Technology & Engineering

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by Bruce I. Gudmundsson (Author)On Armor tells three important and interconnected stories. The first is a tale of a technology, in particular, the rise and fall of the main battle tank--a type of armored vehicle that came to dominate land warfare in the middle of the 20th century but is now obsolete. The second is a history of ideas. The problem that armored vehicles created for 20th-century armies was as much about concepts of operation as it was about technology. Those who got the philosoph...

On Infantry: Revised Edition (REV) - Paperback

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by John a. English (Author), Bruce I. Gudmundsson (Author)Another volume in Praeger's The Military Profession series, this revised edition of the 1984 Praeger classic tells the story of infantry in the 20th century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time. Its purpose is to provide the reader--whether infantryman or not--with hitherto unavailable insights on the role that infantry plays in the larger battle and how that has helped shape the world that we live in today. Unique aspects...

The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945 - Hardcover

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by Walter Dunn (Author)This book describes the creation of a new economy in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1945. The Red Army defeated the Germans in World War II with equipment produced by that economy and not with masses of untrained men as has been often argued. The Soviet weapons were produced in factories designed and built under the direction of American engineers in the 1930s. Also, the Weimar Republic played a part in the creation of the Red Army by providing aviation and tank training...

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by Bruce I. Gudmundsson (Author)Gudmundsson tells the story of field artillery in the 20th century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time. Its purpose is to provide the reader--whether artilleryman or not--with hitherto unavailable insights on the role that artillery plays in the larger battle and how that has helped shape the world that we live in today. Unique aspects of the book include the treatment of technical issues in non-technical language, the extensive use of German and ...

Chinese Arms Transfers: Purposes, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order - Hardcover

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by Bates Gill (Author), R. Bates Gill (Author)This book is the first in eight years to address the purposes, patterns, and prospects of Chinese arms transfers, and the only book to address China's recent and provocative rise to prominence as an arms trader since the mid-1980s. Focusing on the 1980s and the prospects for the 1990s, the work analyzes the principal arms trade relationships of the People's Republic of China to provide a greater understanding and more nuanced insight into the arms...

Defense Reform and Technology: Tactical Aircraft - Hardcover

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by Serge Herzog (Author)To capture the defense reform debate surrounding the proper application of high technology in military systems, this study focuses on tactical aircraft, an area epitomizing cutting-edge technology. Air combat history is revisited (including the 1991 Persian Gulf War) to confirm, reject, or qualify positions advocating certain technologies in tactical aviation. Emphasis is placed on enduring combat ideas and aircraft design principles. The interaction between mission re...

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Seaborne Deception: The History of U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers - Hardcover

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by John B. Dwyer (Author)This book is the history of the highly trained officers and men who went by the cover name Beach Jumpers. Their top-secret mission was to create and sustain the illusion that a military landing was imminent at Beach A when in fact U.S. allied troops would hit the beaches 100 miles away at Beach X. During World War II, their tactics were extremely successful in Sicily, Salerno, Southern France, and the Philippines. Beach Jumpers later served ashore and afloat in Vietna...

Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity - Paperback

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by Damian White (Author), Alan Rudy (Author), Brian Gareau (Author)From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and...

Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact - Hardcover

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by Robert D. Smith (Author), Kelly DeVries (Author)This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why they changed over time. In the Middle Ages, the lack of standardized weapons meant that one warrior's arms were often quite different from another's, even when they were fighting on the same side. And with few major technological advances in that period, the evolution of those weapons over the centuries was incre...

How To Write and Present Technical Information - Hardcover

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by Charles Sides (Author)Thoroughly updated to discuss the use of tools such as Skype and social media, this concise volume shows how effective communication--via written text and spoken presentations--can positively impact project management in professional environments. Professional communications are the "information product" of all organizations and businesses. Based on that premise, this book offers communications strategies that will benefit any organization that disseminates technical ...

Environmental Science in Building - Paperback

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by Randall McMullan (Author)This popular textbook covers how the built environment and the management of energy relate to the quality of human living-conditions and the environmental performance of buildings. It is the key introductory text for understanding the principles and theories of the environmental science behind construction, and the only text on the market to provide the basic scientific principles of such a broad range of topics. The text covers a range of areas in the field, inclu...

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by Bruce Catton (Author) Number of Pages: 313 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 11, 1969

Science and Technology in Colonial America - Hardcover

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by William E. Burns (Author)Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy--what we call science--such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all ...

Science and Technology in Medieval European Life - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Author)Despite the popular view of medieval Europe as a Dark Age of intellectual stagnation, scientific and technological achievement thrived during this time. As any vacationer to Europe knows, churches and castles remain lasting testaments to the ingenuity of that period in history. Through carefully chosen examples which are presented in easily accessible thematic chapters, Science and Technology in Medieval European Life demonstrates how these two aspects of hum...

Medieval Science and Technology - Hardcover

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by Elspeth Whitney (Author)Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great Muslim scholars of the early middle ages, and finally transmitted to western Europe as that region began to grow and expand around 1100 C.E. Specific avenues of inquiry such as ast...

Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832-1914 - Hardcover

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by Carl Van Dyke (Author)This work examines the evolution of military-scientific research and theory as it was taught to student-officers at the Nicholas Academy. It is the only work (in English or Russian) to focus on this intellectual-institutional dialogue in the context of evolving professional responsibilities of the Russian Imperial General Staff during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book contains five portraits of influential Russian military theorists and educational administr...

The Quest for Victory: The History of the Principles of War - Hardcover

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by John Alger (Author), Jay Luvaas (Author) Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 28, 1982

Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Hardcover

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by Timothy P. Ireland (Author)Author Biographyeland /f Timothy /i P. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 1.03 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: February 10, 1981

Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American - Hardcover

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by Hart Basil H. Liddell (Author), Basil Henry Liddell Hart (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographyddell Hart /f Basil /i Henry /t Sir Number of Pages: 482 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 23, 1978

Transforming Communication: Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations - Paperback

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by Susan Leggett (Editor), Sohail Inayatullah (Editor)Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the pers...

All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War - Hardcover

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by Frank Kusch (Author)This unique study argues that the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War were not always the anti-war radicals portrayed in popular culture. Many were the products of stable, conservative, middle class homes who were more interested in furthering their education and careers than in fighting in Southeast Asia. The conflict in Vietnam was just one cause among many for their deep sense of disaffection from the land of their birth. These expatriates remaine...

Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox - Paperback

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by Laura Linder (Author)As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse. Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized and localized opinions necessary for the uninhibited marketplace of ideas envisioned in the First Amendment. Narrowcast outlets such as talk radio give vent to individual voices, but only to a limited, predefined audience. The media have led a social shift toward splintering and comp...

Water Resource Management: A Comparative Perspective - Hardcover

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by Dhirendra Vajpeyi (Editor)According to available estimates, only .3% of the total fresh water is usable for the world's entire human and animal populations. Some experts have observed that in the near future, the earth will face severe scarcity of water, resulting in an insufficient amount of water to sustain our ever increasing future needs. Others believe that such pessimistic estimates are unwarranted. Due to conflicting opinions and data-interpretations, the future levels of scarcity a...

Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Duncan L. Clarke (Author), Daniel O'Connor (Author), Jason D. Ellis (Author)American foreign policy since 1947 cannot be understood apart from the U.S. security assistance program. Beginning with Truman, every president has considered security assistance programs important means for furthering U.S. national interests. Security assistance has been used to support a wide variety of policies, including the Truman Doctrine and containment, the underwriting of the Camp David Accords, and the ch...

Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Douglas A. MacGregor (Author), Center for Strategic & International Stu (Author), Center for Strategic & International St (Author)This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be more de...

The End of the Future: The Waning of the High-Tech World - Paperback

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by Jean Gimpel (Author), Helen McPhail (Translator)Represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.Author BiographyJEAN GIMPEL is a historian of technology and the cycles of civilization. He is the author of several works devoted to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, including two bestselling books, The Cathedral Builders and The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. Number of...

Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy - Hardcover

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by Roch Legault (Author)This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored. Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on accomplishments and ...

Scouts and Raiders: The Navy's First Special Warfare Commandos - Hardcover

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by John B. Dwyer (Author)The history of the Scouts & Raiders of World War II is the story of the original ancestors of today's elite SEAL teams. As the Navy's first special warfare commandos these highly trained and skilled officer/enlisted boat crews conducted pre-assault recons of landing beaches, hydrographic recons, marked assault beaches, and guided in assault waves from 36-foot Scout boats, rubber boats, and kayaks at North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France, and Norman...

Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation - Hardcover

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by Stephen Bull (Author)From the Abrams M1 tank to the zeppelin, this essential reference details the invention and evolution of nearly 600 of the most important advances in military technology from prehistory to the present. International in scope, it covers weapons, ammunition, defenses, land vehicles, aircraft, ships, detection, stealth, gear, supplies, weapons of mass destruction, and much more. Whether researching such cutting-edge technologies as the B-2 Stealth Bomber, Patriot Missile,...

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper - Hardcover

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by Barbara Gastel (Author), Robert Day (Author)Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "as clear and simple as possible." "The purpose of scientific writing," according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, "is to communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too important to be communicated in anything other than words of certain meaning." This clear, beautifully written, and often funny tex...

Debating Your Plate: The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients - Hardcover

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by Randi Minetor (Author)This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each. It equips readers with the information they need to make their own informed decisions about what they eat. Most people aspire to eat healthy, but what exactly does that mean? While some foods are universally acknowledged as beneficial, such as many vegetables, and others are widely condemned, such as added sugar, many fo...