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After a ship runs aground, a bad day often gets considerably worse. Wave forces tend to push stranded ships toward the beach, sometimes so far ashore that they become unreachable by salvage vessels. This book investigates linear and nonlinear grounded-ship motions, through both experimental model testing and theoretical analysis. The author proposes a new method to predict either the distance a grounded ship will move ashore in a given time, or how much ballast should be added to keep it in place. This information could help ship owners, insurers, and government officials make key decisions...

THE JESUS GENE The Jesus Gene has been comprehensively researched and the authors have over 50 years experience of Freemasonry between them as well as senior Masonic rank in most orders. The Jesus Gene breaks entirely new ground and confirms controversial origins for Freemasonry, origins that have only been hinted at until now. The Jesus Gene looks behind the veil of secrecy that shrouds Freemasonry and puts forward a new - and contentious - explanation for the allegories that the Masonic initiation ceremonies enact. In Part 1, The Jesus Gene weighs up the high Judaic content of Freemasonry....

Rational choice approaches to the study of politics are of great and growing prominence in political science. There are an increasing number of collections devoted to the methods of rational choice theory and specialized monographs applying it to individual topics. The present volume is unique in that it is a collection of substantive applications of rational choice theory in three of the main fields of political inquiry: comparative politics, international relations and political theory. The essays gathered here represent work by many of the most outstanding scholars in the discipline...