Here's the first complete reference available on all of the modern reflector antenna analysis and design techniques. This book demystifies modern reflector antenna analysis by proceeding from the early numerical integration approaches to today's powerful techniques, such as the Jacobi-Bessel and Fourier-Bessel Methods.

Many of today's organizations "live in public"; they devote extensive resources to branding, catching the public eye, and capitalizing on the age of transparency. But, at the same time, a growing number of companies and other collectives are flying under the radar, concealing their identities and activities. This book offers a framework for thinking about how organizations and their members communicate identity to relevant audiences. Considering the degree to which organizations reveal themselves, the extent to which members express their identification with the organization, and whether the audience is public or local, author Craig R. Scott describes collectives as residing in "regions" that range from transparent to shaded, from shadowed to dark. Taking a closer look at groups like EarthFirst!, the Church of Scientology, Alcoholics Anonymous, the KKK, Skull and Bones, U.S. special mission units, men's bathhouses, and various terrorist organizations, this book draws attention to shaded, shadowed, and dark collectives as important organizations in the contemporary landscape.

Carlisle grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois during a time when America was changing. He comes from a nurturing and loving family environment where education, God and community were very much a part. Despite the troubles of the times, his family, particularly his father, taught him and modeled for him how to do/be right, how to be a man. "Right" was also modeled very well to him at home, at school and at church. Carlisle started off "right" but, because of a fascination with learning and observing, he noticed early on a world of mixed messages. Carlisle saw a world he began to question. He saw a tumultuous world He began to be disillusioned and he would soon rebel against in his own, self-destructive way. Carlisle's ambitions were to satisfy God, his family and pursue his dreams. His role models were Martin Luther King and his father. This confusion/disillusion began as a young Black male growing up and watching the civil rights movement unfold. He watched in amazement and wondered, why? The disappointments of watching his parents have problems added to the disillusion. He was crushed when they would argue and break up. Through watching the war footage on TV every night, along with negative peer pressure and the rebellious seventies, Carlisle began to make radical changes. He began to internalize and struggle to stay focused. He had created these huge monuments and formed his own construct. Racism, sexism, family issues, war and materialism added to his labyrinth of insanity. These mixed messages that this young Black boy/teen/man's mind absorbed like a sponge caused Carlisle to struggle and lead a secret, almost separate life of deception and illusion. Carlisle was on a path of selfishness, ego and false pride. He was on a certain path of total self-destruction. He learns early-on to navigate this matrix and because of confusion he gets really caught up in a society and world of drugs, sex and negativity. When and where these change takes p

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character-as well as consequences-of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors to this collaborative volume (scholars in English Literature, Political Philosophy, and the Humanities) argue that Shakespeare has much to teach us about our longing for honor and love in particular, and thus about who we are, what we desire, and why. Through sustained reflection on the Shakespearean portraits of honor and love, which are the focus of the chapters in Souls With Longing, we become more keenly aware of our own humanity and come to know ourselves more profoundly. As the abiding popularity of his works aptly demonstrates, Shakespeare's unforgettable portraits of souls with longing-his representations of honor and love-continue to exert undeniable sway over our political, moral, and romantic imaginations.