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This book is a unique reference source for the uniform collector,
modeller and student of military dress and equipment. For the first
time the reader can trace the development of the colour and design
of the Waffen-SS uniforms with confidence: all the uniforms worn in
the 150 colour photographs presented here are rare, original items,
from private collections. All major types of service uniform are
illustrated, together with a full range of the unique camouflage
clothing which was the hallmark of these much-feared divisions.
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TeX, XML, and Digital Typography - International Conference on TEX, XML, and Digital Typography, Held Jointly with the 25th Annual Meeting of the TEX User Group, TUG 2004, Xanthi, Greece, August 30 - September 3, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Apostolos Syropoulos, Karl Berry, Yannis Haralambous, Baden Hughes, Steven Peter, …
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This volume contains the papers that were accepted for presentation
at the - ternationalConferenceonT X, XML, andDigitalTypography,
jointlyheld with E the 25th Annual Meeting of the T X Users Group
in Xanthi, Greece in the sum- E mer of2004.Theterm
DigitalTypography refersto thepreparationofprinted matter using
only electronic computers and electronic printing devices, such as
laser-jetprinters.Thedocumentpreparationprocessinvolvesmainlytheuseofa
digital typesetting system as well as data representation
technologies. TXand E its o?spring are beyond doubt the most
successful current digital typesetters, while XML is the standard
for text-based data representation for both business and scienti?c
activities.
Allpapersappearinginthisvolumewerefullyrefereedbythemembersofthe
program committee. The papers were carefully selected to re?ect the
research work that is being done in the ?eld of digital typography
using T X and/or its E o?spring. The problems for which
comprehensivesolutions have been proposed include proper
multilingual document preparation and XML document processing and
generation. The proposed solutions deal not simply with typesetting
issues, but also related issues in document preparation, such as
the manipulation of c- plex bibliographic databases, and automatic
conversion of text expressed in one grammaticalsystem to a more
recent one (as for the Greek language, converting between monotonic
Greek and polytonic Greek). The conference is being graciously
hosted by the Democritus University of Thrace in Xanthi and by the
Greek T X Friends. We wish to thank Basil K."
Over 30 years ago, renowned horseman and popular storyteller Mark
Rashid's first book, Considering the Horse, was published. In it he
shared his experiences with horses and people, subtly delivering
practical lessons in horsemanship and life in a conversational
style that resonated with audiences around the world. Now Rashid
considers all that has happened in the years that have passed since
that first book was published—the transformative moments and
impactful individuals who have helped shape his philosophies and
methods since then. With his distinctive voice, he shepherds
readers through topics of relevance in the equestrian industry
while telling more of his life story, resulting in an engaging
memoir-style read that remains rich in nuggets of wisdom that you
can put right to work in your daily interactions with horses. In
For the Love of the Horse, Rashid explores: - Ways he tried to find
his own way of being with horses without actually knowing what he
was looking for. - How the art of aikido, and the teachers he had,
changed his ideas about life and relationships outside the dojo. -
How it feels to be soft (and how it feels to not be), and how
Rashid learned to stay true to the principles of softness as he
understood them, regardless of the situation. - How he broke out of
the pattern of assigning human emotions and comprehension to
horses. - The impact neuroscientist Dr. Steve Peters had on
Rashid's understanding of the horse's behaviors and responses and
how they correlate to what is actually going on in the horse's
brain. - The power of observation and learning how to be still,
even in the midst of activity. - The difference between trying to
connect with the horse versus allowing the horse to connect with
you. - How over time Rashid has shifted from trying techniques that
alter a horse's behavior, to adjusting his own thoughts, emotions,
and behaviors in order to help the horse feel safer. In his
familiar way, Rashid takes readers on a journey that rewards with
both adventure and education, finding new inroads in our attempts
to become better company and fairer caregivers to horses. With his
thoughtful lifetime of study leading by example, we are all
encouraged to consider how far horsemanship has come and how bright
its future might be.
Ben Nicholson: Distant Planes provides a succinct and insightful
introduction to a little-known period of the artist's career: his
years in Switzerland. Nicholson is one of the great British
modernists of the twentieth century and this publication includes
contributions from the leading specialists in the field, with
original essays by Dr Lee Beard, director of the Ben Nicholson
catalogue raisonne project, Peter Khoroche, author of Ben
Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs (2002), and Chris Stephens,
Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath. In 1958, at the height of
his creative powers and buoyed by recent accolades at the Venice
Biennale and elsewhere, Nicholson left behind the coastal wilds of
Cornwall for the serene beauty of Lake Maggiore. With a seemingly
inexhaustible index of formal ideas, in Switzerland he returned
with renewed vigour to the carved relief. Piano Nobile's
publication is richly illustrated and includes several major
reliefs which are presented alongside landscape drawings, both of
which explore a poetic sense of place that was crucial to
Nicholson's work during the period. It also includes previously
unpublished material relating to Nicholson and his Swiss period.
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine
contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech
only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a
scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer to a general
state of health and the orderly function of organs. But beginning
in the middle of the twentieth century, normal broke out of
scientific usage, becoming less precise and coming to mean a
balanced condition to be maintained and an ideal to be achieved. In
Normality, Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens offer an intellectual
and cultural history of what it means to be normal. They explore
the history of how communities settle on any one definition of the
norm, along the way analyzing a fascinating series of case studies
in fields as remote as anatomy, statistics, criminal anthropology,
sociology, and eugenics. Cryle and Stephens argue that since the
idea of normality is so central to contemporary disability, gender,
race, and sexuality studies, scholars in these fields must first
have a better understanding of the context for normality. This
pioneering book moves beyond binaries to explore for the first time
what it does and doesn't mean to be normal.
Cimarron badman legend Clay Allison takes his readers on a ride
through his uneven and turbulent life while trying to grab a part
of his own American dream: an extensive ranch with herds of cattle,
and a progeny of sons to generate his name and legacy into the
future. But alas, his soul-selling choice of a shortcut to
prosperity by linking his star with the Santa Fe Ring skewers his
plans and darkens his future. Echoing a Greek tragedy, he ends
marked for assassination, and his younger brother John is
shot-gunned in the dark by error, mistaken for Clay. His final
years are not to be envied, but he toughs it out to the end. JAMES
S. PETERS was born in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1930. In the mid-1940s
his family moved to California where at sixteen he enlisted in the
Army Air Corps and served three years as a medic. Later he spent
ten years in the navy as a photographer and in 1964 he alighted in
Taos, New Mexico and developed an avid interest in Southwestern
American history. After living in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, he
continued researching and writing articles on the frontier West.
After retiring, he pursued his interests in writing and painting.
This is his first work of creative nonfiction. He now lives in
Colorado.
Why did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of
confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his
secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba
made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender
during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and
were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United
States knowing full well the power of that country?
"War and Human Nature" argues that new findings about the way
humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide
answers to such questions. This seminal work by former Defense
Department official Stephen Peter Rosen contends that human
evolutionary history has affected the way we process the
information we use to make decisions. The result is that human
choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted
by standard models of rational behavior.
This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace,
Rosen contends. Human emotional arousal affects how people learn
the lessons of history. For example, stress and distress influence
people's views of the future, and testosterone levels play a role
in human social conflict. This thought-provoking and timely work
explores the mind that has emerged from the biological sciences
over the last generation. In doing so, it helps shed new light on
many persistent puzzles in the study of war.
I have worked hard to create a collection of artworks that showcase
the beauty of men using the medium of pencils.
Following the discovery of the decapitated corpse of Arthur
Rochford Manby in his nineteen-room mansion in Taos, New Mexico,
there quickly arose two schools of thought as to the event. One
sect accepted that he was gruesomely murdered, while the second
held to the belief that he had staged his death and left behind the
cadaver of a stranger. The case was a bizarre enigma wrapped in
riddles, confusion, betrayal and greed. Finally for posterity, and
as relief to the guilty, it was labeled an unsolved crime. Today it
is referred to as the "Manby Mystery of Taos." This book contains
very little mystery. Rather, it is the tragic account of Manby and
his 35-year career in manipulation, extortion, high-grading and
murder. Arriving in New Mexico from England in 1883, the
24-year-old Manby began his personal odyssey for El Dorado: the
dream of building a vast empire in the Southwest. He finally does
so in 1913 when becoming the owner of the 61,000 acre Martinez
Grant of Taos. But after three years it slips from his grasp and he
is left nearly penniless. In his last years he gradually decays
mentality and emotionally. Looked upon as an eccentric, no one
realizes how ill he has become. Finally having a falling out with a
quartet of compatriots, in July, 1929, he is murdered and
decapitated. JAMES S. PETERS was born in Wyandotte, Michigan in
1930. In the mid-1940s his family moved to California where at
sixteen he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served three years as
a medic. Later he spent ten years in the navy as a photographer and
in 1964 he alighted in Taos, New Mexico and developed an avid
interest in Southwestern American history. After living in Santa Fe
and Albuquerque, he continued researching and writing articles on
the frontier West. After retiring, he pursued his interests in
writing and painting. His previous book, "Robert Clay Allison," was
also published by Sunstone Press.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed
differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the
Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not
forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to
respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also
discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator
and the military bureaucrat.
In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of
analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that
has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to
American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has
been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs.
Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy
between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's
experience with the battle tank during World War I.
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