Author: Martin Van Creveld
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Author: David Sedley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520934368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520934368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Technology and War
Author: Martin Van Creveld
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
Aircraft of the Third Reich
Author: William Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781900732079
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Developed from William Green's seminal work and completely updated, this volume covers over 90 aircraft types from the Gotha Go 242/Go 244 assault glider to the Junkers F.13 and G.38 interwar airliners.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781900732079
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Developed from William Green's seminal work and completely updated, this volume covers over 90 aircraft types from the Gotha Go 242/Go 244 assault glider to the Junkers F.13 and G.38 interwar airliners.
Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies
Author: Department of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781673606539
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781673606539
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Transatlantic Fascism
Author: Federico Finchelstein
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried to export Italian fascism to Argentina, the “most Italian” country outside of Italy. (Nearly half the country’s population was of Italian descent.) Drawing on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Finchelstein examines Italy’s efforts to promote fascism in Argentina by distributing bribes, sending emissaries, and disseminating propaganda through film, radio, and print. He investigates how Argentina’s political culture was in turn transformed as Italian fascism was appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted by the state and the mainstream press, as well as by the Left, the Right, and the radical Right. As Finchelstein explains, nacionalismo, the right-wing ideology that developed in Argentina, was not the wholesale imitation of Italian fascism that Mussolini wished it to be. Argentine nacionalistas conflated Catholicism and fascism, making the bold claim that their movement had a central place in God’s designs for their country. Finchelstein explores the fraught efforts of nationalistas to develop a “sacred” ideological doctrine and political program, and he scrutinizes their debates about Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, imperialism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism. Transatlantic Fascism shows how right-wing groups constructed a distinctive Argentine fascism by appropriating some elements of the Italian model and rejecting others. It reveals the specifically local ways that a global ideology such as fascism crossed national borders.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried to export Italian fascism to Argentina, the “most Italian” country outside of Italy. (Nearly half the country’s population was of Italian descent.) Drawing on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Finchelstein examines Italy’s efforts to promote fascism in Argentina by distributing bribes, sending emissaries, and disseminating propaganda through film, radio, and print. He investigates how Argentina’s political culture was in turn transformed as Italian fascism was appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted by the state and the mainstream press, as well as by the Left, the Right, and the radical Right. As Finchelstein explains, nacionalismo, the right-wing ideology that developed in Argentina, was not the wholesale imitation of Italian fascism that Mussolini wished it to be. Argentine nacionalistas conflated Catholicism and fascism, making the bold claim that their movement had a central place in God’s designs for their country. Finchelstein explores the fraught efforts of nationalistas to develop a “sacred” ideological doctrine and political program, and he scrutinizes their debates about Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, imperialism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism. Transatlantic Fascism shows how right-wing groups constructed a distinctive Argentine fascism by appropriating some elements of the Italian model and rejecting others. It reveals the specifically local ways that a global ideology such as fascism crossed national borders.
The German Decision to Invade Norway and Denmark
Author: Earl F. Ziemke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Right-wing Extremism in Western Europe
Author: Klaus von Beyme
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135180814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
First Published in 1988. This is a collection of articles covering right-wing extremism in Post-war Europe, including the countries of Italy, West Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135180814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
First Published in 1988. This is a collection of articles covering right-wing extremism in Post-war Europe, including the countries of Italy, West Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain.
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents During the Second World War
Author: Neville Wylie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521643580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A comprehensive English-language survey of neutral and non-belligerent states during the Second World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521643580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A comprehensive English-language survey of neutral and non-belligerent states during the Second World War.
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding
Author: Roger C. Schank
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1134919735
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1977. In the summer of 1971, there was a workshop in an ill-defined field at the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. The fifteen participants were in various ways interested in the representation of large systems of knowledge (or beliefs) based upon an understanding process operating upon information expressed in natural language. This book reflects a convergence of interests at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence. What is the nature of knowledge and how is this knowledge used? These questions lie at the core of both psychology and artificial intelligence.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1134919735
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1977. In the summer of 1971, there was a workshop in an ill-defined field at the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. The fifteen participants were in various ways interested in the representation of large systems of knowledge (or beliefs) based upon an understanding process operating upon information expressed in natural language. This book reflects a convergence of interests at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence. What is the nature of knowledge and how is this knowledge used? These questions lie at the core of both psychology and artificial intelligence.
Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition
Author: J. Michael O'Malley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521358378
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A review of the literature on learning strategies, describing and classifying learning strategies in second language learning.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521358378
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A review of the literature on learning strategies, describing and classifying learning strategies in second language learning.