The term "culture wars" refers to the political and sociological polarisation that has characterised American society the past several decades. This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teachers, and the general reader. It aims to promote understanding and clarification on pertinent topics that too often are not adequately explained or discussed in a balanced context. With approximately 640 entries plus more than 120 primary documents supporting both sides...

Digital Photography DSLR So you want to learn about digital photography. 'Digital Photography - DSLR' has been is written for those who want to learn digital photography. It covers all of the basic digital photography techniques. When you are learning digital photography it is vital that you understand the digital photography basics so that even with an entry level DSLR you can produce sound pictures, both technically and creatively. For the purpose of this book, which is basically a guide to digital photography, I will be using images shot with my Canon 350D. Some were taken with the 18 -...

There is now an awareness within the industry, particularly as oil companies direct considerable resources towards developing diverless production systems, that a fully integrated approach to equipment design and intervention is necessary to achieve an acceptable system. The requirement for an integrated approach to equipment design and intervention is applicable not only to diverless depths but to all subsea structures, equipment and intervention techniques in whatever depth. Fortunately the inherent dexterity of the diver does not impact so severely on design as other intervention...