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- Tyson, Neil deGrasse, author.
- First edition. - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Description
- Book — xiv, 576 pages ; 25 cm
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In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement) Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions", say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance. "The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds", they write. "Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it. But without the right technology-which is more or less the same technology for both parties-nobody can get to it, operate in it, scrutinise it, dominate it or use it to their advantage and someone else's disadvantage." Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative examination of the intersection of science, technology, industry and power that will introduce Tyson's millions of fans to yet another dimension of how the universe has shaped our lives and our world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780393064445 20181105
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- Ledwidge, Frank, author.
- First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Description
- Book — xii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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- 1: Foundations
- 2: Beginnings
- 3: Theory and Practice-- the Inter war years
- 4: The Second World War in the West
- 5: The Air War in the Pacific
- 6: Cold War 1945-1982
- 7: The Apotheosis of Air Power-- 1983-2001
- 8: Aerostats to Algorithms-- 2001-2018 and beyond Further Reading Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780198818137 20190121
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- Deaile, Melvin G., author.
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — xiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- "A different breed of cat": the foundations of pilot culture
- Shared experiences: the foundations of SAC culture
- Beginnings: The evolution of SAC
- "We are at war now": implementing a new organizational culture
- Taking charge: organizational culture in SAC relationships, institutions, and artifacts
- SAC life: the SAC mentality in action
- Living in the missile age: Fear and SAC culture
- Epilogue and conclusion.
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- Puig Sanchis, Fernando, 1914-2003, author.
- Primera edición. - Madrid : Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Centro de Estudios de Migraciones y Exilios de la UNED, enero de 2018.
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- Book — 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Scharre, Paul, author.
- First edition. - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Description
- Book — ix, 436 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Introduction: the power over life and death
- Robopocalypse now. The coming swarm: the military robotics revolution ; The terminator and the roomba: what is autonomy? ; Machines that kill: what is an autonomous weapon?
- Building the terminator. The future of being built today: autonomous missiles, drones, and robot swarms ; Inside the puzzle palace: is the Pentagon building autonomous weapons? ; Crossing the threshold: approving autonomous weapons ; World war R: robotic weapons around the world ; Garage bots: DIY killer robots
- Runaway gun. Robots run amok: failure in autonomous systems ; Command and decision: can autonomous weapons be used safely? ; Black box: the weird, alien world of deep neural networks ; Failing deadly: the risk of autonomous weapons
- Flash war. Bot vs. bot: an arms race in speed ; The invisible war: autonomy in cyberspace ; "Summoning the demon": the rise of intelligent machines
- The fight to ban autonomous weapons. Robots on trial: autonomous weapons and the laws of war ; Soulless killers: the morality of autonomous weapons ; Playing with fire: autonomous weapons and stability
- Averting armageddon: the weapon of policy. Centaur warfighters: humans + machines ; The pope and the crossbow: the mixed history of arms control ; Are autonomous weapons inevitable?: the search for lethal laws of robotics
- Conclusion: no fate but what we make.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780393608984 20180611
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6. Bachem Ba 349 Natter [2018]
- Forsyth, Robert, 1959- author.
- Oxford, UK : Osprey Publishing, 2018.
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- Book — 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was a secretive, vertical take-off, single-seat rocket interceptor intended to offer high-speed defence of key targets. This radical aircraft offered Luftwaffe an inexpensive means with which to intercept and attack Allied heavy bombers using a vertically-launched, semi-expendable machine built of wood and armed with a nose-mounted `honeycomb' battery of spin-stabilised air-to-air rockets as well as cannon armament. Launched vertically at 36,000ft per minute, the pilot was expected to fly within range of the enemy bombers, fire his rockets at them, ram another bomber, eject and parachute to the ground. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and stunning commissioned artwork, this study examines this inventive yet ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the Luftwaffe to defend against the tide of Allied aircraft that was bombing German cities into the ground.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472820099 20180806
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7. Behind the fog : how the U.S. Cold War radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans [2018]
- Martino-Taylor, Lisa, author.
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
- Description
- Book — xiii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
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- INTRODUCTION
- I: ATOMIC WORLD A Culture of Secrecy Manhattan Project Phase Two- Radiological Weapons Experimentation
- II: THE RADIUM LEGACY
- III: BLINDED BY SCIENCE Radioactive Warfare
- IV: THE MILITARIZED ACADEMY Militarization of the Academy Stanford University/Stanford Research Institute
- V: STRUCTURE OF DECEIT PHS, NIH and Embedded Studies No Turning Back Military Crosshairs Final Weapons Targets Fernald School
- VI: MILITARY ANALOGS Hidden in Plain View Target One: Minneapolis St. Louis Army Chemical Corps Experiments Winnipeg, Canada Leighton Effects A Parallel Study A Dubious Narrative The National Research Council Reviews Army Data An Unlikely Champion Parsons and the Army: A Lucrative Partnership
- VII: THE ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS AND OPEN-AIR FIELD STUDIES The St. Louis Open-Air Dispersion Study- Part Two The Pruitt-Igoe Public Housing Complex St. Louis Part II SRI and the Atomic Veterans Post-Study Claims by Officials
- VIII: IN THIS HOUSE: EMBEDDEDNESS AND THE MILITARY RADIATION STUDIES AEC Isotopes Project Dual-Use Technology Gabriel and Sunshine The Vanderbilt Radiation Studies
- IX: FALLOUT "SIMULANT" TESTING Fallout Simulants Canadian and U.K. Studies U.S. Open Air Radiation Experiments
- X: DEVIANCE, SECRECY, AND CLOSED WORLDS Secrecy and Group Conformity Closed World Dynamics Control of Discourse Dehumanization
- CONCLUSION After the Dust has Settled A Tangle of Objectives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- METHODOLOGY AND AFTERWORD Components for Future Exploration
- APPENDIX A: ABBREVIATIONS LIST
- INDEX.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138239678 20171023
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- Habermehl, C. Mike, author.
- Manchester : Crecy Publishing Ltd, 2018.
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- Book — 320 pages : illlustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
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- Book — xvi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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While the military features of historic forts usually receive the most attention from researchers, this volume focuses instead on the people who met and interacted in these sites. Contributors to British Forts and Their Communities look beyond the defensive architecture, physical landscapes, and armed conflicts to explore the complex social diversity that arose in the outposts of the British Empire. The forts investigated here operated at the empire's peak in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, protecting British colonial settlements and trading enclaves scattered across the globe. Locations in this volume include New York State, Michigan, the St. Lawrence River, and Vancouver, as well as sites in the Caribbean and in Africa. Using archaeological and archival evidence, these case studies show how forts brought together people of many different origins, ethnicities, identities, and social roles, from European soldiers to indigenous traders to African slaves. Characterized by shifting networks of people, commodities, and ideas, these fort populations were microcosms of the emerging modern world. This volume reveals how important it is to move past the conventional emphasis on the armed might of the colonizer in order to better understand the messy, entangled nature of British colonialism and the new era it helped usher in.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780813056753 20180416
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- London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
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- Book — x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Transgressive Chemicals, Brian Rappert and Alex Mankoo / From Reviled Poisons to State Arsenals: The Un(necessary) Proliferation of Chemical Weapons, Jeanne Guillemin / Lesser Appreciations: A History of Inter-War Chemical Warfare, James Revill & Marcos Favero / Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare and the Public Body, Etienne Aucouturier / Opening Spaces through Exhibiting Absences: Representing Secretive Pasts, Brian Rappert, Kathryn Smith, and Chandre Gould / Tear Gas Epistemology: The Himsworth Committee and Weapons as Drugs, Brian Balmer, Alex Spelling, Caitriona McLeish / What Counts as a Chemical Weapon?: The Category of Law Enforcement in the Chemical Weapons Convention, Michael Crowley / Tear Gas and Colonial Bodies in the British Interwar Period, Anna Feigenbaum / Controlling and Caring for Public Bodies: Civil Defence Gas Tests in WWII Britain, Alex Mankoo / `Chemical Bodies' and the Future of Control, Alex Mankoo and Brian Rappert.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786605863 20190121
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11. Civilians under siege from Sarajevo to Troy [2018]
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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- Book — xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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- 1. Civilians under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy: Introduction-- Alex Dowdall and John Horne.-
- 2. Transmission and Transformation: Memories of the Siege of Sarajevo-- Ivana Macek.-
- 3. 'This did not happen': Survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) and the `Truth about the Blockade'-- Alexandra Wachter.-
- 4. `Like Troy, though about as much larger...as the Encyclopaedia Britannica is larger than the Iliad': Civilians and Siege Warfare during the First World War-- Alex Dowdall.-
- 5. Siege Warfare in Comparative Early-Modern Contexts: Norms, Nuances, Myth and Massacre during the Revolutionary Wars-- Fergus Robson.-
- 6. Between Positional Warfare and Small War: Soldiers and Civilians during the `Desolation of the Palatinate' (1688-89)-- Emilie Dosquet.-
- 7. Before the Storm: Civilians under Siege during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1630)-- Jane Finucane.-
- 8. A Race against Time - A Fight to the Death: Combatants and Civilians in the Siege and Capture of Jerusalem, 1099-- Alan V. Murray.-
- 9. As They Were Ripped from the Altars: Civilians, Sacrilege and Classical Greek Siege Warfare-- Joshua R. Hall.-
- 10. Civilians under Siege in the Ancient Greek World-- Philip de Souza.- Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781137585318 20180326
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12. Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV : Normandy 1944 [2018]
- Higgins, David R., author.
- Oxford, UK : Osprey Publishing, 2018.
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- Book — 80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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- Introduction / Chronology / Design and Development / The Strategic Situation / Technical Specifications / The Combatants / Combat / Statistics and Analysis / Conclusion / Further Reading / Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472825865 20180709
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- Grossman, Nicholas, author.
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
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- Book — xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with large states increasingly fighting marginal terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Here, Nicholas Grossman shows how we are entering the age of the drone terrorist - groups such as Hezbollah are already using them in the Middle East. Grossman will analyse the ways in which the United States, Israel and other advanced militaries use aerial drones and ground-based robots to fight non-state actors (e.g. ISIS, al Qaeda, the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) and how these groups, as well as individual terrorists, are utilizing less advanced commercially-available drones to fight powerful state opponents. Robotics has huge implications for the future of security, terrorism and international relations and this will be essential reading on the subject of terrorism and drone warfare.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781784538309 20180423
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14. Early US armor : armored cars 1915-40 [2018]
- Zaloga, Steve, 1952- author.
- Oxford, UK : Osprey Publishing, 2018.
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- Book — 48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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- Introduction /The first armoured cars /World War I armored cars and the Pancho Villa expedition /The 1920s /1930s Developments /Further Reading /Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472825148 20180723
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- Bob, Cossey, author.
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2018.
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- Book — vi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an observer with the RFC and fledgling RAF, a pilot in Ireland at the time of the Irish War of Independence, a photographic officer and flight commander in Iraq, and Commanding Officer of Nos. 23 and 74 Squadrons. His memories of time spent in Iraq and on the North West Frontier between the wars have a real resonance today, illustrating just how little has changed in some respects. Henry served at the Air Ministry in various positions and concluded his service with the RAF in India, retiring as an Air Commodore in 1945. He had a keen interest in photography and took hundreds of images of the places he served, the aircraft he flew and saw, and the people he met. With an early Bell and Howell cine camera he also captured film of Malta, Iraq and India between the wars. As a photographic record alone this book is fascinating. But Henry wrote about his experiences as well and it is his memoirs that form the backbone of this biography, written with the full backing of his family. Henry Crowe was highly decorated and especially well thought of during the course of his career; reading Bob Crossey's account of his fascinating life, it is clear to see why.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781526725967 20180806
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- Marion, Forrest L., author.
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2018]
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- Book — xviii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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From the 1920s Afghanistan maintained a small air arm that depended heavily upon outside assistance. Starting in 2005, the United States led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF). In 2007 a formal joint/combined entity, led by a U.S. Air Force brigadier general, began air advisor work with Afghan airmen. Between 2007 and 2011, these efforts made modest progress in terms of infrastructures, personnel and aircraft accessions, and various training courses. But by 2010, advisors increasingly viewed AAF command and control (C2) as a problem area that required significant improvement if a professional air force was to be built. In the spring of 2011, major institutional changes to AAF C2 procedures were being introduced when nine U.S. air advisors were killed. The attack was the worst single-incident loss of U.S. Air Force personnel in a deployed location since 1996 and the worst insider-attack since 2001. From the day of that tragic event, the cultural chasm between Afghanistan and the West became more apparent. This dilemma continues with no end in sight to an air advisory mission of uncertain long-term value.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781682473368 20190218
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17. Fort "Aleksandrovskiĭ" ["Rif"] [2018]
- Tkachenko, V. F. (Vladimir F.)
- Sankt-Peterburg : Ostrov, 2018.
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- Book — 271 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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- Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
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- Book — xx, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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- Abbreviations Preface
- Chapter 1: Origins
- Chapter 2: The Medieval Castle
- Chapter 3: The Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 5: The Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 6: The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7: The World Wars
- Chapter 8: Since World War Two
- Chapter 9: Conclusions Notes Selected Further Reading Credits About the Author.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781538109687 20180903
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19. Forts : an illustrated history [2018]
- Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.
- Oxford, UK : Osprey Publishing ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2018.
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- Book — 224 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color plans ; 29 cm
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Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded. This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472827630 20181105
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- Argelato (BO) : Minerva, [2018]
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- Book — 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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