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Through My Sight

By: Alex N Azar

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A remarkable journey of a young man struggling with a life-threatening disease, family conflicts, discovering his life's purpose, and fighting a war with his own fate where his free-will keeps falling short. Surviving through many encounters of life, that once seemed impossible, he desperately seeks to attain a normal life. He keeps moving forward believing in himself to prove to the world that there has to be a better end to his journey. The young man observes a lot of deep facts of the world we have become a part of today fighting through his own miseries. All his observations come from his personal living experiences and draw a true sketch of how the society's influence can be for an individual in both good and bad times. Twenty-two years of tough living and learns that no matter how hard life could be, it cant be worth giving up.

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Through My Sight

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East Asia's Other Miracle

Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities

By: Alex J. Bellamy

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East Asia's Other Miracle

Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities

By: Alex J. Bellamy

Mass atrocities were once a common occurrence in East Asia. Yet, over the past three decades, mass atrocities have declined in East Asia to the point of near elimination. This book explains how and why.

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Oxford University Press

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0198777930

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Modernism on the Nile

Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary

By: Alex Dika Seggerman

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Modernism on the Nile

Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary

By: Alex Dika Seggerman

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity. Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a "constellational modernism" for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.

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UNC Press Books

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Famine that Kills

Darfur, Sudan

By: Alex de Waal

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Famine that Kills

Darfur, Sudan

By: Alex de Waal

In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the region. In a new preface prepared for this revised edition, Alex de Waal analyzes the roots of the current conflict in land disputes, social disruption and impoverishment. Despite vast changes in the nature of famines and in the capacity of response, de Waal's original challenge to humanitarian theory and practice including a focus on the survival strategies of rural people has never been more relevant. Documenting the resilience of the people who suffered, it explains why many fewer died than had been predicted by outsiders. It is also a pathbreaking study of the causes of famine deaths, showing how outbreaks of infectious disease killed more people than starvation. Now a classic in the field, Famine that Kills provides critical background and lessons of past intervention for a region that finds itself in another moment of humanitarian tragedy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199884595

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¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

By: Alex Levine,Adriana Novoa

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¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

By: Alex Levine,Adriana Novoa

After setting out the intellectual, cultural, and political context of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, this book presents original translations of central texts in that reception, most of which have never before appeared in English.

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Obamacare Wars

Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act

By: Daniel Béland,Philip Rocco,Alex Waddan

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Obamacare Wars

Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act

By: Daniel Béland,Philip Rocco,Alex Waddan

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia’s attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn—despite President Obama’s claim, in 2014, that its proponents and opponents could finally “stop fighting old political battles that keep us gridlocked.” But not only would the battles not stop, as Obamacare Wars makes acutely clear, they spread from Washington, DC, to a variety of new arenas. The first thorough account of the implementation of the ACA, this book reveals the fissures the act exposed in the American federal system. Obamacare Wars shows how the law’s intergovernmental structure, which entails the participation of both the federal government and the states, has deeply shaped the politics of implementation. Focusing on the creation of insurance exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid, and execution of regulatory reforms, Daniel Béland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan examine how opponents of the ACA fought back against its implementation. They also explain why opponents of the law were successful in some efforts and not in others—and not necessarily in a seemingly predictable red vs. blue pattern. Their work identifies the role of policy legacies, institutional fragmentation, and public sentiments in each instance as states grappled with new institutions, as in the case of the exchanges, or existing structures, in Medicaid and regulatory reform. Looking broadly at national trends and specifically at the experience of individual states, Obamacare Wars brings much-needed clarity to highly controversial but little-understood aspects of the Affordable Care Act’s odyssey, with implications for how we understand the future trajectory of health reform, as well as the multiple forms of federalism in American politics.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635076

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We Are Your Soldiers

How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

By: Alex Rowell

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We Are Your Soldiers

How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

By: Alex Rowell

‘A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt for eighteen years from the coup d'etat of 1952, is best known in the West for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires. He was a larger-than-life figure, loved by his followers for his nationalist ideals and for heralding a period of social change and modernisation. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser’s regime. We Are Your Soldiers examines Nasser’s influence on the politics of seven countries – Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, and Libya. Rowell argues that Nasser played a crucial role in the formation of authoritarian regimes as varied as Bashar al-Assad’s Syria, Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Libya and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. His encounters with each country were often drenched in blood and destruction, leaving deep scars that endure to the present. Crushing democracy at home while launching wars and slaying opponents abroad, Nasser ushered in the long political winter from which the region is still yet to emerge. Drawing on extensive interviews and material never before published in English, Alex Rowell presents a thrilling and eye-opening work of history that radically reexamines Middle Eastern politics. ______________________________________________ ‘In 400 blood-soaked pages, [Rowell] traces Nasser’s toxic influence from one Arab capital to another, from plots in officers’ club rooms via palace coups and well-equipped torture chambers. Rowell is an eloquent writer, weaving the intrigue into the region’s wider history’ TELEGRAPH ‘Sweeping . . . entertaining’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A rollicking and revelatory tour of today’s Middle East . . . a masterful reassessment of history' THANASSIS CAMBANIS, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story

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Simon and Schuster

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World Peace

(And How We Can Achieve It)

By: Alex J. Bellamy

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World Peace

(And How We Can Achieve It)

By: Alex J. Bellamy

For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect on what world peace might look like; much less on how it might be achieved. World Peace aims to change all that and show that world peace is possible. Because the motives, rationales, and impulses that give rise to war - the quest for survival, enrichment, solidarity, and glory - are now better satisfied through peaceful means, war is an increasingly anachronistic practice, more likely to impoverish and harm us humans than satisfy and protect us. This book shows that we already have many of the institutions and practices needed to make peace possible and sets out an agenda for building world peace. In the immediate term, it shows how steps to strengthen compliance with international law, improve collective action such as international peacekeeping and peacebuilding, better regulate the flow of arms, and hold individuals legally accountable for acts of aggression or atrocity crimes can make our world more peaceful. It also shows how in the long term, building strong and legitimate states that protect the rights and secure the livelihoods of their people, gender equal societies, and protecting the right of individuals to opt-out of wars has the potential to establish and sustain world peace. But it will only happen, if individuals organize to make it happen.

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0192570056

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Empecemos el Acolchado con Alex Anderson

By: Alex Anderson

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Empecemos el Acolchado con Alex Anderson

By: Alex Anderson

If you know a Spanish speaker who wants to learn to quilt, this is the book for you!

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A punta de Cuchillo

(Knifepoint)

By: Alex Van Tol

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A punta de Cuchillo

(Knifepoint)

By: Alex Van Tol

Jill tiene un trabajo de verano brutal en un rancho en las montañas, guiando a vaqueros aficionados en paseos a caballo por el campo. Durante una excursión con un guapo desconocido, Jill se encuentra de pronto en una lucha de vida o muerte, sin nadie que pueda ayudarla. Jill took a job which sounded perfect for the summer, guiding tourists on trail rides in the beautiful mountains. She didn't realize that the money was terrible, the hours long and the coworkers insufferable. After a blow-up with her boss, she takes a single man into the mountains for a ride, only to finds that he is a dangerous killer. When Jill fights back and manages to escape, she is in a desperate race to survive and make it to safety.

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Pandemia

How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

By: Alex Berenson

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Pandemia

How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

By: Alex Berenson

The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests—all of them purporting to “follow the science.” Since the lockdowns began, millions of Americans have relied on the reporting of Alex Berenson. Exposing the hysteria and manipulation behind the worst failure of public policy since World War I, this clear-eyed journalist has been a critical source of reason and truth. The product of relentless investigation and research, Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know they had became the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale. Dispassionate, factual, and untainted by any agenda other than telling the truth, this is the account that pandemic-weary Americans desperately need.

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1684512492

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What's Gone Wrong?

South Africa on the Brink of Failed Statehood

By: Alex Boraine

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What's Gone Wrong?

South Africa on the Brink of Failed Statehood

By: Alex Boraine

Originally published in South Africa in 2014 by Jonathan Ball Publishers (pty) Ltd, A division of Media24 Limited.

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NYU Press

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1479854972

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Volume XL

Index

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī,Alex V. Popovkin

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Volume XL

Index

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī,Alex V. Popovkin

The index to the 39-volume History of al-Tabari.

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0791472523

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Structural Information and Communication Complexity

15th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2008, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, June 17-20, 2008, Proceedings

By: Alex Allister Shvartsman

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Structural Information and Communication Complexity

15th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2008, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, June 17-20, 2008, Proceedings

By: Alex Allister Shvartsman

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2008, held in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, in June 2008. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers cover topics such as distributed algorithms, compact data structures, information dissemination, informative labeling schemes, combinatorial optimization, and others, with potential applications to large scale distributed systems including global computing platforms, peer-to-peer systems and applications, social networks, wireless networks, and network protocols (such as routing, broadcasting, localization).

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3540693262

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The Imagined Underworld

Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City

By: James Alex Garza

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The Imagined Underworld

Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City

By: James Alex Garza

Recounts six infamous crimes committed in nineteenth-century Mexico City and the underworld they were used to create. Examining judicial records, newspapers, government documents, and travel accounts, the author uncovers the truth behind some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most notorious criminals, including the serial killer "El Chalequero.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803215835

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Securing Southeast Asia

The Politics of Security Sector Reform

By: Mark Beeson,Alex Bellamy

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Securing Southeast Asia

The Politics of Security Sector Reform

By: Mark Beeson,Alex Bellamy

This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia. It investigates recent developments in civil-military relations in the region, looking in particular at the impact and utility of the agenda on the region and assessing whether it is likely to help make the region more stable and less prone to military interventions. It provides an historical overview of the region’s civil-military relations and goes on to explore the dynamics of civil-military relations within the context of the security sector reform framework, focusing on the experiences of four of the region’s militaries: Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. It argues that although regional militaries have not necessarily followed a ‘Western’ model, significant developments have occurred that are broadly in keeping with the security sector reform agenda, and which suggests that the prospects for stable civil-military relations are brighter than some sceptics believe.

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Routledge

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1134117566

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The Quest for the Crystal

Legends of Overon

By: Alex P. Veres

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The Quest for the Crystal

Legends of Overon

By: Alex P. Veres

The world of Overon calls to you once again. This time, come and join Avery, son of Gabriel, as he takes part on a journey across the realm. From the day he first met Princess Elyon, Avery felt true and undying love. Now, he sets out on a quest to find the one thing that can symbolize that love: a crystal. But this will be no easy task. He and his comrade Xavier, son of Prince Cedric, encounter many obstacles along their journey. Dragons, warring forest creatures, and an omnipotent demon king all stand in the way of Averys quest. But no matter what, he will do whatever he must to prove his worth and love to Elyon.

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The Sword of Darrow

By: Hal Malchow,Alex Malchow

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The Sword of Darrow

By: Hal Malchow,Alex Malchow

In a magical realm filled with creatures of every possible shape and size, war is brought upon the peaceful kingdom of Sonnencrest by evil goblin King Malmut. Princess Babette, the only surviving member of the royal family, manages to escape and seeks refuge with Asterux, a powerful wizard who agrees to teach Babette magic, and who disguises her as an ugly gypsy girl to protect her from King Malmut's thugs. Ten years later, Babette must use the magic she has learned to help aid the kingdom's only hope at defeating the goblins' horrible reign: Darrow, a lame boy who can barely pick up a sword but has a great gift for inspiring others. With Babette's unseen help, Darrow begins a journey to free his country once and for all and bring peace back to Sonnencrest. Written by a father and his then eight- year-old son who struggled with a learning disability at the time, "The Sword of Darrow" is an enjoyable adventure that shows how even the unlikeliest of heroes can rise up against injustice.

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BenBella Books, Inc.

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1935618881

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OKU: Musculoskeletal Infection

By: George C. Cierny III, MD,Alex C. McLaren, MD,Montri D. Wongworawat, MD

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OKU: Musculoskeletal Infection

By: George C. Cierny III, MD,Alex C. McLaren, MD,Montri D. Wongworawat, MD

The increasing responsibility placed on physicians and hospitals to reduce postoperative infection makes this OKU specialty topic particularly relevant. Developed in partnership with the Musculoskeletal Infection Society, OKU: Musculoskeletal Infection is the first orthopaedic literature survey devoted to the identification, prevention, and treatment of bone, joint, and soft-tissue infections.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975121732

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Raiders from the North

Empire of the Moghul

By: Alex Rutherford

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Raiders from the North

Empire of the Moghul

By: Alex Rutherford

A boy emperor comes of age amid bloody conflict in this epic medieval series chronicling the rise and fall of Central Asia’s powerful Mogul dynasties. It is 1494 when the ruler of Ferghana dies in an extraordinary accident. His only son, Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge. Babur is determined to live up to the example of his legendary ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests transformed civilization from Delhi to the Mediterranean. But Babur is dangerously young to inherit a kingdom. Before Babur can summon enough warlords to declare him the rightful king, plots against his crown, even his life, are hatching. And soon, he will discover that even the bravest leader can be betrayed. With wise advisers and courageous warriors by his side, Babur sets out to establish an empire in India, but every step of his journey is fraught with danger.

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Macmillan

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1429923237

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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention

By: Alex J. Bellamy,Stephen McLoughlin

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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention

By: Alex J. Bellamy,Stephen McLoughlin

Two leading experts in the field re-examine the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention in this major new text. The recent high-profile interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria show the various international responses to impending or ongoing humanitarian crises, tracking the development from ad hoc military interventions to a more formalised international human rights regime. This evolution has fundamentally changed the way that states and international society think about, and respond to, atrocities. This textbook charts and explains the transformation, examines the challenges that confront it, and asks whether this new politics can withstand the growing crises in international politics. The human protection system is not perfect, but attempts to reduce both the incidence and lethality of atrocity crimes. The authors argue that armed intervention alone is rarely sufficient to halt humanitarian atrocities, but must be understood within the wider context of peacemaking, including non-violent action. The requirement for states to intervene is codified in international law, and this raises important practical, political and moral questions for consistent humanitarian action. Based on the authors' two decades of research, this text is the ideal companion for students of International Relations, taking modules on Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137488107

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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction

By: Alex Roland

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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction

By: Alex Roland

The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, describing the inventions that changed the direction of warfare throughout history: from fortified walls, the chariot, battleships, and the gunpowder revolution to bombers, rockets, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and nuclear weapons. In the twenty-first century, new technologies continue to push warfare in unexpected directions, while warfare stimulates stunning new technological advances. Yet even now, the newest and best technology cannot guarantee victory. Brimming with dramatic narratives of battles and deep insights into military psychology, this book shows that although military technologies keep changing at great speed, the principles and patterns behind them abide.

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Oxford University Press

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0190605405

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Soldiers Once and Still

Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

By: Alex Vernon

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Soldiers Once and Still

Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

By: Alex Vernon

As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century’s legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans’ literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O’Brien, three of the twentieth century’s most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various ways war and the military, through both cultural and personal experience, have affected social and gender identities and dynamics in each author’s work. Hemingway, Salter, and O’Brien form the core of Soldiers Once and Still because each represents a different warring generation of twentieth-century America: World War I with Hemingway, World War II and Korea with Salter, and Vietnam with O’Brien. Each author also represents a different literary voice of the twentieth century, from modern to mid-century to postmodern, and each presents a different battlefield experience: Hemingway as noncombatant, Salter as air force fighter pilot, and O’Brien as army grunt. War’s pervasive influence on the individual means that, for veterans-turned-writers like Hemingway, Salter, and O’Brien, the war experience infiltrates their entire body of writing—their works can be seen not only as war literature but also as veterans’ literature. As such, their entire postwar oeuvre, regardless of whether an individual work explicitly addresses the war or the military, is open to Vernon’s exploration of war, society, gender, and literary history. Vernon’s own experiences as a soldier, a veteran, a writer, and a critic inform this enlightening critique of American literature, offering students and scholars of American literature and war studies an invaluable tool for understanding war’s effects on the veteran writer and his society.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587296233

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The Distraction Addiction

Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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The Distraction Addiction

Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day? We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a renowned Stanford technology guru, says yes. The Distraction Addiction is packed with fascinating studies, compelling research, and crucial takeaways. Whether it's breathing while Facebook refreshes, or finding creative ways to take a few hours away from the digital crush, this book is about the ways to tune in without tuning out.

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Little, Brown

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0316208256

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Most Succinctly Bred

By: Alex Vernon

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Most Succinctly Bred

By: Alex Vernon

An essayistic memoir on being a soldier. Alex Vernon's Most Succinctly Bred explores war by exploring around war, by operating in the margins. Vernon records his ongoing relationship with war and soldiering, from growing up in late Cold War 1980s middle America to attending West Point, going to and returning from the first Gulf War, and watching, as a writer and academic, the coming of the second Iraq war. Unlike a mere essay collection, this book has a trajectory, and the chapters, appearing in rough chronological order, loop in and out of one another. It is not a narrow autobiography that attempts to account only for the writer's life; it uses that life to illuminate the lives of its readers, to tell us all about the time and place in which we find ourselves. War has seasoned this reluctant soldier; it has wounded him as it wounds all soldiers. But war has not stopped Alex Vernon's life. A large part of what we read here is a fascinating story of recovery.

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Kent State University Press

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0873388550

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Los santos de Agua Mansa, California

Una novela

By: Alex Espinoza

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Los santos de Agua Mansa, California

Una novela

By: Alex Espinoza

Agua Mansa, un pueblo en gran parte hispano más allá de la periferia de Los Ángeles, es el hogar de Perla Portillo y su Botánica Oshún, adonde acude la gente en busca de amuletos, hierbas y velas. Más que nada, buscan los consejos de Perla, quien ha estado al servicio de la comunidad durante años, armando a sus clientes con las herramientas que necesitan para sobrellevar todo tipo de crisis, tanto grandes como pequeñas. Tenemos a Juan, un hombre que intenta aceptar la muerte de su padre; Nancy, una maestra de escuela recién casada; Shawn, un adicto que busca la paz dentro de su caótica vida; y Rosa, una adolescente que intenta bajar de peso y encontrarse a sí misma. Pero cuando llega un cliente con un pasado turbulento y misterioso, Perla lucha por ayudarlo y debe hacer frente tanto a sus ilusiones frustradas como a sus dudas acerca del lugar que le corresponde en un mundo que cambia con mucha rapidez. Imaginativa, alentadora, lírica, hermosamente escrita, Los santos de Agua Mansa, California, es una novela que evoca lo imprevisible de la vida y la persistencia del espíritu a través de las vidas de los habitantes de Agua Mansa y, en especial, de la mujer que se encuentra al centro de todo. Sus historias son aquéllas de la fe y la traición, el amor y la pérdida, los lazos de la familia y la comunidad, y la constancia del cambio. “Tan perfecta como las cuentas de un rosario . . . capaz de renovar la fe que tiene uno en la nueva narrativa”. –Sandra Cisneros, autora de La casa en Mango Street “Original, mágica, hermosa y evocadora . . . ofrece una ventana a un mundo que la mayoría nunca vemos”. –Lisa See, autora de Snow Flower and the Secret Fan “Alex Espinoza está en camino de convertirse en el Faulkner de su propio paisaje encantado, aquel de la comunidad de Agua Mansa, tierra adentro en el sur de California. Este lugar cobrará vida ante los lectores de todo el país a través de una prosa delicada, exquisita e infundida de espíritu”. –Susan Straight, autora de Highwire Moon

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Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward

By: Alexander Alex,C. John Harris,Dennis A. Smith

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Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward

By: Alexander Alex,C. John Harris,Dennis A. Smith

With a focus on case studies of R&D programs in a variety of disease areas, the book highlights fundamental productivity issues the pharmaceutical industry has been facing and explores potential ways of improving research effectiveness and efficiency. Takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to the problems and potential solutions to drug compound attrition Tackles a problem that adds billions of dollars to drug development programs and health care costs Guides discovery and development scientists through R&D stages, teaching requirements and reasons why drugs can fail Discusses potential ways forward utilizing new approaches and opportunities to reduce attrition

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1118679679

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SHACORA

UNA NOVELA DE FICCION ESOTERICA

By: ALEX MATA

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SHACORA

UNA NOVELA DE FICCION ESOTERICA

By: ALEX MATA

Shacora. Una novela de ficción esotérica. Suena algo extraño, un tanto contradictorio, ficción contradice a esotérico, y esotérico es todo lo contrario a ficción. No es mi intención confundir, o tratar de hacerme el diferente. Intentare explicarme de una forma simple y sencilla. Las confusiones, los malos entendimientos, las pasiones mal interpretadas, los sentimientos que nos ofusca, y las cosas aprendidas que no las sabemos usar en forma correcta. Cuando todos estos obstáculos son sobrellevados y comprendidos, se convierten en nuestras verdades. Esa verdad que tanto buscamos, es tan personal, tan propia de cada individuo, es una caja fuerte con clave olvidada, que tal vez solo su dueño pueda entrar en ella. Mi verdad es Esotérica, esta dentro de mi ser, de mi alma y de mi corazón. Si intento explicar a alguien, lo que llevo encerrado en mi cerebro, cuan secreto impenetrable e incomprensible, de seguro que el escuchador lo tildaría de ficción, hasta pudiese ser que me apodara de loco, de extraño y demente. Todos callamos, nunca decimos lo que de verdad pensamos, no compartimos esos secretos que nos parece fantasmales y de novela. Pues, decidí hacerlo, comparto mi mente con cualquiera que desee leer a Shacora. Y espero disfrute de este trabajo que lo llamo: NOVELA DE FICCION ESOTERICA.

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1450001181

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Essential Notes for Medical and Surgical Finals

By: Kaji Sritharan,Jonathan Rohrer,Alex Rankin,Sachi Sivananthan

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Essential Notes for Medical and Surgical Finals

By: Kaji Sritharan,Jonathan Rohrer,Alex Rankin,Sachi Sivananthan

Covering both medicine and surgery, this book is the essential revision companion for all medical students and a valuable source of knowledge for junior doctors at all stages of their training. It is useful both in the early preparatory phase of revision as well as for last minute cramming, and for use on the wards. This book divides the medical and surgical curricula into over twenty key sections and concisely covers the relevant information for each, including definitions, aetiology, key clinical features, investigations, and management. Examinations for undergraduate medical students and at postgraduate level can take a number of forms, including multiple choice and extended matching questions, single best answers, short notes, vivas and OSCEs. The book provides the necessary information to tackle all these exam formats successfully, as well as to manage each topic competently should it arise in clinical practice. Compact and user-friendly, this book is the ideal revision tool.

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1910227404

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Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services

By: Danny Raz,Arto Tapani Juhola,Joan Serrat-Fernandez,Alex Galis

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Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services

By: Danny Raz,Arto Tapani Juhola,Joan Serrat-Fernandez,Alex Galis

Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services gives a thorough explanation of the state-of-the-art in Context-Aware-Services (CAS). The authors describe all major terms and components of CAS, defining context and discussing the requirements of context-aware applications and their use in 3rd generation services. The text covers the service creation problem as well as the network technology alternatives to support these services and discusses active and programmable networks in detail. It gives an insight into the practical approach followed in the CONTEXT project, supplying concrete guidelines for building successful context-aware services. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services: * Provides comprehensive and in-depth information on state-of-the-art CAS technology. * Proposes a system architecture for CAS creation and delivery, discussing service management and active network layers. * Describes the service lifecycle functional architecture, covering service authoring, customization, invocation, and assurance. * Explains system design considerations and details, system evaluation criteria, test-bed requirements, and evaluation results. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services is an invaluable resource for telecommunications developers, researchers in academia and industry, advanced students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, telecoms operators, as well as telecommunication management and operator personnel.

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0470028688

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Up the Nano Creek

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alex Zaslavsky

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Up the Nano Creek

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alex Zaslavsky

In this book leading profesionals in the semiconductor microelectronics field discuss the future evolution of their profession. The following are some of the questions discussed: Does CMOS technology have a real problem? Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials? What is to come after semiconductors? Superconductors or molecular conductors? Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography? Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution? Quantum Computing, Spintronics? Where is the printable plastic electronics proposed 10 years ago? Are carbon nanotube transistors the CMOS of the future?

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0470168250

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Predicting Solubility of New Drugs

Handbook of Critically Curated Data for Pharmaceutical Research

By: Alex Avdeef

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Predicting Solubility of New Drugs

Handbook of Critically Curated Data for Pharmaceutical Research

By: Alex Avdeef

In pharmaceutical research, solubility plays a key part in the assessment of pharmacokinetic risks. Poor drug absorption, reduced efficacy, excessive metabolism, and adverse reactions are frequently related to issues of drug solubility. During early discovery research at pharmaceutical companies, many thousands of molecules are considered. Most are rejected due to perceived unfavorable properties. Here the author uses the Wiki-pS0TM database, which forms the backbone of this unique handbook. Also discussed is the emerging class of therapeutically promising research molecules called PROTACs (proteolysis-targeting chimeras), showing a propensity for ‘undruggable’ targets. FEATURES • A comprehensive and unique listing of measured aqueous intrinsic solubility focusing on drug-like and drug-relevant molecules. • The database can be used to predict the solubility of research pharmaceutical molecules. • Includes downloadable files of the database (.csv format). • The mining of the database can result in a better design of solubility assay protocols, leading to better quality of measurements. • Artificial intelligence and Bayesian statistics will likely be key to this subject area in the future. Alex Avdeef has been an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow since 2014, a former visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London, and is the author of Absorption and Drug Development (2nd ed., Wiley, 2012). In 2021, the book was translated into Chinese, by translators affiliated with the China Food and Drug Administration. For nearly 50 years, he has been teaching, researching, and developing methods, instruments, and analysis software for the measurement of ionization constants, solubility, dissolution, and permeability of drugs. His accomplishments in the development of instrumentation include several well-known instruments that are or recently have been manufactured by leading companies in the instrument market, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sirius Analytical, and Pion Inc. He has over 200 technical publications in primary scientific journals and book chapters. He has written several comprehensive technical guides and is a co-inventor on six patents. He cofounded Sirius Analytical (UK) in 1989, pION Inc. (USA) in 1996, and founded in–ADME Research (New York City) in 2011. His other positions were at Orion Research, Syracuse University, UC Berkeley, and Caltech.

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1003826318

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Unstable Ground

Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

By: Alex Alvarez

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Unstable Ground

Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

By: Alex Alvarez

Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence. Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn’t claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.

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1442265698

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The Responsibility to Protect

A Defense

By: Alex J. Bellamy

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The Responsibility to Protect

A Defense

By: Alex J. Bellamy

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community's major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in Bosnia, Rwanda and more recently in Syria. This book argues that although it is far from perfect R2P offers the best chance we have of building an international community that works to prevent these crimes and protect vulnerable populations. To make this argument, the book sets out the logic of R2P and its key ambitions, examines some of the critiques of the principle and its implementation in situations such as Libya, and sets out ways of overcoming some of the practical problems associated with moving this principle from words into deeds.

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0198704119

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The Great Awakening

Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance

By: Alex Jones,Kent Heckenlively

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The Great Awakening

Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance

By: Alex Jones,Kent Heckenlively

In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity. The expression “Get woke, go broke” has entered the common lexicon as we’ve seen company after company invoke the false gods of diversity, equity, and inclusion to their financial demise. But this surface discussion masks a much darker truth. What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failed plans of social Darwinists to capture free market capitalism and turn it toward their fascist aims of controlling and depopulating the globe. Working with New York Times bestselling author Kent Heckenlively, Jones masterfully gives you the deeper discussion about such hot button topics as the truth behind the globalists plans for artificial intelligence (AI), the central bank digital currency, social credit scores, Big Tech tyranny, censorship, fifteen-minute cities, the unholy alliance between big business and big government, the military-intelligence-industrial complex—which is hell-bent on eternal war—and the all-out assault on free speech and the Second Amendment. The good news is that these plans are destined to fail, if we wake up to the anti-human future the globalists have planned for us. The globalists hate freedom, and what they hate the most is the greatest freedom document in human history, the United States Constitution. Jones does not shy away from the darker parts of American history—the way we have been systematically deceived by the intelligence agencies since their assassination of President John F. Kennedy—but he provides example after example of people who have broken free from the matrix of lies to tell the truth. The people the globalists fear the most are the members of their own systems of control, who wake up and then decide to act against the machine. The globalists believe they’ve planned for every possible contingency, but they hadn’t counted on the conscience and love of truth, which lives in the souls of good people. St. Augustine once wrote: “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” No figure in our modern times has roared louder against the enemies of freedom than Alex Jones. In the calm and dispassionate style that made his first book, The Great Reset: And the War for the World, such a smash hit, Alex lays out the flaws in the plans of the globalists and how they seek to create a world in direct opposition to God’s plans for our glorious human future. But God consistently works His will in our world, even through imperfect individuals like Donald Trump, Alex Jones, or you. If you want to read one book this year to understand your world and help lead humanity to the next great human renaissance, you need to order this book today.

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1510779035

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