New Releases by Michael Sherman

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"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been abandoned, and prisons are seen even by some of those who think we need more of them as savage repositories, to be shunned or veiled rather than admired. This sad history is drawn with great insight and learning in [this] important new book about prisons and punishment in America by Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins. . . . The views of these professionals must be taken seriously."—Graham Hughes, New York Review of Books "This is a serious and enlightened and concerned attempt to fuse liberal and conservative attitudes and values to achieve a breakthrough in American penal policy."—Congressional Staff Journal

A consideration of the possibility of inducing a convective secondary flow in the fully developed channel flow of a quasi-incompressible (Boussinesq) fluid. Instabilities of this type occur only when the temperature gradient in the direction of the body force exceeds a certain critical value. This temperature gradient is proportional to the Rayleigh number of the fluid. 12 pp. (Author).