This text presents the theory of sound propagation & reflection of spherical waves & bounded beams in layered media. Both moving & stationary media, discretely & continuously layered, including a range-dependent environment, are treated for various types of acoustic wave sources. ...

Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man's body is found & a terrible confrontation awaits Brett in the Capra family palazzo. ...

Acquaintanceship can be understood as a form of knowledge of other people that lies somewhere between intimates & strangers. This book argues that acquaintanceship is a topic worthy of investigation in its own right & assesses the overall significance of acquaintances in late modern society. ...

Spaghetti western starring Lincoln Tate as Acquasanta Joe, a bounty hunter with his eyes on the big money. When renegade soldier Colonel Donovan places a bounty on the head of Charlie Bennett, a former accomplice who has now run away with the proceeds from one of the Donovan's bank jobs, Joe makes short work of tracking the man down & bringing him to Donovan's camp. But Joe won't let things rest there, & begins hatching a plot to collect the bounties on the whole Donovan gang. ...