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This conveniently sized guide is an invaluable point of reference
for all who travel and take part in outdoor, wilderness and
mountain activities. Written by doctors with a wealth of wilderness
specific experience, it provides a comprehensive summary of
wilderness first aid and medicine - that is, managing accident or
illness in remote locations without immediate access to help -
giving you confidence in your ability to deal with any situation
that may arise. All topics are clearly referenced and easy to find,
with chapters covering preparation, prevention, accident protocol,
diagnosis, treatment and evacuation. From life-threatening
emergencies to broken bones and sprains, infectious diseases, food
poisoning, envenomation and respiratory problems, the book sets out
all the crucial protocol and procedures to follow. It covers a wide
range of different environments, including high altitude, desert,
polar, tropical and marine, dealing with risk management and a
variety of different scenarios. In addition, suggestions for
first-aid kits and lists of medications and antibiotics (with
dosage) can be found in the appendices.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology,
and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and
aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying
art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over
thirty Academy Awards, could stop what appeared to be the end of an
animation era. To revitalize popular interest in animation, Disney
needed to reach outside its own studio and create the distinctive
film that helped usher in a Disney Renaissance. That film, Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, though expensive and controversial, debuted in
theaters to huge success at the box office in 1988. Unique in its
conceit of cartoons living in the real world, Who Framed Roger
Rabbit magically blended live action and animation, carrying with
it a humor that still resonates with audiences. Upon the film's
release, Disney's marketing program led the audience to believe
that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was made solely by director Bob
Zemeckis, director of animation Dick Williams, and the visual
effects company Industrial Light & Magic, though many Disney
animators contributed to the project. Author Ross Anderson
interviewed over 140 artists to tell the story of how they created
something truly magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the
Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, commercials,
and merchandising, and how they have remained a cultural touchstone
today.
Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, form a growing population in both numbers and influence.
Yet few people have more than a passing knowledge of the document
that defines and drives this important movement---the Book of
Mormon.A former Mormon and an adult convert to Christianity, author
Ross Anderson provides a clear summary of the Book of Mormon
including its history, teachings, and unique features. Stories from
the author and other ex-Mormons illustrate the use of Mormon
scripture in the Latter-day Saint church. Anderson gives special
attention to how the Book of Mormon relates to Christian beliefs
about God, Jesus, and the Bible.With discussion questions to
facilitate group use and a focus on providing an accurate portrayal
of Mormons beliefs, Understanding the Book of Mormon is an
indispensable guide for anyone wishing to become more familiar with
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its most
formative scripture.
In Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor, Ross Anderson seeks to help
Christians relate to Latter-day Saints by giving insights into
Mormon life and culture. Anderson's work is supported both by his
lifetime of experiences growing up Mormon and by current research
that utilizes many Latter-day Saints' own sources. This book
explains the core stories that form the Mormon worldview, shares
the experiences that shape the community identity of Mormonism, and
shows how Mormons understand truth. Anderson shares how most
Mormons see themselves and others around them, illuminating why
people join the LDS Church and why many eventually leave.
Latter-day Saints will find the descriptions of their values,
practices, and experiences both credible and familiar.
Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor suggests how Christians can
befriend Latter-day Saints with confidence and sensitivity and
share the grace of God wisely within their relationships. Anderson
includes discussion questions for individuals and small groups,
black and white photographs and charts, and an appendix that
includes 'Are Mormons Christians?' and 'Should I Vote for a
Mormon?'
This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a
timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern
architecture has had with ‘the sacred’. It comprises fourteen
individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections –
Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for
Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography
of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic
roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment
period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over
time. The second studies the ways in which organized religion
responded to the challenges of the new modern self-understanding,
and then the third investigates the ways that abstract modern
notions of the sacred have been embodied in the ersatz sacred
contexts of theatres, galleries, memorials and museums. While
centring on Western architecture during the decisive period of the
first half of the 20th century – a time that takes in the early
musings on spirituality by some of the avant-garde in defiance of
Sachlichkeit and the machine aesthetic – the volume also
considers the many-varied appropriations of sacrality that
architects have made up to the present day, and also in social and
cultural contexts beyond the West.
This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop
proceedings of the First International Workshop on Information
Hiding, held in Cambridge, UK, in May/June 1996, within the
research programme in computer security, cryptology and coding
theory organized by the volume editor at the Isaac Newton Institute
in Cambridge.
Work on information hiding has been carried out over the last few
years within different research communities, mostly unaware of each
other's existence. The 26 papers presented define the state of the
art and lay the foundation for a common terminology. This workshop
is very likely to be seen at some point as one of those landmark
events that mark the birth of a new scientific discipline.
This volume contains the refereed papers presented at the
International Workshop on Software Encryption Algorithms, held at
Cambridge University, U.K. in December 1993.
The collection of papers by representatives of all relevant
research centers gives a thorough state-of-the-art report on all
theoretical aspects of encryption algorithms and takes into account
the new demands from new applications, as for example from the
data-intensive multimedia applications. The 26 papers are organized
in sections on block ciphers, stream ciphers, software performance,
cryptanalysis, hash functions and hybrid ciphers, and randomness
and nonlinearity.
1. 1 History of Solvent Abuse The practice of deliberately inhaling
various gases or vapors in order to induce an altered state of mood
or sensibility is not new. As noted repeatedly in other reviews
(eg, Cohen, 1973; Novak, 1980), it was recognized in early Greek
civilization as an adjunct to divination; indeed, it has now become
customary, if not obligatory, to refer to the Oracle at Delphi
before considering the more recent history of the subject.
According to legend, the priestess at the Temple at Delphi would
achieve communion with the Gods by inhaling the naturally-occurring
gas that emanated from a fissure in a rock. Inhalation would induce
a trance-like state. Her mystical observations and utterances while
in this state were interpreted by the Temple Prophet and issued as
divine pronouncements to those seeking guidance. Incenses, perfumes
and spices have probably always been used in ceremonial worship and
religious ritual. However, in sofar as it is possible to make the
distinction, these substances have been used primarily for their
aromatic qualities rather than for their intoxicating effects. The
recreational use of gases and vapors dates from the end of the
eighteenth century and may be seen as a concomitant of the
scientific advances that preceded the industrial revolution.
Following the synthesis of nitrous oxide by Sir Joseph Priestley in
1776, the potential uses of the gas were explored in depth by Sir
Humphrey Davy.
Modern Architecture and the Sacred provides a timely reappraisal of
the many ways in which architecture and the sacred have overlapped
in the 20th century. A wide range of case studies are presented
through 16 contributed chapters - including the work of iconic
modernist architects such as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and Mies van
der Rohe - which together demonstrate how sacred and semi-sacred
buildings are central phenomena in modernism. Such works have much
to reveal to us about the deeper motivations and complexities at
the core of the modernist project. The case material is not limited
simply to discussions of explicitly religious buildings (churches,
synagogues, etc), but looks outwards to invocations of the
'semi-sacred' within secular buildings too - museums, exhibition
pavilions, and memorials - which can all make claims at times to a
form of sacred space. This expansion of the notion of sacred space
sets this collection apart, providing a deeper insight into the
role that spirituality plays in modern architecture's philosophical
foundations, whether explicitly religious or otherwise.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology,
and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and
aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying
art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over
thirty Academy Awards, could stop what appeared to be the end of an
animation era. To revitalize popular interest in animation, Disney
needed to reach outside its own studio and create the distinctive
film that helped usher in a Disney Renaissance. That film, Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, though expensive and controversial, debuted in
theaters to huge success at the box office in 1988. Unique in its
conceit of cartoons living in the real world, Who Framed Roger
Rabbit magically blended live action and animation, carrying with
it a humor that still resonates with audiences. Upon the film's
release, Disney's marketing program led the audience to believe
that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was made solely by director Bob
Zemeckis, director of animation Dick Williams, and the visual
effects company Industrial Light & Magic, though many Disney
animators contributed to the project. Author Ross Anderson
interviewed over 140 artists to tell the story of how they created
something truly magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the
Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, commercials,
and merchandising, and how they have remained a cultural touchstone
today.
This book originates from an international workshop on personal information held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK, in June 1996. The workshop was organized under the joint sponsorship of the British Medical Association and the Isaac Newton Institute in the context of a six-month research program in computer security, cryptology, and coding theory.The revised workshop papers appearing in this volume reflect a lively interdisciplinary exchange of views and ideas between doctors, lawyers, privacy activists, and the computer security community. The volume gives a representative snapshot not merely of the state of the art of the medical computer security art in various countries, but of the complex interplay between human, political, and technical aspects.
In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old,
that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the
conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of
relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental
work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important
place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to
a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the
subject by most of the top people working in the area. Originally
the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated
in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the
coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of
the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of
the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book
contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the
principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable,
and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the
first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured
constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to
a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is
important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel
Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen
Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro.
Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition
to the volume. Originally published in 1992. 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.
In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old,
that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the
conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of
relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental
work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important
place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to
a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the
subject by most of the top people working in the area. Originally
the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated
in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the
coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of
the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of
the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book
contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the
principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable,
and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the
first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured
constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to
a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is
important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel
Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen
Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro.
Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition
to the volume. Originally published in 1992. 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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Internal Darkness
Ross Anderson
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The campaign combined heroic human endeavor and terrible suffering
set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops
had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical
jungles to formidable mountains and almost always on inadequate
rations. Yet the East African Front has languished in undeserved
obscurity over the years with many people only vaguely aware of its
course of events. - See more at: http:
//www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/the-forgotten-front-1914-1918.html#sthash.SoXaJZYS.dpuf
World War I began in East Africa in July, 1914, and did not end
until November 13, 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the
largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires
and their subject peoples were engaged in a conflict that ranged
from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The
campaign combined heroic human endeavor and terrible suffering set
in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had
to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical
jungles, to formidable mountains, and almost always on inadequate
rations. Yet the East African Front has languished in undeserved
obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of
its course of events. Ross Anderson details the strategic and
political aims of the protagonists--it should be remembered that
while it was part of WWI, this was also a colonial war.
Psalm 395 is a spiritual journey of discovery that takes place in
the Mojave desert and the Owens Valley of California.
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