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US Foreign Policy and China Bush’s First Term

US Foreign Policy and China Bush’s First Term

This work is an exploration of how U. S. China relations were managed by President George W. Bush. Roberts argues that contrary to conventional wisdom President Bush conducted a calculated pragmatic and highly successful strategy toward Beijing which avoided conflict resolved crisis and significantly increased economic and diplomatic ties. Roberts identifies key players and polices of the Bush White House and the specific themes of engagement (successful and unsuccessful) that unfolded during Bush’s first term. Research is based on analysis of primary and secondary documentation as well as interviews with key White House actors (including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage) and two former Australian Prime Ministers. Topics of discussion include China’s changing attitude toward international engagement China’s rising economic power and the tensions this triggered in the American establishment the nature of U. S. China relations contemporary and ideological understanding of the Bush Presidency as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different sources of information. US Foreign Policy and China will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy and China Studies. | US Foreign Policy and China Bush’s First Term

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Science Advice to the President

Science Advice to the President

This is a provocative behind-the-scenes introduction to the vital and complex role science plays in United States politics. It includes the first formal statement from former President Clinton's former Science Advisor John H. Gibbons; a fresh retrospective from D. Allan Bromley on science advice in the George H. W. Bush Administration; and a unique viewpoint from John McTague about his brief tenure under President Reagan. Among the twenty-four contributors are former members of the President's Science Advisory Committee distinguished scholars and industrialists. | Science Advice to the President

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U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Latin American Debt Issue

U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Latin American Debt Issue

This book first published in 1993 closely examines the United States government’s policy toward the Latin American debt crisis in the years 1982 to 1985. The United States under Reagan sought to maintain the problem as strictly a private creditor/debtor issue and avoided the internationalization of the problem. With the election of Bush however government policy changed in 1989 and this book analyses the different approaches of both administrations the successes and failures of their policies and the eventual resolution of the debt crisis. | U. S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Latin American Debt Issue

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Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. Given its prominent opposition to recent US foreign policy such as the invasion of Iraq a volley of insults and caustic remarks reverberated between France and the US. French observers linked the Bush administration's policies to particular groups and regions within the US to a democratic deficit to a perceived threat of US collapse and to the need for a stronger Europe. By examining how the French media - newspapers television the internet and scholarly research - represented the election from a critical geopolitical perspective this book provides the first major in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media. | Atlantic Reverberations French Representations of an American Presidential Election

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Inventing Australia

Inventing Australia

'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the convict hell the workingman's paradise the Bush legend the 'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver the land of opportunity the small rich industrial country the multicultural society. The book argues that these images rather than describing an especially Australian reality grow out of assumptions about nature race class democracy sex and empire and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups. There have been many books about Australia's national identity; this is the first to place the discussion within an historical context to explain how Australians' views of themselves change and why these views change in the way they do.

GBP 130.00
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Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

This unique volume intensively studies the nature and extent of US - Israeli relations from 1948 through the Bush and Obama administrations. Leading experts in the field (including Israeli and North American scholars from a variety of political perspectives) contribute original essays on the principal political religious ethnic military economic and juridical connections between the United States and Israel. Specific topics covered in this new book include: the pro-Israel lobby in the United States; the US Jewish community and its relations to Israel; evangelical Christians and Israel; military and economic ties between the United States and Israel; the threat of a nuclear Iran for both countries; and the impact of American jurisprudence on Israel. Section introductions from the editor effectively contextualize the issues and provide students with an in-depth understanding of the past present and future of the US - Israel relationship. | Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

GBP 130.00
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Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artists like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel used it to sample the sounds of everyday life. It also focuses on E-mu Systems and the use of its keyboards and drum machines in hip-hop. The second part follows users across a range of musical worlds including US/UK garage indie folk music and electronic music made from the sounds of sewers war zones and crematoriums. Using material from interviews and concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) Digital Sampling provides a new and alternative approach to the study of sampling and is crucial reading for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including music technology media communication and cultural studies. | Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

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Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement

Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement

Some of Bill Clinton's most basic foreign policy elements - democratic peace the post-Cold War peace dividend geopolitics and state-society relations - are epitomized in the US-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement. It was one of the most remarkable initiatives of Clinton's presidency but oddly one of the most obscure that still continues under George W. Bush. This agreement illustrates how successfully the US and Russia could work together to reduce global nuclear fears but also how a series of decisions pitted global designs over American domestic interests. Illustrating one of the most compelling decisions Clinton made as President this remarkable book elucidates the theory of democratic peace and demonstrates a new and more advanced nuclear restraint regime from reduction to elimination. The story behind Clinton's decision has repercussions for our understanding of arms control foreign policy decision making and US-Russian relations. This is a book about the intersection of levels of analysis international security concerns and domestic political economy and as such is ideal as a supplementary text for advanced courses in security and foreign policy. | Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement

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Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

In his new book Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system. He argues that the increase in geopolitical economic nationalist and resource competition between three great powers the United States China and Russia points to the changing structure of the international system. This competition is a systemic one focusing more on the rules and norms that defined the system since the end of the Cold War. This American-led unipolar order is translating into a multipolar one. Kassab begins by tracing the decline of the United States after the Iraq War (2003) and the Great Recession (2008) as well as the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia. He describes major foreign policy changes from George H. W. Bush to Donald J. Trump and how the various administrations approached the international system. Russia and China will increase their international influence as the United States pulls back from the international system. Written using simple jargon Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition is equally accessible to academics and casual readers and laypeople interested in international politics.

GBP 130.00
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Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it finds that religion-inspired violence is not restricted to Abrahamic faiths or to one geographic region. The fact that symbolically charged religious violence has destructive consequences is not lost on contributors to Faith War and Violence. Among the subjects tackled are: the ideological and religious foundations that inspired the founders of Al-Qaeda and its role in the Arab Spring; the long history of religious conflict in Ireland known as the Troubles; Sikh extremism; and the evolution of the Christian approach to war. As the contributors demonstrate in Western societies the unity of religious fervor and warmongering stretches from Constantine's incorporation of Christian symbols into Roman army flags to slogans like Gott mit uns (God is with us) which appeared on the belt buckles of German soldiers in World War I. In recent years George W. Bush declared the war on terror a crusade and his speechwriter David Frum coined the religiously inspired term Axis of Evil to describe Iraq and other countries opposing the United States.

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Gender Orientalism and the War on Terror' Representation Discourse and Intervention in Global Politics

Gender Orientalism and the War on Terror' Representation Discourse and Intervention in Global Politics

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’ based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration gendered and racialized military intervention and global politics. Khalid argues that legitimacy power and authority in global politics and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically are discursively constructed through representations that are gendered and racialized and often orientalist. Looking at the ways in which ‘official’ US ‘War on Terror’ discourse enabled military intervention into Afghanistan and Iraq the book takes a postcolonial feminist approach to broaden the scope of critical analyses of the ‘War on Terror’ and reflect on the gendered and racial underpinnings of key relations of power within contemporary global politics. This book is a unique innovative and significant analysis of the operation of race orientalism and gender in global politics and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically. It will be of great interest to scholars and graduates interested in gender politics development humanitarian intervention international (global) relations Middle East politics security and US foreign policy. | Gender Orientalism and the �War on Terror' Representation Discourse and Intervention in Global Politics

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Pests of Fruit Crops A Colour Handbook Second Edition

Pests of Fruit Crops A Colour Handbook Second Edition

Pests of Fruit Crops: A Colour Handbook Second Edition provides an up-to-date illustrated account of the various pests of fruit crops throughout Europe many of which (or their close relatives) are also present in non-European countries. In fact several pose problems on fruit crops worldwide. This authoritative book focuses on insect and mite pests affecting fruit hop and nut crops in both temperate and subtropical climates. Pome fruits stone fruits cane fruits strawberries bush fruits hops grapevines citrus fruits nuts figs and olives all receive attention. For ease of reference this new edition has been significantly rearranged so that under genera species of pests are now listed alphabetically and nomenclature has been updated. The pests most of which are illustrated are described and details are given of their life histories distribution and status. Damage caused is also indicated. The work is profusely illustrated with over 1 150 superb colour photographs and is an essential and invaluable source of reference for both professional and lay readers—including extension workers consultants scientists students fruit growers and private gardeners. To help readers locate information on pests of interest alternative names for genera and species and frequently used colloquial names are cross-referenced in the pest index. | Pests of Fruit Crops A Colour Handbook Second Edition

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Food and Multiculture A Sensory Ethnography of East London

Food and Multiculture A Sensory Ethnography of East London

In this book Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world he explores concepts such as gentrification class antagonism new ethnicities and globalization. Rhys-Taylor shows how London is characterized by its rich history of socioeconomic change and multiculture exploring how its smells and food are integral to understanding both its history and the reality of London’s urban present. From the fiery chillies sold by street grocers which are linked to years of cultural exchange through ‘cuisines of origin’ like jellied eels to hybridized dishes such as the chicken katsu wrap sensory experiences are key to understanding the complex cultural genealogies of the city and its social life. Each of the eight chapters combines micro histories of ingredients such as fried chicken bush-meat and curry sauce featuring narratives from individuals that provide a unique engaging account of the evolution of taste and culture through time and space. With its innovative methodology this is a highly original contribution to the fields of sensory studies food studies urban studies and cultural studies. | Food and Multiculture A Sensory Ethnography of East London

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Late Night with Trump Political Humor and the American Presidency

Late Night with Trump Political Humor and the American Presidency

Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for decades. The Trump White House however has received significantly greater attention than that of past presidents such as Barack Obama George W. Bush and even Bill Clinton. In response to Trump’s strident politics late-night comics including Stephen Colbert Jimmy Kimmel Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon have sounded key policy notes further blurring the boundary between news and satire. Weekly humorists including John Oliver and Samantha Bee extend the critique with in-depth probing of key issues while Saturday Night Live continues to tap the progression from outrage to outrageousness. Using unique content analysis techniques and qualitative discussions of political humor Farnsworth and Lichter show how late-night political humor and these seven programs in particular have responded to the Trump presidency. Employing a dataset of more than 100 000 late night jokes going back decades these noted media scholars discuss how the treatment of Trump differs from previous presidents and how the Trump era is likely to shape the future of political humor. The authors also employ public opinion survey data to consider the growing role these late-night programs play in framing public opinion and priorities. This book will interest scholars the curious public and students of politics communications and the media and contemporary American culture. | Late Night with Trump Political Humor and the American Presidency

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Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes actors and strategies; outlines anti- and counterterrorist responses; and highlights terrorism’s relationship with the public and media. Terrorism and Counterterrorism introduces students to the field’s main debates and helps them critically assess our understanding of and our strategies for addressing this complex and enduring issue. New to the Seventh Edition: The new chapter 3 reviews the history of terrorism—both domestic and international whereas the new chapter 4 analyses the terrorist landscape in the third decade of the 21st century—including the transnational links between violent far-right and far-left violent extremists. The discussion of religious terrorism in chapter 5 ends with an added section about QAnon as religiopolitical cult. An extended section in chapter 7 is devoted to the increasingly militant roles of females in violent far-right extremism. The revised chapter 10 starts with the withdrawal of U. S. led troops from Afghanistan and an account of total costs spent on the post-9/11 war against terrorism before discussing the counterterrorism strategies of presidents G. W. Bush Obama Trump and Biden. The failures and successes of the U. S. intelligence community in efforts to prevent terrorism at home with relevant data and case studies are new features in chapter 12.

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D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Best Academic Monograph This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between nature and gender in the poetry and the novels. In his search for a balanced relationship between male and female characters what role does nature play in the challenges Lawrence offers his readers? How far are the anxieties of his characters in negotiating relationships that might threaten their sense of self derived from the same source as their anxieties about engaging with the Other in nature? Indeed might Lawrence’s metaphors drawn from nature actually be the causes of human actions in The Rainbow for example? The originality of Lawrence’s poetic and narrative strategies for challenging social attitudes towards both nature and gender can be revealed by new approaches offered by ecocritical theory and ecofeminist readings of his books. This book explores ecocritical notions to frame its ecofeminist readings from the difference between the ‘Other’ and ‘otherness’ in The White Peacock and Lady Chatterley’s Lover ‘anotherness’ in the poetry of Birds Beasts and Flowers psychogeography in Sea and Sardinia emergent ecofeminism in Sons and Lovers land and gender in The Boy in the Bush gender dialogics in Kangaroo human animality in Women in Love trees as tests in Aaron’s Rod to ‘radical animism’ in The Plumed Serpent. Finally three late tales provide a reassessment of ecofeminist insights into Lawrence’s work for readers in the present context of the Anthropocene. | D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

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The Cult of the Victim-Veteran MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

The Cult of the Victim-Veteran MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new Morning in America encoded the war as the moment of the nation’s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump for his Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan. The national funk tapped for right- wing revanchism was psychologized when George H. W. Bush appropriated post- Vietnam syndrome the diagnostic forerunner to post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to memorialize the military accomplishments in the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991—we had kicked the Vietnam Syndrome. America was a victim- nation its trauma emblemized by PTSD-stricken veterans whose war mission had been lost on the home front cast aside even spat on upon return home. In this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war trauma with political and cultural properties that complicate its diagnostic use; the post- World War I disclosure that many shellshock patients had never been exposed to exploding shells and the use of wounded- veteran imagery to fan the flames of German fascism; the cultural necessity of reimaging antiwar Vietnam veterans as psychiatric casualties that calls forth a new diagnostic category PTSD; the derivatizing of PTSD for traumatic brain injury Agent Orange and moral injury; and the victim- veteran figure as metaphor for a wounded America for which MAGA is the remedy. | The Cult of the Victim-Veteran MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

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Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a global basis. These native foods have been consumed traditionally have a unique flavor diversity offer significant health promoting effects and contain useful functional properties. Australian native plant foods have also been identified for their promising antioxidant and antimicrobial properties that have considerable commercial potential. This book is divided into three parts: The first part reviews the cultivation and production of many Australian native plants (ANP) including Anise Myrtle Bush Tomato Desert Raisin Davidson’s Plum Desert Limes Australian Finger Lime Kakadu Plum Lemon Aspen Lemon Myrtle Muntries Native Pepper Quandong Riberry and Wattle Seed. It then examines the food and health applications of ANP and discusses alternative medicines based on aboriginal traditional knowledge and culture nutritional characteristics and bioactive compounds in ANP. In addition it reviews the anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory properties of ANP and discusses food preservation antimicrobial activity of ANP and unique flavors from Australian native plants. The third section covers the commercial applications of ANP. It focuses on native Australian plant extracts and cosmetic applications processing of native plant foods and ingredients quality changes during packaging and storage of Australian native herbs. The final few chapters look into the importance of value chains that connect producers and consumers of native plant foods new market opportunities for Australian indigenous food plants and the safety of using native foods as ingredients in the health and food sectors. | Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

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Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

This book provides a definitive overview of the relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites. The secrecy surrounding intelligence means that publication of intelligence is highly restricted barring occasional whistle-blowing and sanitised official leaks. These characteristics mean that intelligence if publicised can be highly manipulated by intelligence elites while civil society’s ability to assess and verify claims is compromised by absence of independent evidence. There are few studies on the relationship between civil society and intelligence elites which makes it hard to form robust assessments or practical recommendations regarding public oversight of intelligence elites. Addressing that lacuna this book analyses two case studies of global political significance. The intelligence practices they focus on (contemporary mass surveillance and Bush-era torture-intelligence policies) have been presented as vital in fighting the ‘Global War on Terror’ enmeshing governments of scores of nation-states while challenging internationally established human rights to privacy and to freedom from torture and enforced disappearance. The book aims to synthesise what is known on relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites. It moves away from disciplinary silos to make original recommendations for how a variety of academic disciplines most likely to study the relationship between civil society and intelligence elites (international relations history journalism and media) could productively cross-fertilise. Finally it aims to create a practical benchmark to enable civil society to better hold intelligence elites publicly accountable. This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies surveillance media journalism civil society democracy and IR in general. | Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

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The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber’s classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet reads like a roadmap to the 2020 presidential election. Its subtitle “Predicting Performance in the White House ” is an apt reflection on the election of 2016. With a revised and updated foreword by George C. Edwards III that brings in the Trump Administration this book argues that patterns in a person’s character world view and political style can allow us to anticipate his or her performance as president. How would Barber have categorized Donald J. Trump who appears to defy every presidential type and norm? This question suggests one of the most provocative and appealing reasons for students scholars and voters to re-read The Presidential Character at this particular juncture. What should we look for in a president? This text offers explanations and predictions of the performance of past presidents and presidential candidates with many cautionary tales looking forward. Features Presents a revised and updated foreword by presidential scholar George C. Edwards III Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University that includes the advent of the Trump Administration and highlights the book’s classic and enduring contributions. Includes predictions of presidential performance from Nixon to Bush. Analyzes the media’s role in providing information about the political candidates and in shaping public opinion of them. Draws on historical biographical and psychological research to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country’s highest leaders. Encourages citizens to be actively involved scholars critics and participants in their government. | The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

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George W. Bush's Foreign Policies Principles and Pragmatism

George W. Bush's Foreign Policies Principles and Pragmatism

This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies. It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record in each case considering the interplay between principle and pragmatism. The underpinning contention here is that policy formulation and implementation across Bush’s two terms can more usefully be analysed in terms of shades of grey rather than the black and white hues in which it has often been painted. Thus in some key policy areas it will be seen that the overall record was more pragmatic and successful than his many critics have been prepared to give him credit for. The president and his advisers were sometimes prepared to alter and amend their policy direction on occasion significantly. Context and personalities interpersonal and interagency both played a role here. Where these came together most visibly – for instance in connection with dual impasses over Iraq and Iran – exigencies on the ground sometimes found expression in personnel changes. In turn the changing fortunes of Bush’s first term principals presaged policy changes in his second. What emerges from a more detached study of key aspects of the Bush administration – during a complicated and challenging period in the United States’ post-Cold War history marked by the dramatic emergence of international Islamist terrorism as the dominant international security threat – is a more complex picture than any generalization can ever hope to sustain regardless of how often it is repeated. This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy international politics and security studies. | George W. Bush's Foreign Policies Principles and Pragmatism

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Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

Humans being visually oriented are well versed in camouflage and how animals hide from predators that use vision to locate prey. However many predators do not hunt by sight; they hunt by scent. This raises the question: do survival mechanisms and behaviors exist which allow animals to hide from these olfactory predators? If so what are they and how do they work? Predator-Prey Dynamics: The Role of Olfaction examines environmental as well as biological and behavioral elements of both predators and prey to answer gaps in our current knowledge of the survival dynamics of species. Beginning with a thorough look at the mechanics of olfaction the author explains how predators detect locate and track their prey using odor trails on the ground or odor plumes in the air. Understanding the physics of airflow is the next step to understanding the potential for manipulating and masking scent. While a bush may conceal an animal visually from a predator it will not protect an animal from a predator using olfaction. To hide from the latter an animal needs to hide in locations where turbulence and updrafts will disperse its scent. The book addresses tradeoffs that animals must make given their dual needs to hide from predators and to procure food and water. Studies of mammalian and avian behavior provide examples on the actual use and efficacy of olfactory camouflage tactics. The book concludes with a redefinition of ecological terms based on the physics of airflow and a summary of the theory and implications of olfactory predator-prey dynamics. Introducing the mechanics of olfaction and its influence on the behavior of both predators and prey Predator-Prey Dynamics: The Role of Olfaction presents a new perception of the world and enables us to understand and more effectively manage the delicate survival dynamics of animals in the wild. | Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

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The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

The mythologising of lost and abandoned children significantly influences Australian storytelling. In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the ‘lost child’ from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history literature and the creative arts as the nucleus of a cultural complex – a group obsession that as Jung argued of all complexes has us. Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations as an element of the individual and collective psyche historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies or actual cases of displaced children to focus on vulnerable children rendered lost through government and institutional practices and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency and films such as The Babadook Lion and Predestination this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas cultural studies screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. | The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

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Basics of CNC Programming

Basics of CNC Programming

Before the introduction of automatic machines and automation industrial manufacturing of machines and their parts for the key industries were made though manually operated machines. Due to this manufacturers could not make complex profiles or shapes with high accuracy. As a result the production rate tended to be slow production costs were very high rejection rates were high and manufacturers often could not complete tasks on time. Industry was boosted by the introduction of the semi-automatic manufacturing machine known as the NC machine which was introduced in the 1950��s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. After these NC machine started to be used typical profiles and complex shapes could get produced more readily which in turn lead to an improved production rate with higher accuracy. Thereafter in the 1970��s an even larger revolutionary change was introduced to manufacturing namely the use of the CNC machine (Computer Numerical Control). Since then CNC has become the dominant production method in most manufacturing industries including automotive aviation defence oil and gas medical electronics industry and the optical industry. Basics of CNC Programming describes how to design CNC programs and what cutting parameters are required to make a good manufacturing program. The authors explain about cutting parameters in CNC machines such as cutting feed depth of cut rpm cutting speed etc. and they also explain the G codes and M codes which are common to CNC. The skill-set of CNC program writing is covered as well as how to cut material during different operations like straight turning step turning taper turning drilling chamfering radius profile profile turning etc. In so doing the authors cover the level of CNC programming from basic to industrial format. Drawings and CNC programs to practice on are also included for the reader.

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Introduction to Homeland Security Third Edition

Introduction to Homeland Security Third Edition

Introduction to Homeland Security Third Edition provides the latest developments in the policy and operations of domestic security efforts of the agencies under the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. This includes the FBI Secret Service FEMA the Coast Guard TSA and numerous other federal agencies responsible for critical intelligence emergency response and the safety and security of U. S. citizens at home and abroad. Changes in DHS and domestic security are presented from pre-September 11 2001 days to include the formation of DHS under President George W. Bush all the way through to the current administration. Through this the many transformative events are looked at through the lens of DHS’s original establishment and the frequent changes to the various agencies organization reporting structure funding and policies that have occurred since. This new edition is completely updated and includes coverage of topics relevant to homeland security operations not covered in any other text currently available. This includes highlighting the geopolitical context and the nature of global terrorism—and their implications—specifically as they relate to threats to the United States. Partnerships and collaboration with global allies are highlighted in the context of their relevance to international trade domestic policies training and security. The book ends with a look at emerging threats and potential new creative solutions—and initiatives in-process within the government—to respond to and address such threats. Key Features: Explores the history and formation of the Department of Homeland Security recent developments as well as the role and core missions of core agencies within DHS Outlines man-made threats intelligence challenges and intra-agency communication planning and operations Looks critically at the role of geopolitical dynamics key international allies and their influence on domestic policy and decision-making Covers the latest developments in programs legislation and policy relative to all transportation and border security issues Examines current issues and emerging global threats associated with extremism and terrorism Addresses natural and man-made disasters and the emergency management cycle in preparing for mitigating against responding to and recovering from such events Introduction to Homeland Security Third Edition remains the premier textbook for criminal justice homeland security national security and intelligence programs in universities and an ideal reference for professionals as well as policy and research institutes.

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