Using a range of contexts, the book sets out to look at whether the classical Clausewitzian theory of the nature of war will retain its validity in this new age. The analysis covers the character of the future battlespace, the function of command, and the much-hyped concept of Strategic Information Warfare. Finally, the book broadens its perspective to examine the nature of 'Information Power' and its implications for geopolitics. Through an assessment of both historical and contemporary case studies (including the events following September 11 and the recent war in Iraq), the author concludes that although the future will see many changes to the conduct of warfare, the nature of war, as given theoretical form by Clausewitz, will remain essentially unchanged.

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Ulysse - Boston (2007).jpg

Boston : berceau des Etat-Unis au regard tourné vers l'avenir. Des quartiers à l'échelle humaine, des rues étroites et sinueuses au charme européen, une architecture inspirée et audacieuse, une vitalité universitaire sans pareille... La métropole de la Nouvelle-Angleterre est un incontournable. Avec le guide Ulysse Boston, revivez plus de 375 ans d'une histoire riche et mouvementée, flânez dans le Boston Common, le plus vieux jardin public d'Amérique, et dans l'agréable quartier de Beacon Hill. Parcourez les élégantes avenues de Back Bay, les rues du North End, où naquit la ville, et celles du South End, ce quartier populaire multiethnique. Découvrez le visage maritime de Boston le long du Waterfront ou de la Charles River. Sans oublier Cambridge, avec sa prestigieuse université Harvard, ainsi que Lexington, Concord et Salem. Vous trouverez dans ce guide : Une suggestion de circuits et une description détaillée des attraits, cotés selon un système d'étoiles, ainsi qu'une nouvelle section thématique pour mieux organiser votre temps et mieux choisir. Une impressionnante sélection d'hôtels, de restaurants, de sorties et de boutiques, de tous les styles et pour toutes les bourses. Un portrait historique, social et culturel étoffé, ainsi que de nombreux encadrés pour mieux comprendre la ville. De nombreuses cartes précises pour vous permettre de vous repérer en un clin d'œil.

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The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices.

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Bruce A. Kimball - The Inception of Modern Profess ional Education, C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906 (2009).jpg

Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence.

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Bruce A. Kimball - The Inception of Modern Profess ional Education, C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906 (2009).pdf

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Morton J. Horwitz - The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1979).jpg

In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States.

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Rob McQueen - A Social History of Company Law (200 9).jpg

The history of incorporations legislation and its administration is intimately tied to changes in social beliefs in respect to the role and purpose of the corporation. By studying the evolution of the corporate form in Britain and a number of its colonial possessions, the book illuminates debates on key concepts including the meanings of laissez faire, freedom of commerce, the notion of corporate responsibility and the role of the state in the regulation of business. In doing so, the book advances our understanding of the shape, effectiveness and deficiencies of modern regulatory regimes.

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Markus Kaim - Great Powers and Regional Orders (20 08).jpg

Explores the manifestations of US power in the Persian Gulf and the limits of American influence. Significantly this volume offers an exploration of both US domestic politics as it impacts policy toward the region, as well as the role played by that region on regional order and stability. Well organized and logically structured, this volume offers a new and unique contribution to the field applicable not only to US policy in the Persian Gulf but may also be applied to other regional contexts.

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David A. Zonderman - Aspirations and Anxieties, Ne w England Workers and the Mechanized Factory Syste m, 1815-1850 (1992).jpg

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Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over many facets of the factory system--the machines and factory buildings, wages and hours, relations between managers and workers, and the content and character of protest. Finally, the book argues that the roots of this debate lie in the struggle to define the meaning of work itself in a period of profound social change.

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Edward J. Balleisen - Navigating Failure, Bankrupt cy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (2 001).jpg

The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In this ambitious foray into the shifting character of American capitalism, Edward Balleisen explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture, and commercial society.Balleisen makes innovative use of the rich and previously overlooked court records generated by the 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act, building his arguments on the commercial biographies of hundreds of failed business owners. He crafts a nuanced account of how responses to bankruptcy shaped two opposing elements of capitalist society in mid-nineteenth-century America--an entrepreneurial ethos grounded in risk taking and the ceaseless search for new markets, new products, and new ways of organizing economic activity, and an urban, middle-class sensibility increasingly averse to the dangers associated with independent proprietorship and increasingly predicated on salaried, white-collar employment.

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Larry D. Lankton - Beyond the Boundaries, Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840 -1875 (1997).jpg

USA Books - Larry D. Lankton - Beyond the Boundaries, Life and Lan...ape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875 1997.jpg

Winner of the 1992 Great Lakes History Prize, Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991) related the history of the copper mining industry along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. A companion volume to Cradle to Grave, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of this region between 1840 and 1875. While Cradle to Grave was concerned with the rise and fall of the industry itself, Beyond the Boundaries examines everyday life on the mining frontier and explores how pioneers transformed a wilderness into a industrial landscape and society.Beyond the Boundaries tells the story of "reluctant pioneers" who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. It is essentially a book about men, women, children, and families - not just their workplaces, but their homes, stores, churches, schools, hospitals, and other aspects of community life.

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Larry D. Lankton - Beyond the Boundaries, Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840 -1875 (1997).pdf

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Joseph A. Conforti - Saints and Strangers, New Eng land in British North America (2005).jpg

In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop's famous description of New England as a "city upon a hill" has tended to reduce the region's history to an exclusively Pilgrim-Puritan drama, a world of narrow-minded founders, the First Thanksgiving, steepled churches, and the Salem witchcraft trials. In a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply. As the region evolved into British America's preeminent maritime region, the Atlantic Ocean served as a highway of commercial and cultural encounter, connecting white English settlers to different races and religious communities of the transatlantic world. The Puritan elect -- but also Natives, African slaves, and non-Puritan white settlers -- became active participants in the creation of colonial New England. Conforti discusses how these subcommunities of white, red, and black strangers to Protestant piety retained their own cultures, coexisted, and even thrived within and beyond the domains of Puritan settlement, creating tensions and pressure points in the later development of early America.

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Ulysse - Chicago (2008).jpg

Musée à ciel ouvert de l'architecture moderne, berceau du blues électrique, gardienne de collections d'œuvres d'art qui comptent parmi les plus importantes du globe, Chicago a de quoi combler tous ses visiteurs. Pour ne rien manquer de cette ville épatante, le guide Ulysse Chicago est la référence indispensable. Il vous entraîne dans ses rues à l'animation incessante, entre les piliers d'acier de son mythique métro aérien et ses immenses tours qui s'élancent majestueusement vers le ciel ; il vous convie dans ses parcs et sur ses plages qui s'étirent le long du lac du Michigan, notamment le spectaculaire Millenium Park ; il vous ouvre les portes de ses quartiers branchés, ethniques et même excentrés où se cachent quantité de petits joyaux. Vous trouverez dans ce guide : la description des innombrables attraits de Chicago, cotés selon un système d'étoiles, ainsi qu'une section thématique en début d'ouvrage pour vous aider à personnaliser votre séjour. Une impressionnante sélection d'hôtels, de restaurants, de bars, de discothèques et de boutiques, de tous les styles et dans toutes les catégories de prix. Un portrait historique, social et culturel étoffé, ainsi que plusieurs encadrés pour mieux comprendre la ville. De nombreuses cartes précises, avec localisation des attraits et des bonnes adresses, pour vous repérer en un clin d'œil.

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William Labov - The Social Stratification of Engli sh in New York City (2006).jpg

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of new material, he explores the unforeseen implications of his earlier work, addresses the political issues involved, and evaluates the success of newer approaches to sociolinguistic investigation. In doing so, he reveals the outstanding accomplishments of sociolinguistics since his original study, which laid the foundations for studying language variation, introduced the crucial concept of the linguistic variable, and showed how variation across age groups is an indicator of language change. Bringing Labov's pioneering study into the 21st century, this classic volume will remain the benchmark in the field for years to come.

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Clay McShane - Down the Asphalt Path (1995).jpg

Imagine a world without automobiles, traffic lights, and interstate highways. Or the words and . For a nation that prides itself on the freedom of movement and the long weekend, this seems nearly impossible. In , Clay McShane examines the uniquely American relation between automobility and urbanization. Writing at the cutting edge of urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -most important, the private automobile -and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America. We swiftly motor across the country from Boston to New York to Milwaukee to Los Angeles and the suburbs in between as McShane chronicles the urban embrace of the automobile. McShane begins with mid-nineteenth century municipal bans on horseless carriages, a response to public fears of accidents and pollution. After cities redesigned roads to encourage new forms of trasnport, especially trolley cars, light carriages, and bicycles, the bans disappeared in the 1890s. With the advent of the automobile, metropolitan elites quickly and permanently established cars as status symbols. also explains the escapist appeal of the motor car to many Americans constrained by traditional social values. This book includes more than thirty photographs detailing the transformation of urban transportation. They bring to life chapters on modes of travel before the trolley; the push for parks, parkways, and suburbanization; the car in popular culture; and the battle for traffic safety and regulation. McShane's analysis of gender relations in the rise of automobility -in particular, definitions of gender in terms of mechanical skill and of driving as male power -is both timely and innovative. Wonderfully readable, this book will be a treasure for readers of urban history, popular culture, and technology -as well as car buffs.

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Rodney Hill, Gene D. Phillips - The Encyclopedia o f Stanley Kubrick (2002).jpg

From anti-war dramas such as "Paths of Glory" to the complexity of his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut", controversial film director Stanley Kubrick always commanded his audience's attention. This encyclopaedia offers complete coverage of his life and the 13 feature films he directed, including "2001, A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange",and "The Shining". In-depth entries survey: the actors who performed in his films, the writers with whom he collaborated, key members of his crew, inspiration for his movies; music and composers for his films, and recurring themes and genres.

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Iwan W. Morgan, Philip J. Davies - The Federal Nat ion, Perspectives on American Federalism (2008).jpg

Federalism is often described as the greatest of the American contributions to the art of government, but it has been an evolving and protean entity since its original establishment in the Constitution. Based on the contributions of international scholars, this volume explores three facets of modern federalism: the vertical tensions over the distribution of authority between national and sub-national governments; the tensions between the national government’s role as the instrument of policy uniformity throughout the nation and the inclination of the states to take different approaches to similar issues in light of their own political cultures; and the changing context of federalism in the more conservative political context of recent times. In addition, a number of the essays explore the Canadian model of federalism, which helps to place the U.S. model in comparative context.

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