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'Soft' Counterinsurgency reviews the promise and actual achievement
of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that
were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The book, based on interviews with both HTT personnel
and their military commanders, examines the military's need for
sociocultural information, the ethical issues surrounding research
carried out in combat zones, and the tensions between military and
social science organizational cultures. The account provides a
close, detailed account of HTT activities, a critical reflection on
the possibilities of creating a 'softer, ' less violent
counterinsurgency, and the difficulty of attempting to make war
more 'intelligent' and discriminating.
Places the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and
philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European
Renaissance. This study explores the love lyric of one of the
greatest, yet oft-neglected, warrior-poets of the Spanish Golden
Age - Francisco de Aldana (1537-78). Hailed for his skill by
Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, and the Generation of27's Cernuda
alike, Aldana's lyric is the unique result of his Florentine
education and interactions with the Medici family as well as
Benedetto Varchi's literary circle. Aldana died young, fighting in
the Battle of Alcazaquivirin the service of Portugal's Sebastian I.
His brother, Cosme, subsequently edited and published his poetry in
three volumes between 1589-93. Perhaps the most alluring aspect of
Aldana's poetry is his exploration of the natureof love via the
reconciliation of seemingly opposing and discordant elements of
physical love with the Neoplatonic spirituality more common to
sixteenth-century poetry, especially as portrayed by the Petrarchan
tradition. Throughclose examination of Aldana's lyric -religious,
philosophical, pastoral, and mythological- this study reveals how
Aldana exploits the gaps in Petrarchism, Neoplatonism, and
contemporary poetic models to communicate his belief inthe
importance of the physical in our search for those fleeting moments
of transcendental bliss on the earthly plane. Paul Joseph Lennon is
Lecturer in Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of
St Andrews,UK.
So comprehensively has Arsene Wenger rebranded Arsenal Football
Club that it is possible to forget the 100-plus years of history
that came before him. Yet there remain curious parallels that glue
together the club's past and present: just as the modern team is
built on outsiders, born far from the confines of N5, so too was
the original side of 1886, created by economic migrants from the
Midlands, the North of England and Scotland, looking to prosper in
London. Now for the first time in paperback, and using photographic
and written archives of the "Daily Mirror" (including rare and
unseen material), "When Football Was Football - Arsenal" takes us
on a nostalgia-packed journey through the club's evolution from its
beginnings as a south London munitions factory team, through the
nurturing of some of the game's fabled characters. From notorious
chairman Henry Norris to the great innovator Herbert Chapman, and
the players from Brylcreem Boy Denis Compton, wee Alex James,
Charlie George and Frank McLintock, up to the fresh-in-the-memory
figures of Tony Adams and Ian Wright (perhaps the last bastion of a
pre-modern Arsenal). Key images that will engage and delight
readers include: 1930 - Arsenal win their first trophy, the FA Cup
at Wembley; 1968 - Pat Rice working on a fruit stall; 1982 -
"Champagne" Charlie Nicholas living up to his nickname. The book
draws a line in the sand at the advent of the Premier League, when
Arsenal, and football, were carried along on a wave of ruthless
commercialism. Packed with evocative, atmospheric photos depicting
bygone eras, "When Football Was Football - Arsenal" reminds us of
how things used to be - and leaves the reader to decide which they
prefer.
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.
"It's time that someone broke into the general gloom created by a
war-loving administration and reminded us that we are a
peace-loving people. Paul Joseph's book does just that, not with
fantasy but with facts, showing how the public antipathy to war,
suppressed too long by propaganda and deception, is coming to the
surface, and offers hope." Howard Zinn "In this antidote to
despair, Joseph shows how even the most sophisticated efforts of US
political and military leaders to maintain public support for war
are flawed and doomed to failure in the face of an increasingly
skeptical public that is unwilling to accept the costs." William A.
Gamson, Boston College "An original and thought-provoking
perspective on one of the most important issues in American
politics today." Michael Klare, Hampshire College Are Americans
becoming more peaceful -- even after the 2004 elections and the
seeming affirmation of the war in Iraq? This book looks at the
meaning of peace in the face of war and offers an optimistic
interpretation of the public's changing views. US citizens are
becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the costs of war that can
be measured not just in dollars but in lives and international
respect. Americans are becoming ever more resistant to government
management of the "facts" surrounding war. In areas ranging from
media and photojournalism to gender and casualties, Joseph exposes
the reality of popular opposition to war.
"It's time that someone broke into the general gloom created by a
war-loving administration and reminded us that we are a
peace-loving people. Paul Joseph's book does just that, not with
fantasy but with facts, showing how the public antipathy to war,
suppressed too long by propaganda and deception, is coming to the
surface, and offers hope." Howard Zinn "In this antidote to
despair, Joseph shows how even the most sophisticated efforts of US
political and military leaders to maintain public support for war
are flawed and doomed to failure in the face of an increasingly
skeptical public that is unwilling to accept the costs." William A.
Gamson, Boston College "An original and thought-provoking
perspective on one of the most important issues in American
politics today." Michael Klare, Hampshire College Are Americans
becoming more peaceful -- even after the 2004 elections and the
seeming affirmation of the war in Iraq? This book looks at the
meaning of peace in the face of war and offers an optimistic
interpretation of the public's changing views. US citizens are
becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the costs of war that can
be measured not just in dollars but in lives and international
respect. Americans are becoming ever more resistant to government
management of the "facts" surrounding war. In areas ranging from
media and photojournalism to gender and casualties, Joseph exposes
the reality of popular opposition to war.
This is the inspiring and "page-turning" (Booklist) true story of a
man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby-and how his
quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry,
his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in
US history. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an
infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years
later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New
Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant's
mother, and she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family
spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again-but Paul
was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years
ago-spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith-Paul
took a DNA test. The test revealed that he was definitely not Paul
Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission
to find the man whose life he's been living-and to discover who
abandoned him, and why. Poignant and inspiring, The Foundling is a
story about a child lost and a faith found, about the permanence of
families and the bloodlines that define you, and about the
emotional toll of both losing your identity and rediscovering who
you truly are.
This book is a short yet rigorous course on a new paradigm in soil
mechanics, one that holds that soil deformation occurs as a simple
friction-based Poisson process in which soil particles move to
their final position at random shear strains. It originates from
work by Casagrande's soil mechanics group at Harvard University
that found that an aggregate of soil particles when sheared reaches
a "steady-state" condition, a finding in line with the
thermodynamics of dissipative systems. The book unpacks this new
paradigm as it applies to soils. The theory explains fundamental,
ubiquitous soil behaviors and relationships used in soils
engineering daily thousands of times across the world, but whose
material bases so far have been unknown. These include for example,
why for one-dimensional consolidation, the e-log line is linear,
and why C /Cc is a constant for a given soil. The subtext of the
book is that with this paradigm, the scientific method of trying to
falsify hypotheses fully drives advances in the field, i.e., that
soil mechanics now strictly qualifies as a science that, in turn,
informs geotechnical engineering. The audience for the book is
senior undergraduates, graduate students, academics, and
researchers as well as industry professionals, particularly
geotechnical engineers. It will also be useful to structural
engineers, highway engineers, military engineers, persons in the
construction industry, as well as planetary scientists. Because its
fundamental findings hold for any mass of particles like soils, the
theory applies not just to soils, but also to powders, grains etc.
so long as these are under pseudo-static (no inertial effects)
conditions.
This book offers the first full-length study of early modern
contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the
gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding
concern of English Renaissance literature. Theorists and literary
critics have equated contentedness with passivity, stagnation, and
resignation. However, this book excavates an early modern
understanding of contentment as dynamic, protective, and
productive. While this concept has roots in classical and medieval
philosophy, contentment became newly significant because of the
English Reformation. Reformers explored contentedness as a means to
preserve the self and prepare the individual to endure and engage
the outside world. Their efforts existed alongside representations
and revisions of contentment by authors including Sidney, Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Milton. By examining Renaissance models of
contentment, this book explores alternatives to Calvinist despair,
resists scholarly emphasis on negative emotions, and reaffirms the
value of formal concerns to studies of literature, religion, and
affect.
A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the
infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family-and find his
twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years. When
he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for
Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family's Chicago home.
There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the
kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in 1964. He also
learned that, two years later, the boy was found and returned to
his family-and that the boy was him. Nearly fifty years later,
Paul, acting on long-held suspicions, took a DNA test that proved
he was not the kidnapped boy. In an instant, he found himself at
the center of two half-century-old mysteries-who was he, and where
was the real Paul? True Identity is about three separate major
investigations-the hunt for the real Paul Fronczak; the search for
the author's missing twin sister Jill; and finally, the
investigation into his true identity, his heart and soul and the
demons inside him-inherited and created-that still need to be
confronted.
In a world awash in screenwriting books, The Science of
Screenwriting provides an alternative approach that will help the
aspiring screenwriter navigate this mass of often contradictory
advice: exploring the science behind storytelling strategies. Paul
Gulino, author of the best-selling Screenwriting: The Sequence
Approach, and Connie Shears, a noted cognitive psychologist, build,
chapter-by-chapter, an understanding of the human
perceptual/cognitive processes, from the functions of our eyes and
ears bringing real world information into our brains, to the
intricate networks within our brains connecting our decisions and
emotions. They draw on a variety of examples from film and
television -- The Social Network, Silver Linings Playbook and
Breaking Bad -- to show how the human perceptual process is
reflected in the storytelling strategies of these filmmakers. They
conclude with a detailed analysis of one of the most successful and
influential films of all time, Star Wars, to discover just how it
had the effect that it had.
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