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Originally published in 1985, this book surveys how NATO policy
sought to come to terms with the revolution in thinking about war
which was brought about by the advent of nuclear weapons. It also
examines the logic of deterrence. The book assesses the ethical
issues involved, using as a framework the tradition of the idea of
the Just War. A detailed modern version of the theory is elaborated
and defended from an ethical viewpoint that gives due weight both
to the mental states of the agent and to the consequences of his
agency. The principle of non-combatant immunity is also examined
for its clear relevance to the debate. Further considerations
involve the effectiveness of deterrence and its morality, and the
question whether deterrence can be effective even if its use is
prohibited. The book also discusses the implications of various
possible changes in NATO policy.
The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern
times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.
Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch 'A richly
entertaining read' SUNDAY TIMES Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous
magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he
volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt
when the desert war began. Here, he used his unique skills to save
the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the
Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods
to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. On Malta he
developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters
used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets.
His war culminated in the brilliant deception plan that helped win
the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in
the middle of the desert.
This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French
novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in
1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against
the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best
known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel,
Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who
perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great
War, and who consciously worked to discredit and reshape that
society in the interwar period. Analyzing Rolland's itinerary of
engaged stands, David James Fisher clarifies aspects of European
cultural history and helps decipher the ambiguities at the heart of
all forms of intellectual engagement. Moving from text to context,
Fisher organizes the book around a series of debates--Rolland's
public and private collisions over specific committed
stands--introducing the reader to the polemical style of French
intellectual discourse and offering insight into what it means to
be a responsible intellectual. Fisher presents Rolland's private
ruminations, extensive research, and reexamination of the function
and style of the French man of letters. He observes that Rolland
experimented with five styles of commitment: oceanic mysticism
linked to progressive, democratic politics; free thinking linked to
antiwar dissent; pacifism and, ultimately, Gandhism; antifacism
linked to anti-imperialism, antiracism, and all-out political
resistance to fascism; and, most controversially, fellow traveling
as a form of socialist humanism and the positive side of
antifascism. Fisher views Rolland's engagement historically and
critically, showing that engaged intellectuals of that time were
neither naive propagandists nor dupes of political parties. David
James Fisher makes a case for the committed writer and hopes to
re-ignite the debate about commitment. For him, Romain Rolland sums
up engagement in a striking, dialectical formula: "Pessimism of the
Intelligence, Optimism of the Will." His story presents a powerful
challenge to modern intellectuals.
Originally published in 1985, this book surveys how NATO policy
sought to come to terms with the revolution in thinking about war
which was brought about by the advent of nuclear weapons. It also
examines the logic of deterrence. The book assesses the ethical
issues involved, using as a framework the tradition of the idea of
the Just War. A detailed modern version of the theory is elaborated
and defended from an ethical viewpoint that gives due weight both
to the mental states of the agent and to the consequences of his
agency. The principle of non-combatant immunity is also examined
for its clear relevance to the debate. Further considerations
involve the effectiveness of deterrence and its morality, and the
question whether deterrence can be effective even if its use is
prohibited. The book also discusses the implications of various
possible changes in NATO policy.
Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared
war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western Governments have
struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly
threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the
rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the
underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the
war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on
just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim
traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal
democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively
and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from
both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians,
former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of
experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and
pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.
Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared
war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western Governments have
struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly
threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the
rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the
underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the
war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on
just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim
traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal
democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively
and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from
both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians,
former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of
experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and
pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.
The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple
schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and
original investigations into three overlapping areas of
psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis;
psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of
psychoanalytic methods to the study of history. In this carefully
crafted evaluation of various authors and subjects, Fisher's
perceptions are informed by a deep and comprehensive knowledge of
the psychoanalytic movement, its interaction with the wider context
of European cultural and political history, and its philosophical
and clinical origins.
In examining the history of the movement, Fisher attempts to
discover the fundamental inspiration of psychoanalysis by returning
to the origins of the discipline. Freud is the central figure here,
but Fisher also looks to the second generation of European
analysts, including such maverick figures as Lacan and Spielrein,
and mainstream figures as Fenichel to gain insight into the
multidimensional and creative personalities who were drawn to Freud
and his ideas. In his discussion of psychoanalytic culture
criticism, Fisher analyzes symbolic meanings and psychological
themes from a variety of written works. In an analysis of Freud's
Civilization audits Discontents, the author argues that the figure
of Romain Rolland is pervasive throughout the text as symbol, muse,
stimulus, and adversary.
Reading analytic theory and applying it to personalities and
situations from the past allowed historians to address issues of
their own inner world and to develop breathtaking possibilities for
understanding the past. Brilliantly written and historical and
critical in method, Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition
offers valuable insights into significant themes and ambiguities in
the diverse areas of psychoanalysis. Intellectual historians and
psychoanalysts will find reliable introductions and springboards
for subsequent reflection and research.
This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French
novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in
1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against
the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best
known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel,
Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who
perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great
War, and who consciously worked to discredit and reshape that
society in the interwar period. Analyzing Rolland's itinerary of
engaged stands, David James Fisher clarifies aspects of European
cultural history and helps decipher the ambiguities at the heart of
all forms of intellectual engagement.
Moving from text to context, Fisher organizes the book around a
series of debates--Rolland's public and private collisions over
specific committed stands--introducing the reader to the polemical
style of French intellectual discourse and offering insight into
what it means to be a responsible intellectual. Fisher presents
Rolland's private ruminations, extensive research, and
reexamination of the function and style of the French man of
letters. He observes that Rolland experimented with five styles of
commitment: oceanic mysticism linked to progressive, democratic
politics; free thinking linked to antiwar dissent; pacifism and,
ultimately, Gandhism; antifacism linked to anti-imperialism,
antiracism, and all-out political resistance to fascism; and, most
controversially, fellow traveling as a form of socialist humanism
and the positive side of antifascism. Fisher views Rolland's
engagement historically and critically, showing that engaged
intellectuals of that time were neither naive propagandists nor
dupes of political parties.
David James Fisher makes a case for the committed writer and
hopes to re-ignite the debate about commitment. For him, Romain
Rolland sums up engagement in a striking, dialectical formula:
"Pessimism of the Intelligence, Optimism of the Will." His story
presents a powerful challenge to modern intellectuals.
The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple
schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and
original investigations into three overlapping areas of
psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis;
psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of
psychoanalytic methods to the study of history. In this carefully
crafted evaluation of various authors and subjects, Fisher's
perceptions are informed by a deep and comprehensive knowledge of
the psychoanalytic movement, its interaction with the wider context
of European cultural and political history, and its philosophical
and clinical origins. In examining the history of the movement,
Fisher attempts to discover the fundamental inspiration of
psychoanalysis by returning to the origins of the discipline. Freud
is the central figure here, but Fisher also looks to the second
generation of European analysts, including such maverick figures as
Lacan and Spielrein, and mainstream figures as Fenichel to gain
insight into the multidimensional and creative personalities who
were drawn to Freud and his ideas. In his discussion of
psychoanalytic culture criticism, Fisher analyzes symbolic meanings
and psychological themes from a variety of written works. In an
analysis of Freud's Civilization audits Discontents, the author
argues that the figure of Romain Rolland is pervasive throughout
the text as symbol, muse, stimulus, and adversary. Reading analytic
theory and applying it to personalities and situations from the
past allowed historians to address issues of their own inner world
and to develop breathtaking possibilities for understanding the
past. Brilliantly written and historical and critical in method,
Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition offers valuable
insights into significant themes and ambiguities in the diverse
areas of psychoanalysis. Intellectual historians and psychoanalysts
will find reliable introductions and springboards for subsequent
reflection and research.
Robert J. Zimmer is best known in mathematics for the highly
influential conjectures and program that bear his name. Group
Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology: Selected Papers
brings together some of the most significant writings by Zimmer,
which lay out his program and contextualize his work over the
course of his career. Zimmer's body of work is remarkable in that
it involves methods from a variety of mathematical disciplines,
such as Lie theory, differential geometry, ergodic theory and
dynamical systems, arithmetic groups, and topology, and at the same
time offers a unifying perspective. After arriving at the
University of Chicago in 1977, Zimmer extended his earlier research
on ergodic group actions to prove his cocycle superrigidity theorem
which proved to be a pivotal point in articulating and developing
his program. Zimmer's ideas opened the door to many others, and
they continue to be actively employed in many domains related to
group actions in ergodic theory, geometry, and topology. In
addition to the selected papers themselves, this volume opens with
a foreword by David Fisher, Alexander Lubotzky, and Gregory
Margulis, as well as a substantial introductory essay by Zimmer
recounting the course of his career in mathematics. The volume
closes with an afterword by Fisher on the most recent developments
around the Zimmer program.
Medical practice in the modern age requires familiarity with
clinical guidelines and standards, which are often published
separately in long and discursive documents. This new addition to
the Oxford Medical Publications summarises the key clinical
practice guidelines which all final year medical students and
Foundation Year 1 and 2 doctors should know when managing common
conditions. Logically organised by medical specialty, the reader
can quickly familiarise themselves with the key principles of
diagnosis and management at the appropriate level for beginning a
new rotation on the wards. Each guideline summary is tailored to
the education level expected of doctors in their first two years of
training, with clear instructions for when a more senior colleague
should be called upon to help. Written by a team of junior doctors
under the supervision of senior clinicians, this is the first
resource to distil a range of guidelines from different locations
(such as NICE, SIGN, and more) into an easily digestible format.
Practical and user-friendly, with tables, diagrams, flowcharts, and
algorithms to convey the key points quickly and easily, Oxford
Clinical Guidelines is the new invaluable resource for every final
year medical student and doctor at the beginning of their training.
Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp-a
descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp-offers an exclusive
and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law
enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the
nation's development for more than two hundred years. Mike Earp
spent his career with the U.S. Marshals Service, reaching the
number three position in the organization's hierarchy before he
retired. In this fascinating, eye-opening book, written with the
service's full cooperation, he shares his experiences and takes us
on a fascinating tour of this extraordinary organization-the
oldest, the most effective, and the most dangerous branch of
American law enforcement, and the least known. Unlike their
counterparts in the police and the FBI, U.S. Marshals aren't
responsible for investigating or prosecuting crimes. They pursue
and arrest the most dangerous criminal offenders on U.S. soil, an
extraordinarily hazardous job often involving gun battles and
physical altercations. Earp takes us back to the service's early
days, explaining its creation and its role in the border wars that
helped make continental expansion possible. He brings to life the
gunslingers and gunfights that have made the Marshals legend, and
explores the service's role today integrating federal, state, and
local law enforcement agencies in the hunt for the most notorious
criminals-terrorists, drug lords, gun runners. Setting his own
experiences within the long history of the U.S. Marshals service,
Earp offers a moving and illuminating tribute to the brave marshals
who have dedicated their lives to keeping the nation safe.
"We won't find Dracula hanging around the Manor. But we may find
something equally disturbing..." The Doctor is delighted when his
quest for the Key to Time leads him to his favourite planet, Earth.
But his friends are less enchanted: Romana is nearly lured to her
death by a sinister apparition, and K9 is all but destroyed by a
belligerent boulder with the power to move - and a thirst for
blood. An ancient stone circle becomes a battleground as the Doctor
must outwit the deadliest alien criminal this side of hyperspace -
and her bloodthirsty silicon servants...
Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of
Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings
back the New York Times bestseller (originally published as Killer)
that helped pave the way for the latest generation of nouveau-mob
stories, from Donnie Brasco to The Sopranos. "Joey"--a journeyman
Jewish hitman, numbers king, and loan shark--collaborated with
David Fisher (co-editor of the hit Adrenaline title Wild Blue) to
lay out the rackets in gripping detail. His story includes detailed
accounts of his chillingly "professional" murders of thirty-eight
victims. The strong sales of Mob are further evidence that the best
mafia stories--and this is one of the best--capture the public's
interest. Joey the Hitman's original best-seller status reflects
the quality of the writing, the frank intelligence of the
subject/writer, and Joey's convincingly matter-of-fact, regular-guy
tone. When he writes, debunking The Godfather, "...Actually very
few mob members even have Bronx-Italian accents ...a lot of mob
people are not very tough, the people we meet and deal with are
very ordinary, most of us stay home at night and watch TV, and we
only shoot each other when absolutely necessary," you know you're
listening to the original Soprano. This edition includes a new
afterword from David Fisher, who for the first time reveals Joey's
identity and the incredible story of how Joey finally died.
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