In 1989, I was responsible for organizing a workshop at the European Microwave
Conference on High-Power Solid State Amplifiers. This workshop proved popular and so
Artech House asked me to persuade the speakers to turn their material into a formsuitable
for publication, the result was the book entitled “High-Power GaAs FET...
The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...
This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades.
Drawing on new Thai-language research, it ranges widely over political, economic, social, and
cultural themes. Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and
unfree labour evolved into a rural society of...
Offering rare insiders’ perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the...
This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights. It studies the concept of authority in the digital era and focuses in particular on the actions of so-called digital dissidents. Moving from the difference...
Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you’re a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data:...
With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, elite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival...
Mordechai Cogan (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus
of Biblical History in the Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He has written widely on the relationship of Israel
and Judah with the Mesopotamian empires during the first millennium
b.c.e., and history-writing in the ancient...
The improvement of electrical energy efficiency is fast becomingone of the most essential areas of sustainability development,backed by political initiatives to control and reduce energydemand.
Now a major topic in industry and the electrical engineeringresearch community, engineers have started to focus on analysis,diagnosis and...
A comprehensive examination of the effects of the shifting seasons on maritime trade, warfare and piracy durig antiquity, this book overturns many long-held assumptions concerning the capabilities of Graeco-Roman ships and sailors.
It is the long-standing belief among classical scholars that seafaring on
the ancient Mediterranean...
Everywhere we can see the impact of things foreign and far away. People
everywhere feel vulnerable to global economic and political forces. But how do
these things threaten us and what levers are available to respond? So much about
global society remains obscure. What holds it together? How much is chaos, how
much system? How are...
Thirteen original essays by leading scholars explore aspects of Spinoza's ethical theory and, in doing so, deepen our understanding of the richly rewarding core of his system. Given its importance to his philosophical ambitions, it is surprising that his ethics has, until recently, received relatively little scholarly attention....
