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Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics (Oxford Handbooks)
Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics (Oxford Handbooks)

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what...

Disarming Strangers
Disarming Strangers

In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic...

Frommer's Moscow and St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete)
Frommer's Moscow and St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete)

Russia breathes superlatives: the world’s biggest country; its largest supplier of natural gas and second-largest oil producer; home of the planet’s longest railroads, busiest subway system (Moscow’s), and one of its deepest, biggest, and oldest lakes (Baikal, in Siberia). It even boasts balmy beach resorts (on the Black...

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan's...
Human-Computer Interaction and Operators Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory
Human-Computer Interaction and Operators Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory

A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators’ Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory describes applied and systemic-structural activity theory as it is used to study human-computer interaction, aviation, design, and training....

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet

WHEN I FIRST MET BARRETT LYON in 2004, I was covering Internet security for the Los Angeles Times from an office in San Francisco. His story was so good—and met a journalistic need so deep—that I had a hard time believing it was true.

For more than a year, I had been grappling with an onslaught of urgent but...

Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 8th East European Conference, ADBIS 2004, Budapest
Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 8th East European Conference, ADBIS 2004, Budapest
This volume continues the series of proceedings of the annual ADBIS conferences in the field of advances in databases and information systems.

ADBIS, founded by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter, was extended into a regular East-European conference in 1996 to establish a forum for promoting interaction and
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America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
The book began with an anonymous donation to the author of an 8-inch package of documents in the early 1980s. Nothing less than the membership list and supporting documents for a truly secret society the Yale Skull and Bones.

The late Johnny Johnson, of Phoenix Arizona was the spark that moved me to write first a
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Oil and Security: A World beyond Petroleum (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
Oil and Security: A World beyond Petroleum (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
The celebration welcoming the second half of the 21st century on 31 December 2050 was subdued in the Persian Gulf. The major cities of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others were dark. No fireworks or other signs of jubilation. Even those among them who had diversified their economies by investing in tourism, technology parks,...
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists.
 
In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR—the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm—focuses on what he knows best, the future.
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The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)
The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)
In 1346, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Generally believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the length and breadth of Europe from Sicily to Norway, from Ireland to Russia, for five terrible years. Scholars can...
Proceedings of the Workshop
Proceedings of the Workshop
The Workshop on Semigroups and Languages took place in November 2002 at Center of Algebra of the University of Lisbon. It aimed at bringing together researchers in both areas to find out about recent results of common interest.

Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, Portugal), John Fountain (University of York,
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