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The Atlantic World

The Atlantic World

As the meeting point between Europe colonial America and Africa the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters all written by experts in the field The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world such as slaves European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance money and commerce in the Atlantic world as well as warfare government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field and lavishly illustrated with paintings drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.

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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here however focuses on the other end of Eurasia where dwelled the warlike Celts and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean formidable obstacles to expansion westward. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached. The next sections deal with the English expansion in the western and northern British Isles. In the 12th century the Normans began the process of subjugating the Celts thus inaugurating for the English an experience which was to prove crucial when colonizing the Americas in the 17th century. Medieval Ireland in particular served as a laboratory for the development of imperial institutions attitudes and ideologies that shaped the creation of the British Empire and served as a staging area for further expansion westward. | The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

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Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon

Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon

Nanotechnology offers a revolutionary and definitive approach for the efficient delivery of drug molecules to non-healthy tissues and cells. This first volume of a series of two volumes analyzes the basics in the development of drug-loaded nanoplatforms the so-called nanomedicines. Special attention is given to physicochemical engineering pharmacokinetics biocompatibility and biodegradability representative nanoplatforms (based on lipids polymers cyclodextrins metals carbon silica iron oxides etc. ) and advanced nano-engineering strategies for passive ligand-mediated and/or stimuli-sensitive drug delivery and release. | Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon

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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2 828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly and in some cases a daily basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. | The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2 828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly and in some cases a daily basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. | The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

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Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4.0 Integration Benefits and Operational Activities

Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4.0 Integration Benefits and Operational Activities

This book addresses issues related to the integration of digital evolutionary technologies and provides solutions to various challenges encountered during the implementation process. With real-time case studies the book explains the smart technologies available and their operational applications and benefits in the manufacturing sector. Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4. 0: Integration Benefits and Operational Activities assists in the understanding of the shifting paradigm in the manufacturing sector towards smart manufacturing and spotlights these technologies and the effects they are having on existing industries. It showcases Industry 4. 0 as a promising research area in its infancy and offers insights into the role smart technologies are playing now and into the future. The book focuses on smart technologies’ rudiments implementation and integration for organizational development and offers insights on how to achieve resiliency through and because of these technologies. This book presents real-time implementation discussions along with case studies that emphasize benefits and operational activities for engineers and managers. It’s also a very useful book for technology developers academicians data scientists industrial engineers researchers and students interested in uncovering the latest innovations in a field that seeks current research on products and services. | Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4. 0 Integration Benefits and Operational Activities

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Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary context to examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. In the history of African diaspora literature black writers and intellectuals have led the way for an analysis of the archive querying dominant archives and revising the ways black people have been represented in the legal and hegemonic discourses of the west. Their work in genres as diverse as autobiography essay bibliography poetry and the novel attests to the centrality of this critique in black intellectual culture. Through literary engagement with the archives of the slave trader colonizer and courtroom creative writers teach us to read the archives of history anew probing between the documents for stories left untold questions left unanswered and freedoms enacted against all odds. Opening new perspectives on Atlantic history and culture Walters generates a dialogue between what was and what might have been. Ultimately Walters argues that references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature itself engaging in a transnational and interdisciplinary reading that exposes the instability of the archive's truth claim and highlights rebellious possibility. | Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

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NATO and the Crisis in the International Order The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

NATO and the Crisis in the International Order The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges. How can NATO adapt to the dangerous combination of a revisionist Russia a reluctant United States and a Europe in crisis? NATO’s relevance and ability to survive have been challenged many times before and it has not only survived but also has proven highly adaptable to change. This has been good for Western cohesion and for the consolidation of the liberal-democratic rules-based world order. The main argument of this book is that NATO can overcome this latest set of challenges as well and retain its central role as a cornerstone of the European and transatlantic security order. NATO is different from other alliances because its members share not only interests but values as well codified in the preamble of the North Atlantic Treaty as allied support for democracy individual liberty and the rule of law. The greatest enemy of the alliance is the forces that challenge the common norms and values of NATO’s member states and – in a larger perspective – the liberal-democratic rules-based world order and Western civilisation itself. The book makes an original contribution to the existing literature on NATO and transatlantic relations and discusses the latest developments within NATO since the Trump administration took office. The book will be of much interest to students of NATO geopolitics security studies and International Relations in general. | NATO and the Crisis in the International Order The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies

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IoT Benefits and Growth Opportunities for the Telecom Industry Key Technology Drivers for Companies

IoT Benefits and Growth Opportunities for the Telecom Industry Key Technology Drivers for Companies

This critical and forward-looking book features: An assessment of the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) on the telecom industry’s revenue streams IoT-based business models in the telecom industry A PESTLE (political economic socio-cultural technological legal and environmental) analysis of the industry in relation to IoT Key technological drivers. It also features a case study of Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) Inc. which highlights IoT-based business models in the industry. The study reveals that telecom operators have started implementing IoT projects however true revenue streams are yet to materialize. Ten IoT-based business models have been identified at BCE Inc. The book points out that operators do leverage existing infrastructure in terms of broadband fiber and mobile connectivity in part and resort to partnerships and acquisitions to acquire much-needed knowledge technology and smart devices. Concerning the effect of IoT on the telecoms’ revenue streams it was revealed that new entrants who are not necessarily in the telecom industry have impacted the old players’ revenue streams. OTT services like YouTube WhatsApp IPTV Netflix are the biggest culprits. Seven key technological drivers for IoT have been identified and include widespread wireless connectivity the availability and affordability of microcontrollers sensors and actuators the decreasing cost of bandwidth the recent implementation of IPv6 and the ongoing development of 5G network as well as the use of cloud computing and analytics. Finally the PESTLE analysis of the industry shows that the lack of a comprehensive political and regulatory framework still slows down IoT deployment. Interoperability security and privacy concerns are other constraints. Conversely general economic conditions in most developed and developing economies are favorable to the advancement of IoT technology. Governments are willing to subsidize R&D and have partnered with the private sector to speed up the roll-out process. | IoT Benefits and Growth Opportunities for the Telecom Industry Key Technology Drivers for Companies

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Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause 1754-1808

Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause 1754-1808

This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition religious history Atlantic studies and American social and political history. | Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause 1754-1808

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Writing and America

Writing and America

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land the discourses of nationhood in the republic the sense of nationhood in American historiography and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing. | Writing and America

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Cenozoic Seas The View From Eastern North America

Cenozoic Seas The View From Eastern North America

>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly chronicled by a succession of fossil assemblages extending from the St. Lawrence River to Florida. Marine scientists paleontologists and systematic biologists alike need a thorough guide to interpret this history. Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America analyzes the changing geography the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species and the affect of climate on living things. The author classifies all of the region's fossil-bearing formations and their contents within a logical descriptive framework of space and time providing a clear path for those studying evolution and extinction within specific communities of organisms. The book is also an excellent field guide for fossil collectors providing detailed information for all species illustrated. Many organisms have never before been illustrated in a book on fossil shells. | Cenozoic Seas The View From Eastern North America

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Red Snapper Biology in a Changing World

Red Snapper Biology in a Changing World

Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus is an important commercial and recreational fish species and there has been much interest in maintaining its status among a variety of scientific social and economic levels. Stocks are influenced by varying environmental conditions changing fishing effort and efficiency anthropogenic effects inter- and intraspecific interactions bycatch from other fisheries and habitat alterations. Red Snapper Biology in a Changing World explores these changing factors and their potential effects on Red Snapper in the Eastern Atlantic region including the Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern U. S. The book will provide a better understanding of Red Snapper population fluctuations that will subsequently allow for better management decisions and more informed user groups in their efforts to maintain a sustainable fishery. It explores the responses Red Snapper have made and are making relative to their life history attributes such as early life history and adult ecology especially attributes associated with population distribution and abundance movement patterns fish health issues and management success. A compendium of many papers presented at the 147th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Tampa Florida this volume also includes additional research completed as a result of the symposium. It will be essential reading for fisheries scientists and managers ichthyologists resource and environmental managers and policymakers who are involved with coastal fisheries.

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An Economic History of West Africa

An Economic History of West Africa

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first and remains the standard account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges from prehistoric times to independence and covers the former French territories as well as those colonised by the British. It criticises conventional beliefs about economic backwardness offers an alternative account that explains the particular configuration of poverty that characterised the pre-colonial period and assesses the consequences of the region’s interaction with the wider world – from the growth of the Saharan and Atlantic trades to the rise and demise of colonial rule. This edition contains a substantial new Introduction that discusses the development of the subject during the past 50 years evaluates the debate over the original interpretation and provides a valuable guide to additional reading bringing the reader up to date with current scholarship on the subject as well as providing avenues for further independent research. Appearing at a time when the study of African economic history is enjoying a revival and is engaging economists as well as historians the book fills a large gap in African studies provides newcomers with a stimulating point of entry into the subject and contributes to our understanding of wider issues of global underdevelopment. | An Economic History of West Africa

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Russia A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present

Russia A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present

This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from Kievan Rus’ to Vladimir Putin’s presidency in the twenty-first century. Directly addressing controversial topics this book looks at issues such as the impact of the Mongol conquest the paradoxes of Peter the Great the “inevitability” of the 1917 Revolution the Stalinist terror and the Gorbachev reform effort. This new ninth edition has been updated to include a discussion of Russian participation in the War in Donbas eastern Ukraine Russia’s role in the Syrian civil war the rise of opposition figure Alexei Navalny Vladimir Putin’s confirmation as “president for life ” recent Russian relations with the United States the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union as well as contemporary social and cultural trends. Distinguished by its brevity and supplemented with substantially updated suggested readings that feature new scholarship on Russia and a thoroughly updated index this essential text provides balanced coverage of all periods of Russian history and incorporates economic social and cultural developments as well as politics and foreign policy. Suitable for undergraduates as well as the general reader with an interest in Russia this text is a concise single volume on one of the world’s most significant lands. | Russia A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present

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Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material with a light environmental footprint high strength quick installation times and reduced waste – so why isn’t everyone using it? Delving into the key considerations including fire safety cost and value visual aspects planning feasibility and engineering this book is an essential companion to designing and delivering exemplar CLT buildings. Abundantly illustrated with over 130 colour images and in-depth case studies from around the world it will help the entire project team - whether design team constructor or clients - to better understand and build using a truly modern method of construction. Outlines key challenges as well as benefits of CLT including quality cost and environmental benefits risk reduction and health and safety benefits Presents lessons learnt to aid the development process from the earliest stages of design to production and assembly Accessible easy-to-read handbook format allows you to dip in and out investigating issues as necessary Multidisciplinary in approach with contributions from a range of practitioners | Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

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The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

During the nineteenth century British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers readers and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The book’s introduction offers three critical lenses through which to read nineteenth-century Anglophone maritime literature: wet globalization which returns the ocean to our discourses of the global; salt aesthetics which considers how the sea influences artistic culture and aesthetic theory; and blue ecocriticism which poses an oceanic challenge to the narrowly terrestrial nature of green ecological criticism. The essays employ all three of these lenses to demonstrate the importance of the ocean for the changing shapes of nineteenth-century Anglophone culture and literature. Examining texts from Moby-Dick to the coral flower-books of Victorian Australia and from Wordsworth’s sea-poetry to the Arctic journals of Charles Francis Hall this book shows how important and how varied in meaning the ocean was to nineteenth-century Anglophone readers. Scholars of nineteenth-century globalization the history of aesthetics and the ecological importance of the ocean will find important scholarship in this volume. | The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

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Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

Chronic hepatitis B and C affect 520 million people worldwide and are a major cause of chronic liver disease and of mortality despite the efficacy of the vaccine. Hepatitis B and C: Management and Treatment second edition provides a practical explanation of the natural history and management of the disease and examines the benefits of the most recent drugs and their effects whether used in isolation or as part of a combination therapy. This second edition expands the coverage of treatment of various difficult-to-treat patients and will be a welcome guide to the physician in both clinical decision-making and in explaining the benefits and side-effects to the patient. | Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

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The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries utilizing case studies from South Africa. Estuaries are important ecosystems from both an ecological and human perspective. Yet in many parts of the world they are often degraded environments facing threats from climate change invasive species fire and wastewater pollution. While the environmental benefits of restoring degraded environments are well discussed this book specifically examines the economic benefits of doing so. It applies a cost-benefit analysis which focuses on a range of key ecosystem services including human health fishing value recreational value and property value. The book utlizes three detailed studies of the Swartkops estuary the Great Brak estuary and the Knysna estuary in South Africa but also draws out lessons that can be applied to coastal environments across the world. Overall this book demonstrates that ecological restoration does pay and that the value of additional ecosystem services gained through restoration far exceeds the costs associated with this restoration process. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management and restoration ecological economics ecosystem services and environmental conservation. | The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

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MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

MIMO systems have been known to better the quality of service for wireless communication systems. This book discusses emerging techniques in MIMO systems to reduce complexities and keep benefits unaffected at the same time. It discusses about benefits and shortcomings of various MIMO technologies like spatial multiplexing space time coding spatial modulation transmit antenna selection and various power allocation schemes to optimize the performance. Crux of the book is focus on MIMO communication over generalized fading channels as they can model the propagation of signals in a non-homogeneous environment. Relevant MATLAB codes are also included in the appendices. Book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in electronics and wireless engineering specifically interested in electromagnetic theory antennas and propagation future wireless systems signal processing. | MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local national and global economic benefits of biodiversity to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation the benefits of investing in natural capital and to draw together expertise from the fields of science economics and policy to enable practical actions. Drawing on a team of more than one hundred authors and reviewers this book demonstrates the value of ecosystems and biodiversity to the economy society and individuals. It underlines the urgency of strategic policy making and action at national and international levels and presents a rich evidence base of policies and instruments in use around the world and a wide range of innovative solutions. It highlights the need for new public policy to reflect the appreciation that public goods and social benefits are often overlooked and that we need a transition to decision making which integrates the many values of nature across policy sectors. It explores the range of instruments to reward those offering ecosystem service benefits such as water provision and climate regulation. It looks at fiscal and regulatory instruments to reduce the incentives of those running down our natural capital and at reforming subsidies such that they respond to current and future priorities. The authors also consider two major areas of investment in natural capital – protected areas and investment in restoration. Overall the book underlines the needs and ways to transform our approach to natural capital and demonstrates how we can practically take into account the value of ecosystems and biodiversity in policy decisions – at national and international levels – to promote the protection of our environment and contribute to a sustainable economy and to the wellbeing of societies. | The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making

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Rip Currents Beach Safety Physical Oceanography and Wave Modeling

Rip Currents Beach Safety Physical Oceanography and Wave Modeling

Rip Currents: Beach Safety Physical Oceanography and Wave Modeling is the culmination of research from over 100 coastal scientists engineers forecast meteorologists lifeguard chiefs and other practitioners from around the world who participated in the 1st International Rip Current Symposium. These experts identify advancements in research that will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics mechanisms and predictability of these dangerous currents and lower the number of rip current drownings. Edited by Stephen Leatherman and John Fletemeyer the book covers: The full spectrum of rip current research and outreach initiatives on all four U. S. coasts (Atlantic Gulf Pacific and Great Lakes) as well as the countries of Brazil U. K. Japan and Australia Scientific techniques used to study rip currents including field investigation and numerical modeling Field research involving the use of water-based sensors video technology and remote sensing The development of public education programs through various outreach programs and campaigns as well as an evaluation of their overall effectiveness Rip Currents’ sixteen chapters run the gamut from technical aspects of rip currents to beach safety management strategies. Whether dealing with determining rip current occurrence hydrodynamic processes prediction or mitigating rip current hazards to enhance beach safety each chapter provides a vignette that is distinct in its own right but also linked to or integrated with other chapters in the book. This comprehensive treatment presents an integrated international perspective on a coastal process that is only now becoming better understood by the scientific community and which has great importance to public safety on the world's beaches. | Rip Currents Beach Safety Physical Oceanography and Wave Modeling

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