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Report copyright infringementby Sun Tzu (Author), Samuel B. Griffith (Author), B. H. Liddell Hart (Foreword by)Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed i...

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Conquest (Author)The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" f...

Where the Evidence Leads: A Realistic Strategy for Peace and Human Security

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Report copyright infringementby Robert C. Johansen (Author)By shifting American security policy away from maximizing military power for the United States and toward maximizing human security for all, policymakers and citizens can also maximize national security for the United States and sustainable peace for the world. Why do war and political violence persist? Political realists argue that violent conflict and the struggle for power are inherent in the international system, and there is litt...

Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas B. Gatski (Editor), M. Yousuff Hussaini (Editor), John L. Lumley (Editor)This book provides students and researchers in fluid engineering with an up-to-date overview of turbulent flow research in the areas of simulation and modeling. A key element of the book is the systematic, rational development of turbulence closure models and related aspects of modern turbulent flow theory and prediction. Starting with a review of the spectral dynamics of homogenous...

The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

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Report copyright infringementby Freeman J. Dyson (Author)In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies--solar energy, genetic engineering, and world-wide communication--together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth. Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. ...

Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Feenberg (Author)Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has shifted to reflect a growing interest in the fi...

How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist

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Report copyright infringementby Charles H. Townes (Author)In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a pioneer in the study of gas clouds in galaxies and around stars. Throughout his career he has also been deeply engaged with issues outside of academic research. He wor...

Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology

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Report copyright infringementby David Ehrenfeld (Author)A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve today's hard questions about society and the environment. The book focuses on our present-day retrea...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Schwartz Cowan (Author), Matthew H. Hersch (Author)A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to the technological systems--cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics--that we are familiar with today. Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and exami...

Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences

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Report copyright infringementby R. Hill (Author), Rodney Hill (Author)Written by one of the leaders in the field and first published in 1950, this book remains a classic treatment of the mathematical theory of plastic materials. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.83 x 9.21 x 6.24 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 12, 1998

Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century: NATO and the Management of Risk

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Coker (Author)Discusses the impact of globalisation on security in the West and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda.Author BiographyChristopher Coker is a reader in the International Relations department at the London School of Economics Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2005

Finite Element and Boundary Element Applications in Quantum Mechanics

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Report copyright infringementby Ramdas Ram-Mohan (Author)Starting from a clear, concise introduction, the powerful finite element and boundary element methods of engineering are developed for application to quantum mechanics. The reader is led through illustrative examples displaying the strengths of these methods using application to fundamental quantum mechanical problems and to the design/simulation of quantum nanoscale devices. Number of Pages: 624 Dimensions: 1....

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Eschenbach (Author), William R. Peterson (Author)Designed to bring real-world complexity into the classroom, Cases in Engineering Economy provides 54 unique case studies in engineering economy. An ideal supplement to your engineering economic text, this casebook helps students to hone their analytical, logical, and communicative skills. The cases are authored by Ted Eschenbach and William Peterson, with contributions from engineering economy professors from...

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Report copyright infringementby Martin N. Wilson (Author)This book is the first to treat the engineering of superconductivity. It provides a complete theoretical basis for the quantitative engineering design of superconducting magnet systems, from the small instrument magnets used as everyday research tools to the very large magnet systems used to work on thermonuclear fusion and magnetohydrodynamic power generation. The author devotes particular attention to the problem of stabilization, a c...

Optimal Control: An Introduction to the Theory with Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie M. Hocking (Author)Systems that evolve with time occur frequently in nature and modelling the behavior of such systems provides an important application of mathematics. These systems can be completely deterministic, but it may be possible too to control their behavior by intervention through "controls". The theory of optimal control is concerned with determining such controls which, at minimum cost, either direct the system along a given trajectory or en...

Dull Disasters?: How Planning Ahead Will Make a Difference

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel J. Clarke (Author), Stefan Dercon (Author)In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan, and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique; droughts have hit Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia; and more. All led to loss of life and loss of livelihoods, and recovery will take years. One of the likely effects of climate change is to increase the likelihood of the type of extreme weather even...

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871-1914

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Report copyright infringementby Terence Zuber (Author)The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth-century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. The Great War began in August 1914 allegedly because the Schlieffen plan forced the German government to transform a Balkan quarrel into a World War by attacking France. And, in the end, the Schli...

Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Chesbrough (Author)We live in an age of exponential technology, but this is not so new. Indeed, technological innovation has been promoted so assiduously for so long that there is now a discernible pattern to its emergence known as the Gartner Hype Cycle. Open innovation is no exception. In this book Henry Chesbrough, the originator of open innovation, examines the hype behind its practice, shows where real results are taking place, and explains how compa...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Fairhurst (Author)We live in a society which is increasingly interconnected, in which communication between individuals is mostly mediated via some electronic platform, and transactions are often carried out remotely. In such a world, traditional notions of trust and confidence in the identity of those with whom we are interacting, taken for granted in the past, can be much less reliable. Biometrics -- the scientific discipline of identifying individual...

The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

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Report copyright infringementby Darra Goldstein (Editor in Chief), Sidney Mintz (Foreword by)A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts us t...

Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World

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Report copyright infringementby Naomi S. Baron (Author)People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced its first Kindle. Three years later, Apple debuted the iPad. Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved and smartphones proliferated, the phone became another vital reading p...

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Report copyright infringementby David Omand (Author)Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics and climate change. Based on his own experience in government, David Omand argues that while public security is vital for good government, the effects of...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Dodgson (Author), David Gann (Author)What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world has hit an accelerated rate of transformation. From airplanes to television to penicillin, and from radios to frozen food to digital money, the fruits of innov...

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Susskind (Author)Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms? Digital technologies - from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality - are trans...

Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

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Report copyright infringementby George Lucas (Author)What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory," international relations, and international law. The ethical foundations that define the "Profession of Arms" have developed over millennia f...

Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People, C.1870-2000

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Report copyright infringementby David French (Author)The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers, private papers and personal reminiscences, and upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and ...

The Us Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

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Report copyright infringementby John Prados (Author)The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces. After nearly ten years of searching, they descended into his Pakistan compound in the middle of the night, killed him, and secreted the body back into Afghanistan. Interest in these forces had always been high, but it spiked to new levels following this success. There was a larger lesson here too. For se...

National Intelligence and Science: Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Wilhelm Agrell (Author)Intelligence is currently facing increasingly challenging cross-pressures from both a need for accurate and timely assessments of potential or imminent security threats and the unpredictability of many of these emerging threats. We are living in a social environment of growing security and intelligence challenges, yet the traditional, narrow intelligence process is becoming increasingly insufficient for coping with diffuse, complex, and r...

Gender and Private Security in Global Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Eichler (Author)For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The increasing reliance on private military and security companies in contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the organization of military violence, and it raises issues of accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael E. MacKay (Author)Solar Energy presents an introduction to all aspects of solar energy, from photovoltaic devices to active and passive solar thermal energy conversion, giving both a detailed and broad perspective of the field. It is aimed at the beginner involved in solar energy or a related field, or for someone wanting to gain a broader perspective of solar energy technologies. A chapter considering solar radiation, basic principles applied to solar ...

Practising Science Communication in the Information Age: Theorising Professional Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Holliman (Author), Jeff Thomas (Editor), Sam Smidt (Editor)What is the impact of open access on science communication? How can scientists effectively engage and interact with the public? What role can science communication have when scientific controversies arise? Practising science communication in the information age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and practitioners of science communication. It considers how scientis...

Take Back Manufacturing: An Imperative for Western Economies

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Report copyright infringementby Nigel Southway (Author)This book is about how in less than one lifetime we have experienced the destruction of the manufacturing sectors in our western societies. and the significant loss of national prosperity, and why the imperative for western economies must be to ....Take Back Manufacturing!The globalized manufacturing approach with efficient supply chains supported by liberalized free trade agreements has been the business norm in the last four decades and...