The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying. Variously called a€?unmanned aircraft systemsa€, a€?unmanned aerial vehiclesa€, a€?remotely piloted aircrafta€, or simply a€?dronesa€, th
Recounting the U.S. Navy's role in the invasion of Normandy, one of the largest and most complex military operations ever undertaken, the eleventh volume in this acclaimed fourteen volume historical s
In a book that discusses the final months of World War II's Pacific Theater, the author discusses the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, Japanese kamikaze attacks
Published in 1996, Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at th
This Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Christopher Columbus is written with the insight and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus' path to the New World could muster.
In 1963, Samuel Eliot Morison, long one of our most distinguished historians, was awarded the first Balzan Prize in History, a prize that rivals the Nobel Prize in splendor and munificence. To receive
The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a broad range of theoretical ancestry to develop model
Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.
This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis
The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus
