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Intelligence Services in the Information Age

By: Michael Herman

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Intelligence Services in the Information Age

By: Michael Herman

Intelligence was a central element of the Cold War and the need for it was expected to diminish after the USSR's collapse, yet in recent years it has been in greater demand than ever. The atrocities of 11 September and the subsequent "war on terrorism" now call for an even more intensive effort. Important questions arise on how intelligence fits into the world of increased threats, globalization and expanded international action. This volume contains the recent work on this subject by Michael Herman, British intelligence professional for 35 years and Oxford University academic. It compares intelligence with other government information services, and discusses the British intelligence system and the case for its reform. It also addresses the ethical issues raised by intelligence's methods and results: "do they on balance make for a better world or a worse one?". Other chapters explore a wide range of intelligence topics past and present, including the transatlantic relationship, the alliance strategies of Norway and New Zealand, Mrs Thatcher's "de-unionization" of British Sigint, and personal memories of the British Cabinet Office in the 1970s. Michael Herman argues for intelligence professionalism as a contribution to international security and for its encouragement as a world standard. The modern challenge is for intelligence to support international cooperation in ways originally developed to advance national interests, while at the same time developing some restraint and international "rules of the game", in the use of intrusive and covert methods on its traditional targets. The effects of 11 September on this challenge are discussed in a thoughtful afterword.

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Routledge

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1136615350

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9781136615351

James W.C. Pennington

African American Churchman and Abolitionist

By: Herman E. Thomas

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James W.C. Pennington

African American Churchman and Abolitionist

By: Herman E. Thomas

The story of James W.C. Pennington who was a former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. He escaped from slavery aged 19 in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery before the Civil War. In 1837 he was ordained as a priest after studying at Yale and was soon traveling all over the world as an anti-slavery advocate.

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201

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Routledge

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1317730631

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9781317730637

Intelligence Power in Peace and War

By: Michael Herman

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Intelligence Power in Peace and War

By: Michael Herman

Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provides an analytic framework for understanding the "intelligence community" and assessing its value. Michael Herman, a former senior British Intelligence officer, describes the various components of intelligence; discusses what intelligence is for; considers issues of accuracy, evaluation and efficiency; and makes recommendations for the future of intelligence in the post-Cold War world.

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454

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Cambridge University Press

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0521566363

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9780521566360

The Arctic Seas

Climatology, Oceanography, Geology, and Biology

By: Yvonne Herman

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The Arctic Seas

Climatology, Oceanography, Geology, and Biology

By: Yvonne Herman

The Arctic region has long held a fascination for explorers and scientists of many countries. Despite the numerous voyages of exploration, the na ture of the central Arctic was unknown only 90 years ago; it was believed to be a shallow sea dotted with islands. During Nansen's historic voyage on the polarship Fram, which commenced in 1893, the great depth of the central basin was discovered. In the Soviet Union, investigation of the Arctic Ocean became national policy after 1917. Today research at several scientific institutions there is devoted primarily to the study of the North Polar Ocean and seas. The systematic exploration of the Arctic by the United States com menced in 1951. Research has been conducted year-round from drifting ice islands, which are tabular fragments of glacier ice that break away from ice shelves. Most frequently, ice islands originate off the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. These research platforms are occupied as weather sta tions, as well as for oceanographic and geophysical studies. Several inter national projects, conducted by Canadian, European, and U. S. groups, have been underway during the last three decades. Although much new data have accumulated since the publication of the Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Arctic Seas volume in 1974 (Yvonne Herman, ed. ), in various fields of polar research-including present-day ice cover, hydrogra phy, fauna, flora, and geology-many questions remain to be answered.

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887

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461306779

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9781461306771

A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450

By: Herman Cohen

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A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450

By: Herman Cohen

A thorough study of the literature dealing with the English legal profession from the Anglo-Saxon era to Fortescue's De Laudibus. Turning to the continent, Cohen supplements the English literature with references to the organization of the legal profession in France, Normandy, Germany and Spain. Holdsworth recommended this book when it was first published, noting that he "collected and arranged valuable materials which will be useful to all historians of English law": Law Quarterly Review 45:398 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 220.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584774827

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9781584774822

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006

By: Jeff Herman

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Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006

By: Jeff Herman

Now updated for 2008, this annual edition of the classic bestselling directory provides everything working writers need to find the most receptive publishers, editors, and agents for their work.

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0977268209

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9780977268207

Correspondence

By: Herman Melville,Lynn Horth

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Correspondence

By: Herman Melville,Lynn Horth

Consequently, to fill the gaps within the correspondence, 542 editorial entries are chronologically interspersed for letters both by and to Melville for which no full text has been located but for which some evidence survives. These entries, like the editorial headnotes for the known letters, flesh out the specific historical and biographical contexts for the unlocated letters. Both supply Horth's full annotations, placing circumstances, persons, and allusions, from a wide range of documentary and scholarly sources, and drawing upon family archives of both Melville and his wife, including the recently recovered portion, now in the New York Public Library, of a trove preserved by his sister Augusta." "The aim of this edition, volume fourteen in the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the author's intention at the time of inscription as his difficult handwriting or other surviving evidence permits. On this basis, the texts earlier presented in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960), edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, have been revised, with differences in almost every letter in spelling and punctuation, and some forty-five differences in wording. Fifty-two newly discovered letters by Melville, more than half of which are first published here, are added to those printed in the 1960 edition. This text of Correspondence is an Approved Text of the Committee on Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America)."--BOOK JACKET.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810109956

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9780810109957

Social Influences on Eating

By: C. Peter Herman,Janet Polivy,Patricia Pliner,Lenny R. Vartanian

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Social Influences on Eating

By: C. Peter Herman,Janet Polivy,Patricia Pliner,Lenny R. Vartanian

This book examines how the social environment affects food choices and intake, and documents the extent to which people are unaware of the significant impact of social factors on their eating. The authors take a unique approach to studying eating behaviors in ordinary circumstances, presenting a theory of normal eating that highlights social influences independent of physiological and taste factors. Among the topics discussed: Modeling of food intake and food choice Consumption stereotypes and impression management Research design, methodology, and ethics of studying eating behaviors What happens when we overeat? Effects of social eating Social Influences on Eating is a useful reference for psychologists and researchers studying food and nutritional psychology, challenging commonly held assumptions about the dynamics of food choice and intake in order to promote a better understanding of the power of social influence on all forms of behavior.

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235

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Springer Nature

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303028817X

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9783030288174

Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Part 2

By: Herman F. Mark

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Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Part 2

By: Herman F. Mark

This is the third Edition is a completely new version in a new century of the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology. The new edition will bring the state-of-the-art up to the 21st century, with coverage of nanotechnology, new imaging and analytical techniques, new methods of controlled polymer architecture, biomimetics, and more. New topics covered include nanotechnology, AFM, MALDI, biomimetics, and genetic methods, of increasing importance since 1990 and will also bring up-to-date coverage of traditional topics of continuing interest. This edition will publish in 3 Parts of 4 volumes each. Each Part will be an A-Z selection of the newest articles available in the online edition of this encyclopedia. A list of the titles to appear in Part I can be viewed by clicking "What's New" at www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/epst. Titles for Parts II and III will appear there as well when available.

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Wiley-Interscience

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0471287814

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9780471287810

A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift

By: Herman Teerink

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A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift

By: Herman Teerink

This work is an analytic bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift, containing a listing of every known edition or issue of Swift's work down to the year 1814 (except for the section "Biography and Criticism" which extends from 1709 to 1895). In this revised edition, Herman Teerink has added full collations of the works referred to. In addition, the titles of many 18th century mutations or parodies of Swift have been included together with works which allude to Swift or his writings. Arthur H. Scouten, a University of Pennsylvania professor of English and author of many bibliographical articles on Swift, who has carried on Dr. Teerink's work and prepared this volume for press, has consulted 18th century scholars and bibliographers. With their advice, he has kept the original Teerink numbers, since they are the common reference numbers among Swift scholars and are listed in dealers' catalogues. Because the new material and arrangement put these numbers out of order, they have been listed in a table at the beginning of the book with all the pages they appear on. So that they will not have to be sought throughout the entire volume, all the Faulkner editions have been placed together and all the printings of Gulliver's Travels have been collected in one section, where they are arranged chronologically by country. A full physical description of all important books and pamphlets, including those discovered since 1937 (the first edition), has been provided. The work has been brought up-to-date with the bibliographical findings of Swift scholarship of the past twenty-five years. A number of pieces apocryphally attributed to Swift have been deleted or placed in the "Doubtful" section. Finally, entries of books and pamphlets containing contemporary comment on a work by Swift have been placed where Swift's work itself is entered. This book is especially rich in its listings of translations of Swift's works into foreign languages. Also, since the first edition (A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift, D.D.) has long been out of print, this volume will be invaluable to book dealers, bibliophiles, and scholars, teachers, and students of English literature.

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1512807664

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Intelligence Services in the Information Age

Intelligence Services in the Information Age

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Intelligence Power in Peace and War

Intelligence Power in Peace and War

The Arctic Seas

The Arctic Seas

A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450

A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006

Correspondence

Correspondence

Social Influences on Eating

Social Influences on Eating

Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Part 2

Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Part 2

A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift

A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift

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