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Damon Swift and the CosmoSoar

Damon Swift and the CosmoSoar

Thomas Hudson; Scott Dickerson; T. Edward Fox

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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The Tom Swift adventure about his Rocket Ship doesn't tell much of the real tale. In fact it just assumes that things like Fearing Island exist and that his own father, Damon Swift, has nothing better to do than stand aside and watch.The truth is that Damon also built a new, privately-funded rocket as part of an X-Prize competition. His was unique with a whole series of obstacles to overcome and began even before Tom had finished his Flying Lab. This included locating and building out the scrub grass island, Fearing, off the coast of Georgia. That is a story in and of itself and is told here.This novel is the story of how Fearing came to be leased by the Swifts, how Damon became very good friends with the U.S. Senator who would play a large part in their lives, how he designed and built something looking more like a child's toy than a heavy-lifting rocket, and how he and Tom went into a private and friendly competition to see whose rocket would be launched first.It is a unique look into the father of Tom Swift.
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The Biophilia Hypothesis

The Biophilia Hypothesis

Stephen R. Kellert; Edward O. Wilson; Scott McVay

ISLAND PRESS
1995
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"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our development as individuals and as a species. That idea has caught the imagination of diverse thinkers. The Biophilia Hypothesis brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. The variety of perspectives -- psychological, biological, cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic -- frame the theoretical issues by presenting empirical evidence that supports or refutes the hypothesis. Numerous examples illustrate the idea that biophilia and its converse, biophobia, have a genetic component: fear, and even full-blown phobias of snakes and spiders are quick to develop with very little negative reinforcement, while more threatening modern artifacts -- knives, guns, automobiles -- rarely elicit such a response people find trees that are climbable and have a broad, umbrella-like canopy more attractive than trees without these characteristics people would rather look at water, green vegetation, or flowers than built structures of glass and concrete The biophilia hypothesis, if substantiated, provides a powerful argument for the conservation of biological diversity. More important, it implies serious consequences for our well-being as society becomes further estranged from the natural world. Relentless environmental destruction could have a significant impact on our quality of life, not just materially but psychologically and even spiritually.
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Technological Lessons from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Accident

Technological Lessons from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Accident

Cynthia Dion-Schwarz; Sarah E. Evans; Edward Geist; Scott Warren Harold; V. Ray Koym; Scott Savitz; Lloyd Thrall

RAND
2016
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This study draws lessons regarding technological countermeasures to radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant accident. It focuses on contamination measurement, efforts to limit dispersal, decontamination, and storage of radioactive materials. The report analyzes technological successes and identifies capability gaps that could be redressed through novel technologies or improved use of existing technologies.
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Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

Steven E. Lobell; Patrick James; Scott A. Silverstone; Victor Asal; Kyle Beardsley; Edward Gonzalez; Norrin M. Ripsman

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation. These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international disputes and the policy tools that states and international institutions can employ. We ask an expanded set of questions about specific cases and general patterns of conflict behavior, such as: why did Israeli leaders respond to Hezbollah’s 2006 cross-border raid with escalation, resulting in the Second Lebanon War, while in previous instances the Israelis limited their retaliation? Why didn’t the 2015 Iranian Ballistic Missile Test or the 1995 Norwegian Black Brant Missile Launch escalate, while the 2009 North Korea Missile Movement and the 1995 Taiwan Straits dispute tipped into a full-blown crisis, and why did the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict escalate from near crisis to war? We use primary sources and newly created data on near crises to answer these questions and others. The overall conclusion is that an ounce of prevention at the near crisis phase is worth a pound of cure in averting a full-blown crisis or war.This book will be of great interest to students of security studies, conflict studies, foreign policy, and international relations.
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Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

Steven E. Lobell; Patrick James; Scott A. Silverstone; Victor Asal; Kyle Beardsley; Edward Gonzalez; Norrin M. Ripsman

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation. These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international disputes and the policy tools that states and international institutions can employ. We ask an expanded set of questions about specific cases and general patterns of conflict behavior, such as: why did Israeli leaders respond to Hezbollah’s 2006 cross-border raid with escalation, resulting in the Second Lebanon War, while in previous instances the Israelis limited their retaliation? Why didn’t the 2015 Iranian Ballistic Missile Test or the 1995 Norwegian Black Brant Missile Launch escalate, while the 2009 North Korea Missile Movement and the 1995 Taiwan Straits dispute tipped into a full-blown crisis, and why did the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict escalate from near crisis to war? We use primary sources and newly created data on near crises to answer these questions and others. The overall conclusion is that an ounce of prevention at the near crisis phase is worth a pound of cure in averting a full-blown crisis or war.This book will be of great interest to students of security studies, conflict studies, foreign policy, and international relations.
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Listening to the Parables of Jesus

Listening to the Parables of Jesus

Robert W. Funk; Edward F. Beutner; Lane C. McGaughy; Robert J. Miller; Bernard Brandon Scott; Paul Verhoeven

Polebridge Press
2007
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"What if the purpose or function of a parable is not to instruct but to haunt?" So begins Listening to the Parables of Jesus, edited by Edward F. Beutner, who suggests that, from time to time, even scholars scratch their heads in puzzlement over the yin and yang of Jesus' parables. This concise, well-edited book brings together insights from world-renowned scholars into the interpretation of parables. Lane McGaughy's opening essay provides high fidelity earphones that let readers hear the vivid and distinctive nature of the language of parable. Robert Miller offers an original treatment of two parables from the gospels of Matthew and Thomas, parables that he renames, "The Overpriced Pearl" and "The Treasure of Immorality." With his eye for narrative structure, film Director Paul Verhoeven identifies fault lines in Matthew's version of the Vineyard Laborers and proposes an alternative version in which the first will be first. In his essay on the Leased Vineyard, Brandon Scott demonstrates how rabbinic parables can illuminate the otherwise shadowy nooks and crannies of a dark parable of violence found in Mark's gospel. The final three essays describe the parables globally as artful language events as fulcrums, so to speak, upon which our understanding of the world gets overturned and undermined. According to Robert Funk, Jesus parables are a knothole in the cosmic fence through which we glimpse the world as Jesus saw it. In Listening to the Parables of Jesus, leading scholars of the parables help readers find the knothole. The rest is up to them.
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Ledarskap och statskonst : studier i makt

Ledarskap och statskonst : studier i makt

Philip Zelikow; Anna Wieslander; Lucy Ward; Edward Stringer; Nathan Shachar; Michael Scott; Kori Schake; Andreas Rödder; Iskander Rehman; Sergey Radchenko; Alina Polyakova; Gudrun Persson; Kenneth Payne; Charles Moore; Munira Mirza; Henrik Meinander; Rory Medcalf; James Marriott; Fredrik Logevall; Alexander Lee; Julian Jackson; Katja Hoyer; Oleksii Goncharenko; Francis J. Gavin; Kentaro Fujimoto; Daisy Dunn; Claire Coutinho; J.C.D. Clark; David Butterfield; Kristin Ven Bruusgaard; Elisabeth Braw; John Bew; Benedetta Berti

Bokförlaget Stolpe
2025
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Machiavellis observation om ledarskapets svåra balansgång är lika relevant i vår tid, som den en gång var i 1500-talets Florens. Kinas framväxt, Rysslands attack mot Ukraina och den växande politiska och ekonomiska närvaron i den globala södern har aktualiserat frågan om vikten av kompetent ledarskap inom politiskt styre. Denna antologi utforskar utmaningarna för ledarskap och statskonst i en allt mer komplex värld och ställer frågan huruvida vi kan skapa politiska eliter som är kapabla att på ett säkert vis vägleda väst genom de många prövningar vi står inför. Genom att se till vårt förflutna såväl som till vår samtid undersöker världsledande forskare och skribenter hur ledarskapsidéer har utvecklats genom historien för att ge oss en större förståelse för statskonsten och för vilka färdigheter och organisationer som krävs för att driva små stater, stora imperier och allt däremellan. Boken finns även i engelsk utgåva.
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Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries

Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries

Donald E. Biederman; Charles J. Biederman; Janna A. Glasser Esq.; Edward P. Pierson; Scott Sanders; Martin E. Silfen

Praeger Publishers Inc
2006
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In response to the increasing convergence of technologies in the entertainment industries, this thoroughly updated and revised fifth edition makes the casebook more timeless. Providing contract templates covering book publishing, recording contracts, actor agreements, video game agreements, and internet agreements, among others, this new edition is more useful and illustrative of the business of entertainment for lawyers, students, and industry professionals than its competition. Introductions, notes, and cases are fully updated to take into account recent changes in the industry. This classic casebook is essential to students at law schools throughout the country and to industry professionals trying to keep up with this ever-changing field of law.
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Anthony Julius; Nicholas Lemann; Alfred Brendel; Paul Berman; Jorie Graham; Fouad Ajami; Jack Goldsmith; Edward Luttwak; Roberto Calasso; Ishion Hutchinson; Walter Sheidel; Helen Vendler; Robert Alter; Daryl Michael Scott; Rosanna Warren; Alastair Macaulay; David Greenberg

Liberties Journal Foundation
2021
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Liberties – A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This issue of Liberties includes: Anthony Julius on censorship of the arts; Nicholas Lemann on rescuing capitalism; Alfred Brendel on playing Beethoven; Paul Berman on the George Floyd uprising; Fouad Ajami’s story of an honor killing; Jack Goldsmith on conservatives and the courts; Edward Luttwak on understanding China; Roberto Calasso on when journals mattered; Walter Scheidel on life after covid; Helen Vendler on the poet Robert Hayden; Robert Alter on Lolita today; Daryl Michael Scott on the 13th Amendment; Alastair Macaulay on Balanchine; David Greenberg on renaming our heritage; new poetry from Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, and Rosanna Warren; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).
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Developing New Future Scenarios for the U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen Strategic Foresight Program

Developing New Future Scenarios for the U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen Strategic Foresight Program

Abbie Tingstad; Michael T Wilson; Katherine Anania; Jordan R Fischbach; Susan A Resetar; Scott Savitz; Kristin Van Abel; R J Briggs; Aaron C Davenport; Stephanie Pezard; Kristin Sereyko; Jonathan Theel; Marc Thibault; Edward Ulin

RAND
2020
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The U.S. Coast Guard's motto is Semper Paratus--always ready. But for what? This report describes an approach to developing scenarios to aid in decisionmaking under deep uncertainty through the Evergreen strategic foresight initiative. The scenarios presented here focus on readiness, but the approach can be adapted for other contexts.
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The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast

The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast

Kyle Hughes

Edinburgh University Press
2013
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This is a new departure in Scottish and Irish migration studies. The Scottish diasporic communities closest to home - those which are part of what we sometimes term the 'near diaspora' - are those we know least about. Whilst an interest in the overseas Scottish diaspora has grown in recent years, Scots who chose to settle in other parts of the United Kingdom have been largely neglected. This book addresses this imbalance. Scots travelled freely around the industrial centres of northern Britain throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries and Belfast was one of the most important ports of call for thousands of Scots. The Scots played key roles in shaping Belfast society in the modern period: they were essential to its industrial development, they were at the centre of many cultural, philanthropic and religious initiatives and were welcomed by the host community accordingly. Yet despite their obvious significance, in staunchly Protestant, Unionist, and at times insular and ill at ease Belfast, individual Scots could be viewed with suspicion by their hosts, dismissed as 'strangers' and cast in the role of interfering outsiders. This is the only book-length scholarly study of the Scots in modern Ireland. It brings to light the fundamental importance of Scottish migration to Belfast society during the 19th century. It advances our knowledge and understanding of Scotland's 'near diaspora'. It highlights areas of tension in Ulster-Scottish relations during the Home Rule era. It puts forward a new agenda for a better understanding of British in-migration to Ireland in the modern period.
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The Hammer of the Scots: The History and Legacy of Edward Longshanks' Conquest of Scotland

The Hammer of the Scots: The History and Legacy of Edward Longshanks' Conquest of Scotland

Charles River

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of battles fought between Edward Longshanks, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "By God, Sir Earl, either go or hang." - Edward Longshanks From their very beginnings, England and Scotland fought each other. Emerging as unified nations from the early medieval period, their shared border and inter-related aristocracy created endless causes of conflict, from local raiders known as border reivers to full blown wars between their monarchies. Every century from the 11th to the 16th was colored by such violence, and there were periods when not a decade went by without some act of violence marring the peace. Out of all of this, the most bitterly remembered conflict is Edward I's invasion during the late 13th century. Eventually beaten back after Edward's death at the famous Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, this was the period of some of Scotland's greatest national heroes, including William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. It still resonates in the Scottish national memory, all the more so following its memorable but wildly inaccurate depiction in the 1995 film Braveheart, which had Scottish audiences cheering in cinemas. Though the fondly remembered heroes of this war are Scottish, the man who defined it was an English monarch, a man whose ruthless efficiency and brutality would earn him the title Hammer of the Scots. This was, for better or for worse, Edward I's war. The Hammer of the Scots: The History and Legacy of Edward Longshanks' Conquest of Scotland analyzes the history behind the fighting between Edward and Scottish leaders like William Wallace. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Edward Longshanks and the conquest of Scotland like never before, in no time at all.
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Scout

Scout

Edward J Knight

Mythic Western Press LLC
2021
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Eight years after the Jotunheim giants destroyed the Confederacy and most of the Union, the Army of the West stopped their last advance into what was left of the United States. Now the Army polices the borders while rebuilding its strength.Billy McCarty hates army life. He loathes the daily regiments and rules. Strange sightings in the Black Hills offer him the chance to leave it all behind and lead his own small scout team to investigate.But Billy's never led a team before. As they head into the wilderness, where only the rules of survival matter, his every decision could mean serious injury or death.For him or his friends.Or both.In the Mythic West, where gunslingers battle monsters of myth, Scout continues the epic adventures of the hero, Billy the Kid.
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John Stott

John Stott

Edward L Smither

Cascade Books
2023
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Remembered as a pastor, Bible teacher, writer, and ambassador for global mission, John Stott (1921-2011) was also an early innovator of encouraging global missional theology. Through his involvement in the Lausanne Movement and other global networks, he made room at the table for majority world Christians and theologians to speak to matters of developing global theology. Through his innovative work with Langham Partners, he provided resources for global pastors to be trained in theology and a platform for global theologians to publish their work. Ultimately, he encouraged global theologians to forge their own theology.
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