Robots: The Quest for Living Machines

Covers the history, current industrial and domestic uses and future possibilities of robots. Aimed at general non-specialist readers, it is also a useful background summary for more technical readers.

Engineering & Transportation

Simons, G.L.

SIMONS, Geoff

Engineering

Cassell

Offers a history of Korea, from its earliest times to the present, focusing on the major events of the twentieth century that helped to shape the current political climate

Korea: The Search for Sovereignty

History

Asia

St.Martin's Press

This book presents a broad history of Iraq, from the earliest times to the present, with particular attention to the emergence of modern Iraq in the twentieth century, the power struggles that led to the rise of Saddam Hussen, and such recent events as the Iran-Iraq war, the 1990-91 Gulf crisis, and the continuing depiction of Iraq as a 'pariah' nation. Some indication is given of the sufferings of the Iraqi people, not only as victims of a brutal regime but also at the hands of US-led Western governments more concerned with perceived strategic interests than with human welfare. Such crucial factors as the historical Western influence in the Middle East, the prolonged Western support for Saddam and the US manipulation of the United Nations are profiled. Detailed information is included, much of it unsypathetic to western propaganda, to encourage a deeper understanding and a deeper ethical perception of the 'Iraq question'.

Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam

Ancient Civilizations

St.Martin's

Historians and political analysts argue that a full understanding of the "Vietnam Syndrome" requires a proper appreciation of crucial elements in Vietnamese and American history. The complex effects for the United States of the American defeat and humiliation in the Vietnam War and its consequences for subsequent U.S. foreign policy are explored here, with comparisons of U.S. involvement in El Salvador and Iraq.

Vietnam Syndrome: The Impact on Us Foreign Policy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people. Evidence is presented to show that food and medicine are being denied to the civilian population, and that this involves a gross violation of the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which includes the words: 'Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited'. Sanctions are considered in a historical, political and legal context, with particular attention to how the economic blockade may be seen as a criminal violation of UN resolutions and the UN Genocide Convention.

The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Business & Money

Economics

Geoff Simons describes the current human-rights situation in Saudi Arabia with reference to corruption, the treatment of dissidents, the penal system, the suppression of women, slavery and other aspects. A detailed history, from pre-Islamic times to the present, is provided, with attention to the influence of Mohammed, the Saudi ascendancy, the role of the West, the discovery of oil and the wars in the region. Attention is also given to the various economic, political, and religious problems that face the Saudi regime and the Saudi response.

Saudi-Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism

Middle East

`...great depth of feeling...a dramatic account based on well organised information.' - Al-Aalam Journal The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people. Evidence is presented to show that food and medicine are being denied to the civilian population, and that this involves a gross violation of the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which includes the words: 'Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited'. Sanctions are considered in a historical, political and legal context, with particular attention to how the economic blockade may be seen as a criminal violation of UN resolutions and the UN Genocide Convention.

The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's controversial nuclear development programme. This issue is profiled in the context of the post-Soviet world, and against such crucial modern events as the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the US partition, the resulting Korean War, and the subsequent development of North and South. The detailed information both supports a succinct history and encourages an interpretation that transcends Western propaganda.

Saudi Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism

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Are Computers Alive?

Social Sciences

Birkhauser

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Books by SIMONS, Geoff

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Robots: The Quest for Living Machines

Korea: The Search for Sovereignty

Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam

Vietnam Syndrome: The Impact on Us Foreign Policy

The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Saudi-Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism

The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Korea: The Search for Sovereignty

Saudi Arabia: The Shape of a Client Feudalism

Are Computers Alive?