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In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden
flight from an airstrip north of London. Novel in construction and
exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire,
and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive against Nazi
Germany as bomber, pathfinder and night fighter. The men who flew
it nicknamed this most flexible of aircraft 'the wooden wonder' for
its composite wooden frame and superb performance. Its more
familiar name was the de Havilland Mosquito, and it used lightning
speed and agility to inflict mayhem on the German war machine. From
the summer of 1943, as Bomber Command intensified its saturation
bombing of German cities, Mosquitos were used by the Pathfinder
Force, which marked targets for night-time bombing, to devastating
effect. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young
men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley â last living
member of an illustrious group â who flew twenty-two operations
in Mosquitos as a navigator. David Price's atmospheric narrative
interweaves the human stories of the crews of 627 Squadron with
events in the wider war as the Allies closed in on Germany.
Mosquito Men is rich in evocative and technically authoritative
accounts of individual missions flown by an aircraft that ranks
alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of
the RAF's greatest flying machines â and perhaps the most
versatile warplane ever built.
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A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF
Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on
interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member,
recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster
crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb
aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator
Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner 'Jock' Bolland,
Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were
seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking
their lives in freedom's cause in the dark skies above Hitler's
Reich. From their earliest beginnings - in places as far apart as a
Cotswold village and the suburbs of Sydney - through the adventure
of training in North America and the dread and danger of the
forty-five bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price
describes the crew's wartime experiences with human sympathy allied
to a secure technical understanding of one of the RAF's most iconic
aircraft. The drama and anxiety of individual missions - to Kassel,
Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin - is evoked with thrilling
immediacy; while the military events and strategic decisions that
drove the RAF's area bombing campaign against Nazi Germany are
interwoven deftly with the narrative of the crew's operational
careers. ****************************** Reviews: 'A sensitive
account of the bomber's life ... Price has given the bomber
offensive a human face. This book [...] has a heart and soul' The
Times. 'A fascinating and fast-paced account of the exploits of an
Avro Lancaster bomber crew from 97 Squadron RAF' The Herald. 'A
remarkable insight into the bravery, determination and skill of
British Bomber Command crews during WWII' Waterstones.
This work examines the endeavours of the Arabian Peninsula States -
namely the Gulf Cooperation Council member States of Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Jordan and
Yemen as prospective GCC members - in establishing national
intellectual property protection regimes which both meet their
international treaty obligations and are also congruent with their
domestic policy objectives. It uses the WTO's TRIPS Agreement of
1995 as the universal benchmark against which the region's laws are
assessed. The challenges faced by the States in enforcing their
intellectual property laws receive particular attention. Protecting
Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula considers the
changing nature of the States' intellectual property laws since
1995. It argues that the decade immediately following the TRIPS
Agreement was marked by a period of foreign forces shaping or
influencing the character of the States' intellectual property
legislative regimes, primarily through multilateral or bilateral
trade-based agreements. The second and current decade, however, see
a significant shift away from foreign influences and a move towards
domestic and regional imperatives and initiatives taking over. The
work also examines regional initiatives for the protection of
traditional knowledge and cultural heritage, as areas of
intellectual property which fall outside the parameters of the
TRIPS Agreement, but which are of significant concern to the States
and other developing countries, and to which they are giving
increasing attention in terms of providing proper protection.
This revised second edition of Ethics and the Profession of
Anthropology renews the challenge to anthropologists to engage in a
dialogue concerning their commitment to professional ethical
conduct. Containing a majority of new chapters, the authors
redefine what it means to conduct anthropological research
ethically in a discipline that is now less isolated from allied
fields in the physical and behavioral sciences and coming to terms
with the global changes that affect its practice. Fluehr-Lobban
provides an overview of issues from the past 110 years, drawing
attention to the need for maintaining the ethical core of the
discipline and a code of professional responsibility. The
contributors describe a series of crises in the discipline
involving clandestine research and other questionable actions by
anthropologists, including secret research and intelligence work by
academics; the ethical problems of medical work among native
people; the evolution of cyber-ethics; and the changing
relationships between indigenous people, archaeologists and museums
as a result of the 1990 NAGPRA repatriation legislation. The book
offers an excellent model for integrating ethics education at all
levels of instruction and for empowering and engaging communities.
It will be a valuable tool for anthropological researchers,
instructors and fieldworkers as they transform their professional
practice.
This book examines the development of national legislative regimes
for the protection of intellectual property rights in the Arabian
Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates, and Yemen. David Price analyses IP rights in these
states in the context of WTO membership, and consequent compliance
with the requirements of the WTO's TRIPS Agreement. The challenges
of domestic enforcement of the states' IP laws receive critical
attention. A particular focus of the book is on foreign forces
which have shaped or influenced the character of the states' IP
protection regimes. It includes commentary on the contribution of
foreign states, the WTO and WIPO in the pre-TRIPS and TRIPS
compliance stages, and the US bilateral trade strategy for pursuing
IP protection standards that exceed those enshrined in TRIPS, and
the impact of these forces upon the states' enforcement
performance. The role of the Office of the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) and the Special 301 provisions as a powerful
tool in the US' bilateral strategy receives particular attention.
The intellectual property laws of these states have been developed
virtually in the span of a single generation, and the process of
change is continuing. As such, this book will interest
practitioners both in and outside of the region, and those with an
interest in intellectual property law, comparative law, Middle East
legal systems and affairs, and international trade.
Organ transplantation raises singularly difficult ethical and legal issues in its requirement for donated organs. Strategies to facilitate supply in the face of increasing demand must be ethically sound and subject to an appropriate and effective regulatory framework. Professor David Price gives a comprehensive analysis of existing laws and policies governing transplantation practices around the world. He examines the meaning of death, cadaver organ procurement policies, use of living donors, trading in human organs, experimental transplant procedures and xenotransplantation. Professor Price identifies the specific challenges in current practices and future developments.
It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by
the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual,
political, and cultural forces of the Reformation. In this book, a
distinguished scholar-whose contributions to the field of religious
studies have won him wide renown-explores this relationship,
examining both the role of the Bible in the Reformation and the
effect of the Reformation on the text of the Bible, Biblical
studies, preaching and exegesis, and European culture in general.
Jaroslav Pelikan begins by discussing the philological foundations
of the "reformation" of the Biblical text, focusing on the revival
of Greek and Hebrew language study and the important contributions
to textual criticism by humanist scholars. He then examines the
changing patterns of interpretation and communication of the
Biblical text, the proliferation of vernacular versions of
scripture and their impact on various national cultures, and the
impact of the Reformation Bible on art, music, and literature of
the period. The book is richly illustrated with examples of early
printed editions of Bibles, commentaries, sermons, vernacular
translations, and other works with Biblical themes, all of which
are identified and discussed. The book serves as the catalog for a
major exhibition of early Bibles and Reformation texts that has
been organized at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University, and will also be shown at the Yale
Center for British Art, the Houghton Library and the Widener
Library at Harvard University, and the Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Columbia University. Copublished with the Bridwell
Library, Southern Methodist University
This book examines the development of national legislative
regimes for the protection of intellectual property rights in the
Arabian Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. David Price analyses IP rights
in these states in the context of WTO membership, and consequent
compliance with the requirements of the WTO 's TRIPS Agreement. The
challenges of domestic enforcement of the states IP laws receive
critical attention.
A particular focus of the book is on foreign forces which have
shaped or influenced the character of the states IP protection
regimes. It includes commentary on the contribution of foreign
states, the WTO and WIPO in the pre-TRIPS and TRIPS compliance
stages, and the US bilateral trade strategy for pursuing IP
protection standards that exceed those enshrined in TRIPS, and the
impact of these forces upon the states enforcement performance. The
role of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
and the Special 301 provisions as a powerful tool in the US
bilateral strategy receives particular attention.
The intellectual property laws of these states have been
developed virtually in the span of a single generation, and the
process of change is continuing. As such, this book will interest
practitioners both in and outside of the region, and those with an
interest in intellectual property law, comparative law, Middle East
legal systems and affairs, and international trade.
This work examines the endeavours of the Arabian Peninsula States -
namely the Gulf Cooperation Council member States of Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Jordan and
Yemen as prospective GCC members - in establishing national
intellectual property protection regimes which both meet their
international treaty obligations and are also congruent with their
domestic policy objectives. It uses the WTO's TRIPS Agreement of
1995 as the universal benchmark against which the region's laws are
assessed. The challenges faced by the States in enforcing their
intellectual property laws receive particular attention. Protecting
Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula considers the
changing nature of the States' intellectual property laws since
1995. It argues that the decade immediately following the TRIPS
Agreement was marked by a period of foreign forces shaping or
influencing the character of the States' intellectual property
legislative regimes, primarily through multilateral or bilateral
trade-based agreements. The second and current decade, however, see
a significant shift away from foreign influences and a move towards
domestic and regional imperatives and initiatives taking over. The
work also examines regional initiatives for the protection of
traditional knowledge and cultural heritage, as areas of
intellectual property which fall outside the parameters of the
TRIPS Agreement, but which are of significant concern to the States
and other developing countries, and to which they are giving
increasing attention in terms of providing proper protection.
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