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Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

W W Norton, 2019

In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?

In this...

Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793?1848 (Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This collection provides new insights into the ’Age of Revolutions’, focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the...

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party: Its Ideology and History

Black House Publishing Ltd, 2019

The emergence of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) during the Syrian civil war as a military and political force has elicited interest and debate among observers and analysts of the Middle East. Long considered as irrevocably marginalized by decades of prohibition and persecution, the SSNP has over the last decade re-asserted itself as...

Next Generation Mobile Systems: 3G & Beyond

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

What will the future of wireless communications look like?

What drives mobile communications systems beyond 3G?

In Next Generation Mobile Systems the authors answer these questions and others surrounding the new technologies. The book examines the current research issues...

We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Columbia Global Reports, 2019

"A wise and thorough investigation." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the...

Design of Industrial Information Systems

Academic Press, 2006

Long term growth in productivity is critically important to improving the standard of living of our society. Over the past ten years (1996–2005), average annual productivity growth in the non-farm business sector has been twice as high as it was in the prior fi fteen years (1981–1995). In the manufacturing sector, it has been even more...

American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

Verso, 2019

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...

Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

This book has been several years in the making, and I must thank all those who have worked

on the project over that time. My greatest gratitude is of course to the contributors, to those who have been with the project from the first, and those who joined later, when others had fallen away. To all of them I owe more than it is...

Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia, The Republic...

I. M. Wright's "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Best Practices)

Microsoft Press, 2011

Get the brutal truth about coding, testing, and project management—from a Microsoft insider who tells it like it is. I. M. Wright's deliberately provocative column "Hard Code" has been sparking debate amongst thousands of engineers at Microsoft for years. And now (despite our better instincts), we're making...

The Artful Universe Expanded

Oxford University Press, 2005

Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular The Artful Universe, Barrow further explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and...

Targeting Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Cancer Treatment and Research)

Springer, 2004

The last decade we have witnessed a major change in the development of new techniques and agents for the treatment of cancer in general, and for soft tissue sarcomas in particular. The important achievements of molecular biology research have changed the landscape markedly. Increasingly subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas are shown...

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