Author: Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia File Type: pdf First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio. Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnesia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes who still lived on the land prevented the marquis from taking possession. Ruined and on the verge of madness, Lezay-Marnesia returned to France just as the Revolution was taking a more radical turn. He barely escaped the guillotine before dying a few years later in poverty and desperation. This edition of the Letters, introduced and edited by Benjamin Hoffmann and superbly translated by Alan J. Singerman, presents the work for the first time since the beginning of the nineteenth centuryand the first time ever in English. The volume features a rich collection of supplementary documents, including texts by Lezay-Marnesias son, Albert de Lezay-Marnesia, and the American novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This fresh perspective on the young United States as it was represented in French literature casts new light on a captivating and tumultuous period in the history of two nations. **

Author: Jessica M. Frazier File Type: pdf In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnsons refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention. While other attempts at womens international cooperation and transnational feminism have led to cultural imperialism or imposition of American ways on others, Jessica M.Frazier reveals an instance when American women crossed geopolitical boundaries to criticize American Cold War culture, not promote it. The American women Frazier studies not only solicited Vietnamese womens opinions and advice on how to end the war but also viewed them as paragons of a new womanhood by which American women could rework their ideas of gender, revolution, and social justice during an era of reinvigorated feminist agitation. Unlike the many histories of the Vietnam War that end with an explanation of why the memory of the war still divides U.S. society, by focusing on linkages across national boundaries, Frazier illuminates a significant moment in history when women formed effective transnational relationships on genuinely cooperative terms. **

Author: Alex Roland File Type: pdf This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to hasten the advent of machines that think. From 1983 to 1993, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent an extra $1 billion on computer research aimed at achieving artificial intelligence. The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) was conceived as an integrated plan to promote computer chip design and manufacture, computer architecture, and artificial intelligence software. What distinguished SCI from other large-scale technology programs was that it self-consciously set out to advance an entire research front. The SCI succeeded in fostering significant technological successes, even though it never achieved machine intelligence. The goal provided a powerful organizing principle for a suite of related research programs, but it did not solve the problem of coordinating these programs. In retrospect, it is hard to see how it could have.In Strategic Computing, Alex Roland and Philip Shiman uncover the roles played in the SCI by technology, individuals, and social and political forces. They explore DARPA culture, especially the information processing culture within the agency, and they evaluate the SCIs accomplishments and set them in the context of overall computer development during this period. Their book is an important contribution to our understanding of the complex sources of contemporary computing.

Author: Michael I. C. Nwogugu File Type: pdf Illegal online file sharing costs companies tens of billions of dollars of lost revenues around the world annually and results in lost productivity, various psychological issues, and significant reduction of incentives to create and innovate. Legislative, technical, and enforcement efforts have failed. This book presents psychological theories about why people illegally share files online analyzes and characterizes optimal sanctions for illegal online file sharing introduces new models for pricing of network-access and digital-content to help reduce illegal online file sharing introduces new content control and P2P systems and explains why game theory does not work in pricing of network access. **About the Author Michael Nwogugu, CPA (inactive USA), CMA (inactive USA), is an Author, Entrepreneur and Consultant. Mr. Nwogugu was most recently an Executive Vice President at an internet-based sports entertainment company in the US and has held senior management and Board of Director positions in companies in the US and Nigeria. Mr. Nwogugu has completed mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances that were collectively worth more than US$10 Billion. Mr. Nwogugu has advised Boards of Directors and senior management about sensitive issues such as executive compensation exemptions from franchising disclosures, laboremployee classifications tax consequences complex accounting cost reduction transfer pricing incentive plans, strategy etc Mr. Nwogugu has conducted due diligence on more than six hundred commercial mortgages ($3.5+ Billion), more than six hundred business loans ($3+ Billion) and more than four hundred and fifty commercial real estate leases ($2.75+ Billion). Mr. Nwogugu has served as an Article Reviewer for the Journal of Economics & Finance Information, Communication and Society Economic Modelling Urban Affairs Review British Journal of Management Technology Analysis & Strategic Management and Journal of Economics & Business. Mr. Nwogugu has written and published articles in international referred journals such as Managerial Auditing Journal International Journal of Law & Management Journal of Hedge Funds & Derivatives, Applied Mathematics & Computation Journal Of International Banking Law & Regulation Computer & Telecommunications Law Review Journal Of Risk Finance Corporate Control & Ownership International Journal Of Mathematics, Game Theory & Algebra Banking Law Journal (US) Journal Of Bankruptcy Law (Pratts US) and Chaos & Complexity Letters (US). Mr. Nwogugus articles have been cited as authoritative evidence in court cases in the US. Mr. Nwogugu wrote the book titled Risk In the Global Real Estate Market (John Wiley & Sons 2012) and is now completing four books, two of which are titled Earnings Management, Incentives & Economic Growth and Mechanism Design, Systemic Risk And Risk Regulation Institutions both of which will be published by AshgateGower in 2015. Mr. Nwogugu earned a B.Sc. (Architecture) degree from University of Nigeria (Nigeria) a B.Arch. (Architecture) degree from the City University of New York, and an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University (NewYork City, USA). Mr. Nwogugu attended Suffolk University Law Schools Juris Doctor degree program for two years, and is currently an External PhD (Law & Economics) candidate at a university in Europe.