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A Decade of Human Security - Global Governance and New Multilateralisms (Hardcover, New Ed): David R. Black A Decade of Human Security - Global Governance and New Multilateralisms (Hardcover, New Ed)
David R. Black; Edited by Sandra J. MacLean
R3,989 Discovery Miles 39 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Human security has been advanced as an alternative to traditional state-based conceptualizations of security, yet controversies about the use and abuse of the concept remain. Investigating innovations in the advancement of the human security agenda over the past decade, this book identifies themes and processes around which consensus for future policy action might be built. It considers the ongoing debates regarding the human security agenda, explores prospects and projects for the advancement of human security, addresses issues of human security as emerging forms of new multilateralisms and examines claims that human security is being undermined by US unilateralisms. This comprehensive volume explores the theoretical debate surrounding human security and details the implications for practical application. It will prove ideal for students of international relations, security studies and development studies.

Radiowave Propagation Over Ground (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): J Maclean, G. Wu Radiowave Propagation Over Ground (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
J Maclean, G. Wu
R5,608 Discovery Miles 56 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book devoted to radiowave propagation over land and sea. Researchers and engineers involved in propagation studies and applications in communications, broadcasting, radar and remote sensing will find this volume invaluable.

New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union,... New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Baltimore, U.S.A., August 26-30, 1996 (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Brian J. McLean, Daniel A. Golombek, Jeffrey J.E. Hayes, Harry E. Payne
R5,574 Discovery Miles 55 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (Paperback): Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (Paperback)
Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir
R883 R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Save R272 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the relations between ethnicity and governance in Asia and Africa and going well beyond traditional and orthodox treatments, this volume is not only a stimulating text, but also an invaluable tool for original and innovative research.

Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (Hardcover): Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (Hardcover)
Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir
R1,676 Discovery Miles 16 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the relations between ethnicity and governance in Asia and Africa and going well beyond traditional and orthodox treatments, this volume is not only a stimulating text, but also an invaluable tool for original and innovative research.

Radiowave Propagation Over Ground Software (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998): J Maclean Radiowave Propagation Over Ground Software (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
J Maclean
R8,021 Discovery Miles 80 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The purpose of the package is to answer the question 'What is the radio field strength at a certain point?' when power is radiated from a transmit ting source. Because of the complexity of the question in general, it can only be answered at present in certain idealized situations. Nevertheless it is valuable to have quantitative data available for these situations. The package is divided into two parts. In the first of these, propagation in free space and over a flat earth are dealt with. In the second, propagation over a spherical earth is considered. In the free-space situation the power density of the signal in a given direction will fall as the inverse square of the distance from the source. For propagation from a transmitting source at an arbitrary height above a perfecdy conducting flat earth, the field strength at large distances can be 3 dB higher than in free space. With a finite conduc tivity earth, the field strength will be lower than this because of the power dissipation in the earth.

New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union,... New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Baltimore, U.S.A., August 26-30, 1996 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Brian J. McLean, Daniel A. Golombek, Jeffrey J.E. Hayes, Harry E. Payne
R5,515 Discovery Miles 55 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

Crumpled Paper Boat - Experiments in Ethnographic Writing (Hardcover): Anand Pandian, Stuart J McLean Crumpled Paper Boat - Experiments in Ethnographic Writing (Hardcover)
Anand Pandian, Stuart J McLean
R2,462 R2,157 Discovery Miles 21 570 Save R305 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV epidemic in South Africa and roadkill in suburban America. Essays alternate with methodological reflections on fundamental problems of writerly heritage, craft, and responsibility in anthropology. Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself. These talented writers show how inventive, appealing, and intellectually adventurous prose can allow us to enter more profoundly into the lives and worlds of others, breaking with conventional notions of representation and subjectivity. They argue that such experimentation is essential to anthropology's role in the contemporary world, and one of our most powerful means of engaging it. Contributors. Daniella Gandolfo, Angela Garcia, Tobias Hecht, Michael Jackson, Adrie Kusserow, Stuart McLean, Todd Ramon Ochoa, Anand Pandian, Stefania Pandolfo, Lisa Stevenson, Kathleen Stewart A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

Crumpled Paper Boat - Experiments in Ethnographic Writing (Paperback): Anand Pandian, Stuart J McLean Crumpled Paper Boat - Experiments in Ethnographic Writing (Paperback)
Anand Pandian, Stuart J McLean
R704 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R87 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV epidemic in South Africa and roadkill in suburban America. Essays alternate with methodological reflections on fundamental problems of writerly heritage, craft, and responsibility in anthropology. Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself. These talented writers show how inventive, appealing, and intellectually adventurous prose can allow us to enter more profoundly into the lives and worlds of others, breaking with conventional notions of representation and subjectivity. They argue that such experimentation is essential to anthropology's role in the contemporary world, and one of our most powerful means of engaging it. Contributors. Daniella Gandolfo, Angela Garcia, Tobias Hecht, Michael Jackson, Adrie Kusserow, Stuart McLean, Todd Ramon Ochoa, Anand Pandian, Stefania Pandolfo, Lisa Stevenson, Kathleen Stewart A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

The Royal Marines on the Western Front (Hardcover): Daniel J Mclean The Royal Marines on the Western Front (Hardcover)
Daniel J Mclean
R600 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R110 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the mud of the Somme to the raid on Zeebrugge, the Royal Marines fought in almost every element of the Great War on the Western Front. Today they are known world-wide as an elite commando fighting force, but that has only been their role since 1940, a fraction of their period in existence. Until 1923 they existed as two corps - the Royal Marine Light Infantry and the Royal Marine Artillery - and both served with distinction along the western front in the great war. This book examines and explains the engagements in which they were involved, the equipment used and the organisation and training undertaken in hitherto unseen detail, drawing on a wide variety of sources to give an accurate picture of their contribution to the war in France and Belgium.

Mirage of Police Reform - Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy (Paperback): Robert E. Worden, Sarah J McLean Mirage of Police Reform - Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy (Paperback)
Robert E. Worden, Sarah J McLean
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the United States, the exercise of police authority-and the public's trust that police authority is used properly-is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory.

Lastful Sounding (Paperback): J. S. MacLean Lastful Sounding (Paperback)
J. S. MacLean
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Your Grandfather's Margaree - Stories and Tales of Growing Up in Cape Breton (Paperback): Karen J McLean Your Grandfather's Margaree - Stories and Tales of Growing Up in Cape Breton (Paperback)
Karen J McLean; Ray Crowdis
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fictionalizing Anthropology - Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human (Paperback): Stuart J McLean Fictionalizing Anthropology - Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human (Paperback)
Stuart J McLean
R683 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R85 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as “evidence†to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media—including language—that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them.   At once comparative in scope and ethnographically informed, Fictionalizing Anthropology draws on an eclectic range of sources, including ancient Mesopotamian myth, Norse saga literature, Hesiod, Lucretius, Joyce, Artaud, and Lispector, as well as film, multimedia, and performance art, along with the concept of “fabulation†(the making of fictions capable of intervening in and transforming reality) developed in the writings of Bergson and Deleuze. Sharing with proponents of anthropology’s recent “ontological turn,†McLean insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of collective existence, new ways of being human and other than human, and that such experiments must therefore be indispensable to anthropology’s engagement with the contemporary world.

On Small Wings (Paperback): Wendy J MacLean On Small Wings (Paperback)
Wendy J MacLean
R425 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R74 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Old Soul (Paperback): Kenneth J MacLean The Old Soul (Paperback)
Kenneth J MacLean
R683 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R100 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tesla's Lost Notebook (Paperback): Kenneth J MacLean Tesla's Lost Notebook (Paperback)
Kenneth J MacLean
R691 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R98 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Tariff History of Canada (Paperback): James Mavor, Simon J. Mclean The Tariff History of Canada (Paperback)
James Mavor, Simon J. Mclean
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Infinite Oarsmen for one (Paperback): J. S. MacLean Infinite Oarsmen for one (Paperback)
J. S. MacLean
R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This Thin House (Paperback): Nancy J MacLean This Thin House (Paperback)
Nancy J MacLean
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memento (Paperback): J. S. MacLean Memento (Paperback)
J. S. MacLean; Edited by Margot Brown; Carrie Albert
R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Winter Solstice - A Collection of Short Stories (Paperback): Nancy J MacLean Winter Solstice - A Collection of Short Stories (Paperback)
Nancy J MacLean
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Exorbitant Lapse of Realism (Paperback): Christopher J. McLean An Exorbitant Lapse of Realism (Paperback)
Christopher J. McLean
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This book was written, published and edited by me in its entirety, and I'd like to just note that I am not a professional writer. There are most likely some errors in different places that I missed, even though I worked very hard to correct as many I could. I just grew tired and ran out of patience after proof reading and rewriting this novel over and over for many months after I finished writing it. With that being said, I hope you will enjoy my efforts to produce a story about the pain and anguish that can consume someone's mind when they are having difficulty dealing with a specific trauma. My own personal experiences that inspired this novel will remain undisclosed to the general public for obvious reasons. I'd like to thank all the readers of this novel with all my heart for giving my first novel a chance to entertain your senses."
Christopher J. McLean
An Exorbitant Lapse of Realism
Introducing Jon McLeod, the author's visionary and keeper of the nightmares. Welcome to his world, his thoughts, his mind, his anger, his frustration . Here is his story.
Jon McLeod is a family man, and a good man. But, now his family is torn apart and will never be the same. Jon McLeod lived a normal life with happiness and contention. Now he lives as a hopeless and lost soul, and feels that he has no control over his future. Jon McLeod was a proud father who knew his daughter loved and respected him. Now he feels like he failed her and that she will forever resent him for what he has become. Jon McLeod just wanted live the dream the best he could, like everyone else. But now, he must live the nightmare, over and over again.
Jon McLeod's inabilities to deal with a specific tragedy that has thrown his heart and soul into the burning pits of Hell will destroy his chances of ever regaining his once normal life, if he doesn't learn to find the way to rebuild his inner strengths. This is a story of the journey into Jon's mind as he juggles all his fears, past and present, through voices, images and unpredictable dreams. Experience his journey as he tries to find a way to cope with life after one of his own suffers an unforeseen act of abuse that will forever change his family's lives. Enter the mind of Jon McLeod, family man, the good man, who has succumbed to a life consumed with an exorbitant lapse of realism.

Time Tamper (Paperback): Nancy J MacLean Time Tamper (Paperback)
Nancy J MacLean
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kenneth O'Neil travels back to 1962 to prevent the world's first nuclear war. Upon arrival, he suffers from amnesia. As he struggles to remember what he should be doing in this unfamiliar world, he falls in love with teacher Louise Jensen. He is unaware a Chinese agent, Hwang Ko, has followed him to the past. By killing O'Neil, Ko will protect both the future of the woman he loves and the history that led to China's supreme rule.

Las Vegas The Mob Years - Stories of Bootleggers, Revenge and Murder (Paperback): Andrew J. McLean Las Vegas The Mob Years - Stories of Bootleggers, Revenge and Murder (Paperback)
Andrew J. McLean
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Imagine sitting front stage at the Desert Inn's Copa Room enjoying such great celebrities perform as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Envision too, Elvis Presley, the soon-to-be king of rock 'n' roll, performing live at the New Frontier as a 21-year old teen idol. If you were lucky enough to be in Las Vegas from 1956 through the early 1970s, you had the opportunity to see these great performers live, on stage, for the mere price of a two drink minimum. These were the old days-the days when the Mob ran Las Vegas. Pairing McLean's vivid investigative style of writing, this beautifully illustrated book reveals an authentic look at the Mob era in Vegas. Unearth the Hollywood myth behind Bugsy's Flamingo and discover the true story about his partner Billy Wilkerson, the celebrated Hollywood nightclub owner who truly invented the Las Vegas Strip. During its heyday-1950 to 1980-the Mob virtually ran every sizable casino along the Fabulous Vegas Strip, stealing untold millions from casino count rooms. Those were the days when Jimmy Hoffa arranged millions in Teamster loans to build the Mob-run casinos while Frank Rosenthal provided the skim, and Anthony Spilotro made sure the millions in stolen cash made it back east to Mob coffers. Las Vegas was a treasure trove-gangster style. The Mob had it made for almost 40 years, but it all started crumbling down soon after Tony Spilotro came to Vegas in 1971. It wouldn't be long before five Vegas loan sharks were discovered dead in the desert, each with their throat slit Mafia style. Inside Las Vegas The Mob Years enjoy fascinating stories about the city's forefathers, today's casino operators and memorable celebrities who performed on the stages of Las Vegas showrooms during the Mob era-Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. Discover in Las Vegas the Mob Years . . . The story of Jimmy Hoffa: His mysterious disappearance and how Teamster loans made Las Vegas what it is today. The fascinating crime saga of ex-Dallas Mob boss Benny Binion, featuring a murderous blood feud that left two dead bodies and another in prison. How the Kefauver Hearings uncovered the skim and a multitude of Mob-run casinos. The inside story of Steve Wynn and Kirk Kerkorian, and the intricate details of the way they virtually started from scratch and earned billions as successful casino developers. Plus the fascinating stories of the godfather of Vegas Moe Dalitz, and other gangsters including Johnny Rosselli, Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana, Tony Cornero, Frank Rosenthal, Tony Spilotro and more . . .

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