James Lynch

Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical interest and a large number of practical applications. Technically, shallow water poses an interesting medium for the study of acoustic scattering, inverse theory, and propagation physics in a complicated oceanic waveguide. Practically, shallow water acoustics has interest for geophysical exploration, marine mammal studies, and naval applications. Additionally, one notes the very interdisciplinary nature of shallow water acoustics, including acoustical physics, physical oceanography, marine geology, and marine biology. In this specialized volume the authors, all of whom have extensive at-sea experience in US and Russian research efforts, have tried to summarize the main experimental, theoretical, and computational results in shallow water acoustics, with an emphasis on providing physical insight into the topics presented.

First published in 1973, Teacher Education and Cultural Change analyses significant issues in the reform of teacher education on the evidence of up-to-date official and academic source materials and direct investigation. It contributes to the comparative sociology of education by highlighting the question as to whether teacher education policies are geared primarily to educational and social conservation or change. Features of teacher education are classified according to a scheme comprising four linked themes—cultural perceptions of teaching; the process of becoming a teacher; curricula; the organization of teacher education. Attention is given to cultural and social factors acting to democratize educational philosophies and structures. Reform-oriented policies are evaluated for their coherence and sociological realism. Differences in the three systems are found to reflect their histories and their socio-economic and political contexts, but a common movement is discerned towards democratic systems, responding to person rather than to institution-centred values. The book should help to fill a serious gap in comparative studies of teacher education, and should be of interest to students, academics, and administrators concerned with the study and development of educational systems.

James O'Neill is a Jersey City Private Investigator with a boss who at times is prone to making questionable business decisions (himself). After his fortunes change for the better he finds himself in need of an assistant to handle the overflow, which would free him up to pursue greater endeavors. He hires a local college student in dire need of a positive role model. After failing to find one James steps in an inadvertently gets involved in a sticky family situation that needs resolution. He's out of his league on this one but there's no one else to see it through.

Summer 1919 to 1920. After mutinies and frustrating delays, soldiers are streaming back from the Front expecting a "fit country for heroes". But it is social discontent, hunger, privation, and a lethal flu pandemic that stalk the land. Lewis gunner Jimmy Kelly returns traumatised to squalor, disease and industrial strife and decline in the industrial town of Ryaton. Many 'Pals' are not returning, others are maimed, physically or mentally handicapped. Widespread industrial turmoil simmers and ruling class fear of a Bolshevik revolution is reinforced by demands for social reform from returning working class soldiers, their advocacy strengthened by universal elementary education and new cultural organisations and political parties. Jimmy has shown both leadership and courage in France. He returns from the trenches via Fiume to his sweetheart, Kate. He is again a worker at Arthur Rowbottom's model village textile mill, an ardent socialist trade unionist, determined to change society.

A collection of writings the author wrote about 50 years ago, mostly in 1969 and 1970 during his teenage years. It offers insight into the times, as well as what an average teenager experienced back then. Most writings also include the author's current thoughts on the work. There is also a section at the end of sayings the author derived at the time, based on his own experiences.

The Neuropsychotherapist Special Issues are anthologies of articles that have been published in the monthly magazine The Neuropsychotherapist. This special issue is all about the heart... A wonder of complexity is the human being-something that continues to be a source of fascination and frustration for those of us who have set ourselves to understand human behaviour. This special issue focuses on the heart, an organ with a profound influence over our mental lives. We are all familiar with the heart in its classical biological role as pump circulating vital oxygenated blood through the body. But how many are versed in its neural and bioelectromagnetic influence upon our brains? Research has revealed the heart even radiates an influence on those around us via electromgnetic fields. In the past such claims might have been dismissed as mere New Age fancy, but with ever more sophisticated and sensitive instruments, formal studies in recent years have demonstrated that our bodies have amazing multidimensional fields of awareness and influence. These findings about the heart continue to add weight to the argument that in the counselling room it is the therapist's unconditional positive regard, warmth, and personal coherence more than any technique that make for effective therapy. It makes one wonder what the focus of training should be for new therapists-will courses become more focused on students developing personal coherence, practising attitudes of genuine care and compassion, and understanding what they are radiating to clients from their hearts? Neuropsychotherapy, and the multidisciplinary integration that it stands for, is part of an important paradigm shift in medicine. Likewise, the focus on matters heart-brain in this issue reflects an important shift of understanding in the broader field of health. The study of any one bodily system-even the central nervous system in the case of psychologists-leaves us in the dark on many levels for many phenomena. It is my hope that you will come to appreciate the wonderful, so often implicit influence the heart has on our emotions and relationships, and that we will become more conscious of being authentic and coherent-for our clients and also for ourselves.

Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical interest and a large number of practical applications. Technically, shallow water poses an interesting medium for the study of acoustic scattering, inverse theory, and propagation physics in a complicated oceanic waveguide. Practically, shallow water acoustics has interest for geophysical exploration, marine mammal studies, and naval applications. Additionally, one notes the very interdisciplinary nature of shallow water acoustics, including acoustical physics, physical oceanography, marine geology, and marine biology. In this specialized volume the authors, all of whom have extensive at-sea experience in US and Russian research efforts, have tried to summarize the main experimental, theoretical, and computational results in shallow water acoustics, with an emphasis on providing physical insight into the topics presented.