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Summary Book Review National history and views of London with its environs, 2 vols by :
Download or read book National history and views of London with its environs, 2 vols written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 by Alexander Gillespie:
Download or read book A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and ascribing rules to them, protecting civilians who are either inadvertently or intentionally caught up between them, and controlling the use of particular classes of weapons that may be used in times of conflict. Thus it is that this work is divided into three substantial parts: Volume 1 on the laws affecting combatants and captives; Volume 2 on civilians; and Volume 3 on the law of arms control. This second book on civilians examines four different topics. The first topic deals with the targetting of civilians in times of war. This discussion is one which has been largely governed by the developments of technologies which have allowed projectiles to be discharged over ever greater areas, and attempts to prevent their indiscriminate utilisation have struggled to keep pace. The second topic concerns the destruction of the natural environment, with particular regard to the utilisation of starvation as a method of warfare, and unlike the first topic, this one has rarely changed over thousands of years, although contemporary practices are beginning to represent a clear break from tradition. The third topic is concerned with the long-standing problems of civilians under the occupation of opposing military forces, where the practices of genocide, collective punishments and/or reprisals, and rape have occurred. The final topic in this volume is about the theft or destruction of the property of the enemy, in terms of either pillage or the intentional devastation of the cultural property of the opposition. As a work of reference this set of three books is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.
Summary Book Review Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffrey Cox:
Download or read book Rising Sun, Falling Skies written by Jeffrey Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese offensive in the Far East seemed unstoppable. Allied forces engaged in a futile attempt to halt their rapid advance, culminating in the massed fleet of American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces (ABDA) clashing with the Japanese at the battle of the Java Sea – the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific. But, in a campaign crippled by poor leadership and disastrous decisions, the Allied response was catastrophic, losing their largest warships and their tenuous toe-hold in the south Pacific within the first 72 hours of the battle. This defeat left ground troops cut off from reinforcement and supply, with obsolete equipment, no defense against endless Japanese air attacks, and with no chance of retreat. However, although command decisions were to condemn the Allies to defeat, the Allied goal was never an outright victory, simply a delaying action. Facing a relentless and thoroughly vicious enemy, the combined forces responded not by running or surrendering, but by defiantly holding on in a struggle that was as much a test of character, bravery, and determination as it was a test of arms, ultimately costing the Allies ten vessels and the lives of 2,100 brave sailors. In Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey Cox examines the events and evidence surrounding the Java Sea Campaign, reconstructing battles that in hindsight were all but hopeless and revealing where fatal mistakes and missed opportunities condemned the Allied forces in an insightful and compelling study of the largely overlooked clash in the Java Sea.
Summary Book Review THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND by JOHN MURRAY:
Download or read book THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND written by JOHN MURRAY and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Catalogue of the Astor Library: Authors and Books by Astor library (N.Y.):
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library: Authors and Books written by Astor library (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Mark Twain Quarterly by :
Download or read book Mark Twain Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines:
Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem by E. S. Shaffer:
Download or read book 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism.
Summary Book Review “The” Athenaeum by :
Download or read book “The” Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review The Cyprus Review by :
Download or read book The Cyprus Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude:
Download or read book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review The Making of the Modern Middle East by Jeremy Bowen:
Download or read book The Making of the Modern Middle East written by Jeremy Bowen and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 'An illuminating and riveting read.’ Jonathan Dimbleby Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East – in part based on his acclaimed podcast, ‘Our Man in the Middle East’ – Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control. With his deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s Turkey, Assad’s Syria and Netanyahu’s Israel and his long experience of covering events in the region, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold.
Summary Book Review Embodied by Christopher Eccleston:
Download or read book Embodied written by Christopher Eccleston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences of the sense being investigated; their stories bring to life how far physical sensations matter to us and how much they define what is possible in our life. How physical sensation shapes behavior and how behavior is shaped by sensation are examined. A final chapter presents a theory of what is common across the ten senses: of how we deal with being urged to act, and what happens when extreme sensation is inescapable.
Summary Book Review Selected Proceedings from the 232nd ECS Meeting: National Harbor, MD – Fall 2017 by Abbott:
Download or read book Selected Proceedings from the 232nd ECS Meeting: National Harbor, MD – Fall 2017 written by Abbott and published by The Electrochemical Society. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review The late Bishop of London's five pastoral letters. vol. 2 by Edmund GIBSON (successively Bishop of Lincoln and of London.):
Download or read book The late Bishop of London's five pastoral letters. vol. 2 written by Edmund GIBSON (successively Bishop of Lincoln and of London.) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Summary Book Review Medieval Scholarship by Helen Damico:
Download or read book Medieval Scholarship written by Helen Damico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Summary Book Review Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons, and Evidence, Communicated to the Lords by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords:
Download or read book Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons, and Evidence, Communicated to the Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
