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Originally published in 1989. Given the events of 1987 and 1988-the
death of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, who had served as
Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985 and was so
influencial in the development of the current Soviet Navy, the
Soviet policy of glasnost', the U .S.-Soviet arms negotiations,
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington, President Ronald
Reagan's visit to Moscow, and the treaty concerning
intermediate-range nuclear weapons- a study of the Soviet naval
threat to Europe is particularly timely. This study begins by
examining Soviet military and naval strategy, which provides a view
of how the Soviets intend to use their forces. Then the book
explore Soviet naval capabilities and operations, because a full
understanding of Soviet naval power provides an understanding of
the isolation that Europeans often feel. In the fourth and fifth
sections of the book we examine the threat to northern and southern
Europe.
Since Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov was appointed to the office of
commander in chief of the Soviet Navy in 1956, the Soviet Union has
made a massive investment in naval construction, training, and
operations. As a result, the Soviet Navy has grown from a coastal
defense force to one of the world's two strongest navies. This book
offers a detailed assessment of every major aspect of the Soviet
Navy, from fleet structure and training facilities to command and
control procedures and warfare and intelligence collection
capabilities.
This is the only book to offer a detailed chronology of modern
Soviet naval operations set within the framework of long-range
Soviet foreign and domestic policy. This context is important
because it puts the navy in its proper place as a significant cog
in the gigantic machinery of Soviet "grand strategy." Commander
Watson argues that the Soviet Navy's physical configuration,
strategy, and operations reflect a long-term "upgrading" pattern,
designed to create an equal-partner status in the total balance of
Soviet military forces. Changes in the navy's activities are not
merely pragmatic reactions to momentary crises or shifts in world
power trends. TTie navy has played an integral part in implementing
the four strategic long-range goals of Soviet policy: defense of
the Soviet Union, enhancement of its international position,
establishment and maintenance of Soviet military superiority
internationally, and the promotion of other Communist revolutions.
Commander Watson discusses in detail Soviet naval operations in ail
of the world's oceans. He provides new insight into the dimensions
of Soviet naval presence and port visit activity, using vast
amounts of statistical material gathered from his original
research. The text is supplemented by maps, photographs, and
extensive tabular documentation.
Contains analyses of the war by several prominent U.S. experts on
national security affairs. Their observations reflect the
continuing debate on such key issues in U.S. defence planning - and
in Soviet defence planning as well - as the controversy over large
versus small carriers, the advantages and dis advantages of a
diesel-versus nuclear-powered submarine fleet, the effectiveness of
the Harrier-type aircraft, the influence of high technology on
amphibious warfare, and the ever increasing use of 'smart' weapons
by all-purpose convectional armed forces.
This book offers one of the first comprehensive academic views on
Just Cause, the December 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama.
It presents excellent positions for the reader to consider and give
a comprehensive view of all of the factors and events that prompted
the operation.
Originally published in 1989. Given the events of 1987 and 1988-the
death of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, who had served as
Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985 and was so
influencial in the development of the current Soviet Navy, the
Soviet policy of glasnost', the U .S.-Soviet arms negotiations,
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington, President Ronald
Reagan's visit to Moscow, and the treaty concerning
intermediate-range nuclear weapons- a study of the Soviet naval
threat to Europe is particularly timely. This study begins by
examining Soviet military and naval strategy, which provides a view
of how the Soviets intend to use their forces. Then the book
explore Soviet naval capabilities and operations, because a full
understanding of Soviet naval power provides an understanding of
the isolation that Europeans often feel. In the fourth and fifth
sections of the book we examine the threat to northern and southern
Europe.
Since Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov was appointed to the office of
commander in chief of the Soviet Navy in 1956, the Soviet Union has
made a massive investment in naval construction, training, and
operations. As a result, the Soviet Navy has grown from a coastal
defense force to one of the world's two strongest navies. This book
offers a detailed assessment of every major aspect of the Soviet
Navy, from fleet structure and training facilities to command and
control procedures and warfare and intelligence collection
capabilities.
This book offers one of the first comprehensive academic views on
Just Cause, the December 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama.
It presents excellent positions for the reader to consider and give
a comprehensive view of all of the factors and events that prompted
the operation.
This is the only book to offer a detailed chronology of modern
Soviet naval operations set within the framework of long-range
Soviet foreign and domestic policy. This context is important
because it puts the navy in its proper place as a significant cog
in the gigantic machinery of Soviet "grand strategy." Commander
Watson argues that the Soviet Navy's physical configuration,
strategy, and operations reflect a long-term "upgrading" pattern,
designed to create an equal-partner status in the total balance of
Soviet military forces. Changes in the navy's activities are not
merely pragmatic reactions to momentary crises or shifts in world
power trends. TTie navy has played an integral part in implementing
the four strategic long-range goals of Soviet policy: defense of
the Soviet Union, enhancement of its international position,
establishment and maintenance of Soviet military superiority
internationally, and the promotion of other Communist revolutions.
Commander Watson discusses in detail Soviet naval operations in ail
of the world's oceans. He provides new insight into the dimensions
of Soviet naval presence and port visit activity, using vast
amounts of statistical material gathered from his original
research. The text is supplemented by maps, photographs, and
extensive tabular documentation.
Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to
new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests,
costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually,
and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking
environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly
susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is
possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis,
a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of
commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is,
therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial,
and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the
most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing
detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26
families, 36% of the scale insect pest species known). Advice is
provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering,
and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour
photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in
two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcoids
followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcoids, covered in
phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based
on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information
on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and
biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes
information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens,
common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant
hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology,
dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural
and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory
control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional
complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided,
comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the
8373 species of living scales known), with information on plant
hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial
uses of scale insects include sources of red dyes, natural resins
and waxes, and agents for invasive weed control, alongside the
importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a
food source to other animals. Academic researchers, students,
entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or
government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists,
farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this
book.
The focus of this book is on bridging the gap between two
extreme methods for developing software. On the one hand, there are
texts and approaches that are so formal that they scare off all but
the most dedicated theoretical computer scientists. On the other,
there are some who believe that any measure of formality is a waste
of time, resulting in software that is developed by following gut
feelings and intuitions.
Kourie and Watson advocate an approach known as
"correctness-by-construction," a technique to derive algorithms
that relies on formal theory, but that requires such theory to be
deployed in a very systematic and pragmatic way. First they provide
the key theoretical background (like first-order predicate logic or
refinement laws) that is needed to understand and apply the method.
They then detail a series of graded examples ranging from binary
search to lattice cover graph construction and finite automata
minimization in order to show how it can be applied to increasingly
complex algorithmic problems. The principal purpose of this book is
to change the way software developers approach their task at
programming-in-the-small level, with a view to improving code
quality. Thus it coheres with both the IEEE's Guide to the Software
Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) recommendations, which
identifies themes covered in this book as part of the software
engineer's arsenal of tools and methods, and with the goals of the
Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) initiative, which
aims to "refound software engineering based on a solid
theory.""
The military intelligence co11111unity is one of the most
misunderstood and maligned facets of the U.S. government. To much
of the American public, intelligence means an organization of James
Bonds, sophisticated, super-individualists, John Waynes who live
slightly beyond the law. To others, military intelligence is
considered as a constant threat to American democracy, a danger
that must be contained and minimized.
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ICT Education - 51st Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2022, Cape Town, South Africa, July 21-22, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Richard J. Barnett, Daniel B. le Roux, Douglas A. Parry, Bruce W. Watson
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 51st Annual
Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association,
SACLA 2022, held in Cape Town, South Africa, during July 21-22,
2022. The 10 full papers were included in this book were carefully
reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They were organized in
topical sections as follows: curriculum; assessment; teaching in
context; innovative teaching; and pandemic pedagogy.
Distinguished art educator and publisher shows that violating the academic rules of perspective can be as important as adhering to them. Coverage of the picture plane, foreshortening and convergence, three-point perspective, figures in perspective, more. Also analysis of the works of over twenty leading illustrators and artists, including Pieter de Hooch and Paul Cézanne. 349 illustrations.
The focus of this book is on bridging the gap between two
extreme methods for developing software. On the one hand, there are
texts and approaches that are so formal that they scare off all but
the most dedicated theoretical computer scientists. On the other,
there are some who believe that any measure of formality is a waste
of time, resulting in software that is developed by following gut
feelings and intuitions.
Kourie and Watson advocate an approach known as
"correctness-by-construction," a technique to derive algorithms
that relies on formal theory, but that requires such theory to be
deployed in a very systematic and pragmatic way. First they provide
the key theoretical background (like first-order predicate logic or
refinement laws) that is needed to understand and apply the method.
They then detail a series of graded examples ranging from binary
search to lattice cover graph construction and finite automata
minimization in order to show how it can be applied to increasingly
complex algorithmic problems. The principal purpose of this book is
to change the way software developers approach their task at
programming-in-the-small level, with a view to improving code
quality. Thus it coheres with both the IEEE's Guide to the Software
Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) recommendations, which
identifies themes covered in this book as part of the software
engineer's arsenal of tools and methods, and with the goals of the
Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) initiative, which
aims to "refound software engineering based on a solid
theory.""
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Tentmakers (Hardcover)
James W Watson, Narry F. Santos; Foreword by Jeff Christopherson
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R1,027
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With the dawn of research into leader-behaviors, scholars
differentiated between being task-oriented, which is important, and
also being people-oriented. People matter. And we tend to guard
against leader attitudes that treat persons as objects, as passive
or inert, as instruments, as so much clay to be shaped and molded.
Hannah Arendt (1958) rejected the idea that leadership is like
work, in which a craftsman picks up the raw materials and the
requisite tools in order to create a product according to an image
in his head. No, she said, leadership is social action in which we
all participate, each with his or her unique and creative
spontaneity, collaborating in an erratic cascade toward the future.
Leadership is something people do together. And to achieve that
vision, we must acknowledge each other as persons and not as
figures in a ledger or pieces on a chessboard. This volume is
intended as a call to be curious about what we take for granted as
individuals, educators, and leaders. In essence to ask ourselves
the more difficult questions about who we are as we recognize our
need for others within a community? What does it mean to be a
person and to recognize another's personhood? Nathan Harter (2021)
draws us into a space to dialogue with ourselves about the notion
of personhood as leaders. "So, what does it mean to be a person?
And what does it mean to treat someone as a person? What does
anyone owe another person?" (p. 4). In what way then do leaders
contend with such questions as they are becoming; becoming better
leaders, becoming better individuals, becoming their sacred selves.
A person-centered ethic would be universal in scope, yet adapted to
local conditions that many leaders must deal with on a daily basis.
Nearly every religion already addresses both what it means to
become a person and what one owes a person ethically, regardless of
race, ethnicity, nationality, or other affiliation. Regardless if
organizations deal directly with the notion of personhood, leaders
deal with the workplace challenges of which the human bring him or
her entire self to the unit. Hence, a comprehensive and integrate
context forces us to revisit our assumptions about who exactly is a
person and what they might deserve. This volume would bring those
voices into conversation. In addition, we intend to complicate the
question by extending similar questions into emerging areas of
increasing relevance in a technological age that crosses geographic
boundaries, such as online presences, corporate entities, and the
prospects of Artificial Intelligence. If anything, an expanded
interdisciplinary and global context makes this volume relevant and
timely for leaders and leadership studies across multiple fields of
study and professions.
With the dawn of research into leader-behaviors, scholars
differentiated between being task-oriented, which is important, and
also being people-oriented. People matter. And we tend to guard
against leader attitudes that treat persons as objects, as passive
or inert, as instruments, as so much clay to be shaped and molded.
Hannah Arendt (1958) rejected the idea that leadership is like
work, in which a craftsman picks up the raw materials and the
requisite tools in order to create a product according to an image
in his head. No, she said, leadership is social action in which we
all participate, each with his or her unique and creative
spontaneity, collaborating in an erratic cascade toward the future.
Leadership is something people do together. And to achieve that
vision, we must acknowledge each other as persons and not as
figures in a ledger or pieces on a chessboard. This volume is
intended as a call to be curious about what we take for granted as
individuals, educators, and leaders. In essence to ask ourselves
the more difficult questions about who we are as we recognize our
need for others within a community? What does it mean to be a
person and to recognize another's personhood? Nathan Harter (2021)
draws us into a space to dialogue with ourselves about the notion
of personhood as leaders. "So, what does it mean to be a person?
And what does it mean to treat someone as a person? What does
anyone owe another person?" (p. 4). In what way then do leaders
contend with such questions as they are becoming; becoming better
leaders, becoming better individuals, becoming their sacred selves.
A person-centered ethic would be universal in scope, yet adapted to
local conditions that many leaders must deal with on a daily basis.
Nearly every religion already addresses both what it means to
become a person and what one owes a person ethically, regardless of
race, ethnicity, nationality, or other affiliation. Regardless if
organizations deal directly with the notion of personhood, leaders
deal with the workplace challenges of which the human bring him or
her entire self to the unit. Hence, a comprehensive and integrate
context forces us to revisit our assumptions about who exactly is a
person and what they might deserve. This volume would bring those
voices into conversation. In addition, we intend to complicate the
question by extending similar questions into emerging areas of
increasing relevance in a technological age that crosses geographic
boundaries, such as online presences, corporate entities, and the
prospects of Artificial Intelligence. If anything, an expanded
interdisciplinary and global context makes this volume relevant and
timely for leaders and leadership studies across multiple fields of
study and professions.
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Tentmakers (Paperback)
James W Watson, Narry F. Santos; Foreword by Jeff Christopherson
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