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The British Nuclear Deterrent

The British Nuclear Deterrent

The United Kingdom was the first country to undertake atomic energy research and development for military purposes. In April 1940 the British government commissioned a group of scientists to study the possibilities of manufacturing a ‘uranium bomb’ in wartime. Originally published in 1984 this book traces the development of British nuclear weapons from those early times to the present. It examines the decisions of Atlee and the MacMillan governments in sustaining the nuclear deterrent through the hydrogen bomb and the Polaris programme and discusses in detail the decision to proceed with Trident. Throughout the narrative is set against the background of British domestic politics and Anglo-American relations. The book demonstrates why for nearly forty years British governments remained committed to an independent nuclear deterrent as the last line of defence should NATO fail. | The British Nuclear Deterrent

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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government’s strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970. Written with full access to the UK documentary record Volume II examines the controversies that developed over nuclear policy following the arrival in office of a Labour government led by Harold Wilson in October 1964 that openly questioned the independence of the deterrent. Having decided to preserve the Polaris programme Labour ministers were nevertheless committed not to develop another generation of nuclear weapons beyond those in the pipeline placing major doubts over the long-term future of the nuclear programme and collaboration with the United States. Defence planners also became increasingly concerned that the deployment of Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences around Moscow threatened to undermine the ability of Polaris to fulfil its role as a national strategic nuclear deterrent. During 1967 under heavy pressures to control defence spending a protracted debate was conducted within Whitehall over the future of Polaris and how to respond to the evolving ABM challenge. The volume concludes with Labour’s defeat at the general election of June 1970 by which time the Royal Navy had assumed the nuclear deterrent role from the RAF and plans had already been formulated for a UK project to improve Polaris which could both ensure its continuing credibility and rejuvenate the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics Cold War history nuclear proliferation and international relations. | The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

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Twentieth Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox

This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long evolution of the audience nationally and globally. In the beginning William Fox grabbed a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to build a business based on a genuinely new art form. This study explores the enduring legacy of F. W. Murnau Will Rogers Shirley Temple John Ford Spyros Skouras George Lucas James Cameron and many others offering discussion of those behind and in front of the camera delving deeply into the history and evolution of the studio. Key films covered include The Iron Horse The Grapes of Wrath How Green Was My Valley Forever Amber All About Eve Cleopatra The Sound of Music Planet of the Apes Star Wars Titanic and Fight Club providing an extensive look at the successes and flops that shaped not only Twentieth Century Fox but the entire Hollywood landscape. Through a chronological study the book charts the studio’s impact right up to the present day providing a framework to allow us to look to the future of moviemaking and film consumption. Lively and fresh in its approach this book is a comprehensive study of the studio for scholars students and enthusiasts of Hollywood cinema film history and media industries.

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The Keresan Bridge A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology

The Keresan Bridge A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology

This is an unusual excursion into American Indian culture history by a British social anthropologist. It examines theories of the development of different Pueblo social structures with particular attention to Eggan. From a detailed re-analysis of the evidence and a consideration of material from the Eastern Keresan Pueblo of Cochiti based on his own fieldwork Dr Fox concludes that the theory that all Pueblos were derived from a common base is no longer tenable and that a diversity of origins is more probable. Apart from its contribution to Amerindian studies the book is of particular interest as an approach to modern culture history by a social anthropologist. | The Keresan Bridge A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology

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NATO at 70 A Historiographical Approach

NATO at 70 A Historiographical Approach

Reflecting on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 70 and the organisation’s eventful history this book challenges the traditional crisis-led approach that sees crises as key driving forces that pushed the alliance in radically new directions. It assesses the long-term development of NATO since its foundation. Based on a wide range of case studies and on multinational archival research the chapters in this book demonstrate the continuous effort of the NATO member states to build a shared political space and a common security thinking to enhance the Alliance resilience and deterrent function. The authors also correct the common tendency to focus on either the political or the military dimension of the Alliance. They show the deeply ingrained interdependence between the two and how their complexity has shaped the work strategy and development of NATO over time. Thanks to its innovative approach and long-term scope this volume offers new exciting insights into the history of the Alliance. This book comprises articles originally published in Cold War History. | NATO at 70 A Historiographical Approach

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Storytelling for Virtual Reality Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives

Storytelling for Virtual Reality Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives

Storytelling for Virtual Reality serves as a bridge between students of new media and professionals working between the emerging world of VR technology and the art form of classical storytelling. Rather than examining purely the technical the text focuses on the narrative and how stories can best be structured created and then told in virtual immersive spaces. Author John Bucher examines the timeless principles of storytelling and how they are being applied transformed and transcended in Virtual Reality. Interviews conversations and case studies with both pioneers and innovators in VR storytelling are featured including industry leaders at LucasFilm 20th Century Fox Oculus Insomniac Games and Google. For more information about story Virtual Reality this book and its author please visit StorytellingforVR. com | Storytelling for Virtual Reality Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives

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Research in Photography Behind the Image

Research in Photography Behind the Image

A body of photographic work is developed through knowledge gained in exploring the medium: investigating histories and theories of photography observing the world reading and listening taking part in debate and critical reflection. With 150 images bringing together an eclectic range of photographic styles and genres Fox and Caruana demonstrate how research can lead to fruitful original photography projects. Designed to help you create better pictures for portfolio or for profit Research in Photography offers essential research and communication techniques to complement your technical expertise through a range of practical tools and examples. Two new chapters have been added to this second edition on 'Writing for Research' and 'Commercial Practice' as well as additional coverage discussing how to secure funding and professionalizing research. | Research in Photography Behind the Image

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Roots Music

Roots Music

When we talk about roots music what do we mean and what is at stake? Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt delves into these questions in an introductory bibliographic essay and selects twenty-one articles published between 1974 and 2010 that have advanced our knowledge and insight about this topic. The collection focuses on the nexus between popular musics in North America and Europe and the traditional musics that have been their foundation on both the real and imagined connections between the present and past: Olly Wilson and Gerhard Kubik on African American music Aaron Fox on country music Eric Lott on blackface minstrelsy Barry Shank on the elusive Bob Dylan. Works by Sara Cohen Beverley Diamond Peter Manuel Svanibor Pettan and others range on subjects from the accordion balladry and blues to Bulgarian folk orchestras flamenco gospel Irish sessions Native American women musicians the Roma Tex-Mex music and zydeco.

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Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

This is a how to guide for making beginning calculations in modern physics. The academic level is second year college physical science and engineering students. The calculations are performed in Mathematica and stress graphical visualization units and numerical answers. The techniques show the student how to learn the physics without being hung up on the math. There is a continuing movement to introduce more advanced computational methods into lower-level physics courses. Mathematica is a unique tool in that code is written as human readable much like one writes a traditional equation on the board. Key Features: Concise summary of the physics concepts. Over 300 worked examples in Mathematica. Tutorial to allow a beginner to produce fast results. The companion code for this book can be found here: https://physics. bu. edu/~rohlf/code. html James Rohlf is a Professor at Boston University. As a graduate student he worked on the first experiment to trigger on hadron jets with a calorimeter Fermilab E260. His thesis (G. C. Fox advisor C. Barnes R. P. Feynman R. Gomez) used the model of Field and Feynman to compare observed jets from hadron collisions to that from electron-positron collisions and made detailed acceptance corrections to arrive at first the measurement of quark-quark scattering cross sections. His thesis is published in Nuclear Physics B171 (1980) 1. At the Cornell Electron Storage Rings he worked on the discovery of the Upsilon (4S) resonance and using novel event shape variables developed by Stephen Wolfram and his thesis advisor Geoffrey Fox. He performed particle identification of kaons and charmed mesons to establish the quark decay sequence b –> c. At CERN he worked on the discovery of the W and Z bosons and measurement of their properties. Presently he is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which discovered the Higgs boson and is searching for new phenomena beyond the standard model. | Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

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An Introduction to Religion and Politics Theory and Practice

An Introduction to Religion and Politics Theory and Practice

This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible in-depth guide to the subject’s most significant debates issues and methodologies. It begins by asking the basic questions of how social scientists see religion and why religion remains relevant to politics in the modern era. Fox examines the influence of religious identity beliefs institutions and legitimacy on politics and surveys important approaches and issues found in the literature on religion and politics. Four new chapters on religious policy around the world political secularism and religious freedom and human rights have been added to fully revised content covering religious identity rational choice approaches to religious politics worldviews beliefs doctrines ideologies institutions and political mobilization fundamentalism secularization and religion and conflict. This work will be essential reading for all students of religion and politics comparative politics international relations and security studies. | An Introduction to Religion and Politics Theory and Practice

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Clausewitz Philosopher of War

Clausewitz Philosopher of War

In this edition originally published in 1983 the late Professor Raymond Aron one of France’s most distinguished social scientists presented a major re-evaluation of Carl von Clausewitz ‘the genius of war’. He sees in Clausewitz a political philosopher of major importance whose impact and significance permeate many facets of modern society. Yet Clausewitz’s reputation was entirely posthumous for his great work On War was published after his death and in his lifetime he achieved only a limited reputation as a military thinker and planner. Even today he is more often quoted than closely read. Aron begins by elucidating the complexity of Clausewitz’s thought and by describing his main ideas. He gives an account of the successive phases in the development of On War and traces the different interpretations of Clausewitz’s doctrine in Germany in France and in Soviet Russia. Finally Aron analyses many aspects of the present world using the concepts of Clausewitz and is therefore able to examine such modern phenomena as the theory of the nuclear deterrent and ‘total war’ in Clausewitzian terms. This is a book of piercing insights by a writer of world-wide reputation who used the Clausewitz world-view as a means of political analysis. It is thus still of great importance and interest to contemporary historians and to all who are concerned with military and political affairs. | Clausewitz Philosopher of War

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Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

Drawing on a dynamic set of graphic texts of girlhood Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations cultural practices and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence are under erasure within mainstream images and scripts about the schoolgirl? In what ways has the schoolgirl been pictured in graphic narratives to communicate feminist knowledge represent trauma and/or testify about social violence? Graphic Girlhoods focuses on these questions to make visible and ultimately question how sexism racism and other forms of structural violence inform education and girlhood. From picture books about mean girls like The Recess Queen or graphic novels like Jane The Fox and Me to Ronald Searle’s ghastly pupils in the St. Trinian’s cartoons to graphic memoirs about schooling by adult women such as Ruby Bridges’s Through My Eyes and Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons texts for and about the schoolgirl stake a claim in ongoing debates about gender and education. | Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

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A Place of Springs

A Place of Springs

In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist reading of the Quaker tradition considering George Fox and the writings of Quaker women exploring the themes of inner light and beauty as alternatives to violence and the obstacles to building such an alternative world. After showing how seventeenth-century Quakers offered a different option for modernity she maps the philosophical and ethical implications of engaging with the world through beauty and its transforming power. Written for everyone interested in contemporary spirtuality it explains how Quaker ideas can provide a way to transform our violent world into one that celebrates life rather than death peace rather than violence. This work is the second of two posthumous publications to complete Grace M. Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty collection which began with Foundations of Violence (Routledge 2004). | A Place of Springs

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An Autism Casebook for Parents and Practitioners The Child Behind the Symptoms

An Autism Casebook for Parents and Practitioners The Child Behind the Symptoms

Drawing from the author’s extensive clinical experience this autism casebook offers stimulating reflections and a fresh perspective on how we assess diagnose and ultimately treat young children thought to be autistic. Challenging what she perceives as the rampant over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of autism and the commonly accepted status of autism as an unchangeable trait Dr. Levin Fox illustrates how the developmental play strategies of DIRFloortime combined with the creative psychological perspective of Reuven Feuerstein create an effective way of identifying the child's strengths behind the autistic symptoms. The chapters are an accessible mix of clinical insights theoretical reflections and vivid case stories that argue and illustrate that qualitative assessment methods based on play have the power to yield a more accurate clinical understanding of a child's difficulties—and strengths—than conventional symptom-focused autism assessment methods. This engaging casebook will stimulate practitioners educators and students in the field of autism to question commonly held assumptions when assessing and treating autistic children as it both urges and illustrates more reflective practice. Parents of children considered autistic will find renewed encouragement and hope in these enlightening case stories. | An Autism Casebook for Parents and Practitioners The Child Behind the Symptoms

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Deterrence Choice and Crime Volume 23 Contemporary Perspectives

Deterrence Choice and Crime Volume 23 Contemporary Perspectives

Deterrence Choice and Crime explores the various dimensions of modern deterrence theory relevant research and practical applications. Beginning with the classical roots of deterrence theory in Cesare Beccaria’s profoundly important contributions to modern criminological thought the book draws out the many threads in contemporary criminology that are explicitly mentioned or at least hinted by Beccaria. These include sanction risk perceptions and their behavioral consequences the deterrent efficacy of the certainty versus the severity of punishment the role of celerity of punishment in the deterrence process informal versus formal deterrence and individual differences in deterrence. The richness of the volume is seen in the inclusion of chapters that focus on the theoretical development of deterrence across disciplines such as criminology and economics. In an innovative section the role of agents of deterrence is considered. Lessons are learned from the practical applications of deterrence undertaken in the areas of policing corrections and the community. The closing section includes Michael Tonry’s An Honest Politician’s Guide to Deterrence: Certainty Severity Celerity and Parsimony a reminder of Beccaria’s dictum that it is better to prevent crimes than punish them. In the current environment deterrence arguments are routinely used to justify policies that do just the opposite. Ray Paternoster who contributed two chapters passed away as this volume was being finalized. Fittingly this book is dedicated to him and ends with Alex Piquero’s poignant remembrance of Ray a path-breaking deterrence scholar beloved mentor and ardent supporter of social justice. Suitable for researchers and graduate students as well as for advanced courses in criminology this book breaks new ground in theorizing the effects of punishment and other sanctions on crime control. | Deterrence Choice and Crime Volume 23 Contemporary Perspectives

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The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

In this updated edition of the industry staple veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments—film television and online/digital—providing you with an insider’s perspective that can't be found anywhere else. Learn how an idea moves from concept to profit and how distribution dominates the bottom line: Hollywood stars may make the headlines but marketing and distribution are the behind-the-scenes drivers converting content into cash. The third edition: Includes perspectives from key industry executives at studios networks agencies and online leaders including Fox Paramount Lucasfilm Endeavor Tencent MPAA YouTube Amazon and many more; Explores the explosive growth of the Chinese market including box office trends participation in financing Hollywood feature films and the surge in online usage; Illustrates how online streaming leaders like Netflix Amazon Apple YouTube Hulu and Facebook are changing the way TV content is distributed and consumed and in cases how these services are moving into theatrical markets; Analyzes online influences and disruption throughout the distribution chain and explains the risks and impact stemming from changing access points (e. g. stand-alone apps) delivery methods (over-the-top) and consumption patterns (e. g. binge watching); Breaks down historical film windows the economic drivers behind them and how online and digital delivery applications are changing the landscape. Ulin provides the virtual apprenticeship you need to demystify and manage the complicated media markets understand how digital distribution has impacted the ecosystem and glimpse into the future of how film and television content will be financed distributed and watched. An online eResource contains further discussion on topics presented in the book. | The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

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