This book provides the first detailed examination in English of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War and looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective, including class, racism, politics, finance, and changing military technology.
Napoleon's marshals are among the most important persons of French military history. Former British soldier and historian Richard Dunn Pattinson (1874-1916) offers a very detailed description of the lives of the men given this honor by Napoleon: social background, political and military career and personal ties to the French emperor. The biographical portrayals are embedded in the story of Napoleon's own life and the history of the Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars. Reprint of the original edition from 1909.
Such chronic gastrointestinal diseases as peptic ulcer, cirrhosis, and cholelithiasis are becoming increasingly recognized as health problems. This is the first book to deal specifically with mortality data, broken down by geographic, socioeconomic, and other demographic parameters, from digestive diseases in the United States from 1959 to 1961. Digestive Diseases interprets theses data in relation to clinical material regarding cause and clinical course of the disease and indicates their significance for understanding trends in incidence and prevalence as well as possible future trends. World literature on incidence and prevalence as well as mortality has also been utilized.
This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the 'Asiatic mode of production' described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life. In the soviet Union, the concept has had a chequered and controversial career: leading writers, primarily Stalin, have denied its very existence, mobilizing the heavy artillery of state ideology in their defence, whilst later scholars show signs of reversing this trend. Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West. His work should be of major interest to students of Soviet politics, economists and Marxists.
It is approximately 10 years since the Third Edition of Heat Pipes was published and the text is now established as the standard work on the subject.This new edition has been extensively updated, with revisions to most chapters. The introduction of new working fluids and extended life test data have been taken into account in chapter 3. A number of new types of heat pipes have become popular, and others have proved less effective. This is reflected in the contents of chapter 5.Heat pipes are employed in a wide range of applications, including electronics cooling, diecasting and injection moulding, heat recovery and energy conservation, de-icing and manufacturing process temperature control, and chapter 7 discusses some of the latest uses, while retaining full data on those established for many years.Appendices have been updated, as appropriate.
The recent financial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory and sympathetic discussion of Galbraith's theoretical contributions, introducing the reader to his economics and his broader vision of the economic process. The book highlights and explains key features of Galbraith's economic thought, including his penetrating critique of society, his distinctive methodology, his specific brand of Keynesianism, and his original - but largely ignored - contribution to the theory of the firm. It also presents, for the first time, a detailed examination of Galbraith's monetary economics and revisits his analysis of financial euphoria. This unique work seeks to rehabilitate Galbraith's contribution, setting out several directions for possible future research in the Galbraithian tradition"--
This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the OCyAsiatic mode of productionOCOadescribed by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life.
High Cotton chronicles the life of a 12 year old boy, his kidnapping, and being sold into slavery. He suffered torture and abuse and witnessed horrible events prior to and during his journey via slave trader ship to America. He was auctioned to a plantation and eventually emancipated. He returns to the sea aboard the same ship he arrived on, and remains until the death of the ships Captain. Left a substantial amount of money by the Captain only to be conned by a carpetbagger, he looses everything and ends up a beggar on the streets of St. Louis. A very talented entertainer, even though a black man in a society of white aristocracy, he gains popularity and becomes an owner of a night club and faces adversity on every hand.
A new approach has been used both in the laboratory and in field trials, to study the development and performance of special vulcanizates used in sealing applications. The use of conventional, monomeric fungicides has been replaced by polymeric organotin compounds covulcanized into the rubber network. Polychloroprene, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and ethylene-propylene terpolymer are three rubbers commonly used in military equipment and these have been shown to covulcanize with tributyltin acrylate in the presence of peroxides to give vulcanizates with a powerful and long-lasting fungicidal action. These rubbers have been evaluated by the use of O-rings to form sealed cavities with ten different materials (two metals, seven plastics and glass), in specially designed assemblies. Trials held over 3 years in adverse environments have confirmed that the rubbers are compatible with the sheet materials, can be formed into efficient sealing products that will prevent fungal growth, have good performance characteristics, and do not degrade the optical qualities of transparent materials. These rubbers should have applications in military, industrial and commercial equipment.
Designed to interest industrial economists as well as Post-Keynesians, this text introduces, analyzes and takes forward a post-Keynesian theory of the firm.
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