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Precision

A history of American warfare

By: James Patton Rogers

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Precision

A history of American warfare

By: James Patton Rogers

We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history. As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve precision in war began in 1917, during the early years of powered flight in the United States. This means that precision has been a significant, if not always achievable, feature of American strategic thought for more than a hundred years. Patton Rogers takes readers on a journey through the twentieth century, highlighting the innovative thinkers of the First World War, the experimental technologies of the Second World War and the surprising Cold War nuclear strategies that made precision the dominant feature it is today. From Russia’s offensive war in Ukraine to Libya, Ethiopia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the conflicts of the twenty-first-century are being fought with precision weapons. Patton Rogers answers two enduring questions: why has precision been such a defining feature of US military thinking? And how has this ambition shaped public and military perceptions of war today?

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Manchester University Press

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1526125900

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9781526125903

The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

By: James Plath,Gail Sinclair,Kirk Curnutt

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The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

By: James Plath,Gail Sinclair,Kirk Curnutt

From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction. Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are the greatest? More than just a topic to debate with friends, the greatest characters from fiction help readers comprehend history, culture, politics, and even their own place in today’s world. Despite our reliance on television, film, and technology, it is literature’s great characters that create and reinforce popular culture, informing us again and again about society and ourselves. In The 100 Greatest Literary Characters, James Plath, Gail Sinclair, and Kirk Curnutt identify the most significant figures in fiction published over the past several centuries. The characters profiled here represent a wide array of storytelling, and the authors explore the significance of the figures at the time they were created as well as their relevance today. Included in this volume are characters from literature produced around the world, such as Aladdin, James Bond, Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, Hercule Poirot, Don Quixote, Lisbeth Salander, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jean Valjean, and John Yossarian. Readerswill find their beloved literary figures, learn about forgotten gems, or discover deserving choices pulled from history’s dustbin. Providing insights into how literature shapes and molds culture via these fabricated figures, The 100 Greatest Literary Characters will appeal to literature lovers around the globe.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538103761

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9781538103760

Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre

Pedagogy of the Oppressors

By: James F. Wilson

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Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre

Pedagogy of the Oppressors

By: James F. Wilson

This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. The analysis draws on a range of scholars from cultural and gender studies, queer theory, and critical race discourses to consider teacher characters within notable education movements and periods of political upheaval. Richly illustrated, the book will appeal to theatre scholars and general readers as it delves into plays and performances that reflect cultural fears, desires, and fetishistic fantasies associated with educators. In the process, the scrutiny on the array of characters may help illuminate current attacks on real-life teachers while providing meaningful opportunities for intervention in the ongoing education wars.

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Springer Nature

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3031340132

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9783031340130

Candle Grove

By: James Reynold Riley

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Candle Grove

By: James Reynold Riley

Why do teenagers keep disappearing in Potterfield? Is it the monsters rumored to be lurking in the forest? The ghost ship that plies the waters of the lake? Something sinister afoot in the halls of the abandoned mental hospital? Or hostile spirits roaming the ruins of the old burnt capitol building? Seven high school kids are about to learn these answers as they face the dangers of a town with more darkness than they ever imagined. And come to grips with a faith they had always taken for granted...until now.

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WestBow Press

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1449703909

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The History of the Province of Moray

Vol. II

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

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The History of the Province of Moray

Vol. II

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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338541668X

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9783385416680

Strongpoint Cyber Deterrence

Lessons from Cold War Deterrence Theory & Ballistic Missile Defense Applied to Cyberspace

By: James J. Torrence

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Strongpoint Cyber Deterrence

Lessons from Cold War Deterrence Theory & Ballistic Missile Defense Applied to Cyberspace

By: James J. Torrence

This important U.S. strategic studies work seeks to develop a cyber deterrence strategy by drawing upon the hard-learned lessons of the past—specifically from Cold War deterrence theory and Cold War missile defense. Ultimately, a strongpoint defense is proposed along with a decentralized and further hardened critical infrastructure approach that continually exploits emergent innovation opportunities through investment in research. Dave Dilegge Editor-in-Chief Small Wars Journal

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796084689

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9781796084689

Mutiny on the Black Prince

Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

By: James H Sweet,Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History James H Sweet

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Mutiny on the Black Prince

Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

By: James H Sweet,Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History James H Sweet

The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations. In 1768, the British slave ship Black Prince, departed the port of Bristol, bound for West Africa. It never arrived. Before reaching Old Calabar, the crew mutinied, murdering the captain and his officers. The mutineers renamed the ship Liberty, elected new officers, and set out for Brazil. By the time the ship arrived there, the crew had disintegrated into a violent mob and fired into the port city. After the Black Prince wrecked off the coast of Hispaniola, the rebels fled to outposts around the Atlantic world. An eight-year manhunt ensued. This book follows the crew's turn to piracy and the merchant-owners' response to the uprising. At the very moment that the American Revolution unfolded in North America, the Black Prince's owners conducted a "shadow" revolution, mobilizing the power of the British Crown to seek justice and restitution on their behalf. These private merchants used state surveillance, policing, extradition, capital punishment, international diplomacy, and even warfare in order to protect their wealth. During an era of professed liberty and freedom, the privatization of state power was already emerging, replacing monarchies with corporate oligarchies, presaging a new kind of political power in the Atlantic world. The eighteenth-century Bristol slave merchants and subsequent generations of their families accrued great fortunes from the trade and invested it in early British banks, railroads, insurance companies, industrial manufacturing, and even the Anglican Church. Mutiny on the Black Prince narrates the dramatic story of the events onboard and the merchant owners' efforts to capture the rebels from around the Atlantic world, as well as the way that British slavery shaped the industrializing Atlantic economy and the evolution of the modern corporate state.

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Oxford University Press

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0197692729

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Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions

By: James A. Brook

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Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions

By: James A. Brook

When you purchase a new version of this casebook from the LIFT Program, you receive 1-year FREE digital access to the corresponding Examples & Explanations in your course area. Now available in an interactive study center, Examples & Explanations offer hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics covered in class. Starting July 1, 2017, if your new casebook purchase does not come with an access code on the inside cover of the book, please contact Wolters Kluwer customer service. The email address and phone number for customer service are on the copyright page, found within the first few pages, of your casebook. The problem approach featured in Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions thoroughly engages students with imaginative scenarios, presenting the material as easily accessible and as manageable as possible without avoiding the intricacies of secured transactions. Students come to appreciate that the principal resource for the course is UCC Article 9 itself. While the casebook is an essential tool for study, the law is found in the Code. Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions is carefully designed for an introductory mainstream course, not for an advanced course or seminar. The material is presented as completely comprehensible, even enjoyable, rather than an arcane science that only an insider can be expected to understand. Cases are heavily edited, and liberal editorial notes help express the vibrancy of true-life situations. A good mix of short and long problems gives each lesson a comprehensive linear flow while keeping students focused. A progressive mix of problems helps students see the common elements, as rules and principals learned in a simpler setting can readily be applied to more complex transactions. Earlier problems lean more heavily, though not exclusively, on the individual and consumer-borrower situations. As the lessons advance, the mix of materials progressively includes more small-business and large-business transactions. Key Features of the New Edition: The latest on the 2010 Revisions to Article 9, in particular how the "name of the debtor" problem is now to be dealt with New legislative initiatives addressing the problem of so-called "bogus" or "harassing" filings Twelve new principal cases decided since 2010 bring the book up to date and better elucidate points to be made

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Aspen Publishing

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1454874767

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9781454874768

History of the Province of Moray

Vol. 3

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

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History of the Province of Moray

Vol. 3

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385409454

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To The Hebrides

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

By: Samuel Johnson,James Boswell

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To The Hebrides

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

By: Samuel Johnson,James Boswell

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

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Birlinn

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0857905163

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9780857905161

How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

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How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.

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Macmillan

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0374173400

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9780374173401

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Precision

Precision

The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre

Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre

Candle Grove

Candle Grove

The History of the Province of Moray

The History of the Province of Moray

Strongpoint Cyber Deterrence

Strongpoint Cyber Deterrence

Mutiny on the Black Prince

Mutiny on the Black Prince

Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions

Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions

History of the Province of Moray

History of the Province of Moray

To The Hebrides

To The Hebrides

How Fiction Works

How Fiction Works

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