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This book provides an analysis of the development and deployment of
chemical weapons from 700 BC to the present day. The First World
War is examined in detail since it remains the most significant
experience of the chemical threat, but the Second World War and
post-war conflicts are also evaluated. Additionally, protocols
attempting to control the proliferation and use of chemical weapons
are assessed. Finally, the book examines the threat (real and
imagined) from a chemical warfare attack today by rationally
assessing to what extent terrorist groups around the world are
capable of making and using such weapons.
This book provides an analysis of the development and deployment of
chemical weapons from 700 BC to the present day. The First World
War is examined in detail since it remains the most significant
experience of the chemical threat, but the Second World War and
post-war conflicts are also evaluated. Additionally, protocols
attempting to control the proliferation and use of chemical weapons
are assessed. Finally, the book examines the threat (real and
imagined) from a chemical warfare attack today by rationally
assessing to what extent terrorist groups around the world are
capable of making and using such weapons.
humorous and touching accounts of chapel, outdoor and waterfall
wedding ceremonies
This thesis uses statistical analysis to forecast the probability
of meeting or exceeding the maximum allowable wind speeds for each
of the launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape
Canaveral Air Station (CCAS). Wind data were collected from the
Weather Information Network Display System (WINDS), a collection of
47 meteorological towers located throughout KSC and CCAS, over a
period of five winters. A Fortran program was written to calculate
conditional probabilities of meeting or exceeding a given threshold
speed during eight consecutive one-hour periods, using the current
wind direction and peak wind speed as inputs. Forecast
probabilities were displayed in a table according to time period
and wind direction. Accuracy was measured by constructing
contingency tables and calculating various measures of accuracy.
Results were tested for significance by calculating p-values for
the chi-square test. This method was found to have very little
skill in forecasting maximum wind speeds. It is not recommended for
operational use.
The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the
Contemporary Spanish Stage demonstrates how theatrical production
in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties
about immigration and race. Jeffrey K. Coleman argues that Spain
has developed a "necropolitical theater" that casts the
non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose
nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity and
therefore poses a threat to the very Europeannes of Spain. The fate
of the immigrant in the necropolitical theater is death, either
physical or metaphysical, which preserves the status quo and
provides catharsis for the spectator faced with the notion of
racial diversity. Marginalization, forced assimilation, and
physical death are outcomes suffered by Latin American, North
African, and sub-Saharan African characters, respectively, and in
these differential outcomes determined by skin color Coleman
identifies an inherent racial hierarchy informed by the legacies of
colonization and religious intolerance. Drawing on theatrical
texts, performances, legal documents, interviews, and critical
reviews, this book challenges Spanish theater to develop a new
theatrical space. Jeffrey K. Coleman proposes a "convivial theater"
that portrays immigrants as contributors to the Spanish state and
better represents the multicultural reality of the nation today.
The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the
Contemporary Spanish Stage demonstrates how theatrical production
in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties
about immigration and race. Jeffrey K. Coleman argues that Spain
has developed a "necropolitical theater" that casts the
non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose
nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity and
therefore poses a threat to the very Europeannes of Spain. The fate
of the immigrant in the necropolitical theater is death, either
physical or metaphysical, which preserves the status quo and
provides catharsis for the spectator faced with the notion of
racial diversity. Marginalization, forced assimilation, and
physical death are outcomes suffered by Latin American, North
African, and sub-Saharan African characters, respectively, and in
these differential outcomes determined by skin color Coleman
identifies an inherent racial hierarchy informed by the legacies of
colonization and religious intolerance. Drawing on theatrical
texts, performances, legal documents, interviews, and critical
reviews, this book challenges Spanish theater to develop a new
theatrical space. Jeffrey K. Coleman proposes a "convivial theater"
that portrays immigrants as contributors to the Spanish state and
better represents the multicultural reality of the nation today.
In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two
cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and
mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world
and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational
performance of poetry, which constituted one of the most popular
forms of entertainment. A Sudden Frenzy explores the development
and impact of these Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral
poetry. James K. Coleman shows how the confluence of humanist
culture and the art of oral poetry resulted in an extraordinary
turn toward improvisation and spontaneity that profoundly
influenced poetry, music, and politics. By examining the culture of
improvisation, this book reveals the ways in which Renaissance
thinkers transcended cultural dichotomies, both in theory and in
practice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including letters,
poetry, visual art, and philosophical texts, A Sudden Frenzy
reveals the far-reaching and sometimes surprising ways that these
phenomena shaped cultural developments in the Italian Renaissance
and beyond.
In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became
Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. For the
next four years, Bierce marched and fought throughout the western
theater of the Civil War. Because of his searing wartime
experience, Bierce became a key writer in the history of American
literary realism. Scholars have long asserted that there are
concrete connections between Bierce's fiction and his service, but
surprisingly no biographer has focused solely on Bierce's formative
Civil War career and made these connections clear. Christopher K.
Coleman uses Ambrose Bierce's few autobiographical writings about
the war and a deep analysis of his fiction to help readers see and
feel the muddy, bloody world threatening Bierce and his fellow
Civil War soldiers. Across the Tennessee River from the battle of
Shiloh, Bierce, who could only hear the battle in the darkness
writes, "The death-line was an arc of which the river was the
chord." Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife is a
fascinating account of the movements of the Ninth Indiana
Regiment-a unit that saw as much action as any through the war-and
readers will come to know the men and leaders, the deaths and
glories, of this group from its most insightful observer. Using
Bierce's writings and a detective's skill to provide a
comprehensive view of Bierce's wartime experience, Coleman creates
a vivid portrait of a man and a war. Not simply a tale of one
writer's experience, this meticulously researched book traces the
human costs of the Civil War. From small early skirmishes in
western Virginia through the horrors of Shiloh to narrowly escaping
death from a Confederate sniper's bullet during the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain, Bierce emerges as a writer forged in war, and
Coleman's gripping narrative is a genuine contri bution to our
understanding of the Western Theater and the development of a
protean writer.
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