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War, World War II, History
The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new… film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked - and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
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General non-fiction
In this illuminating and instructive survey, author Steven J. Brams demonstrates both the insights and the pitfalls that can result… from applying game theoretic models to the analysis of problems in political science. Using plenty of real-life examples, Brams shows how game theory can explain and elucidate complex political situations, from warfare to presidential vetoes. In these cases and others, game theory's mathematical structure provides a rigorous, consistent method for formulating, analyzing, and solving strategic problems. Minimal mathematical background is necessary, making the book accessible to a wide audience of students and teachers of politics and social science, as well as other readers with a serious interest in politics. New preface to the Dover edition. 1975 edition.
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Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil… War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.
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History, Criticism, Arts and entertainment
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General non-fiction
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key… volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out?This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.
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General non-fiction, Philosophy
A clear, comprehensive, and rigorous treatment develops the subject from elementary concepts to the construction and analysis of relatively complex… logical languages. It then considers the application of symbolic logic to the clarification and axiomatization of theories in mathematics, physics, and biology. Hundreds of problems, examples, and exercises. 1958 edition.
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In the context of the well-known pedagogical materials for graduate-level writers by Swales Feak An Cheng… has written a resource that provides support for instructors who have the daunting task of scaffolding graduate writers efforts to navigate discipline-specific research genres--genres that may be unfamiliar to instructors themselves Genre and Graduate-Level Research Writing is grounded in genre-based theory and full of best practices examples The book opens by presenting the case for the use of genre in graduate-level research writing and by examining rhetorical consciousness-raising and its ties to genre Unique to the volume is a thorough analysis of the materials designed to teach genre and research writing focused on the textbooks of Swales Feak e g Academic Writing for Graduate Students and similar texts Other chapters provide examples of discovery-based genre tasks evaluative methods for assessing discipline-specific writing and techniques for becoming a more confident instructor of graduate-level research writing
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Asian history, History
Khalidi (Arab studies, Columbia U.) explains why the Palestinians failed to achieve independence prior to 1948, the date of the… establishment of Israel. Rather than "compare the incomparable"--the Palestinians and the Zionist movement--he provides thematically comparisons of the Palestinians to other Arab societies at analogous stages of development. His major themes include the failure of the Palestinians to successfully challenge the legal structure of the mandatory regime, which was consciously designed to prevent Palestinian self-government; the role of British-created religious structures in co-opting Palestinian elites; and the structural failures of the revolt of 1936-39.
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Criticism, Music, Religion, General non-fiction
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox… lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves. She examines Orthodox women as they appear in memoirs, comics, novels, and movies, and speaks with the authors, filmmakers, and musicians who create these representations. Throughout the work, Skinazi threads lines from the poem “Eshes Chayil,” the Biblical description of an Orthodox “Woman of Valor.” This proverb unites Orthodoxy and feminism in a complex relationship, where Orthodox women continuously question, challenge, and negotiate Orthodox and feminist values. Ultimately, these women create paths that unite their work, passions, and families under the framework of an “Eshes Chayil,” a woman who situates religious conviction within her own power.
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History, United States history, Music, Arts and entertainment, General non-fiction
In 1956 Harry Belafonte s Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies … For a few fleeting months calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US it even threatened to supplant rock and roll Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new framework black fad performance for understanding race performance and mass culture in the twentieth century United States Vogel situates the calypso craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation including the ragtime craze of 1890s and the Negro vogue of the 1920s that encapsulates the culture of the Jim Crow era He follows the fad as it moves defiantly away from any attempt at authenticity and shamelessly embraces calypso kitsch Although white calypso performers were indeed complicit in a kind of imperialist theft of Trinidadian music and dance Vogel argues black calypso craze performers enacted a different and subtly subversive kind of theft They appropriated not Caribbean culture itself but the US version of it and in so doing they mocked American notions of racial authenticity From musical recordings nightclub acts and television broadcasts to Broadway musicals film and modern dance he shows how performers seized the ephemeral opportunities of the fad to comment on black cultural history and even question the meaning of race itself
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History
The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas… While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug Alexander S Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding the place of peyote in history In this provocative new book Dawson argues that peyote has marked the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish Inquisition outlawed it in 1620 For nearly four centuries ecclesiastical legal scientific and scholarly authorities have tried unsuccessfully to police that boundary to ensure that while indigenous subjects might consume peyote others could not Moving back and forth across the U S Mexico border The Peyote Effect explores how battles over who might enjoy a right to consume peyote have unfolded in both countries and how these conflicts have produced the racially exclusionary systems that characterizes modern drug regimes Through this approach we see a surprising history of the racial thinking that binds these two countries more closely than we might otherwise imagine
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Politics and government, Psychology, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
Presenting new insights into reciprocity this book combines Marcel Mauss s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore… s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions The book discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state Nordic social democratic conservative and liberal and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax havens tax cuts and austerity with a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology sociology and social anthropology with history
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General non-fiction, Science and technology
Continuing the authors multivolume project this text considers the theory of distributions from an applied perspective… demonstrating how effective a combination of analytic and probabilistic methods can be for solving problems in the physical and engineering sciences Volume 1 covered foundational topics such as distributional and fractional calculus the integral transform and wavelets and Volume 2 explored linear and nonlinear dynamics in continuous media With this volume the scope is extended to the use of distributional tools in the theory of generalized stochastic processes and fields and in anomalous fractional random dynamics Chapters cover topics such as probability distributions generalized stochastic processes Brownian motion and the white noise stochastic differential equations and generalized random fields Burgers turbulence and passive tracer transport in Burgers flows and linear nonlinear and multiscale anomalous fractional dynamics in continuous media The needs of the applied-sciences audience are addressed by a careful and rich selection of examples arising in real-life industrial and scientific labs and a thorough discussion of their physical significance Numerous illustrations generate a better understanding of the core concepts discussed in the text and a large number of exercises at the end of each chapter expand on these concepts Distributions in the Physical and Engineering Sciences is intended to fill a gap in the typical undergraduate engineering physical sciences curricula and as such it will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students working in these areas The only prerequisites are a three-four semester calculus sequence including ordinary differential equations Fourier series complex variables and linear algebra and some probability theory but basic definitions and facts are covered as needed An appendix also provides background material concerning the Dirac-delta and other distributions
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History, General non-fiction
Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people… were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians-all native-born Iraqis-intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it seemed, the state of Israel was born, and lines were drawn between Jews and Arabs. Over the next couple of years, nearly the entire Jewish population of Baghdad fled their Iraqi homeland, never to return. In this beautifully written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which he was a child and young man from the 1920s through 1951. He paints a minutely detailed picture of growing up in a barely middle-class family, dealing with a motley assortment of neighbors and landlords, struggling through the local schools, and finally discovering the pleasures of self-education and sexual awakening. Rejwan intertwines his personal story with the story of the cultural renaissance that was flowering in Baghdad during the years of his young manhood, describing how his work as a bookshop manager and a staff writer for the Iraq Times brought him friendships with many of the country's leading intellectual and literary figures. He rounds off his story by remembering how the political and cultural upheavals that accompanied the founding of Israel, as well as broad hints sent back by the first arrivals in the new state, left him with a deep ambivalence as he bid a last farewell to a homeland that had become hostile to its native Jews.
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Laws and statutes, Music, General non-fiction
This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise Although the… growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business production distribution valorisation and consumption By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry
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Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
This edited collection explores the lives consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa giving unprecedented insights into… how their gender and sometimes their ethnicity and age impacted on their research experiences and how doing research in Africa affected them as women Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience Drawing on research findings from Nigeria Ethiopia Cameroon Ghana Guinea Malawi Uganda and other African countries the book looks at gender and identity as a female researcher in Africa relationships with others and unique methodological challenges for female researchers in Africa With refreshing candour each chapter challenges other researchers in Africa both women and men to integrate critical reflections of gender and diverse gendered field experiences into their work Women Researching in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including development studies anthropology geography gender studies and international studies
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction, Science and technology
This book contributes to better understand how lifestyle modulations can effectively halt the emergence and progression of human diseases … The book will allow the reader to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the environment interferes with the bio-molecular regulatory processes underlying the emergence and progression of complex diseases such as cancer Focusing on key and early cellular bio-molecular events giving rise to the emergence of degenerative chronic disease it builds on previous experience on the development of multi-cellular organisms to propose a mathematical and computer based framework that allows the reader to analyze the complex interplay between bio-molecular processes and the micro -environment from an integrative mechanistic quantitative and dynamical perspective Taking the wealth of empirical evidence that exists it will show how to build and analyze models of core regulatory networks involved in the emergence and progression of chronic degenerative diseases using a bottom-up approach
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Laws and statutes, Law and crime, General non-fiction
As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime Crime explores the impact of social… media on the criminal legal system It examines how media influences our perceptions of crime the perpetration of crime and the implementation of punishment whilst emphasizing the significance of race ethnicity class gender and sexuality It offers an accessible and in-depth examination of media and in each chapter there are case studies and examples from both legacy and new media including discussions from Twitter that are being used to raise awareness of criminal legal issues It also includes interviews with international scholars and practitioners from Australia Belgium and the United States to voice a range of global perspectives This book speaks broadly to those interested in criminology criminal justice media and culture sociology and gender studies
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General non-fiction, Physics
This book focuses on Erd lyi Kober fractional calculus from a statistical perspective inspired by solar neutrino… physics Results of diffusion entropy analysis and standard deviation analysis of data from the Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino experiment lead to the development of anomalous diffusion and reaction in terms of fractional calculus The new statistical perspective of Erd lyi Kober fractional operators outlined in this book will have fundamental applications in the theory of anomalous reaction and diffusion processes dealt with in physics A major mathematical objective of this book is specifically to examine a new de nition for fractional integrals in terms of the distributions of products and ratios of statistically independently distributed positive scalar random variables or in terms of Mellin convolutions of products and ratios in the case of real scalar variables The idea will be generalized to cover multivariable cases as well as matrix variable cases In the matrix variable case M-convolutions of products and ratios will be used to extend the ideas We then give a de nition for the case of real-valued scalar functions of several matrices
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Disabilities, Medicine, Psychology, General non-fiction
Completely revised with the latest research and clinical strategies this is the authoritative volume on Asperger syndrome now… part of DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder Considered the definitive reference since its initial publication the book focuses on how to assess each child or adolescent s needs and provide effective interventions in the areas of communication behavior and academic and vocational functioning The neural and genetic bases of autism spectrum disorders are also explored New to This Edition Expanded coverage of evidence-based assessment and treatment including two chapters on behavioral interventions Addresses challenges in the transition to new diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder in DSM-5 Chapters on neuropsychological advances the transition to higher education and forensic issues Many new authors and extensively revised chapters