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Routing First-Step
William R. Parkhurst Manufacturer: Cisco Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1587201224 |
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Your first step into the world of routing
Your first step to understanding routing begins here!
Welcome to the world of routing!
Routing is the technology that enables worldwide Internet communication. Many people involved with networking technologies or companies need to know how routing works. But learning about routing tends to involve a complex web of terms and acronyms-a language that can be difficult and unfamiliar.
No routing experience needed!
Routing First-Step explains the basics of Internet routing in language all of us can understand. This book takes you on a guided tour of routing, starting with systems you are familiar with: the postal system, the telephone system, and the interstate highway system. From there, you'll learn routing simply and easily. Whether you are looking to take your first step into a career in networking or are interested only in gaining knowledge of the technology, this book is for you!
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Leaves a bit to be desired.......2005-06-29
Routing First-Step may be Second-Step.......2005-02-05
More than expected........2004-10-27
Start with a Horse carried letter, get to the Internet.......2004-10-22
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Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Gerard Caprio , and David Folkerts-Landau Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1557753806 |
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The 12 papers in this book explore issues in building a financial structure suitable for economies in transition. They cover four main topics: the problem of old and new debts; the development of a sound and efficient payment system; the establishment of an appropriate financial structure; and the importance of credit in the development of the real economy.
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Disused Offshore Installations and Pipelines - Towards "Sustainable Decommissioning" (INTERNATIONAL ENERGY & RESOURCES LAW AND POLICY Volume 17)
Ayoade Manufacturer: Kluwer Law International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9041117393 |
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The regulation of offshore decommissioning is a complex subject that requires attention in relation to immediate practical problems, as well as more long-term solutions that would address transparency and stability considerations. Its defining moment came in the form of the Brent Spar episode during the 1980s which unveiled an emotive public clash between different stakeholders (including host governments, oil companies, environmental pressure groups, the fishing industry, shipping interests, and the general public) and the possibility of `regulatory failure'. This meant that external events could in certain extreme circumstances override lawfully sanctioned activities, and therefore that the removal and disposal of disused installations/pipelines would have to be consistent with international environmental standards and values. Sustainable development is the most widely accepted yardstick against which decommissioning regulations should be assessed. Thus, this study on `sustainable decommissioning' looks forward to the next stage of the unfolding evolutionary process of decommissioning regulations.
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Resource utilization and development: A perspective study of Madhya Pradesh, India
S. K Sharma Manufacturer: Northern Book Centre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8172110324 |
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Group 13 Chemistry II: Biological Aspects of Aluminum (Structure and Bonding)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540438076 |
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From Mantle to Meteorites: A Garland of Perspectives A Festschrift for Professor Devendra Lal
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0195625811 |
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This volume commemorates the distinguished career of the well-known Indian geophysicist Devendra Lal and serves as a unique forum for recent work in geophysics, presented by his colleagues and contemporaries.
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Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery : In Si-Metric Units
S L DIXON Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0750670592 |
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Turbomachines are those in which energy is transferred to or from a continuously moving fluid by the motion of a rotating element. Some of the most common and important machines used in engineering and industry fall into this category, including those which absorb power (and thereby increase fluid pressure), such as fans, compressors and pumps. Also included are equally vital varieties of machines which generate power from the expansion of fluids to lower pressures such as hydraulic, steam and gas turbines.Customer Reviews:
I hope you have his phone number.......2006-11-18
A very complete textbook.......2000-10-29
It's a good reference book for undergraduate student........1999-08-05
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Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery: In Si-Metric Units (Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics for Mechanical Engineers)
S. L. Dixon Manufacturer: Pergamon Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0080227228 |
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Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery: In Si-Metric Units
S.L. Dixon Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0750628677 |
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Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery: In Si-Metric Units (Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics for Mechanical Engineers)
S. L. Dixon Manufacturer: Pergamon Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGUBFE |
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One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Christopher Brookmyre Manufacturer: Grove Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0802139809 |
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Very funny book.......2007-05-06
Not getting props Stateside.......2006-03-07
good to the last drop.......2006-02-17
a perfect read.......2005-06-26
Honing his skills.......2003-11-23
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The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Belknap Press)
Samuel P. Huntington Manufacturer: Belknap Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0674817362 |
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Now that we are this book, here's what I say:.......2003-02-10
This review is being written in a short window of time in which the rulers of Saudi Arabia, whose success, so far, has been contingent on the opposite of liberal policies (they previously granted religious authorities who were considered the most conservative element within Arabian society a veto power over anything the government might do) are hoping that an American victory in Iraq might allow all American troops to be removed from Saudi Arabia, so that democracy might be granted to the people of Saudi Arabia (at a time when the average age is 15 years old) without fear that the anti-American views of Arabian young people will be the dominating political force determining the shape of the parties who will soon be able to demand more control than their government has ever been able to apply to society. As the situation in Venezuela at the moment illustrates, fights over how much oil is being pumped, and who ought to benefit from the economic miracle that oil provides, can do strange things in a nation with a democracy that attempts to let a majority of the people rule.
Huntington considers America an exception to such class considerations. Though not specifically concerned with the role of Blacks in American society, he assumes that their politics has been entirely liberal in nature. "No nascent group ever developed a radical ideology challenging the established order: it was always too quickly assimilated into that order. . . . Radicalism and conservatism were equally superfluous. Incipient and established groups both adhered to liberalism." (p. 145). The few attempts to establish conservative values in American history were mainly ignored by a society that was exuberantly growing in spite of any ideology which might attempt to exercise some form of control. The early part of the twentieth century had produced few instances in which policy had needed an exit strategy, and any attempt to find one in the index of THE SOLDIER AND THE STATE leads to the following entries:
Expertise, a characteristic of a profession, 8-9; of officership, 11-14
Extirpation, U.S. policy of, 155-156
Even page 154 has a bit on professionalism. As Woodrow Wilson said during World War I, "America has always boasted that she could find men to do anything. She is the prize amateur nation in the world. Germany is the prize professional nation in the world. Now, when it comes to doing new things and doing them well, I will back the amateur against the professional every time." The lure of popularity in a liberal society can easily produce this result. "In domestic politics each liberal group tends to identify the military with its own particular enemies. Without any recognized function in a liberal society and standing outside the ideological consensus, the military have been a universal target group." (p. 154). Extirpation is the name given to such a policy in this book. "Liberalism's injunction to the military has in effect been: conform or die. On the one hand, American liberalism has supported the virtual elimination of all institutions of violence and thus has attempted to do away with the problem of civil-military relations entirely. This is a policy of extirpation. On the other hand, when it has been necessary to maintain armed force, American liberalism has insisted upon a rigorous subjective civilian control, the refashioning of the military institutions along liberal lines so that they lose their peculiarly military characteristics. This is a policy of transmutation." (p. 155). There are no entries in the index for hyperbolic topics like sex, soldiers, or swearing, so there is little opportunity in this book for the ideas which strike me most, considering the unique psychic characteristics of the transmutation of the typical swinging Richard into a short-term ...assassin at Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993, or less notoriously, of any Naval doctor who kept a copy of the Kennedy autopsy photographs at Bethesda Naval Hospital in the ten years after this book first appeared, but I'm convinced that such ideas are within the realm of what is considered conservative in this book. Some people are sick of this kind of thing, and keep projecting its insanity on me, of all people, who tries to keep tying everything to the new direction of American society. I wonder if this makes us the entertainment capital of the world, or what?
The best book ever written on civil-military relations.......2002-08-09
Huntington offered a theoretical framework for modern civil-military relations. He insisted that liberalism was fundamentally opposed to the proper military ethic; the application of subjective civilian control over the military actually aimed at weakening military professionalism, which was viewed as a threat to democracy, liberalism, and American values. The Cold War, though, required America to keep a large national army during peace time; the army could not return to its traditionally subordinate role. There was perpetual tension between the demands of national security and the values of American liberalism: either American security must be compromised or the influence of liberalism weakened. Only a conservative environment allowed for equilibrium between political influence and the military professionalism that ensured national security. This balance could only be achieved, Huntington argued, by objective civilian control of the military. By maintaining independent spheres of power, with no fusion of civil and military control, national security goals could be maximized with a minimum sacrifice of social values. Objective civilian control allowed for the proper growth of military professionalism while keeping the military a subordinate tool of state policy. The fulcrum of civil-military relations was the relation of the officer corps to the state.
Huntington was successful in presenting the military as inherently conservative and unwarlike. The military prepared for war but never sought such engagement. Huntington encapsulated the premise of the military mindset as conservative realism. This mindset "holds that war is the instrument of politics, that the military are the servants of the statesman, and that civilian control is essential to military professionalism." This military ethic contrasted with the stereotype of the military as dangerously warlike. A weakness of the book is Huntington's description of military trends between the Civil War and the Great War. Huntington argued that the officer corps remained isolated during this period, allowing it to develop a professionalism free of civilian interference. This isolation theory has been largely disproved by pointing to the military's involvement in putting down labor strikes, relations between officers and the business community, etc. This defect should not detract from the importance of this book as a virgin exploration into a comprehensive history of the American military tradition. With its conservative thesis, it remains in my mind the seminal work on civil-military relations.
Seminal Treatise on the role of the Military in society.......1999-03-08
The Definitive Work on Civil-Military Relations.......1998-10-19
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Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262561425 |
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Soldiers and Civilians analyzes the emerging civil-military "gap" in the United States, drawing on a major survey of military officers, civilian leaders, and the general public. The book's contributors, leading scholars of defense policy, find that numerous schisms have undermined civil-military cooperation and harmed military effectiveness.
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The Soldier and the State (The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations)
Samuel P Huntington Manufacturer: The Belknap Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000Q6POC2 |
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The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations
Samuel P. Huntington Manufacturer: Vintage Books/Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8CO16 |
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Soldier and State in Poland: Civil-Military Relations and Institutional Change After Communism
Mark Kramer Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0847687007 |
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THE SOLDIER AND THE STATE THE THEORY AND POLITICS OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS
Samuel P. Huntington Manufacturer: Harvard University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWGHS8 |
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The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations
Samuel P. Huntington Manufacturer: Harvard University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JSXNSE |
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Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935
Rudy Koshar Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0807842877 |
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Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.
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Kinematic Design of Machines and Mechanisms
Homer D. Eckhardt Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070189536 |
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The First Complete and Practical Guide to the Integration, Design, and Analysis of Machines and their Motions.Designed to improve the engineer's intuitive approach to machine design, this practical guide offers a clear understanding of the principles of the geometry of motion and the real-world connections between kinematic phenomena and the behavior of actual machines. It provides all of the information and graphical tools and techniques you'll need to select, visualize, integrate, and analyze machines and mechanisms for a wide range of applications. Building logically from the simplest, most easily visualized mechanisms and motions to the more complex, you'll get complete, well-illustrated coverage of: crank-sliders and inverted crank-sliders; pin-jointed and general four-bar linkages; multihoop linkages; gears and gear trains; quick-return mechanisms; cams. In addition, you'll find step-by-step procedures for designing mechanical systems to give prescribed motions--plus, proven methods for analyzing displacements, velocities, accelerations, force and torque relationships, and statically and dynamically balancing systems.
This unique reference is a must-reading for every engineer and designer who wants to fully exploit CAD's capabilities by minimizing the trail-and-error involved in searching for satisfactory machine design solutions.
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Kinematics and Linkage Design
Jr. Allen S. Hall Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O88X9I |
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Kinematics and Linkage Design
Allen Strickland, Jr. Hall Manufacturer: Waveland Pr Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0881332720 |
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This introductory work builds on the conventional analysis and descriptive work students do in the undergraduate Mechanism course by offering concepts and techniques of importance in a logical approach to the kinematic design of mechanisms.Customer Reviews:
A good source for beginner.......2000-11-18
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Linkage Design Monographs: part of final report on NSF Gk-36624
Manufacturer: NSF ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FNEZHG |
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Linkage design using the LINCAGES package (SAE Technical Paper Series)
Arthur G Erdman Manufacturer: Society of Automotive Engineers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072WCTI |
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A practical approach to designing four-bar linkages for guiding rigid bodies (SAE)
Dilworth D Lyman Manufacturer: Society of Automotive Engineers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072SYB8 |
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Wetlands and Remediation II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wetlands & Remediation : Burlington, Vermont, September 5-6, 2001
Vt.) International Conference on Wetlands and Remediation (2nd : 2001 : Burlington Manufacturer: Battelle Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1574771221 |
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