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The Making of the Modern Admiralty
British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making...
Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe
Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “model colonists” to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation...
Military Life 101
Basic Training for New Military Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Making the most of all your new military life has to offer can be difficult when you aren’t familiar with what life in the military really means. Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families answers many of the questions that service members and their family may have about life in...
by Major Donald I. Blackwelder
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This paper examines the long development of precision guided bombs to show that the accuracy attained in Desert Storm was an evolution not a revolution in aerial warfare. This evolution continues and gives offensive airpower the advantage over the defense. Guided bomb development started during World...
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore...
Of Those We Loved
A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The Author was among the first to respond to Kitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war as a Private and, within weeks, he and the Battalion were heading for Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force.
In...
Burma
The State of Myanmar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2001
Long isolated by rigid military rule, Burma, or Myanmar, is one of the least known, significantly sized states in the world. Possessed of a rich cultural history yet facing a range of challenges to stability and growth, it has struck the imaginations of those concerned not only with geopolitical or trade...
Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho)
North Eastern Africa Part I
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.
Concise,...
Living the Maximized Life
How to Win No Matter Where You're Starting From
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2006
Learn How to Make the Most of Your Life Starting Today!
Quality of life is mostly a matter of choice, not birth. Most importantly, it is God’s will for His children.
In order to maximize all aspects of your life and to achieve the life God wills, believers must actively participate....
Cities in the Third Wave
The Technological Transformation of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. Arguing that technology has both created and recast cities throughout history, Leonard I. Ruchelman explores how cities are being affected by new technology and how they will evolve in the future....
by Eugene I. Gusev, Veronika I. Skvortsova
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Ischemia is localized tissue anemia due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood, thus brain ischemia is the condition where insufficient blood is delivered to the brain. Many physiological processes occurring in the brain critically depend on the state of its energy metabolism. The state of...
Uwenzi
The Pan-African Factor, a 21St-Century View
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
UWENZI:The Pan-African Factor, A 21st-Century View seeks to facilitate a much-needed and provocative 21st-century dialogue on optimizing the global linkage, networking and appreciation of African peoples, resources, culture and/or interests, i.e., Pan-Africanism. As a focus point, the book posits...
by I. R.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
REVERSE ALL TYPES OF DIABETES IN 3 WEEKS INCLUDING TYPE 1, TYPE 2 AND OTHER TYPES OF DIABETES
by Aaron S. Allen, Martin Bemmann, Hannes Bergthaller
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations...