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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia/China

Macmillan Technical, 1994

This project began in 1987 with the goal of assembling a basic reference source that provides accurate, clear, and concise descriptions of the cultures of the world. We wanted to be as comprehensive and authoritative as possible: comprehensive, by providing descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or by describing a...

Outspoken: Free Speech Stories

University of California Press, 2003

"America's national obsession with asserting, and quelling, free-speech comes alive in this collection of profiles of First Amendment firebrands.Ê.Ê.Ê. The author goes beyond the usual polarized corners of political correctness.Ê.Ê.Ê.Êher nuanced treatment of all sides of the debate makes this a...

Arduino Robotics (Technology in Action)

Apress, 2011

This book will show you how to use your Arduino to control a variety of different robots, while providing step-by-step instructions on the entire robot building process. You'll learn Arduino basics as well as the characteristics of different types of motors used in robotics. You also discover controller methods and failsafe...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

Terrorism and Public Safety Policing: Implications for the Obama Presidency

CRC Press, 2009

A Pragmatic Answer to the Systematic Change Already Underway

The trends, data, and battle-tested logic do not lie. A perfect storm of extremist ideologies is on the horizon that threatens to challenge the current state of public safety—forcing police chiefs, public administrators, and security...

Information Warfare: corporate attack and defence in a digital world (Computer Weekly Professional)

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

The idea for this book came out of a need to find a text for a unit in Information Warfare given to Doctor of Business Administration students. Most of the existing texts had a military flavour and so did not suit our task. Others concentrated on security aspects and assumed some level of knowledge in this area. What we wanted was a text that...

Computer Viruses: from theory to applications (Collection IRIS)

Springer, 2005

This book deals with computer viruses envisaged from three different points of view, namely the theoretical fundamentals of computer virology, algorithmic and practical aspects of viruses and their potential applications to various areas. The theoretical formalization by means of Turing machines, self-reproducing automata and recursive functions...

Police Technology: 21st-Century Crime-Fighting Tools (Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering)

Rosen Education Service, 2017

Computers have become vital for police work in the twenty-first century. Applications explored in this compelling volume include the capability of searching extensive, internationally synchronized criminal information databases; plotting crime incidents and patterns to anticipate and prevent recurrences; interrogating criminal suspects and...

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety?4,162 Miles across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat

Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty were herded onto a twenty-three-foot launch and abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Thus began their extraordinary journey to Java. Covering 4,162 miles, the small boat was battered by continuous storms, and the men on board suffered crippling...

A History of Modern Urban Operations

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations?a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-century precedents to the Battle of Shanghai; Stalingrad, German town clearance, Mandalay,...

Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification

No Starch Press, 2005

Join author John Zdziarski for a look inside the brilliant minds that have conceived clever new ways to fight spam in all its nefarious forms. This landmark title describes, in-depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next-generation spam filters to identify and filter unwanted messages, how spam filtering works and how language...

A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

Pegasus Books, 2021

The riveting account of the first bloody showdown between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a battle that sealed the fate of the Confederacy and changed the course of American history.

In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of...

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