The Wright Brothers

Joseph, Paul

ABDO & Daughters

Cracks in the Empire: State Politics in the Vietnam War

History

Americas

Columbia Univ. Pr.

<p><div>Paul Joseph's memoir starts with his childhood in the slums of Johannesburg in the 1930s. His political awakening and activism began as a 15-year-old Indian in a racially segregated school. It continued with his commitment to the fight against an oppressive regime. He participated in virtually all the political campaigns including the passive resistance of the 1940s. In 1956 he was one of the 156 people accused of high treason by the Apartheid government alongside Nelson Mandela. He was among the first recruits into the armed wing of the ANC UmKhonto We Sizwe. With an eye for detail and extensive knowledge of South Africans across the racial and class divides, he documents one of the most significant struggles for liberation in the 20th century.</div></p>

Slumboy from the Golden City

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Merlin Press

Die Munzen Von Worms Nebst Einer Munzgeschichtlichen Einleitung (1906) (German Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Kessinger Publishing

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

"Soft" Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan

'Soft' Counterinsurgency reviews the promise and actual achievement of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book, based on interviews with both HTT personnel and their military commanders, examines the military's need for sociocultural information, the ethical issues surrounding research carried out in combat zones, and the tensions between military and social science organizational cultures. The account provides a close, detailed account of HTT activities, a critical reflection on the possibilities of creating a 'softer,' less violent counterinsurgency, and the difficulty of attempting to make war more 'intelligent' and discriminating.

“Soft” Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan

Middle East

Palgrave Pivot

Dynamical Systems-Based Soil Mechanics

<p>This book is a short yet rigorous course on a new paradigm in soil mechanics, one that holds that soil deformation occurs as a simple friction-based Poisson process in which soil particles move to their final position at random shear strains. It originates from work by Casagrande’s soil mechanics group at Harvard University that found that an aggregate of soil particles when sheared reaches a "steady-state" condition, a finding in line with the thermodynamics of dissipative systems. The book unpacks this new paradigm as it applies to soils. The theory explains fundamental, ubiquitous soil behaviors and relationships used in soils engineering daily thousands of times across the world, but whose material bases so far have been unknown. These include for example, why for one-dimensional consolidation, the e-log σ line is linear, and why Cα/Cc is a constant for a given soil. The subtext of the book is that with this paradigm, the scientific method of trying to falsify hypotheses fully drives advances in the field, i.e., that soil mechanics now strictly qualifies as a science that, in turn, informs geotechnical engineering. </p> <p>The audience for the book is senior undergraduates, graduate students, academics, and researchers as well as industry professionals, particularly geotechnical engineers. It will also be useful to structural engineers, highway engineers, military engineers, persons in the construction industry, as well as planetary scientists. Because its fundamental findings hold for any mass of particles like soils, the theory applies not just to soils, but also to powders, grains etc. so long as these are under pseudo-static (no inertial effects) conditions. </p>

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

CRC-Press

Routledge

Die Münzen Von Frankfurt-Am-Main Nebst Einer Münzgeschichtlichen Einleitung Und Mehreren Anhängen: Das Mittelalter. Die Neuzeit (German Edition)

Nabu Press

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