Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 232 p. This handsome, large-format book takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the U.S. Army's hard-hitting airborne forces, from the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 to the multiple global commitment of the twenty-first century. Featuring more than 150 photographs, some rare or seldom seen and many in color, the work highlights the...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 327 p. In today's online attention economy, supply and demand have created a rapidly growing market for firms and entrepreneurs using the tactics, tools, and strategies of digital influence warfare to gain profit and power. This book focuses on the more malicious types of online activity such as deception, provocation, and a host of other dirty...
Illustrator: John White. — Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 68 p. The US naval aviator of World War II played a pivotal part in the winning of the war. From the warm waters of the Pacific to the icy conditions of the Bering Sea (including the battle of Midway), the Naval aviator was on hand to fight the enemy in any and all conditions. Between 1940 and 1942 the training of the naval...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 282 p. An enthralling examination on the impact that military intelligence had on the Second World War at sea. How was the work of Alan Turing and other men and women at Bletchley Park used to influence naval strategies and shape the course of the war? And how did they use the information without alerting the Axis powers that their codes had been broken?...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 384 p. This book is the result of collaboration between Peter Mattis, an analyst of the modern People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence community, and Matthew Brazil, a historian of early Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence operations and a former corporate investigator. We hope that this material will be of interest to those seeking a...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres. Rather than relying on size or speed, it was their sheer numbers that made them so effective....
Illustrator: Jim Laurier. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. The ineffectiveness of conventional air attacks on US Navy surface ships, particularly heavily defended targets like carrier task groups, forced the Japanese to re-evaluate their tactics in late 1944. The solution they arrived at was simple - crash their aircraft into American ships. This notion of self-sacrifice fit...
Grub Street Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner nations. The principal tools in that response were the strike aircraft which took the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. — 225 p. Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 301 p. This volume represents the first scholarly work in English devoted to the experience of Italian architects and builders in Turkey, as well as in many of the lands once belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Covering a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities (today's Romania) to Anatolia and the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 104 p. Islamic finance is a growing part of the global financial sector. The risks faced by Islamic banks are real, and how well they mitigate them will determine their future. This book answers questions regarding how Islamic Financial Institutions should focus on their risk management practices and the necessary solutions and policy...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 332 p. Recent years have seen social justice emerge as a powerful driver for work, both in law schools and the legal services sector. However, questions remain about how that term is understood and given meaning within the legal academy and beyond. This edited collection explores the meanings that have emerged and might subsequently be...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 279 p. This collection of essays, all by Russian scholars, is the first of its kind to address a broad English-speaking audience. It presents the theories and methodologies employed by Russian national historiography to make sense of Russian gender and women’s history. The essays in this volume discuss women’s and gender history in Russia,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. — 359 p. The new collection of essays “Greece Between East and West: Culture and Geopolitics” looks at the central geopolitical situation of Greece and its pivotal role in the Balkans and the Levant. The trend towards “modernisation” and “westernisation” is examined in the light of traditional values in culture, language, history and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. — 131 p. This book specifies the changes in the personalities of managers in the process of using coaching. It emphasizes the scientific dimension in the context of the issue of coaching, offering a multidimensional concept of coaching and verifying a new methodology for the assessment of coaching effects on managers’ personality types based...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. — 185 p. Why does technology obsessively seek to artificially enhance and expand our memory? We don’t have to accept information overload and interconnectedness as the backbones of our age. Our most trusted organizations, schools, and businesses are increasingly burdened by institutionalized storage and an accumulation of knowledge capital....
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 397 p. The papers collected in this volume provide invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between of Romans and Others. Articles dealing with cultural changes within and outside the borders of Roman Empire highlight the idea that those very changes had different results and outcomes depending on various social,...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 314 p. Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering naval professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy. The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation...
Bellona / Edipresse, 2014. — 95 p. Bitwa pod Cudnowem – starcie zbrojne stoczone w dniach 14 października – 2 listopada 1660 roku koło Cudnowa na żytomierszczyźnie pomiędzy wojskami Rzeczypospolitej i Rosji. Była jedną z batalii wojny polsko-rosyjskiej 1654–1667. Wygrana przez Polaków. 27 września 1660 roku armia rosyjska Wasyla Szeremietiewa (mianowanego przez cara wojewodą...
Encounter Books, 2016. — 248 p. Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown...
Duncker and Humblot, 2009. — 523 p. — (Veröffentlichungen des Walther-Schücking-Instituts für Internationales Recht an der Universität Kiel 173). The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 dealt with three interlinked topics: the peaceful settlement of disputes, including by arbitration; the restriction of armaments and military budgets; the laws of war. The first two were...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 671 p. Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid-nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of...
Jewish Publication Society, 2006. — 235 p. Organized in an A to Z format for easy reference, the Dictionary of Jewish Words contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. The entries include words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other sacred texts, worship, and more. Each entry has a...
LIT Verlag, 2023. — 264 p. — (Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie 16). This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE –4th c. BCE). It gives a survey of the historical evidence of linguistic interference of Egyptian with languages in Africa,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 327 p. This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 327 p. This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book...
Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2009. — 22 p. What is Electronic Intelligence (ELINT)? ELINT is information derived primarily from electronic signals that do not contain speech or text (which are considered COMINT). It is divided into major branches. One branch is Technical ELINT (TechELINT), which describes the signal structure, emission...
NATO Publishing Sources, 2001. — 57 p. This publication provides preliminary joint and coalition training information on the subject of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). It discusses the fundamentals of OSINT support to both the all-source intelligence process, and to the unclassified intelligence requirements of operators, logisticians, and civilian organizations participating...
Белгородская черта: сборник статей и материалов по истории Белгородской оборонительной черты. — 2020. — Вып. 5. — c. 99-111. Статья посвящена малоизвестным событиям второго Азовского похода Петра I — участию в кампании полков Белгородского разряда, сбору и размещению ратников в городе Волуйке, снабжению войск продовольствием. Выполнена карта-реконструкция военных действий...
Edward Elgar, 2022. — 657 p. This innovative Research Handbook explores judicial, scholarly, and theoretical approaches to general principles in the EU legal order against the backdrop of considerable uncertainty about the concept. It does so by analysing both a diverse range of general principles in discrete areas of EU law (‘zooming in’) and external, wider perspectives on...
Quadrille Publishing, 2023. — 128 p. The English language can be very confusing. But it’s not rocket surgery. Damp Squids and Card Sharks is a fascinating suppository of false facts and common errors, a minefield of information. Have I wetted your appetite? Peaked your interest? Are you waiting with baited breath? Or could you care less? Pull your socks together! For all...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 144 p. The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often analysed from the point of view of its institutions, citizens and voters,...
Brill Nijhoff, 2023. — 350 p. — (World Trade Institute Advanced Studies 13), This book dives into the legal and economic rationale of patent exhaustion, studying its evolution from the beginning in Germany, UK and USA, to Japan and 10 developing countries. The author also analyses exhaustion under TRIPS, GATT, GATS and major regional agreements, including the EU, before...
VR Unipress, 2020. — 317 p. — (Herrschaft und soziale Systeme in der Frühen Neuzeit 26). When looking at the Early Modern period (16th to the late 18th century), we often speak of "the military" or "the army", but do we know what exactly these terms mean? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 248 p. Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a...
Haynes Publishing, 2018. — 159 p. In contrast to mobile combat, a siege centers around a fixed location, historically ranging from simple hill forts through to entire fortified cities. For the defenders, their job has been to preserve the integrity of defenses, keep out the attackers, and maintain health, hygiene and nutrition until the siege is broken. The attackers, by...
Dover Publications, 2015. — 182 р. A wealthy Anglo-Italian connoisseur devoted to the nineteenth-century struggle for Italian unification, Frederick Stibbert amassed an extensive collection of arms, armor, and costume — which today can be found in the Tuscan museum bearing his name. During the years in which he built up the museum's collection, he examined countless illuminated...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 401 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Maurice the Emperor. Theophylact the Author. Introduction. The Balkans before 582. Chronological Table: Balkan Events of Maurice's Reign (582-602). The Sources. The Balkans in Maurice's Reign. The Balkans after 602. Geographical and Historical Setting. Chronological Table of Eastern Events (572-591). The...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 638 p. The theme of the book is the creation of tactics for littoral warfare – as opposed to the more common blue ocean perspective. Themes are how NATO perceived the goals of the enemy; the purposes of the NATO organisations, the military instruments they had to organise, the organization of cooperation among units from sovereign states, and how...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
Harper Collins Canada, 2015. — 228 p. This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen...
Böhlau Verlag, 2010. — 389 p. Most writing about the role of women during the First World War tends to focus on generally deal with the wartime experiences of men and women separately. Began about replacing men in auxiliary roles with women, releasing them for The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Women's Royal Naval Service were The Women's Army Corps (WAC) in which almost...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 208 p. For centuries, the Spanish state has proved to be an expert system for repressing political dissent and any threat that could jeopardize the maintenance of the status quo. It has done so using all the institutions and all the areas of power that were necessary, for the end has always justified the means. Carles Mundo, Catalan Minister...
VR Unipress, 2022. — 172 p. This monograph presents issues related to the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 and is still ongoing. It shows the socio-historical background of warfare; the factors determining the distribution of adaptive resources (assigning them meaning, as well as experienced gains and losses of a subjective, state, material and energy nature). It...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 320 p. In around 550 the Latin poet Corippus composed his epic Iohannis to celebrate the forgotten wars of a Byzantine general against the 'Moorish' or 'Berber' peoples of North Africa. This book explores the rich narrative of that poem and the changing political, social and cultural environment within which he worked. It reappraises the...
WBG Academic, 2014. — 159 p. Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische Handeln brachten Europa auf einen gefährlichen...
Routledge, 2023. — 161 p. The contributors to this book examine the state, development, issues, practices, and approaches to translation studies in the Philippines. The Philippines is a highly multilingual country, with many indigenous languages and regional dialects spoken alongside foreign imports, particularly English and Spanish. Professor Moratto, Professor Bacolod, and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 416 p. The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 416 p. The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist...