Author: Christopher Coker File Type: pdf The decision to fight humanitarian wars - such as Kosovo - and the development of technology to make war more humane, illustrates the trend in the West to try to humanise war, and thereby humanise modernity. This highly controversial and cutting-edge book asks whether the attempt to make war virtual or virtuous can succeed and whether the west is deluding itself (not its enemies) in thinking that war can ever be made more humane. Christopher Cokers radical conclusion is that Western humanitarian warfare is in fact an endgame as other non-Western societies will make sure it does not succeed. Eminently readable, this book combines theory with accounts by politicians and serving military personnel, alongside illuminating literary insights. It will be vital reading for all those interested in international relations and strategic studies and defence issues, including journalists, students and politicians.
Author: Michael Foley
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Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them.British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the origins of the development of the train up to the present day. Seriousness is judged on the number of those who died. Information gleaned from various newspaper reports is compared with official reports on the accidents.The book will appeal to all those with a fascination for rail transport as well as those with a love of history.Michael Foley examines the social context of how injuries and deaths on the railways were seen in the early days, as well as how claims in the courts became more common, leading to a series of medical investigations as to how travelling and crashing at high speed affected the human body**About the Author Michael Foley is a local author who has had a number of articles published in magazines such as Best of British, This England and The Great War. He has been writing for some time and has had many books published, mainly about the area where he lives and Essex and Military History. He lives in Romford.
Author: Erika Lorraine Milam
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After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed mans evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this killer ape theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanitys problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations. A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature. **Review Why have biologists come to characterize human behavior as innately violent? In this exciting book exploring the cultural impact of science, Erika Lorraine Milam shows how postwar authors increasingly came to regard human beings as little more than cavemen with a territorial imperativeand reveals momentous shifts in twentieth-century American culture.Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin A Biography and editor of *The Quotable Darwin* Erika Lorraine Milams magisterial account of the sciences of human nature in Cold War America weaves together ideas and politics, vivid personalities and scientific evidence, mass-media hype and arduous fieldwork, educational reform and daring movies, all against the background of the tumultuous decades between Sputnik and Watergate. It is a very human story about trying to understand what it means to be human. It is also a whopping good read.Lorraine Daston, director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science In this brilliantly creative and eye-opening book, Erika Lorraine Milam shows how the Cold War radically transformed popular and scientific attitudes towards human nature. Though eugenics went out of fashion after World War II, new theories of innate human aggression came to rationalize and simplify a violent worlda development with wide-ranging ramifications at the time as well as disturbing legacies and parallels today. Milam teaches once again that appeals to nature always turn out to be politics by other means.Samuel Moyn, Yale University Milam provides a new understanding of how scientists and their publics negotiate knowledge production on topics of significant political meaning. Creatures of Cain is an important book, especially in our current political environment.Jamie Cohen-Cole, author of *The Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature* Milams fine book explores the renewed fascination in postwar America with the roots of human aggression and so makes an important contribution not only to the history of science but also to our understanding of the broader American postwar context.Hunter Heyck, author of *Herbert A. Simon The Bounds of Reason in Modern America and Age of System* About the Author Erika Lorraine Milam is professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Looking for a Few Good Males Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology.
Author: Elizabeth Johanneck
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Ferret out the haunts and habits of those who kept speakeasy doors oiled and politics crooked in the Twin Cities. If you take a tour of former blind pigs today, you will probably encounter nothing more dangerous than a life-long attraction to the 5-8 Clubs Juicy Lucy Burger, but Twin Cities Prohibition will return you to a time when honest reporting like that of Walter Liggett was answered with machine gun fire. Clink glasses with notorious characters such as Kid Cann, Dapper Dan Hogan and Doc Ames, the Shame of Minneapolis in Elizabeth Johannecks raid on this fascinating era of history. **
Author: Shmuel Lederman
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This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah Arendts political thought her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils would replace contemporary representative democracy and allow citizens to participate directly in decision-making in the public sphere. The main argument of the book is that the council system, or more broadly the vision of participatory democracy was far more important to Arendt than is commonly understood. Seeking to demonstrate the close links between the council system Arendt advocated and other major themes in her work, the book focuses particularly on her critique of the nation-state and her call for a new international order in which human dignity and the right to have rights will be guaranteed her conception of the political and the conditions that can make this experience possible the relationship between philosophy and politics and the challenge of political judgement in the modern world. **
Author: Charit Mishra
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Wireshark is a popular and powerful tool used to analyze the amount of bits and bytes that are flowing through a network. Wireshark deals with the second to seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a human readable form. Mastering Wireshark will help you raise your knowledge to an expert level. At the start of the book, you will be taught how to install Wireshark, and will be introduced to its interface so you understand all its functionalities. Moving forward, you will discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. Halfway through the book, youll be mastering the features of Wireshark, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, looking for any anomalies. As you reach to the end of the book, you will be taught how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configure it for troubleshooting purposes.
Author: Julian Barnes
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In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition growing old. The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their livessome with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In todays England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinnerand his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes. In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profounda writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention.**
Author: R. S. White
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This collection of original essays by established and emerging scholars approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. What emerges is not a single paradigm or grand narrative, but a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the interpretive, illuminating the primacy of emotions in Shakespearean scholarship and theatre. The section Emotional Inheritances looks back to Shakespeares sources and cultural backgrounds, showing that some aspects of his representations of emotions come from the classics and medieval world Shakespearean Enactments presents essays that analyse a range of emotional states and issues in the plays themselves while Legacies and Re-Enactments traces aspects of his influence through later times and down to the present day. Taken together these diverse but related essays present a kaleidoscope of suggestive approaches to the potentially endless subject of emotions in Shakespeare. **
Author: Frithjof Schuon
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This edition of renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuons writings on the subject of art, selected and edited by his wife Catherine Schuon, contains over 270 photographs200 color and 70 black and white. He then deals with the spiritual significance of the artistic productions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Far-Eastern world, while also covering the subjects of beauty and the sense of the sacred, the crafts, poetry, music, and dance, and dress and ambience.(Writings of Frithjof Schuon)