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Each year, the number of serious accidents with devastating consequences for the environment continues to grow. Legal issues arising from such incidents highlight the impact of environmental damage not only on people and places, but on the interests of those held responsible. Moreover, it is now a truism to assert that pollution does not respect national frontiers - a perspective that greatly complicates matters of standing and jurisdiction. In this context the law of tort, whether it occurs through case law developments or legislative intervention, comes to the fore. In the decade since the...

Developing many of the major, exciting, pre- and post-millennium developments from the ground up, this book is an ideal entry point for graduate students into quantum information theory. Significant attention is given to quantum mechanics for quantum information theory, and careful studies of the important protocols of teleportation, superdense coding, and entanglement distribution are presented. In this new edition, readers can expect to find over 100 pages of new material, including detailed discussions of Bell's theorem, the CHSH game, Tsirelson's theorem, the axiomatic approach to quantum...

In 1717, the pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge. But in June 1718 Blackbeard reportedly ran the ship aground off the coast of North Carolina. When divers discovered the wreck in 1996, it was heralded as a major find in maritime archaeology. Now the story of Queen Anne's Revenge is revealed in full detail.