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First published in 1985. In the late autumn of 1774 at the age of
37 Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later he had
established himself as a seminal figure in the Independence
movement. It was the start of a career in which he became the first
US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; was outlawed from
England by Pitt for the publication of the second part of the
Rights of Man; delivered a final plea for the life of Louis XVI in
the National Convention of 1794; was imprisoned in the Luxembourg,
and sentenced to death by Robespierre. After a sad and lonely death
in New Rochelle Cobbett brought back his bones to England: 'to
light a taper for liberty.' Yet Paine remains a man without a past;
a man who seemingly burst on the world scene as a full-blown
radical at 37 years of age. No one had attempted to explore and
interpret the critical, shaping influences of his early and middle
life. Yet such background is crucial to explaining all the rest.
Without a clear understanding of his Quaker inheritance; of his
childhood years in Thetford; of his early philosophical and
political apprenticeship in London; and of the six formative years
he spent at Lewes, the later man and his radicalism are totally
incomprehensible. Thus, the author's objective is to place Paine in
his times; to interpret the evolution of his political, social and
theological ideas. Paine is little more than a cardboard cut-out
moving through history in the majority of biographies that have
already been published. This book sees the world through Paine's
own eyes and provides a human interpretation not only of 'the Age
of Revolution' but also of 'the maker of revolutions' himself. To
Napoleon, Paine was the man to whom: 'a statue in gold should be
erected in every town'; to Theodore Roosevelt he was 'that filthy
little atheist'; to Michael Foot: 'the greatest exile that has ever
left England's shores.' To understand the thinking of a man who can
provoke such reactions, it is necessary to understand both the man
and the times through which he lived. This title will be of great
interest to students of history, politics, and philosophy.
First published in 1985. In the late autumn of 1774 at the age of
37 Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later he had
established himself as a seminal figure in the Independence
movement. It was the start of a career in which he became the first
US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; was outlawed from
England by Pitt for the publication of the second part of the
Rights of Man; delivered a final plea for the life of Louis XVI in
the National Convention of 1794; was imprisoned in the Luxembourg,
and sentenced to death by Robespierre. After a sad and lonely death
in New Rochelle Cobbett brought back his bones to England: 'to
light a taper for liberty.' Yet Paine remains a man without a past;
a man who seemingly burst on the world scene as a full-blown
radical at 37 years of age. No one had attempted to explore and
interpret the critical, shaping influences of his early and middle
life. Yet such background is crucial to explaining all the rest.
Without a clear understanding of his Quaker inheritance; of his
childhood years in Thetford; of his early philosophical and
political apprenticeship in London; and of the six formative years
he spent at Lewes, the later man and his radicalism are totally
incomprehensible. Thus, the author's objective is to place Paine in
his times; to interpret the evolution of his political, social and
theological ideas. Paine is little more than a cardboard cut-out
moving through history in the majority of biographies that have
already been published. This book sees the world through Paine's
own eyes and provides a human interpretation not only of 'the Age
of Revolution' but also of 'the maker of revolutions' himself. To
Napoleon, Paine was the man to whom: 'a statue in gold should be
erected in every town'; to Theodore Roosevelt he was 'that filthy
little atheist'; to Michael Foot: 'the greatest exile that has ever
left England's shores.' To understand the thinking of a man who can
provoke such reactions, it is necessary to understand both the man
and the times through which he lived. This title will be of great
interest to students of history, politics, and philosophy.
This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the
pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against
the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the
transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of
1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date synthesis of previous work
with a re-appraisal of the main personalities, themes and events of
the period, David Powell brings clarity to this crucial yet complex
period.
Examining British politics on the eve of war, the author assesses
the impact of war on the parties and the political system and the
process of realignment that followed in the interwar period. In
particular he analyses to what extent these events as a whole
constituted a crisis of the party system.
From the structure of the Edwardian political system and the party
politics of pre-war Britain, through to the economic and political
crisis of 1931 and the subsequent rebuilding of the party system,
this comprehensive analysisoffers an indispensable survey to all
students of British history or politics.
This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the
pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against
the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the
transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of
1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date synthesis of previous work
with a re-appraisal of the main personalities, themes and events of
the period, David Powell brings clarity to this crucial yet complex
period.
Examining British politics on the eve of war, the author assesses
the impact of war on the parties and the political system and the
process of realignment that followed in the interwar period. In
particular he analyses to what extent these events as a whole
constituted a crisis of the party system.
From the structure of the Edwardian political system and the party
politics of pre-war Britain, through to the economic and political
crisis of 1931 and the subsequent rebuilding of the party system,
this comprehensive analysisoffers an indispensable survey to all
students of British history or politics.
For courses in electrical & computing engineering. Feedback
control fundamentals with context, case studies, and a focus on
design Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 8th Edition, covers the
material that every engineer needs to know about feedback
control-including concepts like stability, tracking, and
robustness. Each chapter presents the fundamentals along with
comprehensive, worked-out examples, all within a real-world context
and with historical background provided. The text is devoted to
supporting students equally in their need to grasp both traditional
and more modern topics of digital control, and the author's focus
on design as a theme early on, rather than focusing on analysis
first and incorporating design much later. An entire chapter is
devoted to comprehensive case studies, and the 8th Edition has been
revised with up-to-date information, along with brand-new sections,
problems, and examples
The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time
applications is a complex task. Such systems must not only
guarantee to meet hard real-time deadlines imposed by their
physical environment, they must guarantee to do so dependably,
despite both physical faults (in hardware) and design faults (in
hardware or software). A fault-tolerance approach is mandatory for
these guarantees to be commensurate with the safety and reliability
requirements of many life- and mission-critical applications. This
book explains the motivations and the results of a collaborative
project', whose objective was to significantly decrease the
lifecycle costs of such fault tolerant systems. The end-user
companies participating in this project already deploy
fault-tolerant systems in critical railway, space and
nuclear-propulsion applications. However, these are proprietary
systems whose architectures have been tailored to meet
domain-specific requirements. This has led to very costly,
inflexible, and often hardware-intensive solutions that, by the
time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the
field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying
hardware and software technology."
The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time
applications is a complex task. Such systems must not only
guarantee to meet hard real-time deadlines imposed by their
physical environment, they must guarantee to do so dependably,
despite both physical faults (in hardware) and design faults (in
hardware or software). A fault-tolerance approach is mandatory for
these guarantees to be commensurate with the safety and reliability
requirements of many life- and mission-critical applications. A
Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable
Systems explains the motivations and the results of a collaborative
project(*), whose objective was to significantly decrease the
lifecycle costs of such fault-tolerant systems. The end-user
companies participating in this project currently deploy
fault-tolerant systems in critical railway, space and
nuclear-propulsion applications. However, these are proprietary
systems whose architectures have been tailored to meet
domain-specific requirements. This has led to very costly,
inflexible, and often hardware-intensive solutions that, by the
time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the
field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying
hardware and software technology. The project thus designed a
generic fault-tolerant architecture with two dimensions of
redundancy and a third multi-level integrity dimension for
accommodating software components of different levels of
criticality. The architecture is largely based on commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) components and follows a software-implemented
approach so as to minimise the need for special hardware. Using an
associated development and validationenvironment, system developers
may configure and validate instances of the architecture that can
be shown to meet the very diverse requirements of railway, space,
nuclear-propulsion and other critical real-time applications. This
book describes the rationale of the generic architecture, the
design and validation of its communication, scheduling and
fault-tolerance components, and the tools that make up its design
and validation environment. The book concludes with a description
of three prototype systems that have been developed following the
proposed approach. (*) Esprit project No. 20716: GUARDS: a Generic
Upgradable Architecture for Real-time Dependable Systems.
This book presents the proceedings of the First European Dependable
Computing Conference (EDCC-1), held in Berlin, Germany, in October
1994. EDCC is the merger of two former European events on
dependable computing.
The volume comprises 34 refereed full papers selected from 106
submissions. The contributions address all current aspects of
dependable computing and reflect the state of the art in dependable
systems research and advanced applications; among the topics
covered are hardware and software reliability, safety-critical and
secure systems, fault-tolerance and detection, verification and
validation, formal methods, hardware and software testing, and
parallel and distributed systems.
Delta-4 is a 5-nation, 13-partner project that has been
investigating the achievement of dependability in open distributed
systems, including real-time systems. This book describes the
design and validation of the distributed fault-tolerant
architecture developed within this project. The key features of the
Delta-4 architecture are: (a) a distributed object-oriented
application support environment; (b) built-in support for
user-transparent fault tolerance; (c) use of multicast or group
communication protocols; and (d) use of standard off the-shelf
processors and standard local area network technology with minimum
specialized hardware. The book is organized as follows: The first 3
chapters give an overview of the architecture's objectives and of
the architecture itself, and compare the proposed solutions with
other approaches. Chapters 4 to 12 give a more detailed insight
into the Delta-4 architectural concepts. Chapters 4 and 5 are
devoted to providing a firm set of general concepts and terminology
regarding dependable and real-time computing. Chapter 6 is centred
on fault-tolerance techniques based on distribution. The
description of the architecture itself commences with a description
of the Delta-4 application support environment (Deltase) in chapter
7. Two variants of the architecture - the Delta-4 Open System
Architecture (OSA) and the Delta-4 Extra Performance Architecture
(XPA) - are described respectively in chapters 8 and 9. Both
variants of the architecture have a common underlying basis for
dependable multicasting, i. e."
Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal
stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments
experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United
States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a
Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migration
that changed the two countries and transformed the lives of the
people who found themselves separated from their homeland. David
Powell presents interviews with refugees who left Cuba between 1959
and the 1962 Missile Crisis, as well as those who embarked on the
Freedom Flights of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During these
years more than 600,000 Cubans migrated to the US, some by way of
other countries and many arriving in Miami with only a few clothes
and pocket money. In their own words, exiles describe why they left
the island, how they prepared for departure, what situations they
faced when they arrived in the US, and how they integrated into
American life. Offering historical background that illuminates this
pivotal period in the context of the Cold War, Powell shows how the
US government’s Cuban refugee assistance program had far-reaching
effects on refugee policy, bilingual education, and child welfare
programs. The testimonies in this book include new information
about low-cost “Cuban Loans” that enabled young exiles to
attend US colleges, preparing many to be builders and leaders in
their adopted country today. A powerful portrayal of the initial
effects of a revolution that began a new era in Cuba’s
relationship with the world, this book preserves rare accounts of
the motivations and struggles of early Cuban exiles in the words of
the emigres themselves, adding gripping detail to the history of
the modern Cuban diaspora.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ 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 ensure edition identification:
++++ The Historie Of Cambria, Now Called Wales Caradoc (of
Llancarfan), Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel Harding, 1811 History;
Europe; Great Britain; History / Europe / Great Britain
God inspired words of encouragement, poems of love, a song of joy,
and writings of understanding, to love and be more appreciative
toward one another.
Title: Itinerarium Cambri, seu laborios Balduini Cantuariensis
Archiepiscopi per Walliam legationis accurata descriptio auctore S.
Giraldo Cambrense. Cum annotationibus D. Poweli. (Vita Giraldi
Cambrensis ex ejus scriptis, Lelando et Baleo collecta.) Edited by
Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
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Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
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Giraldus, Cambrensis; Hoare, Richard Colt; Powel, David; 1804. 4 .
10370.h.23.
An introduction and practitioners guide to the implementation of
Operations Readiness & Assurance, particularly in Oil & Gas
Projects. Written by David C. Powell, a time served engineer with
40+ years of experience in Oil & Gas Projects in every type of
climate and location worldwide. David has worked in OR&A for
more than 12 years for several different major companies. The book
describes the history behind the development of Project Management
techniques leading to the development of OR&A as a discipline
and suggests the best available methods for creating an OR&A
capability and implementing the OR&A process on a Project.
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