Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics emphasizes the application of optimization, economics, and systems engineering to problems in environmental resources management. This senior level/graduate textbook introduces optimization theory and algorithms that have been successful in resolving water quality and groundwater management problems. Both linear programming and nonlinear optimization are presented. Multiobjective optimization and the linked simulation-optimization (LSO) methodology are also introduced. The basic principles of economics and engineering economics...

Clay Redmond, a Miami real estate broker living the good life, was all set for early retirement until his business partner "screws" him out of his interest in a choice piece of real estate. Clay's golden years nest-egg issue goes to court but even his own attorney and the presiding judge side against him. Cheated again, he felt, by a corrupt justice system. Bitter and dispirited for a time, the broker-an ex- Marine-begins to plot a strategy of revenge. His plan includes, in addition to murder and mayhem, seducing the crooked business partner's young and ravishingly beautiful wife, Vanessa....

Clay Redmond, a Miami real estate broker living the good life, was all set for early retirement until his business partner "screws" him out of his interest in a choice piece of real estate. Clay's golden years nest-egg issue goes to court but even his own attorney and the presiding judge side against him. Cheated again, he felt, by a corrupt justice system. Bitter and dispirited for a time, the broker-an ex- Marine-begins to plot a strategy of revenge. His plan includes, in addition to murder and mayhem, seducing the crooked business partner's young and ravishingly beautiful wife, Vanessa....

Barlow Jimson was mean before he went deaf. Afterward, he just turned meaner. Hed blow up and fight anybody on a dare or on a show of surly lips or even a one-sided laugh if he didnt see enough smile in it.

William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on dissections and vivisections, for the circulation of the blood. It also overturned the longstanding theories of the heart's movement and function. This new edition is suitable for classroom use and for general interest. In addition to an updated translation, it also contains an introductory essay and footnotes. ""Professor Carty's excellent new edition of William Harvey's classic treatise will...