This is a truly luxury book & a must-have for every family bookshelf with cloth binding a beautiful jacket & ribbon marker ...

This book is filled with mixed activities to keep little children happy & occupied on holiday on journeys & at home Contains lots of puzzles drawing colouring dot-to-dots mazes spot the difference & so on ...

The Use of Force long considered a classic in its own right brings together enduring influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy & international politics Now in its eighth edition the reader has been significantly revised; with twenty innovative & up-to-date selections this edition is 60 percent new Meticulously chosen & edited by leading scholars Robert J Art & Kelly M Greenhill the selections are grouped under three headings theories case studies & contemporary issues The first section

Includes:: essays that cover the security dilemma terrorism the sources of military doctrine the nuclear revolution & the fungibility of force A new subsection of Part I also deals with ethical issues in the use of force The second section

Includes:: case studies in the use of force that span the period from World War I through the war in Afghanistan The final section considers issues concerning the projection of US military power; the rising power of China; the spread of biological & nuclear weapons & cyberwarfare; intervention in internal conflicts & insurgencies; & possible future developments in terrorism nuclear abolition & robotic warfare Continuing the tradition of previous editions this fully updated reader collects the best analysis by influential thinkers on the use of force in international affairs Contributions by Bruce J Allyn Kenneth Anderson Robert J Art Mark S Bell Richard K Betts Laurie R Blank James G Blight Stephen G Brooks Seyom Brown Daniel Byman Audrey Kurth Cronin Patrick M Cronin Alexander B Downes Karl W Eikenberry John Lewis Gaddis Erik Gartke Alexander L George Avery Goldstein Kelly M Greenhill G John Ikenberry Robert Jervis Gregory Koblentz Peter R Mansoor John J Mearsheimer Nicholas L Miller Louis C Morton Barry R Posen Louise Richardson George B Samson Thomas C Schelling Jack L Snyder Paul Staniland Barbara F Walter Kenneth N Waltz Matthew Waxman David A Welch Jon Western & William C Wohlforth



...

Side A1 For You 4352 Cold War Telescreen 4413 Broken Windows 4454 Rise Up Lights 3285 Vertigo Cave 425 Side B1 Pretty Picture 4112 Funeral Post 5193 Upper Falls 5344 The Divine Absence (This Is Water)500 Side C1 Selfies In Aleppo 4332 Moving The Mountain (Odysseus Surrenders)4163 Over & Over Again 5144 The Quiet War 411 Side D1 Moon-Dream 4452 The Nexus 4413 About You (No Songs Left To Sing)3474 The Mouth Of The Canyon 533 ...

I Come Alive This Fire Hands & Faces Put Me Out Shine Now That You&re Dead Give Me Love Moving On Getting Over You Kiss It Goodbye Hurt No One Together Burning Bright ...

When a society becomes more affluent does it lose other values? Are the skills that education & literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial & the material
- or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence & power today Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England's vanishing working-class communities & weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new homogenous 'mass' US-influenced culture His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study & remains essential reading both as a historical document & as a commentary on class poverty & the media
...

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism

Includes:: the text of his 1868 speech to the British

...

The UX Book Process & Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience aims to help readers learn how to create & refine interaction designs that ensure a quality user experience (UX) The book seeks to expand the concept of traditional usability to a broader notion of user experience; to provide a hands-on practical guide to best practices & established principles in a UX lifecycle; & to describe a pragmatic process for managing the overall development effort The book provides an iterative & evaluation-centered UX lifecycle template called the Wheel for interaction design Key concepts discussed include contextual inquiry & analysis; extracting interaction design requirements; constructing design-informing models; design production; UX goals metrics & targets; prototyping; UX evaluation; the interaction cycle & the user action framework; & UX design guidelines This book will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about creating interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience These include interaction designers graphic designers usability analysts software engineers programmers systems analysts software quality-assurance specialists human factors engineers cognitive psychologists cosmic psychics trainers technical writers documentation specialists marketing personnel & project managers ...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in Sky at Night' Just the thing to captivate a bright child or anyone in fact who aspires to be the next Tim Peake' Daily Telegraph AN IMAGINATIVE EXPLORATION INTO THE 'WHAT IF' OF SPACE TRAVELImagine taking a hike along the windswept red plains of Mars to dig for signs of life or touring one of Jupiter's sixty-four moons where you can take photos of its swirling storms For a mini-break on a tight budget the Moon is quite majestic & very quiet if you can make it during the off-season Beautifully illustrated & packed with real-world science The Vacation Guide to the Solar System is the essential planning guide for the curious space adventurer covering all of the essentials for your next voyage how to get there & what to do when you arrive Written by an astronomer from the American Museum of Natural History & one of the creators of the Guerilla Science collective this tongue-in-cheek reference guide is an imaginative exploration into the what if' of space travel sharing fascinating facts about the planets in our solar system & even some moons!'SUPERB' BBC Sky at Night' The ultimate guide for any budding space tourist' BBC Focus ...

The epic & controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the creation of some of the world's most important vaccines Until the late 1960s tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella popularly known as German measles while pregnant; there was no vaccine & little understanding of how the disease devastated foetuses In June 1962 a young biologist in Philadelphia using tissue extracted from an aborted foetus from Sweden produced safe clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella & other common childhood diseases Two years later in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella The rubella vaccine & others made with those foetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States the vast majority of them preschool children The new cells & the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio rabies chicken pox measles hepatitis A shingles & adenovirus Meredith Wadman's masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles & recounts testing on infants prisoners orphans & the intellectually disabled which was common in the era These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human foetal tissue in research during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs & as huge changes take place in the laws & practices governing who 'owns' research cells & the profits made from biological inventions It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives With another frightening virus imperilling pregnant women on the rise today no medical story could have more human drama impact or urgency today than The Vaccine Race ...