This detailed book systematically investigates subsurface geological fractures using rock mechanics, geology, and geophysics. Based on geological fracture mechanisms and fracture boundary conditions, it presents new finite-difference equations for the simulation of seismic wave responses to geological fractures, and proposes innovative AVO inversion equations for the accurate estimation of the rock properties of the fractured medium. It employs schematics, snapshots, color images and chart...

Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest dressed as a warrior, a man of peace in battle fatigues. He is an incongruous figure in a theatre of war, always vigilant for opportunities to partake of silent meditation and prayer, never failing to...

Brought to you by Penguin.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain.An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under t...

(Vocal Selections). A dozen selections from the musical featuring vocal lines with piano accompaniment. Tunes include: Bend and Snap * Ireland * Legally Blonde * Legally Blonde Remix * Omigod You Guys * Positive * Serious * So Much Better * Take It like a Man * There! Right There! * What You Want * Whipped into Shape.

Resilience Redeployed: A Veteran’s Road from Exile to Humanitarian Frontlines by Laurence Baird is a raw, unflinching memoir of one man’s journey from military sexual trauma to life-and-death missions around the globe. After a brutal discharge shattered his faith in institutions, Baird spent decades lost in failed jobs, fractured relationships, and the fog of undiagnosed PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. In 2008 he found unexpected purpose as a security specialist for humanitarian a...