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Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War

Greenwood Press, 2006

Provides clear, concise, and basic descriptions and definitions to over 260 key people, events, and terms relating to the series of conflicts between France and England in the 14th and 15th centuries that later came to be known as the Hundred Years War.

The Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War provides its users with clear,...

Constraint Programming and Decision Making (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2014

In many application areas, it is necessary to make effective decisions under constraints. Several area-specific techniques are known for such decision problems; however, because these techniques are area-specific, it is not easy to apply each technique to other applications areas. Cross-fertilization between different application areas is one...

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)

The Johns Hopkins University, 2019

How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power.

In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and...

Vietnam at War

Oxford University Press, 2009

For many Westerners, the Vietnam War summons images of American soldiers patrolling rice paddies, battling an elusive enemy as helicopters circle overhead. But there were, in fact, many Vietnam wars--an anti-colonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among southern...

World Criminal Justice Systems, Eighth Edition: A Comparative Survey

Anderson, 2012

This comparative text provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries: England, France, Russia, China, Japan, and a new chapter on South Africa -- each representative of a different type of legal system. An additional chapter on Islamic law uses...

Grid Resource Management: Towards Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing

CRC Press, 2008

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management: Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing presents a comprehensive account of the architectural issues of grid technology, such as security,...

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 1995

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This book is about the latter.

If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the...

Uncertainty and Optimization in Structural Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Optimization is generally a reduction operation of a definite quantity. This process naturally takes place in our environment and through our activities. For example, many natural systems evolve, in order to minimize their potential energy. Modeling these phenomena then largely relies on our capacity to artificially reproduce these processes....

Transfixation: Atlas of Anatomical Sections for the External Fixation of Limbs

Springer, 1987

The past 25 years have seen a progressive improvement in external fixation techniques in terms of patient acceptability, ease of appli cation and apparatus stability. The recent awareness in Europe of the method, application and excellent results of the technique pio neered by G. A. Ilizarov has caused a rapid increase here in...

Prehospital Trauma Care

CRC Press, 2001

Comprehensive in scope and content, Prehospital Trauma Care (PTC) covers all aspects of emergency medicine-triage assessment and treatment, anesthesia, intensive care, psychiatry, health and military disasters, burns, shock, and surgery.
Written by over 70 distinguished international experts representing Australia, Austria, Belgium,...

Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

Why Programs Fail, winner of the Jolt Productivity Award, has been freshly updated to bring readers up-to-speed on all the new methodologies that will help save them, their companies, and consumers a lot of headaches. Find out about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do...

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, Antwerp, Belgium

Springer, 2008

When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining...

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