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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.
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Stage Illusions
Will Goldston
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Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the
early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought
to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged
adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations
that water should govern the region's fate. He compiled both the
area's first detailed water maps and a plan for Palestine's
national borders that predicted and in its insistence on
partnership between Arabs and Jews might have prevented the
decades of conflict to come. In World War I, he ran a spy network
with his sister, Sarah, that enabled the British to capture
Jerusalem but also made him the rival of his colleague T.E.
Lawrence. There is evidence that beautiful, rebellious Sarah, who
died tragically in 1917, was the only woman the enigmatic Lawrence
ever loved. Ultimately, Aaron Aaronsohn also paid for his devotion
to the new nation with his life. A history that speaks directly to
the present, Aaronsohn's Maps reveals for the first time
Aaronsohn's key role in establishing Israel and the enduring
importance of Aaronsohn's maps in Middle Eastern politics today.
In this new and original study of the origins of the United States
Constitution, award winning scholar Lawrence Goldstone demonstrates
that what was left out of the document by the Framers is of equal
importance to what was included. Because of the deep divisions
present in the United States at the beginning of the Republic,
delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were unwilling,
and often unable, to forge a plan for government that would be both
comprehensive and sufficiently acceptable to competing interests to
achieve ratification. Rather than risk rejection, they chose to
leave many key areas of governance vague or undefined, hoping the
flaws could be dealt with after the Constitution had become the
"supreme law of the land." Although successful in the short term,
that strategy left the Constitution excessively prone to subjective
interpretation and, as a result, the United States was rendered
vulnerable to anti-democratic initiatives and the perpetuation of
minority rule, both of which plague the nation today. Thus, a
constitution drafted to ensure "a more perfect union" has instead
begotten dysfunction and disunion. The ossification of America's
political process is to a significant degree due not to what the
Constitution says but rather from what it fails to say. The only
way to address the threat these omissions engender is to identify
the flaws and then complete the Constitution by fashioning
legislative solutions to fill the gaps.
A Dusty Grey Pony is an in-depth study of the Connemara Pony breed
in Australia. Illustrated with charts and photographs, and
interspersed with many personal anecdotes, it details all of the
stallion and mare families contained within the Connemara Pony
Breeders' Society of Australia's studbook and traces the pedigrees
back to the original ponies of the Irish studbook. Book 1 focuses
on the ponies whose pedigrees can be traced back through the sire
line to the first pony recorded in the Irish studbook, Cannon Ball.
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Combinatorial Number Theory - Proceedings of the "Integers Conference 2011", Carrollton, Georgia, USA, October 26-29, 2011 (Hardcover)
Aviezri S Fraenkel, Daniel A Goldston, Neil Hindman, Frank Thorne, John H. Johnson, …
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R5,462
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This volume contains selected refereed papers based on lectures
presented at the "Integers Conference 2011", an international
conference in combinatorial number theory that was held in
Carrollton, Georgia, United States in October 2011. This was the
fifth Integers Conference, held bi-annually since 2003. It featured
plenary lectures presented by Ken Ono, Carla Savage, Laszlo
Szekely, Frank Thorne, and Julia Wolf, along with sixty other
research talks. This volume consists of ten refereed articles,
which are expanded and revised versions of talks presented at the
conference. They represent a broad range of topics in the areas of
number theory and combinatorics including multiplicative number
theory, additive number theory, game theory, Ramsey theory,
enumerative combinatorics, elementary number theory, the theory of
partitions, and integer sequences.
The contributions to this volume are concerned with perceptual
learning in humans and machines. As people gain experience in the
world, their perceptual abilities are often times radically
transformed. Children organize their perceptual world differently
from adults, and experts often have unique perceptual skills within
their domain of expertise.;In a variety of ways, the contributors
to this volume argue that perceptual abilities, rather than being
fixed and stable, are flexible and influenced by tasks, needs and
environment. This book focuses on recent research techniques for
exploring the mechanisms that drive perceptual learning in humans.
It creates a synthesis between empirical research and formal
modelling. Collectively, the contributions reflect an
interdisciplinary approach to the problem of perceptual learning,
describing research from developmental psychology, adult
perception, language acquisition, expert/novice differences,
computational modelling and neuroscience.
This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized
experts' essays that provide a current and comprehensive
examination of all dimensions of international population policies.
The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and
empirical evidence for policy formation, the policy levers and
modelling, as well as the new policy challenges. The section
Theoretical Foundations reviews population issues today, population
theories, the population policies' framework as well as the
linkages between population, development, health, food systems, and
the environment. The next section Empirical Evidence discusses
international approaches to design and implement population
policies on a regional level. The section Policy Levers and
Modelling reviews the tools and the policy levers that are
available to design, implement, monitor, and measure the impact of
population policies. Finally, the section New Policy Challenges
examines the recurrent and emerging issues in population policies.
This section also discusses prospects for demographic
sustainability as well as future considerations for population
policies. As such this Handbook provides an important and
structured examination of contemporary population policies, their
evolution, and their prospects.
Scientific and historical studies in the Nineteenth-century
challenged Christian believers to restate their faith in ways which
took account of new knowledge. An example of this is the influence
of philosophical idealism on a generation of writers and
theologians, principally centred around the University of Oxford.
However, these optimistic and socially-privileged men and women
failed to come to terms with the mass movements and rapid changes
in fin-de-siecle England. The Church moved out of touch with
national life and is reaping the consequences today.
This reference describes revolutionary events that have affected
and often changed the course of history. The past 200 years have
seen a torrent of political revolutions - cataclysms on every
continent that have shaped the world as we know it. This work
includes more than 200 articles by leading scholars from around the
world that provide answers to specific questions as well as
in-depth treatment of events and trends accompanying revolutions.
The contents include descriptions of specific revolutions,
important revolutionary figures, and major revolutionary themes
such as communism and socialism, ideology and nationalism.
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on
the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They
have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and
have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times
suffered devastating defeat. This Very Short Introduction
illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes
and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to
dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with
the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces
the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and
Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional
revolutions such as in America, and their oppositeâthe communist
revolutions of the 20th century. He shows how revolutions
overturned dictators in Nicaragua and Iran and brought the collapse
of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and examines
the new wave of non-violent "color" revolutionsâthe Philippines'
Yellow Revolution, Ukraine's Orange Revolutionâand the Arab
Uprisings of 2011-12 that rocked the Middle East. In this new
edition, Goldstone also sheds light on the major theories of
revolution, exploring the causes of revolutionary waves, the role
of revolutionary leaders, the strategies and processes of
revolutionary change, and the intersection between revolutions and
shifting patterns of global power. Further, he explores the role
social media and nonviolence play in modern revolutions. Finally,
he examines the reasons for diverse revolutionary outcomes, from
democracy to civil war and authoritarian rule, and the likely
future of revolution in years to come.
This reference text provides the theoretical foundations, the
emergence, and the application areas of Blockchain in an
easy-to-understand manner that would be highly helpful for the
researchers, academicians, and industry professionals to understand
the disruptive potentials of Blockchain. It explains Blockchain
concepts related to Industry 4.0, Smart Healthcare, and the
Internet of Things (IoT) and explores Smart Contracts and Consensus
algorithms. This book will serve as an ideal reference text for
graduate students and academic researchers in electrical
engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer
engineering, and information technology. This book * Discusses
applications of blockchain technology in diverse sectors such as
industry 4.0, education, finance, and supply chain. * Provides
theoretical concepts, applications, and research advancements in
the field of blockchain. * Covers industry 4.0 digitization
platform and blockchain for data management in industry 4.0 in a
comprehensive manner. * Emphasizes analysis and design of consensus
algorithms, fault tolerance, and strategy to choose the correct
consensus algorithm. * Introduces security issues in the industrial
internet of things, internet of things, blockchain integration, and
blockchain-based applications. The text presents in-depth coverage
of theoretical concepts, applications and advances in the field of
blockchain technology. This book will be an ideal reference for
graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering
fields such as electrical, electronics and communication, computer,
and information technology.
This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken,
Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a
hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which
highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural
movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the
USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through
their writings, their witness texts and their political activism.
The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel
Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and
other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period
sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist
cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women
on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not
merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways
of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature
mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a
role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century.
It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history
and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the
social and literary history of the Thirties.
For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the
Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of
junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions
facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years
ago. What were the key political, economic and religious parameters
operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College's
founding? What was the religious scene like at the moment when the
Rev. Samson Occom of the Mohegan nation and the Rev. Eleazar
Wheelock of Connecticut, two men from very different backgrounds
whose improbable meeting occurred during the Great Awakening of the
early 1740s, set about establishing a new school in the northern
woods in the 1760s? How were the agendas of contemporaries
differently mediated by the religious beliefs with which they
acted, on the one hand, and the emerging thought world of political
economy, very broadly understood, on the other? These are among the
rich and variegated topics addressed in Dartmouth and the World,
which breaks the mold of the traditional commemorative volume.
This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken,
Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a
hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which
highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural
movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the
USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through
their writings, their witness texts and their political activism.
The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel
Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and
other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period
sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist
cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women
on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not
merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways
of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature
mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a
role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century.
It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history
and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the
social and literary history of the Thirties.
What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary
revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population
changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal
crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how
state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires
followed the same patterns, triggered when inflexible political,
economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by cumulative
changes in population structure that collided with popular
aspirations and state-elite relations. Examining the great
revolutions of Europe-the English and French Revolutions-and the
great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman
Turkey, China, and Japan, he shows how long cycles of revolutionary
crises and stability similarly shaped politics in Europe and Asia,
but led to different outcomes. In this 25th anniversary edition,
Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last
twenty-five years, from the Philippines and other color revolutions
to the Arab Uprisings and the rise of the Islamic State. In a new
introduction, he re-examines his pioneering look at the role of
population changes-such as rising youth cohorts, urbanization,
shifting elite mobility--as continuing causal factors of
revolutions and rebellions. The new concluding chapter updates his
major theory and looks to the future of revolutions in the Middle
East, Asia, and Africa.
What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary
revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population
changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal
crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how
state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires
followed the same patterns, triggered when inflexible political,
economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by cumulative
changes in population structure that collided with popular
aspirations and state-elite relations. Examining the great
revolutions of Europe-the English and French Revolutions-and the
great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman
Turkey, China, and Japan, he shows how long cycles of revolutionary
crises and stability similarly shaped politics in Europe and Asia,
but led to different outcomes. In this 25th anniversary edition,
Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last
twenty-five years, from the Philippines and other color revolutions
to the Arab Uprisings and the rise of the Islamic State. In a new
introduction, he re-examines his pioneering look at the role of
population changes-such as rising youth cohorts, urbanization,
shifting elite mobility--as continuing causal factors of
revolutions and rebellions. The new concluding chapter updates his
major theory and looks to the future of revolutions in the Middle
East, Asia, and Africa.
The work of Richard M. Shiffrin has highly impacted the field of
cognitive science, and current developments within perception and
memory have been influenced by his ideas. In this volume, several
key figures in the field will comment on these developments and put
them in a wider perspective. Although many theories and models have
been presented in recent years for various aspects of human
cognition, there have not been many comparative evaluations that
focus on how these models have really advanced our understanding of
the underlying mechanisms. This volume will be a valuable source of
information for both cognitive scientists working in the field, and
researchers and students looking for a clear, accessible
presentation of the key problems in cognitive science. Highlighted
sections include attention and perception, memory functions and
processes, knowledge representation and semantics, modelling
approaches and applications.
The aim of the book is to highlight and begin to give "voice" to some of the notable "silences" evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The coauthors hope to redress the present topical imbalance in the field. In particular, the authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; temporality in the study of contention; the spatial dimensions of contention; leadership in contention; the role of threat in contention; religion and contention; and contention in the context of demographic and life-course processes.
This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much
needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in
international humanitarian law. Written by a former UN Chief
Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this book
analyses the legal and political underpinnings of international
judicial institutions, it provides the reader with an understanding
of both the historical development of institutions directed towards
international justice, as well as an overview of the differences
and similarities between such organizations. New to this edition:
New updates on recently found records of the United Nations War
Crimes Commission. Updates on the recent judicial decisions of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Updates on the Special
Tribunal For Lebanon A re-evaluation of the future of the
International Criminal Court International Judicial Institutions:
Second Edition will be of great interest to students of
International Politics, Criminology and Law.
A volume compiled by a group of noted psychologists, The Present and Future of Primary Prevention honors a pioneer and ground-breaker in the study of the psychology of prevention, George Albee. The contributors' writings reveal a strong appreciation and gratitude for Albee's efforts in this continually changing field and reflect the current status, the history of, and the state-of-the-art in the psychology of prevention. This book is concise, up-to-date, and highly valuable to researchers and practioners alike. Among the topics addressed are substance abuse prevention; stress reduction; cardivascular disease prevention; and the relationship between development, long-term prognosis, and the negative sypmtos of schizophrenia. The Present and Future of Primary Prevention will be of value to researchers, practitioners, and students in clinical psychology, community psychology, public health, mental health, psychology, social work, family studies, and sociology. "Many of the major concerns facing prevention, especially in mental health, are to be found here. The book will serve as a useful reference source." --Health Psychology Update
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