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The contributors to this book explore approaches to building a
framework for nuclear governance in the Asia-Pacific - encompassing
nuclear safety, security, and safeguards/non-proliferation. Nuclear
governance collaboration offers an avenue for states in the
Asia-Pacific to tackle the emerging opportunities for and
challenges to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the civilian
applications of nuclear and radioactive materials. The nature of
national actions, bilateral initiatives and regional cooperation in
capacity building taking place in East Asia provides a good
foundation to pursue a more robust collaborative framework for
nuclear governance in the wider Asia-Pacific region. The
contributors to this book explore the most critical nuclear safety,
security and non-proliferation issues faced by states in the
Asia-Pacific and the growing cooperation spearheaded by Southeast
Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
This book is a valuable read for academics working on security and
strategic studies, international relations, non-traditional
security issues as well as nuclear-related issues.
A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the
greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar's pitiless account of
his brutal campaign to conquer Gaul Imagine a book about an
unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying
army-a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader
to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war
itself, to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author.
Could such a campaign autobiography ever be a great work of
literature-perhaps even one of the greatest? It would be easy to
think not, but such a book exists-and it helped transform Julius
Caesar from a politician on the make into the Caesar of legend.
This remarkable new translation of Caesar's famous but
underappreciated War for Gaul captures, like never before in
English, the gripping and powerfully concise style of the future
emperor's dispatches from the front lines in what are today France,
Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. While letting Caesar tell his
battle stories in his own way, distinguished classicist James
O'Donnell also fills in the rest of the story in a substantial
introduction and notes that together explain why Gaul is the "best
bad man's book ever written"-a great book in which a genuinely bad
person offers a bald-faced, amoral description of just how bad he
has been. Complete with a chronology, a map of Gaul, suggestions
for further reading, and an index, this feature-rich edition
captures the forceful austerity of a troubling yet magnificent
classic-a book that, as O'Donnell says, "gets war exactly right and
morals exactly wrong."
This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in
24/7 London. It argues that late capitalism normalises nightwork,
yet refuses to recognise the associated problems, from lack of
decent working conditions to the seizure of the workers’ private
time for self-development, family and social life. The book
shows how the articulation of nightworkers’ subjectivities
and socialities happens at the intersection between migration,
precarity and nightwork, and traces how each of these dimensions
magnifies the lived experience of the others. It further
reveals that any possibilities for cooperation or solidarity in the
workplace between migrant nightworkers become fragile and secondary
to their survival of the nightshift. It also
elucidates the mechanisms that hinder cohesion between
vulnerable groups placed temporally and socially on a different par
to the mainstream societies. As such, this book is an excellent
resource for labour regulators, experts and student researchers in
migration, work and gender. The book offers a deeply empathic and
engaging portrayal of the production of disciplined and exploitable
manual labor in permanent nightshift cities. It cogently unpacks
the experiences of embodied precarity through the largely unseen
micro-practices of workplaces that entrap migrant laborers. The
nightnographic component adds an original dimension to the inquiry.
Violetta Zentai, Central European University
'The enemy were overpowered and took to flight. The Romans pursued as far as their strength enabled them to run' Between 58 and 50 BC Julius Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and invaded Britain twice, and The Conquest of Gaul is his record of these campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insights into his military strategy and paints a fascinating picture of his encounters with the inhabitants of Gaul and Britain, as well as lively portraits of the rebel leader Vercingetorix and other Gallic chieftains. The Conquest of Gaul can also be read as a piece of political propaganda, as Caesar sets down his version of events for the Roman public, knowing he faces civil war on his return to Rome. Revised and updated by Jane Gardner, S. A. Handford’s translation brings Caesar’s lucid and exciting account to life for modern readers. This volume includes a glossary of persons and places, maps, appendices and suggestions for further reading.
A translation that captures the power of one of the greatest war
stories ever told-Julius Caesar's account of his brutal campaign to
conquer Gaul Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the
ruthless general of an occupying army-a vivid and dramatic
propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the
conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fuel the
limitless political ambitions of the author. Could such a campaign
autobiography ever be a great work of literature-perhaps even one
of the greatest? It would be easy to think not, but such a book
exists-and it helped make Julius Caesar a legend. This remarkable
translation of Caesar's War for Gaul captures, like never before in
English, the powerfully concise style of the future emperor's
dispatches from the front lines in what are today France, Belgium,
Germany, and Switzerland.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1726 Edition.
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The Civil War (Paperback)
Julius Caesar; Edited by J.M. Carter
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`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned;
money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the
laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's
masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his
great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49
B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the
autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the
continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed
by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and
Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of
Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C. This generously annotated
edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp
it both in detail and as a whole. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight
of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his
books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A.
MacDevitt. Caesar's Commentaries are an outstanding account of
extraordinary events by one of the most exceptional men in the
history of the world. Julius Caesar himself was one of the most
eminent writers of the age in which he lived. His commentaries on
the Gallic and Civil Wars are written with a purity, precision, and
perspicuity, which command approbation. They are elegant without
affectation, and beautiful without ornament. Of the two books which
he composed on Analogy, and those under the title of Anti-Cato,
scarcely any fragment is preserved; but we may be assured of the
justness of the observations on language, which were made by an
author so much distinguished by the excellence of his own
compositions. His poem entitled The Journey, which was probably an
entertaining narrative, is likewise totally lost. All of Caesar's
works that remain intact are contained in this edition of his
commentaries.
It is to the honor of Caesar, that when he had obtained the
supreme power, he exercised it with a degree of moderation beyond
what was generally expected by those who had fought on the side of
the Republic. His time was almost entirely occupied with public
affairs, in the management of which, though he employed many
agents, he appears to have had none in the character of actual
minister.
Caesar deprecated a lingering death, and wished that his own
might be sudden and speedy. And the day before he died, the
conversation at supper, in the house of Marcus Lepidus, turning
upon what wasthe most eligible way of dying, he gave his opinion in
favor of a death that is sudden and unexpected. He died in the
fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the Gods.
Adapted from Caesar's De Bello Gallico, this graded reader provides
a vivid and engrossing account of the campaigns that played a
critical role in the histories of both Rome and Britain. The book
includes an introduction covering Caesar's involvement in Britain,
maps, illustrations, exercises, notes, vocabulary, and index.
A general of genius, Caesar was also a vivid and powerful writer. These accounts paint a full and surprisingly fair picture of the great struggle that brought Caesar to power and then caused his death.
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Julius Caesar
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