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For junior- and senior-level simulation courses in engineering,
business, or computer science. While most books on simulation focus
on particular software tools, Discrete Event System Simulation
examines the principles of modeling and analysis that translate to
all such tools. This language-independent text explains the basic
aspects of the technology, including the proper collection and
analysis of data, the use of analytic techniques, verification and
validation of models, and designing simulation experiments. It
offers an up-to-date treatment of simulation of manufacturing and
material handling systems, computer systems, and computer networks.
Students and instructors will find a variety of resources at the
associated website, www.bcnn.net/, including simulation source code
for download, additional exercises and solutions, web links and
errata.
The Company of Scotland was established by an act of parliament. It
planned a colony that would announce itself in a founding
declaration, and govern itself by a set of rules and ordinances.
These were the founding principles of a new society. Together with
basic ideas and practices in economics, politics, religion,
medicine, navigation and law, these principles were tested to
destruction. They are presented here as The Fundamentals of New
Caledonia - an historical fiction of a new world.
Contents: Preface. Foreword -Robin Nicholson. 1. Architectural Education and the Profession: preparing for the future -David Nicol and Simon Pilling. 2. The Changing context of professional practice -John Worthington. Section One: Communication - developing sensitivity to the needs of users and clients. Introduction. 3. Architectural assumptions and environmental discrimination - Ruth Morrow. 4. Seeing the world through another person's eyes -Robert Brown and Denitza Moreau Yates 5. Social practice - design and education in everyday life -Christopher Jarrett 6. The degree laboratory -Nick Callicott and Bob Sheil 7. Introducing clients and users into the studio project -Rachel Sara 8. The development of group working skills and role play -Judith Torrington 9. The 'real' client and the 'unreal' project -Prue Chiles 10. Reviewing the review -Margaret Wilkin 11. Introducing alternative formats for the design project review -Charles Doidge, Tim Brindley and Ross Willmott Section Two: Collaboration - Developing teamworking skills for practice Introduction. 12. Habits and habitats: interdisciplinary collaboration in a community architecture studio -Katerina Ruedi 13. Is working together working? -Jaki Howes 14. Developing skills with people -Angela Fisher 15. Integrated architectural design -Stirling Howieson 16. Achieving richness and diversity -Sandra Manley and Jim Claydon 17. Interdisciplinary working in built environment education -Gerard Wood Section Three: Life-Long Learning - developing independence in learning Introduction. 18. Learning in practice - retreat, opportunity or imperative -Judith Farren Bradley 19. The role of personal development plans and learning contracts in self-directed student learning -Derek Cottrell 20. Establishing and managing a student learning contract -Helena Webster 21. The student-led crit as a learning device -Rosie White Section Four: A Renewed Professionalism - embedding change in schools of architecture 22. Delight in transgression - shifting boundaries in architectural education -Leonie Milliner 23. Schools and practice in the United States -Robert Gutman 24. The design studio as a vehicle for change - Wendy Potts 25. Embedding change -George Henderson 26. The 'crit' as a ritualized legitimation procedure in architectural education -Hannah Vowles 27. Preparation and support of part-time teachers - designing a tutor training programme -Nicholas Weaver, Dave O'Reilly and Mary Caddick 28. Evaluation and feedback in architectural education -John Cowan Appendices 1. Workshop Plans: Teamwork
The primary focus of this book is on the arms and armour of Europe,
but also included are neighbouring cultures where these had a
direct influence on developments and changes within Europe, from
late Roman cavalry armour, Byzantium and the East, to the influence
of the Golden Horde. A Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour covers
the entire period from the fifth to the fifteenth century, a
thousand years which saw huge changes in military technology in
most of the world's major civilisations. Arms and armour in Europe
are the principal focus of the studies, but those of neighbouring
civilisations, including the Byzantine Empire, eastern Europe, the
steppes and the Islamic world, are also investigated, both for the
impact upon them of European technological developments, and for
their influence upon developments within western Europe. Arms and
armour in Europe developed dramatically during the thousand years
from the fifth to the fifteenth century. During this broad sweep of
time civilisations rose and fell and population movements swept
from east to west, bringing in their wake advances and
modifications absorbed and expanded by indigenous populations. So
although the primary focus of this book is on the arms and armour
of Europe, it also includes neighbouring cultures where these had a
direct influence on developments and changes within Europe, from
late Roman cavalry armour, Byzantium and the Eastto the influence
of the Golden Horde. A truly impressive band of specialists cover
issues ranging from the migrations to the first firearms, divided
into three sections: From the Fall of Rome to the Eleventh Century,
Emergence ofA European Tradition in the High Middle Ages, and New
Influences and New Challenges of the Late Middle Ages; throughout
there is particular emphasis on the social and technological
aspects of medieval military affairs. Contributors: ANDREA BABUIN,
JON COULSTON, TIM DAWSON, CLAUDE GAIER, MICHAEL GORELIK, JOHN
HALDON, MARCO MORIN, HELMUT NICKEL, DAVID NICOLLE, EWART OAKESHOTT,
ANNE PEDERSON, SHIHAB AL-SARRAF, ALAN WILLIAMS.
This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men
of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the
16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts
of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a succession of
Islamic dynasties that had their origins in the Ghurid forces that
conquered parts of northern India in the 12th century. Although it
was never complete, the Islamic domination of this huge region also
had a profound impact upon Islamic civilization as a whole, not
least in military terms, being felt as far west as Africa. Within
South Asia, the war-torn medieval centuries laid the foundations
for the subsequent even more brilliant Mughal Empire. Featuring
eight plates of superb artwork alongside carefully chosen
photographs and illustrations, this study complements the same
author's Medieval Indian Armies (1): Hindu, Buddhist and Jain. It
describes and illustrates the Indo-Islamic forces operating in
South Asia, from the Umayyad Caliphate’s frontier in
north-western India and Afghanistan in the late 7th century through
to the Delhi Sultanate, the Sultanate of Bengal and the Bahmani
Sultanate in the 15th and 16th centuries. David Nicolle explains
how, with respect to arms, armour, fortification and transport both
on land and at sea, the widely successful Muslim armies learned a
great deal from their more numerous Hindu, Jain and Buddhist
opponents. This was especially evident in developments such as the
use of war-elephants and the adoption of lighter, often
textile-based forms of protection such as ‘soft armour’ made of
cotton. On the other side, there would be widespread adoption of
more potent weapons such as the composite bow, and considerably
more sophisticated systems of cavalry warfare, among the
non-Islamic forces of the Indian sub-continent. Fully illustrated,
this absorbing account casts light on many centuries of warfare in
South Asia.
Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an
evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly
varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural
education respond to these professional challenges? How can
students be better prepared for professional practice? These
questions are the focus of this book, which brings together
contributions from a wide range of authors, from both the UK and
the USA, working in the fields of architectural education,
architectural practice and educational research.
This book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during
the period of the crusades within all the cultures most directly
involved. To a large extent the current interest in the Crusades
reflects the perceived threat of a so-called 'clash of
civilisations'. While warnings of such a supposed clash in our own
times are based upon a misunderstanding of the natures of both
'Western' and 'Islamic' civilisations, some commentators have
looked to the medieval Crusades as an earlier example of such a
clash. In reality they were no such thing. Instead the Crusades
resulted from a remarkable variety of political, economic, cultural
and religious factors. The Crusades, even excluding the Northern or
Baltic Crusades, also involved an extraordinary array of states,
ruling dynasties, ethnic or linguistic groups and the fighting
forces associated with these disparate participants. This volume
focuses on Western Europe and the Byzantium Crusades. Latin or
Catholic Europe certainly had an 'eastern front'. Medieval
Europeans, and certainly the knightly class which came to bear the
brunt of Crusading warfare, would have seen all these fronts as
part of Latin Christendom's struggle against outsiders. The latter
ranged from infidels to schismatics, to pagans and other 'enemies
of God'. Excluding Crusading or Christian frontier warfare north of
the Carpathian Mountains did not reflect any real military or even
political factors on the Latin side of the 'front'. It is based
upon which enemies were to be included and which excluded. This
study looks at Christian and in a few cases "pagan" armies whose
actions or mere existence in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia,
had a bearing upon military, political and economic relations
between Christendom and Islam within the Mediterranean world.
The technological relationship between the three main civilizations
of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West -
most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military
technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted.
This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium,
which for many centuries learnt from the Muslims in these matters;
several articles also focus on military interactions in the
Crusader states. The work draws upon both written and
archaeological sources, but above all makes use of the depictions
of war and military equipment in contemporary art to examine the
interconnections across the medieval world.
This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu,
Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as
well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD. Following the
emergence of a distinct 'medieval Indian' civilization in the Late
Classical and Early Medieval periods, there was a prolonged
struggle between this civilization and that of the eastern Islamic
world, concluding with the rise of the Mughal Empire at the start
of the 16th century. In this fully illustrated study, David Nicolle
investigates the traditions and enduring conservatism of
non-Islamic medieval Indian warfare, notably evident in recruitment
patterns and the significance of archery and cavalry. The role and
impact of war-elephants, both positive and negative, are also
considered, as well as the influence of climate and weather
(notably the seasonal monsoon) on warfare in this region. As well
as assessing arms and armour - contrasting the advanced technology
and high status of Indian weapons (especially swords) with the
remarkable lack of metallic armour in the region during this period
- the author also explores siege warfare and riverine and naval
warfare in South Asia. This book assesses the contributing factors
identified by those who have sought to explain why the huge wealth
and substantial populations of the traditional non-Islamic Indian
states did not prevent their persistent failure in the face of
Islamic invasion and conquest.
Osprey's study of Teutonic Knights from 1190 to 1561. The Military
Order of Teutonic Knights was one of the three most famous
Crusading Orders; the others being the Templars and the
Hospitallers. Like these two, the Teutonic Knights initially
focused upon the preservation of the Crusader States in the Middle
East. Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the
crusading knights set out to reclaim Jerusalem. Unlike the Templars
they survived the crises of identity and purpose which followed the
loss of the last Crusader mainland enclaves in the late thirteenth
century and, like the Hospitallers, they managed to create a new
purpose - and a new field of combat - for themselves. Whereas the
Hospitallers focused their energies in the eastern Mediterranean
battling against Muslim armies, the Teutonic Knights shifted their
efforts to the Baltic, to the so-called Northern Crusades against
pagan Prussians and Lithuanians and, to a lesser extent, against
Orthodox Christian Russia. As a result the Order of Teutonic
Knights became a significant power, not only in the Baltic but in
north-central Europe as a whole. Paradoxically, however, it was
their fellow Catholic Christian Polish neighbours who became their
most dangerous foes, breaking the Order's power in the
mid-fifteenth century. The Teutonic Knights lingered on in what are
now Estonia and Latvia for another century, but this was little
more than a feeble afterglow. This title will examine this
fascinating military and religious order in detail, revealing the
colourful history of the crusades within Europe itself which
inexorably changed the future of the continent.
The high point of medieval islamic expansion was the 700-year
presence of the 'Moors' in Spain and Portugal. The Arab and Berber
conquest was followed by the establishment of a richly distinct
culture in Andalusia, where for a while Muslim and Christian
co-operated as often as they fought. The rise and fall of
successive Islamic dynasties brought new invaders, fragmentation
and disunity; and the growing Christian kingdoms to the north
eventually doomed the amirate of Granada, the last Moorish bastion,
which fell to the Castilians in 1492. The extraordinarily varied
and colourful armies of Westem Islam are described and illustrated
here in fascinating detail.
The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of
merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and
Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which
eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread
its influence much further afield. The League was formed to protect
the economic and political interests of member cities throughout a
vast and complex trading network. The League continued to operate
well into the 17th century, but its golden age was between c.1200
and c.1500; thereafter it failed to take full advantage of the wave
of maritime exploration to the west, south and east of Europe.
During its 300 years of dominance the League's large ships - called
'cogs' - were at the forefront of maritime technology, were early
users of cannon, and were manned by strong fighting crews to defend
them from pirates in both open-sea and river warfare. The home
cities raised their own armies for mutual defence, and their riches
both allowed them, and required them, to invest in fortifications
and gunpowder weapons, since as very attractive targets they were
subjected to sieges at various times.
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The Normans (Paperback)
David Nicolle; Illustrated by Angus McBride
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Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the
small geographic extent of Normandy its people played a crucial
role in the history of the medieval world. Ferocity, boundless
energy, cunning and a capacity for leadership were their heritage,
to which modern scholars would add supreme adaptability and a
simple piety. Their amazing military successes resulted from
careful planning, speed of movement, decisiveness, daring and sheer
ruthlessness. Added to this was a strong business sense and an
appreciation of the value of money. Veteran Osprey author David
Nicolle describes the history, arms and armour of the remarkable
Normans in this fascinating volume.
Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the
Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The kingdom of
Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their
conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and
integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous
scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in
England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance
by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their
followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and
logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout
the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on
Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the
narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between
the "military cultures" of the Normans and the peoples they
encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest,
consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres
of land and sea.
At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle
East, it is almost forgotten that it was Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn
Firnas ibn Wirdas at-Takurni - an Andalusian inventor, physician
and engineer - who was the first person to undertake experiments in
flying with any degree of success. That was back in the 9th Century
A.D. Nigh on a thousand years later the Arab World's critical
strategic location made it almost inevitable that these regions
would be drawn into the imperial rivalries of the leading European
powers, while the Ottoman Empire struggled to maintain its existing
position in the area. This in turn meant that the first bombs to be
dropped by military aircraft fell on Arab soil. Not surprisingly,
as the Arab countries slowly achieved their independence, they too
wanted to have air forces. In 1948 the first such Arab air forces
were thrown into battle in an ill-fated attempt to keep Palestine
as a primarily Arab country. Based on decades of consistent
research, but also newly available sources in both Arabic and
various European languages, and richly illustrated with a wide
range of authentic photography, Volume 2 of the 'Air Power and the
Arab World, 1909-1955' mini-series continues the story of the men
and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the
Arab World.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a decline in
professional cavalry forces, and infantry dominated in the Germanic
successor barbarian kingdoms. In the Carolingian and Norman periods
from the 9th to the 11th centuries, under the impact of Viking,
Saracen and Magyar advances, the cavalry arm gradually expanded
from the small remaining aristocratic elite. Even so, the
supposedly complete dominance of the knight in the 12th and 13th
centuries is grossly exaggerated, as integrated cavalry and
infantry tactics were nearly always the key to success.
This is the first in a two-part treatment of medieval tactics,
covering developments in both cavalry and infantry tactics.
Throughout the period there was a steady evolution of training in
both individual and unit skills, of armor and weapons, and thus of
tactics on the battlefield. This book covers key moments in this
story of evolution from Hastings in 1066 to Legnano in 1176. It
also details the later development of cavalry versus cavalry
tactics and the two key set piece battles of Bouvines in 1214 and
Pelagonia in 1259, the former an example of abject failure of
cavalry tactics and the latter a stunning success.
This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople,
though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event.
It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which
began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited
by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from
Asia into Europe to assist him in one of the civil wars which were
tearing the fast-declining Byzantine Empire apart. One hundred and
eight years later the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to
what was by then a hugely powerful and expanding empire of the
Islamic Ottoman Turks, whose rulers came to see themselves as the
natural and legitimate heirs of their Byzantine and indeed Roman
predecessors. The book sets the scene, explains the background and
tells the story, both military, political, cultural and personal,
of the winners and the losers, plus those 'outsiders' who were
increasingly being drawn into the dramatic story of the rise of the
Ottoman Empire.
The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their aristocratic and military elites converted to Judaism, creating what would be territorially the largest Jewish-ruled state in world history. They became significant allies of the Byzantine Empire, blocking the advance of Islam north of the Caucasus Mountains for several hundred years.
They also achieved a remarkable level of metal-working technology, and their military elite wore forms of iron plate armour that would not be seen in Western Europe until the 14th century. The Khazar state provided the foundations upon which medieval Russia and modern Ukraine were built. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is a fascinating study into the armies, organisation, armour, weapons and fortifications of the Khazars.
This seemingly idyllic and glamourous pre-war age of air travel
within the British Empire would be rudely overturned by the
outbreak of the Second World War. Even before this, however,
Germany's Nazi government made considerable efforts to convince the
Arab peoples and their governments - where such government existed
beyond direct French and British control - that Germany had no
territorial ambitions in the Middle East and North Africa. After
hostilities began the Nazis continued to proclaim that they and
Italy would ensure Arab independence once they won the war, an
unconvincing claim given Italy's recent behaviour in Libya and in
the Arab world's southern neighbour Ethiopia, then known as
Abyssinia. Amongst the primary targets of Nazi and to a lesser
extent Fascist propaganda was King Faruq of Egypt and those members
of Egypt's armed forces who still believed that their King could
bring true independence and dignity to Egypt. How far such
propaganda succeeded remains a matter of intense debate. From the
outbreak of the Second World War until the close of 1940 the only
Arab air forces which existed in anything more than name, those of
Egypt and Iraq, contributed towards the Allied war effort. Once
Italy entered the war in June 1940 the conflict entered Egyptian
territory and, although the Egyptian government remained nominally
neutral, the Royal Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Army became
directly involved, though largely "behind the lines". The Royal
Iraqi Air Force was also placed on alert but, being far from the
zones of active operations, was not drawn into conflict. The Fall
of France resulted in the French mandated territories of Syria and
Lebanon passing into the control of the Vichy French government
which, though officially neutral in the wider war, became
increasingly collaborationist in its international affairs.
Elsewhere the once all-powerful British Empire seemed to be reeling
from defeat to defeat. Thus, by the end of 1940, the majority of
people in the Arab World - including in British-dominated Egypt and
Iraq - believed that Germany and Italy would win the war. This
growing opinion was also present in the Arab militaries, including
the REAF and RIrqAF. It would result in tensions, disaffection and
even defections in Egypt during 1941. In Iraq it resulted in the
First Anglo-Iraq War of May 1941, also known to the British as the
Rashid Ali Rebellion. These events will form the core of Volume Six
of Air Power and the Arab World.
The dramatic eruption of the Arab peoples from Arabia after their
adoption of the Muslim faith in the 7th century remains one of the
most extraordinary events in world history. By the end of that
century they ruled a state that stretched from the Atlantic to
India, from southern Arabia to Central Asia, covering an area far
greater than that of the Roman Empire. Therefore warfare, at least
among the nomadic bedouin, was a normal aspect of life.
Complemented by numerous illustrations, including eight full page
colour plates by Angus McBride, this detailed text by David Nicolle
tells the real story of the armies of the Muslim conquest.
The story of Venice is, to some extent, separate from that of the
rest of Europe. The same could be said of the city's military
history and organisation. Early in the 9th century the Venetians
defeated Pepin the Frank's attempts to overawe them, and they
remained, at least in theory, subject to Byzantium. Gradually,
however, Venice drifted into independence; and subsequently carved
out its own empire at the expense of its former Byzantine masters.
The Venetians were soon famous for their roving and warlike spirit,
keen business acumen and pride. This book explores the remarkable
history of the city and its army from 1200 up until 1670.
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