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Written by an engineer for engineers, this book takes an engineering approach rather than a physics/math one. It provides an understanding of the basic principles of sonar and develops the formulae and rules of thumb for sonar design and performance analysis.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Postmodernism in America: An Introduction -- "Postmodernism": The Basics -- From Modernism to Postmodernism -- Resistance to Postmodernism? -- Postmodernism as a Contemporary Version of Philosophical Idealism -- Postmodernity as a Material Reality -- 1968 and After -- Postmodernism in America -- Basic Banalities: Reagan and Postmodernism -- Chapter 2: Postmodernism and Social Theory -- Modernity -- Modernity and Reason: Durkheim Versus the Poststructuralists -- From Poststructuralist Critique to Postmodernist Acquiescence -- The Counterdiscourse of Modernity: Habermas Versus the Post- and Antimodernists -- Marx: Modernity as a "Mirror of Production," -- Chapter 3: Postmodern Identity and Postmodern Political Mobilization -- Affirmative Versus Skeptical Postmodernists -- "Post-Marxism" and the New Social Movements -- The New Academic Programs: The Culturally Diverse Campus -- The NSMs, the NAPs, and Postmodernism: A Preliminary Analysis -- Postmodernism and the Christian New Right -- The Leftist Project of Modernity and the Rise of the New Right -- Postmodern Conservatism -- Global Capital Flows -- Chapter 4: Postmodernity as a "Regime of Accumulation"?: From Fordism to "Flexible Accumulation -- Fordism-Keynesianism -- Post-Fordism -- Explaining the Transition -- Flexibility as a Resource for Capital -- Chapter 5: The Globalizing World Economy, the Compression of Time, and the Spatial Reorganization of Social Domination -- Financial Capital and Postmodern Culture -- New "Spatial Fixes" -- The End of History? -- Chapter 6: Postmodernity and Flexible Stratification: Is Class Still Material? -- The End of Production? -- Does Class Still Matter? -- Social Domination in the "Postmodern" West -- The Role of the State