• It isn't easy being green
• It's Aldo, not Teddy or Dick
• You have to admit it's getting better
• No one washes a rental car
• Markets are a frog's best friend
• Dancing with environmentalists.

• 1. The tsunami disaster and the U.S. political and military reaction
• 2. Tsunami warning delays and media reporting inaccuracies
• 3. Preparing the U.S. Navy operation: the value of sea basing
• 4. Replenishment and sustainability issues: logistics as leverage
• 5. U.S. Navy on-site delivery: helicopter-assisted access
• 6. Communications at sea: integrating the collective
• 7. The medical mission: USNS Mercy signals political will
• 8. Wrapping up the mission: lessons learned and recommendations
• 9. The political benefits of Unified Assistance
• Afterword: maritime strategy and naval responses to nonmilitary threats.

• The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia
• The Nazi attack on the Jews
• Soviet deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars
• The expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia
• The wars of Yugoslav succession.

Of all the horrors of the last century - perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium - ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time. Here Norman M. Naimark, distinguished historian of Europe and Russia, proides an insightful and heartbreaking history of ethnic cleansing and its relationship to genocide and population transfer. Focusing on five specific cases, he exposes the myths about ethnic cleansing, in particular the commonly held belief that the practice stems from ancient hatreds. Rather, Naimark shows that this face of genocide had its roots in the European nationalism of the late 19th century but found its most virulent expression in the 20th century as modern states and societies began to organize themselves by ethnic criteria. The most obvious example, and one of Naimark's cases, is the Nazi attack on the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. Naimark also discusses the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the expulsion of Greeks from Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War of 1921-22; the Soviet forced deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars in 1944; the Polish and Czechoslovak expulsion of the Germans in 1944-47; and Bosnia and Kosovo. In this harrowing history, Naimark reveals how over and over, as racism and religious hatreds picked up an ethnic name tag, war provided a covre for violence and mayhem, an evil tapestry behind which nations acted with impunity.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674003132 20160527

• Earthrise and its Faces / Ray Bradbury
• Earth's True Measure
• Mapping the Vertical
• Digital Mapping.

Whether from military necessity or unbridled curiosity, mapmakers since early antiquity have attempted to represent the configuration of the land about them. In the modern era, techniques are still being invented by which man can portray the three-dimensional world on a flat surface. This work traces the artistic and scientific evolution of topographic representation from its origins to the present. Over 80 colour plates of some of the most significant maps ever made detail important advances in the portrayal of three dimensions in map form. The final section of the book contains 20 plates presenting a revolutionary cartographic technique that allows viewers wearing ordinary 3-D glasses to view planetary surfaces without distortion. This invention, developed by the authors with Dr Russell Ambroziak and named "Infinite Perspective Projection" is in use by NASA and the US Department of Defense. Included are maps of Mars, the Grand Canyon, and Mount McKinley, as well as two large fold-out maps. The necessary 3-D viewing glasses are also provided.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781568981956 20160607