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Chasing Ghosts

Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

By: Paul Rieckhoff

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Chasing Ghosts

Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

By: Paul Rieckhoff

As a First Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army National Guard, Paul Rieckhoff was charged with leading thirty-eight men in Iraq. He spent almost a year in one of the bloodiest and most volatile areas of Baghdad. And when he finally came home, he vowed to tell Americans the harrowing truth. He does just that, uncensored and unrehearsed, "and with wit and passion" (Arianna Huffington), in Chasing Ghosts-the first criticism of the Iraq war written by a soldier who fought in it.

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1101211016

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Chasing Ghosts

Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

By: Paul Rieckhoff

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Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems

Models, Formalisms, Correctness. REX Workshop, Mook, The Netherlands, May 29 - June 2, 1989. Proceedings

By: Jaco W. de Bakker,Willem-Paul de Roever,Grzegorz Rozenberg

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Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems

Models, Formalisms, Correctness. REX Workshop, Mook, The Netherlands, May 29 - June 2, 1989. Proceedings

By: Jaco W. de Bakker,Willem-Paul de Roever,Grzegorz Rozenberg

The stepwise refinement method postulates a system construction route that starts with a high-level specification, goes through a number of provably correct development steps, and ends with an executable program. The contributions to this volume survey the state of the art in this extremely active research area. The world's leading specialists in concurrent program specification, verification, and the theory of their refinement present latest research results and surveys of the fields. State-based, algebraic, temporal logic oriented and category theory oriented approaches are presented. Special attention is paid to the relationship between compositionality and refinement for distributed programs. Surveys are given of results on refinement in partial-order based approaches to concurrency. A unified treatment is given of the assumption/commitment paradigm in compositional concurrent program specification and verification, and the extension of these to liveness properties. Latest results are presented on specifying and proving concurrent data bases correct, and deriving network protocols from their specifications.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540525599

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9783540525592

Psychology: a Crash Course

By: Paul Carslake,Razwana S. Quadir (author)

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Psychology: a Crash Course

By: Paul Carslake,Razwana S. Quadir (author)

The way humans think and behave is endlessly fascinating and often surprising. Professional psychologists spend their working lives analyzing individuals' mental processes and responses. Their subject is a science, but their practice and approach are governed by ethics and morality. We may all consider ourselves to be incidental psychologists in our daily interactions, confident of our ability to judge character, read body language, or to get to know someone, only to find ourselves confounded by seemingly unpredictable actions. Why do entirely good people sometimes do bad things? Is personality inherited or learned? Is there really such a thing as "being normal"? Psychology: A Crash Course looks at how these and many other questions have exercised the minds of those leading the way in psychology for more than 100 years. It's a story of bold thinking, ingenious experiments, and sometimes startling conclusions that will make you stop and think.

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178240869X

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PTSD and Folk Therapy

Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone

By: John Paul Wallis,Jay Mechling

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PTSD and Folk Therapy

Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone

By: John Paul Wallis,Jay Mechling

Using war memoirs, war journalism, and the personal experiences of John Paul Wallis as a Marine with two tours of duty in Iraq, Wallis and Mechling analyze the folklore shared by male warriors in the combat zone to understand how the traditional everyday practices of these men in groups serve as a form of psychological first aid for relieving the symptoms associated with the stress of living, working, and fighting in the combat zone. The authors study how boys and men are socialized in American culture, the context for their examining the folk traditions, including pet-keeping, rough-and-tumble play fighting, video game play, masturbation, dark play, and deep play.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793603901

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The Human Imperative

Power, Freedom and Democracy in the age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Nemitz

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The Human Imperative

Power, Freedom and Democracy in the age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Nemitz

This important new book is about power in the age of Artificial Intelligence. It looks at what the new technical powers that have accrued over the last decades mean for the freedom of people and for our democracies. AI must not be considered in isolation, but rather in a very specific context; the concentration of economic and digital-technological power that we see today. Analysis of the effects of AI requires that we take a holistic view of the business models of digital technologies, and of the power they exercise. Technology, economic power, and political power are entering into ever closer symbiosis. Digital technologies and their corporate masters now know more than people know about themselves, or governments know about the world. These technologies accumulate more and more decision-making powers. Taken together this leads to a massive asymmetry of knowledge and power in the relationship between man and machine. The classical models of action and decision-making in democratic societies are being gradually undermined by such developments. In a new way, the question of the control of technical power arises. This is the first book to look in detail in a holistic way at the challenges of digital power and Artificial Intelligence to Democracy and Liberties, and to set out what can and needs to be done about these challenges in terms of engineering ethics, and democratic action of policy making and legislation. Key audiences are scholars in media sciences, political sciences, computer sciences and engineering, law and philosophy as well as policy makers, corporate and civil society leaders and the educated public. Adapted and updated from the original German language book “Prinzip Mensch – Macht, Freiheit und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz“, published 2020 by Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf. GmbH.

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Ethics International Press

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1804411965

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Book's by Paul Rieckhoff

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems

Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems

Psychology: a Crash Course

Psychology: a Crash Course

PTSD and Folk Therapy

PTSD and Folk Therapy

The Human Imperative

The Human Imperative

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