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The King Never Smiles

A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

By: Paul M. Handley

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The King Never Smiles

A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

By: Paul M. Handley

Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. This book tells the unexpected story of his life and 60-year rule: how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Buddha; and how a king widely seen as beneficent and apolitical could in fact be so deeply political, autocratic, and even brutal. Paul Handley provides an extensively researched, factual account of the king's youth and personal development, ascent to the throne, skilful political maneuverings, and attempt to shape Thailand as a Buddhist kingdom. Blasting apart the widely accepted image of the king as egalitarian and virtuous, Handley convincingly portrays an anti-democratic monarch who, together with allies in big business and the corrupt Thai military, has protected a centuries-old, barely-modified feudal dynasty. When at nineteen Bhumibol assumed the throne after the still-unsolved shooting of his brother, the Thai monarchy had been stripped of power and prestige. Over the ensuing decades, Bhumibol became the paramount political actor in the kingdom, crushing critics while attaining high status among his people. The book details this process and depicts Thailand's unique constitutional monarch in the full light of the facts.

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Yale University Press

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The King Never Smiles

A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

By: Paul M. Handley

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Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry

100 Years of Success, Setback & Change

By: J Paul Hodgson

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Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry

100 Years of Success, Setback & Change

By: J Paul Hodgson

“The rich and diverse history of the British aircraft industry is captured in superb detail by the author in this weighty tome.” —Aviation News Great Britain’s aircraft industry started in 1908, with the first formally registered organization in the world to offer to design and build an aeroplane “for commercial gain.” This book tells the complete story of the 110 years since the start, all the companies formed and the aircraft they produced, highlighting the advances in aeronautical ambition and technology. It is the story of the creation, survival and decline of all one hundred and twenty-three of the aircraft design and construction companies formed between 1908 and 2018. The exhilaration of success and the magic of aviation technology are vividly illustrated by the technical and political birth stories of iconic projects, such as the Cirrus/Gypsy Moths, the Tiger Moth, the flying boats of Imperial Airways, Spitfire, Lancaster, Viscount, Vulcan, Harrier, Buccaneer and many more. The rotary wing industry is not forgotten. The birth of the jet turbine engine and the quest for supersonic speed is included. The stories of the disappointments of failure and disaster, such as the Brabazon, Comet, Princess, Rotodyne and TSR-2, and the growth of international collaboration in Concorde, Tornado, Airbus, Eurofighter Typhoon and other projects are included, in the context of the international scene and domestic politics. The conclusion highlights the prominent reminiscences and speculates on the future of the aircraft industry in Britain. “An outstanding reference book and a thoroughly enjoyable canter through the decades, from the days of wood and fabric to the modern composite structure of the wings of the A400 Atlas.” —RAF Historical Society

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Air World

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1526774674

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Urodynamics

By: Paul Abrams,Roger Feneley,Michael Torrens

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Urodynamics

By: Paul Abrams,Roger Feneley,Michael Torrens

For centuries, physicians studied the appearance and characteristics of urine as a guide to the health of the individual. In contrast, the mechanism of micturition attracted little attention and, until recent years, the study of the lower urinary tract consisted mainly of some form of cystometry and in watching the force of the stream. Exactly when more precise measurements began can be debated but interest in the subject developed rapidly following the improved methods for measuring urinary ftow rates introduced by von Garrelts in 1956. The level of interest and investigation in this subject has since grown quickly though not without debate. Now, after a quarter of a century of endeavour, urodynamics has an established place not only in urology but many other areas of medicine and this book is a lucid account of the current practice of the subject. The special characteristic of this book is that it represents a very cohesive description of the subject as developed in one medical centre. The advantage of this is readily evident by the way in which the Authors have covered the subject, from patient assessment to organisation of urodynamic units, in a logical and practical style. The Authors have also planned the contents so that the reader can follow the evolution of the subject and thereby appreciate the way in which the subject has grown, how the terminology has developed and, perhaps most relevant, how to staff a urodynamic service.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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144713513X

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The Stuff of Bits

An Essay on the Materialities of Information

By: Paul Dourish

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The Stuff of Bits

An Essay on the Materialities of Information

By: Paul Dourish

An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems. Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed by the large-scale physical infrastructures of server farms, fiber optic cables, power plants, and microwave links. But another domain of material constraints also shapes digital living: the digital representations sketched on whiteboards, encoded into software, stored in databases, loaded into computer memory, and transmitted on networks. These digital representations encode aspects of our everyday world and make them available for digital processing. The limits and capacities of those representations carry significant consequences for digital society. In The Stuff of Bits, Paul Dourish examines the specific materialities that certain digital objects exhibit. He presents four case studies: emulation, the creation of a “virtual” computer inside another; digital spreadsheets and their role in organizational practice; relational databases and the issue of “the databaseable”; and the evolution of digital networking and the representational entailments of network protocols. These case studies demonstrate how a materialist account can offer an entry point to broader concerns—questions of power, policy, and polity in the realm of the digital.

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MIT Press

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0262546523

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Network Conference (INC 2016)

By: Paul Dowland,Oliver Schneider,Bogdan Ghita,Sergej Alekseev

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Network Conference (INC 2016)

By: Paul Dowland,Oliver Schneider,Bogdan Ghita,Sergej Alekseev

This book contains the proceedings of the Eleventh International Network Conference (INC 2016), which was held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July 2016. A total of 30 papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference. The main topics of the book include: Network Technologies; Mobile and Wireless Networking; Security and Privacy; Applications and Impacts. The papers address state-of-the-art research and applications of network technology, arising from both the academic and industrial domains. These proceedings should consequently be of interest to network practitioners, researchers, academics, and technical managers involved in the design, development and use of network systems.

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Lulu.com

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1841024104

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Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications

By: Sanjoy Paul

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Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications

By: Sanjoy Paul

IP Multicast 29 4 29 4.1 Reverse Path Forwarding ....... 4.2 Internet Group Management Protocol 31 Truncated Broadcasting ........ 32 4.3 4.4 Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) 34 4.5 Summary · ......................... 35 5 Multicast Extensions to Open Shortest Path First (MO- SPF) 39 5.1 High-level Description 39 Architecture ...... 40 5.2 5.2.1 Design Goals 41 Protocol Data Structures 41 5.2.2 5.3 Protocol. 44 52 5.4 Summary · ............ 6 Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) 53 6.1 High-Level Description 53 54 6.2 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2.1 Design Goals: ........ 54 6.2.2 Components and Functions 55 6.3 Protocol ............... 57 6.3.1 Creating the PIM framework 58 6.3.2 Creating a specific multicast tree for a group 59 6.3.3 Multicast data forwarding . . . . . . 64 6.3.4 Operation in a multi-access network 65 6.3.5 List of PIM messages 68 6.3.6 A complete example 69 6.4 Summary · ...... 69 7 Core-Based Tree (CBT) 73 7.1 High-level Description 73 7.2 Architecture . . . . . . 74 7.2.1 Design Goals: .

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1461557135

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Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks

IP, UMTS, EGPRS and ATM

By: Jeffrey Bannister,Paul Mather,Sebastian Coope

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Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks

IP, UMTS, EGPRS and ATM

By: Jeffrey Bannister,Paul Mather,Sebastian Coope

The merging of voice and data on a single network opens powerful new possibilities in communications. Only a fundamental understanding of both technologies will ensure you are equipped to maximise their full potential. Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks describes the evolution from cellular to a converged network that integrates traditional telecommunications and the technology of the Internet. In particular, the authors address the application of both IP and ATM technologies to a cellular environment, including IP telephony protocols, the use of ATM/AAL2 and the new AAL2 signalling protocol for voice/multimedia and data transport as well as the future of the UMTS network in UMTS Release 5/6 All-IP architecture. Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks: Explains the operation and integration of GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA2000, IP, and ATM. Provides practical examples of 3G connection scenarios. Describes signalling flows and protocol stacks. Covers IP and ATM as used in a 3G context. Addresses issues of QoS and real-time application support. Includes IP/SS7 internetworking and IP softswitching. Outlines the architecture of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for UMTS. Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks is suited for professionals from the telecommunications, data communications and computer networking industries..

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John Wiley & Sons

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047086091X

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Proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC2002)

By: Paul Dowland,Steven Furnell

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Proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC2002)

By: Paul Dowland,Steven Furnell

This book contains the proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC 2002), which was held in Plymouth, UK, in July 2002. A total of 72 papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference, and they are presented here in 8 themed chapters. The main topics of the book include: Web Technologies and Applications; Network Technologies; Multimedia over IP; Quality of Service; Security and Privacy; Distributed Technologies; Mobility; and Applications and Impacts. The papers address state-of-the-art research and applications of network technology, arising from both the academic and industrial domains. The book should consequently be of interest to network practitioners, researchers, academics, and technical managers involved in the design, development and use of network systems.

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1841021059

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Computer Security and the Internet

Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin

By: Paul C. van Oorschot

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Computer Security and the Internet

Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin

By: Paul C. van Oorschot

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of computer and Internet security, suitable for a one-term introductory course for junior/senior undergrad or first-year graduate students. It is also suitable for self-study by anyone seeking a solid footing in security – including software developers and computing professionals, technical managers and government staff. An overriding focus is on brevity, without sacrificing breadth of core topics or technical detail within them. The aim is to enable a broad understanding in roughly 350 pages. Further prioritization is supported by designating as optional selected content within this. Fundamental academic concepts are reinforced by specifics and examples, and related to applied problems and real-world incidents. The first chapter provides a gentle overview and 20 design principles for security. The ten chapters that follow provide a framework for understanding computer and Internet security. They regularly refer back to the principles, with supporting examples. These principles are the conceptual counterparts of security-related error patterns that have been recurring in software and system designs for over 50 years. The book is “elementary” in that it assumes no background in security, but unlike “soft” high-level texts it does not avoid low-level details, instead it selectively dives into fine points for exemplary topics to concretely illustrate concepts and principles. The book is rigorous in the sense of being technically sound, but avoids both mathematical proofs and lengthy source-code examples that typically make books inaccessible to general audiences. Knowledge of elementary operating system and networking concepts is helpful, but review sections summarize the essential background. For graduate students, inline exercises and supplemental references provided in per-chapter endnotes provide a bridge to further topics and a springboard to the research literature; for those in industry and government, pointers are provided to helpful surveys and relevant standards, e.g., documents from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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3030834115

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The King Never Smiles

The King Never Smiles

The King Never Smiles

The King Never Smiles

Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry

Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry

Urodynamics

Urodynamics

The Stuff of Bits

The Stuff of Bits

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Network Conference (INC 2016)

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Network Conference (INC 2016)

Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications

Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications

Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks

Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks

Proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC2002)

Proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC2002)

Computer Security and the Internet

Computer Security and the Internet

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