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Without the Red (or Soviet) Army, it is likely that the Western
Allies would have taken much longer to defeat the Third Reich -
they may even have lost altogether. However even decades after the
war's end, little is widely known about this giant organization
that numbered millions of soldiers. Broken down by key battles or
campaigns within each theatre of war, The Red Army in World War II
shows the strengths and organizational structures of the Red Army's
ground forces campaign by campaign, building into a detailed
compendium of information. With extensive organizational diagrams
and full-colour campaign maps showing the disposition of units, The
Red Army in World War II is an easy-to-use guide to the Russian,
Polish, Czech and units of other nationalities that served as part
of Stalin's army, their strengths during key campaigns and battles,
and details of where they served throughout the war. The book will
be an essential reference guide for any serious enthusiast of World
War II.
Focuses on the definition, engineering, and delivery of AI
solutions as opposed to AI itself Reader will still gain a strong
understanding of AI, but through the perspective of delivering real
solutions Explores the core AI issues that impact the success of an
overall solution including i. realities of dealing with data, ii.
impact of AI accuracy on the ability of the solution to meet
business objectives, iii. challenges in managing the quality of
machine learning models Includes real world examples of enterprise
scale solutions Provides a series of (optional) technical deep
dives and thought experiments.
Focuses on the definition, engineering, and delivery of AI
solutions as opposed to AI itself Reader will still gain a strong
understanding of AI, but through the perspective of delivering real
solutions Explores the core AI issues that impact the success of an
overall solution including i. realities of dealing with data, ii.
impact of AI accuracy on the ability of the solution to meet
business objectives, iii. challenges in managing the quality of
machine learning models Includes real world examples of enterprise
scale solutions Provides a series of (optional) technical deep
dives and thought experiments.
Between Men and Feminism had its origins in a lively colloquium at
St John's College, Cambridge in 1990. It discusses how two decades
of feminism have affected the ways men define their own
masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social,
sexual and political lives to the challenges posed by the evolving
feminist critiques of patriarchy and maleness itself. The
collection contains a great diversity of approaches from Britain
and North America. It includes viewpoints from academics, a poet,
an educational researcher and the members of an active men's group.
Gay issues feature prominently, as do psychoanalytical views, and a
number of the pieces provide a refreshingly personal and practical
outlook. Between Men and Feminism shows men finding their own way
within the spaces feminism has opened to them, rediscovering their
own gendered voices and participating in the transformation of
controllong ideologies in their daily lives. These very readable
accounts will appeal not only to students in the social sciences
and gender studies, but to all men who find themselves responding
to the feminist challenge.
This workbook features a range of activities to help students learn
and revise non-technical English vocabulary, essential for the
study of any subject at a UK university. Self-study exercises and
practical classroom activities are included, making it easy to
revise classroom knowledge at home. Containing a range of word
games, crosswords, quizzes and exercises, this workbook will help
build vocabulary confidence in a fun, memorable way. Check Your
Vocabulary for Academic English is a must-have workbook for all
non-native English speakers wishing to expand their language skills
The internet has grown in recent years from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps the contours of this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the interconnected histories of technologies of communication and the public sphere. Neither a user's guide to the Net nor a futuristic manifesto, Internet Culture offers instead a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier. Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net, and crucially, their claims to the hotly contested notion of "virtual community". The contributors also examine the communication medium behind the worlds of the Net.
Soviet Tank Units 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to the
main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World
War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and
orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an
organizational context for key campaigns throughout the war.
Organised chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey
of Soviet-employed armoured fighting vehicles by campaign,
including the German invasion of 1941, the defence of Moscow, the
Stalingrad counter-offensive, the battles of Kharkov and Kursk,
Operation 'Bagration', and the final defeat of Axis forces in
Berlin, Vienna and Budapest in May 1945. All the major and many
minor tank that saw action on the Eastern Front is featured. The
guide also includes numerous Lend-Lease Armoured fighting vehicles
well as many examples of Soviet light vehicles, self-propelled
guns, tractors and trucks. Packed with 250 full-colour artworks and
photographs with exhaustive specifications, Soviet Tank Units
1939-45: Identification Guide is a key reference source for
military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.
"Eyes to the South" studies the currents of the Algerian
revolution alongside the development of French anarchist thought
from the 1950s to the present. The book presents a fluid mosaic of
actions, writings, and theoretical positions as it follows the
shifting contexts of Algerian politics and society and the evolving
consciousness and organizing of French anarchists in all their
diversity. The result is an engaging and fresh approach to both
transnational politics and anarchist ideas.
David Porter recently retired as professor of politics at State
University of New York and is editor of "Vision on Fire: Emma
Goldman on the Spanish Revolution."
Between Men and Feminism had its origins in a lively colloquium
at St John s College, Cambridge in 1990. It discusses how two
decades of feminism have affected the ways men define their own
masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social,
sexual and political lives to the challenges posed by the evolving
feminist critiques of patriarchy and maleness itself.
The collection contains a great diversity of approaches from
Britain and North America. It includes viewpoints from academics, a
poet, an educational researcher and the members of an active men s
group. Gay issues feature prominently, as do psychoanalytical
views, and a number of the pieces provide a refreshingly personal
and practical outlook.
Between Men and Feminism shows men finding their own way within
the spaces feminism has opened to them, rediscovering their own
gendered voices and participating in the transformation of
controllong ideologies in their daily lives. These very readable
accounts will appeal not only to students in the social sciences
and gender studies, but to all men who find themselves responding
to the feminist challenge.
Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly
globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and
Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they
were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these
goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's
experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and
cultures more generally. In this book, David Porter analyses the
processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within
English culture. Through case studies of individual figures,
including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader
reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings
develop interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury,
consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated
with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art,
this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history
and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the
West.
From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the
disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China's
cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western
philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and
social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many
and profound, ranging from Chinese teahouses in European palace
gardens to adaptations of Chinese plays for the popular stage, from
calls for the restructuring of the civil service on the model of
Chinese meritocracy to the espousal of Confucian precepts in the
moral education of children.
More significant than even such readily visible gestures of
imitation and appropriation, however, were the interpretive
strategies that accompanied them: the processes by which Europeans
translated the unfamiliar and often enigmatic artifacts of Chinese
culture into familiar forms of meaning, thus engaging them in the
emergent discourses of European modernity.
This book traces recurrent patterns in the European imaginative
constructions of China through four illuminating spheres of
encounter: linguistic, theological, aesthetic, and economic. How
might we compare the perplexity of Europeans before the Chinese
writing system with their experience of Chinese religious practice,
trade policy, or porcelain design? The author shows how the
remarkably consistent interpretive paradigms revealed through such
comparisons suggest not only how historical circumstances condition
and constrain responses to the foreign but also how an active
engagement with the cipher of foreignness shapes the way a society
comes to understand itself.
This book gives a rigorous and practical treatment of integral equations and aims to tackle the solution of integral equations using a blend of abstract structural results and more direct, down-to-earth mathematics. The interplay between these two approaches is a central feature of the text, and it allows a thorough account to be given of many of the types of integral equation that arise, particularly in numerical analysis and fluid mechanics. Because it is not always possible to find explicit solutions to the problems posed, much attention is devoted to obtaining qualitative information and approximations and the associated error estimates.
Organised chronologically by type, German Tanks of World War II
offers a highly illustrated guide to the main types of armoured
fighting vehicles used by the German armed forces during the
conflict. Ranging from heavy tanks to self-propelled guns, from
light tanks to captured foreign tanks used by Germany, the book is
an expert examination of the armoured fighting vehicles that were
put into action in the invasions of Poland (Fall Weiss) in 1939, in
France and the Low Countries (Fall Gelb) in 1940, in Fall Blau
(Operation Braunschweig) on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad in
1942-43, at the battles of Kursk and Kharkov in 1943, as well as in
North Africa under Field Marshall Rommel, the Normandy campaign of
1944, and at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in 1944- 45.
Tanks featured include light tanks such as Panzerkampfwagen I and
II, medium tanks like Panzerkampfwagen III and IV Ausf E - the
staples of the German war effort - and the Panzerkampfwagen KV - a
captured Soviet KV-1. Of course, the Panther, possibly the best
all-round tank of the conflict, features, as do the variants of the
mighty Tiger I and Tiger II heavy tanks. In addition, the book
covers flame-throwing half-tracks, tank destroyers, Marder III
self-propelled guns, and Hummel self- propelled howitzers. Each
featured artwork includes authentic markings and colour schemes,
while every separate model is accompanied by exhaustive
specifications. Packed with 120 full-colour artworks with detailed
specifications, German Tanks of World War II is a key reference
guide for military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.
Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly
globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and
Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they
were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these
goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's
experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and
cultures more generally. In this book, David Porter analyses the
processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within
English culture. Through case studies of individual figures,
including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader
reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings
develop interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury,
consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated
with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art,
this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history
and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the
West.
Willa Cather's fiction frequently plays out on "the divide," the
high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a
child. This book suggests that Cather's own life played out on a
divide as well, deliberately measured out between different roles
and personae that made their way into her writing. "On the Divide"
analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself,
in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional
activities and the very different private self she shared only with
friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the
little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David
Porter provides new insight into the extent--and direction--of her
control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker
Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on
the author's emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to
explore the many ways in which these "divides" in Cather's life
found expression in her writing. Extending from Cather's early
stories to her final novel, Porter's book documents the degree to
which Cather's understanding of her own different and often
conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles,
enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex,
and so profoundly human.
Willa Cather's fiction frequently plays out on "the divide," the
high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a
child. This book suggests that Cather's own life played out on a
divide as well, deliberately measured out between different roles
and personae that made their way into her writing. "On the Divide"
analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself,
in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional
activities and the very different private self she shared only with
friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the
little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David
Porter provides new insight into the extent--and direction--of her
control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker
Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on
the author's emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to
explore the many ways in which these "divides" in Cather's life
found expression in her writing. Extending from Cather's early
stories to her final novel, Porter's book documents the degree to
which Cather's understanding of her own different and often
conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles,
enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex,
and so profoundly human.
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