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Author : Thomas F. Brennan
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781593701123
For the first time, the entire 18-year collection of Tom's "Random Thoughts" columns from Fire Engineering magazine are assembled and presented in book format.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : UIUC:30112032958941
Author : J.C. Burke
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781864715262
A powerful story of love and loss, secrets and revelations - and making sense of a past that once seemed perfect. For Tom Brennan, life is about rugby, mates and family - until a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom's world explodes as his brother Daniel is sent to jail and the Brennans are forced to leave the small town Tom's lived in his whole life. Tom is a survivor, but he needs a ticket out of the past just as much as Daniel. He will find it in many forms . . .
Author : Richard Harris Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781599216584
“The best book about America’s first modern secret service.” --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America’s first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Author Richard Harris Smith, himself an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception as a spin-off of the Office of the Coordinator for Information to its demise under Harry Truman and reconfiguration as the CIA. During his tenure, Donovan oversaw a chaotic cast of some ten thousand agents drawn from the most conservative financial scions to the country’s most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was considered a success. But the success turned into a flop as the Japanese discovered what had happened, and hastily changed a code that had already been decrypted by the U.S. Navy. Colorful personalities and truly priceless anecdotes abound in what may arguably be called the most authoritative work on the subject.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780080461175
This volume describes how to develop Bayesian thinking, modelling and computation both from philosophical, methodological and application point of view. It further describes parametric and nonparametric Bayesian methods for modelling and how to use modern computational methods to summarize inferences using simulation. The book covers wide range of topics including objective and subjective Bayesian inferences with a variety of applications in modelling categorical, survival, spatial, spatiotemporal, Epidemiological, software reliability, small area and micro array data. The book concludes with a chapter on how to teach Bayesian thoughts to nonstatisticians. Critical thinking on causal effects Objective Bayesian philosophy Nonparametric Bayesian methodology Simulation based computing techniques Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2042 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124490223
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025417838
Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610697347
This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.S. Constitution, covering more than 170 proposals from the nation's beginnings to the present day. The U.S. Constitution was carefully written by a remarkable group of men, but subsequent generations of Americans have devoted enormous time and energy to "improving" it. From colonial times to the present day, Americans of all political persuasions have campaigned to reform, remake, or replace this key document. The growth of the Internet and self-publishing has spawned a virtual explosion of such proposals. This book documents the numerous ideas for change—some practical, some idealistic, and some bordering on fanatical—that reflect America's Constitutional heritage and could shape the nation's future. Re-Framers: 170 Eccentric, Visionary, and Patriotic Proposals to Rewrite the U.S. Constitution sets the stage for this review by describing various prequels to the U.S. Constitution and explaining how the final document emerged at the Constitutional Convention. The subsequent chapters examine many proposed alternatives and revisions to the Constitution from its establishment until the present, illuminating perceived strengths and weaknesses of the current document as well as the pros and cons of possible amendments. Readers ranging from lay citizens who are interested in constitutional issues to historians, political scientists, law professors, and reference librarians will all benefit from this unparalleled examination of proposed constitutional amendment.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Catholic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079877968
Author : Barry Spurr,Lloyd Cameron
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781741253672
This guide contains comprehensive summary and discussion of all 44 prescribed texts in the HSC Standard English course, plus a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts, plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations.
Author : Seth Stern,Stephen Wermiel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700619122
In this sweeping and revealing insider study, Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel shine a bright light on the life, career, and thought of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. Stern and Wermiel make available for the first time a striking new view of Brennan based on what Jeffrey Toobin has called "a coveted set of documents"—Justice Brennan's very personal case histories of the major battles that confronted the Supreme Court during the past half century. Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, the death penalty, obscenity law, and the constitutional right to privacy are among the many controversial and hotly-contested big-picture issues covered in the Brennan annals. But they also provide more intimate glimpses of Brennan's surprising refusal to hire female clerks, even as he wrote groundbreaking opinions relating to women's rights; the complex tension between his commitment to law and his Catholic beliefs; and new details on his unprecedented working relationship with Chief Justice Earl Warren. Drawing upon Wermiel's rare access to the Brennan case histories, half of which will not be released to the public until 2017, and his more than sixty hours of one-on-one interviews with Justice Brennan himself, the authors have crafted a compelling portrait of a judicial giant, filled with details and insights that will further cement Brennan's reputation as an epic playmaker during the Court's most liberal era.
Author : Thomas Brennan
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681743653
Sonoluminescence is the transformation of sound into light. To most who know how to do sonoluminescence, it's just a little glowing bubble levitating in a flask of water. But it holds some surprises that have been overlooked. This book looks to reform our scientific understanding of sonoluminescence and explore the practical applications as an energy source.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D02480204J
Includes history of bills and resolutions.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116501677
Author : Matthew H Wikander
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587294174
The idea that actors are hypocrites and fakes and therefore dangerous to society was widespread in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Fangs of Malice examines the equation between the vice of hypocrisy and the craft of acting as it appears in antitheatrical tracts, in popular and high culture, and especially in plays of the period. Rousseau and others argue that actors, expert at seeming other than they are, pose a threat to society; yet dissembling seems also to be an inevitable consequence of human social intercourse. The “antitheatrical prejudice” offers a unique perspective on the high value that modern western culture places on sincerity, on being true to one's own self. Taking a cue from the antitheatrical critics themselves, Matthew Wikander structures his book in acts and scenes, each based on a particular slander against actors. A prologue introduces his main issues. Act One deals with the proposition “They Dress Up”: foppish slavery to fashion, cross-dressing, and dressing as clergy. Act Two treats the proposition “They Lie” by focusing on social dissembling and the phenomenon of the self-deceiving hypocrite and the public, princely hypocrite. Act Three, “They Drink,” examines a wide range of antisocial behavior ascribed to actors, such as drinking, gambling, and whoring. An epilogue ties the ancient ideas of possession and the panic that actors inspire to contemporary anxieties about representation not only in theatre but also in the visual and literary arts. Fangs of Malice will be of great interest to scholars and students of drama as well as to theatre professionals and buffs.