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This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in
international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why
and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and
under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying
conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an
unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers
and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the
wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies,
thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still
puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in
international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out
to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it
assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with
the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies
reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to
calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies
explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its
success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical
framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and
helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the
effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of
literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or
psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and
transitional justice.
This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in
international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why
and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and
under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying
conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an
unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers
and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the
wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies,
thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still
puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in
international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out
to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it
assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with
the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies
reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to
calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies
explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its
success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical
framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and
helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the
effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of
literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or
psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and
transitional justice.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Aerogels are the lightest solids known. Up to 1000 times lighter
than glass and with a density as low as only four times that of
air, they show very high thermal, electrical and acoustic
insulation values and hold many entries in Guinness World Records.
Originally based on silica, R&D efforts have extended this
class of materials to non-silicate inorganic oxides, natural and
synthetic organic polymers, carbon, metal and ceramic materials,
etc. Composite systems involving polymer-crosslinked aerogels and
interpenetrating hybrid networks have been developed and exhibit
remarkable mechanical strength and flexibility. Even more exotic
aerogels based on clays, chalcogenides, phosphides, quantum dots,
and biopolymers such as chitosan are opening new applications for
the construction, transportation, energy, defense and healthcare
industries. Applications in electronics, chemistry, mechanics,
engineering, energy production and storage, sensors, medicine,
nanotechnology, military and aerospace, oil and gas recovery,
thermal insulation and household uses are being developed with an
estimated annual market growth rate of around 70% until 2015. The
Aerogels Handbook summarizes state-of-the-art developments and
processing of inorganic, organic, and composite aerogels, including
the most important methods of synthesis, characterization as well
as their typical applications and their possible market impact.
Readers will find an exhaustive overview of all aerogel materials
known today, their fabrication, upscaling aspects, physical and
chemical properties, and most recent advances towards applications
and commercial products, some of which are commercially available
today. Key Features: *Edited and written by recognized worldwide
leaders in the field *Appeals to a broad audience of materials
scientists, chemists, and engineers in academic research and
industrial R&D *Covers inorganic, organic, and composite
aerogels *Describes military, aerospace, building industry,
household, environmental, energy, and biomedical applications among
others
Comprising a guidebook and a full color CD-ROM, this reference
set offers illustrated essentials to study mineralogy, applied to
petrology. While there are some excellent reference works available
on this subject, this work is unique for its data richness and its
visual character.
With a collection of images that excels both in detail and
aesthetics, 151 minerals are presented in more than 400 plates.
Different facies and paragenesis, both in natural polarized light,
are shown for every mineral and optical data, sketches of the
crystal habitus, chemical composition, occurrence and a brief
description are included. The accompanying user guide gives a
general introduction to microscope mineral observation, systematic
mineralogy, mineral chemistry, occurrence, stability, paragenesis,
structural formula calculation and its use in petrology.
This compact set will serve as a field manual to students,
researchers and professionals in geology, geological, mining, and
mineral resources engineering to observe and determine minerals in
their studies or field work.
Sol-Gel Techniques for Glass Producers and Users provides
technological information, descriptions and characterizations of
prototypes, or products already on the market, and illustrates
advantages and disadvantages of the sol-gel process in comparison
to other methods. The first chapter entitled "Wet Chemical
Technology" gives a summary of the basic principles of the sol-gel
chemistry. The most promising applications are related to coatings.
Chapter 2 describes the various "Wet Chemical Coating Technologies"
from glass cleaning to many deposition and post-coating treatment
techniques. These include patterning of coatings through direct or
indirect techniques which have became very important and for which
the sol-gel processing is particularly well adapted. Chapter 3
entitled "Bulk Glass Technologies" reports on the preparation of
special glasses for different applications. Chapter 4 entitled
"Coatings and Materials Properties" describes the properties of the
different coatings and the sol-gel materials, fibers and powders.
The chapter also includes a section dedicated to the
characterization techniques especially applied to sol-gel coatings
and products.
Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth
Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the
Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch;
the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and
Flower; the short stories "The Cat," "The Map," and "The Old Woman
Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun"; and Gene Wolfe's own commentaries in
The Castle of the Otter. The first edition was nominated for a
World Fantasy Award. This second edition includes over 1,200
entries. When the first edition was published, Science Fiction Age
said: "Lexicon Urthus makes a perfect gift for any fan of [Wolfe's]
work, and from the way his words sell, it appears that there are
many deserving readers out there waiting." Gary K. Wolfe, in Locus,
said: "A convenient and well researched glossary of names and
terms. . . . It provides enough of a gloss on the novels that it
almost evokes Wolfe's distant future all by itself. . . . It can
provide both a useful reference and a good deal of fun." Donald
Keller said, in the New York Review of Science Fiction: "A fruitful
product of obsession, this is a thorough . . . dictionary of the
Urth Cycle. . . . Andre-Driussi's research has been exhaustive, and
he has discovered many fascinating things . . . [it is]
head-spinning to confront a myriad of small and large details, some
merely interesting, others jawdropping."
Aerogels are the lightest solids known. Up to 1000 times lighter
than glass and with a density as low as only four times that of
air, they show very high thermal, electrical and acoustic
insulation values and hold many entries in Guinness World Records.
Originally based on silica, R&D efforts have extended this
class of materials to non-silicate inorganic oxides, natural and
synthetic organic polymers, carbon, metal and ceramic materials,
etc. Composite systems involving polymer-crosslinked aerogels and
interpenetrating hybrid networks have been developed and exhibit
remarkable mechanical strength and flexibility. Even more exotic
aerogels based on clays, chalcogenides, phosphides, quantum dots,
and biopolymers such as chitosan are opening new applications for
the construction, transportation, energy, defense and healthcare
industries. Applications in electronics, chemistry, mechanics,
engineering, energy production and storage, sensors, medicine,
nanotechnology, military and aerospace, oil and gas recovery,
thermal insulation and household uses are being developed with an
estimated annual market growth rate of around 70% until 2015. The
Aerogels Handbook summarizes state-of-the-art developments and
processing of inorganic, organic, and composite aerogels, including
the most important methods of synthesis, characterization as well
as their typical applications and their possible market impact.
Readers will find an exhaustive overview of all aerogel materials
known today, their fabrication, upscaling aspects, physical and
chemical properties, and most recent advances towards applications
and commercial products, some of which are commercially available
today. Key Features: -Edited and written by recognized worldwide
leaders in the field -Appeals to a broad audience of materials
scientists, chemists, and engineers in academic research and
industrial R&D -Covers inorganic, organic, and composite
aerogels -Describes military, aerospace, building industry,
household, environmental, energy, and biomedical applications among
others
Sol-Gel Techniques for Glass Producers and Users provides
technological information, descriptions and characterizations of
prototypes, or products already on the market, and illustrates
advantages and disadvantages of the sol-gel process in comparison
to other methods. The first chapter entitled "Wet Chemical
Technology" gives a summary of the basic principles of the sol-gel
chemistry. The most promising applications are related to coatings.
Chapter 2 describes the various "Wet Chemical Coating Technologies"
from glass cleaning to many deposition and post-coating treatment
techniques. These include patterning of coatings through direct or
indirect techniques which have became very important and for which
the sol-gel processing is particularly well adapted. Chapter 3
entitled "Bulk Glass Technologies" reports on the preparation of
special glasses for different applications. Chapter 4 entitled
"Coatings and Materials Properties" describes the properties of the
different coatings and the sol-gel materials, fibers and powders.
The chapter also includes a section dedicated to the
characterization techniques especially applied to sol-gel coatings
and products.
Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the
tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems
and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues
central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.
Originally published in 1980.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the
tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems
and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues
central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.
Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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We are continually trying to make sense of our world through the
stories we tell and are told, but in our search for coherence, we
often sacrifice our freedom and the rich randomness of life. In
this passionate and lucid book, Michael Andre Bernstein challenges
our practice of "foreshadowing," in which we see our lives as
moving toward a predetermined goal or as controlled by fate.
Foreshadowing, he argues, demeans the variety and openness that
exist in even the most ordinary moments of life. And it is
precisely ordinary life, with its random, haphazard, and
contradictory choices, that Bernstein celebrates in his call for
"sideshadowing"-an alternative practice that reminds us that every
present is dense with possible futures. Bernstein sees the
Holocaust as the prime example of how our tendency to "foreshadow"
and "backshadow" misrepresents history. He argues eloquently
against politicians and theologians who posit the Holocaust as
foreordained and who depict its victims as somehow complicit with a
fate that they should have been able to foresee. Instead, Bernstein
proposes a radically new understanding of the relationship between
the Holocaust and earlier Jewish experience, transforming how we
read and write both individual and communal history. Foregone
Conclusions is an extraordinarily wide-ranging book, both in its
scope and in its broader intellectual and moral implications. From
the latest biographies of Kafka to the peace accords between Israel
and the PLO, from the role of cultural diversity in universities to
the Crown Heights riots, Bernstein warns us against passively
accepting our identities as being shaped primarily by historical or
personal victimization. His book liberates us from stereotyped
patterns of understanding the relationship between our lives as
individuals and as members of racial, sexual, and historic/ethnic
communities. Berstein ultimately opens a powerful new way to
understand the principles governing how we read and write
narratives--whether historical, personal, or literary. In striking
original juxtapositions and critical evaluations of Marcel Proust,
Robert Musil, and Aharon Appelfeld, Bernstein sugests the need for
a new literary model based on the prosaics of daily life. Bernstein
speaks directly and persuasively to many of the most pressing
issues in Jewish history, Holocaust studies, literary criticism,
and cultural history. Foregone Conclusions is a provocative and
poignant attempt to find coherence in our world without accepting
either ineluctable destiny of pure coincidence. This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1994.
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