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From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk

A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture

By: Andrew Lawrence Roberts

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From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk

A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture

By: Andrew Lawrence Roberts

Emphasizing the importance of popular culture and the wealth of knowledge that can be gained through an analysis of the daily lives and practices of individuals, this book serves as an introduction to Czech popular culture. It includes 600 entries, cross-referenced to allow readers to pursue particular topics in greater depth.

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Central European University Press

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9637326278

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9789637326271

Czech Politics: From West to East and Back Again

By: Stanislav Balík,Vít Hloušek,Lubomír Kopeček,Jan Holzer,Pavel Pšeja,Andrew Lawrence Roberts

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Czech Politics: From West to East and Back Again

By: Stanislav Balík,Vít Hloušek,Lubomír Kopeček,Jan Holzer,Pavel Pšeja,Andrew Lawrence Roberts

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Czech politics, past and present. The authors not only cover the main political developments of the past two centuries, they also situate the current political system in the context of communist and pre-communist legacies. They argue that amidst the dramatic changes of the Velvet Revolution, one can find a plethora of continuities in culture and institutions that help to explain the shape of Czech politics today.

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280

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Verlag Barbara Budrich

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3847409743

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9783847409748

The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

By: Andrew Targowski

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The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

By: Andrew Targowski

In Part I, Prof. Targowski takes us through the evolution of modern computing and information systems. While much of this material is familiar to those of us who have lived through these developments, it would definitely not be familiar to our children or our students. He also introduces a perspective that I found both refreshing and useful: looking at the evolution on a country by country basis. For those of us who live in the U.S., it is all too easy to imagine that evolution to be a purely local phenomenon. I found my appreciation of the truly global nature of computing expanding as he walked me through each country’s contributions. In Parts II and III, constituting nearly half of the book, Targowski provides what I would describe as an in-depth case study of the challenges and successes of informatics in Poland. As he tells each story—many of which involved him personally—the reader cannot help but better understand the close relationship between the freedoms that we in the west take for granted and the ability to produce innovations in IT. Even after Poland left the orbit of the former Soviet Union, the remaining vestiges of the old way of thinking remained a major impediment to progress. Being right and being rigorous were far less important than being in tune with the “approved” ways of thinking. There are important lessons to be learned here, particularly as we try to project how IT will evolve in rapidly developing economies such as China. But, from my experience, they apply equally well to western academia, where moving outside of preferred values and patterns of research can lead a scholar to be ignored or even disparaged. In Part IV, Targowski presents a bold, forward-looking synthesis of informatics and informing science in the future. Building upon articles recently published in Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, he presents a conceptual scheme of historical informing waves that builds upon historians such as Toynbee. He then considers how these trends will necessarily force us to rethink how we develop and apply IT. He does not steer away from the controversial. But he also provides cogent arguments for all his predictions and recommendations.

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419

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Informing Science

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1681100029

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9781681100029

The Regulation of Cyberspace

Control in the Online Environment

By: Andrew Murray

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The Regulation of Cyberspace

Control in the Online Environment

By: Andrew Murray

This volume unites cyber and mainstream regulatory theory. Using the scientific techniques of chaos and synchronicity it explains how regulatory design functions, and offers a model for the design of effective regulation.

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297

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Routledge

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1135310750

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9781135310752

Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG Administration

By: Inti Shah,Andrew Ratcliffe

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Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG Administration

By: Inti Shah,Andrew Ratcliffe

This is a complete guide to administering Check Point's latest releases of Firewall-1/VPN-1.

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McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

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0072223421

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9780072223422

Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988

By: James L. Pelkey,Andrew L. Russell,Loring G. Robbins

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Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988

By: James L. Pelkey,Andrew L. Russell,Loring G. Robbins

As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few decades the challenge would be how to interconnect millions of computers around the globe was too far-fetched to contemplate. Yet, by 1988, that is precisely what was happening. The products and devices developed in the intervening years—such as modems, multiplexers, local area networks, and routers—became the linchpins of the global digital society. How did such revolutionary innovation occur? This book tells the story of the entrepreneurs who were able to harness and join two factors: the energy of computer science researchers supported by governments and universities, and the tremendous commercial demand for Internetworking computers. The centerpiece of this history comes from unpublished interviews from the late 1980s with over 80 computing industry pioneers, including Paul Baran, J.C.R. Licklider, Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, Larry Roberts, and Robert Metcalfe. These individuals give us unique insights into the creation of multi-billion dollar markets for computer-communications equipment, and they reveal how entrepreneurs struggled with failure, uncertainty, and the limits of knowledge.

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632

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Morgan & Claypool

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1450397298

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9781450397292

Czech Democracy in the New Millennium

By: Andrew L. Roberts

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Czech Democracy in the New Millennium

By: Andrew L. Roberts

This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members. Motivated by the authoritarian tendencies and illiberal outcomes in the postcommunist region, it explores the extent to which the Czech Republic is genuinely an outlier within the region and why. The book elaborates on an original conception of democratic quality that emphasizes three aspects of governance: citizen rule, political equality, and good citizenship. The authors show that while the Czech Republic falls short of Western democracies on these standards, it does perform better than most of its peers. The book includes original data on campaign promises, dual mandates, legislative productivity, the wealth of MPs, the opinions of millionaires, women’s representation, and the stability of public preferences along with comparative analyses of a host of other indicators. The book will appeal to those interested in the politics of Eastern Europe and new democracies, those working in the rapidly growing fields of democratic quality and populism, and NGOs concerned with the development of new democracies around the world.

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229

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Routledge

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1000051943

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9781000051940

Open Standards and the Digital Age

By: Andrew L. Russell

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Open Standards and the Digital Age

By: Andrew L. Russell

This book answers how openness became the defining principle of the information age, examining the history of information networks.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107039193

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9781107039193

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

By: Andrew Wheen

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Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

By: Andrew Wheen

Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

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312

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441967605

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9781441967602

The Storm of War

A New History of the Second World War

By: Andrew Roberts

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The Storm of War

A New History of the Second World War

By: Andrew Roberts

“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better-told military history of World War II.” –New York Times Book Review Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand strategy and the individual experience, the brutality and the heroism—as never before. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Storm of War illuminates the war's principal actors, revealing how their decisions shaped the course of the conflict. Along the way, Roberts presents tales of the many lesser-known individuals whose experiences form a panoply of the courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the depravity and cruelty, of the Second World War.

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Harper Collins

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0062079476

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9780062079473

Waterloo

June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe

By: Andrew Roberts

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Waterloo

June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe

By: Andrew Roberts

The author of "Napoleon & Wellington" takes a brilliant look at the conflict that ended Napoleon's reign and ushered in the modern world, with new evidence of just how the battle was lost.

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Harper Collins

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0060088664

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9780060088668

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

By: Andrew Roberts

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Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

By: Andrew Roberts

Part of the ‘Making History Series’ – ‘Waterloo’ is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

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HarperCollins UK

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000734760X

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Book's by Andrew Lawrence Roberts

From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk

From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk

Czech Politics: From West to East and Back Again

Czech Politics: From West to East and Back Again

The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

The Regulation of Cyberspace

The Regulation of Cyberspace

Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG Administration

Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG Administration

Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Czech Democracy in the New Millennium

Czech Democracy in the New Millennium

Open Standards and the Digital Age

Open Standards and the Digital Age

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

The Storm of War

The Storm of War

Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

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