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Book The Last Forty Years

Download or read book The Last Forty Years written by John Charles Dent and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L Esprit de L Escalier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominique / D. Bonten /
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-01
  • ISBN : 9781494798741
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book L Esprit de L Escalier written by Dominique / D. Bonten / and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'esprit de L'escalier is a French term for when you think of what you should have said after it is too late. This is a collection of poetry; These are things you wish you said.

Book American Military Technology

Download or read book American Military Technology written by Barton C. Hacker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of American engineering and science has affected military technology, organization, and practice from the colonial era to the present day—even as military concerns have influenced, and often funded, domestic engineering programs and scientific development. American Military Technology traces the interplay of technology and science with the armed forces of the United States in terms of what Hacker and Vining view as epochs: 1840–1865, the introduction of modern small arms, steam power, and technology, science, and medicine; 1900–1914, the naval arms race, torpedoes and submarines, and the signal corps and the airplane; and 1965–1971, McNamara's Pentagon, technology in Vietnam, guided missiles, and smart bombs. The book is an excellent springboard for understanding the complex relationship of science, technology, and war in American history.

Book A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity  Pleasure and Pain

Download or read book A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity Pleasure and Pain written by BENJAMIN. FRANKLIN and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T126964 Anonymous. By Benjamin Franklin. Only 100 copies printed. London: printed in the year, 1725. 32p.; 8°

Book The Evolution of Technology

Download or read book The Evolution of Technology written by George Basalla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, and reappear with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that have long been available to humanity; the second is necessity: the belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological requirements such as food, shelter, and defense; and the third is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological progress. Although the book is not intended to provide a strict chronological account of the development of technology, historical examples - including many of the major achievements of Western technology: the waterwheel, the printing press, the steam engine, automobiles and trucks, and the transistor - are used extensively to support its theoretical framework. The Evolution of Techology will be of interest to all readers seeking to learn how and why technology changes, including both students and specialists in the history of technology and science.

Book Another Kind of Justice

Download or read book Another Kind of Justice written by Chris Madsen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides insights into military justice in Canada, the purpose of military law, and the level of professionalism within the Canadian military. It describes the statutes and regulations that govern Canada's armed forces and the institutions responsible for overseeing military law.

Book Technology and Military Doctrine

Download or read book Technology and Military Doctrine written by I. B. Holley, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's interest in Air Force doctrine was first aroused when he was a sergeant serving as an aerial gunnery instructor in early 1943. When the operational research people revealed that what we were teaching was faulty, he came to realize that the Air Force system for developing doctrine was flawed. The problem continued to interest him and later, after he was commissioned and serving on the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, he wrote his book Ideas and Weapons using the experience of the air arm to expound the need for a more systematic procedure for developing doctrine. Because the doctrinal materials gathered on World War II were still highly classified, he reverted to World War I to put across his thesis without violating security. The author's real concern was to contribute to the soon to be established US Air Force in the search for a more effective means of formulating doctrine. The essays that follow reflect how his ideas developed over the 30-odd years of my Air Force career. Inevitably there are some overlaps and repetitions given the origin of these essays as articles and lectures spread over many years. The main themes are evident. He repeatedly made the case for the importance of doctrine and the need to perfect the technological advances in equipment. He was concerned to see that doctrine was continually perfected in peacetime and not just in wartime when the pressure of enemy performance provides a powerful incentive to do this. Another theme repeatedly stated was the need for officers suitably educated to see the importance of doctrine and realize that doctrine is literally “everybody's business” and not just the concern of a handful of individuals assigned to the formal task of compiling doctrinal manuals. These people are important, but they cannot perform effectively if officers throughout the service fail to write after-action reports summarizing their valuable experiences, not just in air operations but in all aspects of the air arm activities, procurement, personnel administration, logistics, and legislative liaison. One can easily make the case that improving the ability of the Air Force to cope with Congress is just as important as suggesting the best possible doctrine for aerial combat. One can't just assume that every newly promoted flag officer will instinctively understand the best way of testifying on Capitol Hill. Much of the doctrinal problem within the Air Force stems from the professional education of officers. Unless they are rigorously educated to undertake the objective analysis of recorded historical experience, all the most carefully edited doctrinal manuals will avail little. One of the author's insistent themes is the need to make doctrinal manuals not only more readable but more memorable. To this end several of the following essays are addressed to those who are assigned as doctrinal writers.

Book Technology in Western Civilization  Technology in the twentieth century

Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization Technology in the twentieth century written by Melvin Kranzberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1967 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

Book My Kinsman  Major Molineux

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-21
  • ISBN : 9781679291418
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book My Kinsman Major Molineux written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay, the literary scholar Charles White investigates light as a symbol and as an imagery in Hawthorne's My Kinsman, Major Molineux. Such include the expansive use of the moonlight background in the introduction and the successive artificial sources of light...

Book Technology in War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Macksey
  • Publisher : Pocket Books
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Technology in War written by Kenneth Macksey and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of War

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of War written by Julian Lindley-French and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war lead into an analysis of the strategic conduct of war and non Western ways of war. The heart of the Handbook is a compelling analysis of the military conduct of war which is juxtaposed with consideration of technology, economy, industry, and war. In conclusion the volume looks to the future of this apparently perennial feature of human interaction.

Book Canada s Military Lawyers

Download or read book Canada s Military Lawyers written by Ronald Arthur McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology

Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology written by Ian McNeil and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, this volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without unnecessary jargon, each chapter traces the development of its subject from earliest times to the present day, stressing the social context and its place in scientific thought. * Usefully drawn with over 150 tables, drawings and photographs * Two comprehensive indexes of names and subjects * Essential reading for teachers and students in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Industrial History and Archaeology.

Book Selected Papers in International Law  Textes Choisis en Droit International

Download or read book Selected Papers in International Law Textes Choisis en Droit International written by Canadian Council on International Law and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Council on International Law was founded in 1972, with the aim of encouraging the study and analysis of international law issues in Canada. One of the Council's main activities is the organization of an annual conference dealing with contemporary subjects in international law. This book marks the 25th anniversary of the Council by bringing together 25 papers on international law, carefully selected from the proceedings of the annual conferences in the years since its foundation. The collection provides an overview of the issues considered by the Council in its first 25 years and highlights the significant contribution of Canadian experts to, and Canada's particular concerns in, the field of international law. The essays represent the work of leading international lawyers on issues concerning the theory and practise of public international law, including environmental law, human rights, the law of armed conflict and the issue of state succession. Le Conseil canadien de droit international a été créé en 1972, dans le but de favoriser l'étude et l'approfondissement de questions de droit international au Canada. Une des principales activitiés du Conseil est l'organisation d'un congrès annuel consacré à des sujets d'actualité en droit international. Cet ouvrage marque le 25e anniversaire du Conseil et regroupe 25 textes de droit international, choisis avec soin parmi les travaux des congrès annuels organisés depuis sa fondation. La collection illustre les thèmes qui ont fait l'objet d'étude par le Conseil durant ses 25 premières années d'existence et souligne l'importante contribution des spécialistes canadiens dans les domaines du droit international qui sont d'un intérêt particulier au Canada. Ces articles représentent la réflexion d'internationalistes de renom sur des sujets se rapportant à la théorie et à la pratique du droit international, y compris le droit de l'environnement, les droits de la personne, le droit relatif à la force armée et la question de la sécession d'États.

Book Flight Tests on U S S   Los Angeles

Download or read book Flight Tests on U S S Los Angeles written by A. G. Gelalles and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft  Airports  and Aerospace Hardware

Download or read book Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft Airports and Aerospace Hardware written by Raymond D. Rempt and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analytical Qualification of Aircraft Structures

Download or read book Analytical Qualification of Aircraft Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its 70th meeting, the Structures and Materials Panel held a Workshop to address the role of structural analysis in relation to aircraft qualification procedures, in order to establish guidelines for the future and to seek out those areas where there exists a commonality of approach between nations. The Workshop provided a very useful forum for the exchange of information which is reflected in the papers presented in this report. Papers presented at the 70th Meeting of the Structures and Materials Panel held in Sorrento, Italy, 1st to 6th April 1990.