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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation

By: Christopher Holma

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation

By: Christopher Holma

Presenting a detailed reinterpretation and reconstruction of the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. The book critically and creatively juxtaposes certain concepts drawn from Machiavelli's work in order to produce new political insights. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement. In the final instance, a new ethical ground for the normative defense of democratic life is constructed, one grounded in the orientation of individual beings toward novelty and innovation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487503938

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9781487503932

An Introduction to 5G

The New Radio, 5G Network and Beyond

By: Christopher Cox

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An Introduction to 5G

The New Radio, 5G Network and Beyond

By: Christopher Cox

A comprehensive and approachable introduction to 5G Written by a noted expert on the subject, An Introduction to 5G: The New Radio, 5G Network and Beyond offers an introductory system-level guide to 5G. The material covered includes: The use cases and requirements of the 5G system The architecture of the next generation radio access network and the 5G core The principles of radio transmission, millimetre waves and MIMO antennas The architecture and detailed design of the 5G new radio The implementation of HTTP/2 on the service-based interfaces of the 5G core The signalling procedures that govern the end-to-end-operation of the system The new features that are introduced in Releases 16 and 17 An Introduction to 5G is written for engineering professionals in mobile telecommunications, for those in non-technical roles such as management, marketing and intellectual property, and for students. It requires no more than a basic understanding of mobile communications, and includes detailed references to the underlying 3GPP specifications for 5G. The book's approach provides a comprehensive, end-to-end overview of the 5G standard, which enables readers to move on with confidence to the more specialized texts and to the specifications themselves.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119602661

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9781119602668

An Introduction to LTE

LTE, LTE-Advanced, SAE, VoLTE and 4G Mobile Communications

By: Christopher Cox

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An Introduction to LTE

LTE, LTE-Advanced, SAE, VoLTE and 4G Mobile Communications

By: Christopher Cox

Following on from the successful first edition (March 2012), this book gives a clear explanation of what LTE does and how it works. The content is expressed at a systems level, offering readers the opportunity to grasp the key factors that make LTE the hot topic amongst vendors and operators across the globe. The book assumes no more than a basic knowledge of mobile telecommunication systems, and the reader is not expected to have any previous knowledge of the complex mathematical operations that underpin LTE. This second edition introduces new material for the current state of the industry, such as the new features of LTE in Releases 11 and 12, notably coordinated multipoint transmission and proximity services; the main short- and long-term solutions for LTE voice calls, namely circuit switched fallback and the IP multimedia subsystem; and the evolution and current state of the LTE market. It also extends some of the material from the first edition, such as inter-operation with other technologies such as GSM, UMTS, wireless local area networks and cdma2000; additional features of LTE Advanced, notably heterogeneous networks and traffic offloading; data transport in the evolved packet core; coverage and capacity estimation for LTE; and a more rigorous treatment of modulation, demodulation and OFDMA. The author breaks down the system into logical blocks, by initially introducing the architecture of LTE, explaining the techniques used for radio transmission and reception and the overall operation of the system, and concluding with more specialized topics such as LTE voice calls and the later releases of the specifications. This methodical approach enables readers to move on to tackle the specifications and the more advanced texts with confidence.

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561

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118818016

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Farm Fresh Broadband

The Politics of Rural Connectivity

By: Christopher Ali

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Farm Fresh Broadband

The Politics of Rural Connectivity

By: Christopher Ali

An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband, Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of national rural broadband policy in the United States and proposes a new national broadband plan. He examines how broadband policies are enacted and implemented, explores business models for broadband providers, surveys the technologies of rural broadband, and offers case studies of broadband use in the rural Midwest. Ali argues that rural broadband policy is both broken and incomplete: broken because it lacks coordinated federal leadership and incomplete because it fails to recognize the important roles of communities, cooperatives, and local providers in broadband access. For example, existing policies favor large telecommunication companies, crowding out smaller, nimbler providers. Lack of competition drives prices up—rural broadband can cost 37 percent more than urban broadband. The federal government subsidizes rural broadband by approximately $6 billion. Where does the money go? Ali proposes democratizing policy architecture for rural broadband, modeling it after the wiring of rural America for electricity and telephony. Subsidies should be equalized, not just going to big companies. The result would be a multistakeholder system, guided by thoughtful public policy and funded by public and private support.

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MIT Press

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0262543060

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9780262543064

Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services

Interaction, Identities, and Practices

By: Christopher Hall

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Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services

Interaction, Identities, and Practices

By: Christopher Hall

This volume explores social work as a series of encounters - between clients and social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state.

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284

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843100738

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Sherlock Holmes Handbook

By: Christopher Redmond

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Sherlock Holmes Handbook

By: Christopher Redmond

Here, in one convenient volume, is everything needed for the enjoyment of Holmess canon.

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339

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Dundurn

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1554884462

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The Standard Doyle Company

Christopher Morley on Sherlock Holmes

By: Christopher Morley

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The Standard Doyle Company

Christopher Morley on Sherlock Holmes

By: Christopher Morley

The cult of Sherlock Holmes and its organizational centerpiece, The Baker Street Irregulars, were products of the fertile mind of Christopher Morley (1890-1957), one of the most versatile and prolific writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Novelist, essayist, columnist, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, poet, panelist, and promoter, Morley was an avid exponent of the literature he loved. Few writers were closer to his heart than Arthur Conan Doyle, whose tales of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were still being penned during Morley's boyhood. This collection is a virtual anthology of Morley's many styles. In addition to old favorites like "In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes," the preface to the Doubleday edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes published in 1930 and probably the most widely read Sherlockian essay of them all, here are previously unpublished or never-before-collected essays, poems, short stories, and even a play. Excerpts from the fifteen years of Morley's columns in the Saturday Review of Literature and a decade of his "Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient" in the Baker Street Journal (currently published by Fordham University Press) cover ever aspect of Holmes's world - from dressing gowns to Turkish baths, from beekeeping to the "B" in 221B Baker Street. As Morley put it in his little-known reader for high-school students, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, "A Textbook of Friendship, "The beginning reader of Sherlock Holmes concerns himself with little more than attentive enjoyment, but there is a post-graduate school as well. There is a special and superior pleasure in reading anything so much more carefully than its author ever did." The Standard Doyle Company - Morley's punning title for the Baker Street Irregulars - is an advanced syllabus for the lover of Sherlockian literature and lore.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823212920

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9780823212927

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Victorian America Meets Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Christopher Redmond

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Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Victorian America Meets Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Christopher Redmond

Christopher Redmond's fascinating account of Doyle's first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, and Toronto. Despite the gruelling tour schedule, Doyle met dozens of the most important literary and social lights of America. Everywhere he went he was mobbed by public hungry for news of the man he had "killed off" a year earlier â?? Sherlock Holmes, who was front page news. In Redmond's lively narrative, which is based on letters, newspaper reports, and other newly unearthed sources, you will discover, as Doyle himself put it, "the romance of America.

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Dundurn

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0889241848

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Lives Beyond Baker Street

A Biographical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes's Contemporaries

By: Christopher Redmond

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Lives Beyond Baker Street

A Biographical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes's Contemporaries

By: Christopher Redmond

If you have ever read “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson's allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means… if you aren't sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam”… if you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon or Holmes’s Vernet relatives or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available… this is your book. It provides one-paragraph biographies of 800 real-life Victorians and Edwardians who strolled down Oxford Street near Holmes and Watson or figured in the newspapers they read. That mention of Blondin on the roof at Pondicherry Lodge? Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary friends? The King of Scandinavia? The British commander at Maiwand? Enquire within.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780929080

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Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

By: Christopher Redmond

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Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

By: Christopher Redmond

The Lufton Lady reveals an episode from the early career of Sherlock Holmes — an incident that proves the great detective had a heart as well as a brain. The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in a dramatic encounter in 1878. The Lufton Lady is a novella by Marlene R. Aig, a noted Sherlockian and member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes who was also a respected Associated Press reporter. It has been largely unknown since her death in 1996, and is now published for the first time.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780924631

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Kon-Tiki Man

An Illustrated Biography of Thor Heyerdahl

By: Thor Heyerdahl,Christopher Ralling

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Kon-Tiki Man

An Illustrated Biography of Thor Heyerdahl

By: Thor Heyerdahl,Christopher Ralling

Traces the life of the Norwegian explorer, scientist, and anthropologist, examines and explains his scientific theories, and describes his explorations, including the Kon-Tiki and Ra voyages

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Chronicle Books (CA)

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0811800695

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9780811800693

221B

Studies in Sherlock Holmes

By: Vincent Starrett

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Studies in Sherlock Holmes

By: Vincent Starrett

A collection of works on everyone’s favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes. This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world’s foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: “Was Sherlock Holmes an American?,” “On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street,” “Dr. Watson’s Secret,” “The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes,” and “The Other Boarder.” Featured contributors include illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele, and writers Christopher Morley, Elmer Davis, “Jane Nightwork”—and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle. A founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and the author of indispensable biography The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Starrett combined a scholar’s authority with a fan’s enthusiasm in his appreciation of the great detective. So, if you enjoy the adventures of Holmes and Watson, head down to Baker Street and prepare to enter 221B. “Useful, entertaining, imaginative, it belongs on every reader-insomniac’s bedside shelf.” —A Catalogue of Crime

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Open Road Media

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150406593X

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The Kon-Tiki Man

Thor Heyerdahl

By: Christopher Ralling,Thor Heyerdahl

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The Kon-Tiki Man

Thor Heyerdahl

By: Christopher Ralling,Thor Heyerdahl

Biografie van de Noorse ontdekkingsreiziger Thor Heyerdahl (1914- ).

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0563209208

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Book's by Christopher Holma

Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation

Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation

An Introduction to 5G

An Introduction to 5G

An Introduction to LTE

An Introduction to LTE

Farm Fresh Broadband

Farm Fresh Broadband

Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services

Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services

Sherlock Holmes Handbook

Sherlock Holmes Handbook

The Standard Doyle Company

The Standard Doyle Company

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Lives Beyond Baker Street

Lives Beyond Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

Kon-Tiki Man

Kon-Tiki Man

221B

221B

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The Kon-Tiki Man

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