New Releases by J. Graham

The exploitation of natural landscapes and historical artefacts as tourism products has given rise to debate. This work provides a synthesis of research on the nature, production, consumption and uses of heritage.

A detailed numerical investigation of the interaction between a lateral jet and the external flow has been performed for a variety of missile body geometries. These include non-finned axisymmetrical bodies and finned bodies with either strakes or aft-mounted tail fins. The computations were performed at Mach numbers 2, 4.5, and 8. To obtain the numerical results, both Reynolds- averaged Navier-Stokes and Euler techniques were applied. The computational results were compared with results from a previously published wind tunnel study that consisted primarily of global force and moment measurements. The results show significant interactions of the jet-induced flow field with the fin surfaces, which produce additional effects compared with the body alone. In agreement with the wind tunnel study, in some cases the presence of lifting surfaces resulted in force and/or moment amplification of the jet interaction with the missile surfaces. The results indicate deamplification of the jet force at Mach 2 for all three bodies. Amplification of the jet force was also observed for high Mach numbers, particularly for the body with strakes. For the results examined here, there were only minor differences in the global force and moment predictions when viscous or inviscid techniques were used. The dependence of the interaction parameters on angle of attack and jet pressure was well predicted by both methods. The numerical techniques showed good agreement with the experiments at supersonic Mach numbers but only fair agreement for the hypersonic, Mach 8 case.

The Japanese tea ceremony is generally identified with chanoyu and its bowls of whipped, powdered green tea served in surroundings influenced by the tenets of Zen Buddhism. Tea of the Sages is the first English language study of the alternate tea tradition of sencha. At sencha tea gatherings, steeped green leaf tea is prepared in an atmosphere indebted to the humanistic values of the Chinese sages and the materialistic culture of elite Chinese society during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although sencha once surpassed chanoyu in popularity, it is now overshadowed by chanoyu, despite the existence of more than a hundred sencha schools throughout Japan. This exceptionally well-illustrated volume explores sencha''s philosophy and arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Introduced by Chinese merchants and scholar-monks, sencha first gained favor in Japan among devotees of the Chinese literati. By the early nineteenth century, it had become popular with a wide spectrum of urban and rural residents. Some took up sencha as a subversive activity in opposition to the mandated protocol of chanoyu. Others enjoyed sencha because of its connections with elite Chinese culture, knowledge of which indicated intellectual and cultural refinement. Still others relished it simply as a fine tasting beverage. Sencha inspired painters and poets and fostered major advances within craft industries from ceramics to metalwork and basketry. Sencha aficionados, many of whom became serious connoisseurs of Chinese art and antiquities, hosted some of the earliest public art exhibitions. Tea of the Sages opens with a chronological overview of tea in China and its transmission to Japan before situating sencha within the rich milieu of Chinese material culture available in early modern Japan. Subsequent chapters outline the multifaceted history of the formalization of the sencha tea ceremony, drawing upon sources such as treatises and less formal writings as well as analysis of tea gathering records, utensils and their prescribed arrangements, paintings, prints, and sencha architecture.

A revised edition of a concise and comprehensive survey of Welsh history from the Stone Age to the 1990''s. 19 black-and-white illustrations and 4 maps. First published in 1998.

One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of this century, Sam Shepard''s writing career began in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the playwright''s canon first from the perspective of dramatic analysis and intertextuality in terms of theme and performance vocabulary, then from the director''s perspective in interpretation for performance. The book is useful to the scholar, the theatre professional, and the theatre goer. Shepard''s dramaturgy is analyzed both in terms of dramatic and cinematic influences and of its originality. The author examines how Shepard has synthesized these influences into the unique contemporary dramatic form which Graham terms «Metarealism.»

Microbial organisms often produce biologically active and chemically intriguing secondary metabolites. To isolate and characterize compounds of novel activity and structure, bioassay- guided fractionations were employed on a variety of natural products sources. Active compounds were characterized by spectroscopic analysis and X-ray diffraction methods. As a result of these studies, six projects were completed, resulting in the purification of a diverse range of compounds containing activity in a variety of assays. A coumarin and parahydroxyphenylethanol were determined to possess phytotoxic activity from fungal pathogens. Two novel C-glycosidic compounds from a bacterial plant pathogen were found to be the first low molecular weight elicitors of the hypersensitive response in plants. A verticillin of the epi-polythiodiketopiperazine class isolated from a soil fungus was discovered to be responsible for inhibition of ras farnesylation transferase. Leafcutter ants were found to be deterred by the presence of a novel sesqualterpenoid in epiphylls. Finally, inhibitors of the PDGF receptor were isolated and characterized from a lichen.

The paper covers all aspects of the use of ice for the chilling and storage of fish. Following a review of fish spoilage, the nature and properties of ice are described. Ice manufacturing and storage equipment are outlined from both technical and economic viewpoints. Chilling of fish on land and at sea, including the use of chilled sea water, is described in detail, and a series of calculations of ice requirements and losses in storage are given.

A STRANGER TO MYSELF tracks self esteem from its formation in childhood to its effects on the personality & behavior patterns in adulthood. Using colorful case studies & layman''s language, the author shows the adult reader how to move from a life filled with crisis & self-defeating patterns toward self-discovery, personal growth & creativity.

A grammar which provides a comprehensive introduction to the grammar and usage of the Shetland dialect.

Comic drama Characters: 2 male, 4 female Interior, exterior or unit set. A warm drama played against the hatred in Northern Ireland, Remembrance charts the love that develops between a Protestant father and a Catholic mother who meet in the cemetery where their sons are buried, both victims of violence. Family members burden the courtship with personal antagonisms. "An absorbing, powerful and touching play.... A gripping account of the brutality of bigotry that knows

Also known as Project Management; Combining Technical and Behavioral Approaches for Effective Implementation. Included in this book are discussions of managing people, managing projects, management style, and advantages and disadvantages of matrix design.

The Population, Health and Development project of The International Development Research Centre''s Social Sciences Dvision was created in 1983 as a temporary mechanism to support and to strengthen the capacity of developing country researchers in carrying out interdisciplinary investigations of the persistent problems of high levels of infant and child mortality and poor health. This review illustrates the potential utility of existing health data in four West African countries (Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, and Sierra Leone), data other than population surveys and censuses that can be used to complement and evaluate more standard sources of demographic data. The larger purpose of the document is to make researchers rethink and improve their use of existent data collected in African health institutions.

An analytical model to calculate long-time flat plate deflection under early age construction loading is developed. Immediate deflections are calculated using an elastic finite element program, modified to account for the effects of cracking due to applied loads and restrained shrinkage. Individual creep curves that reflect the loading age of concrete are superimposed to obtain total creep deflection. Overall long-time deflection also includes shrinkage warping effects. Prediction by the model of deflections measured for three flat plates is satisfactory. From a model parameter study, the degree of panel restraint and early age loading are identified as important factors when calculating long-time deflection. Based on the proposed model and parameter study, a revised set of long-time deflection multipliers is recommended to account for early age construction loading.

I have presented a theory of form and structure, the Manichean leitmotif, which deals with the ideology and psychology of racism in American fiction. Through the theoretical and textual analyses undertaken here, we have followed the peculiar origins and development of an aesthetic theory of beauty and the sublime, specifically through a focus on Samuel Gilman''s doctrinal force of contrasted extremes. Primarily through conventional rhetorical devices comprising the ascend-descend framing device and the triadic color structure, repressive attitudes conditioned by the defense of slavery and malignant images of dark humanity have undoubtedly crept into the expressive character of the literature. Without imaginative and constructive criticism, such as that offered by the theory of the Manichean leitmotif, there can be little or no conscious awareness of the continuing unconscious ideas and impulses of negation, resulting from deliberate skin-color symbolism in the literature. Whenever a reader identifies racially and culturally with certain fictional characters - - for example, Frank Norris'' Polish Jew, half-breed Mexican, Chinese cigar-maker, big mulatto, and little colored girl in McTeague; Edgar Allen Poe''s Jupiter in The gold bug; and William Dean Howells'' Rhoda in An imperative duty - - that reader runs the risk of acquiring the attributes of his or her negation. This possibility holds true with even greater devastation when similar character traits are cinematically inculcated, because the aesthetic elements of form, sound, color and motion that comprise the doctrinal force of contrasted extremes are simultaneously heard and visualized without the tediousness of reading or skimming over their designs in the narrative. The cinema, therefore, not only tends to reinforce malignant images of dark humanity, but it also surpasses the print media in intensity of perception and verisimilitude. Fundamentally, regardless of the medium, repeated and systemic impressions of the self as buffoon and as avatar of evil and death create the degrading effects of worthlessness and non-achievement. The Manichean leitmotif causes psychic revulsions in non-white readers, in at least two important respects. First, it gives a distorted view of the past, present and even future roles of dark humanity in the social and intellectual life of America, often discrediting non-white heroes and relegating race relations to those of the feudalistic miscarriages of master and slave. Such portrayals often result in ennui and in loss of initiative, eventually, to penetrate the literature for its total intellectual and emotional content. Second, non-whites become dismayed because of the historic facts of their lives, and the mythopoetics thereof, do not correspond or coincide with the perversions of imbecility, evil, and death that are rendered, time and again, in works which convey negative skin-color symbolism through the doctrinal force of contrasted extremes. For white readers, the Manichean leitmotif is a terror-inducing device which reinforces racial stereotypes and which creates a mental block to understanding non-whites. Essentially, it prevents genuine probe into the complexities and variegated dimensions of non-whites, who, as comic and tragic avatars, are seldom, if ever, integral parts of plot. Whites are often given to believe, for example, that a piano falling on a "big mulatto" with a "resounding crack," and a Jupiter or Hark climbing up a tree are merely comic relief; but such presentations, in their deeper import, reflect a distorted view of humanity and of the world in literary forms. As an ideological design, the Manichean leitmotif plays on white fears of miscegenation, and on mistaken beliefs of racial superiority. Furthermore, such a design creates the rationale that non-whites are inferior seats of sin and crime, and are objects of suspicion and detection