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This book explores the reproduction of gender 'beneath the
spectacle' - that is, beneath ceremonial displays of power, in the
UK House of Commons. Contributing to a fascinating literature on
gender and parliaments, the book conceives of the House of Commons
as a workplace, as well as a representative arena. It explores the
everyday consequences for gendered power relations that this unique
environment entails, as parliamentary actors perform their careers,
citizenship, and public service. The book firstly explores ways to
conceive of and to study gender in parliaments. Parliamentary
ethnography - that is, spending time observing and engaging with
parliamentary actors, is presented as an unparalleled methodology
to better understand gender, power, and agency. The chapters that
follow provide in-depth portrayals of gender and the parliamentary
workplace. The book connects multiple actors in the House of
Commons: MPs, officials, parliamentary researchers, and the
(in)formal rules that structure the relationships between them.
"Impulsive Control in Continuous and Discrete-Continuous Systems"
is an up-to-date introduction to the theory of impulsive control in
nonlinear systems. This is a new branch of the Optimal Control
Theory, which is tightly connected to the Theory of Hybrid Systems.
The text introduces the reader to the interesting area of optimal
control problems with discontinuous solutions, discussing the
application of a new and effective method of discontinuous
time-transformation. With a large number of examples,
illustrations, and applied problems arising in the area of
observation control, this book is excellent as a textbook or
reference for a senior or graduate-level course on the subject, as
well as a reference for researchers in related fields.
"Echoes of a Haunting Revisited" is a re-issue and adds some
material not in the original book. It tells the story of a family
under siege. From the time the Dandy family moved to their "home in
the country" in 1970 until they fled it in 1974, they were plagued
but unexplainable and terrifying events. When they tell you ghosts
can't harm you, take it with a grain of salt. Perhaps they can't
affect you directly but they can sure cause incidents that can
kill. The book is told in semi-diary form to keep it in (hopefully)
order. If you don't believe in the paranormal, you'd better not
read this book. If you want to learn something, by all means read
it and learn.
This book offers a detailed investigation of George S. White's
career in the British Army. It explores late Victorian military
conflicts, British power dynamics in Africa and Asia,
civil-military relations on the fringes of the empire, and networks
of advancement in the army. White served in the Indian Rebellion
and, twenty years later, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, where he
earned the Victoria Cross. After serving in the Sudan campaign,
White returned to India and held commands during the conquest and
pacification of Upper Burma and the extension of British control
over Balochistan, and, as Commander-in-Chief, sent expeditions to
the North-West Frontier and oversaw major military reforms. Just
before the start of the South African War, White was given the
command of the Natal Field Force. This force was besieged in
Ladysmith for 118 days. Relieved in 1900, White was heralded as the
"Defender of Ladysmith." He was made Field-Marshal in 1903.
What happened to a soldier's soul during the Civil War as he faced
the horrors of war? Why did a man leave behind a wife and two very
young children to serve in the army? Who was Samuel K. Miller
before, during and after the Civil War? What was the Mounted
Pioneer Corps, and what was their critical role in keeping an army
moving? Why was he chosen to be in that unit? When a woman was left
with children while her husband went off to the Civil War, what
pressures did she face because he was away? How did the women
manage their homes while their husbands were away?
What were the feelings of a Union soldier as he faced his
"brothers" across the picket lines, the Confederates whom he came
to know personally? What did they eat? Where did they live and
sleep? What did they wear, and where did they get what they needed?
What volunteer organizations sprung up to help the soldiers as they
fought in the battlefields, either by providing physical help, or
in aiding them to be in contact with their loved ones?
From his vantage point, somewhat unique because of the positioning
of the Mounted Pioneer Corps during battles, what did he see of the
battles? What were the forces for and against the war in his
community back in Pennsylvania? Who were the Copperheads? What
happened to his four Ellis family brothers-in-law who also served
in the Union Army?
All these questions are answered in this book, "The Soul of a
Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War." At
age 42, Samuel K. Miller volunteered for the 211th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry in September 1864 and served until June 1865.
During his nine months in the service, he wrote 46 letters to his
wife and, through her, to their one and five year old sons at their
home in the little town of Hartstown, Crawford County,
Pennsylvania, population less than 200.
This book contains the 46 letters that Samuel wrote during his
time in the service of the Union Army, first as an infantryman,
then in the Mounted Pioneer Corps attached to the Headquarters of
the Union Ninth Corps. Portions of those letters are organized into
17 thematic chapters, which provide the answers to the questions
raised above.
Samuel's letters provide a penetrating look into his soul, because
of the highly personal nature of his letters. His letters reveal
his character, values, his aspirations. Demetrius, an ancient Greek
orator, literary critic, rhetorician and governor of Athens for ten
years, once wrote: "Everyone reveals his own soul in his letters.
In every other form of composition it is possible to determine the
writer's character, but in none so clearly as the epistolary the
letters]." Demetrius' words apply to Samuel Miller, for Samuel
revealed his soul in his letters.
John Smith XVI, new President of the Western Federation of
Autonomous States, had made a number of campaign promises that
nobody really expected him to fulfill, for after all, the campaign
and the election were only ceremonies, and the President -- who had
no real name of his own -- had been trained for the executive post
since birth. He had been elected by a popular vote of 603,217,954
to 130, the dissenters casting their negative by announcing that,
for the sake of national unity, they refused to participate in any
civilized activities during the President's term, whereupon they
were admitted (voluntarily) to the camp for conscientious
objectors.
But now, two weeks after his inauguration, he seemed ready to
make good the first and perhaps most difficult promise of the lot:
to confer by televiewphone with Ivan Ivanovitch the Ninth, the
Peoplesfriend and Vicar of the Asian Proletarian League.
"The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in
this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American
external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in
the 20th century."- Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor,
Institute of the Americas, University College London & Former
Director, Chatham House "This is an important and timely book,
reappraising the UK's role in Latin America in the 20th century.
What emerges is far more interesting than the usual narrative of
linear UK decline in the face of growing US predominance."- Peter
Collecott, CMG, UK Ambassador to Brazil, 2004-2008 This book
explores the role of Great Britain in twentieth-century Latin
America, a period dominated by the growing political and economic
influence of the United States. Focusing on three broad themes-war
and conflict; commercial and business rivalries; and responses to
economic nationalism, revolution, and political change-the
individual chapters cover a number of countries and issues from
1914 to 1970, stressing the reluctance with which Britain ceded
hegemony in the region. An epilogue focuses on Anglo-American
relations and concerns in Latin America in the more recent past.
The chapters, all written by leading scholars on their particular
subjects, are based on original research in a wide variety of
archives, going beyond the standard Foreign Office and State
Department sources to which most earlier scholars were confined.
This book gathers together contributions from internationally
renowned authors in the field of cardiovascular systems and
provides crucial insight into the importance of sex- and
gender-concepts during the analysis of patient data. This
innovative title is the first to offer the elements necessary to
consider sex-related properties in both clinical and basic studies
regarding the heart and circulation on multiscale levels (i.e.
molecular, cellular, electrophysiologically, neuroendocrine,
immunoregulatory, organ, allometric, and modeling). Observed
differences at (ultra)cellular and organ level are quantified, with
focus on clinical relevance and implications for diagnosis and
patient management. Since the cardiovascular system is of vital
importance for all tissues, Sex-Specific Analysis of Cardiovascular
Function is an essential source of information for clinicians,
biologists, and biomedical investigators. The wide spectrum of
differences described in this book will also act as an eye-opener
and serve as a handbook for students, teachers, scientists and
practitioners.
Lieutenant Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine fifty miles
off the Florida coast where he had been patrolling in search of
enemy subs. Darkness had fallen. He tuned his short wave set to the
Miami station just in time to hear the eight o'clock news. The grim
announcement that he had expected was quick to come:
"In accordance with the provisions of the Twenty-Sixth
Amendment, Congress today approved the Manlin Bill, declaring a
state of total emergency for the nation. President Williston signed
it immediately and tendered his resignation to the Congress and the
people. The executive, legislative, and judiciary are now in the
hands of the Department of Defense. Secretary Garson has issued two
decrees, one reminding all citizens that they are no longer free to
shirk their duties to the nation, the other calling upon the
leaders of the Eurasian Soviet to cease air attacks on the American
continent or suffer the consequences.
"In Secretary Garson's ultimatum to the enemy, he stated:
'Heretofore we have refrained from employing certain weapons of
warfare in the vain hope that you would recognize the futility of
further aggression and desist from it. You have not done so. You
have persisted in your blood-thirsty folly, despite this nation's
efforts to reach an agreement for armistice. Therefore I am forced
to command you, in the Name of Almighty God, to surrender
immediately or be destroyed. . . ."
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