Using primary sources and personal experience, this book traces the origins of microbiology at the government establishments at the Porton Down Centre. Begun in secrecy during World War II, early work concentrated on a response to the threat of biological warfare from Germany. It traces Porton's pioneering work on deadly diseases such as anthrax, through to the Centre's modern role in healthcare. The authors provide an invaluable source of information for scientists and historians alike, particularly for those interested in political and military history.

John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century. He dominated the literary world as a satirist, a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, a writer of religious poetry, and an eloquent translator from the great classical poets. The present book discusses Dryden's career both chronologically and thematically, taking issue with his enemies' denigration of his integrity, and revealing him as a subtle, passionate and sceptical writer.

Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. It is as phosphate that plants take up P from the soil solution. Since little phosphate is available to plants in most soils, plants have evolved a range of mechanisms to acquire and use P efficiently - including the development of symbiotic relationships that help them access sources of phosphorus beyond the plant's own range. At the same time, in agricultural systems, applications of inorganic phosphate fertilizers aimed at overcoming phosphate limitation are unsustainable and can cause pollution.

This latest volume in Springer's Plant Ecophysiology series takes an in-depth look at these diverse plant-phosphorus interactions in natural and agricultural environments, presenting a series of critical reviews on the current status of research. In particular, the book presents a wealth of information on the genetic and phenotypic variation in natural plant ecosystems adapted to low P availability, which could be of particular relevance to developing new crop varieties with enhanced abilities to grow under P-limiting conditions.

The book provides a valuable reference material for graduates and research scientists working in the field of plant-phosphorus interactions, as well as for those working in plant breeding and sustainable agricultural development.

This book covers the basics from A-Z needed to complete the dissertation for the EdD degree. It is meant to supplement your doctoral courses and other resources, such as in-depth educational texts and software relating to research and statistics. The answers are now at your fingertips.Doctoral faculty and chairs of dissertation committees are going to appreciate having this resource to minimize the number of times they have to repeat the same information to their students. Those that are chairs for the first time will appreciate the ease in locating what is needed to advise doctoral students through the dissertation process.

This book examines the close relationship between the physical phenomena of electromagnetism and the geometry of space and time. It starts with the Faraday-Maxwell insight that in electromagnetism exists an interconnected dynamical system in which space and time are closely linked with the physical phenomena. An appropriate mathematical basis is given by differential geometry to describe local relationships and topology to describe the system. These tools are introduced in the context of Maxwell's equations in the familiar vector notation, which are greatly simplified by the geometrical approach. Moreover, the geometrical idea of symmetry unifies the various conservation laws. Overall, the book clarifies the relationship between fields, potentials, and sources. Links between macroscopic and quantum phenomena are explored from a geometrical angle, and there is a simple discussion of superconductivity. This book is addressed to engineers, applied mathematicians, physicists, and students involved in the design and analysis of electromagnetic systems.

Nobel laureate Sir John Hicks has with good reason called the third quarter of the 1 twentieth century the age of Keynes * Sir John nevertheless diagnosed a crisis of Keynesian economics even before this period had expired. But if only a few gifted scholars had foreseen the crisis of Keynesian economics before 1975, this year at least marked the ultimate disenchantment of Keynesian economics. Keynesian economic policy proved ineffective to cope with the economic challenges of the late seventies: unemployment, inflation, and stagnation of economic growth. Alarmed governments resorted to more and more intense remedies out of the Keynesian box of Pandora. But all they got was the creation of additional difficulties, aggravating the situation still more: soaring public debt, extraordinary balance-of-payments deficits, and economic instability. It had been argued until quite recently that capi talism could have survived only "in the oxygen tent of government deficit spend 2 ing ". But it has become patent since the mid-seventies that it is first and foremost the Keynesian oxygen tent that has produced the present embarrassment of capital ist economies. The present economic malaise in nearly all Western countries has accordingly led to considerable unrest in the economics profession. Somewhat reminiscent of the thirties, a feverish search for alternatives to the prevailing but insufficient econ omic doctrine has begun. Among the candidates to be screened, Schumpeterian economics takes a prominent place.

Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. It is as phosphate that plants take up P from the soil solution. Since little phosphate is available to plants in most soils, plants have evolved a range of mechanisms to acquire and use P efficiently - including the development of symbiotic relationships that help them access sources of phosphorus beyond the plant's own range. At the same time, in agricultural systems, applications of inorganic phosphate fertilizers aimed at overcoming phosphate limitation are unsustainable and can cause pollution. This latest volume in Springer's Plant Ecophysiology series takes an in-depth look at these diverse plant-phosphorus interactions in natural and agricultural environments, presenting a series of critical reviews on the current status of research. In particular, the book presents a wealth of information on the genetic and phenotypic variation in natural plant ecosystems adapted to low P availability, which could be of particular relevance to developing new crop varieties with enhanced abilities to grow under P-limiting conditions. The book provides a valuable reference material for graduates and research scientists working in the field of plant-phosphorus interactions, as well as for those working in plant breeding and sustainable agricultural development.

This is a fully revised and updated edition of a widely used introductory textbook on electromagnetism. It covers all the fundamental aspects of this important topic in electrical engineering. The approach is eminently practical and requires little mathematics other than elementary differentiation, integration, and trigonometry. It will continue to appeal to students studying this conceptually challenging but fundamental subject. New sections on electromechanics (conversion of electric and magnetic energy in mechanical energy and vice versa) and high-frequency phenomena (transmission lines, waveguides, optical fibres, and radio propagation) enhance the usefulness of the book.

Originally written in 2000 as his Masters thesis, Raymond P. Hammonds Poetic Amusement has been passed around underground as a digital file for ten years among those associated with The New York Quarterly. As provocative today as it was when it was written, what began as Hammonds observations of the influence of po biz and writing programs on contemporary American poetry became a timeless treatise on poetry itself. Using his experience with NYQ and devouring many literary critics across the ages from the ancient Greeks to contemporary critics, Hammond examines at once both our current literary environment and the essence of poetry. In seeking to answer the questions What is poetry? and Where does poetry come from? for himself, he encourages readers to ask those questions for and of themselves as well. Relevant and accessible to readers and writers of poetry and to those who think they dont know or want to know what poetry is, Poetic Amusement will anger, elevate and inspire all those who read it.

This is a fully revised and updated edition of a widely used introductory textbook on electromagnetism. It covers all the fundamental aspects of this important topic in electrical engineering. The approach is eminently practical and requires little mathematics other than elementary differentiation, integration, and trigonometry. It will continue to appeal to students studying this conceptually challenging but fundamental subject. New sections on electromechanics (conversion of electric and magnetic energy in mechanical energy and vice versa) and high-frequency phenomena (transmission lines, waveguides, optical fibres, and radio propagation) enhance the usefulness of the book.

Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus on the craft that underlies effective poetry writing. The New York Quarterly features works by both known and emerging poets. The NYQ Craft Interviews present the views of some of our most outstanding poets on the general subjects of style, prosody and technique. The issues are rounded out with an essay or two on the subject of contemporary American poetry that is both accessible and meaningful to readers, poets, students, and teachers of poetry alike. NYQ 66 features craft interviews with Bruce Weigl and Steve Cannon; an essay on Hip-Hop by Michael Cirelli; and poetry by Bruce Weigl, Timothy Liu, Christian Barter, Shya Scanlon, Hosho McCreesh, Stephen Stepanchev, Dorianne Laux, Andrew Kaufman, Douglas Treem, Scott Bailey, Donald Lev, Larry Rogers, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Lee Phillips, Mara Robbins, Marge Piercy, Justin Hyde, Luke Johnson, Stephen Herz, Lyn Lifshin, Sheila Raeschild, Elizabeth Swados, John Kay, Jenna Le, Corrine De Winter, John Hodgen, Amanda J. Bradley, Tim Suermondt, Norman Stock, Kris Bigalk, Sanford Fraser, Llyn Clague, George Held, Clint Margrave, Michael Estabrook, Ulf Kirchdorfer, Andr?'s Rodr guez, Yoon Sik Kim, Doug Lane, Gordon Massman, Tom Chandler, Ray Stiefvater, Greg Kosmicki, Jennifer Sullivan, William Taylor Jr., Richard Schiffman, Nicole Callihan, Mather Schneider, Jim Daniels, Liz Kicak, John Allman, Bruce Lader, Mark Wisniewski, Jared Smith, William Meyer Jr., Chris Middleman, Leslie Sysko, Elisavietta Ritchie, Marc Tretin, Connor James Lewis, Susan Scutti, James Murphy, Hilary Melton, Iris Lee, Jackie Sheeler, John Teehan, Savonna Smith, Noah Falck, Jayne Lyn Stahl, Michael Spence, Barbara Q. Faust, Tony Gloeggler, Tasia Marie Hane Devore, Mark Begley, Marcia Buffington, Terence Winch, Seth Cosimini, P M F Johnson, Todd Kalinski, Thomas Patrick Levy, Matthew Pennock, Thad DeVassie, Shannon Hamann, BC Harms, Michael T. Corrigan, Amaranth Pavis, Judith Harris, Robert K. Omura, Jeffrey Mumie, Joan Jobe Smith, Kate Murphy, John Rosenmiller, Philip Sparacino, Bridget Gage-Dixon, Anne Piper, Loren Goodman, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Sean Patrick Hill, Michael Salcman, Taylor Graham, Mohammed Saad Ali, Gary Dop, Carol Levin, Mathias Nelson, Laura A. Ciraolo, Thom Satterlee, Tiffany Etter, John Smith, Esta Fischer, Michael Schmeltzer, Bill Howell, Josh Olsen, Michael Montlack, Joseph Radke, R. A. Allen, Mary Reilly, Kelley Vande Plasse, Alison Stone, Vanessa M. Blakeslee, Karina Borowicz, Adam McGavin, J. R. Kangas, Shawnte Orion, Michael A. Flanagan, Kevin Powers, Jeffrey Grinnell, Cathryn Cofell, Alan Catlin, Charles Douthat, M. P. Powers, Todd Christopher Cincala, Joseph Osel, John Blair, Zachary Kluckman, James Grabill, Steven Coughlin, Sara Burge, J. T. Ledbetter, Hedy Habra, Patrick Carrington, Evelyn Posamentier, A. D. Winans, Peter Desy, Brianna Noll, Jeff Worley, Jesse Weiner, Gerald Locklin, Steve Henn, Kristin Sanders, Richard Buhr, Kevin Griffith, Travis Mossotti, Harry Hettmannsperger, Joshua Beckman, Elissa Errick, Bruce Cohen, Tara Bray, Emanuel di Pasquale, Ver nica Reyes, Kelly Talbot, J. C. Ellefson, George Witte, Kristin Bock, Nancy Scott, Karen Ladd-Picou, Michael Miller, Jay Marvin, Sally Molini, Doug Ramspeck, Jim Reese, Paul Genega, Elizabeth Kay, Okla Elliott, Cerrisa Snethen, Ryan Crawford, Bruce Edward Taylor, Maria Nazos, Evan Beaty, Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, Tony Demarest, Nancy Carol Moody, Ira Joe Fisher, Grace Zabriskie, Elisabeth Murawski, Lynne Savitt, Eric Roy, Scott Keeney, Fred Yannantuono, and Michael Cirelli.