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Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

By: Anthony Rimmington

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Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

By: Anthony Rimmington

Stalin's Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the infrastructure created by Stalin continues to form the core of Russia's current biological defense network. Anthony Rimmington has enjoyed privileged access to an array of newly available sources and materials, including declassified British Secret Intelligence Service reports. The evidence contained therein has led him to conclude that the program, with its network of dedicated facilities and proving grounds, was far more extensive than previously considered, easily outstripping those of the major Western powers. As Rimmington reveals, many of the USSR's leading infectious disease scientists, including those focused on pneumonic plague, were recruited by the Soviet military and intelligence services. At the dark heart of this bacteriological archipelago lay Stalin, and his involvement is everywhere to be seen, from the promotion of favored researchers to the political repression and execution of the lead biological warfare specialist, Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov.

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Oxford University Press

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0190050233

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The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

Biopreparat's Covert Biological Warfare Programme

By: Anthony Rimmington

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The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

Biopreparat's Covert Biological Warfare Programme

By: Anthony Rimmington

This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and incorporated an enormous network embracing military-focused research institutes, design centres, biowarfare pilot facilities and dual-use production plants. The secret network pursued major offensive R&D programmes, which sought to use genetic engineering techniques to create microbial strains resistant to antibiotics and with wholly new and unexpected pathogenic properties. During the mid-1980s, Biopreparat increased in size and political importance and also emerged as a major civil biopharmaceutical player in the USSR. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an acute struggle for control of Biopreparat’s most valuable assets took place and the network was eventually broken-up and control of its facilities transferred to a myriad of state agencies and private companies.

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Springer Nature

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3030828824

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The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

Ploughshares to Swords

By: Anthony Rimmington

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The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

Ploughshares to Swords

By: Anthony Rimmington

This book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed Ekologiya – which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was the largest offensive agricultural biowarfare project the world has ever seen and Soviet anti-crop and anti-livestock weapons had the capability to inflict enormous damage on Western agriculture. Beginning in the early 1970s, there was a new focus within the Soviet agricultural biowarfare programme on molecular biology and the development of genetically modified agents. A key characteristic of the Ekologiya project was the creation of mobilization production facilities. These ostensibly civil manufacturing plants incorporated capacity for production of biowarfare agents in wartime emergency. During the 1990s-2000s, the counter-proliferation efforts undertaken by the US and UK played a major role in preventing the transfer of Ekologiya scientists, technologies and pathogens to Iran and other countries of potential proliferation concern. Anthony Rimmington is a former Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University’s Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, UK. He has published widely on the civil life sciences sector in the post-Soviet states and on the Soviet Union’s offensive biological warfare programme, including Stalin’s Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare.

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3030738434

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Good Faith and Relational Contracts

Theory, Practice and Future Developments

By: Anthony Gray

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Good Faith and Relational Contracts

Theory, Practice and Future Developments

By: Anthony Gray

This book explores the use of the doctrine of good faith in the common law when interpreting contracts and resolving disputes. This doctrine is well-accepted in civil law, is reflected in international commercial law, and is a fundamental aspect of private law in the USA. However, its use in the UK is extremely limited. Inconsistent application has given rise to confusion and uncertainty. This apparent antipathy is somewhat hard to fathom, given its previous widespread acceptance in English law. The book explains in depth the history of good faith in English law, and clarifies its current status in English, Australian and international law. It explores the relationship between good faith within contractual relations and the neighbour principle in tort law, and notes the workability of good faith in the commercial context of insurance. This will be welcomed by contract lawyers in both common law and civil law jurisdictions. A subsequent volume will explore how acceptance of good faith in the law might lead to a re-interpretation of existing contract law doctrine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509973060

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Planetary Overload

Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species

By: Anthony J. McMichael

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Planetary Overload

Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species

By: Anthony J. McMichael

The human species faces many threats to its health - perhaps to its survival. Taking an interesting perspective, Planetary Overload forcefully points out the consequences to human health of ongoing degradation of Earth's ecosystems. In a broad-based, accessible analysis, A. J. McMichael examines ecological disruptions - land degradation, ozone depletion, temperature increases, and loss of genetic diversity through the extinction of species, among others - and compellingly demonstrates their potentially disastrous results, including food shortages, new and intensified disease patterns, rising seas, mass refugee problems, and cancers, blindness, and immune suppression from increased ultraviolet radiation. While other books on the subject analyse only the environmental impact of these problems, McMichael relates each of these insidious processes back to its ultimate impact on human health. He thoroughly considers these problems within a broad evolutionary, biological, social, and economic context, and also explores the underlying problems contributing to environmental breakdown, especially the relations between the world's rich and poor. This book will be of interest to environmentalists, public health professionals, policy makers, environmental studies and human ecology scholars, and anyone wishing a lucid, rational assessment of today's pressing ecological concerns.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521457599

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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

By: Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall

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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

By: Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall

A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change. Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0813820162

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Real War Horses

The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

By: Anthony Dawson

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Real War Horses

The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

By: Anthony Dawson

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century of warfare. That is why it is of such value. It is also compelling reading because it describes, using the words of the cavalrymen of the time, the organization, routines, training and social life of the cavalry as well as the fear and exhilaration of cavalry actions. Perhaps the most memorable passages record the drama and excitement of cavalry charges and the brutal, confused, often lethal experience of close-quarter combat in a melee of men and horses. Few books give such a direct inside view of what it was like to serve in the British cavalry during the nineteenth century.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473847087

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The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1996

By: Anthony Curtis

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The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1996

By: Anthony Curtis

Each of the more than 5,000 entries in this useful price guide to antiques gives a brief description of the item and its current market value at auction. Each description is accompanied by a photo showing the piece's distinguishing features.

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TarcherPerigee

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039952164X

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Lyle Official Antiques Review 1998

By: Anthony Curtis

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Lyle Official Antiques Review 1998

By: Anthony Curtis

Lyle is known nationwide as the most authoritative price guide available, with completely new entries each year. Each of the more than 5,000 entries includes a brief description, current market value at auction, and a photo to highlight distinguishing features of the piece. Index.

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Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

By: Anthony Rimmington

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Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

By: Anthony Rimmington

A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

Biopreparat's Covert Biological Warfare Programme

By: Anthony Rimmington

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Biopreparat's Covert Biological Warfare Programme

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The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

Ploughshares to Swords

By: Anthony Rimmington

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Ploughshares to Swords

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Diary of Thomas Bellingham, an Officer Under William III

By: Thomas Bellingham,Anthony Hewitson

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Diary of Thomas Bellingham, an Officer Under William III

By: Thomas Bellingham,Anthony Hewitson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Stalin's Secret Weapon

Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

Good Faith and Relational Contracts

Good Faith and Relational Contracts

Planetary Overload

Planetary Overload

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Real War Horses

Real War Horses

The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1996

The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1996

Lyle Official Antiques Review 1998

Lyle Official Antiques Review 1998

Stalin's Secret Weapon

Stalin's Secret Weapon

The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme

Diary of Thomas Bellingham, an Officer Under William III

Diary of Thomas Bellingham, an Officer Under William III

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