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The Empire Project

The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

By: John Darwin

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The Empire Project

The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

By: John Darwin

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139482149

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9781139482141

Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

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Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: John E. Randall,Gerald Robert Allen,Roger C. Steene

This is a long-overdue revision and expansion of what has become a classic book in marine literature. This lavishly illustrated volume provides exhaustive coverage of more than 90 percent of the region's reef fishes. Every species is thoroughly illustrated, including photographs of the juvenile, female and male in species that vary in appearance during their development. Besides the wide array of underwater and diagnostic laboratory photographs, the book also contains seven plates painted by the talented natural-history artist Roger Swainston. With an additional 32 pages and 90 photos (covering 60 new species in all), this revised and expanded edition will enable even a beginning layman to identify most of the region's reef fishes. Divers, anglers, underwater naturalists and professional biologists are equally catered to.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818954

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9780824818951

Aviation Law: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources

By: Paul B. Larsen,Joseph Sweeney,John Gillick

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Aviation Law: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources

By: Paul B. Larsen,Joseph Sweeney,John Gillick

In our post-9/11 world, the laws of aviation are under intense scrutiny. From torts law and victim compensation to passenger screening, pilots with guns, and international aviation agreements, the practice of aviation law is burgeoning. The book, AVIATION LAWS: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources, fills a gap in legal literature. It is directed to both practicing lawyers and to law students. The book introduces all the major areas of air law: International air law regime, crimes involving aircraft, economic regulation of domestic and international air carriage, litigation management, domestic and international liability regimes, governmental immunity from liability, airport law, airline travel restrictions, airport law, insurance, NTSB accident investigation, aircraft financing, FAA regulation of air safety, and airline labor relations. These subjects are presented not only in explanatory text, but also in cases and related source materials. The most important texts are annexed. The authors, Professors Larsen and Gillick, have regularly taught the course in Air Law at Georgetown University Law Center for more than 30 years. They have long time hands-on experience at the Department of Transportation and in private practice. Professor Sweeney, John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law, has taught the course at Fordham University Law School for 30 years. He also has extensive transportation practice background. Classroom adoption: $85/copy for 10 or more copies. Student Edition : 1–57105–340-9, $95/copy Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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900447885X

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9789004478855

Future War and the Defence of Europe

By: John R. Allen,Frederick Ben Hodges,Julian Lindley-French

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Future War and the Defence of Europe

By: John R. Allen,Frederick Ben Hodges,Julian Lindley-French

Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.

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Oxford University Press

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0192597868

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9780192597861

Turning Point

Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

By: Darrell M. West,John R. Allen

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Turning Point

Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

By: Darrell M. West,John R. Allen

Artificial Intelligence is here, today. How can society make the best use of it? Until recently, “artificial intelligence” sounded like something out of science fiction. But the technology of artificial intelligence, AI, is becoming increasingly common, from self-driving cars to e-commerce algorithms that seem to know what you want to buy before you do. Throughout the economy and many aspects of daily life, artificial intelligence has become the transformative technology of our time. Despite its current and potential benefits, AI is little understood by the larger public and widely feared. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has given rise to concerns that hidden technology will create a dystopian world of increased income inequality, a total lack of privacy, and perhaps a broad threat to humanity itself. In their compelling and readable book, two experts at Brookings discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence—and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia. Drawing on in-depth studies of major uses of AI, the authors detail how the technology actually works. They outline a policy and governance blueprint for gaining the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimizing its potential downsides. The book offers major recommendations for actions that governments, businesses, and individuals can take to promote trustworthy and responsible artificial intelligence. Their recommendations include: creation of ethical principles, strengthening government oversight, defining corporate culpability, establishment of advisory boards at federal agencies, using third-party audits to reduce biases inherent in algorithms, tightening personal privacy requirements, using insurance to mitigate exposure to AI risks, broadening decision-making about AI uses and procedures, penalizing malicious uses of new technologies, and taking pro-active steps to address how artificial intelligence affects the workforce. Turning Point is essential reading for anyone concerned about how artificial intelligence works and what can be done to ensure its benefits outweigh its harm.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815738609

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9780815738602

Basin Analysis

Principles and Application to Petroleum Play Assessment

By: Philip A. Allen,John R. Allen

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Basin Analysis

Principles and Application to Petroleum Play Assessment

By: Philip A. Allen,John R. Allen

Basin Analysis is an advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text aimed at understanding sedimentary basins as geodynamic entities. The rationale of the book is that knowledge of the basic principles of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of the lithosphere, the dynamics of the mantle, and the functioning of sediment routing systems provides a sound background for studying sedimentary basins, and is a pre-requisite for the exploitation of resources contained in their sedimentary rocks. The third edition incorporates new developments in the burgeoning field of basin analysis while retaining the successful structure and overall philosophy of the first two editions. The text is divided into 4 parts that establish the geodynamical environment for sedimentary basins and the physical state of the lithosphere, followed by a coverage of the mechanics of basin formation, an integrated analysis of the controls on the basin-fill and its burial and thermal history, and concludes with an application of basin analysis principles in petroleum play assessment, including a discussion of unconventional hydrocarbon plays. The text is richly supplemented by Appendices providing mathematical derivations of a wide range of processes affecting the formation of basins and their sedimentary fills. Many of these Appendices include practical exercises that give the reader hands-on experience of quantitative solutions to important basin analysis processes. Now in full colour and a larger format, this third edition is a comprehensive update and expansion of the previous editions, and represents a rigorous yet accessible guide to problem solving in this most integrative of geoscientific disciplines. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/allen/basinanalysis.

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645

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118450302

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9781118450307

Restoring the Balance

What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature

By: John A. Vucetich

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Restoring the Balance

What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature

By: John A. Vucetich

A renowned scientist studies wolves on a wilderness island, searching for what it means to better relate to the natural world"--

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411

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JHU Press

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1421441551

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9781421441559

Reading the Popular

By: John Fiske

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Reading the Popular

By: John Fiske

John Fiske is the author of numerous successful, field-shaping books, many of which we published Includes a new general introduction to Fiske’s work and its impact on the field by Henry Jenkins, another huge name in media studies Also includes a new ‘discussion’ chapter by former Fiske students who are now rising stars / established scholars in media studies. This will re-introduce the work in the context of media studies today and assess the impact of the individual book

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Routledge

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1136869271

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Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems

By: John E. Sheats,Charles E. Carraher Jr.,Charles U. Pittman

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Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems

By: John E. Sheats,Charles E. Carraher Jr.,Charles U. Pittman

Research on metal-containing polymers began in the early 1960's when several workers found that vinyl ferrocene and other vinylic transition metal u -com plexes would undergo polymerization under the same conditions as conventional organic monomers to form high polymers which incorporated a potentially reactive metal as an integral part of the polymer structures. Some of these materials could act as semi-conducters and pos sessed one or two dimensional conductivity. Thus appli cations in electronics could be visualized immediately. Other workers found that reactions used to make simple metal chelates could be used to prepare polymers if the ligands were designed properly. As interest in homo geneous catalysts developed in the late 60's and early 70's, several investigators began binding homogeneous catalysts onto polymers, where the advantage of homo geneous catalysis - known reaction mechanisms and the advantage of heterogeneous catalysis - simplicity and ease of recovery of catalysts could both be obtained. Indeed the polymer matrix itself often enhanced the selectivity of the catalyst.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461594154

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9781461594154

Freedomnomics

Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't

By: John R. Lott Jr.

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Freedomnomics

Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't

By: John R. Lott Jr.

Challenges the philosophical tenets of "Freakonomics" through case studies that demonstrate the theory that the more costly something is, the less of it people will do, in an economic analysis that covers such topics as price discrimination and corporatescandals.

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Regnery Publishing

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1596985062

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9781596985063

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography

By: John N. Helbert

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Handbook of VLSI Microlithography

By: John N. Helbert

This handbook gives readers a close look at the entire technology of printing very high resolution and high density integrated circuit (IC) patterns into thin resist process transfer coatingsùincluding optical lithography, electron beam, ion beam, and x-ray lithography. The book's main theme is the special printing process needed to achieve volume high density IC chip production, especially in the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) industry. The book leads off with a comparison of various lithography methods, covering the three major patterning parameters of line/space, resolution, line edge and pattern feature dimension control. The book's explanation of resist and resist process equipment technology may well be the first practical description of the relationship between the resist process and equipment parameters. The basics of resist technology are completely coveredùincluding an entire chapter on resist process defectivity and the potential yield limiting effect on device production.Each alternative lithographic technique and testing method is considered and evaluated: basic metrology including optical, scanning-electron-microscope (SEM) techniques and electrical test devices, along with explanations of actual printing tools and their design, construction and performance. The editor devotes an entire chapter to today's sophisticated, complex electron-beam printers, and to the emerging x-ray printing technology now used in high-density CMOS devices. Energetic ion particle printing is a controllable, steerable technology that does not rely on resist, and occupies a final section of the handbook.

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William Andrew

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0815517807

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9780815517801

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography, 2nd Edition

By: John N. Helbert

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Handbook of VLSI Microlithography, 2nd Edition

By: John N. Helbert

This handbook gives readers a close look at the entire technology of printing very high resolution and high density integrated circuit (IC) patterns into thin resist process transfer coatingsùincluding optical lithography, electron beam, ion beam, and x-ray lithography. The book's main theme is the special printing process needed to achieve volume high density IC chip production, especially in the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) industry. The book leads off with a comparison of various lithography methods, covering the three major patterning parameters of line/space, resolution, line edge and pattern feature dimension control. The book's explanation of resist and resist process equipment technology may well be the first practical description of the relationship between the resist process and equipment parameters. The basics of resist technology are completely coveredùincluding an entire chapter on resist process defectivity and the potential yield limiting effect on device production. Each alternative lithographic technique and testing method is considered and evaluated: basic metrology including optical, scanning-electron-microscope (SEM) techniques and electrical test devices, along with explanations of actual printing tools and their design, construction and performance. The editor devotes an entire chapter to today's sophisticated, complex electron-beam printers, and to the emerging x-ray printing technology now used in high-density CMOS devices. Energetic ion particle printing is a controllable, steerable technology that does not rely on resist, and occupies a final section of the handbook.

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Cambridge University Press

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0080946801

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The House of Godwin

The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty

By: Michael John Key

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The House of Godwin

The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty

By: Michael John Key

The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings.

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1445694077

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The Empire Project

The Empire Project

Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Revised and Expanded Edition

Aviation Law: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources

Aviation Law: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources

Future War and the Defence of Europe

Future War and the Defence of Europe

Turning Point

Turning Point

Basin Analysis

Basin Analysis

Restoring the Balance

Restoring the Balance

Reading the Popular

Reading the Popular

Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems

Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems

Freedomnomics

Freedomnomics

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography, 2nd Edition

Handbook of VLSI Microlithography, 2nd Edition

The House of Godwin

The House of Godwin

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