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Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing
Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing
Rationing: it’s a word—and idea—that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As...
Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up
Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up

An examination of the German Blitzkrieg operations from Poland to Operation Barbarossa, as experienced by junior commanders and enlisted men, exploring why they were so successful.

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939–41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied
...

The Nile Development Game: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?
The Nile Development Game: Tug-of-War or Benefits for All?

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparians over...

Articulation and Intelligibility (Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing)
Articulation and Intelligibility (Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing)
This lecture is a review of what is known about modeling human speech recognition (HSR). A model is proposed, and data are tested against the model.

There seem to be a large number of theories, or points of view, on how human speech recognition functions, yet few of these theories are comprehensive. What is needed is a set of models that are...

Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs
Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs

Do you occasionally wonder,

  • What kind of person works at a porn video store?
  • Do public defenders believe in their clients?
  • What does a reporter feel when he visits war-torn Iraq?
  • What happens after a child star falls into obscurity?

Thanks to Web logs, or...

Under the Radar: The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
Under the Radar: The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

This is the biography of Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 to 1981). As the first female radio astronomer (and one of the first people in the world to consider radio astronomy), she made classic contributions to solar radio physics.

She also played a major role in the design of the Australian government's Council for Scientific and...

Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution

Drawing on his fundamentalist upbringing and experience teaching physics at an evangelical college, Giberson has a native understanding of how conservative Christians feel and think about evolution. As a Christian evolutionist, he finds himself occupying a frequently misunderstood middle ground in the midst of a culture war, fought with...

Surviving the War for Talent in Asia: How Innovation Can Help
Surviving the War for Talent in Asia: How Innovation Can Help

Find and Keep the Outstanding Leaders You Need to Win in Asia!

  • Specific solutions for recruiting and retaining great people in North Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
  • Seven new case studies, plus...
Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration)
Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration)
Progress in photosynthesis research is strongly dependent on instrumentation. It is therefore not surprising that the impressive advances that have been made in recent decades are paralleled by equally impressive advances in sensitivity and sophistication of physical equipment and methods. This trend started already shortly after...
The Weed Runners: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade
The Weed Runners: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade


Make no mistake: the US government’s hundred-year-old war on marijuana isn’t over. Some 20 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges so far. The American marijuana industry remains underground, where modern-day moonshiners who view themselves as...

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General
John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory's fourth and final constitutional...

Hollywood Speaks Out: Pictures that Dared to Protest Real World Issues
Hollywood Speaks Out: Pictures that Dared to Protest Real World Issues

Hollywood Speaks Out explores that rare Hollywood feature that dared to tackle red-hot, social issues whilst American society was gripped by the convulsion and controversy they generated.

  • Explores why Hollywood has always been risk-adverse, and how most feature flms deal with controversial issues long after the...
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