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‘A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination
and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.’ PRUE LEITH
The British take cakes seriously. We hold strong opinions about how
to bake a brownie with the perfect squidge, the correct proportions
of icing to sponge, and whether it’s jam or cream first on our
scones. Now – thanks to the success of a certain TV baking show
– our flirtation with flour, fruit and frosting has become a
full-blown love affair. But how did the humble cake evolve from a
simple combination of starch and fat to the show-stopping bakes of
today, taking pride of place at every meaningful life celebration?
Travelling the country from Dundee to the Isle of Wight, writer
Andrew Baker (by name, not occupation) serves up the story of our
national obsession with cake, one slice at a time. On this
greediest of quests, Andrew seeks to discover the ‘True Slice’
of each iconic cake. This enviable task sees him eat sponge
sandwiched with jam and cream at Queen Victoria’s holiday home
Osborne House, discover the illustrious yet scandal-filled history
of the Battenberg’s saccharine squares and learn how a
caterpillar enrobed in chocolate became a party-starting birthday
centerpiece. From King Alfred’s oatcakes to The River Café’s
revered Chocolate Nemesis, this is the crumb-spattered,
buttercream-smeared story of the cakes that have claimed a place on
British tables – and in our hearts.
An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes
the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply
researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance,
police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in
turn-of-the-century New Orleans that holds up a dark mirror to our
own times.--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams On a
steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers
confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep
in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running
high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the
city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and
murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody
rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the
police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands. Building
outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects
one city's troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy
and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a
boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses,
scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming
torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to
the nation's largest African American community, a place where
racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion--but which
ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized
violence: modern policing. A major new work of history, To Poison a
Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and
police violence in our own times.
We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a
grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and
central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this
co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states
to exercise leadership? What role do the G7 play in global
financial governance? How much authority do they possess and how is
that authority exercised?
This is the first major monograph on the political economy of G7
finance ministry and central bank co-operation. It argues that to
understand the contribution of the G7 to global financial
governance it is necessary to locate the process in the context of
a wider world financial order comprised of decentralized
globalization. It also provides original case study material on the
G7's contribution to macroeconomic governance and to debates on the
global financial architecture over the last decade. It assesses the
G7's role in producing a system of global financial governance
based on market supremacy and technocratic transgovernmental
consensus and articulates normative criticisms of the G7's
exclusivity.
For researchers in the fields of IR/IPE generally, postgraduate
students in the field of international organization and global
governance, policy makers and financial journalists this is the
most extensive analysis of the G7 and the political economy of
global financial governance to date.
Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern
economy. The distribution of money and credit are essential to
productive investment in trade and industry, to the maintenance of
consumer purchasing power and demand, to individuals' social status
and standard of living, and ultimately to public order.
This importnat new volume provides a wide-ranging discussion of
both the potential and the problems arising from the application of
multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial
domain. The contributors achieve this through a range of case
studies and conceptual discussions of the issues raised by
financial and monetary governance, acknowledging that multi-level
governance has to take the form of a framework which recognizes a
fluid range of scales, and the significance of non-formal
institutional and social nodes of authority.
We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a
grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and
central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this
co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states
to exercise leadership? What role do the G7 play in global
financial governance? How much authority do they possess and how is
that authority exercised? This is the first major monograph on the
political economy of G7 finance ministry and central bank
co-operation. It argues that to understand the contribution of the
G7 to global financial governance it is necessary to locate the
process in the context of a wider world financial order comprised
of decentralized globalization. It also provides original case
study material on the G7's contribution to macroeconomic governance
and to debates on the global financial architecture over the last
decade. It assesses the G7's role in producing a system of global
financial governance based on market supremacy and technocratic
transgovernmental consensus and articulates normative criticisms of
the G7's exclusivity. For researchers in the fields of IR/IPE
generally, postgraduate students in the field of international
organization and global governance, policy makers and financial
journalists this is the most extensive analysis of the G7 and the
political economy of global financial governance to date.
Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern
economy. The distribution of money and credit are essential to
productive investment in trade and industry, to the maintenance of
consumer purchasing power and demand, to individuals' social status
and standard of living, and ultimately to public order. This volume
provides a wide ranging discussion of both the potential and the
problems arising from the application of the multi-level governance
literature to the monetary and financial domain. The contributors
achieve this through a range of case studies and conceptual
discussions of the issues raised by financial and monetary
governance, acknowledging that multi-level governance has to take
the form of a framework, which recognises a fluid range of scales,
and the significance of non-formal institutional and or social
nodes of authority. and sociology/ social anthropology this book
demonstrates how International Political Economy can continue to
evolve as an inter-discipline, and also how such
inter-disciplinarity is a necessity for a well rounded
understanding of money and finance. Philip G. Cerny, University of
Manchester, UK Emiliano Grossman, Sciences Po, Paris, France Paul
Langley, University of Northumbria, UK Susanne Soederberg, Univers
Within algebraic topology, the prominent role of multiplicative
cohomology theories has led to a great deal of foundational
research on ring spectra and in the 1990s this gave rise to
significant new approaches to constructing categories of spectra
and ring-like objects in them. This book contains some important
new contributions to the theory of structured ring spectra as well
as survey papers describing these and relationships between them.
One important aspect is the study of strict multiplicative
structures on spectra and the development of obstruction theories
to imposing strictly associative and commutative ring structures on
spectra. A different topic is the transfer of classical algebraic
methods and ideas, such as Morita theory, to the world of stable
homotopy.
Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary
existence. From tiny insect eaters to the formidable Tasmanian
Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare insight
into the history and habits of these creatures - from their
discovery by intrepid explorers and scientists to their unique life
cycles and incredible ways of hunting prey. Secret Lives of
Carnivorous Marsupials contains a guide to the world's 136 living
species of carnivorous marsupials and is packed with
never-before-seen photos. Biogeography, relationships and
conservation are also covered in detail. Readers are taken on a
journey through remote Australia, the Americas and dark, mysterious
New Guinea - some of the last truly wild places on Earth. The book
describes frenzied mating sessions, minuscule mammals that catch
prey far larger than themselves, and extinct predators including
marsupial lions, wolves and even sabre-toothed kangaroos. Features
A fascinating insight into the lives and behaviours of these
secretive and solitary marsupials Extensively illustrated with
stunning colour photographs Includes extinct species such as giant
kangaroos, marsupial lions and tigers
This all new book covering the brand new Snort version 2.6 from
members of the Snort developers team.
This fully integrated book and Web toolkit covers everything from
packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most
advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most
congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell,
Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to
demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful
Snort features.
Thecompanion materialcontains examples from real attacks allowing
readers test their new skills. The book will begin with a
discussion of packet inspection and the progression from intrusion
detection to intrusion prevention. The authors provide examples of
packet inspection methods including: protocol standards compliance,
protocol anomaly detection, application control, and signature
matching. In addition, application-level vulnerabilities including
Binary Code in HTTP headers, HTTP/HTTPS Tunneling, URL Directory
Traversal, Cross-Site Scripting, and SQL Injection will also be
analyzed. Next, a brief chapter on installing and configuring Snort
will highlight various methods for fine tuning your installation to
optimize Snort performance including hardware/OS selection, finding
and eliminating bottlenecks, and benchmarking and testing your
deployment. A special chapter also details how to use Barnyard to
improve the overall performance of Snort. Next, best practices will
be presented allowing readers to enhance the performance of Snort
for even the largest and most complex networks. The next chapter
reveals the inner workings of Snort by analyzing the source code.
The next several chapters will detail how to write, modify, and
fine-tune basic to advanced rules and pre-processors. Detailed
analysis of real packet captures will be provided both in the book
and the companion material. Several examples for optimizing output
plugins will then be discussed including a comparison of MySQL and
PostrgreSQL. Best practices for monitoring Snort sensors and
analyzing intrusion data follow with examples of real world attacks
using: ACID, BASE, SGUIL, SnortSnarf, Snort_stat.pl, Swatch, and
more.
The last part of the book contains several chapters on active
response, intrusion prevention, and using Snort s most advanced
capabilities for everything from forensics and incident handling to
building and analyzing honey pots. Data from real world attacks
will be presented throughout this part as well as on the companion
website, http: //booksite.elsevier.com/9781597490993/
This fully integrated book and Web toolkit covers everything all in
one convenient package It is authored by members of the Snort team
and it is packed full of their experience and expertiseIncludes
full coverage of the brand new Snort version 2.6, packed full of
all the latest informationCompanion website at http:
//booksite.elsevier.com/9781597490993/contains all companion
material"
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Andrew Baker
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Discovery Miles 9 670
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The last thing you are expecting is a cavalcade of characters
intent on inciting your vision of religious well-being, but Mark
says he sees something in you that will test the limits of your
imagination. Mark, the nihilist atheist, wants you to reinvent the
Bible. Soon you find yourself faced with an onslaught of
information. You scurry between meetings with a Wiccan, a Santero,
and a Muslim. You extract knowledge from a Jew and a Catholic and a
Protestant. You suffer the rantings of a once executioner for the
Georgia penal system, and have your head shaved by a young Hindu
angling for Guru. And all the while Mark is there, informing your
thoughts, drawing out your words with his smirk, with his sex.You
are left to wonder if Mark and your eccentric, powdered wig wearing
roommate Mabel are there as your lover, as your friend, or as your
jailers. You are left to wonder if you can create the work Mark
insists you'll produce or even make it out alive.
Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this book provides a first taste of the theory of Lie groups as an appetiser for a more substantial further course. Lie theoretic ideas lie at the heart of much of standard undergraduate linear algebra and exposure to them can inform or motivate the study of the latter.The main focus is on matrix groups, i.e., closed subgroups of real and complex general linear groups. The first part studies examples and describes the classical families of simply connected compact groups. The second part introduces the idea of a lie group and studies the associated notion of a homogeneous space using orbits of smooth actions.Throughout, the emphasis is on providing an approach that is accessible to readers equipped with a standard undergraduate toolkit of algebra and analysis. Although the formal prerequisites are kept as low level as possible, the subject matter is sophisticated and contains many of the key themes of the fully developed theory, preparing students for a more standard and abstract course in Lie theory and differential geometry.
Acclaimed as the standard reference work on the law relating to
time charters, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment
of the subject, accessible and useful both to shipping lawyers and
to shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs and other insurers. It
provides full coverage of both English and U.S. law, now updated
with all the important decisions since the previous edition. The
English decisions covered in the new edition include: The Kos (the
Supreme Court on the effect of withdrawing a ship with cargo on
board); The Athena (nature of off-hire; meaning of 'loss of
time'/'time thereby lost'); The Kyla (damage to ship and
frustration); The Silver Constellation, The Savina Caylyn and The
Rowan (oil company approval of chartered ships); The Captain
Stefanos, The Saldanha, The Triton Lark and The Paiwan Wisdom
(effects of piracy); The Kildare and The Wren (damages for early
termination); The T S Singapore (off-hire where ship going 'towards
but not to' the port ordered), and The Lehmann Timber, The Bulk
Chile and The Western Moscow (owners' liens) The new edition also
features many significant new U.S. decisions, including:
Stolt-Nielsen v. Animal Feeds Intl. (Supreme Court rules
class-action arbitration not permitted unless parties agree in
arbitration agreement); ATHOS I (Circuit Court finds that safe
berth provision in charterparty is a warranty and not merely a due
diligence obligation); The M/V SAMHO DREAM (arbitrators direct
petitioner to post $14.2M security on respondent's counterclaim)
and Maroc Fruit Board v. M/V VINSON (CP arbitration clause
incorporated in bill of lading not "signed" or "contained in an
exchange of letters or telegrams" under NY Convention).
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