and offshore turbine reliability, the different types of support structure deployed to date are described in turn, with emphasis on monopiles, including fatigue analysis in the frequency domain. Final sections examine the assessment of environmental impacts and the design of the power collection and transmission cable network. New coverage features: <ul>
<li>turbulence models updated to reflect the latest design standards, including an introduction to the Mann turbulence model</li> <li>extended treatment of horizontal axis wind turbines aerodynamics, now including a survey of wind turbine aerofoils, dynamic stall and computational fluid dynamics</li> <li>developments in turbine design codes</li> <li>techniques for extrapolating extreme loads from simulation results</li> <li>an introduction to the NREL cost model</li> <li>comparison of options for variable speed operation</li> <li>in-depth treatment of individual blade pitch control</li> <li>grid code requirements and the principles governing the connection of large wind farms to transmission networks</li> <li>four pages of full-colour pictures that illustrate blade manufacture, turbine construction and offshore support structure installation</li> </ul>
Firmly established as an essential reference, Wind Energy Handbook, Second Edition will prove a real asset to engineers, turbine designers and wind energy consultants both in industry and research. Advanced engineering students and new entrants to the wind energy sector will also find it an invaluable resource.

Wind Energy Handbook

Science & Math

Burton, Tony

Jenkins, Nick

Bossanyi, Ervin

Technology

wiley

As environmental concerns have focused attention on the generation of electricity from clean and renewable sources wind energy has become the world's fastest growing energy source. The Wind Energy Handbook draws on the authors' collective industrial and academic experience to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of wind energy research and provide a comprehensive treatment of wind energy for electricity generation. 
Features include: <ul>
<li>An authoritative overview of wind turbine technology and wind farm design and development</li> <li>In-depth examination of the aerodynamics and performance of land-based horizontal axis wind turbines</li> <li>A survey of alternative machine architectures and an introduction to the design of the key components</li> <li>Description of the wind resource in terms of wind speed frequency distribution and the structure of turbulence</li> <li>Coverage of site wind speed prediction techniques</li> <li>Discussions of wind farm siting constraints and the assessment of environmental impact</li> <li>The integration of wind farms into the electrical power system, including power quality and system stability</li> <li>Functions of wind turbine controllers and design and analysis techniques</li> </ul>
With coverage ranging from practical concerns about component design to the economic importance of sustainable power sources, the Wind Energy Handbook will be an asset to engineers, turbine designers, wind energy consultants and graduate engineering students.

Earth Sciences

This textbook is an introduction to the concept of factorization and its application to problems in algebra and number theory. With the minimum of prerequisites, the reader is introduced to the notion of rings, fields, prime elements and unique factorization. The author shows how concepts can be applied to a variety of examples such as factorizing polynomials, finding determinants of matrices and Fermat's 'two-squares theorem'. Based on an undergraduate course given at the University of Sheffield, Dr Sharpe has included numerous examples which demonstrate how frequently these ideas are useful in concrete, rather than abstract, settings. The book also contains many exercises of varying degrees of difficulty together with hints and solutions. Second and third year undergraduates will find this a readable and enjoyable account of a subject lying at the heart of much of mathematics.

Rings and Factorization

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

Toronto's Rochdale College began as an educational ideal, an experiment in living and learning, a place where "open" classes and unstructured seminars could liberate higher education from its shackles. Rochdale ended-after seven incredible years-in drug raids, overdoses, and police surveillance, but it is remembered as Canada's most controversial symbol of the 1960s. The fascinating story of Rochdale's rise and fall is told in this well-researched, entertaining book.

Rochdale: The Runaway College

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

House of Anansi Pr

Gathers together letters from over a hundred famous people in all walks of life, in which they describe the motivating force of their life

What Makes You Tick?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Ten Speed Press+

Fully updated and authoritative reference to wind energy technology written by leading academic and industry professionals 
The newly revised Third Edition of the Wind Energy Handbook delivers a fully updated treatment of key developments in wind technology since the publication of the book’s Second Edition in 2011. The criticality of wakes within wind farms is addressed by the addition of an entirely new chapter on wake effects, including ‘engineering’ wake models and wake control. Offshore, attention is focused for the first time on the design of floating support structures, and the new ‘PISA’ method for monopile geotechnical design is introduced. 
The coverage of blade design has been completely rewritten, with an expanded description of laminate fatigue properties and new sections on manufacturing methods, blade testing, leading-edge erosion and bend-twist coupling. These are complemented by new sections on blade add-ons and noise in the aerodynamics chapters, which now also include a description of the Leishman-Beddoes dynamic stall model and an extended introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis. 
The importance of the environmental impact of wind farms both on- and offshore is recognized by expanded coverage, and the requirements of the Grid Codes to ensure wind energy plays its full role in the power system are described. The conceptual design chapter has been extended to include a number of novel concepts, including low induction rotors, multiple rotor structures, superconducting generators and magnetic gearboxes. 
References and further reading resources are included throughout the book and have been updated to cover the latest literature. As in previous editions, the core subjects constituting the essential background to wind turbine and wind farm design are covered. These include:\nThe nature of the wind resource, including geographical variation, synoptic and diurnal variations, and turbulence characteristics 
The aerodynamics of horizontal axis wind turbines, including the actuator disc concept, rotor disc theory, the vortex cylinder model of the actuator disc and the Blade-Element/Momentum theory 
Design loads for horizontal axis wind turbines, including the prescriptions of international standards 
Alternative machine architectures 
The design of key components 
Wind turbine controller design for fixed and variable speed machines 
The integration of wind farms into the electrical power system 
Wind farm design, siting constraints, and the assessment of environmental impact\nPerfect for engineers and scientists learning about wind turbine technology, the Wind Energy Handbook will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students taking courses on wind turbines and wind energy, as well as industry professionals whose work requires a deep understanding of wind energy technology.

Engineering & Transportation

GRAHAM, MICHAEL

Burton, Tony L.

Engineering

Rochdale: The Runaway College (A List)

History

Americas

A-LIST

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