Christopher Hill: 49 books

Maritime Law is an exhaustive introduction to this complex area of law. The book is ideal for newcomers and experienced professionals requiring an update on the general principles and case law. • Charterparties chapter • Passengers chapter • Salvage – includes developments in case law and...

Five years ago observers might have doubted that national foreign policies would continue to be of importance: it seemed inevitable that collective European positions were becoming ever more common and effective. Now the pendulum has swung back with a vengeance. The divided European responses to the...

In the years since 9/11, followed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, public attention the world over has been on foreign policy. From the United States to Yemen, from China to Venezuela, the quality of the decisions taken by politicians and diplomats has been under the closest scrutiny. What is...

  TINTA DIGITAL te va a enseñar cómo escribir ficción (o cómo mejorar tu novela si ya estás escribiendo) como ningun otro libro. Todo el mundo está hablando del mercadeo de los libros electrónicos y cómo hacer una fortuna,...

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

A “candid, behind-the-scenes” (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at...

When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy...

La fisica quantistica è la più solida base delle nostre conoscenze. Praticamente tutto ciò che sappiamo sul mondo passa per questa disciplina, e sono tantissime le realizzazioni pratiche che questa scienza ha reso possibili: dal laser ai transistor, dalla risonanza magnetica al telefono cellulare...

Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...

Peace and Power in Cold War Britain explores the ban the bomb and anti-Vietnam War movements from the perspective of media history, focusing in particular on the relationship between radicalism and the rise of television. In doing so, it addresses two questions, both of which seem to recur with each...

Experts describe the latest research in a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the study of groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. Intelligence does not arise only in individual brains; it also arises in groups of individuals. This is collective intelligence:...

Dopo Fisica quantistica per poeti, Christopher Hill e Leon Lederman – il premio Nobel che ha coniato l’espressione «particella di Dio» – tornano in libreria con questo nuovo libro per spiegarci, con la loro usuale chiarezza cristallina, cosa dobbiamo aspettarci dalla fisica dei prossimi anni....

Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and thought-provoking works for Elders companies anywhere. The RADA Elders Company began in 2013 in order to provide opportunities for older people to experience the...

While a number of gases are implicated in global warming, carbon dioxide is the mimportant contributor, and in one sense the entire phenomena can be seen as a human-induced perturbation of the carbon cycle. The Global Carbon Cycle offers a scientific assessmof the state of currknowledge of the carbon...